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The World is a one-hour, international news program co-produced by the BBC World Service in London, and WGBH public radio in Boston. We podcast our technology coverage twice a week. Clark Boyd is The World's technology correspondent and resident podcast Primary Format : News Language : English Also Listed as: City : Boston State/Province : MA Country : USA Region : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of BBC/WGBH -- The World's Technology Podcast Podcasts Methings.com listings of BBC/WGBH -- The World's Technology Podcast Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

WTP 267: Churchill Flunks Computer Test, Comet Fun, Samasource, and the Pandemic Ventilator Project Happy Friday the 13th. We celebrate with music and stories about luck, both good and bad. Churchill's speeches don't pass electronic muster, while shorthand makes a case for itself. Also, trying to land a probe on a comet, and trying to get IT work for those with few prospects at all. And, listener Clarence Graansma tells us about his open source hardware project, the Pandemic Ventilator. Give to the podcast at www.pri.org/give. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 266: World's Smallest FM Transmitter, Hossein Derakhshan and Persian Blogs, and Digital Memory Redux This week, we hear about what's billed as the world's smallest FM transmitter. Also, we ask you to weigh in on our discussion about appropriate technologies for the developing world. Then, the strange case of Hossein Derakhshan, and the wider world of Persian language blogs. Then, we revisit digital memory. Give to the podcast at www.pri.org/give. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 267: Churchill Flunks Computer Test, Comet Fun, Samasource, and the Pandemic Ventilator Project Happy Friday the 13th. We celebrate with music and stories about luck, both good and bad. Churchill's speeches don't pass electronic muster, while shorthand makes a case for itself. Also, trying to land a probe on a comet, and trying to get IT work for those with few prospects at all. And, listener Clarence Graansma tells us about his open source hardware project, the Pandemic Ventilator. Give to the podcast at www.pri.org/give. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 265: "Internet's" Birthday: 40 Years of Modulated Anarchy It's all about Internet this week. Our raison d'etre turned 40, and we're here to celebrate in style with half an hour of stories about how it came to be, what it is today, and where it's going tomorrow. Enjoy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 266: World's Smallest FM Transmitter, Hossein Derakhshan and Persian Blogs, and Digital Memory Redux This week, we hear about what's billed as the world's smallest FM transmitter. Also, we ask you to weigh in on our discussion about appropriate technologies for the developing world. Then, the strange case of Hossein Derakhshan, and the wider world of Persian language blogs. Then, we revisit digital memory. Give to the podcast at www.pri.org/give. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 265: "Internet's" Birthday: 40 Years of Modulated Anarchy It's all about Internet this week. Our raison d'etre turned 40, and we're here to celebrate in style with half an hour of stories about how it came to be, what it is today, and where it's going tomorrow. Enjoy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 264: EpiCollect, Electric Cars, and Political Tweets in the US and UK This week's tech podcast comes to you not from Boston, but from London. We speak to a researcher who is trying to bring the power of smartphones to field data collection in the fight against infectious diseases. Also, as more car makers come out with electric cars, how far does the technology still have to go? And we end with a transatlantic comparison of political Tweets. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 263: Cuba Cable Capers, Finns Get Right to Broadband, Twitter Trumps Newspapers, and The Value of Forgetting Cuba gets word that not one, but possibly two, fiber optic cables are headed its way. Also, the Tsunami Early Warning System gets a test run in the Pacific, and Finns get the right to have broadband Internet access. Twitter gets a big jump on a big story in Britain. And we have an extended conversation with Viktor Mayer Shoenberger, author of Delete: The Value of Forgetting in a Digital Age. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 262: Moon Crash, Peruvian Fog Nets, Nobel Prize in Physics, and Trongs! Oh, what a show! NASA crashes two spacecraft into the moon. Don't worry, they meant to do that. Also, in Peru, some ingenious folks are harvesting water with huge fog nets. We give an audio nod to the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics. And we end with a nod to one of the interesting folks who listens to The World's Technology Podcast. Eric Zimmerman tells us about Trongs! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 263: Cuba Cable Capers, Finns Get Right to Broadband, Twitter Trumps Newspapers, and The Value of Forgetting Cuba gets word that not one, but possibly two, fiber optic cables are headed its way. Also, the Tsunami Early Warning System gets a test run in the Pacific, and Finns get the right to have broadband Internet access. Twitter gets a big jump on a big story in Britain. And we have an extended conversation with Viktor Mayer Shoenberger, author of Delete: The Value of Forgetting in a Digital Age. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 262: Moon Crash, Peruvian Fog Nets, Nobel Prize in Physics, and Trongs! Oh, what a show! NASA crashes two spacecraft into the moon. Don't worry, they meant to do that. Also, in Peru, some ingenious folks are harvesting water with huge fog nets. We give an audio nod to the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics. And we end with a nod to one of the interesting folks who listens to The World's Technology Podcast. Eric Zimmerman tells us about Trongs! