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It’s one of our hottest industries, so why is the technology sector failing to attract creative young minds?

Introducing a new feature to The Radio Wammo Show. We call it Get Smart -- mobile phone app reviews or “App Reviews to win friends and impress people”. In this episode we review ‘Wave Secure’ -- a backup and security tool for Android, ‘Gravity’ -- a social media client for Nokia and ‘TV Listing’ -- a New Zealand TV programming schedule for iPhone/iPod Touch.

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Russell discusses the Government funded broadband plan promising 100 megabit speeds to most New Zealand homes in 6 to 10 years, double the time frame initially proposed during last year’s election campaign. Alot can happen and technology will change in that time so who will look after the old copper network which is already under strain while we wait for fibre to the home? Russell Brown is chief blogger at publicaddress.net.

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New technology has increased the quality and decreased the price of self-published books, and authors no longer have to print hundreds of thousands to make it viable for them. It is increasingly tough to have a work produced by one of the large publishing companies. In fact more than 98% of all unsolicited manuscripts submitted to traditional publishers are rejected. This is where Publish Me, New Zealand’s largest online self-publishing company comes in.

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Chelfyn is all gaga about a free Open Source Network Gateway for spam blocking, web filtering, remote access and more. Its called Untangle. And by the sounds of it its rather good.

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