Speaking In Tech

Speaking in Tech #360 - Turning it Around

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 05:26:16 +0000

On this week's episode, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) mull over cat-like lawyers on Zoom; possible trouble at Nominet; acquisitions and innovations at Hyundai; Sunway's exascale supercomputer; Veeam's great set of figures; VMware's new security guide for vSphere; President Biden's bid to end a chip shortage; and more!

00:00 Dogs, schools and lockdowns
03:45 May it please the cat
09:01 U ok, .uk?
12:56 Change or die thinks Hyundai
16:51 Sunway has too many flops
20:08 2020-21: 22% for Veeam
21:54 Tool up with a TPM says VMware
26:45 When the chips are down, Biden steps up
33:45 HashiTalks and other stuff next week

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Speaking in Tech #359 - Old Wounds

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 05:23:13 +0000

In this episode, Peter and Melissa go back in time and cover the tech news from the week before the US Presidential Inauguration.

Speaking in Tech #358 - Storing Up

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 05:38:12 +0000

 In this week's episode, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) are joined by Ken Grohe, President and Chief Revenue Officer of Weka (weka.io). The trio talk about James Corden's star turn at a Salesforce bash; AWS's entry into the rent-a-Mac market; Google Street View opening up to self-submitted photos; payments app PhonePe snagging a $700m investment; some new fashion choices for Christmas (all in a good cause); Weka's parallel file system; and more!  00:00 (Not so) lockdown 01:45 Introducing Ken 03:36 James Corden: Salesforce guru 07:07 Wanna cloudy Mac? That'll be nine grand 12:13 New to Google Street View: you 18:09 PhonePe's had worse weeks 20:43 Windows: software or knitwear?  23:44 What's Weka? 41:20 Next week's treats  @speakingintech

Speaking in Tech #357 - Vintage >> Innovation

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 07:55:12 +0000

This week, Peter and Melissa are joined by special guest, Ron Rock (@rrockrr) with @Microshareio . Together, they discuss Dell's multi-million dollar laptop error, Virtual Veteranarians, the LAPD's facial recognition blunder and more.

00:00 - Welcome Ron!
03:30 - Dell's millionaire mint
05:15 - VMWare gets original
09:15 - Virtual Vets
12:30 - LAPD gets naughty with your face
16:30 - Microshare IOT & data ownership
18:30 - Needs-based business model adaptation
24:00 - Clean = Safe
30:00 - Blending old and new to change the world
36:00 - Social Mapping Score

Speaking in Tech #356 - Free no more

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 03:14:46 +0000

 On this week's Speaking in Tech, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@PeterSmallbone) talk about some proposed redundances at IBM; HP Inc sunsetting 'free ink for life'; new limits on storage in Google Photos; robots changing hard drives in Alibaba's data centres; China's president reportedly blocking a tech IPO; WeChat's owner Tencent reporting a bumper set of figures; PayPal getting further into the cryptocurrency game; the rise of the Parler social media platform; and more!  00:00 Lockdown is back (did it ever really go away?) 02:49 Some IBMers may be facing a blue Christmas 08:11 HP Inc sinks the free ink 12:39 Photos in Google are about to lose their gloss 22:54 We. Are. The. Robots. 25:50 China's president no-gos an IPO 30:03 Tencent's making a lot more than ten cents 31:57 PayPal goes crypto 35:59 Step into my Parler 42:41 Birthdays and conferences  @speakingintech

Speaking in Tech #355 - Understatement

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 05:45:22 +0000

This week, Peter and Melissa join forces to talk about British Airway's fine restructuring, QQAAZZ arrests, Tesla's autopilot bug, Datto's IPO, Oracle's play to keep your database forever and more.

00:00 – The Tooth is Out There
04:00 – BA carrying a lighter load in fines
09:00 – Money Laundering as a Service goes down
12:00 – "Making it look like an accident" as a Service
16:30 – Datto looks to IPO
20:00 – Oracle is your obessive ex, but for your Databases
27:00 – What's next?

Speaking in Tech #354 - Unfiltered

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 01:21:29 +0000

On this week's Speaking in Tech, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) talk about the US Senate subpoena of Twitter's, Facebook's and Google's CEOs; Facebook banning ads that delegitimise election outcomes; Snapchat's role in voter participation; Google's mental health concerns with photo filters on Pixel phones; GCHQ discovering a 'nationally significant' vulnerability in Huawei equipment; how the NHS in England is promoting their contact tracing app with Deloitte and Salesforce also trying to get in on the act; whether deleting WhatsApp counts as destroying evidence; Cazoo's new mega-valuation; Google turning off FTP in Chrome; and more!

