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The tech show about stuff that really makes life better! Pragmatic reviews, discussions with innovators, and practical advice on the future of technology in our daily lives.

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The end of the beginning - get the Byteside podcast

We're wrapping up the show to consolidate the Byteside podcast network into our core show, Byteside! Search 'Byteside' in your podcast app o...

3:28Jul 16, 2021

How will data make your car better? BlackBerry has some ideas

When you hear the name Blackberry, most people will think back to its dominance of the early era of smartphone tech before touchscreens arri...

32:12Jun 24, 2021

Inside the tech details under the Optus Gamer Plan

There's a big difference between a product marketed 'for gamers' and a product that has genuinely been designed for gaming, so this week I'm...

28:37Jun 14, 2021

IBM's Wesley Allen on the hybrid cloud opportunity

This episode is sponsored by IBM, and I'm speaking with Wesley Allen, Business Leader for IBM Cloud Platform in ANZ. We're specifically digg...

29:53May 17, 2021

Interview: Diya Jolly, Chief Product Officer, Okta

We speak to Diya Jolly, Chief Product Officer at Okta, about the growing importance of getting 'digital identity' right in the decade ahead...

24:23Apr 14, 2021

Interview: Ryan Richards, Sonos

We talk to Ryan Richards, Global Product Marketing Director at Sonos, about the new Sonos Roam, the new portable speaker about to join the S...

21:46Mar 23, 2021

Interview: Ruslan Kogan on Kogan's 15th anniversary

A big chat with founder and CEO of Kogan, Ruslan Kogan, on his company's 15th anniversary. We first met around 2 years into the growth of ko...

50:14Mar 16, 2021

Review: Steel Series Arctis 9 Wireless Headset

I've always had a soft spot for Steel Series. Back in my early freelance days I did a massive round up of gaming headsets for Atomic magazin...

8:41Mar 15, 2021

BuildBee and the future of 3D printing

We speak to two of the co-founders of BuildBee, Matt and Leanne Connolly, about their company and its place in the 3D printing ecosystem as...

32:38Dec 8, 2020

Free as in anti-competitive

This week Google announced it would end its unlimited free photo storage service. There’s obvious reasons for doing so, and Google argued th...

3:55Nov 18, 2020

Byteside special 2: Sony PlayStation 5 reviewed

We've got a special double episode of Byteside to share over the next two days. In the last show, Seamus Byrne and Alice Clarke looked at th...

19:29Nov 6, 2020

Byteside special: Xbox Series X reviewed

We've got a special double episode of Byteside to share over the next two days. Seamus Byrne and Alice Clarke discuss and debate the merits...

22:34Nov 5, 2020

Deepfaking Trump with Harry Shearer

This week, Seamus interviews Michela Ledwidge, a virtual production director who has just helped Harry Shearer launch an album of satirical...

27:44Nov 3, 2020

Building a new old brand (EPOS headphones)

We catch up with Andres Jessen and Maya Sand-Grimnitz from Epos Audio, the new gaming headset brand has formed as an offshoot of the former...

40:25Oct 12, 2020

Satya Nadella's Xbox is all about the Game Pass

From the aggressive subscription pricing for Xbox All Access to the buyout of ZeniMax Studios, it all fits the mission of getting every fan...

17:22Sep 23, 2020

The tech behind the US Open

Today's episode is sponsored by IBM, with Dane Gambrill stopping by for a chat about the hardware and AI systems that support major sporting...

38:02Sep 11, 2020

The dark value of uninformed consent

The Australian news media bargaining code is trying to solve the wrong problem. It's a Band-aid on an ulcer. We need digital advertising reg...

8:23Sep 10, 2020

Solving big problems with little sensors

We speak to Brian Swift, Head of Product at SafetyCulture, an Australian unicorn startup that is using everything from the simplest print ou...

30:38Aug 17, 2020

Creating augmented reality with Simone Clow (CEO, Virtual Immersive)

We've talked virtual and augmented reality a few times over recent times. I guess it's on my list of things that are not all that overrated,...

24:33Aug 5, 2020

Quitting Facebook: should I stay or should I go?

Just as Seamus was getting serious about an exit strategy, activists started hitting Facebook where it really hurts. Is it better to leave?...

10:38Jun 26, 2020