Tech Talk Radio Podcast

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).