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