Tech Talk

Today, the geeks talks about an app that solves math problems by scanning the equation with a snap of your camera. Besides that, a company called Hendo has already exceeded its funding goals to raise a quarter of a million dollars to build working hoverboards, similarly used by Marty McFly in the second Back to the Future. Also, thoughts on the new Kindle Voyage. 

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We often talk about the ways in which the Internet has improved our existence and made our working lives easier. According to Matt Armitage the Internet may not be your friend – in fact it may want to make you redundant.

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A. Asohan of Digital News Asia talks about Grab Taxi's succesful funding, Hack In The Box conference and sock puppetry which is the use of employing false identities to control online conversations. 

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According to Gartner’s Market Share Analysis on SSDs and Solid-State Arrays Worldwide 2013 report published on June 2014, Pure Storage, the all-flash enterprise storage array company has been ranked number 2 in worldwide SSA market share behind IBM and has been positioned in the leaders quadrant of the inaugural magic quadrant for Solid State Arrays. Vaughn Stewart, the Chief Evangelist for Pure Storage talks about advantages of flash arrays.

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Did you know that the first film to use Dolby Digital technology is Batman Returns? Way back in 1992. And just like the Batman movies of today, Dolby has come a long way since then. Today, Dolby Surround Sound at home is something many urbanites either have it already or wishing they had one. Leong-Yan Yoong, the Regional Director of South East Asia of Dolby Laboratories talks about how Dolby is building industry knowledge with key broadcasters and pay-TV operators.

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The geeks talk about how Google got the name Lollipop for Android 5.0 and why Apple did not "accidentally" leaked the images of their new products before the launch. Also, can Will.I.Am actually make a decent technology product that we all want?

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Way back in May last year, Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage tried to convince us that one day he would be able to reprogram our memories. We told him it was rubbish and slept soundly that night. But here he again and he’s after our brains.

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Karamjit Singh from DigitalNewsAsia.com talks about what happened during MOL's Nasdaq listing and why did Ganesh Kumar Bangah suffered a hit. He also talks about the 5 day MaGIC conference and how me managed to caught up with Mark Chang for an exclusive interview on his 2nd act.

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In recent months, the Malaysian government has sent out a strong message about their vision to grow the country’s Data Center space from 0.5 million to 5 million square feet by 2020 and to become a regional Data Center Hub. Tim Takala, Technical Director Asia at TE Connectivity talks about the state of infrastructure in today’s Data Centers and how they can be future ready.

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With the high internet penetration, growing ecommerce and high social media usage here in Malaysia, it tells a story of a much more mature growth market compared to Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam. In fact Malaysians love to shop online so much so that ecommerce revenues were USD$380 million in 2013 and is expected to increase to $530 million in 2017. Christoph Eilers, cofounder of Oizoioi talks about their new ecommerce site.

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