104 episodes

The loose wire podcast collects musings, interviews and BBC radio broadcasts on technology by Jeremy Wagstaff, former technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal and Thomson Reuters' chief technology correspondent in Asia. Wagstaff first started broadcasting in 2004; the Loose Wire blog, from which these podcasts are taken, was launched in 2001.

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The loose wire podcast collects musings, interviews and BBC radio broadcasts on technology by Jeremy Wagstaff, former technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal and Thomson Reuters' chief technology correspondent in Asia. Wagstaff first started broadcasting in 2004; the Loose Wire blog, from which these podcasts are taken, was launched in 2001.

    the digitally ass-backwards age

    the digitally ass-backwards age

    We're living in a digitally ass backwards age, where everything you do of commercial monetary value is retained, amazingly easy to recover and commercially mined at mind-boggling speed, but everything else -- photos, an SMS, an email you sent to someone last week, the deed to your house -- is lost in the muddle of that drive an inch or two from your finger tips.

    • 13 min
    one less word

    one less word

    Apple has quietly moved the goalposts again, this time to impose its own social login service on developers. It's talking about giving users choice, and offering a more secure way of doing what Facebook and Google have been doing for years, but is that all it's about?

    • 10 min
    were we ever free of walled gardens?

    were we ever free of walled gardens?

    Reading through the documents released by the U.S. Judiciary Committee, I'm struck by how early we lost the war on walled gardens. I take a deeper dive and see where it all went wrong

    • 6 min
    Podcast: Cameras

    Podcast: Cameras

    The BBC World Service Business Daily version of my piece on cameras. (The Business Daily podcast is here. Script is here.) Loose Wireless 120516 To listen to Business Daily on the radio, tune into BBC World Service at the following times, or click here. Australasia: Mon-Fri 0141*, 0741 East Asia: Mon-Fri 0041, 1441 South Asia:… Read More »

    Podcast: Google Dilemma

    Podcast: Google Dilemma

    The BBC World Service Business Daily version of my piece on the Google Dilemma (The Business Daily podcast is here.) Loose Wireless 120117 To listen to Business Daily on the radio, tune into BBC World Service at the following times, or click here. Australasia: Mon-Fri 0141*, 0741 East Asia: Mon-Fri 0041, 1441 South Asia: Tue-Fri 0141*,… Read More »

    Podcast: The Real Revolution

    Podcast: The Real Revolution

    The BBC World Service Business Daily version of my piece on the rise of the smartphone (The Business Daily podcast is here.)  Loose Wireless 120111 To listen to Business Daily on the radio, tune into BBC World Service at the following times, or click here. Australasia: Mon-Fri 0141*, 0741 East Asia: Mon-Fri 0041, 1441 South… Read More »

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