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
Apple’s branding power and the bendable smartphone
This week on the podcast, Financial Post technology reporter Matt Hartley speaks with Jennifer Evans, CEO of Sequentia Environics about the strategies behind the top technology brands in the world, a…
BlackBerry World and the battle for Nortel’s patents
This week on the podcast, Matt Hartley checks in from Orlando, Florida to report from the scene of Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry World Conference; an annual event that the Canadian smartphone …
Sony’s security breach and Canada’s first social media election
This week on the podcast, we speak with Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, Ann Cavoukian, about the recent security breach at Sony’s PlayStation Network, and Ian Capstick of MediaStyle.c…
A lukewarm reception for RIM’s PlayBook and Google’s plans to dominate mobile ads
This week on the podcast, we sit down with IDC Canada analyst Krista Napier to talk about Research In Motion’s new BlackBerry PlayBook for some initial thoughts about RIM’s first tablet. And we chat …
RIM’s PlayBook product manager Ryan Biden and combating bill shock with Ontario MPP David Orazietti
This week on the podcast, we sit down to chat with Ryan Biden, the man heading up the PlayBook project for RIM, for a chat about the BlackBerry maker’s new tablet and why the company opened up the de…
First chat with new Yahoo Canada boss and Android talk with Samsung
This week on the podcast, sit down with Paul Brannen from Samsung Canada for a discussion about Android, Windows Phone and the state of the tablet market. Also, Yahoo Canada’s new country manager Mic…
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and Canadian companies helping to censor the Web in the Middle East
This week on the podcast, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings drops by the studio for a chat about his company’s Canadian expansion, its new deal with Paramount and navigating the download caps of Canadian ISP…
Loudon Owen on i4i’s long and winding legal road and AT&T gobbles up T-Mobile
This week on the podcast, we sit down with Loudon Owen, chairman of Toronto’s i4i, to discuss his company’s four-year legal odyssey with Microsoft and its upcoming hearing before the U.S. Supreme cou…
Mobile security: the rising threat of viruses and The Great Canadian Appathon
This week on the podcast, FP Tech Reporter Matt Hartley sits down with Ray Sharma, founder of Toronto’s XMG Studio, to talk about this past weekend’s Great Canadian Appathon. Also, Jameson Berkow tal…
The Great Canadian Appathon
In honour of the Great Canadian Appathon taking place on university campuses across Canada this weekend, we sit down with Microsoft platform evangelist Gladstone Grant to talk about the video game bu…
Roundtable discussion on the iPad 2 and the future of tablets
This week on the podcast, we sit down with three Toronto-based developers to talk about the iPad 2 and how Apple’s latest creation changes the tablet game once again. Joining us this week are Dayton …
SaskTel opposes usage-based billing and The Mark News gets fresh funding
This week on the podcast, we sit down with Ron Styles, chief executive of SaskTel, Saskatchewan largest telecom provider, to discuss why he has no plans to impose usage-based billing policies on Sask…
The PlayStation phone is real and the BlackBerry Partners Fund is reborn
On this week’s podcast, we sit down with Kevin Talbot, co-managing partner of the BlackBerry Partners Fund to talk about RIM taking the lead in a new US$150-million venture capital fund, and we hear …
Leafs Nation goes mobile, hands on with the Nintendo 3DS and the UBB debate continues
On this week’s podcast, we sit down with Chris Hebb of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment to talk about the team’s new iPhone app. We also hear from National Post gamer-in-chief Daniel Kaszor about …
Should Canada meter the Internet? A deeper look at the usage based billing debate
In this special extended edition of the podcast, we sit down with OpenMedia.ca founder Steve Anderson and telecom consultant Mark Goldberg for two very different perspectives on the CRTC’s controvers…
Happy birthday to Apple’s iPad and what’s up with Yahoo Canada in 2011?
Yahoo Canada country manager Matt Idema sits down with the tech desk team to talk about the Internet pioneer’s plans for 2011, Apple’s touchscreen wunderkind celebrates its first birthday and can RIM…
Apple without Jobs–Chinese telecom in Canada–Measuring Canada’s digital industry
In our inaugural podcast, we talk with FP telecom reporter Jamie Sturgeon about China’s Huawei Technologies’ foray into Canada, and we sit down with Justin Kozuch, lead researcher on the Pixel to Pro…