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Tech Talk Radio is an informative and entertaining technology show on 3WBC, 94.1MHz in Melbourne Australia 8PM Monday nights. Join your host Andrew McColm (ABC Radio & Talk 1116) and chief panelist Dr. Ron as Tech Talk Radio demystifies technology and pr Primary Format : Community Radio Language : Unknown Also Listed as: City : Melbourne State/Province : Victoria Country : Australia Region : OC User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Tech Talk Radio Podcasts Methings.com listings of Tech Talk Radio Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

TTR Ep 5111: Summer Series 2001/12 episode 2 - The best of Tech Talk Radio over 7 years TTR Ep 5111:  Summer Series 2001/12 episode 2 - The best of Tech Talk Radio over 7 years Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 5011: Summer Series 2001/12 episode 1 - The best of Tech Talk Radio over 7 years TTR Ep 5011:  Summer Series 2001/12 episode 1 - The best of Tech Talk Radio over 7 years Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4911: We look at Apple and Samsung’s shenanigans in Australia’s legal system, and while on the subject of disputes, iiNet and AFACT are in the last stages of their legal stouch in the High Court as well. Also for the last show of 2011, Adam Tu The end of 2011 is upon us and all there’s left to do is finalise the Christmas list, do that last minute shopping for family and friends and buy a special present for yourself, you know, the one that no-one else can get you because they haven’t an idea where to get it or what in fact it is. It’s been a very topsy-turvy year for most Australians with financial pressures at the top of most people’s minds. Consumer confidence has been on the slide for some time, what ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4811: Amateur Radio is experiencing a resurgence so Robert Broomhead from the Wireless Institute of Australia joins us to tell us why. HP's TouchPad shipments second to iPad, the NBN takes the next step with the opening of the Networks home office In a move which has left some of the tech talk radio panel quite bemused, five Australian ISP have taken it upon themselves to stop their customers from downloading copyrighted content from the internet. One has to ask, since when have companies who’s profit margins rely on the large consumption of bandwidth taken the stance of the moral high ground? The proposal comes from discussions between ISPs, the federal government and rights holders in the movie, music, software ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4711: Adam Turner looks at Ultrabooks, Susan Mclean joins us in the studio to talk about developments in cyber safety, and James Gardiner talks digital cinema. Also Telstra to invest $100m in video distribution, 1800MHz is a prime band for LTE or Cast your mind back what seems to be a lifetime ago, but just over a year ago, Google was in the news for collection WIFI information as their street view camera cars roamed the planet. At the time, there was denial from Google over the collection with the company saying it was left over code by a developer that had found its way into collection software. Well, they’re back, but this time they’re telling us that they are collecting WIFI details, and what’s more, they� ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4611: Scott Lorson, CEO of Fetch TV, talks to Adam about Apps, Adobe finally kills off Flash for mobiles, Apple is still ironing out the bugs in iOS5, illegal game downloads are on the rise, and Steam’s gaming portal forum is hacked. Steve Jobs certainly had it in for Adobe’s flash, and last week it seems some of his campaigning may have finally come to fruition with Adobe announcing that it was no longer going to develop Flash for mobile devices. Steve was adamant that there was no need for anything to come between a devices operating system and its applications, which is one of the main reasons behind the companies refusal to allow Flash on its iGadgets. Last week Adobe announced that future work w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4511: Has Google gone too far this time taking street view indoors? Android phone repair cost telcos billions, Avid release Media Composer 6, Canon release the new EOS C300, A Stop Motion Video Made with a Quarter Million Jelly Beans, and Adam set Being a firm believer of NOT believing everything you read on the internet, as well as being a long way from April fool’s day, I couldn’t find the right words to describe my feelings when I read an article on Stuff.co.nz, detailing a new pilot program the search giant Google, was planning. According to the article, New Zealanders looking for a restaurant on the internet will find it easier to pick with a new addition to street view, Google’s controversial street imagi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4411: We speak to David Commonwealth bank launches contactless payments app for the iPhone, Quickflix offers movies on demand, Apple is looking to launch a Siri-enabled television by 2013, and Samsung granted full bench appeal on Galaxy Tab 10.1 The Commonwealth Bank has submitted it’s Kaching application to Apples App store as it tries to win over consumers who own iPhones. Kaching essentially turns your iPhone into a contactless payment system. The bank is the first in Australia to integrate near-field communications (NFC) technology with smartphone software in a commercial application, despite various trials since 2007. Kaching combines HTML5 and native iPhone elements including GPS location, contacts, and p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4311: Apple shares drop after iPhone sales fall short, Telstra’s proxy voters seal the $11bn NBN deal, Microsoft Reports Record First-Quarter Results, Mobile phone brain cancer link rejected again, and Adam Turner has a special Apple guest on th We all know how fast technology is evolving these days, especially in the computing and communications sectors. Today, most of us cringe when we sign up on a mobile plan for two years with a handset that we know will be old and obsolete in maybe 12 months. So how would you feel if you had to lock in to a contract for a netbook computer for three years? Well, this is what the Victorian education department are requiring parents of primary school students to do in their 1 to 1 netbook program ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4211: Adam checks out the iPhone 4S, ACCC fights back in Google case, There’s a new mac book pro on the horizon, Victoria’s problematic Myki publick transport ticketing system gets hacked and Hackers breach Sony systems again. This week, the patent war between major hardware vendors reaches fever pitch with Australia’s Federal Court imposing a temporary ban on the sale of Samsung's latest tablet computer in Australia. Block the sale of the Galaxy 10.1 tablet hands rival Apple another legal victory in the global patent war between the two firms. Both Apple and Samsung have been locked in an acrimonious battle in nine countries involving smartphone and tablet patents since April, with the Austra ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4111: We take a look back at the legend and visionary that was Steve Jobs, Contactless phone payments stumble with the iPhone 4GS launch, Telco cuts woman's connection after 42 warnings, HTC user data exposed to web apps, and Microsoft’s malware Steve Paul Jobs has been described as many things, but I think the one word that sums up this iconic father of four is visionary. Steve’s ride through life has had more ups and downs than probably your life and my life put together. Steve Paul Jobs was born on February 24, 1955. He was raised by adoptive parents Paul and Clara in Mountain View and, later in Los Altos, California. As a 13 year old William Hewlett offered Steve a summer job at the Hewlett-Packard plant. I ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Talk Radio's Carpark edition. A one off, "off the cuff" radio program of what normally happens in the carpark after each show. Our first carpark would appeal to lovers of Star Trek, Dr Who, Star Wars, movie buffs, and those with an interest in pop TV culture... that's sort of how it Saturday, October 8th at 7PM, was one of those nights, so Dr. Ron, Andrew, Adam and Graeme headed to the studio for 2 and a half hours of... well, anything really. We were not intentionally going to talk about tech, but that was a little difficult. Instead we played our favorite music tracks and talked about other things like movies.. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4011: Sony has been given official reprieve by Australia's Privacy Commissioner over last April’s hack, Adam Turner takes a look at the new BBC iPlayer app for the iPad, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 faces further delays, Firefox 7 sneaks out, Mic In this fast changing online world, have you ever thought about what has become of or becoming of the ubiquitous web site? With our reliance on social media, to communicate and stay informed, we now have different expectations of the web than what we did say a decade ago.   According to a post on Google’s blog last week the web is getting faster, and not just the speed of the pages, but also the speed of change. Before, it was fine to build a website and modify ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3911: eBay builds new division to woo developers, Windows store sole channel for Metro apps, Pirate Party win seats in German election, How do you watch movies at home? Adam takes a look at Surround Sound, and RIM ready to clear PlayBook stockpile In the ever changing world of technology, only truly great gadgets stand the test of time. Chances are, if you don’t own one of Apple’s iPods, then you know someone who does. Would it surprise you that the ubiquitous device is having it’s 10th birthday this week. Steve Jobs first introduced it on Oct. 23, 2001, and it went on sale a few weeks later. After a fairly slow start, the iPod eventually became Apple’s main growth driver, helped lead the company’s amazing ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3811: Microsoft opens the curtains on their newest operating System, Windows 8, Optus open up Pandora’s Box with its new cloud based time shifting media service, the Android bot army grows but PC’s still win by a mile, and is this the beginnin With much leaking and speculation, Microsoft released a pre beta version of its new operating system, Windows 8 to developers last week. At first glance Windows 8 is the convergence of Mobile and desktop computing, with a one OS fits all approach from the world’s dominant software provider. Despite the 64 bit version refusing to load up on two different workstations in the Tech Talk offices, the new system boots up in seconds and features a home page filled with colorf ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3711: Solar parity is here but do you know what it is? Telstra rolls out IPv6 for business and government, Councils lobbying NBN Co for NBN preference Adam Turner takes a look at the Telco Confusopoly and  Dr Ron is back with an odd spot that ev Who ever thought SMS or short messaging would never take off would certainly be eating their words with the stark realization that Twitter would turn in to being the one of the world's most important social networking sites. The twitter blog this week attributed some interesting facts and figures about the service highlighting it's achievements in its short five year life. Today,100 million active users around the globe turn to Twitter to share their thoughts and find out ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3611: Apple puts the Legacy FCP back on sale, Apple are still considering USB 3.0 in addition to thunderbolt? Microsoft to support windows Phone 7.5 forward facing cameras, Internode shake up sees four execs made redundant, Telstra released its 2 When it comes to Operating Systems for the ubiquitous computer, evolution is the name of the game. We all want a slick, intuitive and easy ways of navigating around our PCs, but when it comes to the graphical user interface, how much change is too much change? Taking a look at Microsoft’s up coming windows 8, you’d have to have been living under a rock not to know that the new desktop look is completely different from the user interface we’ve all been used to since t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3511: James Gardiner. gives us an insight into the world of digital cinema. Steve Jobs calls it a day at Apple, and Adam Turner takes a look at the Steve Jobs faithful, and the team behind Vodafail the Musical - Scott and Sheona joined us live in A few months back we had the pleasure of meeting Scott and Sheona, the clever writers behind a viral piece of video doing the rounds on Youtube called Vodafail the Musical. At the time, Vodafone was doing it tough, call drops, lack of mobile broadband, poor and non existant customer service... the list goes on. We didn't have to ask this Melbourne based comic duo twice to come and say hello. He's been called many things by many people, both good and bad, but history will r ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3411: HP decides to pull the pin and stop making PCs and Tablets, Google’s small screen OS android has for the first time overtaken Apple's iOS in smartphone sales in Australia, as well Google strengthens their grip on hardware with the purchase There is no such thing as stability in today’s high tech landscape, and last week was no different. Hewlett Packard, a company which until recently could have been called a rock of stability in a ever changing tech world crumbled, with the announcement that it would no longer make PCs and tablets which all came as a bit of a shock considering it just launched the Touchpad. Last week also saw Google’s OS Android overtake Apple's iOS in smartphone sales in Australia for ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3311: China find another 22 fake apple stores, Games find their way to Google +, Optus has a loss, Microsoft patch 22 issues, Adam gets all romantic about the census, and the mobile phone in Australia turns 30 years old. Last Friday, Australia’s telecommunications industry ombudsman released the organistations findings into how consumers are treated by Australian phone companies. The TIO research paper titled Resilient Consumers, reported on a survey of more than 500 consumers who lodged complaints with the TIO between July and August 2010. The survey found: more than 55 per cent of consumers surveyed reported contact with their service providers five or more times before contatcting t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3211: Nintendo receive a hand held game reality check, Google and Microsoft seem intent on airing their dirty laundry for all to see. Adam Turner takes the covers off Dlinks new Boxee Box media center, Gmail splits the screen now with a preview pan Indulging in a videogame is a common form of past time for almost everyone. Yes there are the few exceptions, but they are certainly in the minority, and it seems that how we indulge is changing. There are two places where we play, at home usually on a console such as a PS3, Xbox or Wii, or out and about, on a small screen device. Most of us now carry a mobile phone, and the majority of us carry smart phones. Phones which not only connect to the internet, but allow us to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3111: Apple becomes the world’s top smartphone vendor and patents a new keyless keyboard, Optus bids for home phones with the launch of femtocells, Google offers to rewrite the web in an effort to make it faster, as well, the goggle streetcars wi It may or may not surprise you with the Australian consumer watch dog, the ACCC taking to telco’s in this country with a big stick, some are actually falling in line, including the biggest recalcitrant, Telstra. But is seeing believing? It was reported in the media last week that Telstra has started providing customers with a "summary of offer" document laying out the true cost of taking a new telecommunications service and it looks like Primus and VHA will be doing the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3011: The space shuttle returns to earth for the final time, so what now for NASA? Internode are the first to release pricing for access to the NBN, Apple rolls out new MacBook Air, and we look at the performance of the new Mac Mini, Google continu Last week saw the end of an era as the Space Shuttle Atlantis touched down at Cape Canaveral in Florida for the very last time, 42 years after astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the moon CHRIS FERGUSON: Mission complete Houston after serving the world for over 30 years, this space shuttle has earned its place in history and it's come to a final stop. 50 year old Commander Chris Ferguson brought Atlantis back from its last mission into space an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2911: Apple compensates a user for iPhone tracking, and aligns Australian app prices with that in the US. Doorknocker offers fake NBN services in Hobart, ACMA has published a draft report on the findings of its inquiry into telco customer care and Last week saw the short messaging social network Twitter turn 5. How it seems like twitter has been with us forever. 