Speaking in Tech

On this week's episode, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) mull over cat-like lawyers on Zoom; possible trouble at Nominet; acquisitions and innovations at Hyundai; Sunway's exascale supercomputer; Veeam's great set of figures; VMware's new security guide for vSphere; President Biden's bid to end a chip shortage; and more! 00:00 Dogs, schools and lockdowns 03:45 May it please the cat 09:01 U ok, .uk? 12:56 Change or die thinks Hyundai 16:51 Sunway has too many flops 20:08 2020-21: 22% for Veeam 21:54 Tool up with a TPM says VMware 26:45 When the chips are down, Biden steps up 33:45 HashiTalks and other stuff next week @speakingintech

In this episode, Peter and Melissa go back in time and cover the tech news from the week before the US Presidential Inauguration.

In this week's episode, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) are joined by Ken Grohe, President and Chief Revenue Officer of Weka (weka.io). The trio talk about James Corden's star turn at a Salesforce bash; AWS's entry into the rent-a-Mac market; Google Street View opening up to self-submitted photos; payments app PhonePe snagging a $700m investment; some new fashion choices for Christmas (all in a good cause); Weka's parallel file system; and more! 00:00 (Not so) lockdown 01:45 Introducing Ken 03:36 James Corden: Salesforce guru 07:07 Wanna cloudy Mac? That'll be nine grand 12:13 New to Google Street View: you 18:09 PhonePe's had worse weeks 20:43 Windows: software or knitwear? 23:44 What's Weka? 41:20 Next week's treats @speakingintech

This week, Peter and Melissa are joined by special guest, Ron Rock (@rrockrr) with @Microshareio . Together, they discuss Dell's multi-million dollar laptop error, Virtual Veteranarians, the LAPD's facial recognition blunder and more. 00:00 - Welcome Ron! 03:30 - Dell's millionaire mint 05:15 - VMWare gets original 09:15 - Virtual Vets 12:30 - LAPD gets naughty with your face 16:30 - Microshare IOT & data ownership 18:30 - Needs-based business model adaptation 24:00 - Clean = Safe 30:00 - Blending old and new to change the world 36:00 - Social Mapping Score

On this week's Speaking in Tech, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@PeterSmallbone) talk about some proposed redundances at IBM; HP Inc sunsetting 'free ink for life'; new limits on storage in Google Photos; robots changing hard drives in Alibaba's data centres; China's president reportedly blocking a tech IPO; WeChat's owner Tencent reporting a bumper set of figures; PayPal getting further into the cryptocurrency game; the rise of the Parler social media platform; and more! 00:00 Lockdown is back (did it ever really go away?) 02:49 Some IBMers may be facing a blue Christmas 08:11 HP Inc sinks the free ink 12:39 Photos in Google are about to lose their gloss 22:54 We. Are. The. Robots. 25:50 China's president no-gos an IPO 30:03 Tencent's making a lot more than ten cents 31:57 PayPal goes crypto 35:59 Step into my Parler 42:41 Birthdays and conferences @speakingintech

This week, Peter and Melissa join forces to talk about British Airway’s fine restructuring, QQAAZZ arrests, Tesla’s autopilot bug, Datto’s IPO, Oracle’s play to keep your database forever and more. 00:00 – The Tooth is Out There 04:00 – BA carrying a lighter load in fines 09:00 – Money Laundering as a Service goes down 12:00 – “Making it look like an accident” as a Service 16:30 – Datto looks to IPO 20:00 – Oracle is your obessive ex, but for your Databases 27:00 – What’s next?

