Techpinions

This week's Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O'Donnell discussing the news as well as the structure of Microsoft's recent virtual Build developer conference, as well as the trend of tech companies offering their employees the ability to work from home for as long as they would like.

Ben Bajarin chats with Jeff Richards, a General Partner at GGV Capital, on lessons learned from past recessions, advice for businesses and investing during trying times, and what trends may stick post COVID-19

This week's Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O'Donnell discussing the IBM Think conference as well as a number of different PC, OS and chip announcements from major vendors in the PC business and analyzing what it means for the state of the PC category moving forward.

This week's Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O'Donnell analyzing this week's big tech quarterly earnings reports from Facebook, Google's parent company Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon and Apple, with a focus on what the numbers mean for each of the companies individually and for the tech industry as a whole.

This week's Techpinions podcast features Ben Bajarin and Bob O'Donnell analyzing the earnings announcements from Intel and what they say about tech industry evolution, discussing the layoffs and repivoting of Magic Leap and what it says about the future of Augmented Reality, describing the importance of the new WiFi6E 6GHz extensions to WiFi, and chatting about the potential for an Arm processor-based future Mac.

This week's Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O’Donnell analyzing the surprising announcement from Apple and Google to work together on creating a smartphone-based system for tracking those who have been exposed to people with COVID-19, and discussing the launch of several new moderately priced smartphones and what they mean to the overall smartphone market.

This is an extra Techpinions podcast featuring Carolina Milanesi, Bob O'Donnell and special guest Darcy Ortiz from Intel talking about the critical role of contingency efforts, business continuity plans and how companies can best handle a pandemic from a company that's in the rare position of having a pandemic planning team for over fifteen years.

This week's Techpinions podcast features Ben Bajarin, Mario Morales and Bob O'Donnell discussing the state of the global semiconductor market and how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting major chip and end device companies and the tech industry overall. Here's a link to the IDC Semiconductor market forecast that Mario discussed on the podcast: https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US46155720  

This week's Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi, Mark Lowenstein and Bob O'Donnell discussing the release of Microsoft's new Microsoft 365 subscription service, analyzing the impact of the T-Mobile-Sprint merger on the US telecom market and the rollout of 5G, and chatting about overall broadband and mobile network reliability during the COVID19 crisis.

Ben Bajarin and Carolina Milanesi are joined by special guest Dr. Mitchell Solerno who is head of school at Monta Vista Christian School.  They discuss the school's rapid transition to distance learning, the role technology played, and challenges and opportunities learned from distance learning. 

This week's Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O'Donnell analyzing Apple's surprise launch of their new iPad Pro, Magic Keyboard, and updated Macbook Air and Mac Mini, discussing the product spec reveal this week of the forthcoming AMD-powered PS5 and Xbox X gaming consoles, and chatting about the innovations enabled with Intel's latest neuromorphic chip.

This week's Techpinions podcast, which features Ben Bajarin and Bob O'Donnell, takes a different approach than normal and features an in-depth conversation on how to make the best of working from home, providing advice and best practices gained from many years of personal experience on everything from developing habits, to optimizing your connectivity, to leveraging the right kind of tech equipment and more.

This week's Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O'Donnell discussing the ongoing impact of the coronavirus on the tech industry and how it may provide some people with a bit more time to think through the direction the tech industry is heading, analyzing the impact of the cancellation of many in-person events and how companies should best think about holding virtual events, and chatting about the news from AMD's financial analyst day regarding their advancements in supercomputers, datacenter-focused GPUs, process technologies and more.

This week's Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O'Donnell discussing the ongoing impact of the Coronavirus on the tech industry, and several news announcements that were originally scheduled for MWC including Intel's debut of new chips for 5G network infrastructure, the launch of several new Android phones from Huawei, Xiaomi and other Chinese vendors, and Qualcomm's press briefing on 5G phone momentum, the third generation X60 5G modem, and more.

This week's Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O'Donnell analyzing the new smartphone announcements from Samsung, including their 5G-enabled S20 line and the foldable Galaxy Z Flip, discussing the implications of the approval for the T-Mobile-Sprint merger on 5G competitiveness in the US, and chatting about the impact of the cancellation of the big Mobile World Congress trade show.

This week's Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O'Donnell discussing the newly announced GeForce Now cloud-based gaming service from Nvidia, analyzing the reorganization at Microsoft that combines the Windows client and Surface teams, examining the potential impact of a proposed Android store alternative from major Chinese smartphone makers, and chatting about curated reading lists as well as diversity and inclusion issues in tech.

Ben Bajarin and Stephen Baker from NPD, chat about the tech products that were hot this holiday season with US consumers. 

This week's Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O'Donnell discussing the results of a new study on hybrid and multi-cloud computing, analyzing the impact of the official launch of Microsoft's Chromium-based Edge Browser as well as Google's plan to remove cookies from Chrome, and chatting about the launch of the NBC Universal/Comcast streaming service Peacock.

This week's Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi, Ben Bajarin and Bob O'Donnell discussing the highlights from the 2020 CES trade show, including analysis on how tech development cycles are slowing down as well as news about 5G PCs, 8K TVs, connected cars, and more.

This week's Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O'Donnell discussing the recently announced Project Connected Home over IP consortium, chatting about a potential Facebook OS, and analyzing some of the top tech trends of the past year.