5 years ago, on July 15th, 2006, Twitter, then called Twittr, opened to the public and was described as “a new mobile service that helps groups of friends bounce random thoughts around with SMS.” It’s time to look back over the last financial quarter and see how the major tech icons are placed. Last week also saw Google's 36 percent revenue surge, sm ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2811: The dust is still settling on Final Cut Pro X, the ACCC wins its biggest telco fine ever, Virgin Australia has capability to use mobile phones in-flight and Qantas points out the problems with lithium mobile phone batteries, Facebook launches Once again Australian consumers have the ACCC, Australia’s consumer watchdog to thank for keeping the Telcos in line that are big on misleading, and once again, Australia’s number two telco Optus has had its wings clipped over recent broadband ads found to be just that. This isn’t the first time Optus have been caught out misleading consumes so one has to wonder if this isn’t common practice. They’ve already been hauled across the coals over cap plans and the mis ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2711: The wave has receded, but “surfs up” with Google+, Apple Responds to Video Editors’ Grumblings Over Final Cut Pro, Microsoft’s rules of Mango for developers, you do not talk about Mango, iPhone is the Number One selling phone in Austr As Australia’s National Broadcaster, the ABC starts its 80th year, Google, 16 year old search engine giant launched a new social network option called Google+ to the screams and chorus of recluses the world over of "oh no not another one". With Google’s equivalent of Vista, the now defunct Wave but a distant memory, the world’s largest internet company has brought all its existing facilities and services into the one new social networking site which functions in a v ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2611: Mac OS X 10.6.8 is out, and you need it for Lion, Twitter plans bolder advertisements, just when you thought it was all over, the Winklevoss twins open a fresh Facebook case, Apple release Final Cut Pro X, and Australia’s National; Broadban Sitting on the sidelines of technology and watching it evolve, must be a popular and interesting past time, after all, Luddites of the world certainly out number nerds and fast adapters put together. One observation would have to be how complex and highly technical industries needing specialist operators and sophisticated equipment, has been marginalized and now in the realm of enthusiasts and home users. One industry which comes to mind is the film and television industr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2511: Apples iTunes continues to grow, in fact Apple could buy the whole mobile phone industry if it so desired. Tasmanian public schools locked out of NBN, Hackers hit US Senate, the Feds quietly close mandatory internet filtering branch, and Goog If you ever needed any convincing that apps stores are here to stay, then would it surprise you that the iTunes store continues to grow. In fact iTunes now costs $1.3 billion a year to run. Apple recently published iTunes store figures that were amazing to say the least. These included 15 Billion iTunes song downloads , 130 million book downloads, 14 billion app downloads, $2.5 billion paid to developers, 225 million accounts, 425k apps, 90k iPad apps, 100k game and ente ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2411: We check out Apple’s World Wide Developers conference for 2011 and there was nothing unexpected. Steve jobs front the Cupertino council in California with plans for new office space for 12,000 people. IPv6 hits the internet, all be it as a Did you notice the internet go a bit slower last Wednesday? Well, it was the day to give IPv6 a go as many ISPs and Hosting companies around the world deployed the new protocol as a trial. There’s been a lot of talk recently that the range of IP addresses that we’re currently using – known as IPv4 were running out, and we’ve now reach that time. The limited number of internet addresses under the current system has been recognised as a problem since the 1980s. All b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2311: Mobile phones and telecommunications companies are in the spotlight yet again, and ACMA gets out its big stick to try and reign in the angry beast. We get to see Windows 8 for the first time, the US says Cyber attacks are an act of war, PlayS This week was the week for users of mobile telecommunications products. It was the week the World Health Organisation panel recommended people limit their usage of mobile phones after it found a possible link with two types of cancer. As well, ACMA looks to tight its grip on dodgy and misleading offering from Australian telcos. It appears the industry's days of total self-regulation of customer service, without the threat of penalties for breaches, are numbered. After yea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2211: Windows Phone 7 to offer multitasking, NBN Co has called for expressions of interest from ISPs wanting to offer broadband products on the company's interim satellite service, and , Paul Buchanan, PayPal’s Mobile Strategy Manager joins us li With the internet being a spring board for free speech, are we becoming a negative society? Chances are, if you're the recipient of poor customer service or goods that aren't to you expectation, you've ventured on to a blog or forum to vent you dissatisfaction. With this in mind, should we as a society, start to provide websites where consumers can rate their satisfaction with an experience for all to see? Well, if in fact we are a bunch of wingers, then beware what you r ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2111: Twitter revokes automatic 3rd party direct message (DM) access. Angry Birds Tops 200 Million Downloads, Optus fined $178k for soft cap plans, Android OS 3.1 is out, Apple 'refusing support' for Mac malware clean-up, Credit card fraud now 57c If you ever needed any proof that the delivery of content was going to move from the airwaves to the internet, then what all TV executives fear, looks like a reality in the United States. Netflix, the US based video streaming company, is now the single largest source of peak downstream Internet traffic in the U.S., according to a new report by Sandvine with the streaming video service now accounting for 29.7 percent of peak downstream traffic in the US. This is a rise o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2011: Sony Says sorry, Free set top boxes for everyone. Skype bought by Microsoft, iGadgets take Apple to the top of the worlds brands, Adam moves to 123 Fake street in the wake of the Sony hack, and Labor ends the voluntary net filtering scheme. This was the week in Tech where money could burn a hole in your pocket, or catapult you to the top of the worlds most valued brands. Even here at home the Federal Government released its budget promising $530m for human services IT, $308m for free TV kit, and $61m for smart roads but it was also the week that the ISP filter grants were severed. It was also the week that Microsoft dug deep and shelled out 8.5b folding ones to buy the money losing Skype, and Apple is now t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1911: LG release a new range of 3D TVs with cheap lightweight glasses, Victorian Country Television viewers are now digital only, Sony's hack just keeps getting bigger, Telecommunications complaints soar - now the largest recorded in 3 months, Appl In a week where Sony's Playstation hack just kept getting bigger, Victorians who reside in the bush switched to digital TV, and more new gadgets found their way to the market place for some time, Australia's Telecommunications Ombudsman released the 3rd quarter report, revealing record levels of complaints against telcos, with Vodafone making up the majority of complaints received by the office. Nearly a quarter, 14,670 of the 59,532 complaints received by the ombudsman ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1811: Sony's PSN hack is becoming a PR nightmare, Apple confirms it's working on a traffic service, Telstra launches new BYO mobile plans. Adam rants about watching his favourite AFL team, Apple CEO Steve jobs says he doesn't track anyone, and if E Sony's playstation network hack has become problematic for over 77 million users world wide, and a big head ache for Sony executives. But one thing which is becoming very noticeable with Japanese based companies, is their lack of transparency and honesty, in business culture. Several recent incidents have highlighted this in recent times. The electricity company that runs and maintains the Fukushima nuclear power plant have been very short and slow on status updates abou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1711: Streaming movies and TV shows to our living room screens gains momentum, Adam looks at high tech wine bottles, Apple's Steve Jobs hopes to return to work and Apple Shares Up with Huge iPhone And Mac Sales Overshadowing a Weak iPad. In what could be seen as inevitable, streaming of media to our TV's Desktops and Mobile devices is a step closer this week with the announcement that Hulu is preparing to launch in Australia with sources close to the project flagging it might launch with or without the support of the commercial free-to-air TV networks. According to Hulu's website, the company's mission is to help people find and enjoy the world's premium video content when, where and how they want it. H ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1611: Digital radio in the UK, China accused of stealing "terabytes" of U.S. data, the NAB hit by net banking glitch, Have you've just realized that ie9 and Firefox 4 have just hit the streets? Well IE10 and Firefox 5 not far off , the Commonwealt There's certain technology we take for granted these days such as mobile phones, Point of sale terminals, and Automatic teller machines. But did you know the benign ATM can sometimes get you into a lot of trouble, especially if you innocently withdraw more than you have in your account. Most, if not all would assume that the banks would have a system in place to prevent you overdrawing your account beyond a pre determined level, and you'd be right, except when the ATM your ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1511: Adam finds out about Acer's new tech offerings and the new Optus Femto cell, a 75 year old granny takes two countries off line, the ocean floor is to be mapped for Google earth, NBN Co reveals ISP list for first-release sites, and Facebook, In the cut and thrust, and sometimes controversial world of media, there are three major food groups involved in the entertainment industry who get pictures and sound to your TV screen. At the top of the food chain, there are content creators, people who make media such as television, radio and films, and at the bottom of the food chain, is you, the consumer of pictures and sound. But between you and the content creators, are the distributors, the people who provide the te ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1411: Microsoft's Dave Glover returns to updates us on Phone 7, we ask: how do you consume your social media? and Adam talks to Rolf Hansen from low cost mobile provider Amaysim. Social media is here to stay whether you like it or not. Even if it’s not your cup of tea, recent surveys highlight the fact that it’s no fad and here to stay with 80% of internet users in Australia interacting with Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to name just three. But with the proliferation of social networking sites, the consumption of information being posted by friends and organisations on sites like Tweeting and Facebook is becoming quite a challenge. The good new ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1311: Privacy on the internet, do Australians value their online anonymity. Telstra and Optus take NBN co and each other to task over cherry picking and insider trading, Firefox 4 beats IE9 in first day downloads, and Adam compares internet radio t The internet is now an essential part of Australian's day to day life, and we've nearly all become members of Social Network sites such as twitter and Facebook. The scary thing about not just these companies, but any company on the internet, free does not necessarily mean free. If you read the fine print in the terms and conditions of use of these large companies sites, you'll notice that information you share with them will be collected and used for other things, such as t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1211: Japan, iPad 2 &iOS4.3, Adobe Wallaby, Aus Gov new data site, Commbank free virus software, iPhone and Blackberry hack comp, App of the week In this ever changing world of hardware and software, things come and go. What's hip and cool one day, can be a footnote in the history of modern day communications the next. One noticeable stayer though, is malware. The nasty computer programs that try and steal your inner most secrets for the sole purpose of emptying out your bank account, or tuning you home computer into a zombie. Once upon a time, Trojans an viruses were designed to annoy us. They make characters fall o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1012: Japan, iPad 2 &iOS4.3, Adobe Wallaby, Aus Gov new data site, Commbank free virus software, iPhone and Blackberry hack comp, App of the week In this ever changing world of hardware and software, things come and go. What's hip and cool one day, can be a footnote in the history of modern day communications the next. One noticeable stayer though, is malware. The nasty computer programs that try and steal your inner most secrets for the sole purpose of emptying out your bank account, or tuning you home computer into a zombie. Once upon a time, Trojans an viruses were designed to annoy us. They make characters fall o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1011: iPad 2, Cloud Computing, Charlie Sheen and Twitter, Star Wars 3D, Telstra moves to 60 sec blocks, New App of the week competition Despite the speculation over Steve Job's health, last week we saw a somewhat gaunt Apple CEO launch his latest pride and joy, the iGadget know as iPad 2. A slimmer, faster, more colourful version of the device which has already sold 15 million units worldwide, in just 9 short months. And as Steve does so well, he left his San Franciscan audience wanting. All credit must go to the Apple marketing machine with the roll out of their iconic television campaign promoting a ran ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 0911: iiNet Wins, AFACT appeals again? Game Reviews, Adam fixes TiVo EPG problem, Sony launch another streaming music site. New App of the week segment! The next chapter in the David and Goliath stouch between Australia’s number 2 ISP, iiNet and the might of the world’s movie houses was written last Thursday when iiNet won the latest appeal over P2P piracy on their network, but the door has been left open for a further appeal. The Full Bench of the Federal Court dismissed the film industry's appeal against a February 2010 judgment, which found ISP iiNet had not authorised copyright infringement on the ISP’s network. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 0811: Borders go bust, Sony Rolls out Qriosity, Twitter bans 3rd party apps, New games for 2011, Adam Brimo talks about vodafail.com Last week two iconic book shops went into voluntary liquidation. The Border's chain, both here in Australia and in the United States are not traveling too well. The company which owns Border's here in Australia also owns Angus and Robertson, so it to has become a victim of liquidation. But one has to ask why a company like this has fallen on bad times? If you were to ask a notable retailer like Jerry Harvey, he'd probably say that what we are seeing here is a result of onl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 0711: Telstra Profits, New iPad, New tablets, vodafail.com, IE9 goes to release candidate, Nokia and Microsoft join forces, Why don't TV shows start on time? Since we last graced the halls of 3WBC, so much has happened in Australia. Cyclones floods and fires have ravaged our continent and scary thing about t, is everything is extreme. And it seems everything happened while we were on our holiday break. Vodafone copped plenty over the failing state of it's mobile network with thousands of angry customers venting their grief on vodafail.com, a website set up by disgruntled Vodafone customer, Adam Brimo while waiting on hold to s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 0611: Summer Series 2010/11 (Best of) Ep9 This is episode 9 of the 2010/11 Tech Talk Radio Summer Series. Enjoy the best of Australia's premier tech talk show while the guys take a break over the holiday season Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 0511: Summer Series 2010/11 (Best of) Ep8 This is episode 8 of the 2010/11 Tech Talk Radio Summer Series. Enjoy the best of Australia's premier tech talk show while the guys take a break over the holiday season Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 0411: Summer Series 2010/11 (Best of) Ep7 This is episode 7 of the 2010/11 Tech Talk Radio Summer Series. Enjoy the best of Australia's premier tech talk show while the guys take a break over the holiday season Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 0311: Summer Series 2010/11 (Best of) Ep6 This is episode 3 of the 2010/11 Tech Talk Radio Summer Series. Enjoy the best of Australia's premier tech talk show while the guys take a break over the holiday season Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 0211: Summer Series 2010/11 (Best of) Ep5 This is episode 5 of the 2010/11 Tech Talk Radio Summer Series. Enjoy the best of Australia's premier tech talk show while the guys take a break over the holiday season Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 0111: Summer Series 2010/11 (Best of) Ep4 This is episode 4 of the 2010/11 Tech Talk Radio Summer Series. Enjoy the best of Australia's premier tech talk show while the guys take a break over the holiday season Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 5210: Summer Series 2010/11 (Best of) Ep3 This is episode 3 of the 2010/11 Tech Talk Radio Summer Series. Enjoy the best of Australia's premier tech talk show while the guys take a break over the holiday season Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 5110: Summer Series 2010/11 (Best of) Ep2 This is episode 1 of the 2010/11 Tech Talk Radio Summer Series. Enjoy the best of Australia's premier tech talk show while the guys take a break over the holiday season Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 5010: Summer Series 2010/11 (Best of) Ep1 This is episode 1 of the 2010/11 Tech Talk Radio Summer Series. Enjoy the best of Australia's premier tech talk show while the guys take a break over the holiday season Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4910: Outside Broadcast - Last show for 2010. - Tech Holiday Scams to watch out for, TIO Complaints down, Optus unlocks iPhones over network, Qantas website vulnerability and more. For this final edition of Tech Talk Radio for 2010, we’ll take a look back at the events, and gadgets that changed our lives in 2010. Federal politics has certainly been high on the agenda this year with the incumbent Labor government returned by doing deals with the independents, predominantly over the proposed National Broadband Network. Most Australians, even if they don’t quite understand the technology behind the NBN, will hopefully be able to thank today’s indep ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4810: Telstra Split, NBN update, Adam turns his attention to credit card fees for overseas transactions, There's plenty of online security issues this week and Apple release the long awaited iOS4.2 with 4.3 in the wings Last Friday the Senate finally passed the bill for structural separation of Telstra's wholesale and retail arms, which opens up the way for one of the Government's key election promises, the continued rollout of the national broadband network. Telstra's retail and wholesale split is a key part of the establishment of the Government's $35.7 billion National Broadband Network. The legislation passed the Senate by 30 to 28 votes after days of protracted and angry debate wit ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4710: We look at Facebook's Project Titan and draws parallels to Google's now defunct Wave. Leena talks video games for the 18+, Political pressure applied to Labor in Federal parliament to force an NBN Business Plan, Michael Kordahi keeps u This week it's Facebook's turn to make waves in the pond that is the internet. Facebook has completely rewritten their messaging product and has launch it this week, internally known as Project Titan, or unofficially and perhaps over-enthusiastically, the Gmail killer. The all-in-one messaging service allows for the first time its 500 million members to communicate with people outside the social network, intensifying a battle with Google and Yahoo for users' Internet time. