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Talking Tech, Friday, July 6th
[[libsyn_player]]0.30 â The three guys are back and the big news is that Kevin is flashing a brand new 4GB iPhone. Unsurprisingly, this very expensive wi-fi enabled iPod is the first topic of conversation.
4.45 â Duncan wonders if RIM and Apple are changing the space completely. Mark thinks the Blackberry is going to be strong for business and Apple will take over consumers. Duncan disagrees and thinks RIM is becoming more and more consumer focused.
8.26 â Google makes another acquisit ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Talking Tech, Tuesday, July 3rd[[libsyn_player]]0.27 â Just Mark and Kevin this week, Duncan is trapped in the BCE / Telus drama
0.59 â Mark starts off with news that Telus has pulled out of the BCE takeover process because they havenât had enough time for due diligence.
1.17 - Darren Entwistle met with the newspapers last week suggesting a Bell / Telus merger was the best option for Canada.
1.33 - Kevin thinks Bell blew it. He doesnât understand why they wouldnât extend the deadline. He suggests ità ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Talking Tech, Friday, June 22nd[[libsyn_player]]
0.38 - The guys get started with talk about the news of a potential BCE / Telus merger.
1.01 - Duncan talks about private equityâs interest in Bell and their inability to cut costs the same way that Telus could because they would lack the same synergy that combining Telus and BCE would have, which gives Telus has the ability to bid much higher than other players.
3.17 - What will the merger mean to foreign ownership restrictions in Canada?
3.39 â Duncan ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Talking Tech, Thursday, June 14th[[libsyn_player]]
0.27 â Mark is back with Duncan. Kevin has taken the week off but will back next week. The subject of the week is the Canadian Telecom Summit which raised the issue of broadband Internet access, pricing and availability.
1.42 â Duncan thinks tiered pricing, depending on usage, is going to be difficult to implement in the short term. He thinks the answer for the cable companies will lie with Sandvineâs network management service.
3.24 â Mark brings up the lack of comp ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Talking Tech, Friday, June 8th[[libsyn_player]]
0.32 - Itâs just Mark and Kevin this week as Duncan is away at a television engagement.
0.47 - Mark is excited to hear Kevinâs take on the big tech news of the week; the official launch of Appleâs iPhone.
1.01 - Kevin really wants one, but disappointed to know it will be locked to which ever network Apple deals with and while it can be used on other networks, a lot of the features would not be enabled.
1.45 - Kevin reminds us the issue with Apple is always supply an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Talking Tech, Tuesday, May 25th[[libsyn_player]]
0.32 â Mark et al are back with apologies for their absence last week and news that Jim Balsillie has taken another run at buying an NHL team.
1.45 â Duncan reminds us of the legion of tech entrepreneurs who used their success to buy professional sports teams only to see their stock price tank. Duncanâs interested in seeing the marketâs reaction to this news.
2.44 â Mark goes back to the theory that Balsillie will move the Preds up to Waterloo. Heâs also intereste ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Talking Tech, Tuesday, May 15th[[libsyn_player]]
0.37 â Encouraging signs for bloggers as Mark got an invitation from Nortel for its âTech Dayâ. He could go but Duncan checked out a talk from John Rose on âhyperconnectivityâ â all broadband, all the time.
1.14 â Mark wonders if this is just a marketing term or if it can give Nortel a competitive edge. Duncan thinks that current 3G networks donât provide the experience users want so there is a market and Nortelâs technology seems to have a jump on its competitor ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Talking Tech, Friday, May 4th[[libsyn_player]]
0.28 â All three of the boys are back for another week of Talking Tech. They kick things off with âoldâ news of Rupert Murdochâs $5bn bid for Dow Jones. Duncan gives us his thoughts on the deal which is about the data, not the publishing business.
2.42 â Kevin compares the Dow bid with Reutersâ M&A talk. He thinks more people will enter the bidding for Dow Jones while Mark looks at Murdochâs News Corp empireâs make up and wonders if a bigger synergy is at work ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Talking Tech, Friday, April 27th[[libsyn_player]]
0.30 â Mark and Duncan are back (still no Kevin) to talk about the good quarterly results from Apple and Microsoft.
