Tech Talk

We like good manners here on TechTalk so it’s time our resident grumpy guest updated his list of does and don’ts for this weird, wired world. Unsurprisingly, Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage agrees with Hannibal Lecter and thinks we should eat the rude?

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Karamjit Singh from DigitalNewsAsia.com wonders if Dato Badlisham Ghazali can be the bridge that ‘trust chasm’? And he also talks about DiGi’s Challenge for Change and the latest Disrupt #19 talking on Long Term Earnings or LTE. He then highlights Goh Ai Ching from the Digerati50 list and talks about Ericsson’s report on why mobile data plans need to evolve.

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Books. A set of written or printed on blank sheets made of ink on paper or other materials and usually fastened together to hinge at one side. Fast forward to today, books are still one of the most important means of education and self-knowledge, but the reading culture is slowly dying. That though is not stopping Hossein Arabi and Lian Shen, the creators of Bookurve, a new online bookstore.

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The Accenture’s Technology Vision identifies 6 trends that can change the way you do your business. We speak to Nick Taylor from Accenture to break down these trends for us and share some examples of how it changing businesses today.

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Karamjit Singh from DigitalNewsAsia.com talks about the tiki-taka football fever and how many devices are connected to this year's World Cup. He also talks about telco tales with DiGi, Maxis and Celcom and Badlisham's last PC as the MDeC CEO.

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Cybercriminals are working overtime during this World Cup season. From spams to phishing to hacking and even ATM machines, they’re all out in full force as the world has its focus on the tournament. We speak to David Emm, Senior Security Researcher at Global Research and Analysis Team, Kaspersky Lab about some of the security threats to be wary of during this World Cup.

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Will your bank go extinct? The rise of technology and mobile devices has disrupted many industries. Today, businesses operate differently, and consumer behaviors are changing. How will out banks work in the future? How many brick-and-mortar branches will be left in Malaysia in five years time? In twenty? Robert Wilson, Global Head of Retail Banking, Global Financial Services for SAP talks about the need for banks to change and adapt to today’s technology or face extinctions.

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In November 2013, the government enacted the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA), aimed at protecting the interest of individuals and to give them more control over their personal data. While the PDPA has increased the protection of invaluable data that has the potential of being commoditized, one of the main challenges facing some businesses is the lack of IT capacity or technology know-how to implement the necessary mechanisms that will facilitate data owners to exercise their rights as part of the PDPA. Steven Rosen from Xchanging Malaysia talks about the importance of server security to mitigate issues like the Heartbleed bug incident and how businesses can comply with the PDPA smoothly.

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The world has its focus and attention to South America and the World Cup. In 2010, there was almost half of the world’s population watching the World Cup in South Africa. On average, there were approximately 188.6 million viewers for each of the 64 matches. And, this year’s World Cup in Brazil is no different. Today, with the considerable change of Internet in the past four years, there are more outlets and devices to watch the matches. The rise in social media (#WorldCup) will  undoubtedly set new viewing records on personal and business networks. World Cup will again historically increase traffic across all networks. Given the popularity of the World Cup on a global basis, Brian Contos from Blue Coat will discuss how the World Cup event will possibly affect the ASEAN’s personal and business network traffic, and provide a window for online frauds, malware attacks and advanced persistent threats on networks.

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The Geeks have a special guest on the show today as Umapagan comes in and talks about what happened during E3 and we learn about Matt's first ever game. And we also round up Apple's WWDC.

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