Tech Talk

The Geeks talk about a new way of instant social messaging that requires no data connection, not even a SIM card! And also why Facebook is about to be in every app in the future and should you buy the Apple Watch?

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A new book by entrepreneur and author Andrew Keen alleges that the Internet in its current form may be undermining the social progress many societies have made over the last 100 years. Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage hopes it’s not true.

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Karamjit Singh from Digital News Asia talks about why a billion dollar regional banking group (Maybank Group) is look at tapping on startups to boost innovation, MaGIC and their newly launched ASEAN accelerator programme and why there is more pros than cons when ideas are shared. All that and more in this weeks episode.

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According to Niko’s Chinese Mobile Games Report 2014, China’s mobile gaming market is expected to overtake the US market in terms of revenue in the first quarter, with mobile gamers in the country expected to grow from 288 million in 2014 to 770 million by 2018. So what can Southeast Asia’s mobile gaming markets learn from the rise of China’s mobile games market? Maxim de Wit, Vice President of International at GMGC shares his insights.

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The Geeks wonder if they will still be in their jobs in the future as machines now start learning poetry and are you using a pirate Windows OS?

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A new digital dark age may be upon us according to Vint Cerf, one of the creators of the Internet and Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist. Here to back us up is Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage.

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On this episode, A. Asohan from Digital News Asia talks about the reasoning behind why Joel Neoh quits Groupon, the Asean ecosystem with the upcoming 1Asean Entrepreneurship Summit 2015 that has two interesting side events; Cradle Buzz & GSY Asean, and also updates from Germany's CeBIT.

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On today’s show, we speak to Danaraj Ram Kumar, a second year software engineering student from Taylor’s University who is also a Microsoft Youthspark Advocate. Microsoft YouthSpark Advocates consist of tech-savvy youths aged 14 to 24 who are interested in social change and using technology for the greater good across the world. The Microsoft Youthspark Advocate programme aims to empower youths in education, entrepreneurship and employment. We find out how it has been helping Danaraj to achieve his dreams.

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25 years after Lotus Notes, IBM is back again with a brand new email solution that borrows ideas from Google’s Inbox and adds Watson-powered querying to hopefully change the way you think about email. We speak to David Yong, Country Sales Manager, Software Solution Group IBM to talk about IBM Verse.

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In addressing one of the biggest challenges facing Malaysia’s Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs), Ingram Micro Malaysia and Microsoft Malaysia, together with Mercado have launched the Mercado suite of applications to enable small, local companies to embrace IT and boost productivity. Mercado’s one price, one company, one year model makes it more affordable, practical and scalable for SMEs to adopt productivity solutions. We speak to Poo Ching Loong, General Manager & Jeremy Lau, Manager Product Sales & Innovation for Mercado, to find out how it can be enabled in your business.

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