TTR Episode 15/2008 TX: April 14,2008

Episode 15/2008 TX: April 14, 2008 Ep: 175

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On Today’s show:

The power of e-mail marketing

Melbourne radio personality, Brett de Hoedt joins us to talk about e-mail marketing, social networking and blogging.

Microsoft says it made a fair offer to Yahoo

Telstra expects broadband win

PayPal mandatory, says eBay Australia

Adam Turner talks about the 3G iPhone or lack of it

Patrik Runald, security response manager for F-Secure, talks about the vulnerabilities facing consumers today with Lid at RSA 2008

The following links were of interest to us this week!

• Microsoft says made fair offer to Yahoo
• Dr. Ron on ABC Radio National
• Microsoft to launch intelligent traffic system
• Amazon gives US$50 to each HD-DVD customer
• Former Apple reseller doubts iPhone rumours
• Will Apple delight – or disappoint – with the 3G iPhone?
• Symantec’s latest security report: Web attacks getting much worse
• Telstra completes 900 exchange ADSL2+ upgrade
• XP SP3 faster than Vista SP1: report
• eBay members cry foul

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TTR Episode 14/2008

Episode 14/2008 TX: April 7, 2008 Ep: 174

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On Today’s show:

The Federal Government scraps the OPEL WiMax network on April 2

Tech Talk’s own mobile data expert, Mark Diggins talks to us from Boston

Adam looks at embedded mobile phones – in your body!

Secondary school kids asked to give fingerprints as ID for exams

Mozilla Firefox 3 beta 5 hits the streets

Microsoft’s OOXML now a standard

Lid is at RSA 2008 San Francisco so we’ll hear from her next week

The following links were of interest to us this week:

• XP reprieved until 2010, maybe later
• How to be the king of your domain (and others) and make a killing
• OPEL death splits rural Australia
• Mozilla unleashes Firefox 3 beta 5
• Microsoft’s OOXML now a standard
• Websites win right to show Games clips
• Telstra on trail of copper thieves
• Mac easiest to hack, says $10,000 winner

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Tech Talk Radio Episode 13/2008

Episode 13/2008 TX: March 31, 2008 Ep: 173

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On Today’s show:

English, and what it means today

Lidija tells us about Twitter – see transcript here What is Twitter?

Adam measures up ABC Playback!

Telstra denies liability for weekend furor

Mozilla Firefox 3 is go for launch, with a backhand stab at Microsoft’s IE

New South Wales citizens turn into cyber cops!

The following links were of interest to us this week:

• The 10 most disruptive technology combinations
• Australian Green IT regulations could arrive this year
• Get ready for these 6 game-changing technologies
• The Web’s best free stuff
• Google in trouble over data security
• Standards-based IE8 shows ‘new Microsoft’
• AMD faces tough battle against Intel
• Microsoft offers free support for Vista SP1 installs
• Digital TV to cost Canberra $38m

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Episode 12/2008 – TX: March 24th 2008 (Ep 172)

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Upgrade your phone to no contractInternet addiction a mental illness?

Apple patches

Safari for XP

Google and Perth meet on the bus

Adam looks at HDTV Nine style

Lidija Davis joins us from Silicon Valley to tell us about delicious

Dr. Ron tells us about the perils of the laptop service man

Infected Australian computers fetch top dollar

Melbourne IT try new anti spam technology

Episode 11/2008 – TX: March 17th 2008 (Ep 171)

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Plasma vs LCD TV’sThe High Definition transition

Windows Server 2008

Chat with Martin Gregory, Director of Server, Tools and Platform Strategy from Microsoft Australia.

Lidija Davis joins us from Silicon Valley to tell us about StumbleUpon.

It’s sex and more sex in the Asian domain name scramble

The ACCC to expose fake excuses for broadband delays

More iPod copies hit the marketplace

Adam Turner talks about online backups

Three Apple stores in Australia later this year

Episode 10/2008 – TX: March 10th 2008 (Ep 170)

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High Court of Australia rules against Telstra

Microsoft launch Server 2008.

Bill Gates falls on Forbes Rich List

Microsoft launch IE8

Telstra seeks indemnity on network

Google removes maps at the pentagons asking

Adam Turner turns his attention to journalistic plagiarism in IT Media

Microsoft take the knife to Vista pricing

Episode 09/2008 – TX: March 3rd 2008 (Ep 169)

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In Studio Guest: Jason Stirling on Voice Recognition and IVR’s

Social Networking with Muhammad Saleem (Transcript available on Lid’s blog)

Conroy and Telstra go head to head over the Rudd Government’s ultimatum to hand over detailed plans of its entire network operations to rivals hoping to bid against it in a tender for the $8 billion national broadband scheme,

Apple started shipping its first-ever wireless storage appliance, dubbed Time Capsule

We’ll give you a few reasons to upgrade your wireless technology to the new 802.11n standard, and

Adam Turner turns his attention to Apple’s iPod Touch, the iPhone to have when you don’t have a mobile phone network to support it, and

Youtube off air globally last weekend!

Episode 08/2008 – TX: February 25th 2008 (Ep 168)

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HD DVD RIP?

What happens now after Toshiba’s unceremonious exit from the HD DVD arena?

Dodo complaint handling triggers ACMA investigation

BC boosts mobile offering

Scammers dressing up as Telstra workers and

Telstra ‘needlessly denied consumers on ADSL2+’

Episode 07/2008 – TX: February 18th 2008 (Ep 167)

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What are kids doing online and are they safe?

Georgia Simmons form the Telstra Foundation joins us to talk about the $2m allocated to grants to protect people online

Note: We promoted Susan McClean from Victoria Police coming in to the studio, but unfortunately she is unable to attend this week.

Apple patches Leopard… for the second time.

The latest security updates fix 11 bugs in the Mac Operating system

Toshiba to give up on HD DVD, says Reuters

The format war for next-generation DVDs may be over: Blu-ray is the winner.

Firefox Beta 3 R3

BlackBerry’s future lies in social networking

Telstra gets AU$1 billion ‘secret documents’ wish

Mobile data cash set to eclipse voice

Victorian man avoids ‘Facebook’ defamation

Underbelly online a hit in Vic

Adam Turner sells the virtues of a good backup system

Episode 06/2008 – TX: February 11th 2008 (Ep 166)

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This week on Tech Talk Radio:

Telstra gives ADSL2+ a green light, but what’s the catch?

Apple iPod Touch and iPhone capacity doubles!

Massive service disruptions to ADSL services

Youtube to profit split advertising revenue with top content generators

Rural NSW Vodafone users stuck without mobile service for almost a week

Mobiles and cancer are back in the news again

More on the Microsoft $44bn offer for Yahoo and

The price of the Xbox 360 heads south in a big way