Fp Tech Desk

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, and Jameson Berkow talks with Roel Vertegaal, a Queen’s University professor who has invented a paper-thin, flexible smartphone.

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 maker usually reserves for major announcements. We also talk with patent law expert Kirk Teska about how the auction of the lucrative patent portfolio once controlled by fallen Canadian networking giant Nortel Networks Inc. will proceed.  

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.ca offers his thoughts on how the candidates are making use of new media tools in the run up to Monday's federal election.

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 with Michael Slinger, Google’s director of mobile ads, about what the technology giant has in store for advertising on the small screen.

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 device to Android applications. Also, FP telecom reporter Jamie Sturgeon sits down with David Orazietti, an Ontario provincial MPP from Sault Ste Marie, who has introduced a bill in Queen’s Park that he hopes will put an end to hidden costs on cellphone bills.

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 Michel Protti stops by for his first interview since assuming his new role in January.

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 ISPs. We also chat with Jillian York, a researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, about how North American companies are helping to censor the Web in the Middle East.

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 court. Plus, Financial Post telecom reporter Jamie Sturgeon stops by to chat with us about AT&T’s proposed $39-billion takeover of rival T-Mobile in the United States.

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 talks with Doug Cooke of McAfee Canada about mobile security and the rising threat of computer viruses on smartphones and tablets.

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 building competition, and we welcome an esteemed panel of guests to discuss the new app economy in Canada, including Ray Sharma of XMG, Dan Page of Telus and Winnie Leung of KPMG.

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 Pereira of IndusBlue, Marlon Rodrigues of Polar Mobile and Jason Gamblen of Kobo.

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 SaskTel Internet subscribers. We also speak with Jeff Anders, founding CEO of The Mark News about how the Toronto-based online media outlet plans put a new round of financing towards pushing the boundaries of traditional media business models.

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 from Neil Dutton of Sony Ericsson Canada, who gives us the inside scoop on the PlayStation Phone.

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 his first impressions of the Nintendo 3DS.

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 controversial ruling governing usage based billing for Internet services.

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’s PlayBook become the tablet of choice for the corporate world?

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 Product Research Survey measuring Canada’s digital industry.