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:

• Review of two new HSDPA 3G services -Telstra and Vodafone
• Comments on the iMate JASJAM phone and PDA
• Typepad mobile for mobile blogging
• CSIRO wins WLAN patent case
• Rupert Murdoch slams Aussie broadband speeds and creates a controversy
  
• ADSL2+ Annex M approved and launched by Internode
• First Aussie deployment of WiMax
• BlueAnt Wireless earns CEA award
• Australia’s mounting e-Waste problem
• Sea robots aid climate research
• Huge icebergs float by New Zealand
• Low salaries inhibit development of Malaysian Biotech sector
• Sheep Genome mapping almost complete
• New Zealand students allowed to use SMS text speak in exams!
• The birth of the air guitar’

Podsafe Music this week: ‘ Live to love, love to live', by Greg Federico

1. Check out Omnidrive - an Aussie company offering online storage which is simple and fast
2. Zookoda - the Aussie company offering comprehensive email marketing application for bloggers and companies
3. Stem cell cloning bill passes Australian Senate
4. Controversy of government subsidies for new cervical cancer vaccine
5. Google - the doctors best friend
6. Benitec - Gene silencing company hopes for acquisition
7. Telstra finally opens up pipe to ADSL2+
8. Google warns about problems with proposed Australian Copyright laws
9. Climate predictions: Heating up, rainfall down
10. CSIRO releases revolutionary new Air Shower

1. Update of broadband over power lines - new convergence of applications appearing but interference with certain frequencies still an issue.  See relevant stories at the Antipodean Podcast Blog.
2. ISP complaints in Australia on the rise
3. New Australian Nuclear reactor fires up
4. Federal government raising the Nuclear power debate in Australia with predictions that we will have such services within 15 years.
5. Marsupial polyandry-selecting the fittest.