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Are phones and phablets killing the tablet?

Several large tech companies released results this week, what do the numbers mean for the market? And are scented bubbles the future of display screens? Rory Cellan-Jones presents

Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon released results this week, what do the numbers mean for the market?

Ed Catmull, president of animation studio Pixar, talks creativity and business and gives an insight on what it was like to work with Apple's Steve Jobs.

Could bubbles - on to which images are projected - be the future of display screens? Scientists at Bristol University are attempting to find out and are even imagining a time where bubbles could burst and leave behind a scent.

What more can be done to encourage girls to enter the world of technology? Are there enough role models to convince young women that it's a profession worth following? Rory Cellan-Jones and Carolyn Rice attended an event encouraging school pupils to try out tech.

Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ technology journalists Mark Ward and Jane Wakefield will be talking about the tech stories that have led the agenda this week.

Rory Cellan-Jones presents with studio guest Ben Wood from analysts CCS Insight.

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Fri 25 Apr 2014 14:06GMT

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