Tech Talk Radio Podcast

DTV conversion update, repairing corrupted files in XP, home cell phone repeater, Profiles in IT (Tommy Flowers, creator of Colossus, first programmable electronic computer), Britain honors WWII code breaking veterans form Bletchley Park, Tech Talk Guest (Dr. James Tilton, image processing researcher from Goddard Space Flight Center), NASA launches Spacebook (similar to Facebook, designed to help researchers share data), Botnet worm launches Junly 4th (DDOS attacks of US and Korean government sites, may destroy files, North Korea suspected), Koobface is back (Facebook social networking worm targets Twitter, over 1000 variants), Google launches Chrome operating system (designed for systems larger than Netbooks, based on Linux kernel, code to be released in 2010). This show originally aired on Saturday, July 11, 2009, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).