Tech Talk Radio Podcast

Bluetooth vulnerabilities (discovery, pairing), Profiles in IT (John Atanasoff, Inventor of Digital Computer), Sly Dial (calling cellphone voicemail directly), Google data center design (hardware clusters, Google File Systgem, BigTable, MapReduce), Defcon and Blackhat Conference (history, trends, games, culture), DNS vulnerability (exploit explained by Kaminsky, checking your DNS using doxpara.com), Politics 2.0 (Presidential Debates on Facebook, House Republicans Twitter, NRC launches BarackBook, McCain on YouTube, Obama on Scribd, Obama dominates blogs), and Food Science (how the microwave oven cooks food). This show originally aired on Saturday, August 9, 2008, at 9:00 AM EST on 3WT Radio (WWWT).

Setting up a blog (blogger.com, wordpress.com, vox.com, typepad.com), Profiles in IT (Jack St. Clair Kilby, inventor of integrated circuit and handheld calculator), NASA update (Pheonix Mars Lander finds water in soil sample), Cuil.com (new search engine sets it sights on beating Google, started by former Googlers), 3-D printing (shapeways.com, fabrication of polymer samples from 3-D digital renderings, $50 to $150), AMD gets new CEO (must focus on fabrication of next gen chips, must become competitive with Intel again), FCC rules Comcast violated net neutality rules, Tech Zombies (technologies that don't know their dead, Phone Books, Newspapers, Pay Phones, Land Lines, Encyclopedias, Cash), and Food Science (caramelizing sugar creates complex sugar compounds). This show originally aired on Saturday, August 2, 2008, at 9:00 AM EST on 3WT Radio (WWWT).

Universal remote (Logitech Harmony 880), Profiles in IT (Steven J. Sasson, inventor of digital camera), Luddites (who are they?, where did they come from?), DISA seeks cloud computing solutions, NubuAd deep packet inspection may violate wiretap laws, China has more Internet users than US, Service of Week (call voicemail directly with SlyDial), CherryPal releases cloud computer (Linux OS, SSD, $249), Asus Eee revisited (product may have started a race to bottom), IPv6 update (June 30 deadline passed, IPv6 delayed because NAT reduced demand for new addresses in US), anchor charged with email hacking (may get six months), Gmail now has login tracking with IP address and time, hiding passwords from keyloggers, and Food Science (amylose and amylopectin are the two types of starch in rice, effect on consistency). This show originally aired on Saturday, July 26, 2008, at 9:00 AM EST on 3WT Radio (WWWT).

Clear Card for airport security check, NTIA digital TV converter box program update, Profiles in IT (William Hewlett and David Packard, founders of HP and Silicon Valley pioneers), the HP Way (employee brainpower was the company's most important resource), Google versus Yahoo mission statements, ten most important things at Google, GPS tracking system used to beat speeding ticket, EULA (end user licensing agreement, key clauses reviewed), undersea fiber cable to connect Cuba and Venuzuela (Cuba eases controls on Internet after Fidel's retirement), what makes the unique sound of a Stradivarius violin, and Food Science (why bread goes stale). This show originally aired on Saturday, July 19, 2008, at 9:00 AM EST on 3WT Radio (WWWT).

Profiles in IT (Alan Curtis Kay, developer of graphical user interface, object oriented programming, first laptop), Singularity is Near (book review and discussion about man-machine evolution, genetics, nanotechnology, robotics), Website of the Week (Dreamspark, free Microsoft developer tools for students), solid state disks (are they worth the price?), Apple 3G iPhone (pros and cons), domain name server system patched (required multi-vendor coordination), Comcast may have violated net neutrality (FCC expected to act), and Food Science (why is fish meat white?). This show originally aired on Saturday, July 12, 2008, at 9:00 AM EST on 3WT Radio (WWWT).

Digital TV, antennaweb.org, saving wet cellphone, Profiles in IT (Ray Kursweil, pioneer in OCR, text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition, electronic keyboards, artificial intelligence), AI Singularity (when computers are smarter than men, six epochs of man-machine evolution), Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Google ogle defense (search terms used to establish community values), Google Trends (use and implications), Google privacy policy, Bill Gates steps down from Microsoft, National Cell Phone Courtesy Month (cell phone etiquette), hackers steal $2M from Citibank ATM users, useful Google search features (calulator, unit conversion, dictionary, spell checker, fill in the blank), and Food Science (how to prevent food from sticking). This show originally aired on Saturday, July 5, 2008, at 9:00 AM EST on 3WT Radio (WWWT).