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 261: Europe takes on Iran Net Filtering, Smart Electricity Meters, Nanotechnology Update, and the Ignobels Cyrus Farivar reports on an attempt by the EU to ban the sale of Internet filtering hardware to Iran. Also, French and British takes on the idea of smart electricity meters. We also hear an in-depth report on the future of nanotechnology. And we end with a short preview of the World Science Podcast with Rhitu Chatterjee. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 260: Potential AIDS Vaccine, Embrace Thermoregulator, Scottish Earthworms, and Mumbai Cell Phone Symphony Scottish accordionist leads us off with a tune called Exhausted. Then, on to big news about an AIDS vaccine that researchers contend can prevent infections. Also, the Embrace thermoregulator, designed to save low birth weight babies in the developing world. We chat about Scottish earthworms, and we hear a cell phone symphony in Mumbai. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 259: Iraq Internet Regs, Africa Connected, NComputing, and Autism Detection Software It's Friday, I'm in Love. With technology, I mean. We've got a look at a new measure that may curtail Internet access in Iraq. Also, Africa's broadband fibre-optic cable goes live, and we'll get reactions. Stephen Dukker from NComputing talks about how to turn one PC into 10 or more. And we end with some software designed to detect autism in infants and children. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 261: Europe takes on Iran Net Filtering, Smart Electricity Meters, Nanotechnology Update, and the Ignobels Cyrus Farivar reports on an attempt by the EU to ban the sale of Internet filtering hardware to Iran. Also, French and British takes on the idea of smart electricity meters. We also hear an in-depth report on the future of nanotechnology. And we end with a short preview of the World Science Podcast with Rhitu Chatterjee. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 260: Potential AIDS Vaccine, Embrace Thermoregulator, Scottish Earthworms, and Mumbai Cell Phone Symphony Scottish accordionist leads us off with a tune called Exhausted. Then, on to big news about an AIDS vaccine that researchers contend can prevent infections. Also, the Embrace thermoregulator, designed to save low birth weight babies in the developing world. We chat about Scottish earthworms, and we hear a cell phone symphony in Mumbai. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 258: High-Speed Rail, Bamboo Trains, Bio-Truck Expedition, Coltan/Congo Redux and Winston the High-Speed Pigeon We take a look at global models for America's proposed high-speed rail system, and then keep it real by dipping into the podcast archive for a piece on Cambodia's Bamboo Railway. We talk about a unique bio-truck that will attempt to go around the world, and hear about the downside of hybrid vehicle technology. We go to Congo to hear about how mining for the materials that make your cell phone work is making life miserable for the locals. And we end with Winston, the high-speed data pigeon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 259: Iraq Internet Regs, Africa Connected, NComputing, and Autism Detection Software It's Friday, I'm in Love. With technology, I mean. We've got a look at a new measure that may curtail Internet access in Iraq. Also, Africa's broadband fibre-optic cable goes live, and we'll get reactions. Stephen Dukker from NComputing talks about how to turn one PC into 10 or more. And we end with some software designed to detect autism in infants and children. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 257: Recreating Pre-War Nagasaki in 3D, Ars Electronica 2009, and A Brief History of GPS Drawing Great show this week. Find out how students in Japan are using 3D technology and people's memories to recreate pre-war Nagasaki. Also, we take you to Linz, Austria for the Ars Electronica 2009 festival. We hear about a wind-up vibrator. Yes, you read that correctly. And we'll explore a way to turn your urine into fertilizer. We end with a tech podcast listener who imparts some serious knowledge about GPS drawing on your host. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 258: High-Speed Rail, Bamboo Trains, Bio-Truck Expedition, Coltan/Congo Redux and Winston the High-Speed Pigeon We take a look at global models for America's proposed high-speed rail system, and then keep it real by dipping into the podcast archive for a piece on Cambodia's Bamboo Railway. We talk about a unique bio-truck that will attempt to go around the world, and hear about the downside of hybrid vehicle technology. We go to Congo to hear about how mining for the materials that make your cell phone work is making life miserable for the locals. And we end with Winston, the high-speed data pigeon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 183: ihavenotribe.com, AfriGadget, FARC and Facebook, and Paper Planes...in...Space On this week's tech podcast, we hear about a web-based initiative to stop tribal violence in Kenya. Also, a podcast exclusive -- we launch a new monthly segment on low tech solutions to African problems, courtesy of AfriGadget. Then, to Colombia, where we'll hear about a march organized on Facebook. And we'll end in Japan, where one scientist wants to fly paper airplanes from the International Space Station all the way down to earth. Brilliant! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 256: Cell Phones in the Classroom, Steam Car Redux, New Wikipedia Guidelines, and Artificial Trees No More Whining, that's our motto. This week: we meet a history teacher who is letting his students fully embrace the tech that they are carrying around. Also, we revisit the British steam car team trying to break a 100 plus year old record. We have an interview with Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales on new editing guidelines, and we hear about the trade in conflict minerals in Congo. We end, of course, with artificial trees. