Tech Talk Radio Podcast

Best of Tech Talk replaying segments from previous shows. This show originally aired on Saturday, December 4, 2010, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Transferring email from Hotmail to Gmail, Profiles in IT (Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn and super angel), Stratford makes Slashdot (US leader in OPT STEM extensions for F-1 students), H-1B Visa 20th Anniversary (essential for continued growth in technology, OPT STEM extension seeks to offset limits), Innovation Ecosystem (requires entrepreneurs, research universities, capital formation, favorable regulatory and taxation environment, key to global competitiveness), Windows celebrates 25th anniversary (Windows 1, 2, 3, 95, 2000, Millenium, XP, Vista, 7 revisited, what is next for MS, decline or reinvention), and Tech Gift of the Year (Kinect for Xbox, your body is the controller, face recognition, voice recognition, includes RGB sensor, depth sensor, sound arrays, street price $129). This show originally aired on Saturday, November 27, 2010, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Masking email address from spammers, configuring wireless access point, recovering data from crashed hard drive, Profiles in IT (Bram Cohen, creator of BitTorrent), Pirate Bay users attack RIAA sites (distributed denial of service attacks RIAA and its lawyers and lobbyists, revenge for court actions), Tim Berners-Lee reflects on the Internet (large ISPs and social networks threaten to balkanize the web, open source and open access should prevail, net neutality is essential), Earnt and Young Strategic Growth Forum continued (EOY national winners announced, overall winner Howard W Lutnick, government spending and regulatory excess threaten recovery, printing money to cover deficit is debasing the dollar, current administration does not understand business), US innovation ecosystem is our one great hope), and SalesForce.com surges (business is up, software as a service has been accepted by the marketplace, a new software sales strategy is born). This show originally aired on Saturday, November 20, 2010, at 9:00

NOD32 update problems, Skype security and encryption, Profiles in IT (Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos and founder of Link Exchange), Zappos differentiators (core values, personnel practices, taking care of the customer), Book of the Week (Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose, Tony Hsieh), and the Ernst and Young Strategic Growth Conference (largest conference for entrepreneurs in the country, keynote speakers included Bill Ford of Ford Motor, Richard Branson of Virgin Group, and A. G. Lafley of Proctor and Gamble, more to come next week). This show originally aired on Saturday, November 13, 2010, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Avoiding speed cameras (Photoblocker, Radar/Lidar Detector, GPS Angel, www.stopbigbrothermd.org), Profiles in IT (Brendan Eich, creator of JavaScript), Web Service of the Week (Qwiki.com, a new approach to Internet search), H1B Visa (20th anniversary, interview with ComputerWorld, good for the innovative position of the US), Book of the Week (Cooking for Geeks, think like a hacker in the kitchen), Social Media in Politics (wired politicians, realtime tracking of sentiment via Twitter and texting, Facebook election app), and Social Media in the Courtroom (Florida officially bans jurors from tweeting, blogging, texting, emailing, or Facebooking, no outside influence via Internet permitted). This show originally aired on Saturday, November 6, 2010, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Google broadband (1 Gbsp, several communities, 500,000 users, testbed for technology and applications, open architecture), Net Neutality (Republicans want to find a way for telecomms to recoup investment, Democrats want all traffic treated equally, compromise required, should be driven by technology rather than politics), Profiles in IT (Eric Paul Allman, creator of sendmail, the dominant Internet email service), Firesheep makes packet sniffing easy (Firefox add-on, captures unencryped cookies from 24 programs like Facebook or Twitter, allows user to hijack session with one click on the mouse), and iPhone showdown (CDMA iPhone by Verizon versus GSM iPhone by ATT). This show originally aired on Saturday, October 30, 2010, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Transfering contacts from Yahoo to Gmail (export and import using CSV file, quick and easy), anti-phishing software (user vigilence is the only answer), Profiles in IT (Peter Norton, creator of Norton Utilities), Website of the Week (inumbr.com, will supply a temporary phone number with expiration date), sex.com sells for $13M (questionable investment), Online Application of the Week (pixlr.com, excellent online cloud-based image editor, photoshop-like), secondary iPhone market is hot ($300 for used iPhone on eBay), Wikileaks update (more classified documents released, Pentagon unable to intervene, servers based in Sweden), three major network block Google TV (fear that it may undermine cable revenues), and water discovered in lunar polar region (soil may be 5.6 percent water, suitable to support colonization). This show originally aired on Saturday, October 23, 2010, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Chrome browser cookie policy, switching from Mac to PC (Apples Switch 101), Profiles in IT (Louis J. Montulli, creator of browser cookie protocol and blink), Google open sources WepP (replacement for JPG picture format, 40% smaller, hopes to speed webpage delivery), testing your virus scanner with the EICAR test file (safe and reliable), Chilean mine rescue the is one of the most watched Internet events (live streaming from mine, broke Akamai volume records), PC BIOS to be replaced by UEFI (unified extensible firmware interface, should reduce bootup time by 20 seconds), Nobel prize for physics (awarded for discovery of graphene, a single layer carbon structure, will revolutions displays and electronics), getting a job (survey potential employers, complete real projects, join professional organizations and users groups), and NASA remote sensing goes medical (NASA applies image processing algorithms for analyzing satellite data to medical imaging, more accurate mammogram and ultrasound image interpretation, dev

