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The Guardian - UK
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Presented by Aleks Krotoski and produced by Scott Cawley

Tech Weekly: A digital election, the JooJoo and cybercrime

On this week's programme, we look back on the past 14 days of politics, and the uncomfortable love triangle that unfolded between the three main party leaders. Their allegiances flipped faster than the MP housing market, and we've been watching it all on the web.

So to what extent has the UK general election of 2010 been a digital election? Discussing this are the Guardian's new media correspondent, Jemima Kiss, and Matthew McGregor from Blue State Digital, the team that orchestrated the Obama new media campaign.

We also have a dispatch from the front line of online crime: Joseph Menn, the author of Fatal System Error tells us about his research into cybercrime that could end up bringing down the web.

And in the week that the iPad's UK pricing plan was unveiled, we take a look at one of Apple's most persuasive competitors, the JooJoo Tablet, with the CEO of Fusion Garage, Chandra Rathakrishnan. Originally this device was to be released as the CrunchPad as a pet project of TechCrunch's Michael Arrington – but the relationship fell apart and lawsuits seem likely.

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