Speaking in Tech

This week Josh and Melissa are joined by Keith Townsend, @CTOAdvisor. Together they discuss loot crates, Android location tracking, law enforcement DNA warrants, Candid's disruption of the Orthodontics industry and Tesla's new venture.

00:00 - Hello CTOAdvisor 02:55 - Battlefront Gamblin' 06:45 - Google: treating you like a crazy ex 12:00 - All your DNA are belong to us 17:30 - Introverts rejoice! Braces by mail 23:24 - Tesla goes BIG and small 34:40 - Book Reviews with Josh 38:04 - How's business on your own?

This week, Melissa is joined by new cohost Lauren Malhoit. Together they talk about HPE and Rackspace teaming up for a new offering, Qualcomm and Broadcom's not merger, more sexual harassment allegations in the tech industry and Bill Gates building smart cities.

00:00 - Welcome Lauren! 02:54 - Private not Private Cloud 11:31 - Qualcomm's just not that into you 14:31 - Great at what you do isn't the same as being a good person 18:21 - Move to Bill Gates' Racoon City! 23:53 - What's new at Cisco? 26:28 - Encrypted Traffic Cops 29:13 - Software Defined Access, because Networking was taken 37:50 - Taking over with Robots on the Weekend

This week Amy, Peter and Melissa are joined by their new co-host. Together, they discuss Twitter, Look, Freedom, Kinect, Blockchain and Robot citizenship.

00:00- Well, there goes that surprise. 07:50- Twitter makes money? 13:44- Free Speech Snake Oil 22:13- Amazon is watching you 27:02- Kinecting in other ways 33:01- Gimme more $$, I got Blockchainzzzz 38:50- Arabian Nights with Robot citizens

This week Peter, Eddie and Melissa talk about the latest on Docker, Citrix, Botnets, hostile media players and Google.

00:00 - 6 degrees of Eddie Saipetch 06:39 - Ed's news 12:41 - Docker's no surprise-surprise 22:21 - The Citrix sue off and spelling bee 29:45 - The New Botnet on the Block 36:57 - ElMedia player -the KILLer MacOS experience 41:03 - Google Maps fat shames you into walking 46:00 - We still kinda like you, Austin

This week Amy, Melissa and Peter are joined by special guest James Watters (@wattersjames) SVP of Products @Pivotal. Together they discuss hack backs, blue screens, Krack and all the cloud platform buzzwords.

00:00 - Peter's Bionic Woman 04:16 - James Watters: He Doesn't Own Things 06:22 - Weirdest as a Service 09:50 - Hack! No Hack Backs! 14:34 - Blue screen of Servers vs Services 19:52 - Can't get enough Krack! 23:02 - Walls in France more interesting than your Krack 26:39 - Micro State of the Union 33:09 - Build not Buy... Wait What? 37:02 - Amazon's lack of ambition 40:00 - Public Cloud Netwerkin'

This week Peter, Amy and Melissa are joined by special guest Paul Stamp, Director of Product Management at Onapsis. Together they discuss AIM, Windows 10 Mobile, Google's big announcements, Equifax, Yahoo and ERP. 00:00 - Hi Paul 02:30 - Getting dumped on AIM 05:08 - Windows 10 Mobile going the way of PalmOS 08:57 - Google softly babeling in your ear 13:18 - Pixel 2 - Jacked out 15:30 - Google goes full Circle 16:35 - Equipatsy 23:30 - Yahoo's massive data dump 30:40 - Onapsis Synapsis

This week Ed and Melissa are joined by Rob Beddard (@rob_beddard), Senior Service Engineer at Microsoft. Together they discuss dead startups, stopping dubious cows, shipping Greg, unlikely unions and moving your traditional IT workloads to the cloud. 01:00 - Eddie nearly dies in the Michigan wilderness 04:13- Hello Rob 07:40- Pouring one out for the suckers 14:34- Autoreply on the phone 16:38- Nabbing terrorist cows 21:00- Greg's going on a mission trip to China 30:34- Marital War games with Alexa 32:04- New Frenemies- Watch your back Apple! 37:32- Moving your applications to the cloud 46:53- The reward for heroism 54:55- Normal?

This week Peter, Ed and Melissa are joined by Jane Murison (@mewroh) a head of UX design at BBC. Together they dive in to Uber, Google, Equifax, new data visualization techniques and user experience!

00:00 - Eddie's new sucker 01:50 - The curse of SiT 03:24 - Meet Jane 06:38 - Uber's straight out of London 19:25 - Googling phone hardware 27:54 - Equif*xed it up again 31:58 - Fonting brilliant 37:28 - Living, loving, UX 45:00 - Chasing the good UX unicorn 51:20 - Control freakery 55:38 - Normal?

This week Ed, Peter and Melissa discuss the excitement over the new iPhone, Google dropping Symantec certs and Equifax's latest exits.

0:00 - There's no marching 7:14 - Ed's unplanned homework 16:03 - Apple pushes ahead? 29:16 - Truth or Dare 32:00 - Google doesn't trust you 41:30 - Remarkable Coincidences at Equifax 48:52 - Pokémon or Nokémon? 

Speaking in Tech #277 - The Big Finale on The Register

Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Peter Smallbone host the final show on The Register with a full house. Chad Sakac, from Dell EMC, Marc Farley, now back at HPE, Sarah Vela, from Forcepoint and Mark Twomey (aka StorageZilla), from Dell EMC all jump in to discuss disruption, Dell, Oracle, Solaris, Equifax and much, much more.

The details…

(1:00) Wrapping up on The Register (4:08) Dell and EMC one year wedding anniversary (5:35) Farley back at HPE (6:50) Storage consolidation (8:00) Larry puts a bullet in Solaris (16:05) The Public Cloud war winners and losers (17:55) Disrupting Converged Infrastructure (23:05) Sarah jumps to Forcepoint (25:24) Equifax circles the bowl (30:35) GDPR and more regulation is coming (36:25) Chad’s book recommendation: Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind (40:22) Who owns data about you? (44:40) Zilla reviews Stephen King’s “It” (46:35) The podcast moves on

With that, we wrap up our tenure on The Register. We want to thank Drew, Chris, Jude and the entire team at The Register for giving us this fantastic opportunity and tolerating the good, the bad and the ugly of the podcast. We’d also like to thank our 40,000 plus monthly listeners who have never been shy with their feedback. The podcast will still be available through your favorite podcast app as Ed, Melissa and Peter will be driving while Greg and Amy will still jump on periodically. Everything can be disrupted - even podcasts.