The TechTalk Show

What happens when you put 5 techies and a drone in a radio studio?

This week’s TechTalk starts with news about Blackberry phones and Apple’s new HQ in Battersea, which evokes some brief reminiscing for both Jeremy Eames and Steve Griffiths. Steve also admits that he’s addicted to drones and makes sure we all know about the latest foldable model.

Our first guest, David Brown of Adavow, is fighting against advert overload, and Jeremy Eames is well on board being a victim of post-purchase advert attacks! Steve also finds the constant barrage of search engine related advertising annoying and is pleased that AdTech appears to be making strides in combating this aggressive, repetitive marketing. Jeremy is interested to discover that David has a background in psychology and the studio suspect that he’s probably got us all worked out by now!

Next is our live unboxing segment, and this week things get a little bit out of control when a mini drone is let loose in the studio. Find out if our team of boys who like toys think it rocks or goes back in the box.

This week our Tech Savvy segment comes from the Takeaway and Restaurant Innovation Expo 2016 and Anthony Robins of Dinggly – the world’s smartest call for service. Sue Nelson and Brady Last talk about how important they think customer service is for the success of a business and how this new button might stop women from being ignored in restaurants!

Our final guest today is Mike Masey who’s background stems from music production and digital media, but thankfully led him to be a web builder extraordinaire. Steve wants to know how you successfully design a website these days; one which works across all devices and platforms without dropping quality. Now working for Yoyo, Jeremy is keen to find out more about the big name clients that Yoyo have worked with and if there are any development challenges he’s had to overcome – like Breakthrough Funding’s animated homepage. Steve wants to know what developer mistakes get up Mike’s nose – like poorly synced apps and carousels! Grrr, best stay away from fairgrounds, Mike.

Keeping your data safe and the lead developer of a worldwide gay dating app

Steve Griffiths introduces today’s guests and let’s us know that our host Jeremy Eames is rather spaced out today due to having a vaccination yesterday.

Our hosts discuss BBC’s Tech Talent week and the very serious business of UK tech start up funding being rather barren. Jeremy gets a slapped wrist for not being on LinkedIn, when TechTalk now is (naughty), and they muse over the business benefits of getting involved in LinkedIn vs the personal touch of Twitter. Which do you prefer?

Nick Bridgen of Harlequin CDIS is our first guest today and is all about brand protection. Whether you’re a one-man band or a banker if you want to find out if you’re properly managing your online profile, these are the guys to talk to. Steve questions the need for a one man band having brand protection and discovers that it’s often the smaller companies that are at a much greater list due to not having properly protected themselves from hacking and viruses. Basically, he’s a professional, nice guy hacker who you pay to break into your sensitive information! What a job!

Are you excited? You should be, because next is our live unboxing section! The team look at a Bluetooth iPad keyboard this week. After a fairly unimpressive start for this week’s item, find out if Jeremy can work out where the enter key is and whether they finally decide whether they think it rocks or goes back in the box.

Next we hear Sue Nelson interview Brady Last of Breakthrough Funding, who specialise in R & D tax relief. Sue thinks it sounds terribly boring and prompts Brady to give us a reason to prick up our ears – perhaps discovering that your business is most likely eligible for government funding might pique the interests of the UK masses?

We’re joined on the phone by Brendon Bezuidenhout who is lead developer of CDC connect which looks after gay dating veterans Gaydar and has also now created Gaydar Girls. Steve is interested to find out the difference between Gaydar and Gaydar Girls and which came quicker. Jeremy gives away his lack of coding knowledge by mispronouncing C# as C-Hashtag – he’s so obsessed with Twitter - Brendon clears up the difference between the variety of coding languages for us. Phew!

When an app developer met a business management specialist

This week's TechTalk kicks off with the news that drone racing is going to become a legitimate sport that is marked to become as popular as F1 and Jeremy Eames and Steve Griffiths are looking forward to checking it out. We discover that Steve now has sore thumbs due to spending his week playing Unbox! The boys are still talking about the travesty that is iPhones Airpods - will we ever get over the trauma of the headphone jack removal?

Our first guest Jonathan Bucket of Pragmatic Integration is a business management specialist who rather surprisingly started out as a civil engineer! Jonathan has improved countless people's working lives by developing a good document management system freeing up people's time and space, and making all information accessible, in one place and using Microsoft Office. Easy peasy.

Next up we have Harry Wall and Chris Havenhand with this week's box ready for our live unboxing segment. This week Jeremy gets the honour this week and tries to work out how to use the IPEGA wireless bluetooth gaming controller. Harry asks a few questions posed live from Twitter whilst Jeremy blindly - and without the aid of instructions - tries to fit his phone in the controller. The men in the studio bond over their lack of ability to use instructions. Do we think this affordable, but poorly packaged controller is a worthy investment that rocks, or will it go back in the box.

Liam Tootill of Supa Academy meets Sue Nelson in our pre recorded segment where we find out his top tips for starting a business based around your passions and interests. Having challenged people's perceptions of young people and encouraging youth involvement in the world around them, Liam offers us his wisdom for anyone starting out in business today. How much can you learn by making mistakes? Is business more about who you know or what you know and how do you find a balance between them both?

Our final guest is Tom Catnatch of Studio Graphene who started out as a marketer, and now helping people realise their dreams by building apps and products for clients with innovative visions. Tom shares Studio Graphene's commitment to keeping things clean, simple and to the point and Steve is interested in how work methods have drastically changed in recent years and if perfection is important for launching a product. We also find out about the very important drunk user test!

