We’re down on our presenter count this week, but we’ll plough on. Myself, Shane and Patrick discuss the state of national broadband schemes, at home and around Europe, in light of recent Spanish and Finnish announcements. We also discuss Google’s new ChromeOS offering and what it might mean for Google’s business model.

We also had a great interview with Hugh Nowlan (homepage, twitter) who was team captain for the winning team in last weeks HackEire, a capture the flag contest hosted by the Irish Reporting & Information Security Service (IRISS) (not the IRC client).

The interview on it’s own is also available.

Links:

• Ars Technica: Spain and Finland’s Broadband schemes
• Three Ireland’s National Broadband Scheme page
• Google Chrome OS press event

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