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Founder of the ETech group, Geoff Elwood - Talking Technology 2012 - Ep12
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:31:30
Publish Date: 2012-04-20 00:49:49
Description: Interview with Geoff Elwood, founder of the ETech group of companies. Leon and Garry talk about issues including - Australia’s biggest phone company Telstra planning to become the biggest music seller by live streaming up to 15 million tunes to smartphones and personal computers. In a direct attack on Apple's iTune market, Telstra has hooked up with Silicon Valley-based online music providers MOG. - Ten Network and Facebook are in advanced talks about forging a strategic alliance that would lead to two media companies sharing content, audiences and advertising revenue. - A Qantas flight between Sydney and Adelaide has used a 50-50 mix of conventional fuel and refined cooking oil. - More bad news for Mac users. An online security company has found another virus that has been infecting the Apple computers via a Java plug-in, spreading across computers when people open email messages with links directing them to malware. - Apple has released a third Java update related to the outbreak Flashback, but this time, the patch comes with a detection and removal capability for the prolific trojan. The update, for Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) and 10.6 (Snow Leopard), will kill the most common strains of the malware, which is capable of stealing data and hijacking search traffic, among other malicious actions, and contaminated at its peak some 650,000 machines - Two of the oldest libraries in Europe — the Vatican Library and the Bodleian Library at Oxford — are about to make parts of their collections available on the internet in a big way. The two libraries have announced that they are going to scan 1.5 million pages of ancient texts and make them available freely online. - Researchers from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have created Twitcident, a framework for filtering and analyzing tweets to crowdsource information about crises. - Good luck swiping the keys from this prison guard. According to Reuters, the "Robo-guard," which is undergoing its first field test at a prison in South Korea, comes equipped with software designed to study human behavior, 3D depth cameras and a two-way wireless communication system. - Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has ended Nokia 14-year leadership of the global cellphone market in the first quarter of the year, outselling the struggling Finnish handset maker for the first time ever. - Sharp has begun mass production of high pixel density IGZO (Indium gallium zinc oxide) LCD panels - a type of semiconductor which promotes smaller-sized pixels on displays and thus results in higher pixel density. - Telstra has 60 people combing social media sites to sniff out people who complain about the company. - Google co-founder Sergey Brin has told interviewers he believed "walled gardens" — like those of competitors Apple and Facebook — threaten innovation and risk splitting the open web into competing platforms. - Graham Cluely, chief scientist at British internet security company, Sophos, says Android malware authors are infecting unsuspecting Android smartphone users with the latest addition to the popular "Angry Birds" series of games.
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