DottoTech Radio

It was a big week in the tech world as both Apple and Microsoft made major announcements on Tuesday. We cover both announcements with outstanding guests. 

Gillian Shaw covers all the Apple news as we talk about the new iPad Air, Macbook Pros and MacPro. 

Julian Sanders of London Drugs covers the Microsoft side of the week, as the Redmond gang also has tablet news, as well as HUGE news, the Start Button is back! 

The largest Social Media conference in North America is the huge Social Media Camp each year in Victoria, the founders, Paul Holmes and Chris Burdge chat about Social Media Bootcamp, a roadshow versions of the Camp that is currently rolling through Southern BC. 

App Wednesday moves to App Thursday this week and we had a classic battle royal, no holds barred, last man over the top, gobsmacker!
We have Rebecca Bollwitt, Isaac Kendall, John Biehler and Art Factora. 
The winning app this week is one of my all time favourites! 

After the better part of 3 years it is moving day on Dotto Tech. We have switched from our traditional Wednesday Night timeslot to Thursday.

We have a terrific show for this first of our Thursday Night offerings.  Mike Vardy leads off talking productivity and more productivity.

Then we welcome a new guest, Michael Craggs of Ergo Canada, ergonomic specialists, we are going to talk about "Sit/Stand Desks" and options. I am really intrigued by this concept!

This week the Globe and Mail published an outstanding report on where BlackBerry went wrong, Jacquie McNish was one of the lead writers on the feature. She joined us to discuss what they found, and where the blame can be placed, and there is a lot of blame to spread around! You can find the report at The Globe & Mail.

Ken Price, of Samsung fills us in on 2 of Samsung's flagship products for the winter, the humungous Note 3, and the intriguing Galaxy Gear smart watch. Chris Hobbs, one of Two Tall Totems and his brother, David, the other Tall Totem have developed some very cool collaborate screen technology for tablets (www.tttlabs.com), with an educational application to start but far more potential in the enterprise and business space to come. They also floated the project as one of the first Kickstarter projects in Canada, an interesting experience t say the least.

Mari Smith joins us to chat about an upcoming month long online conference, Social Media Success Summit 2013. It is an online conference that brings together some 25 social media luminaries, who each give 45 minute presentations spaced out through October.
We also discuss the latest news from FaceBook and the social media front.
Paul Demara weighs in on the devastating news Blackberry released last week as 4500 employees were given their walking papers. the future of Canada's High Tech darling is in the balance.