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4510: Consumers 1, Optus 0 and an injunction to boot!. iBooks now available in the Australian Apps Store, The CSIRO reinvent bush broadband, Google V Facebook. Data sharing hostilities commence. Banks and Telco's are a hot topic for discussion these days, both around the office water cooler and in the main stream media, and unfortunately the subject of the discussion is the same – ripping off consumers. The ACCC, Australia's consumer watchdog, has been tasked with trying to keep the bastards honest, but it's certainly becoming a hard task. This past week saw Graeme Samuel's team have a deserved win over Optus, Australia's number two telco, over misleading cons ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4410: Online Shopping, Setting up your own blog, Mt Everest gets mobile base station, Turkey lifts youtube ban, Optus in trouble with ACCC again and Best entry video game console and why. Are you one of the millions of people around the world that has embraced online shopping or are you still concerned about giving your personal details over the internet? Shopping online has certainly matured and become very safe in recent years, but common sense must still prevail. Most large global stores have made the move into the online world as it opens up markets which would otherwise not normally be available. Another benefit of the online shop is the lower overhead ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4310: The Social Network hits cinemas, Apple goes back to the Mac, Adam looks at the Nokia N8, Testra shake up pre paid mobile broadband again, US broadcasters block Google TV, Must have PS3 Games. Online privacy is becoming quite a hot topic, with the rise and rise of social networking as well as the proliferation on new smart mobile phones. Smart phones aside, there is still plenty that needs to be said about protecting your identity online, as well as keeping your personal details close to your chest. There are many organizations that keep tabs on what you do on line. Google and Facebook are just two. The problem is, it's the sites that don't tell you what they're ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4210: Aussie $ hits parity - is now the time to buy tech? Telcos ramp up mobile offerings, Phone 7 road tests start to surface and we remember the tech that came before us. The mobile phone market in Australia is evolving at a rapid rate. Telstra, who has the best coverage and the fastest network, has become quite aggressive in the market place with some offerings giving the discount brands a run for their money, if not beating them at their own game. Caps have been traditionally the choice of Australian consumers, but here too, it seems the tide is turning with Telstra offering pre paid mobile caps. Recently, the ACCC and the phone companies ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4110: Adam Turner puts Skype's new android version to the test, Leena shares her concerns about the lack of an 'R' rating for video games in Australia, Gartner says get ready for the long slide into the "trough of disillusionment" & Microsoft plans Everyone is pretty blasé these days when it comes to on line music stores. Everyone has heard of them and nearly everyone has bought from them. But to get the edge on their competitors, online music stores have had to evolve, and evolve they have. Your average online store serves up a range of music, movies, applications for your smart phone, music videos and podcasts. So where to from here? Well it seems that the next frontier is subscription music, where punters will be ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4010: It’s the 300th edition and all the regulars that are close by have come in to be on this tumultuous show. Even our regulars from far away lands have all risen to the occasion. One thing’s for sure, if you’re a regular listener, you’ll We've come a long way since our humble little radio show first started on Melbourne Radio way back in December 2004. It was in a time before we had the technology, gadgets and services we now take for granted today – a time where there was no smart phones, no NBN, no ADSL 2 (well for some of us) no iPads or iPhones, no 3G, and no HSDPA. In fact, we had a liberal Government, Helen Coonan was the then minister for communications, and podcasting was just a baby, and it was o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3910: , David Glover from Microsoft is live in the Tech Talk studio to tell us what’s in store for Phone 7, also tonight, was Peer to Peer responsible for the demise of Blockbuster in the states, and Adam Turner catches up with Akamai, the people In what can only be described as inevitable, Blockbuster Video in the US has gone broke. As widely reported last week, the company filed a voluntary Chapter 11 petition in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York, listing assets of $1.02 billion and debt of $1.46 billion. The company’s largest trade creditor is Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment with a $21.6 million claim. But in what could be good news for the Australian Blockbuster’s, non-U.S. operations were not in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3810: It seems to be the week for new products and software. Microsoft launch the beta version of its new web browser Internet Explorer 9, as well as ramping up the phone 7 launch, HTC presented it’s new HD desire, and Google finally managed to g Last Thursday, Microsoft launched a beta version of its latest incarnation of web browser Internet Explorer 9. Amongst all the pomp and pageantry reserved for such an occasion, what was presented at the Melbourne launch of the software by Microsoft developer evangelist Michael Kordahi, was quite impressive. Our briefing was just 5 hours after the product was revealed in San Francisco, over breakfast at a Melbourne Hotel. Aside from the already announced support for HTML5 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3710: At last Austalian's finally have a government! Broadband in the form of the NBN seems to be a go-er, but what about Conroy’s filter? Also tonight Adam has a look at ACTA or The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement and what it means to AFACT It's been a long time between drinks since Microsoft has had anything to hang it's hat on. The last memorable moment was the launch 12 months ago of Windows 7. And it's been a great success compared to its predecessor Vista. But in that last 12 months, almost all of the major manufacturers and software developers have be releasing new stuff, but good old Microsoft has been a little quiet of late – but maybe that's all about to change. As Jeff Alexander from Microsoft Au ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3510: Google gives Skype a poke with a red hot poker, Adam Turner looks at the pros and cons of catch up tv in Australia, Excom goes belly up, Garmin recalls GPS units which catch fire, and Windsor tells Gillard to reveal the true cost of the NBN Competition in the market place is a truly wonderful thing. Thanks to the new determination of Telstra, chances are right now, you’re enjoying considerably more broadband bandwidth at a price that is less than what you previously paid. Most of the top ISPs have re jigged their offerings to compete with the incumbent and on the downside, it could potentially put the smaller ISPs out of business. I guess that’s the dog eat dog reality of the commercial world we now live i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3410: Australia has its first hung parliament since WWII, Adam informs us that 7HD is going the way of ABC and TEN HD with 7 mate, Have you ever ordered take away and had it delivered without using the phone? iiNet falls over with a surge of plan There’s an old saying “If it ‘aint broke, don’t fix it” which as most techie types know, is very true for anything to do with computers and something that I was reminded of last week as I upgraded my iiNet plan to take advantage of the new competition in the broadband market. With Telstra’s aggressive retail push in the broadband market two weeks ago, ISPs big and small have been re jigging their ADSL offerings to try and match the incumbents. iiNet, TPG, and A ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3310: We take a look at both the major party’s offerings in high speed broadband. Adam Turner gives the iPhone 4 the death grip using Australian Telcos. Telstra warns ISPs to expect "aggressive" competition and Disputed bills saddle Telstra with Last week, the long awaited Coalition ITC policy was released to less than rapturous acclaim. In a package of minimal spending and conservative politics, the coalition have only allocated $6.3bn over 7 years towards the most important infrastructure upgrade in Australian history. This time a century ago, the copper network was all the go, allowing people to talk on a new device called the telephone. In fact, In 1880, the first telephone exchanges opened in Australia. It's ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3210: We take a look at how the major parties view Conroy's internet filter. Adam takes a look at the demise of Google's Wave which has become a dumper, Melbourne gets a free WIFI Tram Android's growth is beyond expectations, and Victoria to tri Everybody knows about social networking. The young, the old, the luddites, and the boffins, even businesses large and small have found their way to social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook. But in these days of the technological revolution, where each day brings new and exciting things to our desktop, laptop, Netbook and iGadgets, it's clear that some businesses are embracing social networking for the wrong reasons. In a survey by US PR and marketing agency W ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3110: Telstra's ups and downs continue with aggressive broadband offerings and an $18.55m fine, the election banter ramps up with NBN becoming a major issue as voters prepare to go to the polls in just 3 weeks time and Adam Turner joins us to look Without any remorse last week, Telstra was found to be in breach of the Trade Practices act when it prevented its competitor's access to several telephone exchanges in most Australian states. This action prevented several ISPs from installing and connecting ADSL2 DSLAMS. The Telco had claimed the main distribution frames in the exchanges were "capped" when there was still capacity available. This occurred, according to ACCC Chairman Graeme Samuel, at a time of critical bro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3010: There’s hope for the NBN should the Coalition come to power. The Optus 2-in-1 SIM Card Makes Upgrading To iPhone 4 Easier, Telstra drops price on $200Gb DSL broadband Optus flaunting Do Not Call register, Qantas Introducing Smart Freque Just in case you’ve been living under a rock for the past few weeks, Australians have a Federal election fast approaching on August 21 which is just next month. There are many issues up for the discussion at the moment, from health to taxes, but probably the most important issue for all Australians to keep up with the 21st century is communication. Not only is it the back bone of business, it’s also a vital component in providing health reforms, building better educatio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2910: Apple stops dodging iPhone 4 issues, Chile becomes first net neutrality nation, Skype severs ties with Fring, Microsoft extends Windows XP downgrade rights and Adam but Telstra’s T-gadgets through the hoops! In Australia, the states legislate how consumers and businesses must behave when it comes to refunding money for faulty goods. Here in Victoria, Consumer affairs have a detailed web page outlining consumer's rights and obligations which would no doubt reflect attitudes in other states, but nowhere does it mention what happens when consumers knowingly purchase goods and services that are flawed. Apple zealots, put your hands over your ears now, as the rubbery release date o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2810: Austar, allows its customers to download content over the web. Adam wants a new high tech vacuum cleaner, Conroy delays the filter, VHA update mobile data plans, NBN launch new sites, and yet another newcomer to twitter - Conroy’s departmen As Australians approach the next Federal election, touted for as early as next month, politicians are scurrying around the country like a plague of locusts spreading the word about their vote winning policies, and dousing the flames of those which could contribute to their demise. This week saw the controversial plans to filter the internet been shelved by the Gillard government for at least two years. As the government clears the decks for the coming federal election and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2710: Electronic program guides (EPGs) finally know when shows run late, but Freeview are still making it hard, Consumers sue Apple over iPhone antenna problems, Google rumored to be prepping a social network, Portable hard drive hit the 3TB When it comes to watching TV, time's are a changing, and never faster than it is right now. In recent times, we've ditched the old boxy 4x3 CRT tvs for 16x9 flat screen LCD panels promising crisp, high detail images in both 2 and 3 dimensions. Very soon these screens will move yet again to OLED or Organic Light Emitting Diode technology – not to be confused with LED tvs currently marketed by some. However, and more importantly is evolution of content delivery. It wasn't ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2610: Does a change in PM mean a change in tech attitudes with government? Adam Turner has inbox issues that can’t easily be solved The .xxx domain name comes in from the cold. Apples new iPhone 4 is a little hard of hearing, especially if you Last Wednesday, there was an interesting line up on ABC TV. Spics and Specs followed by The Gruen Transfer, and topped off with the demise of Australia’s now ex Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd. In as little as 12 hours, the bloodless coup was over. Kevin was relegated to the back bench, and Julia had been sworn in for the top job. So what of the policies of the then Rudd government now? Will Julia rethink the untenable, and what will become of Stephen Conroy, one of the insti ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2510: Telstra and NBN Co do a deal, Twitter's fail whale has busiest month in two years, Facebook issues detailed response to privacy concerns,, and we take a look at online banking - who's good and who's not so good. How often are consumers being treated with contempt by many of the major tech goods manufacturers? Have you ever noticed that the price of a particular piece of gear seems relatively and reasonably priced, then after you part with your hard earned cash, you find yourself the victim of an extortion racket when it comes to buying accessories for your new gadget? If you’ve bought a mobile phone in recent times, you would certainly have come across after market accessories su ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2310: Google are set to hand over WiFi data, iiNet set to double ADSL2 speeds, Microsoft unveils game-changing Windows Phone 7, Open source workaround for Flash on iPhones, iPads and Zuckerberg tries to defend Facebook's privacy policy. How many definitions of the word “unlimited” would you expect to find in the dictionary? Well a quick search finds that "unlimited" when used as an adjective means: 1. not limited; unrestricted; unconfined: unlimited trade. 2. boundless; infinite; vast: the unlimited skies. 3. without any qualification or exception; unconditional. The problem is, that Australian telecommunications companies seem to think that when something is unlimited, then it has limits - someth ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2210: Apple’s iPad finally arrives in Australia. It’s also the week that Apple takes the lead from Microsoft in net worth stakes. Google’s copping it over the wifi privacy issue, and free to air 3DTV test channel 9 Last Thursday, Australian’s finally got a taste of Apples’ iPad a little over one month after its launch in the United States. Demand for the device in the US exceeded supply within a week, and to the dismay of many Apple zealots around the world, it pushed out the global launch a little more than expected. So the iPad has finally arrived, to scenes which were quite demure compared to previous Apple launches, well at least in Australia anyway. So if you haven’t made ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2110: Adam Turner takes a look Video on Demand and Sony's Playstation 3 Pakistan shuts down YouTube, Facebook Google announced the new Chrome web store Telstra takes Next G out to sea, and Google takes Apps cloud to the enterprise This past week has seen some great leaps forward in something Australians’ have been missing out on for some time, something the rest of the tech savvy world is now starting to take for granted – Video On Demand, or VOD as the 3 letter acronym will have it. On a very recent trip to the US, it was quiet evident that VOD is taken for granted on cable services throughout the US. For a couple of bucks, viewers can watch the latest cinema releases piped over the internet delivered straight t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2010: HTC tries to block iPhone, iPad and iPod sales in the US, Adam Turner takes a look at the ongoing Flash debacle Telstra ups the speed between Melbourne and Sydney, and iiNet is off to the courts again with AFACT over Copyright issues th Last week it was Adobe and Apple hogging the tech limelight, this week it’s Google’s turn with the accusation of Wi-Fi sniffing from the camera cars used to collect images for Google’s street view project. The BBC has reported that Google has admitted that for the past three years it has wrongly collected information people have sent over unencrypted Wi-Fi networks. The issue came to light after German authorities asked to audit the data the company's Street View ca ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1910: Net filter circumvention is legal, Kevin Lynch (Adobe CTO) delivers harsh criticism at Web 2.0 Expo Government claims NBN will pay itself off, iPad traffic is 10% non-US and we talk to Sandrina Branton, about women in IT Late last week Microsoft announced that it’s new IE9 browser will not support Adobe Flash either in what seems to be a major move to HTML 5, the newest incarnation of code that brings websites to your browser.  