Seeking Nerdvana follows Adam Turner's quest to attain oneness with technology. The digital lounge room is Adam's office, the coffee table his desk and the TV guide his daily planner. The lounge room is becoming the new battle ground for the hearts, minds and wallets of the masses - grab them by the eyeballs and their hearts and minds will follow. Reporting from the front line, where PC converges with AV, Adam offers a view from the couch of everything from digital television and personal video recorders to piracy and digital rights management. A freelance journalist with a remote control in one hand and a coffee in the other, he spends his days and nights in search of home entertainment nerdvana.

Second Life charges for real names, increases identity theft risk Thursday, 05 April 2007 For $50 a year you'll soon be able to christen your Second Life avatar with your actual name, but Linden Labs seems to be doing little to stop someone else masquerading as you.

Telstra FttN plan back on the table, Labor needs to match it Tuesday, 03 April 2007 Labor's proposal to break Telstra's grip on Australia's broadband infrastructure may have struck a nerve, as Telstra's on again, off again national fibre network is back on again.   3's new wireless broadband plans make Telstra's Next G look shabby Wednesday, 28 March 2007 Telstra's horrendous mobile data charges now look even worse after Hutchison's 3 network announced its X-Series fixed line-like wireless broadband pricing to mark the completion of its HSDPA network upgrade.   Labor's broadband plan - will 12Mbps be enough in 2012? Wednesday, 28 March 2007 Labor's plan to break Telstra's stranglehold on Australia's broadband infrastructure has a lot of merit, but in five years' time will 12Mbps be enough?   Howard's "wait and see" approach sets Australian broadband back 20 years Monday, 26 March 2007 Despite the deadlock with Telstra over building a high speed national broadband network, Australian Prime Minister John Howard would rather "wait and see" if someone rolls out such a network rather than accept Labor's plan of a joint venture between government and the private sector.   Labor's broadband plan breaks Telstra's squeeze on Australia's assets Sunday, 25 March 2007 Telstra has Australia by the balls and the only escape is to break the telco giant's vice-like grip on the country's communications infrastructure.   Topless cop email photo exposed as $500 proves too tempting Thursday, 22 March 2007 Yesterday I praised police officers for resisting the offer of $500 to leak to a website an unedited version of the topless photograph of Constable Melissa Scannell. It seems I spoke to soon.   Microsoft shuns IPTV open standards - is a web TV format war brewing? Wednesday, 21 March 2007 As if consumers didn't have enough to contend with, the fact Microsoft and Alcatel-Lucent have shunned the Open IPTV Forum could mean we'll have another ludicrous format war on our hands.   $500 reward fails to capture topless cop email photo Wednesday, 21 March 2007 In an impressive display of comradery, a $500 reward has failed to encourage police officers to leak a topless photograph of Constable Melissa Scannell - who faces disciplinary action after her boyfriend forwarded to colleagues the photo of her semi-naked whilst in uniform.   HD DVD camp finally attacks Blu-ray over propaganda war Tuesday, 20 March 2007 The gloves are off at CeBIT in the high definition format war, with Toshiba attacking as "propaganda" the Blu-ray Disc Association's claims the HD DVD format is failing.   Topless cop photo email becomes another internet cautionary tale Monday, 19 March 2007 By sending her boyfriend a topless photo of herself whilst in uniform, policewoman Melissa Scannell has joined Claire "I hadn't swallowed for years" Swire on the list of those who learned the hard way there's no such thing as a private message in the online age.   LCD versus Plasma, trash talking continues in the phony format war Monday, 19 March 2007 Sony would have you believe LCD and plasma are locked in a struggle to the death, but figures reveal the big screen war is being fought on two distinct fronts.   Don't cha wish your Avatar was hot like me? Monday, 19 March 2007 I may be as ugly as sin but my Avatar would have the face of an angel, if only I wasn't afraid to step through the looking glass into Second Life.

More... UK to start digital TV switchover, but Australia is still in the dark ages Sony unveils second life for PS3 owners Coonan promises broadband boost - too little, too late? Conservapedia aims to set Wikipedia right

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