Tech Talk

Recently Microsoft launched a movement called the “Save Social Energy’ movement which encourages users to save their social energy. Research has shown that people spend significant periods of time updating their various social networks and checking their emails, but what is Social Energy? Barrie Ooi, Windows Live Lead, Consumer and Online Microsoft Asia Pacific explains to us what this is all about.

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Industry analysts have reported that approximately 1.2 – 1.8 trillion US Dollars is spent annually on infrastructure IT. Of that spend, 80% of those IT dollars are being allocated towards just running and maintaining a company’s enterprise or what we refer to as “keeping the lights on”. We talked Efficient Enterprise today with Robin Johnson, CIO for Dell.

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Wikipedia, the user-generated online encyclopaedia we all know and love -- and increasingly rely on -- turned 10 last month. To help celebrate its 10th year, which is quite a milestone for any dotcom, new media consultant Oon Yeoh is here to present 10 interesting things about Wikipedia.

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Print medium is becoming far more challenging as it tries to keep with the pace of technology. Devices such as tablets PC’s and smartphones requires printers to also work smartly as the need for printing is now seemed less important. So what is the future of print? We all know that we can never kill the printer but what are manufactures have in store for us? William Tan, Country Manager for Lexmark International Malaysia talks to us about this.

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Although traditional media in this country is regulated, new media is not. This has led to the flourishing of online news sites like Malaysiakini, The Malaysian Insider, Malaysia Today, Free Malaysia Today, and of course countless number of blogs. Last week, news that the government is considering expanding the Printing Presses & Publications Act to cover new media as well has shocked the online world. And there has been plenty of backlash. To discuss this with us is new media consultant Oon Yeoh.

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The oldest galaxy, Sony's injunction, Jet Propelled Water Cannon that will cost you $456,000 from China and staying with China, a local chinese news station trying to pass off footage from Top Gun movie as Real-Life Air Force Training footage, HTTPS on Facebook, Viber App and 5 reasons why the PSP2 wont succeed. All in this weeks, Geeks Squawk!

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Whenever we describe something as being virtual on Tech Talk, it usually means it’s something that’s pretty much invisible or imaginary or only exists on a computer screen. But, according to Matt Armitage from kulturpop.com, virtual is getting real.

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In this year, IDC expects the Asian business and Information and Communications Technology (ICT) space to be defined by sustainable growth, and in some cases, high growth. The healthy economy, in turn, will fuel ICT transformation, triggering it to go mainstream. Freda Liu spoke to Claus Mortensen, Principal, Emerging Technology Research, Practice Group, IDC Asia/Pacific talks about IDC's Predictions in the ICT space for 2011 and since recovery and transformation were the two overarching themes in the annual IDC Asia/Pacific excluding Japan Top 10 Predictions for 2011.

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Artificial Intelligence or A.I is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. There have been plenty of talks about the A.I Revolution and Hollywood directors have even taken it up with movies such as I Robot. But how close are we to realizing a true A.I world? Techmaestro Jeff Sandhu talks about this.

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Cyber threats have caused a staggering USD 226 billion of financial losses globally based on some researches. Cybercriminals target small & medium businesses as well as some corporates because these businesses are often not protected as well as larger enterprises making them easy pickings for information, identity and monetary loss. Bernie Bengler, Global Head of Product Management, Cloud Services & Director SaaS APAC for Kaspersky Lab talks about this current issue.

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