00:00 The tooth hurts
02:10 School days, snow days
05:25 Are your communications decent?
10:27 Is your election legit? Facebook thinks so
15:24 Snapchat rocks the vote
18:56 Google bans photo filters on the Pixel - or do they?
23:37 Another bad news day for Huawei
28:01 The NHS emails... well, kinda everyone
33:46 Deloitte and Salesforce are selling - are you buying?
35:48 Beat the rap with WhatsApp
40:10 Caz000,000,000
43:52 FTP: Forget That Protocol
46:56 What's in store next week

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Speaking in Tech #353 - Big Moves

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 05:49:30 +0000

This week, Peter and Melissa are joined by Dr. Matthias Farwick, CEO and Co-founder of Txture and Thomas Trojer, CTO and Co-founder of Txture. Together, they talk about Tik Tok's fate, Snowflake's IPO, Uber backs out of China a bit, Alicloud's next move, Txture (https://txture.io/en) and more!

00:00 – Life in the Clouds
04:20 – Trump reviews TikTok bid
09:30 – IPSnow
13:00 – Uber's latest sale
15:50 – Yet another new Cloud Operating System
21:30 – Belarus drying out
25:30 – Ransomware death
31:00 – Lex takes on real English
34:30 – Massive cloud migrations with Txture

Speaking in Tech #352 - What do I call you? or Everything Sucks

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 06:35:26 +0000

 In this week's episode, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) talk about Apple, privacy and bag searches; Facebook's new approach to political ads as well as their AR glasses and impressive results for Watch; Microsoft tackling deepfakes; Samsung's new $2,000 folding phone; Qualcomm's new power-efficient processor; Intel's rebrand; and more!  00:00 Bank holidays and back to school 03:33 Apple's got your back... or do they 10:21 Apple's got your bag... or do they 13:19 Facebook gets political 19:27 Glasses that help you to hear 23:06 Facebook Watch has lots of watchers 26:39 Microsoft takes on the deepfakers 28:54 Samsung wants the folding stuff for its folding stuff 32:32 Qualcomm lets your laptop live 35:21 Intel gets jazzy 37:37 What next week brings

Speaking in Tech #351 - Horrific Terrific

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 07:05:20 +0000

This week, Peter and Melissa join forces to discuss the latest on the Tik Tok acquisition, Twitter's new approach to copy/paste, Amazon's new offerings and more!

00:00 – Yep, Everything still sucks
02:00 – Tiking time bomb
17:00 – Twitter shuts down the twits
21:00 – Netapp pulls the rip cord on legacy
23:00 – Expanding web based security signal, Fastly
26:00 – Google gets anti-trusted
31:00 – Amazon's "fresh" grocery store idea
34:30 – A Halo, but with horns and hooks

Speaking in Tech #350 - Tik'd Off

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 02:59:59 +0000

 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

Speaking in Tech #349 - Lobbyrated

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 03:50:32 +0000

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

Speaking in Tech #348 - Bailing Out

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 06:58:57 +0000

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

Speaking in Tech #347 - Now You See Me

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 04:42:05 +0000

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

Speaking in Tech #346 - Looking for Sunshine

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 03:29:10 +0000

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!

Speaking in Tech #345 - Killing Time

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Tue, 26 May 2020 16:30:14 +0000

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
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Speaking In Tech #344 - No Surprises

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 03:51:00 +0000

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)...

Speaking in Tech #343 - Staying Home

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 18:04:03 +0000

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...)

Speaking in Tech #342 - Too Much Sick

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 06:06:51 +0000

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

Speaking in Tech #341 - Caught in a Web

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 07:06:05 +0000

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

Speaking in Tech #340 - Bricked

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 17:15:38 +0000

This week, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@PeterSmallbone) are joined by Tara Kelly (@TKtechnow), CEO and Founder of Splice Software (@SPLICESoftware). The trio talk about Google's tax woes, Amazon's initiatives to help homeless people in Seattle - as well as the startup scene in that city, Sonos's controversial new trade-in process, using AI for breast cancer diagnosis, LibreOffice's first decade, how Splice Software can help customers and more!

