Technolatte by ZDNet Australia
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Podcast Description
The ZDNet team gives their view on the last week's news, all in the time it takes you to drink a cup of coffee.Caution: Contents Hot
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The rural Silicon Valley | What happened in Senate Estimates this week? What's the issue with tech company taxes? What company's been breached now? Find out on our podcast. | 5/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lightning round! | What's an IPO and why is Facebook doing it? How's this year's AusCERT? Where's our slice of Raspberry Pi? And where are Josh and Michael? | 5/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The daily grind | Why are entrepreneurs on a boat? What was in the Federal Budget? How many jobs will go at CenITex? Will MasterCard's digital wallet catch on? And what the hell is that noise? | 5/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Venti Technolatte | Is Thorsten Heins a Bond villain with an app ecosystem? Does Stephen Conroy want a cheap gadget? Will Google end up paying Oracle? What happened to TV Now? What's SPDY and who's our special guest? | 5/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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LOLCATS! | Could Linux Australia be renamed LOLCATS? Is PCI DSS compliance really that hard? Is Optus' 4G announcement the bee's knees? And what's the deal with Google Drive? | 4/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The golden 50 | Welcome to Technolatte's 50th episode, where we ask why Target is scanning its customers, why system admins snoop on emails, why developers are making the same mistakes over and over again and why Telstra thinks Malcolm Turnbull is onto something. | 4/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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One billion Zuckerbucks | Facebook paid how much for Instagram? Why did Sydney Uni freeze its prepaid cards? When will the final chapter in the AFACT versus iiNet saga be revealed, and why is the book industry all in a tizz over ebooks again? | 4/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Certifying Google's Wi-Fi ads | Why did Google lose out in court this week? How should the CSIRO spend its hard-earned Wi-Fi royalty dollars? And why did the Defence Signals Directorate take so long to certify Apple's iOS platform? | 4/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Chinese whispers | Why did Australia ban Huawei from the NBN? Where will the NBN be three years from now? Who's suing Apple this week and will you do your taxes through a portal in future? | 3/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Technolatte in Wonderland | Why does Greg Farr think IT is in Wonderland? Would you go with 4G/LTE over Wi-Fi, and how does David Jones plan to save itself from retail industry quicksand? | 3/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pi faced | What is a Raspberry Pi, and why is it so deliciously priced? Is the new Conficker worm coming for your PC? What is Vodafone's network guarantee, and why are we all enemies of the internet? | 3/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The 'new' Technolatte HD 3 | How will Transport for NSW do IT as a service? Why do firms fall to such easy hacking attacks? What's the deal with the new iPad, and why won't its 4G/LTE work here? | 3/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A fistful of Google dollars | Should you try the Windows 8 consumer preview? How can Telstra get its sweet National Broadband Network (NBN) money faster? Which company is the best at cloud in Australia, and who wants to be a hacking millionaire? | 3/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why you shouldn't root your wallet | Can someone steal all your money through a rooted phone? Is Australia being too precious about cloud in government and are we at the end of the rural ADSL price squeeze? | 2/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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One podcast with the lot | On this week's Technolatte podcast, we talk about everything that has ever existed anywhere ever. | 2/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The floatcast | Why is Facebook floating and is it a bad idea for Mum and Dad investors? Optus won the first round of TV Now, what happens now and how can you get away with petty internet crime? | 2/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Terminal Velocity | Sure it's fast, but what's the fatal flaw of Telstra's new 4G/LTE phone, the HTC Velocity? Can you really download a car? Who are the "gentleman hackers" and why have they made it so hot in here? | 1/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dirty SOPA dodgers | Would you agree to have a National Broadband Network tower placed in your backyard? Would it give you a third arm? Why did Google cut down such a good security idea before its prime and who turned off the lights on the internet? | 1/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Occupying the internet | Is launching a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack a legitimate form of protest? Who's come onto the NBN wholesale broadband agreement? What will you pay for Kinect for Windows and why are Google and Twitter punching on? | 