Tech Talk

Music is something that surrounds us in. At home, at work, on TV, in malls, in lifts, supermarkets, restaurants and bars. We’ve moved from records to cassettes to CDs to MP3s and now to online streaming. Yet although the formats and the way we listen to music is changing, we often think that the way music is made and the instruments it’s played on stay the same. Not so, says Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage, and there’s a behind the scenes movement going on to change the way music is played.

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Karamjit Singh from DigitalNewsAsia wraps up some of the big tech stories that happened in the region including a tech conference in Singapore organized by MIT, Vertex Ventures gameplan in Southeast Asia, one of DNA's Digerati50 making waves to grow her BPO business and more.

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Hackerscape Malaysia is about blending hardware and software and aims to enable the growing community to tinkerers and makers in Malaysia by providing a platform for co-creation and education. Tan Jia Shern, co founder of Hackerscape Malaysia and Matthew Yeow, speaker for the Raspberry Pi workshop comes in to talk about idea and ambition of the Hackerscape Malaysia and why is hardware so important in today’s software driven world.

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According to IBM, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data — so much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. This data comes from everywhere: sensors used to gather climate information, posts to social media sites, digital pictures and videos, purchase transaction records, and cell phone GPS signals to name a few. Hasannudin Saidin, Director of Digital Entrepreneur Division in MDeC together with Yu Kit Lee, Chief Technologist for IBM Malaysia talks about how IoT enables new business opportunities in enterprises today.

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Ericsson has been performing in-depth data traffic measurements since the early days of mobile broadband from a large base of live networks covering all regions of the world. This is known as the Ericsson Mobility Report: South East Asia and Oceania Appendix release. Todd Ashton, President of Ericsson Malaysia and Sri Lanka talks about the growing appetite for connected services in South East Asia and Oceania.

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First, the Geeks shares a touching story on how an elderly taxi driver's smartphone was stolen from him when he was giving directions and was surprisingly rewarded with a brand new HTC smartphone within hours thanks to social media. Then the Geeks ponder on why regular beings aren't creative enough with their passwords and is Microsoft finally cool?

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Most of the world’s science and tech community are still off skiing according to Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage. So in the absence of any breaking news stories, this week we’re going to have a look at what 2015 has in store for Geeks.

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Michael Warren, Vice President of Shared Services & Outsourcing from MDeC joins Karamjit Singh from DNA today to explain further on what eBantuan Banjir is all about. Also on the show, Karamjit talks on why Frost & Sullivan is now banking on its tech vision and why Unilever Foundry is eyeing Asian startups, starting with Singapore.

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In the last few years and up until recently, majority of the companies have focused a lot on endpoint security in light of the opening of BYOD floodgates. Tablets, smartphones, sensors and the Internet of Things have created dilemmas on the needs to secure corporate networks against those 50 billion devices that will be connected to the internet in a few years’ time. As a result, most IT resources security today are plunged into protecting endpoints and networking equipment from hackers and breaches. Kaleem Chaudhry, Regional Director, Enterprise Technology for Oracle Asia Pacific talks about IT security spending and how it is misplaced despite the increase.

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Last week on Tech Talk we spoke about Malaysia’s readiness on the Internet of Things and why MDeC is putting a lot of focus in driving this trend. Just how big will the Internet of Things be? Today we speak to Victor Lim, Vice President Consulting Operations for IDC Asia Pacific together with Hasannudin Saidin, Director of Digital Entrepreneur Division of MDeC on the stats and numbers around the Internet of Things.

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