1.12 â Is Appleâs growth sustainable or is just a fad? Duncan compares Apple to Madonna and thinks that, for now, its growth is sustainable BUT, will the hype around the iPhone bring the whole house of cards down?
2.37 â Mark brings up the movie Helvetica and every design person interviewed had their trusty Mac in screen. He thinks that the iPod gave us ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Talking Tech, Thursday, April 19th[[libsyn_player]]
0.25 â Mark, Kevin and Duncan are back with a discussion of what were the Blackberryâs users doing during the down time this week?
1.55 â Duncan wonders if there is an architectural reason for the service going down and staying down. If the software and the system doesnât scale, how will this affect the stock price?
2.45 â Kevin wasnât affected by the outage, and still thinks a Blackberry is the most effective email device out there. Mark is curious to know if RIM ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Talking Tech, Monday, April 9th[[libsyn_player]]
0.32 â Mark is back with Duncan Stewart.
1.23 â The guys start off with the consolidation of the Canadian software industry and the sale of one of Markâs stocks, Work Brain by Infor.
3.05 â Duncan laments the investorâs choice of Canadian enterprise software companies. Mark brings up the problem with the Canadian software industry â to scale you need to sell to the U.S. which is when youâll attract the attention of an acquirer.
4.09 â Is Canad ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Talking Tech, Friday, March 30th
[[libsyn_player]]
0.45 â Mark and Duncan are back, without Kevin, to discuss Kathy
Sierraâs cyber bullying ordeal.
Mark wants to talk about evilness and anonymity on the Web.
1.50 â Duncan
is a big fan of Kathy and is astonished that someone who writes about the stuff
that she writes about has attracted this amount of hatred and vitriol. Mark
asks if the Internet should be regulated?
3.08 â He also wonders about the anti-elitist nature of the
blogosphere. Duncan
is surprised t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Talking Tech, Friday, March 23[[libsyn_player]]0.32 - Mark kicks things off with the world's obsession with YouTube, given NBC's announcement of their own video portal.
1.19 - Duncan likens big media corporations trying to jump on the YouTube bandwagon is like dinosaurs putting on fur coats and pretending to be mammals.
2.15 - Does the NBC initiative have a chance at being a success? Kevin thinks success would be to get all NBC content off YouTube and onto the new portal, but he's skeptical of how far content owners can ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Talking Tech, Friday, March 16th[[libsyn_player]]0.32 â The theme for this week is âLetâs make a dealâ. Microsoft bought Tellme for
between $800m and $1bn while Cisco
bought Webex for $3.2bn.
1.26 â Kevin weighs in on what the Tellme acquisition means for Microsoftâs strategic direction, which is
a willingness to get in anything that may make it money. Mark brings up the Microsoft strategic
partnership with Nortel as well as its (MSâs) chequered acquisition history
beyond Windows and Office.
2.42 â Du ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Talking Tech, Friday, March 9th[[libsyn_player]]
0.27 â Mark and Kevin are back with Duncan Stewart who will
now be a regular co-host.
1.04 â The big story of the week is Guelph based Geosign
raising
$160m. Geosign operates more than 180 Web sites with 35 million unique
visitors each month.
1.28 â Kevin has never heard of them and Duncan thinks this is the largest private
round a Canadian technology company has ever raised. Heâs interested in the
stealth mode Geosign underwent before raising financing.
3 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Talking Tech, Friday, March 2nd[[libsyn_player]]
0.29 â Duncan Stewart is back as a special guest for all
things Nortel and in particular an
executive called Joel
Hackney
1.18 â Hackney was in North
Carolina when he confronted a lady
who honked him for cutting her off in a car park. He plead guilty to false
imprisonment, uttering threats and assault on a female. Mark was surprised to
see his Nortel
blog becoming the source for Nortel information for Nortel employees
1.59 â Duncanâs
take is that Nortel need ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Talking Tech, Friday, February 23rd[[libsyn_player]]
0.37 â Mark was excited about Sling Media, makers of the
Slingbox being in Toronto
and got a chance to shoot the breeze with them. He loves the sling but wonders
if this will ever go mainstream?
