| Welcome to Australia's Premier Tech Talk Show! |
 |
Tech Talk Radio is an informative and entertaining talk show heard on free to air radio as well as streamed to the world live, and via podcast.
Each week we present current news and views from Australia and abroad. We're independent, non biased
and are now in our third year of providing consumers with valuable information to help make educated decisions when it comes to technology.
Tech Talk Radio originates from the studios of 94.1 3WBC in Melbourne live every Monday night at 8pm.
| Tech Talk Radio - The Team |
|
We're not what you'd call geeks or nerds, just passionate users of todays technology in our personal and professional lives.
Join your host Andrew McColm (ABC Radio & Talk 1116), co-host Dr. Ron (ABC Radio) with our panelists Mark Diggins and Graeme Callaghan.
Join Adam Turner with his view from the couch each week, and our US correspondent is Lidija Davis who reports regularly from Silicon Valley California.
We're not too techy, in fact our target market is consumers, along with mums and dads who just want to know what the kids are up to, or what to buy that tech savvy person in their life for their next gift.
There's a touch of politics, mixed with a blend of consumer awareness and humor.
Tech Talk Radio Blog
For those of you interested in reading about the opinions of the Tech Talk Radio panelists, why not read and comment on the Tech Talk blog! and don't forget our forum.
| Current Show .... |
|
|
July 21 2008
The iPhone is only a week old and already it’s making headlines for all the wrong reasons. Logging on the morning after last weeks show, I was greeted with the headline “Aussie 3G iPhone is a bad joke” then later that day, another headline “Hold off on iPhone, says analysts”
 The media reported Rob Enderle, founder and principle analyst for the Enderle Group, saying Apple is one of those companies that could sell refrigerators to Eskimos, but that doesn’t suggest that Eskimos should actually buy them.
He said the problem is that Apple tends to lead on hype and does such a good job controlling initial product reviews that problems associated with the iPhone 3G probably won’t be known until the week after it launches when the raft of independent reviews become available.
This maybe so, but the real problem is as plain as the nose on your face, that is, mobile broadband costs in this country are a joke and it's quite possible that the not so “in the know” iPhone users will unknowingly rack up bills in the thousands of dollar category if they’re not extremely careful.
Mobile Phone operators are mainly focused on voice communications. There’s plans and caps for all types of voice users, but as we turn to data as our daily means of communication, the telco’s seem somewhat reluctant to bundle voice and data into one product that meets the needs of today’s on the move tech savvy individuals.
At the end of the day in this digital world, our voice is turned into data anyway then sent over the mobile phone network, so it seems the phone companies just want to charge us based on the flavor of data we send. You could equate it back to the old analogue days if they charged you 30 sents per 30 seconds if you spoke English and $3.50 per 30 seconds if you spoke any other language. Really.
If I had anything to do with the Telecommunications Ombudsman’s organisation, I’d be recruiting as fast as I could.
Also on This Weeks Show
 Jason Stirling from Genesis joins the panel to talk Business to Business Technology- ACMA approves online content code of practice
- Yahoo! accuses Microsoft of sabotage
- Government extends NBN deadline
- Firefox gets security tune-up and
- Apple wants to take Psystar and its clone
- customers to the cleaners
The following links were of interest to us this week!
| |
 Our presenters blog!
Why not check 'em out...
|
|
| sponsor |
|
|
|
Tune in LIVE to the next Tech Talk Radio in:
|
|
Coming Up... |
|
Simon Pearce (Symbion) Soon
Simon will tell us about the implementation of new technology such as Windows server 2008 into Symbion
|
Stay up to date!
Subscribe to the 'This Week on TTR' newsletter |
If you're interested in
finding out what's
coming up on
Tech Talk Radio, then
subscribe to our
What's on newsletter!
Each Monday, all
things going to plan
you'll
receive an
email
detailing what's
on
the show this
week.
It's easy to
subscribe
just fill in
our
What's On
subscription form.
Don't worry, your
details are safe
with us!
|
 |
Inc Data |
Telstra |
3
|
Vodafone |
Optus |
5 Mb |
$5 |
$1 |
|
|
|
|
|
20 Mb |
$10 |
$1 |
|
|
|
|
|
80 Mb |
$29 |
$1 |
|
|
|
|
|
100Mb |
|
|
|
|
$20 |
30c |
|
200Mb |
$59 |
25c |
|
|
|
|
|
300Mb |
|
|
|
|
$40 |
30c |
|
400Mb |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
500Mb |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1Gb |
$89 |
25c |
$15 |
## |
$60 |
30c |
$30 |
15c |
2Gb |
|
|
$29 |
10c |
$80 |
30c |
$45 |
15c |
3Gb |
$119 |
25c |
|
|
|
|
4Gb |
|
|
$49 |
10c |
|
|
6Gb |
$119 |
25c |
$69 |
10c |
|
$60 |
15c |
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Prices as at 07/4/08. Included Data is data that you pay for in the plan. Left column indicates minimum spend right column indicates usage cost above included data per Megabyte. Plan prices seem to be for casual usage. See web links provided for more details.
##24month contract free modem
|
| 2007 Shows... |
|
If you're looking for any shows to download or listen to from 2007 then visit our 2007 show archive page. Here you'll find everything that made it to air last year!
Even earlier if you like. |
Powweb interrupts TTR - read more |
