Monday September 17, 2012

On the show this Monday, Apple's new iPhone finally sees the light of day, with the new iOS6 running the show, is it worth the upgrade from the iPhone 4? Or, if you're looking to upgrade any phone, is it worth the money, and more importantly, how well will it talk to Australian telephone Networks?

Dr Ron and Leena have eloped for the evening, so Adam Turner, one of Australia's best and independent tech journalists has kindly joined the panel tonight and will no doubt have plenty to say about the new Apple gadgets.

Also tonight, it's rumored that the US will launch a six strike copyright system later this year. Microsoft are updating their online portals for the imminent arrival of Windows 8 and last week the new Windows Phone Store replaced the Marketplace, Coders test the mettle in the new Windows 8, and Nintendo announce the launch date of the Wii U games console for later this year and Acer pulls it's smartphone launch over threats from Google.

Monday September 10 2012

On the show today, Adam Turner literally gets on a plane and travels to the other side of the world for the Nokia launch with the new Windows 8 operating system. Vodafone joins Telstra in location based Emergency SMS alerts, which will no doubt come in handy as Australia heads into summer.

Apple's GDP put's them at number 20 on the country list if they were in fact a country, and half their revenue comes from the sale of iPhones.

We take a look at the data retention shenanigans, Australia has been pipped by New Zealand in a new index by Sir Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web Foundation that aims to scope the "impact" of the Internet.

Optus has pinned its free-to-air TV recording hopes on the Australian Law Reform Commission after the High Court rejected its appeal against a Federal Court decision that found its TV Now service in breach of copyright.

Monday September 3 2012

On today’s show, unfortunately cyber bullying is front and centre again due to a high profile television personality being hospitalized after threats on Twitter.

In a world which is more connected than at any other time in history, it’s never been harder to escape the taunts of others unless you disconnect. Something which is becoming more and more difficult.

Also today Apple targets Samsung’s pride and joy as the fallout from the patent stouch rolls on, and in the same week, Samsung’s new Series 9 laptops have screen resolution to match Apple’s retina.

The two mobile operating systems Android and

iOS together make tech history, Optus make over their mobile offerings in the face of regulatory change, and Adam Turner looks at the technology that never happened – Video calls. Or will it?

Also this week Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram. A bioengineer and geneticist at Harvard's Wyss Institute have successfully stored 5.5 petabits of data — around 700 terabytes — in a single gram of DNA, smashing the previous DNA data density record by a thousand times. ...more

Gadget: The Batman Night Light

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Monday August 27 2012

On the show today, In a verdict that would have warmed the heart of late Apple CEO Steve Jobs, a US federal jury last Friday handed Apple a resounding legal victory in its bitter patent war with Samsung, ordering the South Korean tech giant to pay more than $1 billion in damages for "willfully" copying the iPhone and iPad.

Will this be the end of it, and what about the appeals and ongoing development for Samsung?

Also on the show today, we remember Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on another world who died this week aged 82.

8K TV is here! The Astor theatre given a new lease on life. Plants Vs Zombies II in 2013, and

Microsoft change their logo after 25 years, Coles up the technology offering in store to consumers, and The US Department of Justice has seized the domain names of three websites accused of distributing pirated Android apps.

Out of necessity this week, Adam Turner looks at mobility and technology. With the ever increasing need to stay connected away from the home and office, what are the options in todays vast range of gadgets for people on the go.

Gadget: The Sony SmartWatch

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Monday August 20 2012

On the show today, Tech stocks are on the move, some on the rise, and some in free fall. Is this indicative of the respective company's future prospects? Well tell you who's going which way and why.

As well, technology and cultural differences are at the cross roads in some countries and top level domains seem to be quite controversial in the Middle East.

The Olympics are done and dusted, and the host broadcaster, the BBC, have broken all records when it comes to Olympic data. Next month, September, is the big month for new tech gadgets and software. There'll be announcements, launches and updates coming thick and fast from all corners of the universe, so we'll keep you updated on who's doing what and when on the show tonight.

Adam Turner turns his attention to Microsoft's new Operating System Windows 8 and compares it to the current OS Windows 7, and Leena will be back off the bench today to keep us up to date in the world of gaming. So stick around!

Gadget: The Sony BDP-S790 BluRay Disc Player

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Monday August 13 2012

On the show today, Hackers are doing what they do best and Last week it was ASIO’s turn, along with one of the world’s biggest game developers, Blizzard.