1.23 â Kevin thinks itâs a definite geek gadget
1.49 â Can you ever be a viable company selling $200
hardware. Sling has a lot of funding behind it and soon hopes to be the
standard software in your mobile device
2.55 â Mark is also fascinated by Slingâs Manager ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Talking Tech, Friday, February 16th[[libsyn_player]]
0.37 â Mark and Kevin are back with news of another Google
acquisition. Adscape places
advertisements in video games and competes with Microsoft acquisition Massive
1.47 â Kevin is quite the gamer and has been noticing a lot
of ads, especially in NBA â07,
that do seem to âstickâ
2.45 â Can anything Web 2.0 be advertising free? Would ads
take away from the gaming experience? Kevin thinks it has to be subtle in order
to work
3.16 â Austin Hill points out ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Talking Tech, Friday, February 9th[[libsyn_player]]0.35 â This week has been the week of the telecom layoff. Nortel started off the week with 2,900
layoffs. Earlier today, Alcatel/Lucent
just cut another 12,500 jobs
1.10 â Kevin analyzes the layoffs and puts the
Alcatel/Lucent cuts due to synergies but thinks the Nortel problems are
symptomatic of its ongoing problems. Mark wonders where Nortel will be once the
restructuring and job cuts are done?
4.19 â Is there light at the end of the tunnel for Nortel?
IPTV is ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Talking Tech, Friday, February 2nd[[libsyn_player]]
0.30 â Kevinâs back with news that CBC.ca is linking to Talking Tech â will the
podcast get bought up by the mainstream?
1.13 â Itâs been a slow week in tech this week but the guys
start off on Windows
Vista which officially launched after 5 years and 50 millions lines of code
â but no lines outside the big retailers
2.05 â Mark sees Vista as
an upgrade to XP. Kevin thinks the lack of excitement shows just how many applications
are being moved online
... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Talking Tech, Friday, January 26, 2007[[libsyn_player]]0.35 - Kevin is out for the week and Mark welcomes back
analyst Duncan Stewart
1.01 â Microsoft is
in trouble for paying
an expert to edit Wikipedia
entries. Duncan
points out that Microsoft has always been seen as an aggressive corporation but
doesnât see the big deal about editing an open source document that can always
be changed back
3.23 â Mark brings it back to the Vista laptop giveaway and
says that this was the right idea but the wrong approach as well
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Talking Tech, Friday, January 19th[[libsyn_player]]
0.55 â Joost, formerly
known as The Venice Project, a new way to distribute TV shows, kicks off this
weekâs discussion. Kevin is impressed with the amount of content available and
the buzz thatâs been generated.2.20 â Mark thinks people are equating the success of Joost
with the success of Kazaa and Skype, the foundersâ previous ventures. Heâs
more interested in the wider picture of video distribution that players such as
Netflix ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Talking Tech, Friday, January 12th[[libsyn_player]]
Mark and Kevin are back with resident stock analyst Duncan
Stewart.
1.20 â Kevin regales us with highlights from the zoo that
was CES. The theme from 2007 is
the continued march to the living room from technology vendors. Slingbox taking files
from your computer and playing them on your TV is something that Markâs written about before
2.20 â Mark wants to talk about the Microsoft
Home Server. He loves the idea of having a central storage for files that
you can ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Talking Tech, Friday, December 15th[[libsyn_player]]
0.46 â Mark and Kevin jump into the special all-you-can-eat holiday
buffet being served up by Skype.
Does this mean that eBay is getting
serious about Skype as a business?
1.31 â Markâs company, b5media
has already paid the 13.95 for his yearâs service. Skype is moving into the mainstream after
being a disruptive technology.
2.29 â Kevin predicts that Skype will find the VOIP market
to be a crowded one and will keep it in the back of his mind, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Talking Tech, Friday, December 8th[[libsyn_player]]0.30 â Mark and Kevin welcome technology analyst Duncan
Stewart as their first ever live guest.
0.50 â They dive into the
split between Nortel and its
accounting firm, Deloitte. Kevin bemoans the fact that Nortel was once
interesting but canât shake its accounting woes.
