Techpinions

This week's Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O'Donnell discussing the announcements from the Samsung Unpacked event, including their new Note 20 and Galaxy Z Fold 2 smartphones as well as their partnership with Microsoft on software and gaming services, chatting about T-Mobile's launch of the world's first 5G SA (Standalone) network, controversies around Apple's App Store policy and cloud-based gaming services like Microsoft's upcoming xCloud, and analyzing the potential purchase of TikTok by Microsoft.

This is a special Techpinions podcast with Carolina Milanesi and Bob O'Donnell along with special guest Marta Karczewicz, VP of Technology at Qualcomm, discussing the evolution of video compression technology and standards and how they impact our ability to watch streaming videos from services like Netflix on our smartphones and TVs. In addition, they discuss the role of women in engineering roles and the importance of diversity in technology research and development.

This week's Techpinions podcast features Ben Bajarin and Bob O'Donnell analyzing the quarterly financial results from AMD and what they say about the semiconductor industry overall, discussing the congressional anti-trust hearings with major tech CEOs, and chatting about the earnings from those same companies as well.

This week's Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O'Donnell analyzing the Azure and Microsoft M365 news and diversity and leadership sessions from Inspire, discussing the addition of Google's G Suite Essentials offering, and chatting about the quarterly earnings from Netflix, Microsoft and Intel and what they say about the current state of the tech market.

This week's Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O'Donnell analyzing the announcements from Google's Cloud Next event, including new offerings for GCP and G Suite, discussing a new study on IT prioritization changes from the pandemic, and chatting on the big Twitter hack.

This week's Techpinions podcast features Ben Bajarin and Bob O'Donnell, along with special guest Steve Baker of NPD, talking about the surprisingly strong consumer electronics and PC sales data from the recently completed quarter, including discussions on overall trends, specific sub-category performance, and the retail brick-and-mortar vs. online sales splits.

Ben Bajarin and Carolina Milanesi discuss Apple's WWDC, and share take-aways and analysis of the biggest news items.

This week's Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O'Donnell discussing the many announcements from the Cisco Live event, analyzing the potential impact of low-cost 5G phones from the latest Qualcomm chip, and debating the controversies around Apple's app store payment model for developers.

This week's Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O'Donnell discussing tech companies' recent shifts in policy around facial recognition, and analyzing the debut of Sony's PS5 gaming console, the beta of Google's Android 11 and Adobe's new Photoshop Camera app for smartphones.

This week's Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O'Donnell discussing the controversy around Twitter's efforts to tag tweets and the implications for social media overall, analyzing the new mobile IP chips designs from Arm, and chatting about the latest announcements around AR/VR/XR headsets attached to Qualcomm-powered 5G smartphones in conjunction with telco carriers.