We speak with the organisers of HackEire, Ireland’s largest capture the flag hacking competition, Craig Barrett of Intel on start-ups, and about internet censorship in China.
This week we discuss Google suing the US Department of the Interior for anti-competitive practices in relation to a tender for a hosted email and collaboration suite, rant about Security Theater, review Trillian for Android and discuss upcoming Irish Tech Events.
We talk about the future of mobile broadband with Damien Costello of 3, mention the best Symbian applications and mention new jobs in the market, including some at Just Mobile, a quirky new mobile phone network for Ireland.
We talk about music piracy with Peter Eckersley of the EFF, go through Irish events, rant about mobile data pricing and review the wildly popular Angry Birds game for iPhone and Android.
We talk about the UPC victory in their case against record companies with TJ McIntyre, mention the Dublin GAMER Expo, rant about version numbers and review Reddit is Fun.
We talk schools broadband with an IT admin and a teachers Union, rant about the bullying practices of ACS:Law, mention 3 Ireland’s subscription statistics slip-up, review KeyPassDroid and announce our first competition.
In our last show of the season we talk about HTML5, Video Codecs & Patents, and explore the future Flash might have.
Put on your tinfoil hats everyone, the powers that be are meeting in secret to break the Internet. The Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is being threshed out behind closed doors and could change the way ISP’s work.
We also chat about the Digital Economy Bill that’s currently being rushed through the UK house of Parliament without debate. Seriously guys, stop doing these things in private!
