Tech Talk

According to our Health Minister, Dato’ Sri Liow Tiong Lai, Malaysia is the fattest country in South-East Asia with obesity rate on the rise. And with obesity, the risk of diabetes is also increased. Malaysia has around 15 to 20 percent of diabetes patients compared to 8 – 10 percent elsewhere. Diabetes is a well-known silent killer and Geoffrey Tan, Founder and CEO and Brandon Beh, Chief Technology Officer for Geob International talks about the Hypoband.

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So the BlackBerry Z10 is out! After being delay time and time and time again, is the wait worth it?

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A recent social media report from Nielsen stated that 46 per cent of Malaysian social media users interact online on social channels via their mobile phones. More interestingly in another study by Nielsen also showed that while smartphone penetration in Malaysia earlier in 2012 stood at around 27 percent, 79 percent of those planning to upgrade their phones in the next six months planned to purchase a smartphone. The jump in mobile use is accompanied by a boost in mobile infrastructure spending, and presents a whole new set of opportunities to advertisers. Robert Woolfrey, Managing Director Southeast Asia for Millennial Media talks about the mobile advertising trends in SEA for 2013 and beyond.

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The Geeks talked about Apple secretly creating the iWatch and how Google might have to pay Apple USD$1 billion, but why?!

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Karamjit Singh from Digital News Asia spends his Valentines afternoon with Freda Liu talking about his suffering from slow internet speeds over the weekend and the first company he profiled, Piktochart.com

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Ericsson recently identified the hottest tech consumer trends for this year and beyond. The global research program is based on annual interviews with over 100,000 individuals in more than 40 countries and 15 megacities. Sebastian Barros from Ericsson Malaysia tells us all.

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Valentines Day is near and geeks all around the world have a problem! They cant find a gift for their (imaginery?) girlfriend so the Geeks Squawk picks out 3 items that you should consider.

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For many Geeks, Valentine’s Day is a more frightening concept than a trip to the proctologist. Matt Armitage from Kulturpop claims to be married. To a real life woman he’s actually met. This week the Instagroom founder wants to tell us all about love. 

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Karamjit Singh from DigitalNewsAsia.com talks to Matt Chandran, the Group CEO of Infovalley about what he plans to do with the RM70 million fund from AIM.

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New business models have emerged with the Internet and many of them are part of what is referred to as the personal information economy. An important aspect of this is that consumers can give away personal information in return for services. How will consumers react to the growing trend of sharing information online, where many companies try to monetize this information? Sebastian Barros from Ericsson Malaysia talks about Trading Personal Data For Services.

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