A 3D postal service game and a web developer on a rollercoaster

Steve Griffiths and Jeremy Eames host the fourth ever TechTalk show, catching up on this week's tech news Steve and Jeremy look at the launches of both the PS4 Pro and the iPhone 7, pondering whether this latest iPhone is really worth the hefty price tag. Steve reminisces about simpler gaming days and his Sega Megadrive.

Our first guest today is Jon Pankhurst whose photography hobby prompted him to build his own photo sharing website Photo 4 Me a fair few years ago now and having got a lot out of satisfaction from it went on to create Splat Web Works to help other people create their own websites too. Steve probes Jon to get his top tips for optimising your web presence - apparently it's all in the ACT. Jeremy admits that he has a short attention span and agrees that Jon's theory that a faster service is always better.

Sue Nelson meets social media guru Zoe Cairns of ZC Social Media and finds out all about live Twitter TV app Periscope and how it's helping people engage with their audience. Sue thinks it would be a great way to test ides with an audience, and finds out how it compares to Facebook Live. Zoe recommends making your audience feel involved with your broadcasting for maximum success.

Next we have Andrew of Unbox, a 90s style 3D platform game involving delivering parcels! Andrew remembers his passion for gaming starting around the age of 4 with a Nintendo Game Boy and how it grew into him making his own games. Steve finds out how important the gaming community is to testing the waters when developing new games and concepts. Jeremy is keen to find out what this game developers favourite game is and surprised to find out he doesn't feel like he's played one for ages! Steve admits that he's a "senior gamer" and enjoys reminiscing about gaming in the 90s and Andrew admits that they discovered Unbox has an unexpected fan base.

Finally we have our best unboxing yet, (even if Periscope isn't working), and we test the VR Shinecon - a very affordable virtual reality headset. Check out our Youtube to see a web developer on a VR rollercoaster and find out if we think it rocks or goes back in the box.

Creatively coping with wanderlust and safe cloud service

It’s week 3 of our brand new #TechTalkshow and Jeremy Eames and Steve Griffiths catch us up on the latest tech news, including Tesla's new vehicle, Uber and whether the studio team would use Amazon Dash. We discover that Steve prefers “real” shopping over online unlike Jeremy - is this something to do with age and a lack of extra curricular activities?

First our hosts meet Alexandra K Riemann, creator of My Wanderlust. Having been born into a family with a passion for travel, having plenty of her own experiences where she found she was lacking a travel companion and being inspired by a university lecturer, creating a website to help people find their perfect destination and someone to share it with seemed like a perfect fit for Alexandra.The team discuss the benefits of websites vs. apps and the best way to go about creating your own "Tinder for Travellers" and Jeremy gets a touch of the green monster after listening to Alex's jet-setting life stories.

Next up is our regular unboxing section of The Tile, a bluetooth keyring to help you locate your precious items. find out whether they think it rocks or if it goes back in the box. What's the strangest place you've found your keys?

Sue Nelson meets Paul Andrews for the second week to discuss scaling up businesses especially for tech start ups. Paul thinks tech industries get seduced by the technology and forget about marketing products to real life customers and Sue agrees that getting realistic monetary estimates for a product's worth is important - even if it takes time for people to understand the product, as Paul has experienced himself!

Mark Philip of ADM Computing is our final guest for the day and specialises in keeping relationships between sales and services running smoothly. Steve wants to know what's pushing people towards Microsoft SharePoint and Mark explains that people are finally realising that the old ways don't work as well anymore and we discover that there's quite a big push in people looking to update their business strategies. Steve wonders about the worry of licensing costs and security- who knew that people were still using "Password" as their password? Surely not!

Pushing 3D printing boundaries, how the internet began and telling stories with media

Jeremy Eames andSteve Griffiths catch up on this week's tech news, including the internet's birthday and self-driving taxis.

Our first guest this week is Darren George of Equinox 3D who regales Steve Griffiths with tales from his past of creating kit cars for Formula 1 and nearly get carried away discussing their mutual love of motorsport. Getting back on track, Steve asks Darren more about his year old business creating fairly complex 3D printed models. Jeremy Eames finally learns what exactly this wondrous marvel 3D printing is and how it could apply to both food and plastic.

Next up we have our second ever unboxing of the Suunto Spartan Ultra live on the TechTalk show. Do our hosts and guest think this £549 sports tracking watch rocks or will they be putting it back in the box?

For our business segment this week, Sue Nelson interviews Paul Andrews of Jobs In Kent on the beginnings of the internet and how it fitted into what we already considered business. Do you remember Dog Pile? Nope? Neither does Sue.

Finally on today's show we have our first ever phone guest, Peter Lancaster of documobi who talks Steve through the innovative app documobi and how to connect media holders to help tell a more complete story. Jeremy tries to nab some tips from experienced presenter Pete and we find out more about his impressive and extensive journey through tech before landing at documobi.

TechTalk Show All things IT, connectivity and business tech

Steve Griffiths and Jeremy Eames are excited to present the first ever episode of the TechTalk show.

The pair catch up on the week’s tech news before introducing our first ever guest, Craig Higgins of Techsultant,which was started to help small to medium sized businesses utilise technology,aiding them to progress and develop. Giving support in all areas from the basics, to social media,to telecommunications Techsultant is a hero for the often overlooked small business.

Next up our hosts and guests do their first ever unboxing. This week looking at Philips Run Free headphones.

Sue Nelson of Breakthrough Funding is next in the studio talking about how to appropriately market your tech business to your audience.

TechTalk’s last guest today is SarahLucas of Catch IT, who specialises in project management and fibre connectivity to more remote locations. Recognising the importance of keeping your business connected Sarah and the team discuss how reliable internet connection is often key to a successful business. 

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