Back on air after a two week break, this edition coming from Abu Dhabi.
We talk about the technology issues I have found since moving here and ways around these that are useful for all travellers and business peopl coming to the region.

Link mentioned: www.witopia.net and Tunnelblick the VPN of choice to get you online to everything

Ross Peden also review for us ReactOS which is a windows replacement operating system that uses windows applications and drivers.

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This week we  chat more about implementation of Cloud storage for your data based on my own recent experiences; Ross Peden introduces us to Ubiquity, and we do a round up of tech news.

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Cheers have a good week.

This week we provide a quick news update.

Ross Peden joins us to muse on the latest and greatest in Smart-phones

We interview the founders of a new Start-up here in Canberra called Perkler and their use of social media tools to connect customers and grow their online marketing presence.

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This weeks show is dedicated to my Grandson Oscar Keats who was born on the 28th November 2008 in London.

Full roundup of tech news this week plus a guest slot from Ross Peden who muses on the transition to Cloud computing applications and the way we are changing our online computing experience.

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We cover the the downunder craziness of the past week over the iPhone and update on recent other developments of an all tech nature this week.

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Quick roundup of the latest technology news from downunder for the week.
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This week some comments on setting up and using mixed 802.11b/g/n wireless network environments and the advantages of maintaining separate 802.11g (2.4GHz) and 802.11n(5.0GHz) environments.

We also cover off news of the week including closure of Australia's CDMA network, challenges to iTunes with new services from Nokia and VideoEzy.

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Stories this week:

1. Aussie team claims 5Gbps wireless breakthrough
2. iTWire
3. Industry, Apple haggles for hardware recycling help: News - Hardware - ZDNet Australia
4. NICTA chip moves large files wirelessly | Australian IT
5. Property business sunk after domain dispute: Insight - Communications - ZDNet Australia
6. ADSL2+: A wholesale disaster for Telstra shareholders?: Blogs - Full Duplex - ZDNet Australia
7. ABC boosts mobile offering | Australian IT
8. WiMAX 101: Is this the future of broadband? - Features - www.pcauthority.com.au
9. Aussie firm flying high with AU$50m Boeing contract: News - Software - ZDNet Australia
10. Unis upgrade networks for hyperconnected students: News - Hardware - ZDNet Australia
11. Secure internet stored in your pocket - Breaking News - National - Breaking News
12. Wireless driving Telstra earnings | Australian IT
13. Macquarie Uni taps YouTube to deliver lectures | Australian IT
14. Free Wi-Fi set to go full-time at Sydney libraries: News - Communications - ZDNet Australia
15. iTWire - CSIRO develops portable secure computing device
16. Quarter of all Aussie software is illegal: News - Software - ZDNet Australia
17. NSW wireless broadband network plan stalled | Australian IT

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Links to stories for this week:

• E-Commerce News: Malware: New Zealand Teen Nabbed in Big Botnet Bust
• Vodafone and Optus in mobile broadband war: Insight - Communications - ZDNet Australia
• Optus 3G Broadband Could Reach 7.2Mbps - Smart Office
• Delivering broadband network top of Labor's list - Hardware - www.itnews.com.au
• iTWire - Australians more comfortable with virtual identities than real self
• ReelTime to shutter Sydney office | Australian IT
• Australians 'encourage' online fraud | Australian IT
• Australia gets new Minister for Broadband | APC Magazine
• NZ govt mulls new trans-Tasman cable - Breaking News - Business - Breaking News
• Australian doodles impress Googler | Australian IT
• CSIRO holding high hopes for new battery - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
• Oz study confirms iPods boost learning - Education - Macworld UK

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This weeks show is all to do with phones.

Links on the blog to stories covered:

• The Antipodean Podcast Blog: Skype Phone revealed and the winner is.....
• The Antipodean Podcast Blog: Links for 19/10/07
• The Antipodean Podcast Blog: Digital radio coming to mobiles
• The Antipodean Podcast Blog: Boarding passes go mobile
• The Antipodean Podcast Blog: In-flight connectivity
• The Antipodean Podcast Blog: Australian VoIP providers 'must do better on 000'
• The Antipodean Podcast Blog: Telstra Next G audited as CDMA closure looms
• The Antipodean Podcast Blog: The bare facts about 'naked DSL'

  This weeks show covers:

3 working on low-cost Skype mobile: News
PayPal, eBay and Yahoo begin rollout of authentication technology
ACCC drops Google Australia case
Phishing scams baffle Australians
Solar research, factory for Victoria
Australia to join US military network
Canberra a data hub target
Aussie Solar Innovation takes off with US power supply deal
Federal govt knocks back Aussie games industry
Ad agency cribbed my lecture notes: professor
Air NZ set to pioneer biofuel for airliners
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This week:

A cautionary tale about small form factor CD-DVD discs and the Mac Superdrives.  I also cover off this weeks CEBIT exhibition held in Sydney
CEBIT Companies mentioned:

1. Online Storage - Datamate
2. Seond Life Graphics - The Project Factory
3. GPRS Web surfer - Pocketsurfer
4. HD Video Camera - AIPTEK

Other stories:

