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Tech Talk Radio Highlights
This week Tech Talk discussed the wireless Internet,
creating secure passwords, the first ID chip implants, a
security flaw exploited by spammers, MAC versus
Windows in the Senate, the first HP-Compac merger
fallout, wireless "war driving" exploits, wearable
computers for kids with disabilities, and much more.
Listen now to the latest show using MP3 or RealAudio. Check out all the
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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| 2Mbps Wireless Internet | | |
Marty
Cooper, Father of the Cellular Phone, spoke to the Congressional
Internet Caucus this week. According to Marty, 2Mbps cell
phone data rates are possible, if the spectrum is made available
via informed spectral management policy. Unfortunately, much
of the spectrum has been reserved since the 1920's and those
who "own it" have no incentive to innovate. There is no lack
of spectrum, only a lack of spectral efficiency.
Check
Out Marty Cooper's Comments
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| Meet The Chipsons | | | ID Chips were implanted in a Florida family last week.
The Jacobs from Boca Raton are being called the
Chipsons. The implants, designed and manufactured by
Verichip, were the size of a grain of rice. While these
implants contained only medical profiles, other
applications could include GPS tracking. Verichip sees a
market of 2 to 3 million over the next few years.
Check
out the TechTV article
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| Mac's Last Stand in the Senate | | | Senate Office Sergeant At Arms (SAA), the office
responsible for the Senate IT infrastructure, is
strongly anti-Mac. Mac holdouts include: Ted Kennedy
(D-Mass); Tim Johnson (D-South Dakota); and the
Office of the Democratic Policy Committee. The most
vocal Mac rebel is Ngozi Pole, in Kennedy's Office. He
rails against the "SAA Mac Bigots." SAA wants to
simplify support by going all-Windows.
Check
out the Wired.com article
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| Stupid Lawsuit of the Week | | | British Telecom is suing Prodigy for violating its
Hyperlink patent claim. In addition, BT has issued
warnings to 16 other ISPs. The patent dates back to
research performed in the 1970s by the then British
Post Office, which was formalized in a 1989 US Patent
4,873,662 for "information handling system and
terminal apparatus." The patent remains valid until
2006. Doesn't BT know about the well-established prior
work on the Internet and the WWW?
Check
out the MIT Tech Review article
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| Wearable Computer Helps Disabled Kids | | |
Jeremy,
a 9-year old who suffers from autism, was given a wearable
Xybernaut computer to augment
his communication. The two pound device with a flat panel
display profoundly changed his life. For the first time, he
could communicate with his friends or order food from McDonalds.
The success was repeated with Kevin, who suffers from Cerebral
Palsy.
Check
out the Washington Post article
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