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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• 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

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