Tech Weekly podcast: BlackBerry blackout, Siri scrutinised

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Aleks Krotoski is joined by Charles Arthur and Dan Catt for this week's special studio-based podcast, as the team take a break from their busy live schedule. With a little more time, they have the chance to look back over the last few weeks of stories – from the launch of the iPhone 4S and the death of Apple's Steve Jobs – and consider the business impact of the BlackBerry's service disruption, the loss of computing legend Dennis Ritchie, and what lies ahead for the UK's digital enterprise cluster.

Charles speaks to RIM chief Stephen Bates about the organisation's misfortunes – and the financial cost to the company of compensating millions of BlackBerry users for the loss of their service – and to Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales about the strengths of the UK's digital scene. Aleks speaks to the iPhone 4S, giving the speech recognition software a run for its money.

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Tech weekly per podcast: Google-Motorola, riots and social media,

Join Aleks Krotoski and Juliette Garside a zipped version of the Tech Weekly. This week, politics, social media: what role should the British Government has in regulating our access to services such as Facebook BlackBerry , Messenger and Twitter? Author Jeff Jarvis weighs debate and finds that there is currently a demonisation of technology.

Also, the Search giant Google has moved to mobile manufacturing business: blogger stasis Bielinis broke news of Monday's Motorola mobility deal – worth $ 12.5bn – back in June. We find out what is it for Google, and how mobile ecosystem will settle after that bombing.

The British Government has announced the next phase in the high-speed broadband plans – corporate BT partner has promised to bid on some of the £ 530 million in grants connected to out-of-reach rural communities for fast connection. We hear from Bill Murphy, MD for next generation access at BT about the details of its plans, and where it intends to invest.

Finally, what is in store for protracted gamesFifa brand? Keith Stuart speaks with Andrew Wilson, senior VP of worldwide development at EA Sports about its plans for cross-platform entertainment.

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Tech weekly podcast: Evgeny Morozov

There is an international flavor to this week's program. We start
turned off by hearing from Evgeny Morozov, Stanford scholar, who has doubts
whether or not the web can bring democratic change. Despite reports
Noting the importance of Facebook in the current Tunisian protests
and 2009 Twitter revolution in Iran, Yevgeny believes the new
technology could end the contamination far more problems than it solves.
Charles Arthur finds out from this cyber-skeptic, daily tools we of
use for shopping and personalised could end up limiting the
the Internet in authoritarian States.

And even though Aleks is away this week, she still has been busy – speaks to Indian business blogger Nikhil Pahwa from MediaNama.com. He is first
The public servant from her recent trip to the country, and sets the scene,
explains what the digital sector is like in the country, what
There are opportunities for British businesses in India, and how
mobile internet is the next great hope.

Jemima Kiss presents the Show, and there is also this week
technology headlines with news about Steve Jobs
latest health problems, a Facebook flotation, rotate, and how
Nokia does not come to music and more.

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