A very big show this week - sorry to the listeners who like their 30 mins but there was just too many interesting stories this week from downunder.
full show notes links to the stories can be found on the blog here.

This we we discuss:

1. Skype and Leopard issues
2. ICANN's new NZ chairperson
3. Aussie scientist supercharges DSL
4. Google taps another Aussie researcher
5. UNSW lectures online -YouTube
6. The DARPA Challenge and Australian Innovators
7. Broadband speeds revisited
8. Unwired and femtocells
9. latest telco and ISP news
10. ThinkFree locks down to BigPond
11. Windfarms
12. Croc genes being dissected

All stories found at the Antipodean Podcast Blog
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This weeks show cover MAC Leopard, iPhone, naked DSL, general updates in the telco and IT space and a range of general science updates.  all main stories are found at www.antipodeanpodcast-blog.com

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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 week we chat about:

1. Aircraft fuel requirements
   
2. The 2007 Nobel prizes
3. Medical discoveries here in Australia
   
4. controlling feral pests
5. The Tassie devil and its genes
6. The iPod Touch experience

  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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A big catch up show this week covering a lot of technology and the life and physical sciences plus a bit of a rant. All stories can be found on the blog here

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This week I cover my experiences transitioning from the PC to the Mac and comment n the wonderful world of virtualisation using Parallels.
We also cover off the latest down under  tech stories for the past week.  All stories are found on the blog

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This week we talk a little about the MAC and Parallels, and do a quick news update on both technology and some medical sciences developments.  All stories are located at www.antipodeanpodcast-blog.com.

Forthcoming Australian Blogging Unconference, Brisbane, 28th September.  All details here.

This week we cover:

1. The Eureka Prizes - Australia's awards for Scientific Research
2. Updates on WiMax, 3G and all things Telco

We also run and extended inter with David Malloch, A leading technology business person and entrepreneur here in Canberra.

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All the background stories on this podcast can be found at the Antipodean Podcast Blog.

Go here for  details of the Broadband Environmental Challenge

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This week:

1. Technology and science news update from downunder all stories found on the blog at www.antipodeanpodcast-blog.com
2. Interviews on the Science, Technology and Innovation community in the Canberra region featuring:
1. Geoff Keogh, Keogh and Associates
2. Roslyn Hughes, CEO, Epicorp
3. Associate Professor Don Scott-Kemmis, Australian National University
4. Nick McNaughton, CEO, Blue Cove Ventures

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Topics covered this week:

1. iPhone hacked in Australia - sort of
2. Report - Laser printers pose big health risk
3. VOIP provider ENGIN gets new CEO
4. Reeltime TV records big losses
5. BigAir rolls out WiMax in Australia
6. Wimax Forums challenges Aussies criticism
7. Telstra faces spying probe
8. Will naked DSL be the way of the future for ISPs?
9. Survey says we do ok in IT infrastructure in global comparisons
   
10. Why bandwidth drives internet participation - Trends in the Living networks
11. New Australian Synchrotron opens
12. Hot Rocks power take another step
13. Shiraz secrets revealed

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No show notes this week, al stories found at:
www.antipodeanpodcast-blog.com
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Topics covered:

1. OPEL and the WiMax roll out in Australia
   
2. Census tells real picture of broadband use in Australia
3. CSIRO to help build new government portal
4. CSIRO gets positive ruling in wireless patent challenge
5. Global mobile use about to pass 50% level
6. Mobiles will not be jammed in Sydney during APEC meeting
7. Apple challenges Kiwi use of name for product
8. Looksmart gets ready to leave Australia
9. Australian jailed in US for cyberpiracy
10. RFID tags coming to Sydney airport for baggage
11. Solar Smart rubbish bins
12. Aussies love HD TV
13. Scientists find bat virus crosses to humans
14. Algae as a biofuel source
15. NSW State government finally approves therapeutic cloning
16. DNA, Dropping and the Tassie tiger
    

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This Week:

1. Cap-XX introduces new super capacitor for mobiles
2. Trades people - your next network admin?
3. Scramjet successfully tested a Woomera
4. Engin diversifies into TIVO and as an ISP reseller
5. Mobile ads to grow on back of 3G
6. Aussie Nuclear secrets revealed
7. The Chaser goes global
8. Paddocks without fences
9. $25M to help Kiwi-Aussie biotechnology companies
10. Sydney - desert for ideas and creativity

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This week we cover:

