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  • Alternatives to the National Broadband Network – ABC Nightlife

    Alternatives to the National Broadband Network – ABC Nightlife

    If you missed the show, you can listen through the ABC Nightlife website. Sadly we didn’t get to half the topics but our callers, as well as the NBN PR guy, were fabulous.

    Paul Wallbank joins Phillip Clark on ABC Nightlife across Australia from 10pm Australian Eastern time on Thursday, February 16 to discuss how technology affects your business and life.

    Last week the NBN announced a third of the country was now covered by their services and the company’s CEO, Bill Morrow, said Australians really don’t want super fast internet. A few weeks before, Telstra announced a new service that will deliver gigabit broadband over their mobile network. We can expect their competitors to offer similar products soon.
    At the same time we’re seeing a blast from the past as Nokia are rumoured to be soon releasing an updated version of their classic 3310 phone – are we going to see the ‘tradie phone’ making a comeback?
    While the old phone is nice, many people need fast broadband so how is the NBN going and, if you can’t get it, what can you do? Some of the questions
    • So how is the NBN going?
    • Wasn’t the government’s revised plan going to mean the whole thing is going to be cheaper and faster than the original project?
    • Who can get it?
    • Is it as good as promised?
    • So what alternatives to the NBN are there?
    • Doing the sums on those mobile plans, using them can be a pretty expensive business?
    • It seems we’re going backwards. How does Australian broadband compare globally?
    • How is this affecting regional communities and businesses?

    Join us

    Tune in on your local ABC radio station from 10pm Australian Eastern Summer time or listen online at www.abc.net.au/nightlife.

    We’d love to hear your views so join the conversation with your on-air questions, ideas or comments; phone in on 1300 800 222 within Australia or +61 2 8333 1000 from outside Australia.

    You can SMS Nightlife’s talkback on 19922702, or through twitter to @paulwallbank using the #abcnightlife hashtag or visit the Nightlife Facebook page.

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  • ABC Nightlife: Pokemon Go and the end of the ideas boom

    ABC Nightlife: Pokemon Go and the end of the ideas boom

    This Thursday night join Tony Delroy and myself on ABC Nightlife to discuss Pokemon Go, how tech is changing the workforce and the future of Australia’s technology industry following the Federal election.

    It’s taken a while but we finally have a video game that gets people off the couch and onto the streets. For the last two weeks we’ve been hearing stories of how hundreds of people are dodging cars, invading police stations and stampeding across parks as they try to catch virtual reality animals in the Pokemon Go game.

    What is Pokemon Go and is this the future of augmented reality are two of the questions Tony and I will be discussing. We’re also looking at what the Federal election means for the government’s much lauded Innovation Statement along with the Moonhack record of the greatest number of kids programming at one time.

    Some of the questions we cover include;

    • What is Pokemon Go?
    • Isn’t Pokemon somewhat old school?
    • Why did it take off?
    • So we’ve heard a bit about augmented reality. Is this what it’s really about?
    • Beyond games, are there any useful purposes for AR?
    • Are we all going to have strange headsets strapped to our heads?
    • Can we expected Australia to provide many of these AR applications?
    • What sort of support is the government giving these developers?
    • Apart from what was already announced what did the Federal election mean to the Aussie tech sector?
    • After all the noise late last year, tech and innovation wasn’t really much of an issue during the election?
    • Does all this talk of tech really matter to the average Australian worker?

    Join us

    Tune in on your local ABC radio station from 10pm Australian Eastern Summer time or listen online at www.abc.net.au/nightlife.

    We’d love to hear your views so join the conversation with your on-air questions, ideas or comments; phone in on 1300 800 222 within Australia or +61 2 8333 1000 from outside Australia.

    You can SMS Nightlife’s talkback on 19922702, or through twitter to @paulwallbank using the #abcnightlife hashtag or visit the Nightlife Facebook page.

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  • ABC Nightlife: Beyond the ideas boom

    ABC Nightlife: Beyond the ideas boom

    While Australia talks about innovation, some of our most exciting tech companies are moving to Silicon Valley. For the May 2016 ABC Nightlife we asked why are they moving and what can we do to encourage them to stay down under?

    Along with discussing why Australian startups are moving to the United States we also looked at some of the announcements out of the recent Google I/O conference. If you missed the show it’s available for download from the ABC website.

    If you’re in Sydney, we’re also debating whether innovation really exists in Australia in a Cloud Crowd debate on June 9. Tickets are free.