On this week's Speaking in Tech, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) talk about the US Senate subpoena of Twitter's, Facebook's and Google's CEOs; Facebook banning ads that delegitimise election outcomes; Snapchat's role in voter participation; Google's mental health concerns with photo filters on Pixel phones; GCHQ discovering a 'nationally significant' vulnerability in Huawei equipment; how the NHS in England is promoting their contact tracing app with Deloitte and Salesforce also trying to get in on the act; whether deleting WhatsApp counts as destroying evidence; Cazoo's new mega-valuation; Google turning off FTP in Chrome; and more! 00:00 The tooth hurts 02:10 School days, snow days 05:25 Are your communications decent? 10:27 Is your election legit? Facebook thinks so 15:24 Snapchat rocks the vote 18:56 Google bans photo filters on the Pixel - or do they? 23:37 Another bad news day for Huawei 28:01 The NHS emails... well, kinda everyone 33:46 Deloitte and Salesforce are selling - are you buying? 35:48 Beat the rap with WhatsApp 40:10 Caz000,000,000 43:52 FTP: Forget That Protocol 46:56 What's in store next week @speakingintech

This week, Peter and Melissa are joined by Dr. Matthias Farwick, CEO and Co-founder of Txture and Thomas Trojer, CTO and Co-founder of Txture. Together, they talk about Tik Tok’s fate, Snowflake’s IPO, Uber backs out of China a bit, Alicloud’s next move, Txture (https://txture.io/en) and more! 00:00 – Life in the Clouds 04:20 – Trump reviews TikTok bid 09:30 – IPSnow 13:00 – Uber’s latest sale 15:50 – Yet another new Cloud Operating System 21:30 – Belarus drying out 25:30 – Ransomware death 31:00 – Lex takes on real English 34:30 – Massive cloud migrations with Txture

In this week's episode, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) talk about Apple, privacy and bag searches; Facebook's new approach to political ads as well as their AR glasses and impressive results for Watch; Microsoft tackling deepfakes; Samsung's new $2,000 folding phone; Qualcomm's new power-efficient processor; Intel's rebrand; and more! 00:00 Bank holidays and back to school 03:33 Apple's got your back... or do they 10:21 Apple's got your bag... or do they 13:19 Facebook gets political 19:27 Glasses that help you to hear 23:06 Facebook Watch has lots of watchers 26:39 Microsoft takes on the deepfakers 28:54 Samsung wants the folding stuff for its folding stuff 32:32 Qualcomm lets your laptop live 35:21 Intel gets jazzy 37:37 What next week brings

This week, Peter and Melissa join forces to discuss the latest on the Tik Tok acquisition, Twitter's new approach to copy/paste, Amazon's new offerings and more! 00:00 – Yep, Everything still sucks 02:00 – Tiking time bomb 17:00 – Twitter shuts down the twits 21:00 – Netapp pulls the rip cord on legacy 23:00 – Expanding web based security signal, Fastly 26:00 – Google gets anti-trusted 31:00 – Amazon’s “fresh” grocery store idea 34:30 – A Halo, but with horns and hooks

This week, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) talk about Microsoft's potential acquisition of TikTok; Donald Trump's efforts to ban it in the US; TikTok opening a data centre in Ireland; the end of Google Play Music (Pete: sob!); a great set of results for Western Digital; Uber's acquisition of UK-based firm Autocab; GDPR transgressors in the UK getting their fines reduced; penetration testers getting arrested for doing a penetration test; and more! 00:00 Zeppelins, conferences and and camping 03:42 TikTok has an admirer 05:41 Trump's Chinese takeaway 10:24 The Emerald Isle has a new tech guest 13:03 Google Play Music's last stand 17:56 Hard drives, hard cash 20:50 Uber catches an Autocab 23:46 GDPR fines? ICOh-no 27:34 Pen testers caught in a court led to court 32:28 Next week's treats @speakingintech

This week, Peter and Melissa join forces to cover the new Twitter scam, TikTok's lobbying effort, the CIA's new bag, ARM's overreach and more. 00:00 – Travel 05:00 – The latest hoax on Twitter 11:30 – TikTok gets into politics 21:00 – CIA gets more hax 29:00 – Apple fights with the Irish 33:30 - ARM’s customers jacked 37:00 – Dude claims some things hard for women 45:00 – Amazon’s work from home plans

This week, Peter and Melissa join forces to talk about Dell’s potential VMware spinoff, Facebook’s plans to ditch Oculus Go, Segway ending production, Amazon’s new dev offering and more. 00:00 – Happy Treason Day 03:00 – Dell taking VMware for a spin 10:00 – Facebook yeets “affordable” VR 14:20 – Segway going away 18:15 – Using bots to fight the endless cancellation hold 23:00 – China’s independent GPS 25:30 – Hate to code? Amazon has honey for you 28:00 – Digital Transformation finds your used car

