Tech Talk

It's all about Microsoft in today's show. From their wifi-enabled print ad to Nokia's shareholders losing patience with Windows Phone platform.

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It must be like all of his Christmases have come at once! Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage has been banging on about 3D printing, or additive manufacturing, for the past two years. Now someone has made a real bang with 3D printing. This week an American law student Cody Wilson, successfully test fired a handgun that he designed himself and then printed off.

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Gabey Goh and A. Asohan talks about how the telecommunications infrastructure in Malaysia managed to accommodate the onslaught of SMSes, website updates and browsing and social media chatter during the 13th General Elections despite fears and rumours that there will be network disruption. Following that, they say congratulations to Jobstreet for crossing the RM1 billion market cap and is now the most successful Internet company in South East Asia. Next up, they discuss a study by Ovum that showed social messaging apps will cost telco operators US$32.6bil and how vital is it for telcos to work closely with OTT players. Before ending the show, Digital News Asia (DNA) is celebrating its one year mark by organizing a special Disrupt series happening on May 15th at the Securities Commision with Mark Chang, founder of JobStreet.com and still its CEO; Roshan Thiran, founder and CEO of Leaderonomics; Goh Ai Ching, co-founder and CEO of Piktochart and DNA’s Karamjit Singh as panelist with BFM's very own Malek Ali as the moderator. RSVP your attendance here: DNA Special Disrupt

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Open Source technologies have been around for years now but enterprises around the world, especially in South East Asia, have been skeptical in adopting enterprise technologies that are open source based. Ed Boyajian, President and CEO of EnterpriseDB talks about Mainstream Enterprise Adoption of Open Source Databases and the importance of employing it in organizations today.

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In a recent study by Accenture, understanding technology change – the trends that will impact your business – is no longer just the realm of IT. This year’s Accenture Technology Vision lays out the major technology trends affecting organizations in the public and private sectors. Trent Mayberry, Managing Director – Technology, ASEAN for Accenture talks about the seven trends found in their Technology Vision 2013 report. For more information log on to www.accenture.com/technologyvision

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Firefox OS is in its final stage and some are saying the potential in it is huge. Why? We speak to Lucas Adamski, Director of Security Engineering at Mozilla Corporation about their company structure and how they work with developers.

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Your very own personal geek love doctors talk about the Durex Fundawear and how it is NOT the World's First! And for those couch travellers, check out hyperlapse.tllabs.io to create your own hyper lapse photography all using Google Street View. The Geeks also talks about Facebook Home's disappointing user review on Google Play.

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What’s mine is yours. It’s an old motto but one that the world seems to be taking to heart. The Internet and Social Media, not to mention those ubiquitous smartphone apps are letting us rent out everything from spare rooms to a wedding dress. Someone who’d rather throw the toys out of his pram than share them is Matt Armitage from Kulturpop.

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A. Asohan, Premesh Chandran and Goh Su Gim gets together and talk about the intense political campaigns online, DDos Attacks on independent news portals and possible solutions from Su Gim, security advisor from F-Secure. 

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You as the tough questions and they make sure it gets answered. That’s what a new social platform built for political leaders to communicate and answer our dying questions. We speak to Eyal Hamish, CEO of OurSay & Jay Sonn, IT Consultant, Social entrepreneur and currently working with oursay.org

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