Reports greatly exaggerated

Summary: Technolatte welcomes new ZDNet Australia journalist Spandas Lui, and brings you our thoughts on Australia's tech week.

By ZDNet Australia Staff for Technolatte | July 6, 2012 -- 01:57 GMT (18:57 PDT)

We have a full house in Technolatte this week, with ZDNet Australia news editor Suzanne Tindal and journalists Josh Taylor, Spandas Lui and Michael Lee on-board to take you through the top stories this week.

On the podcast this week we discuss:

NBN Co blocks an attempt to find out exactly why Chinese network vendor Huawei can't win any tenders for the National Broadband Network (NBN)
Queensland abandons IDES roll-out
Commonwealth Bank launches Kaching for Android, but no near-field communication (NFC)
Amazon Web Services' (AWS) outage.

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Running time: 20 minutes, 12 seconds

Topics: Government, Android, Cloud, Government AU, Mobility, NBN

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