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Episode 9: Scammers want to hire you!

2009-07-1130:16

A county in Kentucky gets robbed by computer criminals who used software to trick county computers into transferring funds into money mole bank accounts. Those moles were people who thought they were working for a legitimate business, but later found out that they’d been scammed. Make sure you check out any company that offers to hire [...]

Episode 8: Happy Independence Day!

2009-07-0419:00

A short episode this week, running through some of the tech news from last week. There was a major outage around Washington and Rutland counties due to a fiber line that was blasted by a shotgun. Fairpoint may go into bankruptcy, but not to worry there are alternative ISPs in Vermont and Fairpoint won’t [...]

Episode 7: A walk down a 64k memory lane

2009-06-2529:00

Send ideas for the poll question to [email protected]. For people interested in the Commodore 64. I’d recommend the wikipedia entry as a great starting place to find out all about one of the first truly mass market personal computers. Enhanced podcast:

Episode 6: iPhone 3.0 initial impression, WWW history, and more

2009-06-2033:00

The first few days with the iPhone 3.0 software has been fairly good. I lost my contacts and calendars when I tried to turn on Push, but I restored them from backup. I still don’t fully understand the relationship between the Mac applications, .mac (or as it’s know now-a-days MobileMe *ick*) and the iPhone. I mentioned [...]

Episode 5: Outages, old blogs, and WWDC oh my!

2009-06-1330:00

I didn’t change the episode tag at the front of the podcast, I know it says episode 4 then after the music I start into episode 5…. Sorry for the confusion, this is really episode five. Don’t forget to check out www.vtsda.org. The Vermont Software Developers Alliance is hosting a lunch and learn on the 17th. Enhanced [...]

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