Digital TV converter box, Profiles in IT (Anders Hejlsberg, Turbo Pascal developer, C# and .Net architect), maintaining US competitive position (comments by Nicholas M. Donofrio, IBM VP, and Newt Gingrich, Republican thought leader), ICANN and IANA websites hacked, defending against cybersquatting (ICANN's Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act), website of the week (Linux online), shortage of night vision goggles, FBI cracks phishing ring, and Food Science (making a soufle). This show originally aired on Saturday, June 28, 2008, at 9:00 AM EST on 3WT Radio (WWWT).

LHC controversary revisted, Profiles in IT (John T. Drapper, aka Captain Crunch, notorious phone phreaker), worlds fastest computer (built by IBM, Linux cluster, 8 terabytes of RAM, 1 petaflops), SQL injection database attack (definition, examples, blocking methods), Space News (Earth-like planets discovered circling a third of the stars, ice on Mars), Website of the Week (build your own star), Toy of the Week (MegaZooka, air ball gun), Verizon purchases Alltel Corp (now biggest wireless carrier), Firefox 3 Download Day (Guinness world record, 8 million downloads), Genographic Project report (human race near extinction 70,000 years ago), and Food Science (myths about marinades, marinade ingredients: oil, acid, flavors). This show originally aired on Saturday, June 21, 2008, at 9:00 AM EST on 3WT Radio (WWWT).

Bandwidth defined, Profiles in IT (Don Becker, co-founder Beowulf Cluster Project), lawmakers hacked by Chinese (only triggers more resolutions), Pheonix lander update (first oven filled with soil), Automotive Idea of the Week (inflatable electric car with swappable battery packs), Large Hadron Collider update (Higgs particle defined, black hole generation unlikely, big bang less than a month away), gravity express (42 minutes to reach other side of earth), and Food Science update (Maillard reaction between sugar and amino acids makes foods brown, cooking vegetables without losing color). This show originally aired on Saturday, June 14, 2008, at 9:00 AM EST on 3WT Radio (WWWT).

Low-noise UPS, Profiles in IT (Edgar Frank Ted Codd, inventor of relational database), virtualization and thin-client software challenge Microsoft, Rubiks Cube (solved in 23 or fewer turns, inventor and history), Document of the Week (NIST Security Document Summary), Spam statistics (China in the lead), Device of the Week (Botanicalls Twitter kit, lets plants post health to Internet), Website of the Week (Corkd, wine social network), hard drive with critical data sold at auction (Best Buy lets down customer), Food Science (tea history, tea processing, types of tea), and Mars Pheonix lander update (robotic arm scoops soil). This show originally aired on Saturday, June 7, 2008, at 9:00 AM EST on 3WT Radio (WWWT).

China update (web censorship, cell phone and IPv6 technology), translating websites (Google language tools, Yahoo Babelfish), Profiles in IT (Jim Knopf and Andrew Fluegelman, originators of shareware), Asus puts Splashtop Linux on all motherboards, free kits with phishing tools, cloud computing (defining the cloud, Google cloud, Amazon cloud, Yahoo cloud, scalability, performance, reliability), Google cloud research program (Tsinghua Univeristy), Space News (Phoenix Mars Lander successfully lands on Mars, seeks water and signs of life), and Food Science (history of chopsticks, types of rice). This show originally aired on Saturday, May 31, 2008, at 9:00 AM EST on 3WT Radio (WWWT).

Live braodcast from China, guests (Dr. James Flaggert, Dr. Prem Jadhwani), Profiles in IT (Liu Dong, founder Beijing Internet Institute), IPv6 deployment in China (China's Next Generation Internet), Olympic technology update (IPv6 applications, surveillance sytems, intelligent lighting control systems, taxi monitoring in Beijing, RFID chips in tickets), Great Firewall of China (choke points, blocking methods, using proxies and VPNs to bypass filters), and earthquake commmunication in China. This show originally aired on Saturday, May 24, 2008, at 9:00 AM EST on 3WT Radio (WWWT).