00:00 Christmas, waxworks and Star Wars
02:24 Introducing Tara... and a bit more Star Wars
03:39 Google's Double Irish and Dutch Sandwich are off the menu
08:15 Gimme shelter, Amazon
12:47 Seattle's stupendous startups
16:45 Sonos says 'brick me'
27:11 AI is best for breast
33:40 LibreOffice chalks up ten years
36:23 Tara talks Splice Software
48:24 Next week's plans

Speaking in Tech #339 - Must have more Disruption

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 08:00:00 +0000

In the second of a very special two-part episode, Peter Smallbone (@petersmallbone) reports on the world of tech startups at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin 2019. Please note this is a live event recoring and audio quality will be affected by that.

00:00:00 Intro
00:00:10 Innovative apps for NASA and others with Charlie Regis (@CharlieRegis), Co-Founder, Styliff Tech (@stylifftech / https://styliff.com)
00:06:19 Wearable technology to prevent industrial injuries with Matthew Hart, Founder, Soter Analytics (@SoterAnalytics / https://www.soteranalytics.com)
00:15:57 Software development for cloud computing, mobile apps, IoT and BLE with Grzegorz Kapusta (@gkapusta), CEO and Piotr Herstowski, Business Development Lead, Polidea (@polidea / https://www.polidea.com)
00:22:33 Data labelling for AI with Lars Wulfken (@wulfskin), VP Product, Canotic (@canoticai / https://canotic.com)
00:33:01 Hyperlocal video streaming with Christian Walther, Director Product, Joyn (@JoynDeutschland / https://www.joyn.de)
00:36:51 Automated cloud security with Manuela Ticudean, Co-Founder, Cyscale (@cyscale / https://www.cyscale.com)
00:42:14 Financial wellbeing with Alexander Brouwer (@alexanderbrwr), Founder and CEO and Veronica Fresneau (@verofresneau), Head of Marketing and Communications, Vive (@Vive_App / https://www.viveapp.com)
00:49:18 Winners of Startup Battlefield announced!

Speaking in Tech #338 - Disruption as a Service

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 20:41:45 +0000

In the first of a very special two-part episode, Peter Smallbone (@petersmallbone) reports on the world of tech startups at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin 2019. Due to the nature of live recordings, this recording will have background noise.

00:00:00 This might be a very short podcast…
00:01:16 A brain/computer interface with Daniëlle Tump, Software Developer and Product Manager, MindAffect (@mindaffect_bci / https://www.mindaffect.nl)
00:08:41 Social media for entrepreneurial minded students with Ronan Liedmeier, Co-founder, Studentup inc (@studentupinc / https://studentup.com)
00:17:03 'Doubling the performance of display ads' with Mahesh Murthy (@maheshmurthy), Founder, Rad Ad (@raddotad / https://www.rad.ad)
00:25:39 Extended reality for videogaming with Alberto Saldaña (@ASaldaNave), CEO and Edu Saldaña (@EduS_N), Exec Creative Director, Sons of a Bit (@SonsofaBit_Ent / https://sonsofabit.com)
00:32:37 Girls shaping the future with tech with Dora Palfi (@dorapalfi), Co-founder and CEO, imagiLabs (@imagilabs / https://imagilabs.typeform.com/to/lJRbFM)
00:36:06 'The world's most secure messenger' with Paul Jung, CEO, Seal Communication (@sealmessenger)
00:39:16 K-Dance for K-Pop with Manhyung Han (@Manhyung), CEO and Founder, Kinetic Lab
00:43:34 Powering the smart home revolution with Vladimir Cillik, Chief Business Development Officer, Domotron (@DomotronHome / https://domotron.com)
00:47:21 'Instant ROI' platform for e-commerce with Maciej Serafin, CMO, edrone (@edrone_me / https://edrone.me)

Speaking in Tech #337 - All the Clouds

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 16:18:31 +0000

This week, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) discuss a record breaking Cyber Monday, the latest on Xerox's attempted takover of HP, leadership changes at Google, AWS's moves into Quantum computing, KPMG getting into Microsoft 365, US Department of Homeland Security increasing the reach of their facial recognition technology, Sprint's cybersecurity woes and more!