This week, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) talk about YouTube’s $100m to support Black contributors and users; Google’s countersuit against Sonos; Facebook’s misstep on Workplace; Twitter’s takedown of accounts supporting the Chinese government; Microsoft, IBM and Amazon on facial recognition technology; Kahoot’s success; an investigation into Facebook’s acquisition of Giphy; and more! 00:00 Seattle vs England 03:09 YouTube gets generous 08:17 Google vs Sonos: like The War of the Roses except no Danny DeVito 12:59 Facebook Workplace won’t be unionising anytime soon 16:53 How many Twitter accounts does China need anyway 20:57 Facial freedom? 25:59 Kahoot’s a unicorn 29:27 UK to Facebook: Giphy might be iffy 33:20 Conferences and customers

This week Peter and Melissa get together to discuss Amazon hiring, Google's pending search changes, a few lawsuits, Apple's latest acquisition and more. 00:00 – Restrictions and Resumptions 04:00 – Amazon FT hiring boom 06:30 – Google quietly judges your search for UX 12:00 – Google faces a suit from Arizona 15:00 – Apple messes with the wrong accountant 17:00 – Apple acquires more ML for Siri 22:30 – 6Eating your WiFi 26:00 – Autonomous drug delivery kicks off 30:00 – Birthday!

This week, Melissa (@soltiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) discuss retrocomputing; Google and Apple’s COVID-19 contact tracing system; opposition to the UK’s own equivalent; Amazon entering the hot food delivery market in India; Intel’s acquisition of Killer Networking; Microsoft’s acquisition of Softomotive; the resurgence of the drive-in movie; Samsung’s new military phone; Facebook’s war on fake profiles; Netflix giving lapsed users their money back; and more! 00:00 Lockdowning, Zooming and Teamsing 01:55 Peter goes retro 04:13 Melissa’s many pursuits 05:38 Google and Apple have your number 09:55 GCHQ: what can you do? 14:48 Bezos’s fashion fail 18:20 Couchbase ain’t nuthin’ but a G thang 22:30 Intel’s got a Killer 26:44 Microsoft gets robotic 28:23 Forget your IMAX, drive-in movies are back 29:43 Samsung’s strategy is Tactical 32:15 Facebook fixes fakes – fact? 33:55 Nix Netflix? Keep your cash @speakingintech

On this week's @SPEAKINGinTECH, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@PeterSmallbone) discuss the new version of Zoom; Telegram's MAU milestone; a buoyant set of figures for Citrix; another nail in Adobe Flash's coffin; good news for Intel; an alleged hacking attempt by Vietnam on China; a new home for IBM Watson; a look back at a funny news story from 2012; and more! 00:00 What we did last week (surprise, surprise)... 03:26 Zoom versions up - is it a good thing? 06:57 Telegram just not being WhatsApp seems to work 10:58 Citrix: thin client, fat wallet 16:26 Adobe Flash gets dumped by LibreOffice 18:41 Intel just can't stop selling those chips 21:44 Vietnam has a pop at China, allegedly 26:20 Watson says goodbye to Baker Street 29:05 When 'non-commercial use' is as commercial as you can get 30:48 What we're doing next week (surprise, surprise)...

The week's tech news stories are dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic, although Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) do manage to find some other stories out there too. The pair talk about Everlywell's new coronavirus test that you can do at home; Elon Musk's offer to make ventilators; Microsoft's success with Teams; NASA's misstep on cloud egress charges; IBM mainframe and Chinese server sales on the up; ransomware crooks not targetting healthcare; the iPad Pro getting tooled up much like a Surface Pro; and more! 00:00 If it hadn't already got real, it just did 07:02 Everlywell lets you do it at home 10:02 Elon vents... in a good way 13:37 Microsoft's a Teams player 21:12 NASA realises that what goes up must come down 24:13 Life is great - if you're IBM or a Chinese server maker 27:18 Ransomware loves healthcare 30:23 Battle of the Pros 34:17 What we're doing next week (no surprises...)

