FP Tech Desk editor Matt Hartley travels to San Francisco to interview Craig Derrick, lead producer for LucasArts, about the new Kinect Star Wars game.

FP Tech Desk: Reddit general manager Erik Martin

Mar 21st, 2012 6m 48s

FP Tech Desk editor Matt Hartley speaks with Reddit general manager Erik Martin about the secret sauce that goes into one of the most popular social news sites on the Web.

Communitech CEO and the fertile startup earth in Waterloo

Nov 24th, 2011 15m 17s

This week on the podcast, FP Tech Desk editor Matt Hartley interviews Iain Klugman, chief executive of Communitech, a startup incubator based in Waterloo, Ont.

Microsoft’s Craig Mundie on the future of natural user interface.

Nov 9th, 2011 19m 23s

Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer, Craig Mundie, talks with Matt Hartley about the future of natural user interface and the software giant’s approach to research and development.

Google’s mysterious death penalty

Oct 26th, 2011 13m 51s

Imagine waking up one morning to discover your website has disappeared from Google’s search results, invisible even when searching directly for your company’s name. For Dr. Marc Pinter-Krainer, founder of U.K-based news aggregator One News Page

How will the coming tablet tidal wave alter the future

Aug 31st, 2011 19m 8s

This week, we chat with Sarah Rotman Epps, senior consumer product analyst with Forrester Research Inc., about just how big the tablet market will get and how other tablet makers are attempting to topple Apple Inc. with its market dominating iP

Facebook’s privacy, Cisco’s R&D and video games at X11

Aug 24th, 2011 29m 4s

This week on the podcast, we discuss Facebook’s privacy changes, Cisco Canada president Nitin Kawale explains his company’s new partnership with the province of Ontario and Daniel Kaszor drops by for a chat about this season’s hottest video gam

Googorola and the future of the smartphone industry

Aug 17th, 2011 29m 49s

This week on the podcast, we talk to Kevin Restivo of IDC about the Google-Motorola deal. We also talk to David Watson about the City of Calgary’s new search-based Website, and Debbie Landa about the Grow Conference in Vancouver.

RIM, the London riots and police surveillance in the digital age

Aug 10th, 2011 35m 6s

This week on the podcast, we discuss the role RIM’s BlackBerry Messenger played in the London Riots with Queen’s University surveillance studies professor David Murakami Wood, and CIPPIC staff lawyer Tamir Israel discusses the problems with Can

RIM layoffs, Reddit’s new friend and the end of Sprouter

Jul 27th, 2011 29m 26s

This week on the podcast, we speak with Communitech’s Avvey Peters about how the recent layoffs at RIM are affecting the Waterloo technology community. We also speak with Jen Evans of Sequentia Environics about her company’s new deal with Reddi

Crackberry.com founder on RIM and are you a Twitter Star?

Jul 20th, 2011 29m 24s

This week on the podcast, we are joined by Kevin Michaluk, founder of the BlackBerry blog CrackBerry.com to talk about what to expect from RIM in the second half of the year. We also speak with Sylvain Perron, managing director of digital for E

The Return of the UBB debate

Jul 14th, 2011 16m 49s

This week on the podcast, Financial Post telecom reporter Jamie Sturgeon talks to University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist about the ongoing CRTC hearings into the usage based billing practices of Canada’s Internet providers.

Google+ and Zynga’s IPO

Jul 7th, 2011 23m 32s

This week on the podcast, we hear about all the cool new features in Google+ from Wendy Rozeluk, head of communications and public affairs for Google Canada, and Jameson Berkow sits down with Gabe Zichermann, author of Gamification By Design to

Clouds, cash and WebOS

Jun 29th, 2011 36m 18s

This week we talk with Microsoft Canada President Eric Gales, HP's head of WebOS developer relations Richard Kerris and Darrell MacMullin of PayPal Canada.

What’s next for RIM?

Jun 22nd, 2011 29m 3s

This week on the podcast, it’s all about RIM. We speak with Colin Gillis, technology analyst for BGC Partners, and Kevin Restivo, lead mobile analyst for IDC about what’s next for the BlackBerry maker

IBM at 100, and Linkedin’s new Canadian chief speaks

Jun 16th, 2011 36m 30s

IBM Canada president Bruce Ross drops by the studio to talk about Big Blue’s 100th anniversary and we sit down with Brian Church, for his first interview as the new country manager for LinkedIn Canada

Video games galore at E3 in Los Angeles

Jun 8th, 2011 27m 23s

This week on the podcast, we chat with Zack Cooper, host of the Got Game radio show on Sportsnet Radio, the Fan 590 in Toronto live from E3 in Los Angeles, and Jeff Rivait of Xbox Canada calls in to talk about Xbox, Kinect and Halo 4.

E3 roundtable – what to expect from the Super Bowl of video games

Jun 1st, 2011 31m 51s

This week on the podcast we gather together a distinguished panel to discuss the upcoming E3 video game conference. On the panel are Daniel Kaszor, video game reporter for the National Post; Nathan Vella, co-founder and president of Toronto’s C

Nitin Kawale, President of Cisco & live from Mesh with author Peter Nowak

May 25th, 2011 22m 34s

This week on the podcast, we sit down with Nitin Kawale, president of Cisco System Canada and live from Mesh, we have a discussion about the adult entertainment industry with best selling author Peter Nowak.

LinkedIn IPO and its impact on the industry

May 19th, 2011 10m 56s

This week on the podcast, Jameson sits down with Randall Craig, social media expert and author of Social Media For Business, to gauge what impact professional social network LinkedIn’s initial public offering will have on the Internet industry.

Apple’s branding power and the bendable smartphone

May 11th, 2011 25m 17s

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,

BlackBerry World and the battle for Nortel’s patents

May 4th, 2011 30m 47s

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 announcement

Sony’s security breach and Canada’s first social media election

Apr 28th, 2011

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 a

A lukewarm reception for RIM’s PlayBook and Google’s plans to dominate mobile ads

Apr 26th, 2011

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 mo

RIM’s PlayBook product manager Ryan Biden and combating bill shock with Ontario MPP David Orazietti

Apr 13th, 2011

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 teleco