Is ISP Content Filtering just political point-scoring? Surely they can’t be serious!?

For those of you fortunate enough to be spared the current onslaught of political rhetoric in the lead-up to the Federal Election in Australia, you might be unaware of topical, technological hot potatoes like the state of broadband (aka “fraudband”), Telstra’s Next G vs CDMA and the sale of the incumbent telco.
Another issue with which [...]

Read the Tech Talk Blogs!

If you didn’t know, the guys on Tech Talk Radio have their own blogs! Andrew’s is McBlog, Dr. Ron has The Surgery, Adam has Seeking Nerdvana, and Lid has Blogwell. And you guessed it, there all worth a read. Feel free to post comments, as chances are, they’ll make it to air!

Mobile phone base stations destroyed in army tank rampage

News story: CNET
Photographs: Anonymous TTR contributor
A man who destroyed seven mobile phone towers in a stolen tank claimed he had been affected by radio waves emitting from the cellular base-stations.

John Robert Patterson, 45, of Dharruk, allegedly stole the tank and used it to attack seven mobile phone towers over the weekend. Patterson will face Penrith [...]

TTR Ep 24/2007 … Full Steam Ahead!

Crikey, what a truck-load of work over the last few days! Andrew has run away to join the circus, and taken Mark with him. So I will be hosting tonight’s episode of Tech Talk Radio on 3WBC.
In actual fact, Andrew and Mark have gone to Mt Gambier in South Australia, on special assignment [...]

Neil Mitchell hatchetted by cross-hatch?

Neil Mitchell is a popular and well-respected radio host on Melbourne’s 3AW morning programme.
Usually I enjoy his light-hearted banter as I’m driving around town, but yesterday he had a bee in his bonnet about automated telephone answering systems, and specifically the need to press hash when you’ve finished recording a voicemail message.
You know the type [...]

Dr Ron launches personal blog

Dr Ron has built and now operates his own wordpress blog on his linux server. And they (he) said it would never happen, but the URL was registered and blogging has commenced. Check it out!

Dr Ron featured on this week’s Ploycast

Australian internet personalities Ben May and Mike Beckham produce a weekly program full of comedy, talk and music. Their podcast features an Australian perspective on the latest news from around the world.
In this week’s episode, Dr Ron joins The Ploy to talk about the state of Australian broadband, the Federal Government / ACCC / [...]

All about Digg

Researching one of the many segments for our humble radio programme last week, I had one of those “OMG” moments when I realised that in nearly 3 years of Tech Talk Radio, we’d never discussed the Web 2.0 phenomena Digg.
So what’s Digg?
Well it started out as an experiment by four guys in the U.S. in [...]

HD-DVD vs BluRay

This report featured in Episode 10 of 2007.
So, what’s it to be? HD-DVD or BluRay, that’s the big technology question of 2007.
And already, the major players are forming alliances with manufacturers and retailers in what’s being touted as the biggest format war since Sony’s betamax took on JVC’s VHS in the mid 70’s.
So what’s [...]

Telstra Announces Next G Boost … *sigh*

For 20 million Australians, the 6th October 2006 was an important day. The way we live, work and play began to change forever.i
How, I hear you ask? An act of terrorism? A natural disaster of unprecedented proportions? Or maybe a scientific breakthrough [...]