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Monday December 3 2012 It's the last Tech Talk Radio for 2012, and the last show in the current format. Join the panel, and or dedicated studio audience as we look back on the past 8 years of the show.

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

Monday November 19 2012 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 Website: http://ch.eer.io/ Notification service for app.net Odd Spot: Taliban email blunder exposes members on their mailing list

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 Website: Videohive is a great source of royalty free media including stock footage, DVD menus and motion graphics

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 travelers 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.

Monday October 29 2012 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 Website: http://lotrproject.com/ Looking for previous Apps of the Week? or may be previous Websites of the Week

Monday October 22 2012 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 revenues, 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 Website:http://ecwid.com/ If you’re a web developer, or a WordPress blogger, and you want a simple, easy-to-figure shopping cart app with a slick UI, this is the site for you.

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.

Monday September 24, 2012 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 Website: What's your klout? "Klout.com" is a measure of your social friendliness.

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 Website: http://profileengine.com/

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 Website: http://spaceweatherradio.com/ Looking for previous Apps of the Week? or may be previous Websites of the Week

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 Website: http://www.googleearthanomalies.com/ This site contains postings and satellite images from The Ultimate Anomaly Collection of over 5,000 Google Earth placemarks. Looking for previous Apps of the Week? or may be previous Websites of the Week

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 Website: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

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.

Monday July  30 - 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.