Tech Talk

Malaysia's worst flooding in a decade has forced nearly a quarter of a million people from their homes causing many hundreds of thousands entering the new year without a roof over their head. A group of entrepreneurs from the Malaysian Global Innovation and Creativity Centre (MaGIC) have gone on and set up mybanjir.com to collect information and provide the latest updates on the floods that has now affected more than 100,000 Malaysians in six states. We speak to Dr Lau Cher Han from MaGIC Academy on how they quickly started up mybanjir.com and faced some challenges in the beginning.

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The Geeks talk about one of the weirdest story they've came across in 2014 and why we should keep a close eye on China's technology this year.

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As we welcome 2015 and the future it brings, Matt Armitage from Kulturpop has located a treasure trove of what the future could have been. A new book titled Inventions that Didn’t Change the World compiles some of the strangest inventions of the 19th Century.

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Jeff Sandhu rewinds back to the beginning of 2014 and bring you the best gadgets of 2014.

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With social media buzzing with lifestyle images promoting products and bloggers determining what their followers should wear, there’s one very important element missing in all this, links to the particular product. It may either be missing completely or just hidden away from the users view. Yezin Al-Qaysi, the CEO of DoBundle talks about his creation.

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Recently Intel Malaysia announced the winners of the Intel Malaysia Level Up Your Business competition to help local SMEs to gain competitive advantage. We speak to Benson Chang of TableApp and Chaman Singh of Edu360 on their business and how it has benefited them.

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Matt Armitage & Jeff Sandhu rewinds back to some of the best tech stories of 2014.

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2014 was a remarkable year for cybercrimes. From personal data theft to ATM hacks, we take a look back at what happened and what can we learn from these attacks with Krishna Rajagopal, CEO of Akati Consulting.

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Malaysia has embarked on a number of measures to ensure that ICT can benefit our rural communities with investments in world-class infrastructure like MSC or Multimedia Super Corridor. In supporting the government’s effort to promote digital inclusion, particularly in the rural communities in Malaysia, Qualcomm and Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) are forming a synergistic collaboration. We speak to Alex Orange, Director and Government Affairs Southeast Asia & Pacific for Qualcomm together with Siti Zobidah Omar, Head and Associate Prof Laboratory of Cyber Generation in UPM and also the seminar director for Mobile Communication and Rural Development Seminar Director about this.

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When IBM bought cloud-computing firm SoftLayer for US$2 billion, it was with an aim to beef up IBM’s cloud computing offering. Today, we’ve seen that in many new applications and services and adding to that list is IBM’s Elastic Storage. What’s IBM Elastic Storage? Arshad Sharif, General Manager, Systems and Technology Group at IBM Malaysia explains.

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