Email privacy, SPAM and spoofed email addresses, academic software update, Profiles in IT (Paul Baran and Donald Davies, co-inventors of packet-switched networks), Microsoft and Yahoo scuffle, recovering data after hard drive failure, 400 MB hard drive reclaimed after Columbia Shuttle crash, carpet bombing in cyberspace (an Air Force proposal to go on the offensive), Swiss schools switch to Ubuntu Linux only, Google will surpass MS in 2009, solar panel prices will drop dramatically, Website of the Week (games with a purpose), Good Idea of the Week (floating windmills on tethers), and Twitter provides latest news during Chinese earthquake. This show originally aired on Saturday, May 17, 2008, at 9:00 AM EST on 3WT Radio (WWWT).

WinXP SP3 crashes some AMD machines, Profiles in IT (Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, Jawed Karim, co-founders of YouTube), counterfeit Cisco equipment from China, hackers top six database attacks, Deal of the Week (MS Office Ultimate 2007), worlds first digital camera, memrister will eliminate RAM, DoD fears hardware trojans (DARPA Trust in IC Program), food science update (emulsion sauces with egg yoke emulsifier), and NASA plan to land on asteroid. This show originally aired on Saturday, May 10, 2008, at 9:00 AM EST on 3WT Radio (WWWT).

Linux support alternatives, Profiles in IT (Craig Newmark, developer of Craigslist), IBM scientists imagine technology in 2050, Creative Video trashes software modder, more hospital patient records exposed, deep packet inspection by FBI discusses in Congress, Microsoft sweetens Yahoo bid, hackers next target will be large online businesses, Bathsheba sculpture combines art and science, (In)Secure e-Magazine is a great resource, Asus Eee PC gets good reviews, and food science update (behavior of protein during cooking). This show originally aired on Saturday, May 3, 2008, at 9:00 AM EST on 3WT Radio (WWWT).

Windows XP retirement delayed, Profiles in IT (Shawn Fanning, developer of Napster), Google docs with Gears, SPAM celebrates 30th birthday, Twitter helps get release from jail, top ten technology majors according to Dice, physics of whipped cream, real-time traffic on Google Maps, and ten most expensive domain names. This show originally aired on Saturday, April 26, 2008, at 9:00 AM EST on 3WT Radio (WWWT).

Laptop phone cards, Profiles in IT (Marc Andreessen, Co-founder Netscape), Back-to-the-future Email, Ubuntu 8.04 Reviewed, Eighteenth Century e-mail (optical telegraph), Large Hadron Collider (open house, optical data grid), Wireshark 1.0 (free network protocoal analyzer) released, and removing phone number from Google database. This show originally aired on Saturday, April 19, 2008, at 9:00 AM EST on 3WT Radio (WWWT).

Batch renaming of files in Windows, Profiles in IT (Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Thawte and Ubuntu Linux Project), Intels Classmate PC competes with OLPC, Food Science (herbs and spices), dumb idea of the week (scent tones for cell phones), memory lane (Computers and Society, Time Magazine, April 1965), Big Dog military backpacking robot, DARPA celebrates 50th anniversary, and Keeloq encryption cracked (RFID entry systems at risk). This show originally aired on Saturday, April 12, 2008, at 9:00 AM EST on 3WT Radio (WWWT).

Multi-boot options (boot managers, VMPlayer, Apple Boot Camp), Profiles in IT (Jeff Hawkins, founder of Palm and Handspring), Vista SP1 Installation (features, performance), Microsoft security policy blocks bad apps, software award scams, April Fools jokes (gDay, Gmail custom time, Virgle, and more), CanSecWest hacking contest (MS Vista SP1, MacBook Air, Linux Ubuntu), Vista crash statistics (Nvidia drivers lose), and tire pressure monitoring systems (wireless security problems). This show originally aired on Saturday, April 5, 2008, at 9:00 AM EST on 3WT Radio (WWWT).

Flash memory (speeds, types), Profiles in IT (Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, co-founders of Wikipedia), Adobe Photoshop Express (free service), Blu-ray BD+ copy protection defeated (slysoft.com), Blu-ray DVD technical details, fruit fly flight decision making revealed, Google Code University, MySpace picture privacy cracked, Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) released, Obama Internet fundraising success, OpenOffice Version 2.4 released, and Chinese weather modification program for Olympics. This show originally aired on Saturday, March 29, 2008, at 9:00 AM EST on 3WT Radio (WWWT).