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Tech Talk Radio|TTR Ep 1708 - Windows XP SP3, Vista a 'work in progress', ABS release Aus internet statistics, Maxtor data protection, Website credibility, Email credibility, Fast Flux, Microsoft's cloud Episode
In a new Internet Activity Survey which was released last Thursday, the 24th of April, results collected by the Australian Bureau of Statistics reveal Australian’s took up broadband and wireless Internet connections in record numbers during 2007. In fact, at the end of the December quarter, there were 7.10 million subscribers to the Internet in Australia, of which comprised 964,000 business and government subscribers, and 6.14 million household subscribers. With Australia’s population around 21.2m, that’s not too shabby when it comes to household use, but business and government subscribers seem to be on the low side.
This release contains results from all ISPs operating in Australia as at 31 December 2007. For December quarter 2007 there were 421 operating ISPs contributing to the estimates.
The number of non dial-up subscribers recorded at the end of December 2007 was 5.21 million, compared with dial-up subscribers of 1.89 million - an increase of 33% since September 2006.
Most of those were converts from dial-up rather than new Internet users, but the total number of Internet connections did increase over that period; 6.65 million to 7.1 million.
The biggest change to our connectivity in 2007 was the arrival of wireless broadband. Over 481,000 people were connected to wireless broadband at the end of the December 2007, compared with 186,000 connected in September 2006, once again a substantial increase.
Connections with download speeds of 1.5Mbps or greater increased to 2.51 million or 35% of subscribers in December 2007, compared to 1.13 million or 17% of subscribers at the end of September 2006. For December 2007 a breakdown of higher download speeds has been released for the first time.
The makers of Maxtor and Seagate release a new portable hard drive with built in security.
Lidija Davis continues her reports from RSA 2008, and this week she talks to the makers of Maxtor and Seagate hard drives, as they launch the first portable hard drive with build in security encryption!
Also on This Weeks Show
Microsoft’s top boss Steve Ballmer says Microsoft could keep XP if customers want it.
Adam Turner looks at the the Australian Nokia Music Store
We continue Lidija’s report from the RSA conference in San Francisco – this week portable hard drives with built in data protection and
Microsoft admits Vista is a “Work in progress”
[ Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:58:38 +1000 ]
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