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Police Were Warned On Lax Security

VICTORIA Police has ignored years of warnings about its lax policies on storing classified Commonwealth information.

Listen To This

Digital radio is still coming - weather permitting, writes Lia Timson.

Background Noise

Radio is well placed to survive the onslaught of new technology.

Doctors At Odds Over Mobile Cancer Risk

HIGH-profile Sydney brain surgeon Charlie Teo has made enemies in his profession for many reasons, but not for his opinion on the link between mobile phones and brain tumours. On ABC TV's Enough Rope last week, he was asked for his view on that topic by host Andrew Denton, and the response was chilling.

Mobile Use 'increases Cancer Risk In Children'

CHILDREN who use mobile phones are five times more likely to develop brain tumours than those who don't, according to research presented at a British conference.

Breaking Radio Silence

A $400 million broadcast system will allow listeners worldwide access to 13,000 digital radio stations away from their computers, reports Lia Timson.

Abc's Digital Push For Channels, Radio

THE ABC wants to triple its number of television channels and radio services over the next 12 years as it seeks to increase Australian content levels and cement its place in the digital media age, its managing director, Mark Scott, has flagged.

Why Digital Radio Is Doomed

Convincing the public to upgrade may be an uphill battle, writes Asher Moses.

Is Nude Radio A F-oxymoron?

NAKED newlyweds, office pony rides and ferocious dogs - it is all in a day's work for Melbourne's world of FM breakfast radio.

Take Two Radio Announcers

Radio announcers DAVE GORR and GREG VINCENT struck up a friendship in Darwin in 1982 and now present WAVE FM's breakfast program. Dave Gorr I had been working as a deejay for a mobile disco up the west coast of Australia in the early 1980s and, after the work ran out in Broome, I ended up in Darwin.

Radio

Encounter, 7pm, Radio National: Are your boots made for walking? Good! But what about your mind? Certain forms of meditation require stillness, solitude and quiet but others, such as Bagua - Chinese circle walking - and branches of Zen Buddhism, combine motion with thought. Fair enough! If health professionals insist walking is the best exercise for the body why shouldn't it also be beneficial to the mind? Henry David Thoreau was an advocate of contemplation in motion and, given humans have only ...

Talking To The World

Podcasting has changed the way we listen to the radio and may one day replace it, writes Andrew Bock.

Dock Poses Question Of Music And Timing

TEAC's new iPod dock slash FM radio could be the perfect combination or a useless one depending on your existing home entertainment setup.

Pesky Public Chatterboxes Get Signals Blocked

Mobile phone jammers - though illegal - are rampant worldwide as a growing number of people react to annoying intrusions, writes Stephen Cauchi.

Telcos Raise The Ante

MOBILE phone antennas will be installed on two sports ovals if Shellharbour councillors approve proposals by Telstra and Optus next week.

Telstra Will Have To Prove Next G

COMMUNICATIONS Minister Helen Coonan has warned Telstra it would not be allowed to leave country mobile phone users high and dry by cutting off the CDMA network before the replacement Next G network was working to the Government's satisfaction.

Marriage Of Sport And Phones Passes The Popularity Test

TRADITIONALLY, the transistor radio has been a central part of any wedding at this time of year as male guests combine paying their respects to matrimonial bliss with the important business of following the scores in the footy finals.

Dude, Where's My Audience?

Gen Y is switching off the radio, telly and stereo and turning to the internet for, well, just about everything. Katie Cincotta reports.

Haneef Case Turns To Farce

THE crucial piece of evidence against the terrorism suspect Mohamed Haneef - that his mobile phone SIM card was found at the scene of a British car bombing - is wrong, the Australian Federal Police have admitted.