Episode 32/2008 TX: August 11, 2008

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On This Weeks Show

• Google takes to the streets in Australia

• Spam, spam and more spam, with a bit of malware thrown in for good measure.

• A Microsoft free desktops in a world wide market is on the table.

• Jobs makes a boo boo and

• Mozilla looks to consolidate messaging into one application.

Links that interested us this week

• Hi-tech thieves target Olympics

• Ice TV Releases iPhone App

• Telstra lifts gates on ADSL2+

• Deadline set for Telstra on broadband

• Buggy software sends Optus offline

• Myki smartcard put to test

• Grocerychoice website under fire

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Episode 31/2008 TX: August 4,2008

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On This Weeks Show

• We take a look at the mobile broadband in Australia

• Beijing kicks off in a few days so Adam looks at the feeble TV offerings in Australia

• China’s internet conundrum

• Apple release 10.5.5 and

• We take a look at the take up of Naked DSL in Australia

Links that interested us this week

• Australian naked DSL mega-roundup

• Google sheds light on search process

• 3 grabs a piece of the iPhone pie

• China wins Olympic gold medal for Internet censorship during the XXIX Olympiad

• Apple releases new Mac OS X 10.5.5, iPhone 2.1 seeds

• Microsoft using Beijing Olympics to boost Silverlight takeup

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Episode 30/2008 TX: July 28, 2008

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On This Weeks Show

• We take a look at the ABC’s new iView service

• Adam Turner goes 5 hours in the ring with Optus and Telstra – it’s ugly.

• British ISPs in new deal to tackle music piracy

• Google In Final Negotiations to Acquire Digg For “Around $200 Million”

• Exploit emerges for DNS flaw

• New setbacks arose this week for the national broadband network (NBN) and

• Web address total tops one trillion

Links that interested us this week

• British ISPs in new deal to tackle music piracy

• Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For “Around $200 Million”

• Organisations expanding uses for IP networks, survey shows

• Apple says ‘serious’ server snafu caused MobileMe outage

• Web address total tops one trillion

• iPhone OS 2.1 released… to developers, plus turn-by-turn GPS?

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Episode 29/2008 TX: July 21, 2008

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On This Weeks Show

• Jason Stirling from Genesis joins the panel to talk Business to Business Technology

• ACMA approves online content code of practice

• Yahoo! accuses Microsoft of sabotage

• Government extends NBN deadline

• Firefox gets security tune-up and

• Apple wants to take Psystar and its clone customers to the cleaners

Links that interested us this week

• Aussie 3G iPhone is a bad joke

• Optus claims iPhone sales win

• Government extends NBN deadline

• Firefox gets security tune-up

• ACMA approves online content code of practice

• Apple fastest growing computer manufacturer in US

• Spammers tout ‘nude’ Angelina Jolie pix

• Apple wants to take Psystar and its clone customers to the cleaners

• iPhone users claim Hutchison support

• Digital radio is coming in 2009

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Episode 28/2008 TX: July 14, 2008

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Tech Talk Radio News:

In another leap forward in technology, Tech Talk Radio is now trialing its own chat page. In an effort to bring true interaction to live broadcasting, you can now interact with the panel and listeners in real time via our new Tech Talk chat server.

Simply join us live on the stream on Monday nights, open your web browser and type chat.techtalkradio.com.au into the address bar and say hello.

All going well, it will become a permanent part of the show.

On This Weeks Show

• Just in case you’ve just crawled out from under a rock, the iPhone is here.

• We’ll take a look at what’s on offer in Australia.

• Adam Turner joins us live in the studio to talk iPhone, TiVo and Foxtel IQ

• Seagate launch a 1.5Tb Hard Drive

• A women is jailed for hiring an internet hit man

• A new submarine cable to quadruple internet bandwidth

• Telstra trials a speedier next g and

• Nasa to put it’s current fleet of shuttles out to pasture.

Links that interested us this week

• Telstra reveals iPhone 3G pricing

• Hutchison iPhone support unclear

• Seagate drives ahead to 1.5Tb Hard Drive

• Nasa details shuttle’s retirement

• Apple’s new iPhone snapped up in Asia and Europe

• Woman jailed for hiring internet hit man

• Southern Cross Cable to quadruple traffic capacity

• Microsoft to release new ‘Essential’ servers in November

• ACCC brews TEA trouble for Telstra over ULL price modelling

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Episode 27/2008 TX: July 7, 2008

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On This Weeks Show

• Will the iPhone become the new security threat of 2008

• Plasma and LCD tvs blamed for accelerating global warming

• Beware, Olympic fever could impact your network

• Telstra throws mud at other bidders for the National Broadband Network, and

• We hear how Symbian have embrace Microsoft’s new Server 2008.

Links that interested us this week

• iPhone: Google Talk, new security threats

• Optus announces iPhone plan pricing

• Plasma, LCDs blamed for accelerating global warming

• Judge orders Google to give YouTube user data to Viacom

• “The knives are out” : Telstra’s take on the NBN

• Secure Computing warns Olympic Fever could impact your network

• eBay forced into humiliating backdown on PayPal only attempt

• Firefox 3 downloads set Guinness World Record

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Episode 26/2008 TX: June 30, 2008

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On This Weeks Show

• Telstra launches cell-phone scannable barcodes

• Should FTTN kill the current copper network?

• Bill quits Microsoft… again

• 3 Mobile enlists online help to secure iPhone and

• We hear from a rural listener about the state of broadband in the bush and the current broadband woes

Links that interested us this week

• Extra storage as students go Gmail

• EU wants to cut cost of mobile calls

• Turkish hackers crack ICANN

• Tech giants team up on security

• ICANN promises new web boom

• Do No Evil Google sued for a billion over IP theft charges

• Telstra launches cell-phone scannable barcodes

• Should FTTN kill the current copper network?

• 3 Mobile enlists online help to secure iPhone

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Episode 25/2008 TX: June 23, 2008

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On This Weeks Show

• Firefox 3 may break records and the first vulnerability surfaces

• Microsoft re releases security fixes

• Apple’s open for business in Sydney

• Safari gets a tune up too and

• Developers shun Microsoft Vista

• NAB spams social networking site

• Foxtel and HD explained

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Episode 24/2008 TX: June 16, 2008

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On This Weeks Show

• Telstra gets into legal talks with Optus over the iPhone

• ACCC slams eBay PayPal policy

• Melbourne club’s broadband bid

• Prisons in plan to jam mobiles

• MySpace to get facelift

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Episode 23/2008 TX: June 9, 2008

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On This Weeks Show

• Telstra slams ‘bogus’ broadband report

• Government launches alert service to kick off E-security Week

• Apple’s WWDC: New iPhone, new OS X, new .Mac?

• QLD Police net online fraudsters

• And Televisions to be given energy rating labels

Links that interested us this week

• Telstra slams ‘bogus’ broadband report

• Government launches alert service to kick off E-security Week

• Qld Police net online fraudsters

• Aussie games developer gets death threats

• Lesbian alien ‘sex’ scene spooks censors Are we going tabloid here? (ed)

• Researchers map out web badlands

• Mac OS X 10.6 to wipe out instability sins of 10.5?

• Customised browsing: brought to you by Peter Gabriel

• Intel unveils mini-laptop chip

To keep up to date with the Tech Talk crew, check out their blogs:

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Adam Turner’s blog – Seeking Nerdvana

Lid’s blog – BlogWell

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