Tech Talk – April 18 2026

Tech Talk with Alan Perry

Alan Perry

Technology

5.0 • 6 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2026

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Alan Perry is joined by Gary Beyer, Owner of Tesseract Computers to cover the latest in tech, including Apple iOS 26.4.1 bug-fix updates, scam alerts (parking ticket texts, fake Shaw emails, CRA and DocuSign scams, and bank fraud calls), Apple app update changes, satellite-to-mobile expansion, AI developments, telecom deals, and more. Kathryn Abbott discusses the University of Calgary setting a Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people dressed as dinosaurs. All this and more.

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0:00.0	Now, Tech Talk with Alan Perry on the IHeart Radio Talk Network.
0:09.5	Welcome aboard, our April 18th and 19th edition of Tech Talk for 26.
0:14.5	Glad to have you along.
0:15.4	We are live with you Saturday morning, April 18th, on C-Fax 1070 and Victoria.
0:20.5	On Colonna's AM 1150 in the Okinawagon Valley, you might be listening to us somewhere
0:24.8	across Canada on the I-Hard Radio Talk Network or somewhere else around the world on radio
0:30.3	streaming apps like Radio Garden.
0:32.5	If it's Sunday afternoon, we're being rebroadcast on C-Fax, or you could be listening
0:36.5	to us on a podcast that you can find anywhere you get your podcasts.
0:40.4	We this weekend is myself, Fallon Perry.
0:42.9	Gary Byer from Tessaract 2.0 Computing.
0:45.6	And Catherine Abbott, the dinosaur lady.
0:47.9	Who has not only a dinosaur item this week, but also a bear item.
0:53.0	Yes, a bear item.
0:54.1	You're branching out. No, the also a bear item. Yes, a fair item.
0:55.1	You're branching out.
0:57.9	No, the jokes have already started.
1:01.5	We have lots of stuff to talk to you about this week.
1:05.5	Unfortunately, several new scams about which to warn you.
1:07.7	Some of them are variations on a theme.
1:08.8	Others are new.
1:11.6	What we're going to get to and what we never get to will always be in the show notes for you at tech-h-tok.ca,
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