Financial Post Tech Desk Podcast
Join Financial Post technology reporters Matt Hartley and Jameson Berkow every week as they break down the latest tech news from across Canada and around the world.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 23 minutes
- Episodes
- 37
- Years Active
- 2011 - 2012
FP Tech Desk: The force is strong with this game.
FP Tech Desk editor Matt Hartley travels to San Francisco to interview Craig Derrick, lead producer for LucasArts, about the new Kinect Star Wars game.
FP Tech Desk: Reddit general manager Erik Martin
FP Tech Desk editor Matt Hartley speaks with Reddit general manager Erik Martin about the secret sauce that goes into one of the most popular social news sites on the Web.
Communitech CEO and the fertile startup earth in Waterloo
This week on the podcast, FP Tech Desk editor Matt Hartley interviews Iain Klugman, chief executive of Communitech, a startup incubator based in Waterloo, Ont.
Microsoft’s Craig Mundie on the future of natural user interface.
Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer, Craig Mundie, talks with Matt Hartley about the future of natural user interface and the software giant’s approach to research and development.
Google’s mysterious death penalty
Imagine waking up one morning to discover your website has disappeared from Google’s search results, invisible even when searching directly for your company’s name. For Dr. Marc Pinter-Krainer, found…
How will the coming tablet tidal wave alter the future
This week, we chat with Sarah Rotman Epps, senior consumer product analyst with Forrester Research Inc., about just how big the tablet market will get and how other tablet makers are attempting to to…
Facebook’s privacy, Cisco’s R&D and video games at X11
This week on the podcast, we discuss Facebook’s privacy changes, Cisco Canada president Nitin Kawale explains his company’s new partnership with the province of Ontario and Daniel Kaszor drops by for…
Googorola and the future of the smartphone industry
This week on the podcast, we talk to Kevin Restivo of IDC about the Google-Motorola deal. We also talk to David Watson about the City of Calgary’s new search-based Website, and Debbie Landa about the…
RIM, the London riots and police surveillance in the digital age
This week on the podcast, we discuss the role RIM’s BlackBerry Messenger played in the London Riots with Queen’s University surveillance studies professor David Murakami Wood, and CIPPIC staff lawyer…
RIM layoffs, Reddit’s new friend and the end of Sprouter
This week on the podcast, we speak with Communitech’s Avvey Peters about how the recent layoffs at RIM are affecting the Waterloo technology community. We also speak with Jen Evans of Sequentia Envir…
Crackberry.com founder on RIM and are you a Twitter Star?
This week on the podcast, we are joined by Kevin Michaluk, founder of the BlackBerry blog CrackBerry.com to talk about what to expect from RIM in the second half of the year. We also speak with Sylva…
The Return of the UBB debate
This week on the podcast, Financial Post telecom reporter Jamie Sturgeon talks to University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist about the ongoing CRTC hearings into the usage based billing practic…
Google+ and Zynga’s IPO
This week on the podcast, we hear about all the cool new features in Google+ from Wendy Rozeluk, head of communications and public affairs for Google Canada, and Jameson Berkow sits down with Gabe Zi…
Clouds, cash and WebOS
This week we talk with Microsoft Canada President Eric Gales, HP’s head of WebOS developer relations Richard Kerris and Darrell MacMullin of PayPal Canada.
What’s next for RIM?
This week on the podcast, it’s all about RIM. We speak with Colin Gillis, technology analyst for BGC Partners, and Kevin Restivo, lead mobile analyst for IDC about what’s next for the BlackBerry make…
IBM at 100, and Linkedin’s new Canadian chief speaks
IBM Canada president Bruce Ross drops by the studio to talk about Big Blue’s 100th anniversary and we sit down with Brian Church, for his first interview as the new country manager for LinkedIn Canad…
Video games galore at E3 in Los Angeles
This week on the podcast, we chat with Zack Cooper, host of the Got Game radio show on Sportsnet Radio, the Fan 590 in Toronto live from E3 in Los Angeles, and Jeff Rivait of Xbox Canada calls in to …
E3 roundtable – what to expect from the Super Bowl of video games
This week on the podcast we gather together a distinguished panel to discuss the upcoming E3 video game conference. On the panel are Daniel Kaszor, video game reporter for the National Post; Nathan V…
Nitin Kawale, President of Cisco & live from Mesh with author Peter Nowak
This week on the podcast, we sit down with Nitin Kawale, president of Cisco System Canada and live from Mesh, we have a discussion about the adult entertainment industry with best selling author Pete…
LinkedIn IPO and its impact on the industry
This week on the podcast, Jameson sits down with Randall Craig, social media expert and author of Social Media For Business, to gauge what impact professional social network LinkedIn’s initial public…