Archive for April, 2009

PC Pro Podcast 54

April 29, 2009

This week, Darien Graham-Smith reports from the Infosec conference, where figures as diverse as David Blunkett and Eugene Kaspersky have been calling for tougher security legislation. Dave Stevenson shows off a novel little data-sharing device and, just for a change, we all look forward to Windows 7.

PC Pro Podcast 53

April 22, 2009

Have the Pirate Bay boys been hard done by? The team argues over it this week. Plus we cover the BBC iPlayer revamp, commiserate with AMD over its recent performance and ponder the implication of a 3D web, courtesy of Google. Plus, one of the best-built smartphone we’ve ever seen.

PC Pro Podcast 52

April 15, 2009

This week the team sets its sights on Amazon’s peculiar removel of certain books from its lists; wonders what eBay was doing when it bought Skype; argues over the pronunication of ‘OS’ and looks at quite possibly the largest and most unusual laptop ever produced.

PC Pro Podcast 51

April 8, 2009

On this week’s show we discuss whether discounts on broadband connections would make Phorm’s behavioural advertising service any more palletable. Plus, Twitter in the classroom, Google vs the newspaper world, and Yahoo’s bid to become the new Facebook.

PC Pro Podcast 50

April 1, 2009

This week we discuss the strange case of the virus meltdown that never was; mourn the passing of Encarta and Wikia Search; debate the philosophical finer points of Chinese music downloads; and decide if Intel has a hit on its hands with its latest server processor.