Tech Talk

With the Malaysian banking regulator gave the go-ahead earlier last month for CIMB Bank to start talks for a potential merger between CIMB Bank, RHB Capital and Malaysia Building Society (MBSB) to form one of the largest banks in the Southeast Asian region, will this mean megabucks for regional IT players? We find out from Sui-Jon Ho, Market Analyst for IDC Malaysia.

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Recently Ericsson released its first appendix to the Ericsson Mobility Report that specifically covers the South East Asia and Oceania region. The appendix illustrates the differences across the region, including smartphone uptake, access to LTE and network performance. Todd Ashton, President for Ericsson Malaysia digests this report.

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Squawking alone, Jeff Sandhu reviews 3 products from Sony. The Sony Xperia Z2 Smartphone with its 20.7 megapixel camera, the Sony Xperia Z2 Tablet that's super ultra slim and the Sony Smartband health tracker devices that tracks everystep and breath and app you take/use.

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Technology seems to stop in the summer when politicians, despots and oligarchs go away for their holidays. So Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage is using the time to serve up a buffet of those silly stories we don’t always get round to.

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Karamjit Singh from DigitalNewsAsia.com talks about why Andrew Wong from MAD Incubator claimed to have disrupted the typical incubator model with expectation to dominated South East Asia. He also talks about Sync Media and their early Raya gift last week as they have secured RM250,000 funding from a local angel investor to develop its School Communication Platform, a mobile solution that aims to break down the barriers of communication between teachers and parents. Also on the show is how a PJ boy is making a name for himself in the startup industry in New York with a team driven by a dream of helping to create the next Twitter.

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Acronis have just recently relocated their international operations to Singapore with the aim for more focus on the APAC market. Laurent Dedenis, the Global President for Acronis and Jan-Jaap Jager, Vice President & General Manager for Emerging Market for Acronis joins talks about this shift to the APAC region and what makes Malaysia attractive and how Acronis’ AnyData Engine can help business in Malaysia to back up their data and have secured mobile file access.

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Is life hacking you off? Does every new gadget seem to make your life harder. Resident Tech Talk DIY expert – we have to stop letting him write his own introductions – Matt Armitage has searched Kulturpop’s manuals of existence to bring you some life easing tips. 

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Jeff Sandhu and Matt Armitage ponders if farts can actually cure diseases and should we rethink about farting in public. Also, can Apple actually sell any product in the world even if it's the worst thing ever?

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Gabey Goh from DigitalNewsAsia.com talks about the latest Disrupt #20 that focused on VCs and angels in Malaysia. Also on the show, how mobility in the future of education brings new challenges to universities and academies. On a similar topic, IDC projects that mobile data is set to overtake voice in Malaysia by 2017 as mobile data revenue is on course to grow 8.5% CAGR to become the main driver in the 5 years. And if you're from Ipoh (or just a fan of all things Ipoh), a small software firm based in Ipoh is finding global success with with computer-aided design (CAD) software for electrical engineers.

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Jabra Corporation was founded in 1983 by inventor/entrepreneur Elwood "Woody" Norris, that develops, manufactures and markets wireless and corded headsets for mobile phone users, contact centres and office-based users. Ben Samman, the Managing Director ASEAN for Jabra Business Solutions speaks about what is important for call centres in the future and what role is Jabra playing in improving our experience.

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