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 257: Recreating Pre-War Nagasaki in 3D, Ars Electronica 2009, and A Brief History of GPS Drawing Great show this week. Find out how students in Japan are using 3D technology and people's memories to recreate pre-war Nagasaki. Also, we take you to Linz, Austria for the Ars Electronica 2009 festival. We hear about a wind-up vibrator. Yes, you read that correctly. And we'll explore a way to turn your urine into fertilizer. We end with a tech podcast listener who imparts some serious knowledge about GPS drawing on your host. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 255: Botnets, Russia v. Georgia, Steam-Powered Car, Creative Commons Flamenco, and Zombies! No one's listening anyway, so let's have some fun. We talk about attempts to get international law to catch up with botnets. Also, a study details last year's cyberspat between Russia and Georgia. We hear about a seriously fast steam-powered car, and also about a flamenco and hip-hop mash-up that's got a real creative commons feel about it. We end with zombies. How much more do you want? Oh yeah, Dan Deacon and Quincy Jones provide light entertainment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 256: Cell Phones in the Classroom, Steam Car Redux, New Wikipedia Guidelines, and Artificial Trees No More Whining, that's our motto. This week: we meet a history teacher who is letting his students fully embrace the tech that they are carrying around. Also, we revisit the British steam car team trying to break a 100 plus year old record. We have an interview with Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales on new editing guidelines, and we hear about the trade in conflict minerals in Congo. We end, of course, with artificial trees. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 254: Castle Building Gets Medeival, Solar Impulse, Driverless Cars, and GPS Atari Art! We start with a tribute to the pioneer of that outstanding piece of technology, the single body electric guitar. RIP Les Paul. Then, some builders in France use 13th century tools and technology to build a castle from scratch. Also, Bertrand Piccard and his quest to fly a solar powered plane around the world. Then, driverless cars may be coming to Heathrow Airport. And we end by featuring podcast stalwart Vicente Montelongo, who makes, well, some very Atari-like art out of his San Francisco ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 255: Botnets, Russia v. Georgia, Steam-Powered Car, Creative Commons Flamenco, and Zombies! No one's listening anyway, so let's have some fun. We talk about attempts to get international law to catch up with botnets. Also, a study details last year's cyberspat between Russia and Georgia. We hear about a seriously fast steam-powered car, and also about a flamenco and hip-hop mash-up that's got a real creative commons feel about it. We end with zombies. How much more do you want? Oh yeah, Dan Deacon and Quincy Jones provide light entertainment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 254: Castle Building Gets Medeival, Solar Impulse, Driverless Cars, and GPS Atari Art! We start with a tribute to the pioneer of that outstanding piece of technology, the single body electric guitar. RIP Les Paul. Then, some builders in France use 13th century tools and technology to build a castle from scratch. Also, Bertrand Piccard and his quest to fly a solar powered plane around the world. Then, driverless cars may be coming to Heathrow Airport. And we end by featuring podcast stalwart Vicente Montelongo, who makes, well, some very Atari-like art out of his San Francisc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 253: Sand Dunes Made from Bacteria, Electronically Enhanced Borders, and WE CARE Solar We start with a geek's audio tribute to the late John Hughes, director of Weird Science. Then, architect Magnus Larsson wants to build sand dunes out of bacteria. Not just any sand dunes. We're talking thousands of miles long in the Sahara. Whoah. Also, countries try to enhance their borders with, wait for it, technology. And we end with an interview with Dr. Laura Stachel of WE CARE Solar. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 253: Sand Dunes Made from Bacteria, Electronically Enhanced Borders, and WE CARE Solar We start with a geek's audio tribute to the late John Hughes, director of Weird Science. Then, architect Magnus Larsson wants to build sand dunes out of bacteria. Not just any sand dunes. We're talking thousands of miles long in the Sahara. Whoah. Also, countries try to enhance their borders with, wait for it, technology. And we end with an interview with Dr. Laura Stachel of WE CARE Solar. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 252: Gary McKinnon Update, New Military Tech in Afghanistan, and Pirate Parties Go Global Briton Gary McKinnon stands accused by the US government of committing the biggest military computer hack of all time. McKinnon's been fighting extradition to the US for three years. Today, we have an update on the case. Also, the US Army tries out some new military technology in Afghanistan. We explore the rise of Pirate Parties worldwide, and we hear about how outdated Japanese political campaign laws are hampering Obama style elections. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 252: Gary McKinnon Update, New Military Tech in Afghanistan, and Pirate Parties Go Global Briton Gary McKinnon stands accused by the US government of committing the biggest military computer hack of all time. McKinnon's been fighting extradition to the US for three years. Today, we have an update on the case. Also, the US Army tries out some new military technology in Afghanistan. We explore the rise of Pirate Parties worldwide, and we hear about how outdated Japanese political campaign laws are hampering Obama style elections. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 251: Apollo Mission Computers, Undersea Net Cables in Africa, and Bamboo Bikes from Zambia Vertigo is now gone, so back to your regularly scheduled technology podcast. We've got a great story on the computers used 40 years ago on the Apollo 11 mission. Also, a series of fiber-optic cables go live in Africa, bringing hope that affordable high-speed Internet access will be coming soon. And also, a Zambian company starts to export its bamboo bicycles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 251: Apollo Mission Computers, Undersea Net Cables in Africa, and Bamboo Bikes from Zambia Vertigo is now gone, so back to your regularly scheduled technology podcast. We've got a great story on the computers used 40 years ago on the Apollo 11 mission. Also, a series of fiber-optic cables go live in Africa, bringing hope that affordable high-speed Internet access will be coming soon. And also, a Zambian company starts to export its bamboo bicycles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 250: Tech in China and Iran, Air France 447, Codex Sinaiticus, and Hal and the Big 5 The Chinese government's trying to control information, especially online information, coming from the city of Urumqi, which has been the scene of violence this week. Also, global geeks try to help Iranians keep the flow of information coming. We check in on the search for the black boxes for Air France flight 447. Next, an ancient Bible finds a new home on the Internet, which also happens to be the ONLY place the band Hal and the Big 5 have ever jammed together. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 250: Tech in China and Iran, Air France 447, Codex Sinaiticus, and Hal and the Big 5 The Chinese government's trying to control information, especially online information, coming from the city of Urumqi, which has been the scene of violence this week. Also, global geeks try to help Iranians keep the flow of information coming. We check in on the search for the black boxes for Air France flight 447. Next, an ancient Bible finds a new home on the Internet, which also happens to be the ONLY place the band Hal and the Big 5 have ever jammed together. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 249: Updates on Internet Filtering in Iran and China, One-on-One with Ken Banks, and an Intercontinental Wedding via Skype Updates on two stories we've been following in recent weeks. First, the Iranian government continues to try to control the flow of on-line information out of the country. We try to sort out Twitter fact from fiction with regard to Iran. Also, China's new Internet filtering plan gets delayed. Then, we have an extended conversation with Ken Banks, founder of FrontlineSMS. We end with a Skype-enabled wedding ceremony between someone in China, and someone in Denver. Cool. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 249: Updates on Internet Filtering in Iran and China, One-on-One with Ken Banks, and an Intercontinental Wedding via Skype Updates on two stories we've been following in recent weeks. First, the Iranian government continues to try to control the flow of on-line information out of the country. We try to sort out Twitter fact from fiction with regard to Iran. Also, China's new Internet filtering plan gets delayed. Then, we have an extended conversation with Ken Banks, founder of FrontlineSMS. We end with a Skype-enabled wedding ceremony between someone in China, and someone in Denver. Cool. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 248: Eco-cooker, Generation Google, Kiva in the US Three stories today: the first is a look at an impressive piece of engineering – a cooker that its makers claim reduces carbon emissions by a staggering degree. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 248: Eco-cooker, Generation Google, Kiva in the US Three stories today: the first is a look at an impressive piece of engineering – a cooker that its makers claim reduces carbon emissions by a staggering degree. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 247: Twitter and Other Social Media Tools in Iran It's all Iran this week, folks. Violence and protests have flaired in Iran following last week's disputed election results. The government moved quickly to shut down the flow of information out of, and into, the country. But Twitter and other social media tools are keeping that flow of information going. In fact, it's not a flow, but a flood. We'll take an in-depth look at how vital social media tools have become in Iran in the wake of the elections. Show notes, links and pics at tinyu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 247: Twitter and Other Social Media Tools in Iran It's all Iran this week, folks. Violence and protests have flaired in Iran following last week's disputed election results. The government moved quickly to shut down the flow of information out of, and into, the country. But Twitter and other social media tools are keeping that flow of information going. In fact, it's not a flow, but a flood. We'll take an in-depth look at how vital social media tools have become in Iran in the wake of the elections. Show notes, links and pics at tinyu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 246: China Net Surveillance Gets Personal, Video Technology in Sports, and Google Earth in Mozambique China announced new rules regarding PCs this week. Starting July 1, all PCs sold in China must contain a government mandated piece of software designed to "protect Chinese youth" from pornography and violent content. Rights groups are calling foul, and Internet experts say it's ripe for exploitation by hackers and criminals. Also, we answer your calls for a segment on the use of video technology in sports. And we end with a look at how a discovery on Google Earth may help save a rain fores ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 246: China Net Surveillance Gets Personal, Video Technology in Sports, and Google Earth in Mozambique China announced new rules regarding PCs this week. Starting July 1, all PCs sold in China must contain a government mandated piece of software designed to "protect Chinese youth" from pornography and violent content. Rights groups are calling foul, and Internet experts say it's ripe for exploitation by hackers and criminals. Also, we answer your calls for a segment on the use of video technology in sports. And we end with a look at how a discovery on Google Earth may help save a rain fores ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 245: Iranian Elections Online, US Cybersecurity, Emergency ICT in Pakistan, and Chinese Students Surveilled For this week's podcast, we look at how Iran's presidential candidates are taking to the Internet to win votes. Also, President Obama's plans to beef up America's cybersecurity. We check-in with ICT emergency responders in Pakistan, and then we hear about just how many surveillance cameras will be trained on Chinese students during their national exams this weekend. Music by The Hold Steady. Show notes, links and pics at tinyurl.com/wtpblog. