Sunday, November 13, 2011

Tech Talk Podcast: Big Data

Just what is Big Data and why is it such a big business? Quentin Hardy, a deputy technology editor at The Times, discusses his recent Bits blog post on the topic  and why it might be a good idea for future college students to consider a major in statistics.

Iomega has long been known for making colorful external hard drives (including models bound in leather or sporting a camouflage pattern), and recently the company has taken some design cues from Apple. Team Tech Talk takes a look at two new Iomega external drives, the Helium portable and the Mac Companion, which visually complement Apples MacBook Pro laptops and iMac desktop machines.

Andrea Electronics has been producing radio and audio gear since 1934 and is still around today making  among other things  noise-canceling headsets  for gamers and social media mavens. Doug Andrea, the chief executive, visits the podcast to chat about his companys long history, including its work with the American space program.

This weeks technology headlines include the arrival of new phones from the Nokia-Microsoft alliance; Netflixs plummeting subscriber numbers; a new version of the Grand Theft Auto video game; and computer scientists cracking the code of the Copiale Cipher, an 18th century manuscript created by a German secret society. The Tip of the Week offers suggestions for quickly cleaning out ancient unused sites from the Firefox bookmark list.

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