This week, Peter and Melissa get together to talk about Waymo's latest funding round, Atrium's shut down, Let's Encrypt's bug fix, Honeywell's quantum computing play, SETI's pause on new data and more! 00:00 – Peter has nearly caught them all 05:00 – Conferences got it 08:00 – Waymo is too busy getting paid 13:30 – Atrium kicks it 19:25 – Let’s Encrypt catches a bug 22:00 – Honeywell’s new cure-all 27:30 – SETI calling in

This week, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@PeterSmallbone) are joined by Jerry Vasquez of Liquid Web (@LiquidWeb). The trio talk Mac vs Windows on malware; Google removing the ToTok messaging app from its Play store; Russia banning Tutanota secure email; what's happening with enterprise SSD and HDD sales; the latest on Xerox's attempted acquisition of HP Inc; and more! 00:00 AWOL in Seattle 02:02 Jerry joins in 03:20 Mac beats Windows... on malware 07:14 ToTok gets the chop 09:45 Tutanota is no Russian doll 13:01 SSDs are sooo last quarter 16:56 Xerox gets grubby with HP Inc 22:12 Jerry talks Liquid Web 35:15 What next week brings

This week, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@PeterSmallbone) are joined by Tara Kelly (@TKtechnow), CEO and Founder of Splice Software (@SPLICESoftware). The trio talk about Google's tax woes, Amazon's initiatives to help homeless people in Seattle - as well as the startup scene in that city, Sonos's controversial new trade-in process, using AI for breast cancer diagnosis, LibreOffice's first decade, how Splice Software can help customers and more! 00:00 Christmas, waxworks and Star Wars 02:24 Introducing Tara... and a bit more Star Wars 03:39 Google's Double Irish and Dutch Sandwich are off the menu 08:15 Gimme shelter, Amazon 12:47 Seattle's stupendous startups 16:45 Sonos says 'brick me' 27:11 AI is best for breast 33:40 LibreOffice chalks up ten years 36:23 Tara talks Splice Software 48:24 Next week's plans

In the second of a very special two-part episode, Peter Smallbone (@petersmallbone) reports on the world of tech startups at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin 2019. Please note this is a live event recoring and audio quality will be affected by that. 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:10 Innovative apps for NASA and others with Charlie Regis (@CharlieRegis), Co-Founder, Styliff Tech (@stylifftech / https://styliff.com) 00:06:19 Wearable technology to prevent industrial injuries with Matthew Hart, Founder, Soter Analytics (@SoterAnalytics / https://www.soteranalytics.com) 00:15:57 Software development for cloud computing, mobile apps, IoT and BLE with Grzegorz Kapusta (@gkapusta), CEO and Piotr Herstowski, Business Development Lead, Polidea (@polidea / https://www.polidea.com) 00:22:33 Data labelling for AI with Lars Wulfken (@wulfskin), VP Product, Canotic (@canoticai / https://canotic.com) 00:33:01 Hyperlocal video streaming with Christian Walther, Director Product, Joyn (@JoynDeutschland / https://www.joyn.de) 00:36:51 Automated cloud security with Manuela Ticudean, Co-Founder, Cyscale (@cyscale / https://www.cyscale.com) 00:42:14 Financial wellbeing with Alexander Brouwer (@alexanderbrwr), Founder and CEO and Veronica Fresneau (@verofresneau), Head of Marketing and Communications, Vive (@Vive_App / https://www.viveapp.com) 00:49:18 Winners of Startup Battlefield announced!  