Using data to send voice on a telephony service isn’t new, and in the United States and Korea, we’re starting to see voice over LTE usage rise, (that's the new 4G technology now being rolled out by local carriers) but according to local telco’s, it’s still a couple of years off here in Australia.

Also this week, Google cops a whopper of a fine for mixing cookies with Safari, and the ACCC cracks down on Wi-Fi ready TVS.

Also Apple tightens it’s policies after the Mat Honan's hack last week, which is Adam’s View from the couch this week. Should we all panic or is this just a storm in a tea cup.

Last week, a hackr got into Mat Honan's (pictured right) Apple account, remotely erased the data on his iPhone, iPad eand MacBook, deleted his Google account, commandeered his Twitter account, and then posted a string of nasty stuff under Honan's name. You can read more about it and drawyour own conlusions.

Gadget: The Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Cover

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Monday August 6 2012

On the show today,The 2012 Olympic Games are wrapping up in the UK, but here in Australia the fall-out from the abysmal channel nine coverage is just warming up. Most are asking ‘with today's technology, why do we have to put up with such terrible coverage on free to air?” Nine isn't the only one, NBC in the United States is also copping some flack.

Add social networking into the mix and the 10's of thousands of complaints on Channel Nine's Facebook wall, and you'd think they'd get the message and change their ways… One comment on Channel Nine's Facebook page, asking for the network to show sports other than ''swimming, repeats of swimming, interviews of swimming, analysis of swimming, previews of swimming'', posted by Matthew Taylor and signed ''the rest of Australia'', has attracted more than 105,000 ''likes''.

Adam Turner will compare the offerings on Free to air and pay TV in Australia.

Also on today's show, Microsoft tweaks Metro after trademark dispute. Are we starting to see a new tablet and phone market starting to appear with oversized phones and shrunken tablets merging? Windows 8 is off to the replicators, Facebook goes global with its version of an app store, Google revamps its Google Wallet with virtual card, and another of Australia's big banks release a new banking app.

There's the latest in Gaming, and the usual odd spot, gadget, app and website of the week. That's all to come on today's edition of Tech Talk Radio.

Gadget: The "autonomous emergency braking" system.

Website: http://www.kickstarter.com/ for US based Crowdfunding and http://www.pozible.com/ for the same in Australia.

On the show today,

The Olympic games are off and running, and within 24 hours of opening ceremony Telstra lift the prices on fixed line telephone services across Australia at the same time energy demand spikes globally especially in the UK.

British electricity demand soared following London's Olympics opening ceremony on Friday, the country's energy network operator said, as millions return to their daily routine by switching on the kettle or the washing machine. 

It was the week that saw Apple’s newest Operating System Mountain Lion, or 10.8 let out of it’s cage and free to roam the app store, as well, AAPT confirms being hacked because it was running an old version of Cold Fusion on it’s web servers with known vulnerabilities. Twitter’s whale floated to the surface again this last week as both the Micro blogging site and Google both went down for some time.

Apple demands $2.5b in damages from Samsung, and Vodafone prepares to put 3 into the ground permanently. So it looks like 3 is no longer the magic number and most of Australia’s cricketers will be out of a job.

Gadget: OP1 Portable Wonder Synthesizer

Website: ChillingEffects.org

Monday July 23

Microsoft announces the release date of its new Operating system Windows 8, at the same time announcing its first loss ever. Marissa Mayer takes up her new role as CEO of Yahoo,

It’s official, we’re just about to run out of Mobile phone numbers in Australia so ACMA has announced a new range of mobile telephone numbers to begin rolling out in the not too distant future.

Qantas rolls out iPads for in-flight entertainment, and there’s a new no fills ISP to resell the NBN but its only for those who are tech savvy, and

Adam takes a look at the future of device connectivity and accessory obsolescence with the pending release of Apples new phone rumored for the fourth quarter of this year.

Monday July 16

In these changing media times where newspapers are morphing into online portals, and TV stations are struggling to keep viewers, Telstra realises it's ambitions to become a content provider as well as a telco.

The US based video on demand service Netflix is now finding less of a demand for movies and more of a demand for show content.

Australian Telcos have been given six weeks to improve customer service standards on complaints handling, advertising and credit management, as the media watchdog prepares to register a revised code governing the industry. So will it finally mean the end of bill shock? And what about unit pricing like in the supermarkets?

In a first, Apple Australia allows in store payments to be billed directly to your iTunes account, and

Adam takes a look at Geoblocking, a technique used to prevent internet users outside a specific country access to services within that country and wonders if the rewards are worth the hassle.

Gadget: Motorola Xoom 2 Media Edition

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