Topics covered this week:

1. Comments on changing ISPs and ADSL2+
2. Squeezeboxes and Slim Devices - music streaming nirvana
3. Pacific ISP link new faults
4. Newton vs the Samsung Q1 tablet - have we moved very far?
5. Omnidrive the new Aussie online storage solution
6. Kazaa goes legal
7. HSDPA from Hutchinson 3G next year
8. Motorola to trial WiMax mobile phones
9. NZ Telecom to ramp up internet speeds
10. NZ talent brain drain to Australia
11. Australian 2006 Census goes online
12. Australian Banks fail in online communications test
13. Universities spent 4.2 billion on R&D and increase industry engagement
14. Biotechs urged to merge
15. Steps in fight against Hepatitis C
16. New Aussie Alzheimers Drug
17. Pluto warming up
18. Aussie Jenolan caves - worlds oldest
19. More calls for renewable energy alternatives
20. Weird and wacky - sucking sea spiders from the deep
21. Student patent anemone captive breeding process
22. New podcast: In The Newz from ATP Innovations
    

Music this week:

Dixie mashup from Dave Winer et al.
Miami from Gumbi Ortiz from the Podsafe Music Network

Topics covered this week:

1. CSIRO loses a round in WiFi Patent case
2. Qantas to offer inflight broadband
3. Malaysia scrap Wimax broadband tender
4. Optus readies launch of new communications satellite
5. Free VOIP calls in Australia and overseas with Gizmo
6. New smart electricity meters to be introduced
7. Broadband has killed the bicycle courier
8. ABC (Australia) world leader on podcasting
9. IT calender girl website controversy
10. Australia: Scientist shortage looms
11. New Gen 3G to be launched in New Zealand
12. Google sets up in New Zealand
13. NZ dangerous place to travel?
14. New signs of life on Mars? Fossils look good
15. New Artificial heart project
16. Iodine deficiency in australia
17. Update on Aussie life style stats for 2005
18. Visit blubrry.com the podcast social network
    

Podsafe music this week: January, by Kelly Goodlad, from the Podsafe Music Network

Topics covered: Australians in Lebanon (http://antipodean14.blogs.com/lebanon_crises_2006) and reflections on a  more peaceful time;  G9 telco consortium and a new plan to create FTTN network to compete with Telstra. Comments from ABC morning breakfast program (www.abc.net.au/rn); World has 2 billion mobiles on line; Vodafone launches 1.8Mbits/s 3G modem; BigAir gets into VDSL services in Australian apartment complexes; New mobile services R&D centre opens in Tasmania; Researchers unveil new TV messaging services for remote communities; New Australian flat telescope to be built; Killer Kangaroo fossils unearthed; Bacteria linked to gold nugget formation; Dire warnings on antarctic ice melt predictions; Olive leaves - cancer killing potential; CSIRO revamps scientist communication policy; Australian States may go it alone on stem cell research - opposed to federal bans; global Happy Plant Index - we dont do rank well; Podsafe music this week from the Podsafe Music Network: Witch Hunt by Ron Helman, and Cairo Street by Jim Fidler

Topics covered: A protein based terabyte storage capacity?; Superglue used to stop data theft; Sydney workers addicted to email; Britons and gadgets lead to environmental warning; Unisys wins large biometrics deal; 802.11n products begin to hit Australian stores; Brain research and legal defences; More efforts required to track asteroids; Virus lurks in Koala Gerome; Dog DNA may help human disease research; Government urged to continue trials of anti-blindness drug; Dodo update; Bigfoot update; Aussie inventions celebrated; NZ Antarctic program in doubt; R&D alive and well in New Zealand, New Zealand nano company heading into big things. Podsafe music; Blue in Rain by K C Saito and Forty Five from Whispering Johnson, from the Podsafe Music Network.

Topics covered: New online office-like products from Zoho are worth a look; Aussie consumers spend more on gadgets than life essentials; Report from USA Today on Australia as a key centre for entrepreneurial activity; Australia broadband uptake slows as migration to ADSL reaches peak; Wireless technologies in Australia regarded as key for the future but infrastructure still embryonic; 3G services now cover Perth and Adelaide as Optus and Vodafone expand coverage; SingTel aims at 100mbps over copper with new VDSL service; New high speed network for academics and researchers in State of Victoria; Netgear releases new 200mbps broadband over power lines for home networking; New trial to begin in Australia for Bird flu vaccine; New trial commences for antibacterial contact lens; Cane toads advance on Western Australia; Dingo urine works as marsupial repellent; Tassie devils disease changing the ecological balance in Tasmania; Comments on Stems cells and cloning; Scientist starting to uncover the story around the Dodo extinction.  Podsafe music from the Podsafe Music Network; Swing that thing by Johnny Ferreira