Wide World of Tech
34 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 5 years ago -Not your average tech podcast. We love talking tech, tech culture, and how to drive a tech career without selling your soul.
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Wide World of Tech #35 - Getting Promoted
October 19, 2018 06:34 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBWelcome Tech News CVS/Aetna Google+ Sports News NFL - Drew!!! MLB - Playoffs NHL - Records Big Bet Who will be in the World Series? Big Topic Factors getting promoted This week/day in tech history 10/10/1980: Pac Man comes to arcades in the US 10/8/1982: Mortal Kombat comes to US arcades 10/7/1952: Barcode tech patented 10/3/1950: The transistor was patented 10/2/1955: ENIAC retired Final Word
Wide World of Tech #33 - VMWorld Recap!
September 20, 2018 17:45 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBWelcome Tech News Walmart out of stock Data ownership Sports News MLB -Cal's record NFL - New Campaign NCAA - New Season Big Bet Who will win the CFB National Championship? Big Topic VMWorld Recap 2018 & James News This week/day in tech history 9/4/1956: 1st commercial hard drive - IBM 350 Disk Storage Unit Model 1 9/3/1995: eBay founded 9/2/1993: 1st search engine (W3Catalog) 8/29/1831: Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction 8/25/1991: birth of linux Final Word
Wide World of Tech #32 -VMWorld 2018!
August 30, 2018 12:46 - 53 minutes - 48.1 MBWelcome Tech News No more college requirements Ratings evereywhere AmazonHQ2 updated Sports News NCAA -Urban Golf- Tiger vs. Phil LLWS - Fun times! Big Bet Who will win the LLWS? Big Topic Gina & Kong going to VMWorld 2018 This week/day in tech history August 22, 1987: The Legend of Zelda released August 19, 2004: Google IPO Final Word
Wide World of Tech #31 -Gina's Adventure!
August 27, 2018 15:48 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBWelcome Tech News Ican getting into the Dell game Musk looking for cash Sports News NFL -Ramsey calling out QBs Surfing -WHAT A WAVE! Big Bet How many people with be at vBreakfast? Big Topic Gina's readout from Defcon This week/day in tech history 8/18/1947: HP Incorporated 8/17/1982: 1st CD press 8/16/1995: IE introduced 8/14/2006: Dell Hell Final Word
Wide World of Tech #30 - Free Information!
August 17, 2018 18:24 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBWelcome Tech News Feds investigate Elon Musk’s tweet on going private Twitter and Infowars non-suspension Google Map Sports News NFL -Preseaon and "Grumpy Rodgers" NCAAB -New rules Big Bet Update on VMWorld bet Big Topic The idea of free information is extremely dangerous This week/day in tech history August 8th, 1980 -Project Chess, aka the 1st IBM Personal computer, is approved August 3rd, 1977 - Radio shack introduces the TRS-80 Final Word
Wide World of Tech #29 - Kong's Announcement!
August 07, 2018 13:35 - 1 hour - 54.5 MBWelcome Tech News Slack buys HipChat Sports News NBA -Labron opens a school NCAA -Ohio State troubles Kong's big announcement Wait, what? Big Topic Techies, tech, and social responsibilities This week/day in tech history 8/1/1981: MTV debuts 7/31/1971: 1st man drives on the moon. 7/30/1979: Apple Lisa is born 7/29/1914: 1st transcontinental phone call 7/28/1981: 1st Apple desktop computer Final Word
Wide World of Tech #28 - Remote Software!
August 02, 2018 19:38 - 41 minutes - 36.5 MBWelcome Tech News RFID Security Venmo data 300 person conference call Sports News Tour de France Football update Placing Bets Who will win the Hall of Fame game? Big Topic Voting Machines This week/day in tech history July 24, 1950: 1st rocket launch from Cape Canaveral July 23, 1903: 1st Ford Model A sold July 22, 1980: Microsoft - IBM alliance is born (aka history of DOS aka “birth of the unholy alliance” Final Word
Wide World of Tech #27 - Stranger's Privacy!
