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Tech Talk Radio Highlights
This week Tech Talk analyzed the Worldcom meltdown
and the state of the telecommunication industry. We
surveyed home theater video and audio options,
including HDTV, Dolby Digital, and wireless. Other topics
included the FTC search engine investigation, a new
Apache web server worm, the threat of an al-Qaeda
hack attack of critical systems, the Senate passage of
an e-Government bill, the Yaha-E worm, the recording
industry's efforts to hack file-trading systems, plus
much more.
Listen now to the latest show using either MP3 or Real Audio. 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 metropolitan area.
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Worldcom and the Telecommunications Industry
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Worldcom
is symptomatic of an industry with too much debt and not enough
revenue. Between 1997 and 2001, spending on telecommunications
in Europe and the United States totaled more than $4 trillion.
Competitive rate-cutting in 2000, forced by an oversupply
of bandwidth, forced many bankruptcies and reorganizations.
We have seen 51 telecom
bankruptcies since October 1999. Many are still in trouble.
Sector won't be profitable until debt load is reduced. Second movers who buy spoils will
be profitable.
Check
out the Progressive Media Project analysis
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| US Fears al-Qaeda Hack Attack | | |
Many
US computer sites are being hacked from abroad through telecommunications
switches in Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and Pakistan. Attacks
have focused on emergency telephone systems, water storage
and distribution, power grid and power plants, including nuclear
power plants. Efforts seem to be concentrated on a class of
digital devices involved in distributed control systems, many
of which use the Windows OS.
Check
out the Washington Post article
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| ICANN Meets in Bucharest | | |
ICANN,
the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, held
its Board of Directors meeting in Bucharest last week. The
board voted to eliminate the online election of individual
Internet users and to draw members from corporations, governments,
NGO's, and technical firms. Other board decisions included
a 25 cent tax on new domain name registrations, a 30-day waiting
period for expired domain names, and a waiting list for popular
domain names. The controversial decisions related to the domain
name tax and the elections have prompted the Department of
Commerce to slow-roll complete turnover of the DNS to ICANN.
Check
out the CNN article
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Senate backs $345M eGov Bill
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Called
the eGovernment Act of 2002, the legislation will establish
an office of electronic government, headed by a Senate-confirmed
administrator, within the Office of Management and Budget.
The Bill would also establish a federal portal, require federal
courts to post opinions online, and encourage the use of digital
signatures. eGovernment is clearly a bipartisan priority.
Check
out the Zdnet article
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| Home Theater Rundown | | |
Technology
options for the big screen include cathode ray tubes (CRT),
projection systems (LCD and DLP), and plasma displays. Digital
light processing (DLP) is the latest and greatest. The High
Definition Television (HDTV) standard includes a wide 16x9
screen, 1080 horizontal scan lines, and Dolby Digital sound.
Dolby Digital has 5 audio channels (three in the front and
two in the back) plus a woofer. All-in-one integrated sound
systems, used with a big screen TV, are the best home theater
value. Wireless audio is not ready for prime time because
the standards are not firm enough.
Check
out the ePanorama Video links page
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