Christmas around the world

At this time of year many of us are thinking about our loved ones that are gathering around us, the egg-nog, serious amounts of food and Christmas merriment we’re going to have, but for others it’s a time of isolation and distant memories.

This Christmas morning on ABC Radio Australia we chat about how to use technology to have a bit of fun on Christmas and how stay digitally connected to love ones across the planet, and why it may be a very good second best, when you can’t get the real thing.

Take a listen now:

6PR Big Weekend – FutureTech Segment – Calling Jesus – 26 December 2010

Jesus has just knocked out Angry Birds in the fight for the most downloaded app. It is available across 8 mobile platforms and has had over 12 million downloads in 2 years.

This free interactive Bible app from Life Church has taken the virtual world by storm with 4 billion minutes clocked up already by its users reading the new testament and in Dec 2010 through Jan 2011 there on track to achieve 1 billion minutes of bible reading – now there’s a business apportunity, just waiting to happen!

We also went on to chat about supermarkets self checkouts, NFC (near field communications) coming to a credit card and store near you and Skype app’s imminent arrival onto iPhone 4.

This plus some post Christmas merriment and great conversation make up this week’s on air radio chat between 6PR’s Ted Bull and Morris Miselowski.

Listen now:

The Weekender – 6PR Radio – Consumer Electronic Show

Laughing our way through another of our weekly segments Todd Johnson of Perth’s 6PR and Morris chat about what’s coming out of the CES show including talking cars, screens that are see-through and bend, tablets, e-readers, skyping and much more. Recorded live 10 January 2010.