Speaking In Tech

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

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 Automat

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

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

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

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?

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 @speakingintech

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

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

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 @speakingintech

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!

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

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  

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

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

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

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 /

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)

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

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