July 26, 2018 19:16 - 52 minutes - 46.8 MBWelcome Tech News Amazon down during Prime Day Google Cloud down Sports News NBA -trades/free agency MLB -homerun derby/all-star game/Mike Trout PR Placing Bets VMWorld Musical Act Big Topic Other's Privacy This week/day in tech history July 18, 1968: Intel founded July 17, 1970: Magnavox “Brown Box” Demo’d July 17, 1850: First star photographed July 18. 1990: Final Fantasy released (the first one) Final Word
Wide World of Tech #26 - Social Connections!
July 19, 2018 14:17 - 37 minutes - 32.4 MBWelcome Tech News AT&T buying AlienVault Broadcom buying CA Sports News World Cup -WoW!!! MLB -boys of summer/All-Star game/Home Run derby NCAA Football -missing NCAA football video game :-( Placing Bets Croatia vs France Big Topic Social Connections This week/day in tech history July 9, 1982: Tron released July 7, 1994: I3enc (aka MP3) released July 10, 1962: Telstar satellite launched Final Word
Wide World of Tech #25 -Company Relations!
July 13, 2018 17:58 - 1 hour - 54.4 MBWelcome Tech News Hackers compromised Gentoo Linux GitHub Page Exactis Sports News NBA -Free Agency World Cup -Bracket Play College Baseball -Finals Placing Bets NBA Rookie of the Year Big Topic Google is officially warning its employees that its internal bulletin boards are not a free-for-all for nasty, negative, damaging posts This week/day in tech history June 27, 1972: Atari founded June 26, 1974: UPC used at a grocery story for the first time June 21, 1981: Microsoft fou...
Wide World of Tech #24 - Tech Companies & Major Events!
June 29, 2018 15:31 - 43 minutes - 38.4 MBWelcome Tech News Google podcast platform Location sharing Sports News Calder Cup! - Texas Stars lost NBA - Rocket's fans World Cup!! College Baseball Placing Bets Who will in the College World Series? Big Topic Tech Companies and major events Medium post from Nichole This week/day in tech history June 18, 1979: Basic for 8086 June 17, 1980: Atari Asteroids and Lunar Landings are the first video games copyrighted June 14, 1882: Charles Babbage unveils the Difference Engine ...
Wide World of Tech #23 - IT Burnout!
June 22, 2018 13:02 - 54 minutes - 48.6 MBWelcome Tech News Podcast Revenue up VPNFilter Malware Sports News Calder Cup! - Let's go Texas Stars! NBA - Warriors win!! NCAA Track & Field World Cup!! Placing Bets Who will win the world cup? Big Topic IT Burnout This week/day in tech history June 11, 1978: Speak n Say released June 8, 1978: 16 bit 8086 Intel chip released BONUS--808 Kickdrum -http://808themovie.com Final Word
Wide World of Tech #22 - Impostor Syndrome
June 14, 2018 19:57 - 1 hour - 55 MBWelcome Tech News MS buying Github --wait what?! Google AI Sports News NHL - Caps Win! Calder Cup: GO TEXAS STAR!!!! (VS. TORONTO Marlies) NBA - FINALs! Golden State in the lead NFL -TO not going to HOF activities College Softball/Baseball -GO FSU softball!! Placing Bets Will the finals end in a sweep (Warriors sweeping the Cavs)? Big Topic Impostor Syndrome This week/day in tech history June 6, 2009: Palm pilot pre-released June 6, 1984: Tetris born June 4, 1977: VHS intro...
Wide World of Tech #21 - Watch what you download!
