Description:
The editors of WhatIs.com produce a podcast series that highlights new developments in information technology and other topics of interest to the IT professional or educated consumer. Be the smartest geek in the NOC. Listen and learn.
25 Podcasts:
 1. what_is_a_3D_chip.5-17-07.mp3 (played 13 times)
2. what_is_Web_texting.mp3 (played 13 times)
3. what_is_joost_2007_2_20.mp3 (played 15 times)
4. what_is_a_media_aware_network_2007_2_12.mp .. (played 14 times)
5. what_is_crowdsourcing_2007-1-31.mp3 (played 15 times)
6. what_is_a_portable_application_2007-1-25.m .. (played 16 times)
7. what_is_an_information_dashboard_1-15-2007 .. (played 13 times)
8. what_is_FFIEC_compliance_1-10-2007.mp3 (played 18 times)
9. what_is_a_cognitive_biometric_2007-1-3.mp3 (played 19 times)
10. what_is_WCMS_2006-12-19.mp3 (played 14 times)
11. what_is_soft_keyboard_2006-12-05.mp3 (played 15 times)
12. what_is_a_mashup_2006_11_17.mp3 (played 17 times)
13. what_is_war_driving_2006_11_15.mp3 (played 25 times)
14. what_is_google_bomb_2006_11_03.mp3 (played 18 times)
15. what_is_a_zeroday_exploit.mp3 (played 25 times)
16. Jeff_Kaplan_on_SaaS.mp3 (played 19 times)
17. Paul_Gillin_on_SaaS.mp3 (played 15 times)
18. mzillman_interview_deep_Web.mp3 (played 26 times)
19. what_is_pretexting_9-18-06.mp3 (played 26 times)
20. what_is_sata.mp3 (played 25 times)
21. burning_man.mp3 (played 24 times)
22. what_is_4G_wireless.mp3 (played 25 times)
23. what_is_magnetic_tape_backup.mp3 (played 15 times)
24. what_is_virtuozzo.mp3 (played 17 times)
25. what_is_ssi_injection.mp3 (played 17 times)
Content:
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What is a 3-D chip?
 This podcast from WhatIs.com explores what 3-D chips are, how they're made and what their production might mean for the extension of Moore's Law into the third dimension. In April 2007, a new version of 3-D chips was announced by a partnership of IBM and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) researchers at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, with support from the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency ( DARPA).
To learn more about the advance, we went right to the source and called up Kerry Bernstein. Kerry is a Senior Technical Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Hts, NY. Kerry was kind enough to sit down with WhatIs.com's Alex Howard to talk about IBM's development of through silicon vias, 3-D chips and the future of microprocessors.
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What is Web texting?
Web texting is two-way text messaging from the Web to a mobile handheld device, usually a cellular phone.
Traditionally, SMS messages are texted from handheld to handheld. As mobile providers have improved their Web sites, it has become possible for subscribers to log on and send text messages to cell phones from the online account. Now, companies are taking it one step further and allowing text messages to be sent to and from an online application and a cell phone.
To learn more, WhatIs.com's Alex Howard called up Gavin Macomber, co-founder & executive vice president of MobileSphere, which has developed a Web texting platform.
When you listen to the podcast, you'll learn the answers to the following questions:
- How is Web texting different from "normal" texting
- How does Web texting work?
- What security concerns are there with Web texting?
- What is happening with mobile spam and SMSing? What about SMiShing?
- What international issues are there with Web texting? Where does it work -– and where doesn't it?
- How many users in North America are sending text messages vs. eastern Asia or Western Europe?
- Are Treos and BlackBerrys and other QWERTY keyboard-equipped handsets changing the equation?
- How is the market for Web texting changing with millions of users beginning to save, edit, upload and share multimedia content from camera and video phones?
- What is fixed-mobile convergence and what's important about the trend?
- What is a softswitch and how does it work?
- What is an MVNO?
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What is Joost?
What is Joost? Formerly known as the "Venice Project," Joost is an IPTV service based on peer-to-peer (P2P) technology from the creators of Skype and Kazaa.
When you listen to this podcast from WhatIs.com, you'll learn the answers to the following questions:
- Who created these P2P apps?
- How is Joost different from YouTube, Current.tv, Revver or other online video?
- What platforms does Joost work on?
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What is a media-aware network?
A media-aware network uses a combination of software and hardware within routers to bring more intelligence to the edges of a network, enhancing the experience of VoIP, videoconferencing or other communications users. To learn more about media-aware networks, WhatIs.com's Alex Howard interviewed Cathal Phelan and Keith Morris, the CEO and VP of marketing, respectively, at Ubicom, a manufacturer of specialized processors and router equipment.
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What is crowdsourcing?
Crowdsourcing is the act of taking a function traditionally performed by an employee and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people using the Internet. Crowdsourcing relies on a combination of distributed networks, inexpensive digital tools of production and people who create content, rate other people's work or solve problems in their spare time. To learn more about this buzzword, WhatIs.com's Alex Howard went right to the source and interviewed Jeff Howe, the writer who coined the term (in concert with editor Mark Robinson) and published this article exploring the crowdsourcing phenomenon in Wired Magazine.
When you listen to the podcast, you'll learn the answers to the following questions:
- Where does the term "crowdsourcing" come from?
- How does crowdsourcing work?
- What are some real-life case studies of the phenomenon? How is Amazon's Mechanical Turk is an excellent example.of crowdsourcing?
- What are the five new rules for this new labor pool?
- How is crowdsourcing affecting the stock photo industry, corporate R&D, newspapers and advertising?
- How is Second Life a pure example of crowdsourcing?
- Where doesn't crowdsourcing work? Are fair labor concerns and protection of intellectual property at issue?
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What is a portable application?
The term portable application broadly describes any software that has been adapted for use on a Flash drive, iPod or other mobile external hard drive. To learn more about portable applications, WhatIs.com's Alex Howard interviewed John T. Haller, the CEO and lead developer of PortableApps.
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What is an information dashboard?
In information technology, the term dashboard refers to a graphical user interface (GUI) that organizes and presents information in a format that is easy to read and interpret. An executive dashboard is a computer interface that displays the information corporate officers need to effectively run an enterprise. To learn more about information dashboards, WhatIs.com's Alex Howard interviewed the CEO of iDashboards, Shadan Malik.
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What is FFIEC compliance?
In this WhatIs.com podcast, you'll learn about an attempt to modernize existing banking practices in the context of new online threats like phishing. To learn more about FFIEC compliance, WhatIs.com Assistant Site Editor Alex Howard interviewed Patrick Audley, the CTO of risk adaptive software provider Cogneto.
In this podcast, you will learn the answers to the following questions:
- How does implementation of FFIEC recommendations change the ways that customers use a bank?
- What’s the difference between single factor and multiple factor authentication? What is a factor in authentication?
- Under FFIEC guidance, is a fingerprint or iris scanner or voice recognition system sufficient authentication?
- How is dynamic reporting being used to decrease the incidence of fraud What is realtime risk analysis?
- Are there any penalties for non-compliance?
- Where are the majority of funds stolen in phishing attacks?
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What is a cognitive biometric?
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