Writing in Microsoft’s IE Blog, Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer arm, weighs in on the Flash debate echoing some of the arguments put forth by Apple CEO Steve Jobs in his much discussed “Thoughts of Flash” essay ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1810: Microsoft puts another nail in Adobe’s Flash coffin, iiNet welcomes Netspace users into the fold, Conroy answers some tricky filter questions, that stolen iPhone, Adam looks at Sony’s top of the line DVD recorder Adobe must be wondering what it did wrong to have it’s Flash product rejected by Apple, and now Microsoft. Late last week Microsoft announced that it’s new IE9 browser will not support Adobe Flash either in what seems to be a major move to HTML 5, the newest incarnation of code that brings websites to your browser. Writing in Microsoft’s IEBlog, Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer arm, weighs in on the Flash debate echoing some of t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1710: Tech in the US form an Aussie POV. Adam takes a look at new video on demand offerings in Australia and how you can benefit, McAfee caused PC meltdown, Android now runs Adobe hits back at Apple over Flash I can’t help to think back to when Telstra was run by the three amigos, one of which was Phil Burgess. Remember him? He was the controversial bull terrier of the organization, who had the role of group managing director of Public Policy and Communications. He had an uncanny ability to get most people off side as he spruiked the then Telstra policy of command and conquer, but that’s history now. When Phil decided to move on, in his parting speech, he made mention of h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1610: Microsoft in trouble over inappropriate ad campaign; The United States considers returning fire on Chinese cyber attacks; Opera replaces Safari as the web browser of choice on the iPhone; and in light of last week's announcement by Apple, Ada Have you ever wondered what it would be like if our mobile data networks actually provided the bandwidth they advertised? All the telephone networks in Australia offer a complex series of data plans, which are capped, shaped, pre-paid, post-paid, roaming, not roaming, attract excess charges and have their own distinct (or should that be indistinct) coverage areas. Who of course could forget the 6th of October, 2006, when life for all Australians changed forever. I'm so ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1510: Apple's iPad hits Australian shores, a new talk radio station hits Melbourne airwaves, Rupert Murdouch talks tough with Google, Government's controversial Net Filter proposal divides the Federal opposition, AOL is struggling to keep the Socia The Apple iPad has landed. What the hell's an iPad, I hear you ask? Good question. On several levels. The iPad is Apple's much-anticipated tablet computer, which went on-sale in the United States on Saturday-week ago. The iPad will go on sale in Australia and a handful of other countries later this month. Apple has described the iPad as "revolutionary", and the Wall Street Journal said the device is a "game changer" that could topple the laptop and "change portable ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1410: Conroy under attack from all directions Google toys with closing Australian office Microsoft deploys updates for IE outside the normal cycle The creator of the worlds first PC dies Conroy seems damned if he does damned if doesn’t these days, and why wouldn’t he. According in reports in ITwire last week,Communications Minister Stephen Conroy rejected suggestions from ALP colleague Senator Kate Lundy that the Government offer an ''opt-out' for its plan for a mandatory ISP-level filter. On the eve of the introduction of filtering legislation to parliament, Senator Conroy appeared on the 'Australia Talks' program on Radio National last night to battle an almost unive ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1310: Hacker gets 20 for credit card fraud, Is Telstra to be split for NBN - Silence is ominous, Hitwise describes social network users, Firefox keeps rolling out updates and Adam checks out AFL online. Some food for thought as we all plunge head first in the world of the 21st century - a world where social networking, Twitter, Facebook, and youtube reign supreme. What happens to your online presence when you die? Yes, I bet you hadn’t thought of that because neither had I until I caught a recent episode of the ABC’s program, Hungry Beast. Quite a vexing question really. Death in the physical world is inevitable, but is immortality assured in the virtual world? It’ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1210: Adam compares CD to downloads, Telstra opens the door to LTE mobile communications, Google set to leave China next month iiNet to seek clarification in High court and IE9 not compatible with Windows XP The dust has barely settled on the AFACT vs iiNet copyright case, when news it.co.uk reported this week that the UK Government plans to force ISPs to crackdown on copyright abuse. The ambitious plan will cost the industry between £250 million and £500 million ($830 million) according to an estimate published by the Department for Business. A report tabled in the UK Parliament said file sharing of audio, video, data, or anything in digital format between users on a comput ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1110: Adam talks to Dlink about the new Boxee Box, Lidija Davis talks to Dan Kaminsky about flawed DNS, Do Not Call set to expire, Joe Hockey praised for his filtering stance When we, as consumers, sign up to a telecommunications provide for mobile voice and data, chances are they want their pound of flesh for about 24 months, which in the world of technology, is an incredibly long time. Just take a look at the handset you were using two years ago, and compare it to the gadget you’re currently using. But it’s not just the technology you hold in your hand or plug into your computer… the door swings both ways. Have you considered the techn ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1010: Ruslan Kogan to release a tablet, Whirlpool's latest internet survey released, Food for thought - Google does no wrong? 3's change to Vodafone encourages churn to Telstra This week, a new internet survey by Whirlpool Australia’s leading internet forum, highlights the underlying thoughts of Australian internet users when it comes to Conroy’s controversial internet filter, which, if surveys are to be believed, could be the undoing of the Rudd government at the Federal election at the end of this year. According to Whirlpool’s website, The survey was conducted over a four week period — from 1 January to 1 February 2010, during which it ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 0910: Sony launch 26 new Bravia TVs, AFACT to appeal iiNet ruling, Microsoft accuse Google of anti-trust. Facebook and privacy, Hutchison 3 roams with Vodafone then Telstra There are good sides and bad sides to social networking, and recently the bad side has been making headlines with disturbing regularity. Some members of the community think that it’s OK to vent on sites such as blogs and facebook without any chance of being held accountable for their actions or in this case their words. Defamation is a false accusation or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions, something which is becoming extremely prevalent on today� ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 0810: 3DTV, What's New, Google faces Class action over Buzz, Chinese Schools attacked Google, No Clean Feed chages tack, Patches a plenty from Mozilla and Microsoft. The internet is a living, breathing entity. Each day something new rears its head, sometimes it’s good sometimes not so. Last week Lidija Davis drew our attention to a new social networking site which is sending shivers down the spine of many parents and law enforcement experts alike. Introducing chatroulette – a website that allows random strangers to talk face to face via webcam. The media feeding frenzy began early last week with articles most major newspapers inclu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 0610: 2009/10 - iiNet V AFACT, iPad, Jobs on Google and Adobe, Conroy's Broadband It’s been an action packed break this time around with the launch of Apples new iPad. The NBN costs just keep blowing out, in fact the deadlines just keep moving, and probably not the best in an election year, and the big news from last week was iiNet’s win over the film houses in Australia’s first landmark antipiracy case. In case you missed it, iiNet, one of Australia’s largest internet suppliers was taken to task in the Federal Court over allowing its customers ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 0610: 2009/10 - iiNet V AFACT, iPad, Jobs on Google and Adobe, Conroy's Broadband It’s been an action packed break this time around with the launch of Apples new iPad. The NBN costs just keep blowing out, in fact the deadlines just keep moving, and probably not the best in an election year, and the big news from last week was iiNet’s win over the film houses in Australia’s first landmark antipiracy case. In case you missed it, iiNet, one of Australia’s largest internet suppliers was taken to task in the Federal Court over allowing its customers to download illega ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 0410: 2009/10 Summer Series Episode 7 2009/10 Summer Series Episode 7 Jason Stirling (Genesys Labs), Matthew Robinson (Digital TV in Europe) and Eugene Kaspersky (Kaspersky Lab) In the Tech Talk Radio Summer Series we showcase the best bits of 2009, while The Panel has a well-earned holiday over Christmas and the New Year. This week we're joined by: Jason Stirling, the president of Genesys Labs for Australia, New Zealand and India. Jason speaks to us about Interactive Voice Response systems, speech recognition and call cent ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 0210: 2009/10 Summer Series Episode 5 2009/10 Summer Series Episode 5 This week we're hearing from: - Sally Cockburn aka Dr Feelgood about Pillow Talk, and her love for technology - Adam Turner and Windows 7 launch in 2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 0110: 2009/10 Summer Series Episode 4 2009/10 Summer Series Episode 4 Kit Webster from RMIT, Technology in Fine Arts - Grace Kerrison & Martin Gregory, Microsoft - Robert Broomhead, Wireless Institute of Australia In the Tech Talk Radio Summer Series we showcase the best bits of 2009, while The Panel has a well-earned holiday over Christmas and the New Year. This week we're hearing from: * Kit Webster, who's completed a Fine Arts degree, talking about Technology in Fine Arts; * Grace Kerrison from Microsoft, talking ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 5209: 2009/10 Summer Series Episode 3 2009/10 Summer Series Episode 3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 5109: 2009/10 Summer Series Episode 2 2009/10 Summer Series Episode 2 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 5009: 2009/10 Summer Series Episode 1 - Susan McClean (Cyber Safety) and Michel Lawrence (Digital Photography) 2009/10 Summer Series Episode 1 - Susan McClean (Cyber Safety) and Michel Lawrence (Digital Photography) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4809: TiVo and T-box hit the streets in the beginning of Content Wars, Google Analytics is now Illegal in Germany, Apple now dominant in mobile broadband, Telstra kills 200Mb Fraudband. The internet has been with us for many years now and wouldn’t you think that everyone would know how to use a search engine by now? Well strange as it may seem, as Google cracks the decade, there are still people about, some even in the Tech Talk office that still don’t understand how search engines work. To this day, I’m still lost as to why some people insist on typing a URL into the Google search box instead of the address bar at the top of the browse. All that asi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4709: Telstra's 100Mb HFC rollout with T-box, Optus trials LTE or 4G, We look at Chrome OS, Apple says no to support if you smoke, and Microsoft put on notice with ACCC A few months back on Tech Talk Radio, in May to be precise, we spoke of the upgrade to Telstra’s HFC cable, that’s the coax cable which lives underground in your street, that would allow the incumbent to supply 100Mb data streams to the average suburban house, and it seems the prophecy has come true with Telstra announcing availability from December 1 this year, and also with the launch of its new high definition set top box. Telsta FibreCurrently the HFC provides inte ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4609: Who knows what the difference is between IMAP and POP3. To POP or not to POP that’s the question. Microsoft denies Windows 7 modeled on Mac OS. Twitter suspends retweet service and we look at syncing devices iPhone with Outlook via Gmail. If you’re family is like mine, that is you have young children who just love watching the same movie over and over and over again, but don’t yet know about the care and maintenance of DVD media, then maybe it’s time to invest in a device which servers movies of a computer at the push of a button. One thing that’s blatantly obvious is when it comes to technology, nothing is ever as simple as it first appears, and connecting a computer to a TV is no different, but th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4509: Harmony remote controls. Steve Jobs name executive of the decade. There a patches and fixes a-plenty from all the majors this week and The hidden agenda behind the EU's three strike Pier to Pier (P2P) disconnections We’re on the down hill run of 2009, and only a month and a bit away until the end of the first decade of the century. Gee doesn’t time fly. If you were to stop and look back on the gadgets and technology available at the time, some aspects of technology, such as digital cameras and television have advanced leaps and bounds, on the other hand others, like broadband in Australia – well let’s just say there’s a hell of a lot of mosquitoes about at the moment. About ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4409: eBooks and digital readers like Amazon's Kindle. Telstra: there’s cheaper broadband on the way, Like South Africa, Australian pigeons are much faster than the local internet speeds, and Channel 72 is here, but where's ABC 3? Technology is supposed to make our lives easier and on the whole it has, we now have the technology and gadgets to keep us in touch and in control wherever we may be on the planet. The problem in today’s modern connected world is which company to choose to allow us to connect. Today we buy a computer, pda, netbook, laptop, or mobile phone and it’s ours to own and to do with what wee wish - a common sense approach to consumerism, but what good is a device like this if it ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4309: Windows 7 finally hits the streets and Adam Turner Talks to the movers and shakers at the Sydney Launch, and Sally Cockburn. aka Dr Feelgood joins the panel. Our in studio Guest this week is Sally Cockburn, also known as Dr Feelgood. From 1993, her 6 years as host of top rating national radio talk back sex and relationships program "Pillowtalk" on the Austereo Network gathered her a loyal following all over Australia due to her down to earth, practical advice on matters of the heart and body, and tonight she reveals her tech life and style. October 22 2009, Microsoft entered the next phase of it’s evolutionary process with ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4209: Police turn to twitter for this year’s muck up day, Apple expands e-commerce on the iPhone, Microsoft’s Outlook is the target of the week for those keen to peddle malware, Twitter begins Lists Beta, and the Italian town of Venice rolls ou It never ceases to amaze me how dependent Australians are on mobile phones and new research, released last week by Microsoft Australia, reveals just how integral the mobile phone has become to Australians - with some extremely interesting results! Would it surprise you that we’re now more reliant than ever on mobile phones, and for much more than just making phone calls. The Microsoft-commissioned research also found that Australian adoption and use of text and MMS has ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4109: Adam takes a look at Google's Wave, eBay turns 10, the NSW police advise us NOT to use windows for internet banking, Patch Tuesday is big, and make your passwords strong - WA EFTpos scams thousands. In these days of easy come, easy go, there one minute, gone the next, web sites and web services, only a few have managed to stand the test of time and become truly iconic internet sites. Probably the one that mostly comes to mind is Google. Who would have thought that search would have developed into what it is today, but it seems that online shoppers, and those keen to spot a bargain have made eBay into probably the most respected online shopping sites to date. Only just ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4009: Monty Python celebrate 40 years, Hey Hey it's Saturday reunite, Apple goes Woolworth's over trademark breach, Microsoft launch FREE online protection, ANZ rolls out FREE wifi, New online threats challenge authorities. Last Tuesday night, Australian’s had the chance to relive some of their childhood and even adolescence with the return of Hey Hey it’s Saturday to free to air TV last week. Hey Hey was Australia’s longest running variety TV show with a 28 year season which, in its infancy, was a Saturday morning 3 hour kids show. In time the show grew to become very popular with all ages, kids and adults alike as what went over the kids heads in the front row, was not missed by the mu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3909:250+ shows, Wii games fall, Telstra telemarketers, Google gets sued by authors, Telstra, Invisible Speakers, Google web page notes (sidewiki), NBN looks to buy transACT and Lilly Allen's file sharing habit. 