In the first of a very special two-part episode, Peter Smallbone (@petersmallbone) reports on the world of tech startups at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin 2019. Due to the nature of live recordings, this recording will have background noise. 00:00:00 This might be a very short podcast… 00:01:16 A brain/computer interface with Daniëlle Tump, Software Developer and Product Manager, MindAffect (@mindaffect_bci / https://www.mindaffect.nl) 00:08:41 Social media for entrepreneurial minded students with Ronan Liedmeier, Co-founder, Studentup inc (@studentupinc / https://studentup.com) 00:17:03 ‘Doubling the performance of display ads’ with Mahesh Murthy (@maheshmurthy), Founder, Rad Ad (@raddotad / https://www.rad.ad) 00:25:39 Extended reality for videogaming with Alberto Saldaña (@ASaldaNave), CEO and Edu Saldaña (@EduS_N), Exec Creative Director, Sons of a Bit (@SonsofaBit_Ent / https://sonsofabit.com) 00:32:37 Girls shaping the future with tech with Dora Palfi (@dorapalfi), Co-founder and CEO, imagiLabs (@imagilabs / https://imagilabs.typeform.com/to/lJRbFM) 00:36:06 ‘The world's most secure messenger’ with Paul Jung, CEO, Seal Communication (@sealmessenger) 00:39:16 K-Dance for K-Pop with Manhyung Han (@Manhyung), CEO and Founder, Kinetic Lab 00:43:34 Powering the smart home revolution with Vladimir Cillik, Chief Business Development Officer, Domotron (@DomotronHome / https://domotron.com) 00:47:21 ‘Instant ROI’ platform for e-commerce with Maciej Serafin, CMO, edrone (@edrone_me / https://edrone.me)

This week, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) discuss a record breaking Cyber Monday, the latest on Xerox's attempted takover of HP, leadership changes at Google, AWS's moves into Quantum computing, KPMG getting into Microsoft 365, US Department of Homeland Security increasing the reach of their facial recognition technology, Sprint's cybersecurity woes and more! 00:00 Peter has a job... finally 02:12 Christmas shopping tales 03:30 Cyber Monday is the new Black Friday 12:29 HP slaps Xerox 15:58 Google finally moves out of the garage 21:57 AWS is on a quantum journey 25:33 KPMG goes all in on Microsoft 365 28:07 DHS saves face 34:13 Sprint gets a bucketload of problems 38:01 Japan comes to Melissa 40:06 Peter goes to Berlin

This week Peter and Melissa get together to discuss Mirantis taking on Docker Enterprise, Google getting into banking, Political attacks going cyber, politicians endorsing the opposition, Instagram’s new no-like test and more. 00:00 – Husky 02:00 – Kubernetes, more than 3 times fast 06:00 – Docker pulls an enterprise tea party 10:00 – Google Checking 15:00 – Labor keeps plugging through cyber attack 17:15 – Fake AI Friends 20:00 – Insta-nope

This week, Peter and Melissa are joined by special guest Rick Fox, VP of Agency Associations and Networks at Vertafore (@Vertafore). Together they talk insurance tech, Xerox’s potential acquisition of HP, Uber Eats running Ads while Uber ignores jaywalking as a thing, Ring’s vulnerability and more. 00:00 – Aston Villa disappoints the kids  04:30 – The minnow swallowing the bass  10:30 – Ads: It’s what’s for dinner  16:10 - Uberbad design  22:50 – Autonomous minions  28:30 – Ring shares your wifi password with the neighbors  33:30 – Gov’ment Cookies  36:30 – What is Insurance Tech anyway?  44:00 – AI: your new actuary  47:30 – Social Media based insurance rates?

This week, Peter Smallbone (@petersmallbone) is joined by Mike Butcher (@mikebutcher), editor-at-large at TechCrunch (@TechCrunch). The pair discuss the Pentagon's $10bn cloud computing contract, WhatsApp suing NSO, a new Slack competitor, Twitter dumping paid-for political ads, the unintended consequences of Facebook allowing politicians to lie and of course the upcoming TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin event. 00:00 Intros 02:02 Microsoft's the JEDI master 07:02 NSOh-no 11:26 Slack overload? Take a Quill pill 15:44 Twitter won't take your money... if you're a politician 21:00 Zuck is hoist with his own petard 26:09 Ich bin ein Berliner! TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin: https://smlb.in/2PFjF9U @speakingintech

This week, Melissa and Peter discuss Libra's troubles, seeing through walls with Wi-Fi, Apple's u-turn over Hong Kong, Dyson's ditching of its electric car, Nobel prizes for batteries and more!  00:00 - Colds, conferences and certifications  08:10 - PayPal's a Libra leaver  12:03 - BoE's a Libra legislator  16:55 - Walls have eyes  20:55 - App tha Police  26:20 - Dyson pulls the plug on its electric car  30:29 - Prizes all round  33:12 - What next week holds