1. WiTricity
2. iPhone fever rife
3. Music live on your phone via Telstra
4. Smartgate gets some movement
5. Tivo to come to Australia
6. Skypes new packages a threat to telcos
7. Optus launches business VOIP service
8. New Stats on the health of Aussie broadband
9. Internode hikes prices, customers not happy
10. Telstra broadband meltdown
11. NSW Government approves therapeutic cloning
12. NZ Tuatara threatened by global warming

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Topics covered this week:

1. Parallels about to release v3.0 for Mac and its a goody
2. The Battle for fibre to the node in Australia reaches critical point
3. One laptop per child mesh networking tested in Australian Outback
4. Google keeps eye on new Aussie search engine MyLiveSearch
5. Aussie pollies line up for MySpace space
6. New alternative fuels centre open in Perth
7. Marge to low fat milk cow
8. More genes found links to breast cancer
9. Aussie bee industry in danger of collapse from US invader

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No detailed notes this week.  A quick catchup show and apologies for the lack of show last week due to illness. Feedback to antipodeanpodcast[at]gmail.com

This week we look at:

1. The Telstra Blog kerfuffle
2. Aussie Software pirate extradited to US
3. Privacy Concerns over Governments Net Plans
4. Federal Budget - no more money for broadband
   
5. $52M for radio telescope project
6. Reeltime.tv opens in New Zealand
7. Researchers and company board positions
8. Coverage of BIO07 in Boston
9. Nature Bank opens
10. New Vaccine developments

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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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This weeks stories:

1. Australian Web 2.0 company Zookoda sold to Payperpost
2. Australian Labor Party releases Science and Innovation Policy
3. New High capacity Telstra network launched
4. iiNet to offer free iTunes Downloads
5. Sony rescues Reeltime.tv
6. Virgin Mobile releases cheap data plan for 3G network Express card released for Telstra NEXTG service
7. Aussies lose out in US domain  name scandal
8. New deadly virus found which hampers transplantation
9. Coral and evolution
10. Dingoes and genetics
11. Real life Kryptonite

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A general technology and science catch up this week.  Following topics covered:

1. Qantas to allow in flight SMS and email � Trial
2. Optus testing 900MHz 3G
3. Web counting tools ned revision
4. NICTA spin out company sets up in USA
5. Australia ICT Deficit reaches $20 Billion
6. The announcement that wasn;t
7. Tassie ICT companies reap rewards
8. Aussie Music industry gets tough
9. The boy who duped YouTube
10. Stem Cell therapy makes women walk
11. First cloned Aussie beef cow
12. New diabetes treatment drug in trials
13. No indigenous diabetes gene
14. Aquanaut resurfaces after 2 weeks
15. Updates on new Australian biotech commercialization facilities

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This week I announce that I am stepping down from my current role as CEO of ATP Innovations to create a new start-up business called APTUS Strategy.

1. APTUS Strategy engages with clients at the intersection of Commercialisation, business development and  Communication and Marketing.
2. Our goal is to enhance our clients productivity, sales, level of client engagement and satisfaction and to enhance employee communication and motivation through the adoption and roll out of an integrated communications program using new social media networking tools.
3. We achieve this by tailoring your corporate communications and marketing programs through easy-to-use software tools, strategies and services based on the latest Web 2.0 concepts.

Also check our our new APTUS Strategy Blog; Market are Relationships
and podcast APTUS Vox

Additional Content this week:

1. Telstra and Google have a spam spat
2. Computer hobbyists are a dying breed
3. Green Power from hot rocks
   
4. Scramjet research to be centred in Brisbane
5. Aussie scientist discovers new Nebula
6. Scientists grow inner ear cells
7. Drugs from the Queensland rainforest given go ahead

Podsafe Music this week: Cats bite by Boom Boom Becket from the Podcafe Music Network

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Welcome to our 2nd year Anniversary Show.

Topics covered:

1. Listener feedback on hacking the Apple TV
2. New Aussie Yahoo search engine ALPHA launched
3. Note on issues with Parallels for Mac build 3188 - don't install
4. Aussie software assist African mobile operator
5. Rolling mobile ISP hotspots for African and Asian Countries
6. Telstra provides free WiFi to Qantas club customers
7. Telstra wins $85M contract to roll out NextG 3G
8. Down and out with PowerPoint
   
9. Solar power breakthrough in New Zealand
10. Algae munching biologist goes underwater
11. Pandemic trainings for doctors
12. IT responsibility and climate change

Podsafe Music this week: Summertime, from Boom Boom Becket
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Show notes:

• Check out the podcast interview with Vquence
• Techpodcast Network launchs new site
• Comments on Apple TV, check out movie conversion tool ImTOO
  
• 3 completed HSDPA Upgrade in major cities
• 3 announces new broadband content plans including Skype calls
• Vodafone tries prices revamp
• Telstra to put in new cable to USA
• Optus to launch new comms satellite
• Optus to roll out HSDPA by May 2007
• Optus glitch on phone calls lets other listen
• Sydney based PC tools gets included on Google pack
• Aussie credit cards maxed out on high tech gear
• Digital radio to launch in Australian end 2008
• Ribena Court case
• Berries help fight Cancer
• New Cancer target identified
• Cane toads evolving rapidly and predicted to spread
• Plan for Green Car innovation Fund by Labor Party
• Antarctic ice thinning
• Space junk or meteor narrowly misses plan
• Aussie wins YouTube award

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This weeks show covers:

• The big proposed changes in Australian broadband coverage should the opposition Labor party come to power as a result of this years federal election. This policy announcement in the face of the comical series of policy disasters by the federal government really shook the roots of the broadband debate, and was generally very well received. Will it happen? Tim will tell.
• RFID test bed set up in Sydney
• Aussies own more gadgets than Americans
  
• Commentary on the roll out of digital TV in the UK and US which appears to be well planned in both countries, and less so in Australia
• Aussies in love with LCD TVs compared with Plasmas, but a weird glitch hit LG brand TV’s here in Australia where they would freeze, and a fix will be costly.
• Launch of new video search company Vquence
• Calls to phase out non-stick chemical
• Call to ban nanomaterials in toiletries
• Discovery may increase shelf life of blood
• New species of Taipan found
• New bird flu test developed
• Climate change controversy over paper claims
  
• Dressing women in clothes from fermented wine

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Topics covered this week:

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• Check out two interesting sites shoutcast.com and zamzar.com
• iTunes primes for Aussie TV and Movie downloads?
• Factoid of the week
• Vint Cerf – Aussies will demand better broadband
• Comments on French Internet offerings vs those on Oz
• Communications Minister messages disappoint
• G9 Consortium readies for Fibre to home proposal and Telstra threatens class action whilst still working on its own proposal in the background
• Link to choosing a great Aussie broadband deal
• Skype certified enterprise gateway being marketed in Australia
• Optus plans small business VOIP offering
• Sydney to wait for DVB-H mobile TV till 2010!!
• NICTA readies gigabit wireless chip
• CSIRO builds new  IT Foundation
• Why Australian women dont want a career in IT
• Telstra Bigpond launches in Second Life
• Blogs ousting the good old diary
• Australian Scientists discover effective treatment for Malaria
• New Species Mosquitoes found in South Australia
• Spider venom could be used to repel insect pests
• Aussie bird Flue vaccine promising
• Device claims to harvest water from the air
• BP to invest in biofuel research

This week we discuss the experience of incorporating a mac into a PC home networked environment and the use of Parallels to also run Windows on the Mac.  I it all works well and a Mac can add great versatility to your mix of computing applications. We also explore the Airport Extreme 802.11n.

Useful links for Mac programs  to make this  migration successful are:
Phone synchronization - see: http://www.markspace.com/ I like Missing Sync as a utility
Backup utilities - see: http://www.intego.com/personalbackup/ I  use Personal Backup over a network.

Also covered:

1. YouTube blocked by Aussies schools to prevent bullying
2. Telstra launches campaign against Federal Government
3. Telstra refunds NEXT G customers for excess bandwidth usage
4. Rival fibre to home consortium still serious contender for roll out
   
5. Aussies decline online TV due to broadband slowness
6. New invasive advert technology
7. Yoicks - Second life contender
8. Hidden life in Antarctica revealed
9. origin on white wine result of double mutation

Podsafe Music Quiet Earth by Beeblebrox

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Finally folks I get this show out - I have been on the road and plagued by numerous technical challenges - so no show notes this week just listen to the show to get all the catch up news and all the stories are on the blog at antipodeanpodcast-blog.com, cheers and happy listening

Sorry folks been hits a a flu lergy and having difficulty getting the show out this week - will try for Monday if not, a mega show next week. Cheers APC

This week:

1. Apple to open Store in Sydney
2. Google Maps Australia released but there is a problem
3. New Aussie startup Si-Mi seek to pay for media content
4. Australia up for sale in Dubai
5. Telstra Next G has 500,000 signups to its 3G service
6. 3 Mobile to offer Skype calls on mobiles
7. Unwired release faxing service without phones
8. Aussie mobile addiction leads to health issues
9. WiMax might become a 3G standard
10. Yahoo!7 and Reeltime.tv partner
11. Ethernet over power options increasing for HDTV
12. Visit a problem for USB DSL modems
13. Plastic Nanospheres to hunt out cancer cells
14. Amazon technique may held reduce greenhouse gases