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 245: Iranian Elections Online, US Cybersecurity, Emergency ICT in Pakistan, and Chinese Students Surveilled For this week's podcast, we look at how Iran's presidential candidates are taking to the Internet to win votes. Also, President Obama's plans to beef up America's cybersecurity. We check-in with ICT emergency responders in Pakistan, and then we hear about just how many surveillance cameras will be trained on Chinese students during their national exams this weekend. Music by The Hold Steady. Show notes, links and pics at tinyurl.com/wtpblog. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 244 "Vacation Edition:" Wind Power in Antarctica, OR318, Sherlock Holmes Lives!, and The Photographer A special "vacation" episode this week. We have two tech stories to start. The first is out of Antarctica, where the Belgians have built a base camp that produces all of its own energy by using a Scottish company's wind turbines. Then, an online movement to commemorate the life and death of Iranian blogger Omid Reza Mirsayafi. In honor of vacation, we take a break from tech. We talk about the enduring legacy of Sherlock Holmes, and we hear about an amazing new graphic novel that charts the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 244 "Vacation Edition:" Wind Power in Antarctica, OR318, Sherlock Holmes Lives!, and The Photographer A special "vacation" episode this week. We have two tech stories to start. The first is out of Antarctica, where the Belgians have built a base camp that produces all of its own energy by using a Scottish company's wind turbines. Then, an online movement to commemorate the life and death of Iranian blogger Omid Reza Mirsayafi. In honor of vacation, we take a break from tech. We talk about the enduring legacy of Sherlock Holmes, and we hear about an amazing new graphic novel that charts the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 243: EU Puts Hurt on Intel, Persian Bloggers on Saberi's Release, Google Oceans Goes Deep, and SixthSense at MIT We start this week with a look at how, and why, the European Union leveled a world of financial hurt on US chip-maker Intel. Wow, the EU dislikes someone more than it dislikes Microsoft! Also, journalist Roxana Saberi is released from prison in Iran, the Persian language blogs are buzzing. We'll have a sample. Then, Google Oceans tries to bring mapping help to endangered coral reefs. And finally, a very interesting MIT Media Lab project called SixthSense. No, it's not about seeing dead peo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 243: EU Puts Hurt on Intel, Persian Bloggers on Saberi's Release, Google Oceans Goes Deep, and SixthSense at MIT We start this week with a look at how, and why, the European Union leveled a world of financial hurt on US chip-maker Intel. Wow, the EU dislikes someone more than it dislikes Microsoft! Also, journalist Roxana Saberi is released from prison in Iran, the Persian language blogs are buzzing. We'll have a sample. Then, Google Oceans tries to bring mapping help to endangered coral reefs. And finally, a very interesting MIT Media Lab project called SixthSense. No, it's not about seeing dead peo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 242: Vodafone Wireless Innovation Project, UK DNA Database, Swine Flu Listener Questions Answered, and Airplanes! We start the show with three projects that have been chosen as the winners of Vodafone's Wireless Innovation Project. All three harness the power of wireless technologies in pursuit of social good. Then, an in-depth look at the UK's DNA database, and what America's plans are for a similar database. Also, we try to answer some of the great questions you sent in about the swine flu virus. And we end with another competition; Airbus wants to know if you can figure out how to use engineering t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 242: Vodafone Wireless Innovation Project, UK DNA Database, Swine Flu Listener Questions Answered, and Airplanes! We start the show with three projects that have been chosen as the winners of Vodafone's Wireless Innovation Project. All three harness the power of wireless technologies in pursuit of social good. Then, an in-depth look at the UK's DNA database, and what America's plans are for a similar database. Also, we try to answer some of the great questions you sent in about the swine flu virus. And we end with another competition; Airbus wants to know if you can figure out how to use engineering t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 241: Google Book Search, World Digital Library, E-Books, Psiphon, and Yahoo's Purple Pedals We start out all bookish this week. We hear about Google's plan to digitally scan every book in the world, and make those books available to everyone with an internet connection. Also, UNESCO wants in on that action too, with a project called The World Digital Library. Then, an in-depth look at e-publishing; are paper books a thing of the past? Then, we hear about some Internet filtering circumvention technology called Psiphon. And we end with Yahoo's bid to trick out bikes with net cams a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 241: Google Book Search, World Digital Library, E-Books, Psiphon, and Yahoo's Purple Pedals We start out all bookish this week. We hear about Google's plan to digitally scan every book in the world, and make those books available to everyone with an internet connection. Also, UNESCO wants in on that action too, with a