Speaking in Tech: In-flight fondling, hands-free servers, what could go wrong?

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Another seven days in tech, and another banter-packed instalment of El Reg's one-and-only podcast. Join your your hosts, Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela for everything you need to know about business-grade IT. This week, the gang is together again, and their special guest is Mark Thiele, executive veep of data centre tech at Switch.

Today's agenda: First, some banter about a car crash, then...

• Do you switch off your gadgets on flights, or do you fondle your mobile on takeoff?
• Google Reader executed - and the backlash is growing
• A potential bidding war for Dell
• Digging into Switch
• Mark’s blog post on software-defined data centres.
• All right, what the heck is a software-defined data centre?
• The “one click” release-to-production environment
• Code-controlled server warehouses don't solve the "people" problem

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