| December 7, 2009 GPS users map the nation's most congested cities MP3 - iTunes The company that makes Tom Tom global positioning system - or GPS - navigation devices says it's getting some of the most complete and up-to-date information ever on roads in the U.S. And now, it's ranking them.
December 8, 2009 9/11 as told by pagers MP3 - iTunes The website Wikileaks recently posted what it claims are five hundred thousand intercepted text pager messages just before and just after the attacks of September 11, 2001. They appear to come from the types of pagers carried by Pentagon officials, the FBI, the NYPD. Some messages are computer generated error reports from businesses inside the World Trade Center. Some are just New Yorkers looking for each other. 10.47am Talk to me... I hoping you are no where near this. Eric Wikileaks publishes leaked information from governments and corporations. But why take private messages and post them publicly 8 years later? Guest: Julian Assange, Investigations Editor, Wikileaks.org
December 9, 2009 Who's up to date on your Facebook updates? MP3 - iTunes Facebook is about to change. Oh, you'll still get surprising friend requests from obscure 3rd grade classmates but the site dedicate to public sharing is about to get more private thanks to new privacy settings that will allow you to decide, update by update, who gets to see what you're doing. It's a valuable tool in managing your privacy, at least to a certain degree. At the same time, however, Facebook still has access to all your data and it pays its bills by tailoring advertising to you based on the information you provide. And if you install a third party app to play a game or something, those outside developers have access to your information as well. Guest: Michael Zimmer, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
December 10, 2009 Where does AOL go from here? MP3 - iTunes Remember those little discs from America Online? You couldn't get away from them. Sign up and get 800 billion free hours. For beginning users, and we all were at the time, America Online was the internet. AOL quickly became big enough to merge with, take over really, Time Warner. Then things went south. AOL's fortune was built on dial-up internet service, Time Warner was built on print media, two things that just didn't turn out to be strong pillars. So the merger died. And today, the company, which is now called "Aol.", officially begins a new chapter as its own company once more. What will the new/old company be? Guest: Kara Swisher, The Wall Street Journal
December 11, 2009 Can life be a little more like the Jetsons? MP3 - iTunes The one thing that kept coming up in any discussion of technology and the future is flying cars. Where are the flying cars? We were supposed to have flying cars by now! Real sense of entitlement about the flying cars. So okay fine. Today, we meet a flying car dealer and talk about the challenges and opportunities therein. Guest: John Erickson, Parajet USA |  |  Get the Podcast
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