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Founder of uVent.com.au, Anthony Mittelmark - Talking Technology 2012 - Ep07
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:32:03
Publish Date: 2012-03-15 20:17:16
Description: Interview with Anthony Mittelmark, founder of uVent.com.au Leon and Garry talk about issues including: Amazon offering to take your older Apple tablets off your hands for a big chunk of Amazon credit and Apple updating its its Reuse and Recycling program which means owners of iPad 2s in "good condition" can sling them back to their maker in exchange for an Apple Store gift card. Apple has already sold out initial supplies of its new iPad following a huge surge of pre-orders. Customers hoping to preorder the new iPad from Apple now may have to wait a little longer to get one. This includes Australia. Turntable.fm, the service that allows users share music within virtual "rooms," is closing in on becoming a fully licensed service. Scientists are warning of further solar storms this week after Earth was hit by one of the fastest clouds of energy to emerge from the surface of the sun in recent years. Australian scientists have crossed a modern wheat variety with a wild ancestral cousin to produce a high-yielding salt-tolerant plant that will help tackle world food shortages due to soil salinity. An app that translates sign language into text could be available next year. Apple may be the largest smartphone vendor in the world, but in China it remains an upstart. There — in the world’s most populous country, which recently topped one billion mobile phone subscribers — that market-leading title is worth only a fifth-place ranking. In China, it’s Samsung that is the smartphone sovereign. Amazon says that in the 14 months the program has been running, it has sold over two million Kindle Singles. Fast food giant, Hungry Jacks has teamed up with group buying site, Scoopon, in a bid to crack into the group buying market and bring more traffic to its stores. The move is a first by a local fast food player, with Scoopon saying that more brands are turning to group buying sites to attract customers and tap into a new market. Yahoo! has filed a lawsuit against Facebook accusing the social networking giant of patent infringement. Yahoo!, in the suit filed in US District Court for the Northern District of California, accused Facebook of infringing on 10 of its patents. Lost smartphones are likely to be mined for valuable information by strangers who find them, according to the results of a sting operation conducted by computer security firm Symantec. Thanks to strong demand for Apple's iPad and competing devices such as Amazon's Kindle Fire, worldwide shipments of tablet computers are likely to grow faster than expected this year, according to a newly-revised forecast from a leading market research group. In yet another sign of the growing dominance of the digital publishing market, Encyclopaedia Brittanica is moving solely into the digital age and has announced it will end publication of its printed editions and continue with digital versions available online.
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