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This week on Get Connected, it's Christmas time for tech! Our friend and tech expert Marc Saltzman joins the show to share his tech gift list, Google Canada's Fab Dolan shares seasonal tips for Google Home, and Philips Lighting's Kelsey Moniz talks festive smart lighting for the holidays with Philips Hue! We also discuss the less than jolly Huawei situation and retaliatory detainment of two Canadians in China before wrapping merrily with two cool voice skills of the week for Amazon Alexa!

This week on Get Connected, we cover Huawei's recent woes and misgivings in the news with IT World Canada's Brian Jackson, Meagan Simpson talks Avon as the company branches out into eCommerce and social media, Kali Readwin offers some perspective on Facebook's favouritism towards app development partners and punishment towards their rivals, and tech expert Tom Lee helps us analyze Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon chip that'll significantly speed up Android phones going forward. We also discuss Italian 3D printed vegan steaks, Apple and Finnish company Beddit's new sleep tracker, and airport-bound Amazon Go convenience stores!

This week on Get Connected, Andy Baryer and AJ Vickery are in the studio to discuss Fornite (& device) addiction, the highest raising in pricing yet by Netflix Canada, today’s STEM Toys, holiday gift ideas, and how Microsoft is responding to Apple in 2018. We also have Erin Mulcahy, Senior Product Strategy Lead Education at Littlebits to discuss the importance of play and having fun learning STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) and give away their Space Rover kit to our winning caller, Shawn!

This week on Get Connected, Mathew Ingram educates us on how WikiTribune has fared in its first year, Dave Woogman joins us from London Drugs to talk about Black Friday season, and we discuss what artificial intelligence means to the world of today and tomorrow with Finn AI's Robin Monks. We also discuss the BC government's new legislation opening the door for ride sharing services, Google Pixel phones saving transcripts of screened calls, Ford patenting a technique for burning out "new car smell" in Chinese cars, and the state of voice assistants in our voice skill of the week!

This week on Get Connected, IT World Canada's Shruti Shekar joins the show to discuss why Amazon's HQ2 passing on Toronto is great for the city, London Drugs' Jennifer Rinfret explains how smart thermostats can save money on your heating bill, and Get Connected's Kali Readwin dives into the rebranding of Google Drive as Google One. We also discuss Ford's new self driving delivery vehicles, their partnership with Walmart to test automated grocery delivery, Netflix testing cheaper mobile only subscriptions, Facebook's new unsend feature in messenger and their patent for using family photos to inform targeted ads.

This week on Get Connected, Bohus Blahut and Shaun Hatton from Canadian TV show "Vintage Tech Hunters" talk about experiences with the new series, Tom Lee from IT World Canada helps dissect Apple's latest offerings in the iPad Pro 3, the new MacBook Air and Mac Mini refresh, and Mastercard's Jessica Turner looks into the future of payment solutions and e-Commerce starting with the retirement of handwritten signatures. We also discuss the Canadian Government banning settlement demands in copyright notice systems, Crave TV offering first run HBO shows with a new service tier, Microsoft's underwater cloud servers off the coasts of Scotland and California, and Amazon's Alexa ties in with EVO in the voice skill of the week!

This week on Get Connected, Juggy Sihota-Chahil joins us from Telus to talk about their Living Well Health Devices and Services, Mike Agerbo and Andy Baryer share impressions of the Huawei Mate 20 Pre from a recent showcase event in the United Kingdom, and Intel's Lisa McManus stops by to discuss the new Core i9 processor. We also get a taste of KFC Chicken Talk for Amazon Echo in the voice skill of the week!

This week on Get Connected, Intel Canada's Denis Gaudreault joins us to discuss the brand new 5G technology, Joel Olandesca from SOS Charging Solutions shares some invaluable apps small businesses should be using, Shred-It's Paul Saabas talks data protection for small businesses, and We3's Founder & CEO Julian Ilson shows how their app helps people find new friends in groups of three. Graham Williams also gives a primer on Siri Shortcuts, freshly introduced in iOS 12!

This week on Get Connected, MobileSyrup's Patrick O'Rourke shares first impressions from Google's recent conference including their flagship Pixel 3 and XL smart devices, Kali Readwin examines Google Plus' data breach and impending retirement, and Brian Jackson from IT World Canada shares details on Blackberry's Alexa-powered enterprise voice assistant. We also discuss iOS 12's amazing adoption rate, Fortnite landing on all Android devices, Google Translate's 13 new visual translation languages, Samsung Galaxy A9's four cameras, and cap things off with two new Alexa voice skills of the week!

This week on Get Connected, Brian Jackson from IT World Canada joins us to parse the impending NAFTA agreement and how it will affect the tech sphere, Open Media's Laura Tribe discusses the FairPlay program where Canadian content distributors can ask the CRTC to shut down websites with 'illegal' content, and Tile's Simon Fleming-Wood talks about devices built to help us remember where we left our keys. We also discuss the brand new WIFI 6/ax, China's Supermicro possibly installing spy chips on motherboards, and introduce our new "Voice Skill of the Week" segment!

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