Tech Talk

As the cloud, social, mobile and Big Data mega trends continue unabated, organizations in all industries, and of all sizes, are developing next-generation applications and better harnessing Big Data analytics to redefine themselves. This is leading to the emergence of the 3rd Platform of IT. Tom Zack, President SEA for EMC Corporation explains.

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Today, open source software is driving change from the bottom up executives’ are willing to work with active communities to influence projects and spur innovation. Jeff Sandhu caught up with Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen, Senior Vice President and General Manager for Red Hat Asia Pacific to talk about how open source industry has transformed over the years.

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Jeff Sandhu talks about what the Apple + IBM partnership means for the overall tech industry and what's going on with Microsoft after its biggest layoffs in history.

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What gadgets couldn’t you live without? Some of the tech and devices in our lives have been around for a heartbeat yet it feels like forever. And others have their roots in surprisingly old technology. Looking for the link is Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage.

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Gabey Goh from DigitalNewsAsia.com talks about the MOL IPO listing on Nasdaq Global Market in September that may raise up to US$300 million. Also, according to TNS, the Internet did not kill the TV star. We still are hooked to that remote control. And not forgetting, with the recent road rage internet sensation, Gabey Goh shares an interesting story by Foong Cheng Leong on Cyberstalking, harassment and road rage.

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The World Cup is over. After a month long of sleepless night, it’s never easy to go back to your usual routine of just work and sleep. Your feet starts tingling and every walk you take feels like a step up for that ultimate penalty kick. ONz is a social network for sports players developed here in Malaysia that aims to put back the “play” in your routine. We speak to William Yap and Justin Leo from ONz and how they plan to make sports players connect around Malaysia.

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Runway 2.0 is the first ever fashion meets technology event to encourage collaboration between the two disciplines. We speak to Jonathan Wong after the event to discuss the future of retail in Malaysia and how the retail industry in Asia and Malaysia needs to reinvent itself with the help of technology.

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Jeff Sandhu talks about how Bill Gates helped in creating the world's first remote-controlled birth control chip and how a potato salad managed to gather USD$40k from Kickstarter. 

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World Population Day is an annual event, observed on July 11 every year, which seeks to raise awareness of global population issues. Trying to raise awareness of his 1Mattlaysia plan is Matt Armitage of Kulturpop.

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Gabey Goh from DigitalNewsAsia.com talks the possibility of YTL Communications Executivve Director Yasmin Mahmood as a replacement for Badlisham Ghazali as the CEO for MDeC. Also on today's show, the National ICT Human Resource Task Force has submitted a new proposal to the Government to establish the once-controversial Board of Computing Professionals Malaysia (BCPM) and insights from the latest ICT Job Market Outlook report by Pikom.

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