5 years ago Tech Talk started on 3WBC before there was streaming, and just about the time podcasts were becoming fashionable. There was no such thing as ADSL2, the minister for Communications was Helen Coonan, the treasurer was Peter Costello and the prime minister was that short little guy. Now we’re heard on several radio stations around Australia and New Zealand, stream live every Monday night at 8PM and we’re in the ears of podcasters globally. So thanks for sticking around if you� ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3809: Bigbond signs up users to Mobile Broadband service without consent, Optus tells customers who they can and can't call, Communications reforms, The splitting of Telstra, and real time traffic for Google maps (Latitude) It seems the party’s over for Australia’s incumbent Telco Telstra, with the Federal Government announcing a massive overhaul to regulations surrounding Australia’s telecommunications industry. Not so long ago, Telstra’s ex CEO Sol Trujillo with the three Amigos by his side had Australia by the “Short and Curlies” with the monopolistic strangle hold they had over the country, but with the changing of the guard, heralded by the arrival of a new CEO, David Thodey, came the cessati ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3709: We take a look at the new Apple line up. Adam likes what he sees in iTunes 9, but sees red over the lack of blu. The ABC looks to partner with more ISPs to offer unmetered access to its free iView, Apples CEO Steve Jobs is back into the pub These days, global citizens are becoming more and more reliant on the internet, not only for personal and social reasons, but wheels of commerce are gathering speed in cyberspace as well. Banks encourage us to check our account balances and pay our bills online, Retailers offer us discount incentives to buy on line, and most importantly, the internet, for most Australians, is where we get our news, and research our purchases, but what would happen if the internet just disappeared? Well thi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3609: Microsoft plan a party and warn of critical patch Tuesday, Conroy asked to come clean with filtering, Telstra broadband outage, Skype Malware, Wordpress Malware, Nokia Netbook, ACMA acts against Web Ace. With cyber crooks becoming more and more sneaky, it’s probably timely that you re visit your safety measures when connected to the internet. Last week PC Tools released the results of a worldwide survey that analyses web security. The research demonstrates that while Australians are well aware of the risks of cybercrime, the majority are exposed to new and unknown threats on social networking sites, instant messaging services and other online communication and networking tools.  The fa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4608 - Hyper V, LCD manufacturers admit to price fixing, 3 Launches Affordable Facebook Phone, Optus, iiNet put filters to the test, Big is not necessarily beautiful when it comes to large screen tvs. Ep 46: Hyper V, LCD manufacturers admit to price fixing, 3 Launches Affordable Facebook Phone, Optus, iiNet put filters to the test, Big is not necessarily beautiful when it comes to large screen tvs.During the course of last week I had the task of re-connecting to mobile broadband service as a result of the theft of my broadband card the previous week. A task which on the surface should be relatively simple, painless, and quick, but in the wash up of the week was one of the most arduous ta ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1408 - Bring out your dead - Opel's demise, Telstra's next G help line, Apple sued over pixel, Google sued over privacy breach, Copper theft hits Telstra The Howard government's plan for a $1-billion rural broadband network is dead, as the Federal Government scrapped the OPEL WiMax network on April the 2nd on the grounds that the contractors failed to meet the required conditions. Surprise� Surprise! Many in the know are saying �this wasn�t completely unexpected�. Tech Talk Radio�s own mobile data expert, Mark Digginsquestion the technology and method of the roll out last year when the contract was awarded. Others in the field said the prev ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1608 - CDMA closure, Christopher Boyd, RSA2008, Voice Biometrics, Apple clones, ACCC and Paypal Two things in this world are for sure, life and death, and this week in Australia, we�re about to see the passing of CDMA.�CDMA was the phoenix that rose from the ashes of the old AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone System) network in 1999.�AMPS�was the first generation of mobile communications.�At the time of CDMA�s launch second generation mobile devices, or as we knew it, digitalcellular mobile phones, were in their prime, and CDMA promised a solution to a problem that the then GSM network faced ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3509: Windows 7 and Snow Leopard hit the streets and first impressions count. We look at the worlds most dangerous online celebs, Telstra "Now we are tweeting" and multitasking is can be bad for detail. It’s spring time in Australia, and with the changing of the season, new life starts blossoming everywhere and your computer is no different. This season sees two new operating systems roll out with the long anticipated launch of Microsoft’s Windows 7, and Apples new cat, leopard. For those of you thinking of upgrading your hardware or maybe even purchasing a new laptop or desktop, now is the time. And for those of us who have been holding off, the wait is almost over. In the case of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3409: Video on the Web - and the changing face of Browsers, Telstra and ACMA, iVew and Playstation, Bad guys online, Windows 7 getting closer, Doctaron on twitter, Cyberbully gets jail in UK If you hadn’t noticed, there seems to be a lot more video on the web these days. What once used to be an online extravagance, has now become the norm thanks to gains in connectivity speed in recent years, as well as the industry gurus who are making video codecs much more usable, after all, maximum compression with maximum quality is the name of the online video game these days. As with everything in today’s online world, one thing leads to another, and it’s certainly the case with v ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3309: The NBN asks more than it answers. Microsoft banned from selling Word in the US, iiNet posts healthy profit, Telstra salaries and customer charges, Black Saturday SMS, and more! Last week I spent some time taking talk back calls on ABC Radio on the subject of Digital television and digital radio and I came away from that with an understanding that there is still a great amount of confusion in the broader community about digital TV which has only been compounded with the launch of digital radio. So here’s the digital low down as it stands today. Digital TV and Digital Radio are two entirely different beasts and are completely incompatible with each other. A digit ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3209: Tech Talk Radio While the cat is away, the mice will play.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3109: Video Games. what’s your addiction? - a quick fix or do you settle in for the long haul. Microsoft and Yahoo are at it again, How big is the internet and Google tweak gmail to make it more appealing to business users Just when we thought any deals and partnerships between Microsoft and Yahoo were dead in the water, a deal has surfaced this week of an online advertising deal between software giant Microsoft and search engine company Yahoo. Microsoft has been left at the altar on many occasions now when it comes to joint ventures with internet companies and even its own endeavors when it comes to an online provider. It was reported on all things digital this week that as part of the pending deal–in whi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3009: The NBN now has a CEO, Queensland Police wardriving, Microsoft shares fall as w7 goes to the replicators, SMPTE 2009 show highlights, 3D TV practicalities, Google's Apollo 11 code! Wireless connectivity for devices such as laptops, pdas, netbooks and mobile phones seems to be old news these days, but the security issues associated with setting up wireless networks still seems to be a concern for authorities. As most of you are aware, wireless devices straight out of the box allow anything and everything to connect to them, and the reason behind this, is to allow users minimum fiddling about with settings to get the system up and online, allowing the laptop on the kitc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2909: NBN: Fact or Fiction, 40 years: Man on the moon, NASA looses 2" tapes, Microsoft to open next to Apple, PS3 to stream music videos, IE8 and Avid crash, Cupcake and Optus... During the course of the past week, I came across and article on Gizmodo.com.au titled “The Dirty Backstabbing Mess Called Betamax Vs VHS”. This article brought back memories of a format war, which at the time, were the likes we’d never seen before. Two rival formats of similar technology, vying for dominance in the then very juvenile home video market. For those of you not old enough to remember, these were two domestic 1/2” video tape formats which went head to head back in the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2809: Dodo, NBN, Google, Chrome, .XXX domains, cyber attacks, Davis and Turner in the studio. priceless! This week the search engine juggernaut Google announced its move into the Operating System market with a version of Chrome destined to be a free OS on netbooks. It’s been a few years since the introduction of Google’s android platform for mobile devices, and now they’re moving into the portable devices. Google announced last Tuesday that it is developing a new operating system for personal computers, a month after Microsoft launched Bing, its first search engine to gain ground on Goo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2709: The role of new media vs old, Comm Bank fixed, IE8 vomit - Viral marketing? Bass link switched on, six locations get early FTTH, Cashbacks bite HP, Adobe fails customer service. As I sat around the dinner table last Saturday night, the conversation headed down the path of today’s generation Y, and how they have an abundance of gadgets and gizmos to help them to engage in almost every aspect of modern life. From entertainment to breaking news, education and social networking, the youth of today are informed like no other generation before them. News and gossip appears on their desktops, laptops and mobile phones almost as it happens. New and old music arrives in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2609: The death of Michael Jackson causes the internet to grind to a snails pace, iPhone 3Gs hit's Australian Streets, virtual parking inspectors, Australian Windows prices revealed...more Social networking has once again pushed the limits of the internet with the untimely demise of Michael Jackson who passed away last Friday aged 50. Celebrations, vigils and synchronized moonwalks are being coordinated online. Sales of his music on Amazon and iTunes are soaring, according to The Times’ Media Decoder blog. Twitter is still populated with emotional outpourings of grief and messages commemorating Mr. Jackson’s music and legacy. Mr. Jackson’s death is also prompting some ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2509: Apple iPhone 3.0 on 3 and Optus - beware the devil in the Optus fine print. DAB+ in Australia. Australian Broadband better now than the US. NAB replace PIN with Voice! Digital Radio is now a reality in Australia. Now that Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth have DAB+ digital radio blitzing its way through the airwaves, retailers finally have the green light to start selling digital radios full-steam ahead, rather than just having the odd display model that nobody in the shop quite knows how to use and can't be tuned in to anything. Tonight, we'll explain the virtues of digital radio in Australia, amongst other things. With the imminent switch ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2409: Apple WWDC wrap, Mark Mayer joins us to discus aviation, in particular Airbus and the A330 Air France disaster, Microsoft to sell Windows 7 into the EU without IE, and what's this strange Twitter Y2K style bug? The trials and tribulations of technology in transit can be quite daunting for the uninitiated, or even the experienced for that matter. Last week I drove a couple of hundred kilometers down the Victorian coast line to the small holiday village of Inverloch. Not that the destination is relevant – it could have been any town in Australia, outside one of the main Central Business Districts. Mobile communications is divided into two distinct components these days, mobile telephony and mobil ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2309: Commonwealth Bank Spam, Australian e-scurity awareness week, Google Wave, Google Flu Trends, Google Squared, Twitter Impersonators As we go to air tonight Mac-o-philes from around the world are converging on their equivalent of Mecca, the Annual Apple World Wide Developers Conference held in San Francisco. In just 8 hours time, the event’s key note speaker will address the throng of the apple faithful, so if you just can’t wait to hear what’s in store this year keep an eye on Macworld dot com, but if you want news and gossip as it happens, then twitter is the place for you. Back home here in Australia this week, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2209: HTC's magic, ACMA closures, Amateur Radio, Microsoft Bing and Google Wave, ASIO's 3000 call taps Advertising is a mugs game and telcos are the biggest mugs of all, followed closely by car sales and real estate. I know that’s a generalization, but the last week has seen Australia’s Consumer watch dog crack down on advertisements which misleading and confuse consumers. It’s about time the regulators changed the way advertisers dish up prices to consumers in this country. Obviously advertisers want us to buy, that’s why they do what they do, but why not tell consumers the TOTAL C ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2109: Adam Turner looks at Digital Radio in Australia. How ’bout storing all your movies on one DVD. Dr James Chon from Swinburne University tells how, China, Canada, Spain on copyright piracy watch list, A new, improved iPhone as well as The t As you drive around the suburbs and towns of Australia, hard rubbish collections draw their fair share of old television sets and computer screens. You know the ones, the old CRT or Cathode Ray Tube displays. Have you noticed in recent times, as we move towards digital television and lcd computer screens, the quantity of these devices on or nature strips is on the increase? A main component in these old CRT’s is lead – a fairly toxic substance which you don’t really want to mess wit ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2009: Adam Turner heads to CeBit to talk VOIP, Google trips of the power lead again Sony and Pioneer are doing it tough, Dr Ron talks us through WolframAlpha and 3 new apps from Google. Cast your mind way back to the year 2000. We had the millennium bug, an Air France Concorde crashes near Paris, the US Supreme Court decides in favor of George W, Bush in split decision over 2000 Presidential election and Sony launched the PlayStation 2. Something that may have slipped your mind here in Australia is that the year 2000 was the start of terrestrial digital television in this country. This begs the question: How has digital TV evolved in this county over the past 9 and a half ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1809: Windows 7 RC out now, Apple to build chips, TiVo Blockbuster, Twitter Squatters, .or.au under scrutiny, Pipe's new undersea internet cable, Telstra to challenge 3 in partnership. and more... Remember when the humble mobile phone was just that – a device for making and receiving telephone calls while out and about? Its evolution into what we now call a smart phone over the past few years has been nothing short of amazing to watch, as these small ubiquitous devices have mastered the power of music, television, photography, GPS navigation, and more recently, relatively high speed internet access. The world of communications is now virtually at our finger tips, and one of the bi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1709: Blue Track, Babyshakers, iPhones and iPods make Apple recession proof, Ice TV's High Court win over the Nine Network, Win7 RC date announced, Firefox patches and more... With the pending roll out of Australia’s National Broadband Network, the shake up and fall out of the telecommunications industry continues. Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said the project would be fast tracked, meaning the construction of the backhaul component of the project, that is, the telecommunications links that connect suburbs together could start as early as September this year. The announcement a few weeks ago by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd that the Government would ‘ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1609: NBN Update, Social Networking at its best, Mcrosoft's Martin Gregory talks 'Foundation Servers', Google's profits head south for the first time, and Pirate Bay founders guilty as charged. At what point in your personal life do you find that you no longer control the technology in your life, but it controls you? I mean, when was the last time you did a technology census in your home? Why not stop and think for a moment about a few simple questions. How many remote controls do you have in the basket on the coffee table that do exactly the same thing? How many active SIM cards do you have for mobile communications in the family? What is the ratio of humans to computers in the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1509: Tech Talk Radio's Easter Holiday Show Happy holiday break to all our listeners. This week we take a look back some of the best of for this year with Dr Ron. The full studio crew will return next week with a comprehensive look at the new Australian broadband landscape. