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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

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