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Tech Talk Radio Highlights
This week Tech Talk interviewed Mayi Canale, Deputy Chief
Information Officer for Department of Treasury. Other items
of interest included FOSE, telecommunications meltdown, virus
news, domain naming, and the community wireless network movement.
Our format of tech news, politics, and humor is a fun way
to keep up with the developments in technology that touch
all of our lives.
Listen to
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links referenced during the show.
Tech Talk
airs each Saturday at Noon on WMAL Radio (AM630) and is
sponsored by Stratford University. WMAL is an ABC affiliate
and the number one AM radio station in the Washington DC
market.
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| New Microsoft Operating System in the Works | | | And the beat goes on -- we have seen NT, 2000, XP,
and .Net in the OS parade. The next OS on the drawing
board will revamp the disk filing system, bringing it
more inline with searchable database technology. This
will allow multimedia searches and will integrate into
the .Net architecture more completely. MS is following
Oracle's lead in this arena.
Check
out the CNET Article
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| Homebrew Wireless Network in Hawaii | | | Bill Wiecking is networking the Big Island. Putting
antennas on housetops, he has networked 300 square
miles using 802.11b wireless nodes. He modified some
nodes with amplifiers to get a 26-mile range!
Homeowners' associations should take note. This is a
great way to bypass both cable and DSL!
Check
out the Business 2.0 Article
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| Global Crossing Creating Havoc in Market | | | Global Crossing continues to haunt the telecomm
industry in its failed attempt to create a worldwide
fiber optic network. Optical capacity trading between
Global, WorldCom, and Qwest is currently being
investigated. It is thought that capacity swapping was
used to improperly inflate revenues. Investors are
seeing shades of Enron here. Telecomm stocks are in
free fall.
Check
Out CNET Article
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| CIO Council and FOSE Team Up Again | | | The Chief Information Officer Council
(CIOC) and FOSE have teamed
up for another event on March 19-21. The conference
will feature CIOC initiatives, including e-government,
security, infrastructure, and workforce development.
Mayi Canales, Deputy CIO from Treasury, and Bill
Howell, Managing Director of FOSE, discussed these
initiatives on the show.
Check out the
FOSE Website
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| W32/Gibe Malicious Code | | | Another virus is spreading via email. This one looks like
a Microsoft Internet Security Update. Once the
attachment (q211609.exe) is opened, the virus installs
a backdoor to your system and propagates to everyone
in your address book via email. CERT has outlined all
the details in Incident Note IN-2002-02. Update
your
virus protection software now.
Check
out the CERT Website
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