Tech Talk Radio Podcast

Best of Tech Talk replaying segments from previous shows. This show originally aired on Saturday, February 27, 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, February 20, 2010, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Internet governance, Nexus One, Profiles in IT (Steve Case, co-founder AOL), tracking a lost iPhone (MobileMe, iLocalis, Mobile Spy 3.0, iHound, Navizon), numerical weather forecasting (starting in 1950), high tech snow removal using GPS, and Muslim inventions that shaped the world (surgery, coffee, flying machine, algebra, optics, music, toothbrush, crank, hospitals). This show originally aired on Saturday, February 13, 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, February 6, 2010, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Configuring spam filters (blacklist, whitelist, re-classifying emails), TWAIN name revisited, Profiles in IT (Nicholas K. Sheridan, creator of the first e-paper), Apple iPad reviewed (specs, features, applications, pricing), Windows 7 launch offically a success, Asia challenges US innovation leaderhship (science and technology graduates, government share of R and D funding, immigation policy), global demographic trends (demographich bonus in Asia, worker shortage in US, flawed US policies), and Website of the Week (foodista.com, a Web 2.0 site for recipes, foods, cooking, and kitchen tools). This show originally aired on Saturday, January 30, 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, January 23, 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, January 16, 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, January 9, 2010, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Saving passwords in browser (not recommended), Profiles in IT (Michael Stern Hart, founder of Gutenberg Project for e-books), biggest IT blunders (Yahoo licensing of pay-per-click auction to Google), social networks provide communication channels for Iranian protestors (Facebook, Twitter, Youtube), Web 2.0 suicide machine (killing your online virtual presence quickly and conveniently), Russion mounts questionable asteriod-defense space mission, Voyager explores local interstellar cloud, GSM phone encryption hack revealed at Chaos Convention, and mobile phones in developing countries (important to economic growth, impact of mobile money, opportunity for banks). This show originally aired on Saturday, January 2 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, December 26, 2009, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Detecting wireless intruders (router logs, DHCP logs, open port audit), reasons for hotmail account locking, Profiles in IT (Don Chamberlin and Ray Boyce, creators of SQL language specification), physics of driving on slippery roads (stopping distance, ABS, positraction, recovering from a skid), 2009 tech gift guide (Barnes and Noble Nook eReader, digital video camcorders, netbooks with Windows 7, external hard drives, smartphones, DNA artwork, Slingbox, universal remote, WowWee roboic webcam, DNA extraction kit, Genographic DNA project, OOMA VoIP), and logic of the classroom (logic of the students mind, logic of the content, logic of reason). This show originally aired on Saturday, December 19, 2009, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

OOMA VoIP Phone (free US calls, port existing number, $250), Tech Talk in Taiwan on OHZone, Profiles in IT (Lars and Jens Rasmussen, creators of Google Wave and Gooble Maps), Website of the Week (Google Wave, wave.google.com), Article of the Week (Innovators DNA in Harvard Busines Review, five discovery skills which make up creative intelligence, www.innovatorsdna.com), and Motorola Droid (open source Android OS, great reviews, higher resolution screen than iPhone, wi-fi, touch screen not as responsive at iPhone, removable battery, low battery life, wait for Droid II). This show originally aired on Saturday, December 12, 2009, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Best of Tech Talk replaying segments from previous shows. This show originally aired on Saturday, December 5, 2009, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Recovering data from corrupted flash drive, securing compromised hotmail account, Profiles in IT (Matthew Szulik, CEO of Red Hat Linux), Device of the Week (Barnes and Noble Nook e-reader, color, wi-fi, Android browser, e-book loaning, $249), Large Hadron Collider update (low power test successful, full power in a few months, seeking Higgs boson, fear of mini-blackholes), Website of the Week (www.criticalthinking.org), anatomy of thinking (eight elements of reasoning, standards of thinking, transformation of education, Socratic questioning), and eBay to sell Skype (settles dispute with Skype founders). This show originally aired on Saturday, November 28, 2009, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Using proxies with unsecured wi-fi, selecting external hard drive, Profiles in IT (Daniel Mark Lewin, co-founder Akamai Technologies), Akamai explained (the problems with peering, distributed delivery of content, the underlying algorithms), Earnst and Young Strategic Growth Forum (Keynotes by H. Lee Scott of Walmart, Howard Shultz of Starbucks, Matthew Szulik from Red Hat, and Magic Johnson, Entrepreneur of the Year Awards with Rosetta Stone as national winner, insights from CEOs on navigating the current conditions), Twitter plans to monetize business accounts, unlocking my Verizon Blackberry Storm phone (just call and ask tech support), Red Had to have new CEO from Delta Airlines, and critical thinking revealed (www.criticalthinking.net). This show originally aired on Saturday, November 21, 2009, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Best of Tech Talk replaying segments from previous shows. This show originally aired on Saturday, November 14, 2009, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Best of Tech Talk replaying segments from previous shows. This show originally aired on Saturday, November 7, 2009, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Audio file formats (lossy versus lossless compression, MP3, WAV, AIFF, AAS, AAS Lossless, WMA, WMA Lossless, FLAC), network attached storage for media server, Profiles in IT (Norman Abramson, creator of AlohaNet, the first wireless packet-based network, precusor to Ethernet and ArpaNet), Windows 7 released (what Vista should have been, upgrade versus custom install, XP user options, BK Win7 Whopper), universal phone charger approved by ITU, and Technology Application of the Week (DuoFertility device, automated temp readings with predictive algorithms). This show originally aired on Saturday, October 24, 2009, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Protecting computer from malicious guests, installing a desktop PC power supply, upgrading Blackberry Storm OS, Profiles in IT (Frederick Phillips Brooks, father of the IBM System 360 and author of the The Mythical Man Month), Congressional security breach embarrasses Ethics Committee (file was shared inadvertently by Gnutella peer-to-peer file sharing client, staffer fired), Internet celebrates 40th anniversary (first message went 400 miles between UCLA and SRI, first three letters were LOG, network designed to share computer power between research labs), ICANN will permit non-Latin characters in domain names after 16 November, and Blooms cognitive taxonomy (anatomy of learning, six levels, remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, creating). This show originally aired on Saturday, October 31, 2009, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Job search strategies (What Color is Your Parachute, informational surveying, resume lock), putting Internet radio on your stereo system (Logitech Squeezebox, Sonos Bundle, Philips Streamium), printing from your iPhone/iPod, Profiles in IT (William S. Boyle and George E. Smith, inventors of CCD imager), Microsoft Sidekick data loss and recovery, Google Postini outage and outrage, Blackberry Storm2 to be released in UK, Android market share to eclipse iPhone by 2012, Website of the Week (Pandora, personal Internet station), and security risks of household robots (Robosapien V2, Rovio, and Spyke vulnerable to simple attacks). This show originally aired on Saturday, October 17, 2009, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).