Tech Talk

The IT industry is witnessing a rapid explosion of new and heterogeneous devices and app platforms, coupled with the rising trend of consumerization, BYOD and increasingly digitally-savvy generation who prefer to work whenever, wherever and however they choose. We speak to Mark Micallef, Area Vice President ASEAN for Citrix on new innovation to equip people with mobile workspaces.

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11 years from now, year 2025, represents a horizon that is close enough to project how current trends could play out  - the data centers being commissioned today will be at the halfway point in their project lifecycle in 2025 – and yet far enough away that there is still opportunity to shape what that future will look like. We speak to Tony Gaunt, Director of Internet Data Centres Asia of Emerson Network Power on the future of data centres and future trends that business can leverage today.

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The recent World Bank Report has forecasted slower growth of the Malaysian economy, stating the country’s education system as its biggest obstacle to becoming a high-income nation. This came on the back of the recent announcement of the Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) results, where Malaysia lagged behind even lower-income nations such as Vietnam and according to Jobstreet.com, poor English is among the top complaints that employers have about fresh graduates. We speak to David Topolewski, the CEO of Qooco on how mobile learning solutions could solve this problem.

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Squawking alone, Jeff Sandhu talks about a new law in UK that bans users of Google Glass the usage of the device in cinemas and a new class of meteorite that was found recently in Sweden could hold the key that sparked the diversification of life on Earth nearly 500 million years ago. And YO is not the only way to communicate, introducing Emojili, a new instant messaging app that you can send emoji's only.

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Scientist have been probing individual regions of the brain for over a century now and for the first time ever, they have discovered that there could actually be an on-off switch deep inside your brain. Matt Armitage from Kulturpop is not here today. But we have Jeff Sandhu.

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Karamjit Singh from DigitalNewsAsia.com talks about Fusionex's USD12.5 million dollar investment in creating, arguably, the best workspace in the country and how Idyllic Sabah plays home to drone startup Dragonfly Robotix and plans to be a leader in South East Asia in the drones industry. He also shares what happened during the recent Internet of Things roundtable discussion that happened in KL recently.

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With digital data growth expected to increase globally by 4,300 percent by 2020, businesses today are immensely finding it tough to fulfil the rising expectations of their customers who can easily retrieve any latest information and know about ‘almost everything’ via Internet. This digital revolution is driving businesses to look into the unprecedented opportunities on social related networks to improve their overall customer experience. Social media is becoming a reality today regardless whether organisations are ready to embrace it. We speak to Chandru Relwani from Oracle Asia Pacific on how to harness social media technologies to improve customer experience.

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According to eMarketer’s latest forecasts, worldwide e-commerce sales will increase by 20.1% this year to reach a whopping USD$1.5 trillion dollars. In 2014, for the first time, consumers in Asia-Pacific will spend more on ecommerce purchases than those in North Amercia, making it the largest regional ecommerce market in the world. Snap, List, Sell. Create free listings in less than 30 seconds. Carousell is a new mobile first C2C marketplace that snagged SGD$800k in November last year has made its way across the border from Singapore to Malaysia. We speak to Marcus Tan, the co-founder on what’s the big buzz?

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Last week on Tech Talk, Nick spoke about the 6 trends in the Technology Vision 2014. This week he comes in and shares with us on steps to implement these trends into your business and how to identify what works for you and what doesn’t.

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The Geeks talks about what happened during Google I/O and why Matt Armitage hates DIY and corrugated cardboards. They also decided that they should just stop speaking in plain English with the rise of the YO app and why "Silence" might be the next big hit.

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