00:00 Peter has a job... finally
02:12 Christmas shopping tales
03:30 Cyber Monday is the new Black Friday
12:29 HP slaps Xerox
15:58 Google finally moves out of the garage
21:57 AWS is on a quantum journey
25:33 KPMG goes all in on Microsoft 365
28:07 DHS saves face
34:13 Sprint gets a bucketload of problems
38:01 Japan comes to Melissa
40:06 Peter goes to Berlin

Speaking in Tech #336 - Nope

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 06:06:52 +0000

This week Peter and Melissa get together to discuss Mirantis taking on Docker Enterprise, Google getting into banking, Political attacks going cyber, politicians endorsing the opposition, Instagram's new no-like test and more.

00:00 – Husky
02:00 – Kubernetes, more than 3 times fast
06:00 – Docker pulls an enterprise tea party
10:00 – Google Checking
15:00 – Labor keeps plugging through cyber attack
17:15 – Fake AI Friends
20:00 – Insta-nope

Speaking in Tech #335 - Responsibility

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 03:00:00 +0000

This week, Peter and Melissa are joined by special guest Rick Fox, VP of Agency Associations and Networks at Vertafore (@Vertafore). Together they talk insurance tech, Xerox's potential acquisition of HP, Uber Eats running Ads while Uber ignores jaywalking as a thing, Ring's vulnerability and more.

00:00 – Aston Villa disappoints the kids
04:30 – The minnow swallowing the bass
10:30 – Ads: It's what's for dinner
16:10 - Uberbad design
22:50 – Autonomous minions
28:30 – Ring shares your wifi password with the neighbors
33:30 – Gov'ment Cookies
36:30 – What is Insurance Tech anyway?
44:00 – AI: your new actuary
47:30 – Social Media based insurance rates?

Speaking In Tech #334 - JEDI Masters

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 04:00:00 +0000

This week, Peter Smallbone (@petersmallbone) is joined by Mike Butcher (@mikebutcher), editor-at-large at TechCrunch (@TechCrunch). The pair discuss the Pentagon's $10bn cloud computing contract, WhatsApp suing NSO, a new Slack competitor, Twitter dumping paid-for political ads, the unintended consequences of Facebook allowing politicians to lie and of course the upcoming TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin event.

00:00 Intros
02:02 Microsoft's the JEDI master
07:02 NSOh-no
11:26 Slack overload? Take a Quill pill
15:44 Twitter won't take your money... if you're a politician
21:00 Zuck is hoist with his own petard
26:09 Ich bin ein Berliner!

TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin: https://smlb.in/2PFjF9U

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Speaking in Tech #333 - Becoming Superman

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 17:20:54 +0000

This week, Melissa and Peter discuss Libra's troubles, seeing through walls with Wi-Fi, Apple's u-turn over Hong Kong, Dyson's ditching of its electric car, Nobel prizes for batteries and more!

00:00 - Colds, conferences and certifications
08:10 - PayPal's a Libra leaver
12:03 - BoE's a Libra legislator
16:55 - Walls have eyes
20:55 - App tha Police
26:20 - Dyson pulls the plug on its electric car
30:29 - Prizes all round
33:12 - What next week holds

Speaking in Tech #331- Drive-thru Johnny5

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 06:04:00 +0000

This week Peter and Melissa sync up to discuss Ransomware in New Bedford, Uber Layoffs, McDonald's new AI related acquisition, Robot grocery store use cases, loot box legislation and more!

00:00 – Slinging Rockets
05:00 – Riding out the Hack
09:15 – Uber takes a dump
13:15 – The robot army comes for your kids
21:00 – Robo-finders
24:45 – Lucky Dips

Speaking in Tech #330 - Acquired Movers

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 15:01:54 +0000

This week, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) discuss facial recognition in court, YouTube targeting kids, VMware's latest moves, Microsoft's acquisition of Movere, the latest AWS outage, falling server sales, a $14,000 gaming chair and more!

00:00 HashiConf is a-comin' to your town
02:27 All your face are belong to us
08:54 YouTube gets fined $170m... by a COPPA
15:43 VMware gets into Carbon Black and Kubernetes
19:13 You say 'Moov-eer' and I say 'Moov-air-eh'
23:00 AWS gives its services the day off for Labor Day
24:10 Servers are sooo last quarter
27:03 Who gets the electric chair?
29:58 What's on next week

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Speaking in Tech #328 - Chasing the Tail

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 21:46:56 +0000

This week Peter and Melissa discuss Microsoft's new Skype and Cortana policy, VMware's potential acquisition, another major security breech, Politicians killing facial recognition and more.

