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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 esc ... 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 faceliftThis 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 enab ... 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 ... 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 assum ... 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 mobilThe 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 ... 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.
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Generation Y are making their mark on society in many ways. What with the armament of technology at t ... 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 HSDPALast 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 NamesIn 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 cloudIn 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 ... 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 changesSince 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.
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TTR Ep 1308 - ABC launch Playback, How to Twitter, Why to Twitter, Next G not up to promise, Technology and the English LanguageThe 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 ... 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 commi ... 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 dot ... 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 AustraliaThere’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." Naturall ... 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 SaleemVoice 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 toysHD 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 VictoriaIf 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 AppleTelstra 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 it ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TTR Ep 0408 - Summer Series - Show 7Perry 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 6This 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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TTR Ep 0208 - Summer Series - Show 5This 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 4This 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 3Mark 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 2Tech 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 M ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TTR Ep 51 - Summer Series - Show 1Tech 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 i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TTR Ep 50 - Web Design for ROI, Telstra battles Rudd, 3 enters mobile broadband war, Apple wins Best PC, Federal court says Telstra lied about Next GWell this is it, our last show before the holidays, but don't worry, we'll be back in February 08 for more of the same. And we're not leaving you empty handed - there's a great extended mix summer series which has all the bits of the interviews we've had recently.
We’ll we’ve reached the end of 2007 and hasn’t it just flown. Lot’s of exciting things have happened in the past year, what with the changing of the guard politically, the Telstra shenanigans, the launce of Naked DSL (a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TTR Ep 49 - PDF ads online, Firefox updates keep coming, Google Unveils Mobile GPS, New Zealanders big on cyber crime and botnets, Australian's encourage online fraud and French ban P2PWe’ve heard it all before. The carrot has been dangled on many occasions, but what of the reality of Video on demand in Australia.
For those unlucky enough to be a Telstra broadband customer, Video downloads are possible via there bigpond movies portal, and considering it’s been operating since February 2006, it must stand half a chance. Touted as a free download to bigpond customers, these films have a nasty habit of self destructing.
Rather than "buying to keep", users of the servic ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TTR Ep 48 -Kevin Rudd is now the Prime Minister of Australia following a 6% swing away from the Howard Costello Liberal Government. Adam Turner joins Dr Ron and Andrew McColm to discuss the implications of the change of government.For the first time in more than 11 years Australians are waking up to a changed political landscape, with Labor readying itself to take power.
Kevin Rudd swept aside the Prime Ministership of John Howard with a stunning victory, turning a 16-seat deficit into a majority of about 22 seats, depending on the final outcomes in a handful of electorates. We’ll now see a changing of the guard in the communications portfolio with Stephen Conroy set to take up where Helen Coonan left off.
It’s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TTR Ep 47 - As Australia heads to the polls this weeken we take an indepth look at what both sides are promising. Google Search with David Baily form Google at Mountain View, and Sype comes to the mobile.As we start the downhill run to the finish line of the 2007 federal election, we thought it high time to take a look at the communications policies of both the Labor and Liberal parties.
This coming weekend is an opportunity for all Australians to have a say in the way the country is run, and up there with climate change, the economy and work choices one of the most important issues which will affect everyone for many years to come, the roll out of the next generation of communications i ... 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 D ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TTR Ep 45 - Hugh Williams from Microsoft talks Search, Testra in Election Mode, New apple notebook, Bandwith hungry mobile devicesHugh Williams is Principal Development Manager of Microsoft's Live search based in Redmond USA. He talks openly about the new features and facilities of live.com
Hugh is a Melbournian, born and bred in this part of the world, he was a student and an associate professor in Information Retrieval at RMIT.
Check out Hugh's handy work at live.com
The coming federal election is going to be one of the most defining elections in our history. Not because of the party policies, but because of t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TTR Ep 44 - James Farmer talks Blogs, Wordpress and Wordcamp, 000 and Skype, Backups recommendations, PDF bugs, Leopard and more...Tonight we’re going to talk about blogging. Over time, we’ve all heard good things and not so good things about blogs. A Blog is short for "Web log," a specialized site that allows an individual or group of individuals to share a running log of events and personal insights with an online audience.
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 site ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TTR Ep 43 - Fury, Where has Telstra gone this election? Googles top searches, VOIP and 000, Apple opens iPhone, Leopard's pending release, Channel 7 treats HD viewers with contemptAs the current federal government moves into a caretaker role in the lead up to this years federal election, one has to ask what’s going to happen now with the most important technological change this country has seen since the roll out of the telephone?
While the chaser boys target John and Kevin, we thought we should turn our attention to Helen and Stephen.
But firstly, Telstra have become quite noticeable by their absence. In an out of character act of supposedly good will, Telstra ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TTR Ep 42 - Election Time, iPods, Plasma TV s and 150 shows old! Cause to celebrate.Today we’ve passed the milestone of 150 shows. Since November 29 2004, hopefully we’ve managed to enlighten and educate listeners in the wonderful world of gadgets, internet, and telecommunications. Throw into this mix guests who are experts in their respective fields including law enforcement, toll ways, mobile communications, broadcasting and software development, Tech Talk Radio continues to grow and earn the respect of listeners and industry elders as an independent tech talk show.
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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 th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TTR Ep 40 - Telstra launch 7Mb wireless, Prime launch online video, Seven buy Unwired, Authenticated SMTP and moreIf you’re an avid listener of tech talk radio, then you’ve no doubt hear the discussions on the panel about the quality of audio which has been compressed into a MP3. Chances are you’ve even heard the compression when listening to music on a good quality sound system or through headphones other than those ear buds that seem to be surgically implanted in the ears of the youth of today.
It’s that strange watery sound which is extremely noticeable on instruments that make sharp sounds ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TTR Ep 39 - Apple Hardware and Software update - Video Search, Coonan and the internet, SCO and linuxIt seems we’re not alone in this country when it comes to slow broadband, shoddy customer service and mobile phone sharks. This week alone see’s the UK frustration on the rise over broadband and in particular mobile phones. For years in Australia we’ve had contracts lock us in to inflexible long term payment structures, to cover the so called subsidy that phone companies allegedly, out of the kindness of their heart, offer us – the consumer. 12 month or two year contracts seem to be ... 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 & 10With 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 lat ... 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 nediaMaking 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 ... 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-DVDThere 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 L ... 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 packsThere’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 ... 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 synchrotronIf 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 ... 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 officeIt’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 ... 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 EUDigital 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 Pix ... 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 2008Online 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 happeni ... 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 woesHave 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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | |