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Topics covered this week:

1. Check out two interesting podcasts:
• Social Media tools and communication with your clients
• In the Newz Podcast
2. 3 Mobile turns on high speed 3G HSDPA network in Sydney, other centres to follow
3. Optus announces plan to roll out 3G HSDPA across 96% Australian population
4. Southern Cross cable linking to USA to get upgrade to 1.2Tps
5. NSW Metro WiFi tenders called
6. ISPs warned about 24Mbps claims
7. Google Maps of Australia Day in Sydney misses its targets
8. Telstra and ABC Australia get into Second Life
9. Climate Change warning for Sydney
10. Solar Innovators move to USA
11. Australia�s 50 year old nuclear reactor shut down � new one comes online
12. New Biosecurity centre announced
13. The Hobbit is a new species � controversy continues
14. Warnings over use of Lavender oils as endocrine disrupters
15. Freddo Frog inventor passes on

Podsafe Music this week: Water, Sand and Bone, by Jeff de Herdt

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This week:

1. Google and Microsoft photograph Australia Day from the sky
2. The Microsoft Wikipedia kerfuffle
3. No Vista downloads for Aussies
4. Is WiMax secure?
5. Bigpond cable may open up speeds
6. Engin provides VOIP on Nokia N80 phones
7. Small business still confused by VOIP
8. Will iTV allow movie downloads from Australians?
9. Auipodrepairs.com the answer to iPod repairs
10. Qantas has inflight entertainment problems
11. New fossils discovered on Nullabor
12. Snake menace increases as drought bites
13. Scientific evidence that we need holidays
14. Update on listed Aussie biotech sector
15. Tim Flannery named Australian of the Year
16. Tassie devil ranks world worst sounds

Podsafe music this week: Destiny by Duane Carter

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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

All stories on the blog at www.antipodeanpodcast-blog.com

Happy New Year to all Antipodean Podcast listeners and subscribers. A short show this week as we get back into the podcasting groove.  Besides as most of this part of the world is still on vacation its been a slow couple of weeks on the new front.

Topics covered this week include:

• Major earthquake near Taiwan causes internet havoc in Asia
• Unwired needs to raise $10M to keep funding flowing
• Cars get broadband routers - we remain hopeful in Australia
• Funding becomes critical for more research to save Tasmanian Devils from cancerous disease
• 2007 to be hottest on record
• Vale instant noodle inventor

Podsafe music this week: Gerry Wall, Fire in St Peters

This week:

We celebrate our 100th Show of the Antipodean Podcast. Happy Holidays to all APC listeners

• New Copyright ruling by Australian Federal Court puts hyperlinking into danger zone
• Wireless bandit faces Jail
• CSIRO breaks wireless transmission record
• Broadband uptakes continues to grow
• New Zealand mobile and broadband growth levels off
• Cable boost for Internode across the Pacific
• 2006 a big spammer year for Aussies
• Aussie stem cell company get FDA approval for human trial
• Hopeful new biotech treatment for liver cancer
• Fossil discovery challenges NZ evolution ideas
• Plus; call for help on iMate Jasjam and global roaming; comments on cables and gadgets and holidays

Podsafe Music: ‘Rockin around the christmas tree’, Ayla Brown

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This week:

1. Global Connect in Toronto - links: www.globalconnectnews.com and www.successful-innovation.com for podcasts of the event
2. Reeltime.tv - poor customer service and difficulty to access services
3. Wii sales break Aussie Xbox records
4. Amended copyright laws passed - we are now legal..sort of
5. Free-to-air TV challenged by online services
6. Telstra releases NextG (3G) USB plug modem
7. Cohda Wireless improves Muni WiFi with new technologies
8. Telecom NZ boosts 3G speeds
9. Mobiles major cause of motor accidents in Oz
10. Google Earth spots large image in Nullabor
11. Embryo Cloning Laws passed in Australia - finally
12. Snail toxin offers new pain relief
13. Biotechnology now playing critical role in New Zealand economy
14. New fossil finds in Tasmania and New Zealand

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This week:

• State of NSW to roll out free WiFi in Sydney CBD and other major centres
• State of WA to invest $1Billion in Statewide broadband upgrade
• Customers give thumbs down to Telstra and thumbs up to Internode
• Opinion - Wimax may fail to fly high
• Sydney Aiport evaluating RFID for luggage tracking
• Opinion - Australian copyright laws
• Update on how cane toads driving Australian species evolution
• Scientists claim drought wiped out Australian megafauna 40000 yrs ago
• Evidence on mass extinction from Australian and US studies
• Spinach can protect you from suns harmful effects