Tech Talk

A dedicated network for the Internet of Things will begin rolling out across the UK next year and according to some forecasts, there will be 50 billion connected devices worldwide by 2020 ranging from smart energy meters, washing machines that can be controlled remotely to wearable devices that monitor your health and fitness. But what's IoT got in store for the enterprise consumers and what are the trends to lookout for? We speak to Muralidhran Nadarajah, CEO of Xchanging in Malaysia.

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The Geeks talks about how George RR Martin writes the Game of Thrones series and why he still prefer the oldschool instead of new technology and because it's Godzilla week, the Geeks talks about how Japan plans to build a solar station in space towed by Earth.

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Last week Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage tried to tell us that 3D Printing would revitalize our communities. This week he’s back to tell us that Community is lost. 

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In today’s Tech Thursday, Gabey Goh from DigitalNewsAsia.com talks about the RM1.2million fine by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) on major telcos and the impact to the industry. Also, she talks about SMTrack Bhd’s deal with IDG and Canton Fair Import Export Co Ltd to develop Malaysia’s first ‘cross-border end-to-end food traceability’ system. And in the entrepreneurship segment, she talks about ‘mobilising’ the Malaysian rental market with myRent and Monk’s Hill Ventures debut with US$80million fund.

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The End of Days has arrived. It’s finally here after the long wait. I’m talking about Windows XP. After 13 years, Microsoft has discontinued support and security updates for Windows XP as of April 8th. However, nearly 28% of the world’s computers still rely on what is deemed as a massive success for Microsoft in all of their operating systems. What can be done and what should you do? Jeff Sandhu spoke to Nat Maple, Senior Vice President & General Manager Global Consumer Business in Acronis on how to make the transition as painless as possible and why did Microsoft pulled the plug when they’re still a large numbers of computers worldwide in every sector running on Windows XP?

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The concept of crowdsourcing is not something new, from idea generation to genereating funds, it has given the web a much more powerful presence. WebSearchME is a feature built in Fobo Max that utilise crowd sourcing to help people to locate their lost items or loved ones without paying any monthly subscription fee. How does it work? We speak to Kevin Tan and George Pan of Salutica Allied Solutions, the creators of Fobo Tag and Fobo Max to find out more.

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The Geeks talk about a new 3D printer that prints make up from your home using the Internet as your catalog and how we could soon see a US $20 smartphone that will hit developing nations few soon according to experts.

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Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage has been banging the 3D printer drum for the last 2 or 3 years. As the devices become more mainstream and figure more highly in news reports in the mainstream media, Matt thinks it’s time to tell you why you should be interested.

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Karamjit Singh from DigitalNewsAsia.com talks about Alpha Startups, a 5 day intensive pre-acelerator bootcamp that shows more support for entrepreneurs. He talks about about Soft Space and their RM18.4 million grant from MIDA and what’s happening with Zafrul Noordin and Code Army. And Malaysia may appoint a Chief Data Scientist, do we even need one?

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Jiro Shindo from Thales e-Security talks about some of the key takeaways from the 2013 Global Encryption Trends Study and discusses what are some of the challenges organizations faced today in planning and executing a data encryption strategy.

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