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Byte Into IT

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Local insights on tech news, with feature interviews and regular guests. From multinational megacorps to the web underground, digital rights, games, cutting edge research, and all the ways technology intersects with everyday life. The Byte Into IT family includes:- Dan Morganti- Dan Salmon - Eric Jong- Lilly Ryan- Mike Bantick- Rowena Murray (Byte Producer)- Samantha Floreani- Vanessa Toholka (Byte Producer)- Lu Lin (RRR Talks Content Producer)The intro and outro theme is Soft Illusion and was generously provided by Andras.https://andras.bandcamp.com/track/soft-illusion

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Byte Into IT - 29 July 2015 29.07.2015 52:43

On this week's Byte: Guests: That Startup Show is a local webseries poking fun at the huge (and extremely earnest) startup culture in Melbourne. It's filmed at the Savoy Tavern in the city, and producer and co-creators Sally Gatenby and Ahmed Salama joined the team in studio. It's awesome - check it out . Laura recently was in Paris (yeah, it's a hard life) for OuiShare Fest , a conference celebra...

Byte Into IT - 22 July 2015 22.07.2015 46:28

On this week's Byte: Guests: Gareth Hayes recently raised over $80,000 on IndieGoGo to fund his software-defined radio project - he joins the team to discuss exactly what software-defined radio is (think accessing the radio spectrum using - you guessed it -software). RMIT's Design Research Institute is presenting the Design for Impact Festival - the Centre's Bianca Vallentine comes in to give us a...

Byte Into IT - 15 July 2015 15.07.2015 51:23

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Byte Into IT - 13 May 2015 13.05.2015 40:40

Guest: Gareck Packer, one of the Directors of Consul8, speaks to us from Brisbane about the Guardian emergency response app to facilitate evacuations. News in brief: How the Federal Budget affects the technology sector Keeping electronic devices sanitised while delivering Ebola medical assistance. Netflix reporting on Australian ISP speeds Office of the Australian Information Commissioner particip...

Byte Into IT - 15 April 2015 15.04.2015 50:13

On this week's Byte: Guests: Co-organiser of the Data Science Melbourne Meetup group Phil Brierly joins the team to discuss data science and its far-reaching uses and implications. News in Brief: iiNet users have been experienceing significant slowdowns since the launch of Netflix in Australia - iiNet is blaming their lack of bachkaul capability. Scientists at Stanford University in the US have de...

Byte Into IT - 25 March 2015 25.03.2015 50:00

On this week's Byte: Guests: Dr Steffen Walz , director of RMIT's Games and Experimental Entertainment Laboratory (GEELab) joins us in studio to discuss his new book, The Gameful World , the gamification of everyday life, and his talk an d workshop next Thursday for the Deloitte Center for the Edge . News in Brief: Netflix in Australia has launched! But will it offer enough for people using VPN se...

Byte Into IT - 18 March 2015 18.03.2015 39:55

On this week's Byte: Guests: Square Sounds is on this weekend, celebrating all things chiptune! We were joined by one of the co-organisers of the festival Eugene Davoren-Britton and Swedish chiptune wizard Anders Carlsson (better known as Goto80). Greg Wadley , Helen Hughes and Joel Sterner of Proof of Concept came in to studio to give us a rundown on Facebook Party, which happened (almost) entire...

Byte Into IT - 11 March 2015 11.03.2015 45:13

On this week's Byte: Guests: The Code for All movement is a network of civic technologists who believe that digital technology allows people to more meaningfully engage in the public sphere. We're joined in studio by Alvaro Maz of Code for Australia , and Giselle Sperber of Code for America . If you want to get involved with CfA, you can get in touch with the Melbourne Civic Lab (or start your own...

Byte Into IT - 4 March 2015 04.03.2015 51:16

On this week's Byte: Guests: Rem Ramesh and Kris Maunder of Seamless Content Management join the team in studio to discuss their Hack to your Future recruitment Hackathon. Simon Hettrick, Deputy Director of the Software Sustainability Institute based at Southampton University, and operating at Edinburgh, Manchester and Oxford Universities, was in Melbourne recently for the University of Melbourne'...

Byte Into IT - 18 February 2015 18.02.2015 48:42

On this week's Byte: Guests: Dr Fiona Tweedie and Damien Irving join the team to discuss the Research Bazaar conference, aiming at getting technologists and researchers to work better together, and helping researchers develop their tech skills. Director of the Mozilla Science Lab Caitlin Thaney has been in town for the Research Bazaar, and spoke with Vanessa earlier in the week. News in Brief: HTT...

Byte Into IT - 11 February 2015 11.02.2015 46:02

On this week's Byte: Guests: Pause Fest is this week! Head of Programming and Partnerships Murray Galbraith phoned in from the Festival to give the team a rundown on what's in store for this year. Co-founder of Shout for Good and Smiling Mind Jane Martino was one of the speakers at Pause, and called the studio to give us a sneak peek at what she's been up to. News in Brief: March 10 was Safer Inte...

Byte Into IT - 26 November 2014 26.11.2014 49:26

On this week's Byte Into It hosts Vanessa and Simon were joined by music producer Casey Rice who discussed with the relationship technology shares with music, and how emerging technology has changed his approach to music

Byte Into IT - 19 November 2014 19.11.2014 49:05

This week on Byte Into It Warren, Keren and Mike were joined by Rose Callaghan discusses the world of online dating apps. Nick Hodges also drops by to discuss digital products and services fail or succeed in light of conjecture around Google Glass.