This week Peter and Melissa sync up to discuss Ransomware in New Bedford, Uber Layoffs, McDonald’s new AI related acquisition, Robot grocery store use cases, loot box legislation and more! 00:00 – Slinging Rockets 05:00 – Riding out the Hack 09:15 – Uber takes a dump 13:15 – The robot army comes for your kids 21:00 – Robo-finders 24:45 – Lucky Dips

This week, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) discuss facial recognition in court, YouTube targeting kids, VMware's latest moves, Microsoft's acquisition of Movere, the latest AWS outage, falling server sales, a $14,000 gaming chair and more! 00:00 HashiConf is a-comin' to your town 02:27 All your face are belong to us 08:54 YouTube gets fined $170m... by a COPPA 15:43 VMware gets into Carbon Black and Kubernetes 19:13 You say 'Moov-eer' and I say 'Moov-air-eh' 23:00 AWS gives its services the day off for Labor Day 24:10 Servers are sooo last quarter 27:03 Who gets the electric chair? 29:58 What's on next week @speakingintech

This week Peter and Melissa discuss Microsoft's new Skype and Cortana policy, VMware's potential acquisition, another major security breech, Politicians killing facial recognition and more.  00:00 - Changes 02:15 - Human overlords for AI 09:15 - Your biometrics - pwned 17:00 - Politician profiling 21:15 - The snake eats itself 28:00 - These clicks are jacked!

This week Peter and Melissa discuss Lyft's stock volatility, Instagram's latest scandal, VMware's cloud announcement, patents for AI and more! 00:00 - Trying new things 05:00 - Lyft off... and on 07:30 - Spygram 13:35 - VMwhere? 21:55 - The new humungous app load 25:50 - AI invents 31:20 - Bye Felicia... er… MSDN 34:00 - Slack takes out some slack

This week, Josh and Peter discuss GMail's anniversary, VMWare's latest vulnerability, Apple's announcements. Lyft's IPO and Mark Zuckerberg's government call to action. 00:00 - It's April, and we are the only fools 02:35 - GMail gets a learner's permit 07:05 - VMWare's vulnerable 10:20 - Apple's a-YAWN-ments 19:10 - Death by $10 cuts 21:40 - Heavy Lyfting 25:00 - Zuckerberg: The next 2-face 33:05 - Brexin  

This week Josh, Peter and Melissa discuss Tesla’s change in sales strategy, the Dragon Launch, a new solar farm concept in China, Lyft’s IPOs, a Brexit update, and RSA conf’s diversity struggles. 00:00 – Wifi Messssss(h)  06:00 – Tesla’s moving out  14:20 – Launching Dummies  17:20 – Space Pandas  22:40 – IP-Uh-oh time to pay rent  27:20 – Someone’s getting rich  32:51 – Melissa’s worst nightmare, LIVE  45:00 – Josh’s dream

This week, Peter and Melissa are joined by Brynne Kennedy, @BrynneSpeak, Founder and CEO of Topia. Together, they discuss Facebook’s latest challenge, Foxconn’s withdrawal from Wisconsin, supply chain challenges, Oracle’s latest suit, another data breach and more! 00:00 - Loser’s dinner w/ Chelsea 03:30 - Rooting: for the kids 07:30 – Protect Ya Neck (next time) 10:17 - What I (don’t) got 14:13 - Suing in the name of 17:30 - Widespread Nervousness 20:30 - Road Trippin All Star 26:00 - Wishlist 31:00 - 20th Century Digital Boy 39:00 – Time to Regulate

This week, Josh, Peter and Melissa get together to discuss parrots that order dinner for themselves, Tesla's new board members, the top 10 venture rounds of 2018, Old prediction stats, new predictions and more! 00:00 - Sacrifical Lambs 07:00 - Pinky and the Brain + Alexa 09:27 - Musk v Ellison Celebrity Death Match 11:00 - Epic FUNding 22:00 - Fitness as a Service 24:00 - Last year's prediction winners and losers 37:00 - This year's gems