June 07, 2018 18:39 - 59 minutes - 53.2 MBWelcome Tech News Personal Data sharing BMC changing hands Sports News NHL -Finals update & local team NBA -Finals and fake twitter accounts College Softball/Baseball -Exciting Spelling Bee - A new champ is crowned Placing Bets Summer Plans (results) Big Topic Watch what you download This week/day in tech history May 31, 1991: All your base are belong to us May 28, 1987: GIF standard released May 30, 1966: NASA launched Surveyor 1 Final Word
Wide World of Tech #20 - AI Bias Part 2
May 31, 2018 19:59 - 49 minutes - 43.4 MBWelcome Tech News 13 Technologies Stealing IP Amazon Scanning Faces Sports News MLB - New Methods NHL -Finals NFL - Owners decision Placing Bets Summer Plans Big Topic AI Bias This week/day in tech history 5/22/1980: pacman user tested in Japan 5/22/1906: patent awarded for the new and useful improvements in flying machines to the Wright Brotherss 5/23/1980: empire strikes back released. Final Word
Wide World of Tech #19 - Open Source
May 25, 2018 13:58 - 47 minutes - 34 MBWelcome (we had some noise issues that we tried to clear up, however there might still be some parts where there is background noise...sorry) Tech News ZTE Deal Apple news Sports Bets Sports News MLB - Cano NFL - Draft Recap NBA -playoffs & draft NHL -playoffs - Go VEGAS GO!!!! MMA -WOW! Placing Bets Champions League Big Topic Open Source This week/day in tech history Eurovision 2018 was last weekend (yay Israel won!), but the contest started as a way to standardize on telev...
Wide World of Tech #18 - Dell Tech World/Interop Recap
May 17, 2018 17:07 - 39 minutes - 24.6 MBWelcome (we heard there were some audio issues on the first version, this one should be better) Tech News ATT, net neutrality, merger & politics MS Build - AI & cloud focus Sports News NFL - Draft Recap NBA -playoffs update NHL -playoffs - Bruins Marchand keeps on licking Placing Bets NBA Champs? Big Topic Interop and Dell Tech World recap - what hawt / what not? This week/day in tech history May 3, 1984: Dell Founded May 9, 2009: Tux is adopted as the linux mascot. May 6, 19...
Wide World of Tech #17 - Infinity Wars!
May 14, 2018 12:55 - 1 hour - 58.6 MBWelcome Tech News Pivotal IPO Facebook Revenue Surges Hotel Master Key Hack Sports News NFL - Draft NBA -playoffs NHL -playoffs Placing Bets Who will be the most worn out in Vegas? Big Topic Infinity Wars!!! This week/day in tech history April 25, 1990: Hubble Space Telescope deployed April 23, 2005: 1st YouTube video uploaded. Me at the zoo. April 22, 1993: Mosaic released by National Center for Supercomputing Applications. 1st web GUI, led dev was Marc Andreeson. Final Wo...
Wide World of Tech #16 - Travel Plans!
April 26, 2018 18:31 - 49 minutes - 43.5 MBWelcome Tech News VMware Release Nutanix Release Amazon Prime Numbers Scality Funding Sports News NFL NBA -playoffs NHL -playoffs Placing Bets Stanley Cup winner? Big Topic Dell Technology World & Interop This week/day in tech history April 13, 1965: Moore’s Law was first discussed in a paper by Gordon Moore. April 9, 2012: Facebook purchased Instagram April 8, 1991: Java development begins as the team at Sun began work on “Oak”, which was renamed Java Final Word
Wide World of Tech #15 - Facebook!
April 12, 2018 18:57 - 1 hour - 53.4 MBWelcome Tech News Panera Bread Apple & Intel Sports News NCAA Basketball - Finals UFC Crazy Masters MLB -Astros! Placing Bets Masters -Who will win? Big Topic Facebook in the news AGAIN and concerns about your data. This week/day in tech history April 1, 2004: Invite only gmail beta April 4, 1994: Netscape Founded April 4, 1975: Microsoft Founded April 6, 1986: EMC goes public April 6, 1992: Microsoft releases Windows 3.1 Final Word
Wide World of Tech #14 - Bad Actors!
