Tech Talk

Every day our Inboxes bring us a deluge of mail about the latest products, revolutionary apps and new technologies that will transform our lives or our world. But do we really care anymore? Is technology – dare we say it – getting dull? Boring? Tedious? Snoring into his crystal ball is Matt Armitage from kulturpop.com and MN8.

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Return on investment. It’s the compilations of metrics that are used to determine whether an activity or expenditure is worthwhile for a business. Over the last 4 years, social media has been at the centre of ROI debated between marketers, company executives, and gurus across the spectrum. Christopher Tock, Digital Strategy Consultant for SocialGrooves.com sheds some light.

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As citizens, we’ve always want to be assured that our tax money is being put to good and right and effective use by the government. Especially with recent initiatives by PEMANDU and the government drive on EPPs, we are beginning to see more transparency and improvements in place. Steven Yong, Managing Director for Accelteam talks about how to deliver higher precision in addressing the citizen’s needs through technology.

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Umapagan Ampikaipakan and Jeff Sandhu talks about why they think that traditional desktop operating as we know it today are about to be phased out and replaced with newer, more user friendly "tablet" based desktop operating systems. And speaking of problems with traditional desktop operating systems, our very own system at BFM radio crashed halfway through the show that proves our point. Listen in to what the boys had to say.

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It's Monday Mobile Matters with Jeff Sandhu as we talk mostly about Apple and how some iPhone apps like Facebook and Twitter are storing your address book on it's servers without you even realizing it. We then move on how Apple has been awarded the patent for MacBook Air's design and why ultrabook makers should be more creative. Kodak, despite being bankrupt, could face more challenges as Apple are seeking to file a lawsuit against them. We end off with a bit of BlackBerry news with it's PlayBook 2.0 software launch.

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With Matt Armitage craving for potato chips and bubble tea, we're again left with Jeff Sandhu alone as he talks about what we all should be getting him for his birthday end of this year. Could it be Starcraft RISK or Back To The Future Hoverboard by Mattel?

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According to Norton Cybercrime Report 2011, more than a million people are becoming victims of cybercrime every single day worldwide. That’s an alarming rate and made even worse when the combine financial and time losses is more than the global black market in marijuana, cocaine and heroin combined. Adli Wahid, Vice President for Cyber Security Responsive Services, CyberSecurity Malaysia takes a look at what was reported to Cyber99 in 2011.

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The cruelty to sharks and shark finning has been generating a lot of buzz in recent news and Anti Shark finning campaigns has never seen much success until recently. SeeFood, touted as the most expensive animation produced in Malaysia is hoping that it will send the same kind of message in particular children. Jeffrey Chiang, writer for SeeFood and Goh Aun Hoe, director of SeeFood The Movie talks about their new creation.

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Red Hat was founded in 1993 and has become a major Linux distribution vendor over the past years. Harish Pillay, Global Community and Technology Architect for Red Hat Inc talks about virtualization and cloud predictions for 2012.

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According to HP's CEO Meg Whitman on a recent interview with CRN, the newly open-sourced webOS mobile operating system will be better than both Google's Android and Apple's iOS platform. That's a pretty bold statement given that HP purchased Palm for $1.2 billion and wasn't even able to produce a single successful device based on its acquired software. Dr. Alan Teh who's a life long Palm fan speaks to us about webOS.

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