The second and final part of Peter Smallbone's (@petersmallbone) LIVE interviews from TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin. 00:00 – How to find like-minded gamer friends w/ John Uke of GameTree (@gametreeapp /

In the first of a special two-part LIVE episode, Peter Smallbone (@petersmallbone) reports from TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin. 0:00:00 – In da club with Max Hatzold (@MaxHatzold) of Field Buzz (@field_buzz / field.buzz) 0:02:19 – Using BlockChain to get paid faster with Ryan Fife (@ryanpaulfyfe) of WorkChain.io (@workchain_io / workchain.io) 0:10:33 – The new in-game advertising revolution with Ben Fenster (@BenFenster) of Anzu (@Anzu_io / anzu.io) 0:20:39 – The smart way to match medical professionals with jobs with Catrinel Hagriveta (@CatrinelHag) of MEDIJobs Romania (@MEDIjobsRO / www.medijobs.ro) 0:28:34 – AI and people working together in harmony with Sebastian Denef (@denefs) of OWN.space (@ownHQ / own.space) 0:35:04 – A new way to hire freelancers using better tech with Rafael Platas of HYP3R (@wearehyp3r / www.hyp3r.io) 0:39:36 – How to try on a ring without the ring with Artem Soundelzon (@Paasweb) of Inova Diamonds (@InovaDiamonds / inova.diamonds)

This week Josh, Peter and Melissa discuss Google's new leadership, a new Blackberry acquisition, Microsoft's VDI acquisition, Alexa's court order and more! 00:00 - New Phone Fails 09:00 - GOragle 17:00 - Blackberry's Billions 22:00 - Year of VDI 27:00 - Murder Testimony aaS

This week, Peter and Melissa discuss Twitter's ineffective character bump, the new iPhone/IOS security bypass, Waymo's new driverless testing, Amazon's HQ2 update, SF's Airbnb-related lawsuits and VMWare's intended acquisition of Heptio. 00:00 - Sleep Class 06:15 - Not for Goldfish 09:45 - iSpy a Security Flaw 13:50 - WAY Mo Unmanned Vehicles 17:19 - HQ 2x2 22:10 - SF is Taking Your Bedroom Profits 25:05 - You get a Kubernetes & YOU get a Kubernetes 31:29 - PLEASE Hire Peter! 34:00 - Little League is Hard on Your Knees

This week, Peter and Melissa are joined by special guest Robbie McKinstry (@bravenewprince), Research Engineer at HashiCorp. Together they discuss IBM’s plans to buy RedHat, NASA using remote reboots to fix hardware issues on the Hubble telescope, Twitter’s new debate strategy, Apple’s recent announcements, the latest Malware hit and more! 00:00 – Taco Twednesday 04:00 – Peter gets Fyred up 07:00 – Big Blue gets a Red Hat 07:01 – Now all they need is a purple feather 16:20 – Remote galaxy reboots for the win 19:32 – Peter tries to relate to the kids 20:00 – Twitter may kill your likes 33:30 – Shiny new Apples 38:00 – Government compute gets an STD 42:30 – Halloween

This week Josh, Peter and Melissa travel back in time a bit to discuss IBM's JEDI Protest, Duck Duck Go's success, California's new password laws and Microsoft's big opening of patents. 00:00 - Melissa the fool 07:30 - NewOps Days 09:28 - IBM joins the Empire 16:01 - Duck, Duck, Growth! 24:00 - California hacking 31:15 - Microsoft opens Pandora's patent box 31:16 - …and all I got was an I

This week, Peter and Melissa discuss the Cloudera-Hortonworks merger, the UK’s conservative party information leak, Competition strategy at the Tech Giants, Google’s search engine spend, Azure’s Linux footprint, and the chip-hack-not-chip-hack that every major company is denying happened. 00:00 – Peter gets snubbed  03:15 – Merging to take on the cloud  07:15 – Politicians get leaked on for once  12:30 – Burning money in the evil empires  15:30 – How much is being #1 worth?  18:12 – Linux puts Windows in the corner  21:58 – Everyone is denying it

