On this weeks Tech News Weekly Podcast from ITProPortal, crowd funding responsible for reviving an abandoned space probe, why the internet of things might be over hyped, blackphone - the un hackable phone hacked and why social media is being blamed for the increase in road accidents.

Articles discussed this week:

http://www.itproportal.com/2014/08/12/internet-things-most-over-hyped-technology-ever-analysts-gartner/

http://www.itproportal.com/2014/08/11/hacker-roots-blackphone-black-hat-conference/

http://www.itproportal.com/2014/08/11/crowdsourcing-brings-space-probe-back-from-the-dead/

http://www.itproportal.com/2014/08/08/facebook-twitter-social-media-selfies-smartphones-to-blame-for-huge-rise-in-dangerous-road-traffic-deaths/

On the Tech News Weekly podcast from ITProPortal.com this week:

Symantec and Kaspersky struck off the approved software list from the Chinese government. Has our love affair with tablets ended? Tablet sales are crashing according to Best Buy's CEO plus positive news from Blackberry and how Google are policing the Internet through monitoring Gmail accounts.

Joining Wayne Scott on the podcasy this week, Aatif Sulleyman, Tom Phelan, Alysia Judge and Paul Cooper.

Articles discussed this week:

http://www.itproportal.com/2014/08/04/china-slams-kaspersky-and-symantec-with-government-bans/

http://www.itproportal.com/2014/08/04/google-tracks-private-email-images-illegal-content/

http://www.itproportal.com/2014/08/05/blackberry-rises-from-the-ashes-and-eyes-apple-for-the-takedown/

http://www.itproportal.com/2014/08/04/google-tracks-private-email-images-illegal-content/

On this weeks Tech News Weekly podcast from ITProPortal.com. Could the Oyster card and in fact, hard cash be soon removed from the London Underground?

We have been tracking the trends in the most popular Apps downloaded this summer as well so find out who the big winners have been.

Plus Apple have been accused of writing in backdoors for NSA snooping. We discuss.

Joining Wayne Scott this week is Aatif Sulleyman, Paul Cooper and Alysia Judge.

Articles discussed this week:

http://www.itproportal.com/2014/07/24/apple-denies-riddling-ios-with-nsa-backdoors-ipad-iphone-prism-privacy-surveillance/

http://www.itproportal.com/2014/07/25/tfl-cpntactless-payment-launch-date-september-London-underground/

http://www.itproportal.com/2014/07/29/uk-mobile-owners-go-at-least-temporarily-sports-mad-following-world-cup-and-commonwealth-games/

On the Tech News Weekly podcast this week, Microsoft's Cortana is released in the UK but can help Microsoft phones stave off competition from the forthcoming iPhone 6? Amazon Launches Kindle Unlimited but what will the impact on authors be? Meet Kronos the new banking Trojan you should be worried about and why we in the UK are being forced to pay more for our Tech!

Joining Wayne Scott on the podcast this week, Aatif Sulleyman, Alysia Judge, Paul Cooper and Tom Phelan.

Articles discussed this week:

http://www.itproportal.com/2014/07/22/microsofts-cortana-available-less-two-weeks-uk-developers/#ixzz38C5omGGO

http://www.itproportal.com/2014/07/21/amazon-launches-kindle-unlimited/

http://www.itproportal.com/2014/07/22/meet-kronos-the-new-banking-trojan-you-need-to-be-worrying-about/

http://www.itproportal.com/2014/07/22/rip-off-britain-tech-firms-making-uk-us-consumers-paying-money-over-odds-gadgets/

Welcome to another Tech News Weekly podcast from ITProPortal.com.

In this episode it’s a wearable tech fest : we hear the verdict on the new LG smart watch and the Google Glass - you might be surprised at the conclusions!

Plus we hear how big data is reforming the food industry and the lack of trust in cloud services amongst business start-ups.

Joining Wayne Scott this week is Alysia Judge, Aatif Sulleyman, Paul Cooper and Tom Phelan.

Articles discussed this week:

http://www.itproportal.com/2014/07/16/my-week-hands-on-with-the-lg-g-watch-the-future-of-wearable-tech-or-dead-duck-google-android-wear-review-hands-on/

http://www.itproportal.com/2014/07/14/sap-big-data-dna-initiative-tackle-sustainability/

http://www.itproportal.com/2014/07/10/87-of-smes-dont-trust-the-cloud-for-backing-up-data/

On this weeks Tech News Weekly podcast from ITProPortal.com , we hear about the tech industry in South Korea and why Samsung rules the roost. There is exciting news on the iPhone 6 from Apple, we discuss Japanese teenagers being banned from tech after 10pm and finally whether we all have a right to be forgotten online?