2.47 â Duncan
believes it was an important step to move on from the accounting mishap to
partner with a firm that investors will have (more) trust in. Mark notes the amount of accounta ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Talking Tech, Friday, December 1[[libsyn_player]]
0.31 â The story of the week is Microsoft Vista. The hype is over, the product has been shipped and Mark defers to Kevin for an expert opinion. Vista is groundbreaking, but only from a product development perspective. This will be better than most of Microsoftâs first tries but itâs still worth waiting for the kinks to be ironed out
1.55 â Neither Mark or Kevin think customers will be jumping on board right now, but as the saying goes, theyâll ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Talking Tech, Friday, November 24[[libsyn_player]]
0.25 â Mark apologizes for missing last weekâs episode due to b5media strategy meetings
0.55 â The guys are back at Starbucks (still no sponsorship) and dive straight into a seasonal topic â the gaming market and why people would be prepared to stand in line for hours for a games console like the Nintendo Wii. The answer is great marketing and a long development cycle
4.19 â Google cracked the $500 (U.S.) barrier this week, resulting in a market cap of m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Talking Tech, Friday, November 10[[libsyn_player]]
0.25 â Markâs had a tough week in New York attending ad:tech but enjoyed watching ESPN. The show was packed but it seems no-one really has a handle on the new landscape
1.59 â Kevin is confused. He doesnât know what advertising model works and hasnât heard any great ideas on how to capitalize on the increased amount of web users. Mark likes the pay to play nature of AdSense and thinks advertisers like the measurability of the web
4.02 Ã ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Talking Tech, Friday, November 30.30 â Mark addresses the declining circulation of the major North American newspapers in the first half of the year. Are newspapers simply irrelevant to todayâs generation? Kevin thinks that newspapers havenât been able to adapt to the world of free content â online and offline
2.53 â Newspapers have to stop focusing on the news and train their reporting onto the perspective, context and analysis. The industry needs to report smarter which means smaller newsrooms wi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Talking Tech, Friday, October 27[[libsyn_player]]
0.20 â Mark brings up MacLeansâ article âThe
Internet Sucksâ? which focuses on the worst of the internet, not the promise
of the internet. The guys discuss the
philosophical basis for the article â is the internet over-hyped and is the technology
media/blogosphere too close to the issue to realize this?
4.53 â The internet isnât perfect but Mark says that, like
the wild west, we will reign in the internet and make it live up to its
potential. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Talking Tech, Friday, October 20[[libsyn_player]]
0:15 â Mark and Kevin open up the show from the world
headquarters of b5media, otherwise know
as the âMan Roomâ? in Markâs house.
0:46 â Mark and Kevin discuss Appleâs stellar
fiscal fourth quarter results. Mark is amazed that Apple sold 39 million iPods and it is, without
a doubt, the Google of potable music players.
1:28 â Kevin equates its success to the âcool factorâ?. He
then wonders how Apple can keep growing.
2:17 â Mark ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Talking Tech, Friday, October 13[[libsyn_player]]
0.17 â Mark and Kevin jump right into this weekâs show with a discussion on Bell Canada Enterprises Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Talking Tech - Friday, Oct. 5, 2006
Comments for Mark and Kevin can be left
on the comment line: +1 206 333-1327.
0.14 - Mark welcomes back listeners and
explains the hiatus from last week. Kevin explains what analysts do
at trade shows before congratulating Mark on the birth of his son.
He then sets the stage for a shock announcement
0.59 - Mark is leaving the National
Post to become Vice-President of Operations at
b5media,
a global new media company consisting of a network of 150 blogs, and
reiterates his passion for t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Talking Tech - Friday, Sept. 22, 2006[libsyn_player]]
Comments for Mark and Kevin can now be left on the new
comment line: 1 206-333-1327 or you can email mevans@nationalpost.com or check out Mark's blog at http://evans.blogware.com/blog
.16 - Mark sets things up by
declaring 2006 the year of the video and YouTube
in particular. The recent deal
with Warner, coupled with Microsoft's
announcement of the beta "YouTube for middle aged people,"
Soapbox,
leads into a copyright discussion.