1/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hacks, cuts and takeovers | So, what was happening over the break? Hacks, job cuts and takeovers aplenty, it seems. | 1/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Christmascast | On the 12th day of Christmas, ZDNet Australia gave to me: a podcast in a pear tree. | 12/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Portal up your life | Can you wire up everything to a smart meter? Where would you put portals in your life? What is the Prime Minister going to do for cybersecurity and how did Telstra fail so hard? | 12/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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At the movies with ZDNet Australia | What's the worst tech movie ever made? Why won't the PlayBook get cheaper? Will you have IT assets left next year? Why is your iPhone 4S being annoying? What would it have been like if Steve Jobs had killed people for their ideas? Technolatte is answering the questions you never knew you wanted to ask this week. | 12/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cliff diving for iPhones | Join us once again for another episode of Technolatte, where court wins aren't always glorious, pirates don't always have eye patches and hackers aren't always evil. | 12/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The ultracast | Technolatte is back and we're asking the big questions. What's the best Ultrabook on the market right now? What's with Gerry Harvey's journey into 2003? Why did iiNet buy TransACT and why can't Victoria get IT right? | 11/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Are you a Vodafone expat? | Are you one of the 375,000 strong herd that fled Vodafone recently? Do you want fast national broadband but don't know which plan you like better? Have you ever shopped online? Have you done anything illegal online? Go no further, because this is the podcast for you. | 8/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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One size fits most? | Did the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission come down too hard on Optus? Why can't AUSTRAC trust the cloud? Why did Western Australia abandon its ailing shared services mission and will New South Wales fall into the same black hole? | 7/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Staff wanted: sex offender for a day | What's the deal with Ericsson's new souped-up long-term evolution tests? Can you pay for Caltex petrol faster than a Ferrari can burn through it? Doctors get how much for telehealth? Can we expect Queensland's sex offender tracking trial to backfire? | 6/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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NBN highs and myki lows | We pinch ourselves as we ask if the Telstra-NBN deal really happened, envy the employees of Google, mourn the shrinking of myki and ponder the future of piracy abroad. | 6/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Taking our token tablets | After a short break, Technolatte is back on deck to talk about who's replacing their tokens, what's coming out in tablets, what Mike Quigley can expect to face when he returns from holidays and whether or not internet access is a basic human right. | 6/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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AusCERT arrest and the fibre-gasm | What really went down at AusCERT, why are you still getting ripped off for software and are there really only seven customers on the Armidale NBN? | 5/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dollars and sense | What was in the Federal budget for IT? What are Telstra and Amazon fighting about? Why are the emergency services divided over spectrum and how much did Microsoft pay for Skype? | 5/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The failcast: how much d'oh can we take? | This week, we have a whole podcast of fail. Sony PlayStation Network's breach has to be one of the biggest "d'oh!" moments in data breach history, while iPhone's location-tracking has people fuming, global roaming prices are just plain ridiculous and the Amazon Web Services outage shows that cloud can break, too. | 4/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This is a podcast ... allegedly | Why is IBM being dragged before the Australian Human Rights Commission? How will your e-health records work? How hard can it be to secure credit card data, and who will get Vodafone's LTE upgrades first? | 4/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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We can't repel a podcast of that magnitude | Which is the better ship: Serenity or the Millenium Falcon? Australia's Top Geek decides. Why did NBN's head of construction fall on his sword, what's going on in data retention and what does the Epsilon data breach all mean? | 4/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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That's no moon, it's a bank branch | Has the Commonwealth Bank built the Death Star? Will the NBN legislation be resolved today and how will IT play a role in the upcoming NSW state election? | 3/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pub crawling with NFC | Can you conveniently execute a pub crawl with a near-field communication device? Is Sydney becoming powerless? Do you know how