This week, Peter, Josh and Melissa discuss MS Ignite, Sirius XM's acquisition plans for Pandora, the US government's JEDI program and AI takeovers in marketing. 00:00 - Gurney-Atwell Dance Off 05:15 - Ignition Failed 15:35 - Opening the Box on Sat Radio 21:25 - Jedi for sale, $10 Billion 28:00 - 70 is Pulling Out 33:40 - Face Creepers 38:25 - Deeply Learn-ed Advertising 43:35 - Boy Scout Popcorn 

This week Peter, Josh and Melissa discuss Elon Musk’s new rocket plan, Apple’s new product line, Amazon’s echo launch, Equifax’s new fines, a Netapp acquisition and more! 00:00 – New Intro 06:00 – Melissa throws everyone under the bus 08:00 – To the moon (ish), Elon! 12:00 – Flo 16:00 – MAX Mac’s? craziness 21:00 – Josh turns Alexa on 32:00 – Her Majesty gives Equifax a light spanking 36:00 – Netapp acquires hypetrain 45:00 – The buy more stuff game! 50:00 – Little Josh didn’t make it

This week, Ed, Peter and Melissa are joined by Doug Hazelman (@vmdoug) with CloudBerry Lab. Together, they discuss more trouble for Tesla, Equifax's fall out a year after the breach, eBay's switch and more. Doug's Podcast- MSP Voice: https://www.cloudberrylab.com/msp-voice-podcast.aspx 00:00 - Hit by the life bus 05:00 - Take a toke, and all of my stocks... 12:20 - Equifree of consequences 16:00 - Microtik's new internet parasite 20:00 - Ebay dumps OpenStack for the hypetrain - auction to follow 24:00 - MSPS plz friend me 30:00 - Backing up all the clouds 37:00 - IBM takes us back to the future

This week Josh, Peter and Melissa discuss Uber's return to London, Facebook's drone WiFi program, the latest in consumer tech manipulation, the hyperconverged state of the union and more! 00:00 - Slackers gotta slack 06:33 - Uber's British Invasion 12:40 - Facebook's WiFi faceplant 15:00 - Github ADD Sidebar 21:30 - Consumer tech

This week Peter and Melissa are joined by special guest Chris Weis (@ccweis), Global Practice Manager of Compute and Automation at World Wide Technology. Together they discuss Snapchat's hardware upgrade, updates from the Uber AV crash, Tintri's recent struggle, Amazon's facial recognition for government offering and lessons in iterating and automating at scale. 00:00 - Corn and Captain Kirk 04:37 - Spectacles++ 10:31 - AV Indecision 17:05 - AutNOPE-pilot 20:19 - More Storage on Life Support 24:15 - Soon: Paying Taxes to AMZN 31:47 - WW Whaaaaat? 37:24 - Driving to Solutions 44:24 - Silo Bustin' 47:00 - Sharing is Caring

This week Peter and Melissa are joined by Jason McGee (@jrmcgee), IBM Fellow, VP & CTO of IBM Cloud Platform. Together they discuss new options in AWS, HPe's new acquisition, AI creating jobs and cloud trends. 00:00 - Cast off Kinks 04:00 - AWS hops on the NVMe bandwagon 07:00 - HPe plugs their SDN hole 10:00 - Robot job creation 14:00 - Open Source and Cloud 20:00 - GDPR is everywhere 25:00 - Cloud futures 32:00 - AI strategy and ethics 35:00 - Yet Another Marketing Fail brought to you by Google

This week Josh, Peter and Melissa join forces to discuss Comcast's attempt to swipe more content, Uber's fatal autonomous vehicle collision, Air taxis and Google's latest assistant demo. 00:00 - The guys got robbed 10:00 - Comcast tries to outdo the Mouse 16:00 - It's not a bug, it's a false positive 23:00 - Can't figure it out on the ground? put it in the air! 27:30 - AI takes another job you hated 38:00 - Who do you want to be next?

This week Melissa is joined by special guest Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor) of thectoadvisor.com and ctodose.com Together they discuss this week's tradeshows, CIOs looking at AI, Cloud revenue reports, Ford is reducing car options in North America, Fitbit's new Google Healthcare Cloud announcement and how to rock being unemployable. 00:00 - No Spoilers because we