April 05, 2018 18:08 - 1 hour - 59.8 MBWelcome Tech News Facebook still in the news Facebook/Google storing data Self-driving cars Sports News MLB -Opening Day! March Madness - UConn upset in Women's bracket! NFL - When a catch is a catch? NHL -Goalie Madness Placing Bets March Madness -Who will win it all? Big Topic Bad Actors! Kong Take Gina Take This week/day in tech history 3/24/1959: TI gives the first demo of the integrated circuit. It was created to prove resistors and capacitors could exist on the same d...
Wide World of Tech #13 - AI Bias
April 05, 2018 18:08 - 50 minutes - 45.4 MBWelcome Tech News Facebook in news again! Google paying to true up employees Sports News March Madness update Tiger is back and so are golf fans Placing Bets Dell Match Play winner Big Topic AI bias This week/day in tech history 3/21/2006 @jack sends the 1st tweet. When did you join? (Gina 7/2007) 3/25/1995 1st wiki created wiki wiki web 3/22/1993 Intel begins shipping the Pentium chip March is Women’s history month! Donna Dubinsky was the co-founder and CEO of Palm (and Han...
Wide World of Tech #12 - 7 Techs Remaking the World!
March 22, 2018 17:00 - 53 minutes - 48.4 MBWelcome Tech News Professor Stephen Hawking passes away on Pi Day Theranos charged with fraud YouTube & Wikipedia Sports News March Madness - A&M, Nevada, FSU all in NFL free agent signings (our Cousins bet is done) Bruins are hanging in there. Placing Bets March Madness Tourney Bracket & Who’s alma mater will go further in the tourney? Big Topic MIT’s list of seven techs remaking the world This week/day in tech history March 14, 1955: AT&T Bell Labs announced the TRADIC (for ...
Wide World of Tech #11 - Tech Constructs!
March 15, 2018 17:30 - 51 minutes - 46.7 MBWelcome Tech News Mini-Satellites in space Chinese satellite falling but where Facebook Stream 25 afternoon MLB games Sports News March Madness is coming NFL News NCAA $1B NBA Placing Bets How many games will the Browns win? Big Topic Rise and fall of tech constructs - what really matters? This week/day in tech history March 4, 1956 - An Wang Sells core memory patent to IBM March 5, 1995 - Yahoo! officially launches March 9 1999 - AL Gore invents the internet March is Wome...
Wide World of Tech #10 - Containers!
March 08, 2018 17:09 - 54 minutes - 48.7 MBWelcome Tech News IPO fun Sports News Olympic Update - Final update NBA -Gina's game adventure College Basketball NFL -What a catch!?! Placing Bets Where will Kirk go? Big Topic Containers, are they the new virtualization? This week/day in tech history 3/1/1960: Lisp Programming Manual published 2/26/1991: 1st web browser released. It was called WorldWideWeb, keeping the tradition of bad product names alive. March is Women’s history month! Ada Lovelace was there from the beg...
Wide World of Tech #9 - Odds & Ends!
March 01, 2018 17:49 - 46 minutes - 41.2 MBWelcome Tech News Bad behavior/cross-podcast talk Sports News Olympic Update - US going for Gold in Curling/Women's Hockey NBA -Gina going to Warriors game Everything else Placing Bets Olympic Edition -will we be talking about curling a year from now? Big Topic Odds & Ends! This week/day in tech history 2/20/1962: Glynn Orbits the earth 3 times, with the assistance of NASA’s IBM 7030 Stretch Supercomputer 2/19/1971: FBI issues 1st computer search warrant. 2/22/1999: The 1st In...
Wide World of Tech #8 - New to Tech Communities
February 22, 2018 19:33 - 53 minutes - 46.9 MBWelcome Tech News More Hacking Dell sells Mozy Sports News Super Bowl Recap MLB -Pitchers & Catchers reporting Olympics Placing Bets Olympic Edition Big Topic "new-to" tech community people in established communities This week/day in tech history 2/13/1980: Apple Incorporated 2/14/1924: birth of IBM 2/14/1946: ENIAC unveiled Black History Month: Marie Van Britton Brown invented the first home security system with her husband. Lonnie G Johnson worked on the JTEC - johnson th...
