The PC Pro Podcast

On this week's show the team debate Steve Jobs' diatribe against Google Android, what the future holds for Microsoft after Ray Ozzie, Mozilla's planned web apps store and whether the web will last for 500 years. Plus, Barry Collins nominates the Apple TV as this week's Hot Hardware of the Week.

On this week's podcast the team discuss Microsoft's rumoured takeover bid for Adobe, Sir Philip Green's review of Government IT spending, and the mental health risks of leaving children sat in front of computer screens. Plus, Jonathan Bray bursts into the studio to nominate Samsung's Windows Phone 7 handset as Hot Hardware of the Week.

This week the team mulls the import of increasing use of the R.I.P act; we bemoan the lack of fast broadband for people living in huge castles in the middle of nowhere; wonder whether internet vigilantes have pulled off a rather clever coup; discover that heat can burn you; and run our eye over a very posh PC in Hot Hardware of the Week.

This week the team is split over the prospect of a two-tier Internet; slaps its collective forehead over the antics of both law firms and file-sharing vigilantes; looks at an exciting new camera technology; wonders if Nokia can pull itself out of its current predicament; and declares eBook readers are coming of age, with the new Amazon Kindle under the spotlight in Hot Hardware of the Week.

Intel is no stranger to controversy, and in this week's podcast we dicuss its latest marketing wheeze. Then we move on to kick the tyres of Adobe's latest consumer-level photo-editing package; consider the undeniable cleverness of the recent Twitter attack; wonder whether we care about a tablet from RIM; and finally grin maniacally at possibly the most captivating piece of kit we've ever had on Hot Hardware of the Week.

In this week's lively discussion: the main news from the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco; the latest initiative from Ofcom to rein in outlandish mobile broadband speed claims; angry ISPs get saddled with costs for illegal file sharers; and the hot hardware of the week - the new iPod nano - polarises opinion on our panel.

On this week's PC Pro podcast we discuss the school that equipped all its pupils with iPads, Apple new range of iPods, the mainstream arrival of USB 3 and why television might hold the key to nationwide fibre broadband. And finally, Jonathan Bray enters the studio to nominate a mini media centre as this week's Hot Hardware.

This week we wax unbelievable about the state of price comparison sites' security; take a look at Google's latest clever ideas for dealing with email overload; ponder on the wisdom of AMD ditching its graphics-card brand; look at the quagmire of horrendous naming pain around Windows Live Mesh; and an impressively powerful budget PC in Hot Hardware of the Week.

On this week's show, Barry and Tim reveal what's coming up in Windows Phone 7, we discuss Firefox 4's new Panorama feature, and Darien gives us the lowdown on AMD's new processor line-up. Plus! Sasha Muller makes a late break into the studio to nominate Dell's Inspiron M101z as the Hot Hardware of the Week.

Heady stuff this week, as the team discusses Virgin's new-old approach to warning its customers of infected PCs; the success or otherwise of The Times newspaper's website; the faltering progress of broadband in a sewer; the difficulty of working out whether hybrid hard disks actually work; and a unanimous decision from the team about a quiet PC in Hot Hardware of the Week.

On this week's PC Pro podcast we discuss the laptop repair man who wound up in jail, Vodafone's unwanted "upgrade" to the HTC Desire, why data disasters are more likely to strike in summer and a competitor to Amazon's Kindle emerges as Hot Hardware of the Week.

This week, Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer speaks about Apple's iPad success; we learn the truth about 3D movies and that splitting headache; Carphone Warehouse confuses us with its new music-streaming idea; BT does something useful for a change; and the Hot Hardware of the Week is a design-heavy multitouch trackpad from a company almost nobody has heard of.

This week Dell's income stream come under the spotlight; it turns out Intel's yet-to-be-released super interface is obsolete already; Ofcom is under the kosh again; we talk about Dell again as Ubuntu disappears from its website; Apple releases a 12-core workstation; and we look at a contentious smartphone in Hot Hardware of the Week.

This week we get pithy with a marvellous five-second guide to Ubuntu vs Windows; we look at how Google's incredible expansion this year; take a disgracefully easy pot-shot at the Treasury's website debacle; assess whether you can live off the spoils of being a Mozilla-bug bounty hunter; take a peek at the latest security trend; and have probably the most polarized argument yet in Hot Hardware of the Week, courtesy of an extremely clever pen.

On this week's show we discuss the arrival of Firefox 4, another threat to the humble HDMI cable, what's happening inside Intel's research labs and the Dell Streak is nominated for Hot Hardware of the Week. But is it a winning Streak?