Technogaze

In this – the final episode for 2014 – Michael and Mark discussed Tim Cook’s substantial contribution to a campaign promoting GLBTIQ acceptance in the Southern US states of Arkansas, Alabama, and Mississippi.  Popular photo sharing app Intagram performed what has now been dubbed the “Instagram Rapture” – disabling millions of accounts that were deemed to be fake...

Donna returned this week with Mark and Michael and fellow JOYster Jono . News was in the News with Google removing all links to Spanish newspapers from its News site to comply with a recent law that forces aggregators to pay if they display text from a newspaper.  New dating app Scissr expands the availability of options for Lesbians wishing to connect with other women. The Sony Pictures hack cont...

Mark and Michael were somewhat amused but concerned, whilst remaining calm, with Malcolm Turnbull describing the latest copyright motivated Internet filter as not being a filter. In a case of ‘ it’s not raining until I tell you it’s raining ‘ Turnbull insisted that stopping access to certain sites was not a filter. Telstra have launched their WiFi anywhere product allowing...

This special JOY 21st Birthday episode reunited Mark & Michael with Raena as she joined Bek, from Bekfast , and Jayson Williams from GLOBE as special guests during the show. Apple became the first business in the world to reach a market capitalisation of $US700bn with 3 of the largest 4 companies being in the IT sector. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the World Wide Web has called on politi...

Why did Tim Lenox call the Technogaze team  Chaos Personified ?   Was it because Mark , Raena , Jason and Michael squeezed into the studio for this weeks show? The G20 was on everyone’s lips this weekend, with potential threats of hacking manifesting itself with Australian media organisations being targeted supposedly by Chinese interests.   It appears that the Chinese President wants to know what...

Raena , Jason and Michael  were surprised when Mark popped into the studio to address the Google/Apple imbalance. Mac Malware spreading from OSX to iOS devices is infecting some users that are downloading OSX software from dodgy sites.  Unfortunately the malware has well formed security credentials so that the iOS devices believe it is software from the App store. Meanwhile Spain has imposed the G...

This week, Raena , Josh and Mark looked at an invisibility lens that hides objects in its view.   It must also twist reality, as this is the only explanation as to why Mark was sporting a Windows laptop, Raena an Android phone and Josh an iPhone.   This altered reality did not stop them from getting super excited about a recent Kickstarter project – A Hoverboard.   Yes, they went back to the...

The studio was empty this week as Raena & Michael ventured afar with an outside broadcast to bring to you this special In-Car Edition of Technogaze. POODLE is the latest SSL vulnerability taking advantage of a technology that should have been retired long ago. Many websites are now likely to remove SSL 3.0 support which will result in applause from the tech community – as if a wooden sta...

This week,  Raena and Michael  looked at two new phones – targeted at two very different consumers.  The $35 Firefox OS based phone destined for India and the super secure Blackphone with bundled encryption and security software. China has blocked access to privacy conscious search engine DuckDuckGo , extending the restrictions on Internet access in the country.  The NSA’s wide reachin...

Mark and Michael were in the studio this week and started the show looking at Apple.  There is a #shellshock patch for OS X that was released this week.  Researchers looking at the randomised WiFi MAC addressing on iOS8 discovered that it only worked under very limited circumstances.  Meanwhile the EU has found that Ireland’s and Apples tax arrangements are not legal. This week saw the annou...

It may have been Grand Final day, but Mark and Michael resisted the urge to kick a footy round the studio and opted to look at how a future Space Elevator may change the way we go into space into the future.  The Victorian Government in conjunction with Facebook have launched a campaign to combat cyber bullying with targeted videos and messages to young people and their parents – to help equ...

In this special extended episode, Adam Richard joins Mark , Raena and Donna to discuss the latest in tech, including Apple’s announcement of the iPhone 6, Apple Watch, and Apple Pay.  We discussed Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s announcement to turn off Community TV here in Australia by discontinuing the allocation of spectrum currently allocated to Channel 31 , and other ch...

This week the studio was packed like sardines with Mark , Raena , Donna & Michael looking at Freeview’s new catchup TV service that allows you to watch shows previously broadcast across all free to air channels. Paul Mignone from the University of Melbourne was in the studio talking about the upcoming 3D printing showcase.  He brought along a 3D printed head of Ned Kelly, made from his death m...