1. Need for broadband reaching 1Gbps by 2017
   
2. Australian Government to host personal web accounts
3. Do Not Call Site collapses under load
4. Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales get caught by the Chaser
5. Twitter falters in Australia
   
6. Unwired raises required $15M
7. Blind pilot lands in Sydney

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Topics covered this week:

1. The 3 network Netconnect card - experiences so far
2. Upgrading your hard disk using Acronis
3. Skypes new Pro Service to launch in Australia
4. Paypal to test keychain security dongle in Australia
5. Unwired funding update
6. The birth of solid disk (Flash) storage drives up to 128GB
7. Comments on Telstra and broadband expansion - the war continues
8. Comet McNaught dazzles southern skies
9. Student break solar car road trip record

Podsafe music: Smooth Breeze by Guardian Mind Mix

The Antipodean Podcast has some coverage this week of the Consumer ElectronicsElectrontics Show (CES) held in Las Vegas from the techpodcasts network  and courtesy of Andy McCaskey from Slashdot Review and Todd Cochrane from the Geek News Central Podcast.  Thanks to both for making this available to TPN members for inclusion in their shows.  Also congratulations to both Todd and Andy on a martathon effort at CES in producing both audio and video coverage of the event.  Go to www.techpodcasts.com for full coverage.

CES items covered:

• Near Field Communications - Mobile doubles as credit card for payment
• Wowee - is it a bird?
• SmartshopperUSA -The reminder we all need
• Parrot - bluetooth enable picture frames

Other items covered this week:

• Australia trial Low cost laptop from the One Laptop Per Child program
• Ericsson Australian Consumer lab survey Ã�¢ï¿½ï¿½ what we like
• Microsoft Australia gets new Managing Director
• Boeing joins Queensland Scramjet project
• Caffeine in drinks Ã�¢ï¿½ï¿½ potential issue for children
• Aussies get to see new comet this week
• Aussie Zoo puts humans on display

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This week:

• Update of 3G – Hutchisons 3Mobile  launches HSDPA network and new Data card and plans; also see Om Maliks State of 3G piece
• CSIRO Wireless patent kerfuffle – update
• Unwired gets Deloittes Tech award
• Reeltime.tv launches download to wn movies in Australia – TechCrunch says model will not work
• Controversy surrounds pending bill on Australian Copyright laws – we could all go to jail
• YouTube gets into politics in Australia
• Government launches education program to convert analogue TV uswers to digital
• ICANN chief warns of domain name chaos if non-latin characters adopted.

Podsafe music this week: A special place, Greg Federico

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This week we review three types of media streaming devices; the MediaGate 350 HDD, the Slimboxes from Slim Devices and the Wireless audio streaming system from Logitech.

For a comprehensive review of the MediaGate product go here to the CNet site.

We would love feedback on your experiences with these devices and others; please use the comment fields.

Show notes to be posted later. All stories found at the Antipodean Podcast Blog.

No music this week.

Topics Covered:

1. Podcast and coverage from the Successful Innovation Workshop 2006
2. Interview with Metrioo - Mesh Wireless in Australia?
3. Qantas worries about Dell laptops
4. Update on Unwired - wireless network in Australia
5. Comments on the 2006 Eureka awards for Science
6. Aussie Maths genius awarded major prize

Podsafe music this week: Evans Essence from Anne Farnsworth

Topics covered: Comments on how the Australian 2006 Federal Budget provide additional support for the ICT, Medical Sciences and venture capital sectors; coverage and four interviews with exhibitors at CEBIT Australia 2006 held this past week in Sydney. Review of the U3 USB flashdrive Podsafe music from the Podsafe Music Network http://music.podshow.com); Tabasuco, by  KC Saito. Full stories found at www.antipodeanpodcast-blog.com.au

Topics covered:  New WiMax roll outs starting in city and regional areas; Broadband users topping 3 million but uptake slowing; iBurst wireless seeking to expand into new cities; Potetnetial challenges face 3G operators as switchover rools on; Australia urged not to regulate internet content; new VOIP player enters crowded market; Digital radio to launch in Australia in 2008; Kiwi dad gives away $40M proceeds from sale of internet auction site; Sky TV services restored in Oz and Kiwi land; Singapore introduces new biometric passports; BP enters biofuels market with fats fuel; Discovery of genes which regualte sperm and egg production. Podsafe music: The Woodshedders, from the podsafe music network (www.music.podshow.com). Full stories at www.antipodeanpodcast-blog.com

Topics covered: Australia plays role in guiding Stardust space probe home (report courtesy www.abc.net.au); New update to skylook (v1.5) www.skylook.biz; New Successful Innovation Podcast – In Dialogue series (www.indialogue.com.au); Australians in new ePassport trial; Sony BMG joins iTunes Australia; Internet users and website judgement; Staff cuts at Telstra; Wristwatch to monitor malaria potential; Taiwan and Microsoft; Geekery as a personality trait; Zepto and Yocto; A bird in the bush (report courtesy www.abc.net.au) Music played from the Podsafe Music Network: Sweet Blossom, Robin Stine; I can’t see you, Lovespirals. Full stories at The Antipodean Podcast Blog

