Tech Weekly podcast: what's next for BlackBerry?

On this week's podcast, Charles Arthur finds out what's in the pipeline for BlackBerry-maker RIM after the company's smartphone was caught up in the London riots. He discovers the future of a company that recently announced plans to cut 2,000 jobs, and a huge loss in market share in one of its key territories – the US – but how its new operating systems and its handheld Playbook should change its fortunes.

We also demystify the process of getting funding for your great digital idea. DFJ Espirit's Nic Brisbourne, the funder behind travel social network WAYN and social media consultancy service Conversocial, and author of Equity Kicker, is in the studio to talk us through Series A, Angels and VC funding. He also drops a few hints about the next big thing: where and what is going to make money over the next five years.

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Tech weekly podcast: BlackBerry in a traffic jam and payment for Sony's hack attack

This week we are program from games news from the UK largest find that gaming conference, last week held in Brighton. Games correspondent Keith Stuart has spoken, David Braben, creator of the elite, about his new games for the Kinect - as well as a raspberry-PI could be the future of computer science.

We are picking apart also the financial result for the major technology companies. We look at us why BlackBerry maker RIM has deleted 2,000, and we learn about legal tangle, the Sony in is, after the massive PlayStation security against earlier this year. Now, as the legal bills added to be compensated, the consumers, whose services are used have been hacked?