Wide World of Tech #7 - Tech Rants Part 2
February 09, 2018 15:56 - 59 minutes - 53 MBWelcome Tech News Companies still taking tax hits Sports News Super Bowl Snacks NBA Super Teams Hockey watching MLB Free Agency Placing Bets Superbowl Ads! Big Topic IT RANTS PART DEUX!! This week/day in tech history 2/3/1986 -Vaporware: According to Computerhistory.org, Time Magazine used the term “vaporware” to talk about the delays Microsoft had delivering Windows. Interestingly, the term was created by a Microsoft engineer in 82, when he responded to a reporter’s question a...
Wide World of Tech #6 - Artificial Intelligence
February 01, 2018 19:19 - 55 minutes - 50 MBWelcome Tech News Companies taking tax hits Turning over your code Sports News All-Star Games NHL -Not doing good College Basketball MLB Hall of Fame Placing Bets Superbowl Winner! Big Topic Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, oh my!! This week/day in tech history 2/1/91: Sun starts Java 1/28/86: Challenger exploded 1/27/83: Lotus 123 released Last word
Wide World of Tech #5 - Tech Rants
January 25, 2018 19:18 - 58 minutes - 52.4 MBWelcome Tech News Apple bringing money home and giving it out Sports News NFL News -Playoff Crazy NHL -Who actually watched? Placing Bets Superbowl matchup Big Topic 2018 IT Predictions Year to date IT rants This week/day in tech history 1/14/1878: Edison demo’d telephone for Queen Victoria https://books.google.com/books?id=EqgFnAZEPhgC&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=january+14+1878+Bell+Queen&source=bl&ots=mPKok_L6Wk&sig=SZ49ClI0TVRvZbfRrIvPniwEtZM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OQxZULiHLOeLiwLA3YGQCA#v=on...
Wide World of Tech #4 - CES & Smart Toilets
January 18, 2018 18:35 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MBWelcome Tech News More Uber fun Sports News College Football -National Championship Recap NFL News -Playoffs & New Raiders coach NHL -We all need to watch more Placing Bets Update on Amazon picks Big Topic CES, power outages, smart toilets and more This week/day in tech history 1/9/2009: 1st v of bitcoin released https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg10142.html 1/11/2005: iPod Shuffle! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Shuffle 1/10/96: T83 graphing calcula...
Wide World of Tech #3 - Chip Flaws!
January 11, 2018 18:02 - 48 minutes - 43.2 MBWelcome The News Tech News Blockchain shenanigans Apple & batteries Sports News College Football -Good, Bad, & Ugly NFL News -Playoffs NHL -Gina telling us we need to watch more of it Placing Bets Super Bowl College Football Champion Big Topic Chip Flaws -Meltdown & Specter This week/day in tech history 1/1 1939: HP founded 1983: IP/TCIP replaced Network Control Protocol on Arpanet 1985: 1st domain name registered "http://NORDU.net " http://www.tommerritt.com/2018/01/01/t...
Wide World of Tech #2 - Stack Wars!
January 04, 2018 19:10 - 52 minutes - 46.8 MBWelcome The News Tech News AWS: Re-Invent -Kong's report Sports News College Football -Coaching carousel NFL News -Eli benched More Tech Working at Lyft Placing Bets Who makes college football playoffs? Big Topic STACK WARS!!!! This week/day in tech history 11/29/72: Pong is released 11/30/59: IBM 7090 Mainframes are released https://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4443083/IBM-delivers-7090-mainframe-computers--November-30--1959 Closing
Wide World of Tech #1 - Hello World!
January 04, 2018 19:10 - 46 minutes - 43 MBWelcome The News Tech News Net Neutrality Uber Data Breach Sports News College Football Rivalry Week NFL News More Tech AWS: Reinvent Placing Bets Amazon HQ2 Location Big Topic Based on the 7 deadly sins, what are the main ones you feel we see in tech? This week/day in tech history 11/21 - birth of the internet http://thisdayintechhistory.com/11/21/the-birth-of-the-internet/ Closing