Tech Talk

The consumerization of IT is real, or is it? A recent IDC survey shows that 40% of devices used to access business applications are personally owned but we’ve to fully agree on a BYOD method. Ray Teske, Avaya’s Regional Director for ASEAN talks about the consumerization of IT.

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In 2009, IBM launched its first global CIO Study: The New Voice of the CIO. This year, the 2011 Global CIO Study: the Essential CIO, elaborated further on the many responsibilities of the CIOs today – shifting and expanding from “what to do” to “how to do it”. Giuseppe Bruni, Business Sales & Delivery Executive, Strategy & Transformation, IBM ASEAN Global Business Services and Wang Jack Jong, General Manager for Global Technology Services IBM Malaysia talks about the study.

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The Internet has been instrumental in developing and creating opportunities for everyone. Gone were the days of having an idea but not being able to execute them. Rayyan Haries, the CEO and Founder of warehouzs.com talks about how his idea became a business for him thanks to the Internet.

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The geeks warns everyone about the WAYN Social Network as Freda "accidentally" spammed everyone in her contact list and Google's fun query of the day "Do a barrel roll". On a more serious issue, they talk about how Japan plans to backup the entire Tokyo and Anonymous Operation Darknet together with Microsoft's Kinect SDK.

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Back in the 1950s they honestly thought that the future of everything would be nuclear. Watches, our electricity, even our cars would be powered by this miraculous, clean and cheap energy sources. But dozens of nuclear power accidents plus this year’s incident at the Fukushima power plant in Japan where radiation leaked following the tsunami have shaken our faith in a nuclear future. Not so, according to Matt Armitage of MN8 & Kulturpop.com

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With earth natural resources getting limited day-by-day, electric power and natural gas public utility has been looked at to replace this valuable resource in the future. Jörg Lohr, the Senior Project Manager Business Development at RWE Effizienz talks about e-Mobility

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With the recent report on cyber-robbers in Malaysia, sensitivities around hacking in the personal finance space have heightened. This is especially so, since Malaysia is “renowned” for credit card fraud. Following Murdoch and Drimer’s team at Cambridge University regarding the usage of stolen cards, we’re going to be exploring the feasibility of skimming and cloning in the context of POS usage. Andrea Barisani, the Chief Security Engineer of InversePath talks about this.

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Ever walked into a bar and getting asked “What’s your poison?”. English idioms are something that has never really been tracked down and we tend to come with our very own idioms randomly. Thankfully though, there’s now an app called Gobby that puts users just a tap away from getting to really know their onions. Henry Playfoot, CEO of Stealth Education talks about how technology and education can work together for a better future.

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For many people, everyday things such as commuting, managing your household energy consumption and communicating with public authorities create a lot of frustrations. A new research from Ericsson concludes that these frustrations look very much the same across markets and suggests new services that could alleviate these frustrations and could create new opportunities for technology entrepreneurs. Sebastian Barros from Ericsson Malaysia talks about creating opportunities for Malaysia developers from everyday frustrations .

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The geeks talks about Nokia's new WinPhone device and the Nokia Kinetic Device followed by Sony's buying out of Ericsson's stake. Who is Ego Leonard? The geeks talks about this giant 8 foot Lego man found in Florida.

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