Topics covered: TypePad off the air - issues; iTunes download and contact issues; New WiMax spectrum to be released in Australia during 206; Update on WiMax and new standard; Research in Australia to bring new faster wireless technology; Telstra still growing soon to be defunct CDMA network; Gartner – warning over Blackberry implementation; bizarre – new RSSTROOM reader; Butterflies may bring us new optical imaging technology; Aussies Nobel’s pick up their gongs; Music played (source; The Podsafe Music Network): Silk Route by SayYa; Jingle bells by Natalie Brown; and from Kevin McLeod, a surprise. Full stories at The Antipodean Podcast Blog (assuming TypePad get their act together)

Topics covered: Telstra releases new growth and infrastructure strategy; Opposition from other Telco’s claiming anti-competitive behaviour; Optus launches new 3G/GSM/WiFi network; Australian Federal Government to invest additional 3.1 billion on Telco infrastructure; Australian Federal Government to create new critical infrastructure guidelines; Unwired feeling left out with new 3Gcompetition over WiMax; Hand cranked laptop for kids; Harriet the Tortoise reaches 175th birthday; New treatment in the works for cervical cancer; Genetics and cerebral palsy; Better anti venoms needed in Australia; Aussie lizards have toxic bite. Music played: Intro: Latin Salsa, K. Macleod; Welcome to Cairo Street, Jim Fidler (Podsafe Music Network); To hold you again, James La Brie ( Podsafe Music Network); Full stories at The Antipodean Podcast Blog

Topics covered: iTunes Store commences in Australia; Vegemite; Unwired welcomes competitors; Austar to roll out wireless broadband; Vodafone Australia to launch 3G Internet this week; Telstra will it allow other ISPs to access its new ADSL2+ network?; Digital TV in Australia Analogue transmission unlikely to be shut off; VOIP thriving in Australian customers happy; Auction of prehistotric Wollemi pines; Understanding Autism; Code of practice released for aussie biotech companies; GM rabbit virus causes concerns. Useful podcast; Successful Innovation Podcast Music played:The boy from Alabama meets the girl from Gundagai, Joy Nichols, 1942 (Unknown Source); flash Jack from Gundagai, Franklyn B. Paverty Bush Band (Unknown Source); Made for two, Robin Stine (Podsafe Music Show).Full stories at The Antipodean Podcast Blog

Topics covered: Dutch car wins solar car race; Ausses research investment increases; Fibre to the home in Tasmania; Asia rolling out WiMax; Interview with Sean Murdock, Nanobusiness Alliance. Music played: Intro: courtesy Ken MacLeod. From the podsafe music network; unknown by Larry Seyer;Cebrella-Electronics, by Denis Kitchen.Full show notes at The Antipodean Podcast Blog

Full show notes at: The Antipodean Podcast Blog Summary Show notes: BPL large scale trial begins in Tasmania; Wireless Institute of Australia logs first BPL interference report; Comments from Steve Stroh and Jim Sutton at Wireless Tech Radio 14th September show; Tale of two Texas towns and BPL and NPR report on BPL from Flatonia Tx.Music: Opening: Courtesy and with thanks, Kevin McLeod. Closing music: Larrys Waltz, from Larry Seyer from the podsafe network

Items covered: Intel invests in Unwired; Intels invests in Skype; National RFID Trial to get underway; More on Broadband over powerlines; Skylook: Interview with Skylook co-founder Jeremy Hague, the Skype recording tool; Interview with Craig Doyle, CEO of the SSHED a business accelerator near Sydney;Oil Bubbles perserve ancient algae; US-Australia FTA may lead to IP problems over stem cell research

This show includes: Introduction, Telstra Small Business Awards 2005; Podsafe music courtesy of Incompetech.com; VOIP delivered over powerline broadband; Google invests on broadband over powerlines; Australian Government invests in regional braodband infrastructure; Unwired and Austar team up to share spectra; Koalas and Chlamydia vaccine; Dark Age on Innovation

Topics covered: Tesltra service levels; more on Unwired; broadband grows; Navini in Mauritius; bare bottoms in NZ.

A sound-seeing tour around the CEBIT exhibitors chatting about their products and services - sometimes geeky, sometimes amusing, and sometimes serious.

A note on the superb field microphones from Giant Squid Audio Labs - ideal for podcasters more details: http://www.giant-squid-audio-lab.com/

Topics covered: CSIRO in legal challenge of wireless techology patent; podsafe latino piece; update on Unwired/Navini WiMax roll out in Australia

A conversation with Tod Maffin (Iloveradio.org)during his recent visit to Sydney Australia. Topics covered: the dot com era and investing; telco dominance in the ISP market; public broadcasting and podcasting;and everything else that seemed relevant at the time. A fun interview. Enjoy

This show examines the new and alternative forms of wireless technologies currently being rolled out commercially in Australia. These include the 'iburst' and 'unwired' systems which have significant advantages over the 802.11 technology. These new systems are likely to become global standards once the WiMax Protocols are ratified. Listen to the show and learn how Australia is leading the world as a major test bed, albeit in a commercial environment, for these systems.