Tech Stream

Tech Stream 031

18 September 2009

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The splitting of Telstra, 3D technology in the loungeroom and does the iPhone stack up as gaming platform? It’s in the Tech Stream, program #31.  Full details after the jump or get stuck straight in with the MP3 link above.

We start with the ABC’s coverage of the announcement this week that Australia’s largest telco – Telstra – will have to split its wholesale and retail businesses.  I won’t go into depth here, but this Tech Stream post – Australian government proposes Telstra split – has more details.   Needless to say its one of the biggest telecommunications stories of the year in this country.

Karon Snowdon from Connect Asia spoke with Ravi Bhatia, the CEO of Primus, and David Kennedy, Research Director at Ovum.

Peter Ryan, Business Editor for ABC News, spoke with telecommunications analyst Paul Budde and Graeme Samuel, the chairman of Australia’s consumer watchdog, the ACCC.  Follow those links for full transcripts and audio.

Lastly Fran Kelly spoke with Stephen Conroy, Australia’s Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy.  The full interview is at the ABC Radio National Breakfast website.

After some of the week’s technology news (which you can follow daily at twitter.com/tech_stream) we take a look at 3D technology and ask whether we’ll soon be watching 3D movies and TV in our homes.   You can watch a video of Peter Marks talking with Fran Kelly about this over at ABC Radio National Breakfast and the Crave Blog on CNET has some coverage of the 3D announcements at the recent IFA exhibition in Berlin.

We finish the program with Bajo from ABC TV’s Good Game program.  They recently did their first review of a game for iPhone/iPod Touch called Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor.  Bajo likes the platform but has some reservations:  he says it’s best suited to certain types of games and the app store is full of some very rubbish titles.

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