00:00 - Changes
02:15 - Human overlords for AI
09:15 - Your biometrics - pwned
17:00 - Politician profiling
21:15 - The snake eats itself
28:00 - These clicks are jacked!

Speaking in Tech #327 - Slackin

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 07:51:54 +0000

This week Peter and Melissa discuss Lyft's stock volatility, Instagram's latest scandal, VMware's cloud announcement, patents for AI and more!

00:00 - Trying new things
05:00 - Lyft off... and on
07:30 - Spygram
13:35 - VMwhere?
21:55 - The new humungous app load
25:50 - AI invents
31:20 - Bye Felicia... er… MSDN
34:00 - Slack takes out some slack

Speaking in Tech #326 - Foolin

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 05:19:34 +0000

This week, Josh and Peter discuss GMail's anniversary, VMWare's latest vulnerability, Apple's announcements. Lyft's IPO and Mark Zuckerberg's government call to action.

00:00 - It's April, and we are the only fools
02:35 - GMail gets a learner's permit
07:05 - VMWare's vulnerable
10:20 - Apple's a-YAWN-ments
19:10 - Death by $10 cuts
21:40 - Heavy Lyfting
25:00 - Zuckerberg: The next 2-face
33:05 - Brexin

Speaking in Tech #325 - Out to Launch

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 06:23:29 +0000

This week Josh, Peter and Melissa discuss Tesla's change in sales strategy, the Dragon Launch, a new solar farm concept in China, Lyft's IPOs, a Brexit update, and RSA conf's diversity struggles.

00:00 – Wifi Messssss(h)
06:00 – Tesla's moving out
14:20 – Launching Dummies
17:20 – Space Pandas
22:40 – IP-Uh-oh time to pay rent
27:20 – Someone's getting rich
32:51 – Melissa's worst nightmare, LIVE
45:00 – Josh's dream

Speaking in Tech #324 - 90s Cover Bands

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 03:25:31 +0000

This week, Peter and Melissa are joined by Brynne Kennedy, @BrynneSpeak, Founder and CEO of Topia. Together, they discuss Facebook's latest challenge, Foxconn's withdrawal from Wisconsin, supply chain challenges, Oracle's latest suit, another data breach and more!

00:00 - Loser's dinner w/ Chelsea
03:30 - Rooting: for the kids
07:30 – Protect Ya Neck (next time)
10:17 - What I (don't) got
14:13 - Suing in the name of
17:30 - Widespread Nervousness
20:30 - Road Trippin All Star
26:00 - Wishlist
31:00 - 20th Century Digital Boy
39:00 – Time to Regulate

Speaking in Tech #322 - Crystal Balls

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 08:06:32 +0000

This week, Josh, Peter and Melissa get together to discuss parrots that order dinner for themselves, Tesla's new board members, the top 10 venture rounds of 2018, Old prediction stats, new predictions and more!

00:00 - Sacrifical Lambs
07:00 - Pinky and the Brain + Alexa
09:27 - Musk v Ellison Celebrity Death Match
11:00 - Epic FUNding
22:00 - Fitness as a Service
24:00 - Last year's prediction winners and losers
37:00 - This year's gems

Speaking in Tech #321 - Bank Blocks

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Sun, 23 Dec 2018 05:00:00 +0000

The second and final part of Peter Smallbone's (@petersmallbone) LIVE interviews from TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin.

00:00 – How to find like-minded gamer friends w/ John Uke of GameTree (@gametreeapp / 🎮🌲.WS)
08:04 – A new way to check for code vulnerabilities with Joe Noll (@noljoh) of AppGuard (App-Guard.io)
14:46 – Smart navigation for visually impaired people with Gustavo Madico (@elgus) of Aiserve Technologies (@AiServe_tech / aiserve.co)
22:33 – A new BlockChain-based bank account with Robert Harrison (@RobertMark1984) of Bitwala (@Bitwala / bitwala.com)
30:28 – How ground transportation companies can compete with Uber with Victor Ngo of QUp World Inc (@QUpworld / QUpworld.com)
40:37 – How online can help with shopping offline with Galina Charni of VeryClothe (@VeryClothe / veryclothe.com)
45:59 – Startup Battlefield winner announced!

