Tech Talk

It’s been a sci-fi dream for more than 50 years. Machines that can think and reason. But what happens when your dream comes true but you don’t understand it? Is Skynet a possibility we ask Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage?

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Because last week there was no show due to Raya holidays, Karamjit Singh from Digital News Asia comes back to talk about last weeks news regarding CSF's founder Adrian Yong 24-hour resignation letter and what was the bigger picture in the story. He also talks about a story on how Lau Kin Wai of Fatfish Group believes that Malaysian founders feels there are better opportunities in Singapore. Keeping up with the times, he ends on a story about how we might be missing a golden opportunity in the upcoming Global Entrepreneurship Summit happening in KL and who he thinks should be given a chance to talk during the summit.

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Software skills are now an important role in shaping the world for tomorrow and this was quite evident in last year’s SOFTEC 2012 with the focus on soft skills in software testing. Dr. Jasbir Dhaliwal, Director Systems Testing Excellence Program for FedEx Institute of Technology and Associate Dean for The University of Memphis and also contributor to the Malaysian Software Testing Board (MSTB) and Malaysian Software Testing Hub (MSTH) program talks about the importance of software skills in today’s world.

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For the past few years, smartphones, tablets, laptops and other mobile devices have entered the corporate workplace in increasing numbers. The BYOD phenomenon is one of the most significant clear incarnations of the wave of consumerisation surging through Information Tech. Bai SooHan, Regional Sales Director ASEAN at eWall Asia talks about some security concerns and gateway appliance for BYOD implementations.

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If there’s one app that we’ve all been hooked when it first came to Malaysia, it’s gotta be Spotify. The online music streaming services came to our shores on April 16th earlier this year and since then, we’ve seen more online music services coming to Asia. Sunita Kaur, Director of Asia for Spotify talks about what’s next for Spotify

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There’s a perception around the globe that the people who are involved in the creative industry are those who generally did not excel academically. Is this true? What does it take to be a part of this industry? How influential is the creative industry? Hussin Khan, Technical Advisor for MSC Malaysia’s National Occupational Skill Standards (NOSS) Development for ICT or better known to some as the After Effects Evangelist talks about this from his research.

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According to IDC, 132 minutes is the average amount of time each day that smartphone users spend communicating and using social media on their phones and 79 percent of smartphone users have their phone on or near them for all but two hours of their waking day. Our life has become digital but how are we protecting it? Goh Su Gim, Security Advisor Asia for F-Secure shares some crucial basic tips for safeguarding our digital life.

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Cooliris is a photo-sharing app for the iPhone and iPads with over 4 million installs and a billion photo views and ranked 9th in the Top US Mobile Apps by comScore. With them now making their presence in South East Asia, we speak to Soujanya Bhumkar, co-founder and CEO of Cooliris about what can entrepreneurs here learn from these great thinkers in the tech industry?

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Freda Liu and Matt Armitage talked about payment transactions with faces, food printing and more cars!

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We’re going under the hood on Tech Talk today. As our cars become more sophisticated we have to wonder, are they becoming less safe. One man who should stay off the road is Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage.

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