    Some of the questions Tony and I looked at included;

    • Who is making the move over the US?
    • What reasons do they have for going over?
    • Why aren’t they going to Europe, the UK or SE Asia?
    • Is Australia having a brain drain?
    • It seems the much vaunted Ideas Boom has been lost in the election, is it over?
    • One of the things Google announced at Google I/O was their new Google Home device which listens to your spoken commands to control the house. Doesn’t Amazon already have one of these?
    • Another thing Google announced was they are looking at putting intelligence into every device. How far away is that?

    Cloudcrowd innovation debate

    On June 9 in Sydney we’ll be debating whether innovation is a myth in Australia, tickets are free and you can sign up through Eventbrite.

    Join us

    Tune in on your local ABC radio station from 10pm Australian Eastern Summer time or listen online at www.abc.net.au/nightlife.

    We’d love to hear your views so join the conversation with your on-air questions, ideas or comments; phone in on 1300 800 222 within Australia or +61 2 8333 1000 from outside Australia.

    You can SMS Nightlife’s talkback on 19922702, or through twitter to @paulwallbank using the #abcnightlife hashtag or visit the Nightlife Facebook page.

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  • ABC Nightlife – is the smarthome worth the trouble?

    ABC Nightlife – is the smarthome worth the trouble?

    Is the smart home worth the trouble? We live in an age of connected smoke alarms, kettles and even egg trays. For this month’s ABC Nightlife we’ll ask if these devices add to our lives or just make things more complex.

    Earlier this month Google announced it would down their Evolv home automation platform leaving hundreds of users stuck with useless devices. So what happens to smart gadgets when they are disconnected from the Internet? We’ll also look at the new folding phone and just what a dire state the Australian telecoms industry is in.

    Some of the questions we’ll cover include;

    • What was Google’s Evolv system?
    • Disabling the devices is a bit dramatic, why have they done that?
    • Do customers have any recourse?
    • Is this a risk with all connected devices?
    • What about connected cars, could they be turned off?
    • My computer needs updating, what about these devices?
    • What happens when the internet is disconnected, will my internet fridge work?
    • Samsung showed off a new folding phone last week. What exactly is it?
    • When will we see it on the market?
    • The Annual CommsDay conference was held last week in Sydney. Is there any good news for Aussie consumers?
    • Is the National Broadband Network looking any better?
    • How is the global telecommunications industry looking, can we expect anything exciting?

    Join us

    Tune in on your local ABC radio station from 10pm Australian Eastern Summer time or listen online at www.abc.net.au/nightlife.

    We’d love to hear your views so join the conversation with your on-air questions, ideas or comments; phone in on 1300 800 222 within Australia or +61 2 8333 1000 from outside Australia.

    You can SMS Nightlife’s talkback on 19922702, or through twitter to @paulwallbank using the #abcnightlife hashtag or visit the Nightlife Facebook page.

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  • ABC Nightlife – Virtual Reality and Apple encryption

    ABC Nightlife – Virtual Reality and Apple encryption

    Pundits are saying 2016 will be the year Virtual Reality comes to the home, with Silicon Valley investors pouring money into the technology, the long awaited Oculus Rift due to be released this year and the heavily hyped Meta launching soon.

    If you missed the show, you can hear it podcast through the Nightlife website.

    Tonight on ABC Nightlife we’ll look at what VR, and its cousin Augmented Reality, are and what they mean to us ordinary people.  Some of the questions we’ll be looking at include;
    • Exactly what are Augmented and Virtual Reality?
    • Why all the hype now?
    • Why are investors putting so much money into the space?
    • Apart from games what can this tech be used for?
    • Do you always have to wear the funny glasses?
    • Does the headsets always need to be connected to a computer?
    • What are the devices and brands we should be watching out for?
    • Is it likely consumers will be able to afford this technology in the near future?
    • Will 2016 really be the year of virtual or augmented reality?

    If we get time, we’ll also look at Apple’s fight with the FBI over encryption (security researcher Troy Hunt has an excellent run down of the issues at stake) and what happens if you change the date on your iPhone to 1970.

    Join us

    Tune in on your local ABC radio station from 10pm Australian Eastern Summer time or listen online at www.abc.net.au/nightlife.

    We’d love to hear your views so join the conversation with your on-air questions, ideas or comments; phone in on 1300 800 222 within Australia or +61 2 8333 1000 from outside Australia.

    You can SMS Nightlife’s talkback on 19922702, or through twitter to @paulwallbank using the #abcnightlife hashtag or visit the Nightlife Facebook page.

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