1.29 - K ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Talking Tech - Friday September 15[[libsyn_player]]
Comments for Mark and Kevin can now be left on the new
comment line: 1 206-333-1327 or you can email mevans@nationalpost.com
http://evans.blogware.com/blog
0:16 - Mark welcomes listeners and delivers a shameless plug
for Starbucks to sponsor Talking
Tech.
0:51 - The theme of the week is hardware with Microsoft's
Zune and the raft of Apple
announcements including the iTV. Mark
starts with the, non-iPod killer, Zune - 30gb, wireless connect ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Talking Tech - Thursday, Sept. 7, 2006[[libsyn_player]]Share your comments, feedback and questions with us at Mark's blog or send an email to mevans@nationalpost.com.
0.14 - Mark welcomes back listeners, explains the gap
between shows and introduces a new name for the show. Mark and Kevin then discuss Kevin's departure
from the National Post
to become a senior analyst at the SeaBoard
Group.
2.56 - Research in Motion
(RIM) has finally launched the new Blackberry
Pearl. Kevin believes that the
device i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
The Weekly PodcastIn this week's podcast, Kevin Restivo and I looked at the ongoing Rocketboom soap opera, and whether it deserved anywhere near the attention it received. We also talked about Microsoft's much-speculated move
into the MP3 player market - a development we think will expand the
market rather than be an iPod-killer. Finally, we delved into Open Text's takeover bid for Hummingbird, which appears to be yet another sign of consolidation in the Canadian software market.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Mark & Kevin's Weekly Podcast - July 2, 2006This week's podcast, produced by Nationanl Post reporters Mark Evans and Kevin Restivo, explores these stories from the week in technolgy:1. Nortel Networks' decision to reduce its workforce by 1,100 people, as well as the company's annual shareholders meeting in Toronto where CEO Mike Zafirvoski declared he wasn't looking to do a merger or a sale.2. Research in Motion's strong quarterly results, which suggest it has quickly overcome its nasty legal battle with NTP Inc., and that Blackberry ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Weekly Podcast - June 23 2006This week's podcast featuring a Canadian look at the week in technology features Financial Post reporters Mark Evans and Kevin Restivo. This week, we look at:1. The future of Nortel Networks in the wake of Siemens and Nokia combining their carrier network equipment divisions.2. Vonage and its ongoing post-IPO troubles3. Bill Gates' decision to step down as chief software architect so he can focus on being chairman and how to give away billions of dollars to charity.Enjoy!Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Bill St. Arnaud, senior director, advanced networks, CANARIEI recently had a chance to do a podcast with Bill St. Arnaud, senior director of advanced networks with CANARIE,
a federally-supported not-for-profit company with a mandate to promote
the widespread adoption of next-generation high-speed networks in
Canada - sort of our version of Internet 2.
Among some of the things we touched upon were some interesting
high-speed projects happening in Sweden, including one that involves
consumers buying a 100mbps "last mile" connection, as well ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Mark & Kevin's Weekly Podcast - June 9, 2006This weekly podcast, featuring the National Post's Mark Evans and Kevin Restivo, focuses on:1. why Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski is so darn bullish2. Google Spreadsheets - Microsoft killer or just another online service3. the Blackberry's launch in Japan. Will Canada's flagship technology product score with the wireless-crazed Japanese?Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Mark & Kevin's Weekly Podcast (May 20, 2006)This week's show looks at the highlights in the technology world this week - hosted by Mark Evans and Kevin Restivo.1. Apple's new, 24/7 retail store in Manhattan.2. Nortel's conference call with analysts earlier this week where CEO Mike Zafirovski provided a pragmatic, yet optimistic, outlook for the telecom equipment maker.3. Don Stout, best-known for steering NTP to victory over Research in Motion, hooking up with a Canadian software company to protect their patents.4. the mesh conferenc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
A Chat with Rocketboom's Andrew BarronI had a chance to sit down with Rocketboom.com's Andrew Barron for a few minutes during the mesh conference in Toronto.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
A Chat with Qumana's Tris HusseyTris Hussey, chief blogging officer with Qumana, had a chat with me during the mesh conference in Toronto. We talked about Qumana's plans for its blog editing software and the blog publishing landscape.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Kevin & Mark's Weekly PodcastGoogle, Terry Matthews, Research in Motion in China, the mesh conferenceListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
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