fast your illegal downloads were going and how can we make the public sector sexy again? | 3/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The mile high Wi-Fi club | In this week's mile high edition of Technolatte, we cover everything; from the planes flying high above the earth, to the seedy underbelly of the internet. | 3/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Buying an iPad 2 with your free CBA cash | Imagine if you used the cash you thought you were getting for free from the Commonwealth Bank on Tuesday to buy an iPad, only to wake up on Thursday morning and find out that, not only wasn't it free cash, but your shiny new iPad is now obsolete. | 3/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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iiThink, therefore iiAm | This week saw New Zealand telcos shine through a national disaster, the DSD gets chummy with Apple, AusCERT suffers under legal bindings, all while the Federal Court of Australia handed down the iiTrial verdict. | 2/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The cloud: drinking game edition | Has Telstra hit the jackpot with its long-term evolution (LTE) announcement? Does the government worry too much about cloud? Does piracy really cost as much as studios think it does, and can you really have too many lawnmowers? | 2/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Them damn sneaky Androids | Those sneaky Androids are creeping into Australians' pockets, but is Apple quaking in its iOS boots? Is there mutiny within pirate ranks? What's the Commonwealth Bank playing at with its core modernisation and should we start planning Windows XP's funeral? | 2/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cyclones, fingerprints and kill switches | Would you put your significant other on a terrorist watchlist if you could? Do you trust a speed camera? Did Tropical Cyclone Yasi blow Queensland away? Can Communications Minister Stephen Conroy kill your internets? | 2/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bartlett, BlackBerry and Tux in space | How do you send a penguin into space? What's really happening with the government's open-source policy? Will Tasmania suffer after David Bartlett's exit and will RIM keep its PlayBook play date with Android? | 1/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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No Disneyland for you | It's all about breaches this week: whether it's a breach of your data by the University of Sydney, a breach of etiquette by using the floods as a political football or a breach of your pocket as you realise you're paying more for software than the Americans. | 1/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The lost city of Brislantis | As the flood waters begin to recede in what we are now dubbing Brislantis, we talk about the tech companies that went toe-to-toe with disaster. | 1/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Technolatte: 100% GST-free | Has a war broken out over online coupons? Is there a Chinese VoIP conspiracy afoot? What are Aussie retailers really blowing their horns over and does telco advertising go too far? | 1/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Insert festive podcast here | When Linux finally got a look in from the Australian Taxation Office did you fall over? Did you think the National Broadband Network business plan proved its worth? Do you think we'll ever be able to keep our account number when changing banks? And how about that OpenBSD FBI backdoor? | 12/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Calls dropped, Wikileaks rallies, jobs cut | This week on Technolatte we talk about Vodafone's network issues, Wikileaks protests and how server support personnel should be thinking about where they will go if their jobs are sacrificed to the cloud phenomenon. | 12/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Members' members and the Wikileaks dump | Are parliamentarians surfing to find porn? Can hackers level cities? Why do we care that Wikileaks had a dump and how about that NAB fail? | 12/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Went to Gartner. All I got was this podcast | Tune in this week for a Gartner Symposium once over, the latest news on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a run down on the NBN mess in parliament and Ian Reinecke's recommendations for the government's Gershon review implementation. | 11/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TV, trademarks and stupid customers | Will the CSIRO steal Telstra and Optus' LTE spectrum? Does Optus have a bottomless pocket when it comes to paying for legal fees? Has Google lost its mojo with the departure of Lars Rasmussen and Kate Vale? | 11/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A penguin head in Apple's bed | Is the NSW the premier state for hackers? What tasty tech goes into your Tim Tams? What does the telco reform Bill mean and MacBook Air: why do we care? | 10/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Is Gail Kelly trying to outdo Lady Gaga? | Is Windows Phone 7 all that? Has the NBN debate progressed this week or has everyone just been talking smack? Is Westpac CEO Gail Kelly upgrading the bank's IT just to beat out Lady Gaga on the Forbes most influential women list? | 10/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 54 Episodes |
