PC Pro Podcast 227

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In this week’s podcast we meet the iPhone 5 in the flesh and discuss Apple’s embarrassment over the iOS 6 Maps app; debate public funding for broadband; and mull over a miniature camera that takes snaps throughout your day. Our Hot Hardware candidate is the Amazon Kindle Fire HD.

In this week’s podcast we discuss whether the iPhone 5 shows Apple has lost its way; ask who would pay $99 a year for Office 365; tackle the big question of whether piracy is bad; and report on Intel’s new concept of voice- and gesture-driven “perceptual computing”. Our hot hardware candidate is Motorola’s irritatingly written […]

In this week’s podcast Amazon unveils its Kindle Fire HD, Intel touts its latest CPU technology, EE (the network formerly known as Everything Everywhere) begins the 4G rollout, and the UK’s new culture minister checks in. Finally, Sony’s Google TV box make its bid for Hot Hardware of the week.

In this week’s podcast we discuss the first crop of Windows 8 hardware, as shown off at IFA; the recently revealed security hole in Java; HP’s apparent stepping in to teach customers how to use Windows 8; and Twitter’s new plans for behavioural advertising. Our hot hardware candidate is Archos’ convertible 101 XS Android tablet.

On this week’s podcast we discuss the huge fine awarded against Samsung in its patent dispute with Apple and wave goodbye to both Sony’s optical drives and Lexmark’s inkjet printer range. Our hot hardware candidate is the ultra-widescreen Toshiba U840W-107 Ultrabook.

On this week’s podcast we analyse the Culture Secretary’s claim that the UK has Europe’s “best” broadband; discuss Everything Everywhere’s head start on 4G; ask whether Windows 8 will boost or harm PC sales; and count the girls taking A-Level Computer Studies (it doesn’t take long). Our hot hardware candidates are the Microsoft Wedge Mouse […]

On this week’s podcast we discuss Google’s taxes, round up which manufacturers will and won’t be producing Windows RT tablets, consider the four-year sentence handed down to an accused file-sharing conspirator and raise an eyebrow at the ICO’s slowness in enforcing cookie regulations. Our hot hardware candidate is the high-res Acer Iconia Tab A700 tablet.

On this week’s podcast: Microsoft drops Metro branding in Windows 8, Kindle ebooks outsell paperbacks, Facebook’s share price takes another tumble and Google pulls the plug on its failed projects. Finally, Overclockers’ pint-sized gaming PC, the Titan Prodigy Arctic, whirrs into action in Hot Hardware.