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Tech Talk Radio is an informative and entertaining technology show on 3WBC, 94.1MHz in Melbourne Australia 8PM Monday nights. Join your host Andrew McColm (ABC Radio & Talk 1116) and chief panelist Dr. Ron as Tech Talk Radio demystifies technology and pr

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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 can�...

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[ Mon, 2 Nov 2009 23:17:11 +1100 ]

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 the l...

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[ Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:05:45 +1100 ]

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 blown...

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[ Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:01:47 +1100 ]

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 last ...

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[ Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:34:58 +1100 ]

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 mums an...

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[ Mon, 5 Oct 2009 23:03:39 +1100 ]

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’ve ...

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[ Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:02:50 +1000 ]

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 cessation of...

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[ Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:28:48 +1000 ]

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 pub

These 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? Well this is ...

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[ Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:41:00 +1000 ]

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 fact th...

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[ Mon, 7 Sep 2009 23:25:33 +1000 ]

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 tasksI�...

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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 Telstra

The 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 wasn�t completely unexpected�. Tech Talk Radio�s 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 previous ...

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TTR Ep 1608 - CDMA closure, Christopher Boyd, RSA2008, Voice Biometrics, Apple clones, ACCC and Paypal

Two things in this world are for sure, life and death, and this week in Australia, we�re 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.�AMPS�was the first generation of mobile communications.�At the time of CDMA�s 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; a d...

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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. In the case of Micro...

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[ Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:13:13 +1000 ]

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 UK

If 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 video....

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[ Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:11:31 +1000 ]

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 digital TV...

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[ Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:08:20 +1000 ]

TTR Ep 3209: Tech Talk Radio

While the cat is away, the mice will play.... ...

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[ Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:50:11 +1000 ]

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 users

Just 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 which Ya...

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[ Thu, 6 Aug 2009 06:26:53 +1000 ]

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 kitchen b...

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[ Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:57:00 +1000 ]

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 early...

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[ Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:20:01 +1000 ]

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 Google a...

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[ Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:31:50 +1000 ]

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 a dig...

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[ Mon, 6 Jul 2009 23:15:48 +1000 ]

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...more

Social 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. Mr. Jackson’s death is also prompting some peop...

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[ Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:15:05 +1000 ]

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 on by...

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[ Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:09:53 +1000 ]

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 mobile dat...

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[ Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:17:46 +1000 ]

TTR Ep 2309: Commonwealth Bank Spam, Australian e-scurity awareness week, Google Wave, Google Flu Trends, Google Squared, Twitter Impersonators

As 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, did ...

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[ Mon, 8 Jun 2009 23:04:15 +1000 ]

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 COST o...

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[ Mon, 1 Jun 2009 23:05:54 +1000 ]

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 t

As 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 with. ...

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[ Mon, 25 May 2009 23:39:10 +1000 ]

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 years...

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[ Mon, 18 May 2009 22:56:06 +1000 ]

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 biggest...

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[ Mon, 4 May 2009 23:40:25 +1000 ]

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 ‘go it...

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[ Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:56:25 +1000 ]

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