Speaking in Tech #320 - Crunchy

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 03:33:17 +0000

  In the first of a special two-part LIVE episode, Peter Smallbone (@petersmallbone) reports from TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin.  0:00:00 – In da club with Max Hatzold (@MaxHatzold) of Field Buzz (@field_buzz / field.buzz) 0:02:19 – Using BlockChain to get paid faster with Ryan Fife (@ryanpaulfyfe) of WorkChain.io (@workchain_io / workchain.io) 0:10:33 – The new in-game advertising revolution with Ben Fenster (@BenFenster) of Anzu (@Anzu_io / anzu.io) 0:20:39 – The smart way to match medical professionals with jobs with Catrinel Hagriveta (@CatrinelHag) of MEDIJobs Romania (@MEDIjobsRO / www.medijobs.ro) 0:28:34 – AI and people working together in harmony with Sebastian Denef (@denefs) of OWN.space (@ownHQ / own.space) 0:35:04 – A new way to hire freelancers using better tech with Rafael Platas of HYP3R (@wearehyp3r / www.hyp3r.io) 0:39:36 – How to try on a ring without the ring with Artem Soundelzon (@Paasweb) of Inova Diamonds (@InovaDiamonds / inova.diamonds)

Speaking in Tech #319 - MTaaS

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 05:48:19 +0000

This week Josh, Peter and Melissa discuss Google's new leadership, a new Blackberry acquisition, Microsoft's VDI acquisition, Alexa's court order and more!

00:00 - New Phone Fails
09:00 - GOragle
17:00 - Blackberry's Billions
22:00 - Year of VDI
27:00 - Murder Testimony aaS

Speaking in Tech #318 - Kubed

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 09:47:47 +0000

This week, Peter and Melissa discuss Twitter's ineffective character bump, the new iPhone/IOS security bypass, Waymo's new driverless testing, Amazon's HQ2 update, SF's Airbnb-related lawsuits and VMWare's intended acquisition of Heptio.

00:00 - Sleep Class
06:15 - Not for Goldfish
09:45 - iSpy a Security Flaw
13:50 - WAY Mo Unmanned Vehicles
17:19 - HQ 2x2
22:10 - SF is Taking Your Bedroom Profits
25:05 - You get a Kubernetes & YOU get a Kubernetes
31:29 - PLEASE Hire Peter!
34:00 - Little League is Hard on Your Knees

Speaking in Tech #317 - Tricked Out

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 07:48:04 +0000

This week, Peter and Melissa are joined by special guest Robbie McKinstry (@bravenewprince), Research Engineer at HashiCorp. Together they discuss IBM's plans to buy RedHat, NASA using remote reboots to fix hardware issues on the Hubble telescope, Twitter's new debate strategy, Apple's recent announcements, the latest Malware hit and more!

00:00 – Taco Twednesday
04:00 – Peter gets Fyred up
07:00 – Big Blue gets a Red Hat
07:01 – Now all they need is a purple feather
16:20 – Remote galaxy reboots for the win
19:32 – Peter tries to relate to the kids
20:00 – Twitter may kill your likes
33:30 – Shiny new Apples
38:00 – Government compute gets an STD
42:30 – Halloween

Speaking in Tech #316 - Open Box

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 03:17:40 +0000

This week Josh, Peter and Melissa travel back in time a bit to discuss IBM's JEDI Protest, Duck Duck Go's success, California's new password laws and Microsoft's big opening of patents.

00:00 - Melissa the fool
07:30 - NewOps Days
09:28 - IBM joins the Empire
16:01 - Duck, Duck, Growth!
24:00 - California hacking
31:15 - Microsoft opens Pandora's patent box
31:16 - …and all I got was an I <3 Linux t-shirt

Speaking in Tech #315 - Dominate & Deny

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 16:47:57 +0000

This week, Peter and Melissa discuss the Cloudera-Hortonworks merger, the UK's conservative party information leak, Competition strategy at the Tech Giants, Google's search engine spend, Azure's Linux footprint, and the chip-hack-not-chip-hack that every major company is denying happened.

00:00 – Peter gets snubbed
03:15 – Merging to take on the cloud
07:15 – Politicians get leaked on for once
12:30 – Burning money in the evil empires
15:30 – How much is being #1 worth?
18:12 – Linux puts Windows in the corner
21:58 – Everyone is denying it

Speaking in Tech #314 - Epic Fails

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 14:25:32 +0000

This week, Peter, Josh and Melissa discuss MS Ignite, Sirius XM's acquisition plans for Pandora, the US government's JEDI program and AI takeovers in marketing.