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1409: April Fool's Tech, The world's most powerful laser, How to aution a politician, Hutchison's 3 roaming deal with Telstra, When do notebooks cease t be notebooks? Well, no matter where Google go these days it seem almost lay down misere (Australian Slang something that is a certainty) that controversy will follow. Street view is no exception and the good folk of Broughton, in Buckinghamshire, England, don't want a bar of it. The Google Street View car (pictured above) was blocked from filming last week by angry residents, led by Paul Jacobs, who alerted neighbours after spotting the car from his window. Mr Jacobs called police, who arrived to find a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1309: Virus protection, Apple Vs Bluray, The rise and Rise of Senator Conroy and his Internet filter, Daylight Savings tech nightmare. Last week I mentioned a storm was brewing over the parliamentary offices of the minister for Broadband Communications and the Digital economy, Senator Steven Conroy. Last Thursday night on the ABC’s Q&A program, the winds of change started to whip up a cynical audience into a feeding frenzy as they hoped to hear directly from the minister, exactly what he had in store for Australian’s and how it was going to affect them. What we saw was an audience which had almost turned into a sea of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1209: Susan McClean talks Cyber Safety and Kids, Microsoft’s IE8 officially hits the streets, Lidija Davis talks Facebook and Adam Turner joins us live in the studio to talk about Freeview. A storm is brewing over the parliamentary offices of the minister for Broadband Communications and the Digital economy, Senator Steven Conroy. One of the 2007 election promises of the Rudd government is seemingly becoming a little more problematic than first thought. Protecting our children on line at first glance seems to be a noble and proper thing to do, but what’s now becoming evident, is the problems associated with implementing such a policy and spinning it in such a way, that is h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1109: Apples iPhone under threat, Is Twitter on the market, Choice finds biggest tech rip-offs, Charging batteries just got a whole lot faster and The World Wide Web turns 20. Last week Telsta announce a $300M upgrade to its cable system in Melbourne by installing DOCSIS 3.0, which will be the first stage of a national rollout. DOCSIS has been around since 2006 and stands for data over cable service interface specification, and is the software needed to use hybrid fibre coaxial cable (HFC) for symmetric internet services. So is this the beginning of the end of the federal governments National Broadband Network? Some columnists believe it is. It’s easy to be cy ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1009: Photography with Michel Lawrence, iPhone - iStore - Mac Mini and Bluray - Windows 7 and Bluray, Internode and their high speed synchronous offering, Patch Tuesday, Twitter and Melbourne's Earthquake, more... In these days of instant information at the click of a button, would it surprise you that governments around the world are becoming more and more concerned as to what their citizens are accessing online? The Australian Government counts itself amongst some of these nations, and what’s more, their attempt to protect Australians online seems to gasping its last breath. With the trial of internet filtering being offered to all ISPs, the government chose to test the technology with only six ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 0909: Goodbye Sol Trujillo, Facebook makes up the rules as it goes, Dr Ron buys an Android, NSW Police and mobile fingerprints Victoria Police send state wide SMS. Last Thursday Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo, possibly the most despised CEO in Australian corporate history, told the Telstra board and the shareholders that he would finish up at the end on June 30, 2009 and would not stay on as the CEO of the company. Trujillo announced his departure on the same morning Telstra announced a first-half net profit of $1.92 billion, down from $1.94 billion in the previous corresponding half. The news was received by a range of sectors with one underlying message, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 0809: Grace Kerrison, director of Microsoft’s Mobile Communications Business in Australia tells us about the latest mobile habits survey, Sol looses his phone, Adam talks to Ruslan Kogan and Mark Helvadjian. Also a Ringtone Code of Practice. Mobile communications is back in the news this week with Telstra trumpeting the launch of the new 21MBs next G mobile phone network. But what does it mean to those using the mobile network? Well not much. Marketing departments love touting the maximum possible. Included in Telstra’s press release was a report from a company called Concept economics – not to be confused with access economics, the governments preferred supplier of statistical and analytical information. According to the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 0709: SMS technology and the Victorian Fires, 2 Satellites collide in space, Microsoft bounty on Cornflicker, Internet Filtering, St John Ambulance and the fires, One week ago, the worst fires in Australian history destroy the lives of many Victorians, wiped several towns including Marysville and Flowerdale, off the map, and redefined disbelief in the eyes of many Australians, and people around the world. On what is now known as Black Saturday, some reports said that Victoria was the hottest place on earth, reaching 46.2 degrees at the official bureau of Meteorology measuring station in the CBD, but reaching temperatures in the low 50’s in outer l ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 0609: Victoria Burns, the worst fires in Australian history - How is the technology coping - Twitter, the hero of the fires, Google Lattitude and HTC Dream. On Saturday February 7 Victoria recorded it’s hottest day on record with temperatures in the Melbourne CBD climbing to 46.2 degrees Celsius or 115 on the old scale. Not since the Ash Wednesday fires on February 16 1983 has South Eastern Australia seen anything like it. Then more than 180 fires fanned by winds of up to 110 km per hour caused widespread destruction across the state and taking the lives of 47 people. The largest fires generated their own weather systems and thunderstorms, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 0509: Google Dilemmas with Malware and Deer, Apple TV, National Broadband Network, Telstra and Sol, Bluray, Freeview and more For our first show back for 2009, we’ll be taking a look at the news and events that have caught our attention since Christmas. The Global Financial Crisis is playing havoc with the worlds suppliers of technology, both goods and services. No one seems to escaped the downturn. With companies like Sony, Microsoft, and ebay all reeling in the downturn, what’s going to happen next? How will the GFC affect us at home and what of jobs? In other news, the Federal government is scheduled to an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 0409: Summers Series Best of Tech Talk Radio Tech Talk Radio Summer Series Ep 0309 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 0309: Summers Series Best of Tech Talk Radio Tech Talk Radio Summer Series Ep 0309 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 0209: Summers Series Best of Tech Talk Radio Tech Talk Radio Summer Series Ep 0209 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 0109: Summers Series Best of Tech Talk Radio Tech Talk Radio Summer Series Ep 0109 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 5208: Summers Series Best of Tech Talk Radio Tech Talk Radio Summer Series Ep 5208 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 5108: Summers Series Best of Tech Talk Radio Tech Talk Radio Summer Series Ep 5108 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 5008: Summers Series Best of Tech Talk Radio Tech Talk Radio Summer Series Ep 5008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4908: Summers Series Best of Tech Talk Radio Tech Talk Radio Summer Series Ep 4908 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4808: Last show for 2008 - NBN Update, will it ever be built?, Commonwealth Bank tech blunder, Twitter becomes Munmai hero, Internode to resell Telstra ADSL2 As we near the end of 2008 and while everyone�s thoughts are focusing on the festive season, it�s time to look back on the year that was and to look forward to what 2009 has in store for us. The biggest impact this year was the world financial crisis affecting nearly every business and consumer globally. Not only are their flow on effects yet to be realised, but the price of innovation and manufacture in all industries is fluctuating like never before. Apple Computers would have to be the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4708 - iiNet gets a visit from the copyright police. Telstra shareholders "Not happy Jan" at AGM, Telstra still threatening to pull out of NBN but Coonan calls bluff. Colin Jacobs from EFA talks internet filtering and 400m people now online globall The silly season is nearly upon us yet again, and as another year draws to a close, it�s time to get festive again. Hopefully by now, your better half has asked that perplexing question again �What do you want for Christmas?� followed by a something like �Why are you so difficult to buy something for?� Sound familiar? Well there�s plenty of new technology and gadgets designed to fill the stocking! In the realm of home entertainment, you can ask for anything from new music and movies throug ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4508 - Woolies to launch mobiles, Telstra spruik 21Mbs on Next G, Tech Safety tips for the holidays, We take a brief look at home video and TiVos new offering along with IPTV. Ep 45: Woolies to launch mobiles, Telstra spruik 21Mbs on Next G, Tech Safety tips for the holidays, We take a brief look at home video and TiVos new offering along with IPTV. Christmas is coming, and so too is the holiday period where we all let our hair down to celebrate the passing of yet another year. So in the lead up to logging off for the year and checking your brain at the door on the way out, tonight show will be a timely reminder of what to do and what not to do when it comes to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4408 - Commsec launch an Ipod Index, We look at Conroy's plans to filter Australian Internet, Sensis concedes Google's search is best, and Windows 7 coming to a desktop near you in 2010. Ep 44: Commsec launch an Ipod Index, We look at Conroy's plans to filter Australian Internet, Sensis concedes Google's search is best, and Windows 7 coming to a desktop near you in 2010. It�s a sad day when the Australian Government feels the urge to filter the internet. Some might ask is this democracy gone terribly wrong, but it seems to a force gaining momentum since the election of the Rudd Government last year. The Honorable Senator Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communicat ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4308 - Complaints to the TIO on the rise, Telstra double bill, Piracy in Australia is rampant - broadcasters to blame? Apple cashed up, Financial crisis to affect tech retailers, Premium SMS bill shock. Ep 43: Complaints to the TIO on the rise, Telstra double bill, Piracy in Australia is rampant - broadcasters to blame? Apple cashed up, Financial crisis to affect tech retailers, Premium SMS bill shock. Australians have always been known as early adopters when it comes to technology. The ubiquitous mobile phone is classic example of our eagerness to embrace mobile communications with recent reports claiming a 4 to 1 ratio of mobile phones to Australian citizens. But is our tech savvy-ness ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4208 - Conroy releases analogue tv shutdown timetable, Adam looks at Apple's right click revelation, Qantas and virgin prepare for in-flight mobile services, An Aussie couple take on computing giants, Kevin Kelly talks about the web's first 5000 da Ep 42: Conroy releases analogue tv shutdown timetable, Adam looks at Apple's right click revelation, Qantas and virgin prepare for in-flight mobile services, Telstra copper thieves bungle robbery, An Aussie couple take on computing giants, Kevin Kelly talks about the web's first 5000 days. It�s finally happened, Apple have seen the right click light and Sony Ericsson have added an AM Radio rto a mobile phone. All that needs to be said about a right click is �what took them�, but it�s not r ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4108 - George Pongas COO of Domain Central talks Top Level Domains, The iPhone cracks 10 million - Woz predicts iPod�s death. Google to put ads in online games, Adam Turner talks laptops, ANZ banks on iPhone to bring new business. Ep 41: George Pongas COO of Domain Central talks Top Level Domains, The iPhone cracks 10 million sales - Woz predicts iPod�s death, says iPhone should be open, Google to put ads in online games, Adam Turner talks laptops, ANZ banks on iPhone to bring new business. Today we ask what�s in a name? Well, if talking domain names, there�s plenty. As more and more business embrace the online world and move into cyber space, the search for the right domain name is becoming quite a challenging prop ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4008 - Our 200th Show! Join the everybody on the panel, including Lidija Davis, live from the United States for 2 hours of spontaneous radio guaranteed to entertain. Here we are at the start of our 200th show. Tech Talk Radio first hit the airwaves in December 2004, and in the past 4 years hopefully you�ve found us to be informative and entertaining in what we believe is Australia�s longest running, non commercial, independent, magazine style radio show. In the life of Tech Talk Radio, we�ve seen lots of technology develop and grow, fads come and go, people hired and fired, and companies evolve and dominate. Suffice to say, globally we�ve had some majo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3908 - Telstra try Twitter, Engin customer service sadly lacking, Google turns 10, Android and the G1, Microsoft and Windows 7, Sony's DLNA Home Network, and Nathan Jones and Anindo Mukherjee from Google talk search with Lidija Davis. Here we are at the start of our 200th show. Tech Talk Radio first hit the airwaves in December 2004, and in the past 4 years hopefully you�ve found us to be informative and entertaining in what we believe is Australia�s longest running, non commercial, independent, magazine style radio show. In the life of Tech Talk Radio, we�ve seen lots of technology develop and grow, fads come and go, people hired and fired, and companies evolve and dominate. Suffice to say, globally we�ve had some majo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3808 - Dodgy telemarketing calls from those who should know better, Telstra launch prepaid mobile broadband, Qantas says no to high altitude broadband, the ACCC to investigate websites, the worlds largest prime numbers calculated. Unemployment on t It�s been an interesting week to say the least in the IT world. Firstly, Microsoft pulled their Jerry Seinfeld tv campaign, you remember, the one we tried to work out last week where Jerry asked bill to give him a sign by adjusting his shorts in the car park of the local supermarket. Well it seems that we weren �t the only ones who didn�t quite get it. This week Microsoft is back with its �Life without walls�, a new campaign which is more mainstream, in fact so much so the I�d say the ent ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3708 - Retired Qantas Pilot Mark Mayer returns to Tech Talk to discuss the state of Australia's aviation industry,Apple lunches Nano, iTunes an iPhone updates, Adam finds a use for the Mac Mini TTR Ep 3708 - Retired Qantas Pilot Mark Mayer returns to Tech Talk to discuss the state of Australia's aviation industry,Apple lunches Nano, iTunes an iPhone updates, Adam finds a use for the Mac Mini Mark Mayer returns to the studios of Tech Talk Radio to talk about the latest happenings in Aviation. Mark is a retired Qantas commercial airline pilot who is very passionate about aircraft of all shapes and sizes. Also tonight... Cast your mind back to the middle of the 20th century f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3608 - Google's chrome, Sony's explosive battery recall - again! Adam talks P2P file sharing, Ericsson demonstrates 4G, Brits suffer from discomgoogleation, Dr Ron returns from the UK, Itunes goes Hi def and more... Tech Talk Radio Ep 36-2008 | Google's chrome, Sony's explosive battery recall - again! Adam talks P2P file sharing, Ericsson demonstrates 4G, Brits suffer from discomgoogleation, Dr Ron returns from the UK, Itunes goes Hi def and more... Google have rocked the internet world with the release of Chrome, yet another web browser to rival that of Microsoft�s Internet explorer, Mozilla�s Firefox, and Apples Safari. Here�s the thing, Google's Open Source web browser incorporates code and feat ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3508 - 30% of people buy products based on spam, Steve Jobs - "Not dead yet", iiNet becomes more aggressive in the digital marketplace, Telstra tells Optus to prove "86%", MS slams Google on Privacy Tech Talk Radio Ep 35-2008 | Navigate with John Cleese, Hutchinson 3 to expand its service, Intel introduces wireless power, Adam asks where's Apple in the lounge room? iPhone dilemmas, Ipod Battery dilemmas, Jerry Sienfeld to advertise Microsoft and more... It never ceases to amaze me how consumers are treated by tech companies after they�ve made a purchase of goods and services. It also raises the issue of 3rd party extended warranties, which, in my opinion, are not worth the paper they ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3408 - Navigate with John Cleese, Hutchinson 3 to expand its service, Intel introduces wireless power, Adam asks where's Apple in the lounge room? iPhone dilemmas, Ipod Battery dilemmas, Jerry Sienfeld to advertise Microsoft and more... Tech Talk Radio Ep 34-2008 | Navigate with John Cleese, Hutchinson 3 to expand its service, Intel introduces wireless power, Adam asks where's Apple in the lounge room? iPhone dilemmas, Ipod Battery dilemmas, Jerry Sienfeld to advertise Microsoft and more... Since our last show I�ve had reason to call Australia�s triple 0 emergency services number from a mobile service. All things went smoothly but the number of questions the call taker asked me because I called from a mobile phone was su ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3308 - Phil Burges quits Telstra, Spam and High Definition TV both win Gold at the Bejing Olympics, Apple foists MobileMe on to Windows boxes, iPhone kill switch, news about Apple TV, and iTunes sells movies in Oz. Well it�s been a month since the much-hyped iPhone came out and while most users are thrilled with their devices, it seems there are some problems. This week it emerged that some users are shocked at the size of the bills they are receiving because of big data downloads, while others are upset with the phone�s browsing speed and reception. Along with bill shock, Apple's CEO Steve Jobs Monday confirmed that the company has a "kill switch" it can flip to remotely disable potentially malicio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3208 - Google Maps lands in Australia, Spam spam and more Spam thanks to the Olympics, Microsoft launches mesh, Dr Ron calls in from Ireland, and Simon Pearce will tell us about the implementation of Windows server 2008 into Symbion Health. There�s nothing like a special event to bring out the worst of the spammers. Whether it be credit card details, bank details or identity theft, there�s plenty of it about at the moment, mostly thanks to the Olympic Games. More so than at any other time in internet history, spam is up, identity theft is the opening story of mainstream media, and crooks and shonks our lurking behind the most benign emails. According to the latest quarterly Secure Computing Internet Threats Report, around ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3108 - New Mobile broadband packages from Telsta and 3, The olympics are coming!, Google becomes more open about search, Cuil launches, Naked DSL is off to a good start in Australia. Tech Talk Radio Ep 30-2008 | New Mobile broadband packages from Telsta and 3, The olympics are coming!, Google becomes more open about search, Cuil launches, Naked DSL is off to a good start in Australia. If there�s one thing Australian's have to thank Apple for, it�s the iPhone. Whether you love them or hate them, the recent launch of Apples