In this episode, Raena , Mark , Michael , and Ty discussed all the latest in tech, including the latest figures released on the Amazon Fire phone (and it doesn’t look good). Intel revealed the details of what is believed to be the world’s smallest 3G modem, which comes in at no more than 300mm squared. Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3 has been released, the third iteration that the soft...

The vexing question of the week was looked at by Michael , Mark and Ty as rumours bombarded the Internet that it was indeed full!  Outages caused by routers reaching some preset limits at a number of ISPs has been identified as the root cause.  The challenge is how to upgrade the equipment software without causing too much downtime. Fresh from their indignation of Angela’s Merkals phone being spie...

In this episode, Michael , Mark , Jason and Raena discuss the latest in tech including Russia’s moves to further track citizens’ Internet usage.  Australia’s biggest telco, Telstra, has bought into it’s way into media content delivery, with its recent $270m acquisition of video platform Ooyala. Australian tech retailer JB Hifi blames Apple’s lacklustre performance wit...

Mark , Raena , Jason & Michael  kicked off this weeks show looking at rumours surrounding the 09-Sep launch of the iPhone 6.   Larger, faster & better is the general consensus with screen size likely  to grow to 4.7″ and 5.5″, increased resolution to maintain retina display and the faster and more power efficient A8 processor.  The jury is still out as to whether it will have a...

On Technogaze this week Mark , Raena , Dave and Michael  looked at China accusing Apple of threatening its National Security with the location tracking capabilities of iOS devices. Meanwhile the US has been trying to get access to emails stored on mail servers located in Dublin that contain information on the criminal activities of a US citizen. The FBI have looked at the future of self driving ca...

In today’s episode Raena , Mark and Michael  discussed the latest in tech including 3D printing blood vessels, and military equipment.  A New Zealand ISP has commenced offering a cloaking service – where customers can avoid geo-blocks on popular U.S. services like Hulu and Netflix. Russia’s been at it again, this time with laws passing their lower house of Parliament that require...

Raena , Mark & Michael  looked an an amazing achievement in Germany, where for two brief periods, half of its electricity requirements were derived from solar power. Meanwhile chip maker Adesto is hoping to be at the forefront of the Internet of Things with its new non-volatile memory chips that use up to 100 times less power than flash memory.  With such low power requirements these chips cou...

In this episode, Mark , Raena , and Josh were joined by special guest Luke Miller .  Luke’s game “My Ex-Boyfriend the Space Tyrant” has been green-lit on Valve’s social gaming platform Steam.  This occurred after what could be described as an arduous year-long journey, where gamers’ comments, both good and bad, shone a light on the issues gay content presents in the g...

In this episode, Michael, Mark, and Raena talked about recent revelations that the use of Facebook is now illegal in Iran.  We talked about the possibility of finally having mobile coverage in the Melbourne City Loop, and the use of drones to spy on sports tactics in the World Cup. In Aussie politics, we discussed the zombie policy of going after Australian copyright infringers, being brought back...

In this episode  Mark , Raena , Johnny and Michael  looked at the death of the Nokia brand as Microsoft fulfils its acquisition obligations and progressively drops the name Nokia from mobile devices. In more mobile news, we learnt that Apple is decreasing the likelihood of your device being tracked, with some interesting changes in iOS8 and how the software discovers wireless access points. Mozill...

Today Raena , Mark , and Michael discussed the latest in tech news, including the AFP collaborating with overseas agencies in breaking botnet rings, the Tasmanian Police are moving to mobile devices to enable paperless police cars, and Google has commenced fulfilling their obligations under EU law to enable citizens the “right to be forgotten”. Apple’s WWDC kicked off last week,...

This week we had a very special Radiothon 2014 episode with Mark , Raena , Jason and Michael .  We chatted with our support admin volunteer Moshin about ‘That’s so JOY’ and what it means to him. On the tech side we looked at Google’s latest Koala car – well their prototype driverless cars (or is that driverless horseless carriages?) that is basically a box with two se...