The PC Pro Podcast

In this week's podcast we learn that PC shoppers are still opting for Windows 7; we discuss the prospects for Ubuntu's tablet OS; we look over the results of the 4G spectrum auction; and we ask whether Microsoft's licensing terms for Office 2013 are really fair. Our hot hardware candidate is Dell's extraordinarily wide 21:9 UltraSharp U2913WM monitor.

On this week's podcast: Intel plans its own online TVs; Surface Pro arrives in the US and immediately sells out; Microsoft Security Essentials continues to struggle; Opera moves to the WebKit rendering engine; and rumour has it that Apple may be working on a watch. Our Hot Hardware candidate is the Canon EOS M, the company's first interchangeable-lens compact camera.

On this week’s podcast, Dell goes private with a $2bn loan from Microsoft, hard disks keep cheap SSDs at bay, Twitter survives another hack attack and BT scraps the restrictions on its 'unlimited' broadband. Our candidate for hot hardware is BlackBerry's Z10, the firm's long-awaited smartphone.

On this week’s podcast we discuss Ubuntu’s possible switch to “rolling releases”; welcome some encouraging financial news from Nokia; mull over some more equivocal financial news from Amazon; and question why it is that even Intel doesn’t consider Thunderbolt a necessity on modern laptops. Our hot hardware candidate is the Dell XPS One 27, a gargantuan touchscreen all-in-one PC.

This week's podcast takes in a whole splurge of news from Microsoft, touching on Office, Surface, Windows Phone and a possible Dell buy-in. We also discuss the 4G spectrum auction and Kim Dotcom's new Mega file hosting service. Our hot hardware candidate is the tiny Intel NUC PC.

On this week's podcast Jessops and HMV send in the administrators, Tactus demos a tablet that grows buttons, Plusnet looks to solve the IP address shortage and Windows 8 takes the rap for poor PC sales. Finally, Lenovo's IdeaPad Yoga 11 bends over backwards in Hot Hardware of the Week.

On this week's podcast we discuss the latest news from CES in Las Vegas: there's new Intel chips, Nvidia's mobile gaming platform and an assortment of weird and wonderful inventions, including a computer that looks like a table and a Windows 8 PC that transforms into an Android tablet. To round it all off, our hot hardware candidate is a pair of digital binoculars.

In our first podcast of 2013, we discuss how the "viral" nature of Twitter affects libel damages; ponder Microsoft's rising market share; weigh up the prospects of a touchscreen version of Ubuntu; and look ahead to the key technologies to look out for in the coming year. Our hot harwdare candidate is the Android-based Kobo Arc ebook reader.

In this week's podcast we discuss Instagram's attempts to claim ownership of users' photos; ask whether the cookie regulations introduced earlier this year have done a jot of good; and discuss new legal guidelines covering offensive online postings. We also look back over 2012 and nominate our candidates for Hot Hardware of the Year: place your vote at www.pcpro.co.uk.

On this week's podcast we discuss hard times for HP; why LCD technology refuses to die; how a Gmail outage affected Chrome - and Chromebooks; and whether details of censored websites should be made public. Our hot hardware candidate is Apple's new slimline (albeit slightly bulgy) iMac.