ubiquitous little device has started to change the attitude of telcos when it comes to mobile broadband. Anyone who has a mobile broadband device kn ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3008 - iView, British ISP to red flag music sharers, Adam Turner goes head to head with Optus and Telstra over churning, Google looks like it will buy Digg, Apples MobileMe email outage, and Internode introduces IP6 The leader in Australian broadband content delivery has reached another milestone. I�m talking about the Australian Broadcasting Commissions iView service which was opened up to public access last week. It�s not that it�s all that revolutionary to the rest of the world, but in the bandwidth and speed impaired world of Australian internet, the ABC has now opened up it two digital channels, ABC1 and ABC2 to a Video on Demand service. This is a major leap forward for Australian television vi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2908 - iPhones, Business 2 consumer, Papal SMS, Apple and Psystar, NBM Delayed, ACMA monitors websites Tech Talk Radio Ep 29-2008 | iPhones, Business 2 consumer, Papal SMS, Apple and Psystar, NBM Delayed, ACMA monitors website The iPhone is only a week old and already it�s making headlines for all the wrong reasons. Logging on�the morning after last weeks show, I was greeted with the headline �Aussie 3G iPhone is a bad joke� then later that day, another headline �Hold off on iPhone, says analysts� The media reported Rob Enderle, founder and principle analyst for the Enderle Group, saying A ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2808 - The iPhone arrives in Australia, and extortion is the name of the telco game. TiVo and Foxtel IQ arrive, Segate release a 1.5Tb HD and NASA retires its fleet. At last the iPhone has arrived as apple lovers globally revel in the birth of a 4.7 ounce bouncing baby telecommunications device which is nothing like the world has seen before... well Australia at least. Adam Turner joins us live in the studio to discuss the iPhone, TiVo, and Foxtels IQ. According to Australian PC World,�New Zealander Jonny Gladwell was the first customer anywhere in the world to purchase the iPhone 3G, gaining the nickname iPhone Jonny from tech bloggers. Brett Howell ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2708 - iPhone Security Threats, Telstra customers get police powers, Optus and iTunes, eBay backs down, Tivo, Topfield, PVRs, the Olympics and the digital lounge room! This week, it seems consumers have the upper hand over ebay thanks to a bit of friendly persuasion from Australia�s consumer watch dog, the ACCC. The world�s largest online auction website Ebay tried to remove nearly all forms of alternate payment recently, and force Australian users to use Ebay�s own payment facility, Paypal, but the ACCC had other ideas. Also, the Arrival of the iPhone is now less than a week away, and the dust looks like it�s settled. Optus, Vodafone and Telstra are all ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2608 - ICANN changes top level domain names, Telstra announces iPhone, Firefox hit's 19m, Sol and Warnie equal 5th most untrusted individuals in Australia, and Lucy Buttler joins the panel. This week, we�re about to witness the next internet revolution, as domain names as we know them are about to become simpler, but probably more confusing. Paul Twomey announced a plan to allow users to register generic domain names has been approved by The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers otherwise known as (ICANN) The plan will allow users to register whatever domain suffix they want for their site, rather than being limited to the traditional .com or .net labels.�So i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2508 - Firefox 3, NAB spams social networking site, Foxtel and HD explained, Microsoft re releases security fixes, Apple�s open for business in Sydney, Safari gets a tune up too and Developers shun Microsoft Vista This week, it�s Telstra�s now you see it, now you don�t, now you see it again iPhone. There�s still a few weeks to July 11, the day Apple�s penultimate portable gadget hits the streets here in oz, so who knows what�s left in store? Also today, what do you think would happen to you if you grabbed a megaphone and walked in to a National Australia Bank and bellowed to the world that you had some free tickets to a footy game that you wanted to give away? Chances are you�d be escorted from the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2408 - The iPhone 3G is here! Telstra gets into legal talks with Optus over the iPhone ACCC slams eBay PayPal policy Prisons in plan to jam mobiles and MySpace to get facelift This week, Apple's iPhone supporting third generation mobile communications is heading for our shores. After months of speculation, finally the rumors will be laid to rest. To start with, it�s not called the 3G iPhone. It�s called the iPhone 3G. So, jet�s take a look at what�s in, and what�s out? To start with GPS is in. GPS receivers in mobile devices isn�t new, as Sony Ericsson include it now in their current range of phone, as well as other manufacturers. A 3G chipset enabling much fa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2308 - Telstra slams 'bogus' broadband report, A look into Apples WWDC, Government launches alert service to kick off E-security Week, Researchers map out web badlands, Acer bets big on Linux. In these days of phishing, credit card fraud and email nasties, the Australian Government has a new initiative call e-security week.�In an effort to protect individuals and small businesses of the perils of today�s online world,�the government has launched a new website to try and educate users in four main areas, titled: Securing your computer, Small businesses safe on line, Smart transacting online, and Kids safe online. There�s no software to download, no hard earned cash to part with - ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2208 - Telstra�s 3D hologram � or holoscam? Live hologram an Australian first? Gates promises 'multi-touch' Windows 7, GPS units giving dodgy directions, Local credit card fraud tops $100m. As consumers of technology, or any commodity for that matter, we place a certain amount of trust in the hands of the manufacturer or service provider. Technical specifications aside, we, as consumers, place a great deal of weight on the brand name behind whatever it is we�re buying � but at what price? Brand names are everything. Recently on Tech Talk Radio we spoke of the great brands of 2008, of which Google, Microsoft and Apple were amongst the top ten global brands. So, do we assume th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2108 - Telstra laptops - too good to be true? G9 changes its name to Terria, Conroy delays network deadline, Aussie's loose millions to Nigeria, Microsoft search cash back, Rico Malvar talks to Tech Talk Radio, and in Part one, we look at the mobil The world of technology is an ever changing feast of gadgets and software. When it comes to the world�s most influential technological companies, Microsoft, Apple and Google would have to be those at the top of the list. Telecommunications companies globally provide the conduit for connectivity, but if it weren�t for the hardware and software vendors then life would not be as it is today. Some people embrace technology and some treat it with contempt. Such is human nature, but the one thi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2008 - Michael Cremean talks home audio and broadcast audio, Aus Gov pulls the covers over solar panels, Tassie a step closer to broadband, Apple dismiss Safari vulnerability, Nintendo set to launch "Wii Fit" exercise game. If you've ever wondered how to set up you home cinema system, or why the commercials on TV seem louder than the program, be sure to tune in tonight when Michael Cremean joins us live in the Tech Talk Studios to answer all your audio questions. Michael runs a successful audio post production house which�has hundreds of�TV commercials and programs pass through its doorway each year. Also: Generation Y are making their mark on society in many ways. What with the armament of technology at the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1908 - Windows XP Service Pack 3 creates havoc with AMD processors and some PC's, iPhone now a certainty, it's just a matter of when, Live Mesh explained, Tasmanian broadband issues, Optus 42Mb HSDPA Last week, months of speculation came to an end as Vodafone announced that it had won the support of Apple to distribute the iPhone in Australia as well as the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa, and Turkey later this year. For those keen to snap up the what some say is an overrated device, it looks like you may have to wait until Christmas to get your chance. Surprisingly, there was no mention of a 3G iPhone in any of the press releases, but l ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1808 - Conroy talks Digital TV, Data Recovery, more eBay dilemmas, Safari takes off for PC, Spam turns 30, XP SP3 and Vista SP1 delayed, TIVO in Australia, 2008 biggest IT Brand Names In the not to distant future, web surfers globally will have new versions of their favorite web browser foisted upon them from all the major players. Apple's Safari, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and Mozilla's Firefox are battling to become your browser of choice. So which one should you use - Safari 3.1, Firefox 3, or Internet Explorer 8? Apple's latest offering, Safari 3.1, preserves the company's signature focus on clean design and smooth usability, but it lacks any phishing or malwa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1708 - Windows XP SP3, Vista a 'work in progress', ABS release Aus internet statistics, Maxtor data protection, Website credibility, Email credibility, Fast Flux, Microsoft's cloud In a new Internet Activity Survey which was released last Thursday, the 24th of April, results collected by the Australian Bureau of Statistics reveal Australian�s took up broadband and wireless Internet connections in record numbers during 2007.�In fact, at the end of the December quarter, there were 7.10 million subscribers to the Internet in Australia, of which comprised 964,000 business and government subscribers, and 6.14 million household subscribers. With Australia�s population aroun ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1508 - Brett deHoedt from Hootville talks eMail marketing, Bosses to read employee email, Victoria Police hit facebook wall, Telstra tells rural customers to use Vodaphone for broadband, Paypal changes Since the dawn of time, marketers have been looking for ways to communicate with consumers. Now, more than ever, the tools in the arsenal of the marketing company have become quite refined, and exceptionally sharp. Never before have we seen the ability to send targeted communications to clients, customers, or potential customers like we do right now. Everyone is online; everyone has an email account, and consumers are certainly more comfortable buying goods, and paying for them, online. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1308 - ABC launch Playback, How to Twitter, Why to Twitter, Next G not up to promise, Technology and the English Language The English language is certainly living and breathing, and it�s evolution is certainly faster now than at any other time in the history of the language thanks mainly to the evolution of the internet and computers in general. After all, 10 years ago a small start up company called Google started to help internet users find websites they might be remotely interested in. Today the word Google is a Noun and a Verb, after all, we�ve all heard of the world�s largest search company, and then ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1208 - Upgrade your phone to no contract, Internet addiction a mental illness? Apple patches, Safari for XP, Google and Perth meet on the bus. Adam looks at HDTV Nine style. When was the last time your mobile phone contract was up and it was time to renew? Life�s just cruisey as you indulge your senses with the latest Bluray release on your 60 inch LCD monitor hanging in the middle of your living room while you subtly let your neighbors know about your swanky 5.1 surround sound system, as you jump on your 802.11n wirelessly connected laptop to see what your mates are up to on facebook. Then, all of a sudden, you realize you have to make a decision that commits ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1108 - Martin Gregory - Microsoft Australia talks Windows Server 2008, Telstra runs out of space in exchanges. Lidija Davis Talks about Stumbleupon. New Apple stores for Oz. During the last week I had the pleasure of catching up with friends I hadn�t seen for a while, and it wasn�t long before I was engaged in a discussion about Plasma and LCD TV's. After 10 minutes of banter I had a refreshing reminder of just what it�s like to be a non technical consumer wanting to buy into the world of home entertainment. It seems that the '20 something' store assistants are keen to make a sale and will tell the customer almost anything to get them to sign on the dotted li ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1008 - Telstra's High Court loss, Vista price crash,iTunes, Patch Tuesday, High Def platforms, eWar games in Australia There�s never a week that goes by in technology without one of the major players making somewhat of a ruckus. And of course this time, it�s Telstra's turn. Last week, the High Court of Australia ruled against Telstra when it claimed that the ACCC�s ability to set network access fees to its rivals was unconstitutional. In their challenge, Telstra targeted clause 51 of the Australian Constitution, which "guarantees just compensation when property is compulsorily acquired." Naturally they ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 0908 - Jason Stirling from Genesys to voice recognition and IVR's, Apple and Microsoft News, Google CAPTCH hacked, Google competes with MS sharepoint and Social Networking with Muhammad Saleem Voice Recognition and IVR's. In Studio Guest: Jason Stirling Voice recognition has come along way in recent times, but is it up to scratch in the commercial world. In the world of biometrics, what would you say if your voice held the key to your identity? Jason Stirling from Genesys will be in to tell us what's now possible. Has the fingerprint been surpassed by the voice? Find out. Social Networking with Muhammad Saleem Lidija Davis, our Silicon Valley correspondent, speaks with Muham ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 0808 - Death of HD DVD, Sony Wins!, Telstra ADSL2, Internode and the ACCC, Dodo's customer support is so so, OOXML, and mor Microsoft toys HD DVD RIP? It's all over bar the shouting now, and wouldn't you be annoyed of you'd invested your hard earned cash into a HD DVD player! Australian consumers who purchased now moribund Toshiba HD DVD players will receive no form of refund after the company officially announced its exit from the high definition format war. In a recent press release, Toshiba confirmed it's much-speculated exit and announced that come mid march all HD DVD shipments would cease. Toshiba Australia's informati ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 0708 - Giorgia Simmons Telstra Foundation, HD DVD RIP, GPS audio skins, Underbelly in Victoria If you have children or teenagers in the family, chances are they're more proficient on the technology front than you are. After all, which teenager doesn't have a mobile phone or MySpace account these days? Have you ever stopped to wonder what they're doing with this technology? Recent reports have revealed the growing number of children and young people using technology: * 93% of teenagers use the Internet, * 84% use chat rooms daily, * 59% of children use a mobile phone, an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 0608 - Telstra turns on ADSL2 - what's the catch? Digital TV in AUS, Patches galore for MS and Apple Telstra gives ADSL2+ a green light, but what's the catch? Telstra has graciously decided to turn on ADSL2+ in 900 exchanges across Australia, but the cynics amongst us smell a rat! A press release titled: More high-speed broadband after Government removes roadblock was published on the company's website on February 6, but strangely didn't make it in the email version, which is sent out to journalists. The announcement was made in Canberra last Wednesday by Telstra Boss Sol Trujillo, with ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 0508 - CDMA still on, Macworld 2008, AOL tries Australia AGAIN? Microsoft to buy Yahoo in an effort to slow the Google Juggernaut. Watch Video Goolge's response: "This is about more than simply a financial transaction, one company taking over another. It's about preserving the underlying principles of the Internet: openness and innovation."�David Drummond, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer. His full response makes for interesting reading. This week on the show, Telstra has been forced to delay the switch off of its ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 0408 - Summer Series - Show 7 Perry Vlahos is an astronomy educator, author and broadcaster with both a real passion for astronomy as well as an encyclopaedic knowledge of the night sky. As vice-president of the Astronomical Society of Victoria he often runs tours of the night sky for the general public as well as educating people on how to use telescopes and other equipment and even helping teachers to teach astronomy better to students. Bryan Ackerly tells us everything we newed to know about the good old battery - ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 0308 - Summer Series - Show 6 This week, How important is a good looking site these days. The answer is very! Did you know that 75% of web users admit making judgments about the credibility of an organisation based on the design of its website and 83% of businesses use the internet to search and find potential vendors?�If that doesn�t surprise you, then count yourself amongst 75% of web users. On our final show this year, we�re going to talk to Lance Loveday and Sandra Niehaus, authors of a new book, Web Design for ROI, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 0208 - Summer Series - Show 5 This week, Thomas Robinson from one of Australia's largest web hosting companies, Web Central talks about web site hosting options and design. Also this show we hear from Robert Broomhead from the Wireless institute of Australia (WIA) about the hobby of Amateur Radio. