Tech Talk Radio Podcast

Windows (desktop vs server), printing cost (inkjet printer vs print service), WiFi (5 GHz vs 2.4 GHz bands), learning code online (treehouse, Khan Academy, Code School, EDX, Coursea, Udacity), Profiles in IT (Mary Allen Wilkes, creator of OS for first PC), cord cutting accelerates (cable bundles are doomed), consumer IoT security standard (issued by European Telecommunications Standards Institute), Russia bans smartphones for soldiers (citing security risk), Facebooks bait and switch policy (leaves privacy in the dust), VFEmail suffers massive cyber attack (wipes out servers and backup, lessons learned), why Zebras have stripes (mystery revealed), mechanism behind patterns in nature (proposed by Turing, elegantly simple), Microsoft help retailers compete with Amazon, and Ethereum at a crossroads (block validation must be modified to scale, expect a fork). This show originally aired on Saturday, February 23, 2019, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).