Best of Tech Talk replaying segments from previous shows. This show originally aired on Saturday, October 9, 2010, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Chrome TV, Google TV, changing computer and user names, Profiles in IT (Carol Ann Bartz, Yahoo CEO), iPad user study (used 18 hours per week, 20% in bed), FBI cracks cybercrime network (criminals used Zeus trojan to harvest bank passwords, 5 masterminds arrested in Ukraine, 90 arrested in US), Zues trojan revisited (keystroke logger, first identified in 2007), Craigslist authenticated phone numbers revisited (authentication mananged by ReduceFraud.com, portable VoIP numbers and pre-paid cell phone numbers rejected), and outlawing texting does not prevent crashes (users simply hide cell phone while texting). This show originally aired on Saturday, October 2, 2010, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Authenticating phone numbers for Criagslist, secure file delete, Profiles in IT (John J. Cullinane, founder Cullinet Software, first public software company), Verizon to adopt tiered data plan for 3G, Facebook outage (error correction feedback loop brought system down, required server reset), Quest suffers outage (national backbone fiber cut by construction worker), using tracert to trace path through Internet, Stuxnet worm on the loose (worm attacks Siemens SCADA devices used for controls, Irans nuclear power plant may be targeted), social media update (50 plus crowd fastest growing segment, best way to keep up with grand children and family), Einsteins theory proved again (raising elevation by 1 foot will slow time by 90 billionth of a second every 79 years). This show originally aired on Saturday, September 25, 2010, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Livescribe audio pen, public-private key exchange revisited (certificate authorities protect against man-in-the-middle attack), configuring POP email account for two computers, Profiles in IT (William Harvey Inmon, father of data warehousing), the Great Data Warehouse Debate (Inmon versus Kimball, top-down versus bottom-up, enterprise-centric versus interconnected departments, normalized versus denormalized data structures), hackers discussed by Microsoft execs (many inadvertently send code to MS during crashes, MS attacked 7000 times a second, SQL injection favorite exploit), iPad killing laptop sales (purchasers choose iPad over laptop, Best Buy sales projections lowered), the Great Broadband Race (carrier pigeons versus the Internet), Jupiter making closest approach to Earth in 50 years, programmable credit card announced (one credit card with multiple personalities, pin activates magnetic strip). This show originally aired on Saturday, September 18, 2010, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Tracing home phone wiring, Profiles in IT (Bailey Whitfield Diffie, cryptologist and co-creator of public-private key exchange), recovering from lost cell phone (data wiping, password resets, insurance claim, restoring data), Google launches instant search feature, Phishing attackes on the rise (fake bank and e-commerce sites try to steal your data, 53,000 new ones per week, do not use link in email to go to trusted site), Internet worm on the loose (worm tries to have use click on infected PDF executable, beware of emails with Here You Go in the title), be careful what you Tweet or post (search engines make your responses permanent and accessible to millions), and unplugging on vacations (one third of respondents can't let go of their email of cell phones, hard to relax and rejuvenate). This show originally aired on Saturday, September 11, 2010, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Fixing corrupted Outlook 2007 install, faxing over VoIP connection, Profiles in IT (Verner Vogels, CTO and VP of Amazon.com), Net netrality update (FCC to delay ruling, Google and telecoms want wireless networks excluded, ATT wants tied service, Comcast ruling rejected by courts, four principles of neutrality as explained by FCC Chairman), Website of the Week (www.asiteaboutsomething.com), proxy servers explained, iPhone forensics (application snapshops, photo GEO tags, application GPS coordinate storage, browser cache, keystroke cache, deleted bin), YouTube to turn a profit (revenues doubled each year for last three years, 1.6 billion dollar purchase finally pays off). This show originally aired on Saturday, September 4, 2010, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Best of Tech Talk replaying segments from previous shows. This show originally aired on Saturday, August 28, 2010, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Best of Tech Talk replaying segments from previous shows. This show originally aired on Saturday, August 21, 2010, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Malware removal, IRS refund scam, Profiles in IT (Min H. Kao, co-founder Garmin GPS navaigation), Microsoft IE8 limits online privacy (InPrivate filtering cannot be set as default configeration, advertising division influenced design decision), Oracle sues Google over mobile Java in Android (proxy for real battle with Apache Software Foundation), India threatens to suspend Blackberry (requires access to encrypted email data), and two iPhone wannabees released (Droid2 and Blackberry Torch, no match for iPhone yet). This show originally aired on Saturday, August 14, 2010, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Best of Tech Talk replaying segments from previous shows. This show originally aired on Saturday, August 7, 2010, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Best of Tech Talk replaying segments from previous shows. This show originally aired on Saturday, July 31, 2010, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Cell phone repeaters, CDMA versus GSM globally, Profiles in IT (Dr. James T. Clark, co-founder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape), Walmart to test RFID tags on clothing (for inventory tracking and restocking, privacy advocates protest), RFID tags used to track contruction workers, SCADA devices made by Siemens infected with worm (worm uses backdoor password and MS embedded system vulnerability, spreads via USB, Internet vulnerability possible), Website of the Week (www.drop.io, great file-sharing service, good when files too big for email), and Microsoft signs chip architecture licenses with ARM for mobile devices. This show originally aired on Saturday, July 24, 2010, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).