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 0108 - Summer Series - Show 4 This week, Justin Dunlop talks all about the apple iPhone - in fact almost everything beginning with the letter i, Bruce Mathews joins us to talk Spam from ACMA, (Australian Communications and Media Authority) the Australian Government body who's role it is to prosecute Australian's who like to send unsolicited emails, also Sam Shetty and Justin Freeman from Net Registry return to talk about search engine optimisation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 53 - Summer Series - Show 3 Mark Mayer, retired Qantas pilot returns to talk about aviation, in particular, the failed Qantas buy out, Air Garuda's mishap in March 2007, how black box technology works, and some aviation websites worth a visit. Blogs with political or current-events themes have grown in popularity and become "soap boxes" for instant mass-audience commentary. You could even consider sites like youtube as blog sites albeit with a video nature. Adam Turner recently spoke on Tech Talk Radio about the gre ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 52 - Summer Series - Show 2 Tech Talk radio is meeting and talking to people who are leaders in their fields. On today�s show, we hear from two guests who know everything there is to know about the worlds biggest search engines. Adam Lasnik heads up search for Google, and has the enviable title of Search Engine evangelist, and if that isn�t enough, Hugh Williams from Microsoft tells us all about image search on Microsoft Live. For those of you who didn�t know, Hugh is an Australian, born, bred and educated in Melbour ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 51 - Summer Series - Show 1 Tech Talk Radio Summer Series. This is our first 'best of' shows for the holiday break. Today we revisit our interview with Susan McLean from Victoria Police about Cyber bullying. If there�s one thing that that will always be a part of school life, it�s the school bully. We�ve all come across them in our time, and I�m sure you can still put a name to at least one from primary or secondary school. Tonight on Tech Talk Radio, we�re going to take a look at the impact of technology in the live ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 46 - Tim Mayer from Yahoo talks search, Telstra board snubs shareholders, Telstra and Dodo get bad pr from TIO, and Google lets an android loose It was�t so long ago that we were all agasp and our jaws hit the floor about the 11 million dollars that Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo pocketed as part of his annual Salary and Bonus package. It was equated to the Prime Ministers salary of around $380,000. Well now, showing absolute contempt for the companies shareholders, Trujillo�s salary will edge close to or if not exceed $20 million. Telstra shareholders delivered what amounted to a resounding vote of no confidence in their Board of Direc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 41 - Govt & ACCC talk Telstra Split, RFID, Airports turn to Biometrics, PS3 cutdown, Next G complaints wanted. The first thing your tech support guru will ask you when you come to ask for computer help. Is �When did you last back your stuff up?� It�s about this time that most people go bright red and curl up in a ball in the corner in the foetal position. I learnt the value of backing up software last week when, accidentally, while I was cloning data from one server to another, I mistakenly deleted two files while talking on the phone. This in itself wasn�t a problem, because the files on the other ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 38 - Google's Election 2007 coverage - OOXML - Web 2.0, blogs and litigation. 2clix. December HDTV offerings from 7 & 10 With a federal poll looming later this year, all sides of politics are ramping up the rhetoric to fever pitch, but with a slightly different edge. This year more than ever, new technology is being used to communicate to the constituents. There seems to be a definitive swing away from traditional and main stream media channels to get the political message out there. Facebook and Youtube are certainly new tools in the political marketing machine�s arsenal, but in an effort to bring the lates ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 37 - Cheap Printers, NEW iTunes and iPods, Firmare and Hardware, iPhones, Australian TV Vs the European equivalent. In this day of consumerism, and in particular that of cheap disposable printers, this week I finally came across a new way to make cheap printers even cheaper and those who purchase them infuriated. A colleague of mine recently decided to purchase an office laser printer, not for high volume printing, he just wanted to have documents that looked a little better than an ink jet printer could deliver and something a bit more water resistant. Having sung the virtues of my first laser printer, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 36 - Near Field Credit Cards - iiNet supports Mac, Telstra WILL close CDMA Jan 28, Drugs Blogs and the mainstream nedia Making it easier to part consumers with their hard earned money has always been high on the list of priorities of many companies. There have been many attempts over the years, but not since the arrival of the SIM based mobile phone, has this prospect become Near Field Credt Cards closer to reality. Way back in January 2007 Nokia demonstrated a mobile phone which doubled as a credit card at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Then, the credit card company Visa joined forces with ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 35 - Internet Filters and the Federal Election, Microsoft Unified Messaging, iPods too loud, MS Steering wheel catch fire, iPhone hacked. As a parent of a young girls who have already started using the internet, I thought I�d take a personal look at what the Federal Government has on offer when it comes you making the online world just a little bit safer for our kids. Firstly, if your mind has been elsewhere in the past few weeks, the Federal government through the ACMA, have released software which can be downloaded free of charge from the Net Alert website and installed on PCs using�Windows 98 through to Vista and Macs us ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 34 - Compact Disc turns 25, Wikipedia Scanner, Xbox price cut, Skype outage, Blu-ray Vs HD-DVD There have been many technological revolutions over the years, but one stands head and shoulders above the rest. It�s not the telephone becoming mobile, nor is it this fan-dangled internet thingy, it�s actually the ubiquitous compact disc. The promise of taking sound reproduction from an analogue format into a lossless, digital format was not only appealing to the masses; it proved to be a technological milestone. Nearly everyone alive at the time can remember their first CD; mine was Love ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 33 - IceTV wins! Microsoft Server 2008, Free porn Filters for all, DRM Universal and iTunes, Vista and XP service packs There�s plenty to talk about in the Australian technology scene at the moment, what with Sol Trujillo�s 3 million dollar pay rise, John Howard�s free porn filter for all, and the sweet victory by Ice TV over the Nine network in relation to Nine�s outrageous allegation that it owned the copyright of it�s TV program guide. But first this week, I bet you didn�t know that Sol Trujillo�s salary is 38 times that of the Prime Minister of Australia. Yes you heard me correctly � Mr Trujillo's total ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 32 - Telstra CDMA Closure, iPhones, Elton John and the internet, Digital delivery now king in Oz and Australia's first synchrotron If you�re a Telstra share holder, you must be seriously wondering about the wisdom of your investment in what used to be the most highly regarded and respected Australian owned and operated telco. Since the demise of Ziggy and appointment of Sol and his three amigos, the companies reputation in the eyes of most Australian�s has been some what tarnished. The on going stouch with the Australian Government over Fibre to the node, along with pricing issues with the ACCC, and now the threat by ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 31 - Australia's obsession with mobile phones, Virgin 3G, Acer calls Vista a dud, Your own mobile cell for your house or office It�s no secret that Australian�s have a love affair with technology, and atop of the list of gadgets that we just can�t do with out is the mobile phone. An estimated 94 per cent of Australians own a mobile phone, and for some it's their most treasured gadget. The mobile phone boom has fascinated sociologists, who for years, have been warning of the potential of mobiles to change the way we interact and�now there's evidence that mobile phones have got thousands of Australians hooked. We�v ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 30 - Digital Photography in perspective, CDMA switch off looms, DVB-H ratified in EU Digital cameras are everywhere; in fact you�d be hard pressed to find someone who hasn�t got one. Born out of the technology that brought television, digital cameras can be found in anything these days from Automatic Teller Machines to Mobile phones � they�re even on top of polls at intersections these days. Based on solid state CCD or Charged Coupled Device technology, the digital camera has evolved into a high resolution camera, which quality is measured by the number of Mega Pixels righ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 29 - Google Vs ACCC, Mobile Broadband news, lightning and iPods, Identity Theft, Longhorn for 2008 Online and offline privacy are becoming quite an issue these days, what with identity theft growing at an alarming rate. Even the Australian Tax office has a page on their website titled �Identity theft and your Tax File number�.� Recent studies indicate that more than seven million people in the United States alone have been the victim of identity theft. That averages out to nearly 3.4 percent of the nation�s population that have fallen victim. So what�s to say it�s not happening here in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 28 - iPhones, Online music shops, Optus measures uploads, ISPs and P2P, Xbox woes Have you ever wondered about the digital trail that you leave behind in your day to day travels? Have you ever used your internet banking to see where you partner is currently spending your hard earned cash? Maybe not, but every time you make a telephone call on you home or mobile phone, do a financial transaction of any kind, or even browse the internet, then chances are there�ll be some digital crumb left behind which can be used to identify you if someone needs to. Last week SEVERAL pe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 27 - TiVo, and Free to AIr TV in Australia, Myspace, Vista and British Telecom's boss on Telstra Australia is known for being record breakers in technology, and other fields, but some of the records we hold are for the wrong reasons. We�re branded as being fast adapters of new technology, which in turn suggests we understand how the technology we�re using works, and as a result we tend to push it as hard as we can. This is probably a good thing, but when local Television Networks prevent us from seeing what the rest of the world is seeing due to programming policy, Australian�s are v ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 26 - Sarah Bond from Microsoft talks Office 2007, Blogs V's Journalism with Adam Turner and Lidija Davis This week, Sarah Bond, Platform Strategy Manager at Microsoft Australia, will demystify the new file format in office 2007 by explaining what it is and outlining the benefits it offers. Have you ever pondered the idea of migrating from your existing operating system to the next with the promise of greener pastures? Has the thought of a few new features in your favorite software got the better of you? Or have you ever contemplated a change of platform? It�s a big decision, often the cause o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 25 - Broadband, Youtube Fingerprints, Radio Sport, Safari on Windows For years now the internet has become more and more media rich. From what used to be a text based world in the domain of geeks and men who wore white coats, to now, where internet users consist of nearly everyone on the planet, of every age, nationality and almost independent of wealth. The net has truly become world wide catering for everything and everybody. Today�s online experience is more than computer based. We can take it with us in the form of a 3rd generation mobile phone or a po ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 24 - Commodity items and the 21st Century. We look at disposable IT. What's a commodity item? Often we use the word 'commodity' to mean something that's freely traded, something which is in such contiuous demand that its value is set by the market, or even something that's become a necessary staple in a consumer society. The question is, have personal computers become commodity items? Is a PC or a Mac or broadband internet now an absolute necessity for day-to-day living? Certainly computers these days, and especially peripherals like printers, mouses, ke ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 23 - Google Developers Day 2007, TiVo in Oz, Telstra Vs G9, Internode ups broadband price Well what an exiting week it�s been, Google came to Sydney last week, and I jumped on the 6.45am Virgin flight out of Melbourne to find out first hand, what Google wanted developers to develop. It wasn�t long into the keynote address by Alan Noble, Google Australia�s Engineering Director, that we learnt about Google Gears, a small application which Google promises will allow us to use the web offline. Like Microsoft�s Outlook transitions seamlessly between the online and offline world, Goog ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 22 - Star Wars, Coonan's red face, Google's Universal search, and Blogs - we speak to Wordpress In recent times on Tech Talk Radio, we�ve spoken of the next generation of web sites otherwise known as Web 2.0. Wikipediae defines Web 2 as a term often applied to a perceived ongoing transition of the World Wide Web from a collection of websites to a full-fledged computing platform serving web applications to end users. Ultimately Web 2.0 services are expected to replace desktop computing applications for many purposes. Collaboraton and interactivity is at the heart of this new genre of w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 1909: How to charge your phone and laptop batteries, Telstra V2, Star Trek at iMax, Dodo V ACCC, Optus caps - the devil in the detail, eBay to compete with iTunes, and latitude comes to the HTC Dream. It’s a sad indictment of organizations that try and lure consumers in, on what at face value, seems a pretty good deal, but then garrotes them with the fine print. Unfortunately this is all too common in the world of technology with broadband plans and mobile phone plans. It’s becoming so much ofa problem that the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has stepped up its policing in the local market. Most of Australia’s telcos have incurred the wroth of the ACCC over misleadi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4610: Adam penetrates Apple’s reality Distortion field, Leena Van Deventer walks us through new video games for teens scheduled for release this holiday season, NBN Co celebrated reaching the halfway point, and Optus chief says sorry for those m The transition from the not so smart phone to the smartphone is well underway, Many independent reports by market researches such as Gartner and IDC found that the smartphone market grew by almost 90 per cent in the third quarter as vendors ramped up their efforts.According to figures from IDC, a total of 81.1 million units were shipped in the quarter, compared to the 42.8 million from the same period in 2009, a pretty impressive take up by any measure, and which will no doubt continue to s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 3610: There's a new range of iGadgets, iPad clones and mobile devices set to tantalize you this Christmas but Adam Turner warns of one you may just want to think twice about. Jeff Alexander from Microsoft Australia talks Windows 7, Home Server, Whoever said a week was a long time in politics had no idea the same philosophy applies to technology. Since the last Tech Talk Radio aired, Apple have revamped some of the flagship products including a new line of iPods, Apple TV, and a launched a new music-oriented social network called Ping. In the same week Samsung released what it believes will be an iPad killer with their new Galaxy Tablet. Something that for all intent and purpose looks, and feels like an iPad and even uses the same ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 2410: Apple releases Safari 5 for Mac and Windows ACMA launches a new spam SMS reporting tool, Windows 7 SP1 beta scheduled, Google posts Chrome security fixes and Optus mulls lawsuit over Telstra coverage maps According to The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy Senator Stephen Conroy, Google committed the crime of the century when it's camera cars sniffed and recorded wifi traffic of unsuspecting citizens in the moments it car passed any unprotected wifi network in Australia or around the world. According to the Attourney Generals department, Companies who provide customers with a connection to the internet may soon have to retain subscriber's private web browsing hist ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 0510: 2009/10 Summer Series Episode 8 2009/10 Summer Series Episode 8Georgia Simmons (Telstra Foundation) - Graham Henley (Get Data) - Michael Crimean (Audacious Productions) - Anthony Petts (HTC) - George Pongas (Domain Central)In the Tech Talk Radio Summer Series we showcase the best bits of 2009, while The Panel has a well-earned holiday over Christmas and the New Year.This week we're joined by:Georgia Simmons, representing the Telstra Foundation, offering financial grants for programmes dedicated to on-line child safety;Gra ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 0310: 2009/10 Summer Series Episode 6 2009/10 Summer Series Episode 6James Farmer (WordPress), Bruce Matthews (ACMA) and Brett de Hoedt (Hootville)In the Tech Talk Radio Summer Series we showcase the best bits of 2009, while The Panel has a well-earned holiday over Christmas and the New Year.This week we're joined by:* James Farmer of WordPress fame. James speaks to us about blogging, social networks, social websites, citizen journalism and the “bloggeratti”;* Bruce Matthews from the ACMA. Bruce discusses the Federal Govern ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TTR Ep 4909: Last show for 09. NBN adds 600k of fiber optic, cinema comes of 3D age, We launch slashrant.com.au, Google luanches new DNS service, plus the year that was wrap! The holiday season is upon us yet again, and as we down tools and prepare to indulge in that once a year family fun day, which traditionally reminds you why you only do it once a year, it’s nice to know that escapism is only a short drive away, and this year the big screen has really come of age.In these digital days more and more cinemas are install digital theatres, and more and more films are being released in digital 3D, so would it surprise you that the image you see in the new whizz ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website