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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.
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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.
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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 pubThese 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?
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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 TelstraThe 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 wasnt completely unexpected. Tech Talk Radios 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 PaypalTwo things in this world are for sure, life and death, and this week in Australia, were 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.AMPSwas the first generation of mobile communications.At the time of CDMAs 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.
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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 UKIf 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 RadioWhile the cat is away, the mice will play....
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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 usersJust 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...moreSocial 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.
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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 ImpersonatorsAs 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 tAs 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 ShowHappy 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.
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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.
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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.
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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 moreFor 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?
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