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Aus and NZ General Manager Airwatch, Rob Rowe - Talking Technology 2012 - Ep03
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:26:59
Publish Date: 2012-02-19 18:37:55
Description: First up - Leon and Garry discuss the news in technology (detailed below) At 14:01 - Interview with Rob Rowe, Australia and New Zealand General Manager for US company Airwatch, a mobile device management company. News discussion: - What the iPad3, due to be released in March, will look like - How shipments of the 3 iPad3 are expected to zoom this year, based on orders placed for displays - The price of Apple stock soaring past $500 a share - US and European regulators approving Google Inc's $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc and say they will keep a sharp eye on the web search giant to ensure patents critical to the telecommunications industry would be licensed at fair prices. - Barry Diller introducing a new startup IAC is backing called Aereo that is building a DVR in the cloud that broadcasts live TV to your iPad, computer, or TV. - Having sought to block Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet last year, Apple has now set its eyes on thwarting Android’s first Ice Cream Sandwich phone, the Galaxy Nexus smartphone. - ComScore finds that web-based email use among 12-17 year olds dropped 31 percent in the past year, while use among those 18 to 24 saw an even bigger drop of 34 per cent. - Optus lifted revenue by 1.5 percent for the three months to 31 December, to $2.42b, compared to the same quarter in 2010. - Telstra will have to accept a cap on the wholesale broadband prices it charges to other telcos before the competition watchdog will allow it to finalise a lucrative deal with NBN Co, which is building the national broadband network. - One of Apple's major manufacturing cogs, Foxconn, will receive voluntary audits from the Fair Labor Association on factories in both Shenzhen and Chengdu in China. - Following a full week of drama about the unfettered access all apps have to iOs contacts, Apple has finally weighed in. Bloggers, in recent days, have published findings that some of the most popular software applications in Apple's App Store have been able to lift private address book data without user consent. Apple now says that it intends to update iOS to require "user approval" for getting contact information. - More European parliaments are refusing to ratify the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, claiming it violates human rights. - New Zealand open source content management company, SilverStripe, has opened an office in North Melbourne, expecting to employ up to 50 technicians and other staff. - Chinese officials may have decided against banning sales of iPads, the result of a copyright dispute with a Chinese company, because the iPad is too popular with Chinese consumers. - Mobile data traffic is set to increase 18-fold over the next five years, according to network giant, Cisco. The company estimates that global traffic will reach 10.8 Exabyte per month by 2016.
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