Joining Wayne Scott this week is Alysia Judge, Paul Cooper and Tom Phelan.

Also, have you featured on our comment of the week? It could be you we single out for a mention!

Articles discussed this week:

http://www.itproportal.com/2014/07/01/samsung-launches-all-new-850-pro-ssd-a-new-breed-of-performance/

http://www.itproportal.com/2014/07/08/apple-iphone-6-sapphire-display-revealed---and-its-beautiful/

http://www.itproportal.com/2014/07/07/no-smartphones-after-10pm-for-japanese-teens/

http://www.itproportal.com/2014/07/04/embarrassed-ec-says-right-be-forgotten-not-designed-photoshop-your-life-google-eu-robert-peston-bbc/

On the Tech News Weekly podcast this week, Paul Cooper tells us about his tour of Silicon Valley start-ups, Tom Phelan has been investigating the robotics industry and we discuss why businesses hate Dropbox and similar cloud services - but is it a case of serves them right? Finally Facebook is in trouble again and this time for something really quite creepy!

Also, have you featured on our comment of the week? It could be you we single out for a mention!

Joining Wayne Scott is Tom Phelan, Aatif Sulleyman and Paul Cooper.

Articles discussed this week:

http://www.itproportal.com/2014/06/27/businesses-hate-box-and-dropbox-senior-staff-most-likely-to-create-security-problems/

http://www.itproportal.com/2014/06/26/tsb-robotics-mission-whats-it-all-about/

http://www.itproportal.com/2014/06/30/a-closer-look-at-facebooks-experiment-with-its-users-emotions/

http://www.itproportal.com/2014/07/01/googles-exploitation-of-unsecured-wi-fi-could-lead-to-legal-action/

On this weeks Tech News Weekly podcast from ITProPortal.com, Google Nest acquires video security firm, Dropcam. Three quarters of UK based IT Leaders say there is a tech talent shortage in the UK, what could this mean for business? But first we start with whether the proposed national roaming scheme will solve our mobile signal issues.

Wayne Scott is joined by Alysia Judge and Aatif Sulleyman.

Articles discussed this week:

http://www.itproportal.com/2014/06/24/google-nest-buys-dropcam-for-555-million/

http://www.itproportal.com/2014/06/23/national-roaming-could-let-us-switch-mobile-networks-for-better-signal/

http://www.itproportal.com/2014/06/23/three-quarters-of-uk-based-it-leaders-say-there-is-a-tech-talent-shortage/

On this weeks episode, we get hands on with the new Nokia Lumia 630. China leaked $2 billion of secret Microsoft Android patents and the US government lifts restrictions on satellite images. Also the UK government say they have the right to spy on communications made on services as long as the services origins are from overseas!

Wayne Scott is joined by Paul Cooper, Alysia Judge and Tom Phelan.

Articles discussed this week:

http://www.itproportal.com/2014/06/12/hands-on-with-microsofts-nokia-lumia-630-a-windows-phone-game-changer/

http://www.itproportal.com/2014/06/16/microsoft-makes-2bn-from-secret-android-patents-and-the-chinese-government-just-leaked-them-all/

http://www.itproportal.com/2014/06/17/now-were-being-watched-by-google-in-even-higher-quality/

http://www.itproportal.com/2014/06/18/uk-government-releases-justification-for-spying-on-uk-citizens/

This week, news of an exciting event for startup businesses. We talk about the big gaming conference E3, Twitter and its attempted acquisition rumours plus threats from a cyber criminal gang towards world cup sponsors websites and the computer that convinced the Turin test that it was human.

Articles discussed this week:

http://www.itproportal.com/2014/06/05/twitter-eyes-up-soundcloud-pandora-and-spotify-for-potential-acquisition/

http://www.itproportal.com/2014/06/05/two-days-in-russias-kremlin-valley-can-government-create-startup-innovation/

http://www.itproportal.com/2014/06/09/anonymous-plans-to-hack-adidas-budweiser-and-coca-cola-as-part-of-world-cup-2014-protest/

http://www.itproportal.com/2014/06/09/eugene-goostman-program-fools-enough-humans-to-pass-turing-test/