Live podcast today: Can anything catch up to the iPhone?

LOS ANGELES — This week Microsoft said it would lay off nearly 8,000 employees, mostly from it's poor performing Windows Phone division, and Samsung warned of lower profits for the second quarter, with analysts pointing to lower-than-expected sales of the Galaxy S6 phone.

It's a good time to be Apple. With Apple expected to order more shipments of the new September iPhone ever before, can anything catch up to the most popular tech device?

We'll discuss the Phone Wars on our live TalkingTech Roundtable podcast today @8 p.m. ET, on TuneIn. Click this link to TuneIn.

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On today's show, we'll also:

-- Introduce you to RadPad, a new way to find apartments, and pay rent, via an app, and Dash Radio. Yup--Apple Music isn't the oinly new online radio station in town. Dash Radio is here too, and we'll learn all about it.

-- Review the new GoPro Hero 4 Session mini camera. I'll compare notes with fellow tech critic Geoffrey Fowler, from the Wall Street Journal.

-- Discuss Facebook's new pitch to video creators--go to the social network and upload your videos there instead of YouTube, for a healthy 55% cut of the ad revenues.

-- Mobile identity. The digital age version of holding a $100 bill to the light, to see if it's counterfeit, TeleSign protects merchants from fraud, via phony phone numbers.

Besides Geoffrey Fowler, we'll also have:

-- Telesign CEO Steve Jillings.

-- Tech journalist Jessica Naziri.

-- Dash Radio's Scott Kenney

-- Jonathan Eppers, the co-founder of RadPad.

-- Epoxy.TV co-founder Jason Ahmad.

Tunein at 8 p.m. ET for the live Talking Tech Roundtable.