00:00 - Gurney-Atwell Dance Off
05:15 - Ignition Failed
15:35 - Opening the Box on Sat Radio
21:25 - Jedi for sale, $10 Billion
28:00 - 70 is Pulling Out
33:40 - Face Creepers
38:25 - Deeply Learn-ed Advertising
43:35 - Boy Scout Popcorn

Speaking in Tech #313 - Turn Her Off!

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 06:08:08 +0000

This week Peter, Josh and Melissa discuss Elon Musk's new rocket plan, Apple's new product line, Amazon's echo launch, Equifax's new fines, a Netapp acquisition and more!

00:00 – New Intro
06:00 – Melissa throws everyone under the bus
08:00 – To the moon (ish), Elon!
12:00 – Flo
16:00 – MAX Mac's? craziness
21:00 – Josh turns Alexa on
32:00 – Her Majesty gives Equifax a light spanking
36:00 – Netapp acquires hypetrain
45:00 – The buy more stuff game!
50:00 – Little Josh didn't make it

Speaking in Tech #312 - Stoned

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Tue, 18 Sep 2018 06:07:22 +0000

This week, Ed, Peter and Melissa are joined by Doug Hazelman (@vmdoug) with CloudBerry Lab. Together, they discuss more trouble for Tesla, Equifax's fall out a year after the breach, eBay's switch and more. Doug's Podcast- MSP Voice: https://www.cloudberrylab.com/msp-voice-podcast.aspx

00:00 - Hit by the life bus
05:00 - Take a toke, and all of my stocks...
12:20 - Equifree of consequences
16:00 - Microtik's new internet parasite
20:00 - Ebay dumps OpenStack for the hypetrain - auction to follow
24:00 - MSPS plz friend me
30:00 - Backing up all the clouds
37:00 - IBM takes us back to the future

Speaking in Tech #310 - Slackers

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 18:29:12 +0000

This week Josh, Peter and Melissa discuss Uber's return to London, Facebook's drone WiFi program, the latest in consumer tech manipulation, the hyperconverged state of the union and more!

00:00 - Slackers gotta slack
06:33 - Uber's British Invasion
12:40 - Facebook's WiFi faceplant
15:00 - Github ADD Sidebar
21:30 - Consumer tech <3's cheap tricks
26:00 - Hyperconverged: engage hyperdrive
35:20 - Doing nothing and crushing it

Speaking in Tech #309 - Death of Privacy

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 21:27:40 +0000

This week Peter and Melissa are joined by special guest Chris Weis (@ccweis), Global Practice Manager of Compute and Automation at World Wide Technology. Together they discuss Snapchat's hardware upgrade, updates from the Uber AV crash, Tintri's recent struggle, Amazon's facial recognition for government offering and lessons in iterating and automating at scale.

00:00 - Corn and Captain Kirk
04:37 - Spectacles++
10:31 - AV Indecision
17:05 - AutNOPE-pilot
20:19 - More Storage on Life Support
24:15 - Soon: Paying Taxes to AMZN
31:47 - WW Whaaaaat?
37:24 - Driving to Solutions
44:24 - Silo Bustin'
47:00 - Sharing is Caring

Speaking in Tech #308 - Happy Clouds

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Mon, 28 May 2018 19:27:37 +0000

This week Peter and Melissa are joined by Jason McGee (@jrmcgee), IBM Fellow, VP & CTO of IBM Cloud Platform. Together they discuss new options in AWS, HPe's new acquisition, AI creating jobs and cloud trends.

00:00 - Cast off Kinks
04:00 - AWS hops on the NVMe bandwagon
07:00 - HPe plugs their SDN hole
10:00 - Robot job creation
14:00 - Open Source and Cloud
20:00 - GDPR is everywhere
25:00 - Cloud futures
32:00 - AI strategy and ethics
35:00 - Yet Another Marketing Fail brought to you by Google

Speaking in Tech #307 - False Positives

knieriemen@gmail.com (Greg Knieriemen) — Fri, 11 May 2018 06:38:59 +0000

This week Josh, Peter and Melissa join forces to discuss Comcast's attempt to swipe more content, Uber's fatal autonomous vehicle collision, Air taxis and Google's latest assistant demo.

00:00 - The guys got robbed
10:00 - Comcast tries to outdo the Mouse
16:00 - It's not a bug, it's a false positive
23:00 - Can't figure it out on the ground? put it in the air!
27:30 - AI takes another job you hated
38:00 - Who do you want to be next?