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Monday November 19 2012

On the show today, Click Frenzy fizzles. The European Parliament has passed a resolution opposing what is being termed as a United Nations-backed takeover of the Internet.

Internode has begun to roll out voice services over the NBN following the conclusion of a 12 month service trial. And Telstra is investigating the cause of a fire in its Warrnambool exchange in south-western Victoria that knocked out fixed and mobile voice and internet services for up to 60,000 customers.

And Google has signed a multi-territory licensing deal with a conglomerate of European music publishers called Armonia.

Don't forget Adam's View from the couch where he asks, is skipping the ads stealing? Leena has the latest in gaming news and there's the usual odd spot, gadget, app and website of the week.

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Odd Spot:German police stop man with mobile office in car

Monday November 19 2012

On the show today, Vodafone Hutchison Australia continues to lose customers and money despite a heavy investment in networks and branding, with revenue for the second half of 2012 down 14.8 percent on the previous half.

Google's fibre network goes live in Kansas, Torrent tracker The Pirate Bay has been hit by a distributed denial of service attack with the site ceasing to serve requests from users. The outage was confirmed on Twitter by one of The Pirate Bay's accounts, and is believed to have been orchestrated by a user called Zeiko.

Also Microsoft sold four million upgrades to its Windows 8 operating system in the three days following the system's launch, strangely, Steven Sinofsky, the president of both Microsoft's Windows and Windows Live divisions, is leaving the company with immediate effect and with no reason given? Better offer? Or did he fall on his sword? And Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, after being denied an African .ga domain, has found his way to New Zealand.

Gadget: Scarecrow Laser Tanks

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Odd Spot: Taliban email blunder exposes members on their mailing list

Monday November 12 2012

Monday November 12 2012

On the show tonight, Conroy ditches the controversial mandatory ISP filter which was an election promise at the last federal election.

Interesting that Telstra is to retry it’s Next G web filter service as well.

ISP TPG faces court over triple zero access, and Telco’s declare that SMS is unsafe for banking transactions.

Also if you’ve ever wondered what a copyrighted tweet is, well wonder no more as Twitter starts to withdraw them.

And Adam turner sips the latte with Scott Sheedy, founder of WP Down Under blog about Microsoft’s strategy surface tablets.

Gadget: Apple's iPad Mini. 7" of the best

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Monday November 5 2012

On the show tonight, are we being to judgmental too soon on Microsoft's new OS, windows 8? Adam Turner has some thoughts on this.

Is Telstra up to it's old tricks again? Last week the telco upped the anti in its fight to stop Naked DSL being mandated as a wholesale service, turning to projected system costs and interference investigation data to dissuade the competition watchdog. Qantas has deployed an Optus wifi service in 40 frequent flyer lounges across the country, replacing a Telstra network that travellers previously found unreliable.

In the aftermath of 'Sandy' last week, data centres in that part of the US are problematic with power supply and flooding issues, as we mentioned last week Kim Dotcom, the founder of the shuttered file-sharing site Megaupload, announced a new online storage service called Mega that will give users direct control — and responsibility — over their files, and a UK Court of Appeal has rapped Apple's knuckles for failing to comply with a court order requiring the company to post on its website a simple statement saying Samsung had not copied its iPad designs.

On the show today, we'll take a look at the new arrivals in the tech world last week, primarily from the biggest two companies in the world, Apple and Microsoft. The long time rumored and highly anticipated iPad mini has finally been revealed, and the not so long awaited, in fact probably the most under whelming software launch for the year, Windows 8 went on sale. In fact it was so under whelming that ABC radio's AM presenter Tony Eastly refereed to it as Windows 9. Oh dear Microsoft.

Also this week Tiger Airways Australia has been slapped with an $110,000 infringement notice by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) for failing to unsubscribe customers from marketing emails. Taiwanese based HTC profits slump big time this quarter after on the heels of a record run in 2012, Alleged online piracy kingpin and alleged musician Kim Dotcom is back in business, and rumor has it that the next biggest shortage in the world is touch screens.

Don't forget there's also the usual odd spot, gadget, app and website of the week, as well Leena's back after GCAP last week so that's all to come.

Gadget: The Livescribe Sky WiFi Smartpen

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On the electronic media in Australia is back in the news as the nine network given a life line, the 10 network starts to head south and recalcitrant Alan Jones sent off to journalism school – what the, the shock jock isn't qualified?

Also this week Google has resisted nearly two thirds of Australian government requests to remove content from its massive online archive, The world's best-known BitTorrent site,

The Pirate Bay, has switched over to cloud-based hosting in an effort to cut costs, improve uptime and data security but most of all, make itself almost invulnerable to police raids.

Also, your iPhone 5 was probably made by underage labor, and Microsoft announced that it will release a version of its long-awaited Internet Explorer 10 web browser for Windows 7 in the middle of next month, to coincide with the general availability of the new Windows 8 operating system.

Monday October 15 2012

On the show today, AllThingsD reports that Apple appears to be planning to hold a media event soon to introduce the "iPad mini", Apple's smaller tablet device said to be carrying a display measuring 7.85 inches diagonally. As well, Apple’s market share is on the increase up against PC vendors.

Australia’s telecommunications ombudsman says the new telco code won’t end bill shock, social messaging looks to decimate carrier revinues, and Australian television networks start talking about streaming as well, it’s the beginning of the end of one of Australia’s long running tech shows - Tech Talk Radio, as we announce the end of the show in it's current configuration. All is revealed on air as we head to our last show on December 3.

Gadget: LG's Massive 84-Inch 4K 3D TV has an unsurprisingly huge price tag

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Monday October 8, 2012

On today's show, if you needed proof that Australian’s have taken to smartphone technology in droves then look no further than Telstra data and call stats from the MCG on grand final day. It blew the previous year out of the park. Also on the anniversary of Steve Jobs death, Tim Cooke publically apologises for Apples first attempt at maps. The Compact disc turns 30, there’s a new twitter in the social sphere, Apple claimed 80% of the tablet market 1 year ago, but that’s down to 50% now, making the iPad mini a viable contender in today’s tablet wars, but will it fragment the Apple ecosystem even more? Adam Turner sheds some light on the rough waters ahead for the world’s largest tech company.

Monday October 1, 2012

On the show today. Apple maps has made the news for the wrong reasons. Tim says "Sorry".

Australia's new data retention laws come under the microscope. Facebook - a help and a hindrance in law enforcement. There's water on Mars! and the pictures prove it.

Woolworths considers Dick Smith as no longer Fresh. Is there life after death for Netspace? Justin Timberlake thinks so and finds 35 Million reasons to make change. Adam checks out the new Motorola Razor, and Leena looks back at Freeplay and Valve hardware looks probable sometime next year. And Sony aims to be profitable this year.

On the show today. Apple's new iPhone has finally hit the stores globally, and as you'd expect, demand and sales have gone ballistic. And now that it's on the streets, we can take a look at the good, the bad and the ugly with the new smartphone. Adam view from the couch this week is all about Apples' new passbook feature along with a few things that didn't make the cut. Then there's ios6. Some devices took advantage of many of the new features while some missed out altogether. We'll tell you what got what.

The world didn't just stop for Apple this week. There's new on the patent front, Australia's communication regulator has illegal mobile phone repeaters firmly in its sights, and Google Maps announces a 400 year advantage over Apple Maps. Them's fighting words.

Last week we told you where to sit in a train for best mobile phone coverage on the peak hour commute, this week we'll tell you where the best place is to sit in the plane, should you be about to crash!

Gadget: The Kindle Touch

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