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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 – 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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  • ABC Nightlife – Australia’s startup goldrush and the overhyped world of wearables

    ABC Nightlife – Australia’s startup goldrush and the overhyped world of wearables

    For November’s Nightlife tech spot we’ll be asking if wearable technologies overhyped and looking at what is going on with Australia’s sudden discovery of startup businesses.

    Wearable technologies have been the next big thing. Two years ago Google Glass was all the news and earlier this year the Apple Watch was released to great fanfare.

    Now Google Glass has been wound back in the face of widespread indifference and Apple are discounting the new watch as market experts find that wearable technologies are just not interesting to customers.

    So are wearable technologies overhyped? We’ll be discussing where having a computer on your wrist or in your glasses may be useful and taking your questions on them.

    Australia’s startup goldrush

    There’s been a shift in the Australian business community since Malcolm Turnbull became Prime Minister and now tech startups have become the new black with a wave of corporate initiatives being launched to support fledgling companies hoping to be the next Facebook or at least Atlassian.

    So why now all the interest and can Australia be the next Silicon Valley?

    Some of the questions we’ll be answering include.

    • So where can we get a cheap Apple watch?
    • Have Apple done this sort of thing before?
    • What are the experts saying about wearable technologies?
    • Are there some industries they can be used in?
    • So why is Malcolm Turnbull so keen on startups?
    • What sort of things are governments doing to support the startup communities?
    • How many Australian tech industry successes have there been?
    • Can Australia be the next Silicon Valley?

    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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  • Why do we still use fax machines?

    Why do we still use fax machines?

    If you’re in the ABC Canberra area at 4.05pm, I’ll be talking about this with Adam Shirley. Listen live here.

    One of the most frustrating statements in modern business is “you’ll have to send a fax.”

    Facsimile machines, once the pinnacle of 1980s business communications although they were first invented in 1843, started to die once the internet became common and email became the dominant messaging system.

    Once dial up modems started becoming standard on computers, receiving faxes electronically became feasible and for while businesses struggled with the notoriously unreliable software to receive facsimile messages without the hassle of paper.

    Eventually however they passed away as most business found there was no need for faxes and anything requiring a signature could be electronically signed or a scan of the original document sent.

    Some industries and sectors – particularly the legal world and some government agencies – still hold out the need to send an ‘original’ by fax, party under the fallacy a facsimile copy is more secure, reliable and legally more valid than an email or electronically lodged document.

    During the ABC Canberra program one listener pointed out the medical industry is dependent upon the older technologies, “we couldn’t operate without them” she told the producers. In a time of connected medical equipment and electronic data interchange, the medical industry has little justification in using outdated manual methods but habits die hard in a very conservative industry.

    None of the myths around the reliability of fax are true and the reality is details sent by fax are just as easily intercepted by nefarious employees or third parties as emails. In many respects a fax is less secure than electronically interchanged data.

    If you do have the need to send or receive a fax though all is not lost, services like eFax will still send or receive messages and then, ironically, email them onto you.

    However there is a downside with these services, as one harried PA whose organisation still receives faxes due to its dealings with the legal profession described, the vast bulk of messages they receive are junk messages mainly offering cheap deals on office supplies.

    The fax machine is another example of a transition effect where a stop gap product was effective for a short period as businesses adapted to new technologies, the SMS is going through a similar process now. Neither will be the last example of this.

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