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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 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 ]

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 hous...

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[ Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:44:44 +1000 ]

TTR Ep 1509: Tech Talk Radio's Easter Holiday Show

Happy 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....

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[ Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:13:28 +1000 ]

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 crow...

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[ Mon, 6 Apr 2009 19:30:04 +1000 ]

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 heck...

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[ Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:27:50 +1100 ]

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 has a ...

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[ Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:16:20 +1100 ]

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. It’s easy to be cynical...

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[ Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:24:19 +1100 ]

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 of t...

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[ Mon, 9 Mar 2009 19:16:59 +1100 ]

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. The news was received by a range of sectors with one underlying message, Good...

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[ Mon, 2 Mar 2009 23:22:35 +1100 ]

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. According to the repor...

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[ Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:02:21 +1100 ]

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 lying ...

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[ Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:24:02 +1100 ]

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, showi...

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[ Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:16:53 +1100 ]

TTR Ep 0509: Google Dilemmas with Malware and Deer, Apple TV, National Broadband Network, Telstra and Sol, Bluray, Freeview and more

For 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? In other news, the Federal government is scheduled to announc...

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[ Mon, 2 Feb 2009 23:36:36 +1100 ]

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[ Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:30:12 +1100 ]

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[ Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:39:24 +1100 ]

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[ Mon, 5 Jan 2009 22:29:24 +1100 ]

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[ Thu, 1 Jan 2009 07:45:12 +1100 ]

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[ Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:29:59 +1100 ]

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[ Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:00:19 +1100 ]

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[ Mon, 8 Dec 2008 23:32:08 +1100 ]

TTR Ep 4808: Last show for 2008 - NBN Update, will it ever be built?, Commonwealth Bank tech blunder, Twitter becomes Munmai hero, Internode to resell Telstra ADSL2

As we near the end of 2008 and while everyone�s thoughts are focusing on the festive season, it�s time to look back on the year that was and to look forward to what 2009 has in store for us. The biggest impact this year was the world financial crisis affecting nearly every business and consumer globally. Not only are their flow on effects yet to be realised, but the price of innovation and manufacture in all industries is fluctuating like never before. Apple Computers would have to be the stand...

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[ Tue, 2 Dec 2008 00:18:38 +1100 ]

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