project called The World Digital Library. Then, an in-depth look at e-publishing; are paper books a thing of the past? Then, we hear about some Internet filtering circumvention technology called Psiphon. And we end with Yahoo's bid to trick out bikes with net cams a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 241: Google Book Search, World Digital Library, E-Books, Psiphon, and Yahoo's Purple Pedals We start out all bookish this week. We hear about Google's plan to digitally scan every book in the world, and make those books available to everyone with an internet connection. Also, UNESCO wants in on that action too, with a project called The World Digital Library. Then, an in-depth look at e-publishing; are paper books a thing of the past? Then, we hear about some Internet filtering circumvention technology called Psiphon. And we end with Yahoo's bid to trick out bikes with net cams a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP Swine Flu: What questions about the virus can we help you answer? The outbreak of swine flu is dominating the headlines this week. But we wonder if you have questions about the virus that haven't been answered? Send in your questions and concerns about the virus. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 240: Pirate Bay Founders in the Brig, Obama Tech Policy, and Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto Sorry we're a couple of days late, but so it goes. First, we look at the Swedish court ruling against the founders of The Pirate Bay. We have an explainer and analysis on that. Also, how is Barack Obama's embrace of new technologies during the campaign playing out now that his administration is in power? And we end with a segment on robots. Lovely. Show notes, links and pics at tinyurl.com/wtpblog. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 240: Pirate Bay Founders in the Brig, Obama Tech Policy, and Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto Sorry we're a couple of days late, but so it goes. First, we look at the Swedish court ruling against the founders of The Pirate Bay. We have an explainer and analysis on that. Also, how is Barack Obama's embrace of new technologies during the campaign playing out now that his administration is in power? And we end with a segment on robots. Lovely. Show notes, links and pics at tinyurl.com/wtpblog. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 239: Twitter Revolution in Moldova?, Urban Pac-Man, Spies in the Electricity Grid?, Extremist Websites, A Winning Solar Oven, and GoogleLitTrips An incredibly packed show this week. First, to Moldova to find out what role Twitter and other social networking sites have played in the protests there. Then to France for Urban Pac-Man! Also, two hits on tech and security. Are there Russian and Chinese spies pinging the US electricity grid? And are extremist websites being hosted on servers in the United States? Good questions. We also hear about an award-winning solar cooker, and about GoogleLitTrips. Show notes, links and pics at tinyu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 239: Twitter Revolution in Moldova?, Urban Pac-Man, Spies in the Electricity Grid?, Extremist Websites, A Winning Solar Oven, and GoogleLitTrips An incredibly packed show this week. First, to Moldova to find out what role Twitter and other social networking sites have played in the protests there. Then to France for Urban Pac-Man! Also, two hits on tech and security. Are there Russian and Chinese spies pinging the US electricity grid? And are extremist websites being hosted on servers in the United States? Good questions. We also hear about an award-winning solar cooker, and about GoogleLitTrips. Show notes, links and pics at tinyu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 238: China and Internet Freedom, Andrew Lih and Wikipedia Part II, and Maker Faire Hits the UK...with Walkman Picks from Listeners! Two new reports came out this week that relate to China and the Internet. We'll explore both reports, with exclusive podcast-only material. Also, the second half our our interview with Andrew Lih, author of The Wikipedia Revolution. And the BBC's Chris Vallance trundles up to Newcastle to visit the UK's first Maker Faire. With musical interludes provided by listeners' Walkman picks! Show notes, links and pics at tinyurl.com/wtpblog. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 238: China and Internet Freedom, Andrew Lih and Wikipedia Part II, and Maker Faire Hits the UK...with Walkman Picks from Listeners! Two new reports came out this week that relate to China and the Internet. We'll explore both reports, with exclusive podcast-only material. Also, the second half our our interview with Andrew Lih, author of The Wikipedia Revolution. And the BBC's Chris Vallance trundles up to Newcastle to visit the UK's first Maker Faire. With musical interludes provided by listeners' Walkman picks! Show notes, links and pics at tinyurl.com/wtpblog. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 237: Homage to the Walkman, Andrew Lih and Wikipedia, and Tech Helps Nab Guatemala Killers...in less than 30 minutes... A listener prompts us to reach back into a long-ago time before iPods and Zunes. We give you what may be the first podcast designed to be played on the Sony Walkman, complete with appropriate music. Also, an exclusive interview with Andrew Lih, author of a new book on Wikipedia. And we reach back into an even more distant past to hear how technology is helping track down perpetrators of serious crimes in the era of Guatemala's civil war. Show notes, links and pics at tinyurl.com/wtpblog. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 236: Iranian Blogger Dies in Prison, Robofish, Rude Russian Cell Users, CCTV Redux, and Frak Me -- Battlestar Galactica This week, we hear about the death of Omidreza Mirsayafi. Mirsayafi was an imprisoned Iranian blogger. He died in the notorious Evin Prison. Human rights groups are calling for an investigation into his death. We also hear about some very cool robotic fish, and we ponder whether Russians are the rudest cell phone users in the world. Great feedback on last week's CCTV coverage leads to a follow-up interview where we bust some popular myths. And as Battlestar Galactica ends its four year run ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 236: Iranian Blogger Dies in Prison, Robofish, Rude Russian Cell Users, CCTV Redux, and Frak Me -- Battlestar Galactica This week, we hear about the death of Omidreza Mirsayafi. Mirsayafi was an imprisoned Iranian blogger. He died in the notorious Evin Prison. Human rights groups are calling for an investigation into his death. We also hear about some very cool robotic fish, and we ponder whether Russians are the rudest cell phone users in the world. Great feedback on last week's CCTV coverage leads to a follow-up interview where we bust some popular myths. And as Battlestar Galactica ends its four year run ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 235: CCTV in the UK, Corporate Snooping in Germany, US DriveCams, The EYEborg, and Gratuitous Bagpipes A bit of theme runs through this week's show. Surveillance. We explore the extraordinary number of closed circuit television cameras in the United Kingdom. CCTV is sparking debate in Britain between privacy and security advocates. Then to Germany, where corporate spying is making news. We then head to the United States, to hear about a teen driving program which allows parents to watch their kids drive...via webcam. And finally, a Toronto filmmaker uses his prosthetic eye to make a film. P ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 235: CCTV in the UK, Corporate Snooping in Germany, US DriveCams, The EYEborg, and Gratuitous Bagpipes A bit of theme runs through this week's show. Surveillance. We explore the extraordinary number of closed circuit television cameras in the United Kingdom. CCTV is sparking debate in Britain between privacy and security advocates. Then to Germany, where corporate spying is making news. We then head to the United States, to hear about a teen driving program which allows parents to watch their kids drive...via webcam. And finally, a Toronto filmmaker uses his prosthetic eye to make a film. P ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 234: Herdict, Online Voting in Belgium, No Texting for Lent, and FrontlineForms Wow. Two podcast exclusive interviews this week, folks. We hear about Herdict, a new tool that anyone can use to help track what websites are being filtered globally. Also, text messaging and data collection on the front lines of health, development and human rights work. Plus, one Belgium university trials an on-line voting system. Meanwhile, Italians try to give up text messaging for Lent. Good luck! Show notes, links and pics at tinyurl.com/wtpblog. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 234: Herdict, Online Voting in Belgium, No Texting for Lent, and FrontlineForms Wow. Two podcast exclusive interviews this week, folks. We hear about Herdict, a new tool that anyone can use to help track what websites are being filtered globally. Also, text messaging and data collection on the front lines of health, development and human rights work. Plus, one Belgium university trials an on-line voting system. Meanwhile, Italians try to give up text messaging for Lent. Good luck! Show notes, links and pics at tinyurl.com/wtpblog. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 233: Photo Tech and War Dead, Iran Goes Nuclear, Facebook About Face, and Twittering Korean Taco Trucks Great show this week. We hear how the technology to capture and distribute images of those who have died in war has changed over the years. Also, inside Iran's nuclear program. Is it for energy purposes only? Then, Facebook opens its terms-of-service up to community comment and voting. Meanwhile, is social networking bad for your brain? Duh...And finally, how Twitter and other Web 2.0 tools are helping reshape the fusion cuisine scene in Los Angeles. Show notes, links and pics at tinyurl.c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 232: Missing Military Laptops, Pirate Bay Trial, Iranian Satellites and Space Junk, and Galaxy Zoo. And...Bagpipes A new, listener-created track launches the 'cast this week. Then, we hear from a reporter who bought a US military laptop, fully loaded, in a market in Pakistan. Also, the Pirate Bay trial in Sweden. Then, Iran launches a satellite, adding to the space junk that's floating around up there. We end with news of a very cool program called Galaxy Zoo. We also find an excuse to play a HUGE piece of music. AC/DC's Angus Young and bagpipes. My week is complete. Show notes, links and pics at tinyu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 232: Missing Military Laptops, Pirate Bay Trial, Iranian Satellites and Space Junk, and Galaxy Zoo. And...Bagpipes A new, listener-created track launches the 'cast this week. Then, we hear from a reporter who bought a US military laptop, fully loaded, in a market in Pakistan. Also, the Pirate Bay trial in Sweden. Then, Iran launches a satellite, adding to the space junk that's floating around up there. We end with news of a very cool program called Galaxy Zoo. We also find an excuse to play a HUGE piece of music. AC/DC's Angus Young and bagpipes. My week is complete. Show notes, links and pics at tinyu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 231: H1-B Visas, Iceland Internet, Egyptian Blogger Arrested, Speed-Dating Languages Online, Twitrans and AIDS in Tajikistan WTP turns four, and we reluctantly delve into Valentine's Day. But first, H1-B visas and the Obama stimulus plan, and how the Internet is chaning Icelandic politics. We also hear about an Egyptian blogger who was recently jailed. Then, we hear about a guy who is using his blog to "speed-date" 37 languages. We also check into a Twitter translation service called Twitrans. And we have a user-generated piece of audio from Tajikistan. Cool. Show notes, links and pics at tinyurl.com/wtpblog. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 230: Obama a Blogger?, NATO Cyberdefense, E-stonia Tourism, Google Ocean and Latitude, and Flying Car Redux A podcast that starts with a Skype message from Rangoon has got to be good folks. We talk Presidential technology, and NATO cyberdefense. We read out some great emails and Facebook messages, and we also hear about Estonia's bid to use technology to boost tourism. In addition, assessments of two new Google products, Ocean and Latitude. Also, a hidden track after the funder. Show notes, links and pics at tinyurl.com/wtpblog. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 230: Obama a Blogger?, NATO Cyberdefense, E-stonia Tourism, Google Ocean and Latitude, and Flying Car Redux A podcast that starts with a Skype message from Rangoon has got to be good folks. We talk Presidential technology, and NATO cyberdefense. We read out some great emails and Facebook messages, and we also hear about Estonia's bid to use technology to boost tourism. In addition, assessments of two new Google products, Ocean and Latitude. Also, a hidden track after the funder. Show notes, links and pics at tinyurl.com/wtpblog. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 229: Whither Google, US-Mexico Border Webcams, Electric Cars, and No Electricity at All in Nepal One company that's not gloomy at this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland is Google. We have an assessment. Also, the governor of Texas wants ordinary people to stake-out the border with Mexico from the comfort of their own homes, via webcams. Then, we take a test drive in a new kind of electric car. Will it catch on? We follow that with a look at what life is like, without any electricity at all, in Nepal. We also dip into the old email bag. Show notes, links and pics at tin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 228: President Obama's Blackberry, Charter 08 in China, Cardio Tech, and Ghana E-waste America has a new President, and he likes his Blackberry. And apparently, the press corps wants to know all about it. Also, an online petition stirs up trouble in China. We also hear about some cool technology to help detect cardiac problems. And we end with a piece about the problem of electronic waste in Ghana. Scots Wha Hae. We hope you have a nice Burns Supper this weekend. Show notes, links and pics at tinyurl.com/wtpblog. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 227: An In-Depth Look at Technology in the Mid-East Crisis, and an OLPC Update This tech podcast comes on location from Raleigh, North Carolina, site of the ScienceOnline09 blogging unconference. We bring you a number of different angles and views on how technology is shaping the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. We also have a brief OLPC update, and shhh...a secret airborne extra segment. Show notes, links and pics at tinyurl.com/wtpblog. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 227: An In-Depth Look at Technology in the Mid-East Crisis, and an OLPC Update This tech podcast comes on location from Raleigh, North Carolina, site of the ScienceOnline09 blogging unconference. We bring you a number of different angles and views on how technology is shaping the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. We also have a brief OLPC update, and shhh...a secret airborne extra segment. Show notes, links and pics at tinyurl.com/wtpblog. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 226: Blogging the Mid-East Conflict, China vs. Web Porn, Dial4Light, Facebook in Italy, and The Old Mailbag And so...on to 2009, with a tech podcast theme sent in by Dave Asma of Spunkshine. We head first to the mid-east to hear from bloggers on both sides of the conflict, and hear about a website that uses short videos to bring the two sides together. Also, China tackles web porn, and Italy cracks down on Facebook. We also hear about a novel use of cell phones in Germany....and shhhh (hic) a secret track. Show notes, links and pics at tinyurl.com/wtpblog. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 225: Leap Second Special Podcast In honor of the leap second being added to the end of 2008, we bring you this special podcast. It's been a pleasure bringing you the Tech Podcast this year. We wish all of you all the best in 2009. Show notes, links and pics at tinyurl.com/wtpblog. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 225: Leap Second Special Podcast In honor of the leap second being added to the end of 2008, we bring you this special podcast. It's been a pleasure bringing you the Tech Podcast this year. We wish all of you all the best in 2009. Show notes, links and pics at tinyurl.com/wtpblog. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 224: N. Korea Cell Network, Robot Ethics, Iraqi Net Art, Digitizing Dickens, and Cloud Computing The final 'cast...of 2008. We have news from North Korea, where a 3G cell phone network has just been launched. We also talk robot ethics, and hear about an interesting Iraqi art project that incorporates the Internet. And we end with a neat little piece on an effort to digitize the novels of Charles Dickens. Oh, and another hidden track at the end. Shhhhh....Show notes, links and pics at tinyurl.com/wtpblog. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 223: Net Addiction in S. Korea, Egypt and GPS, Call Centers in Ghana, Brain Imaging, and Tech Predictions Go Wrong! A full show again this week. We hear about Internet addiction in South Korea, and about how Egypt's military has a beef with GPS. Also, Ghana tries to rival India and the Philippines as the go-to place for US call centers. Then, some Japanese researchers say they have a way to project people's thoughts, and dreams, onto a screen. And we end with a discussion of tech predictions that have gone wrong. Oh, and a hidden track at the end. Shhhhh....Show notes, links and pics at tinyurl.com/wtpb ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 222: Facebook in Croatia, PEPFAR, LHC Magnet Meltdown, Pigeon, and PoliTech Another very full show this week. We start in Zagreb, Croatia where we hear about how opposition activists got arrested after protesting, and organizing real-world protests, via Facebook. Also, we trace an AIDS medication from where it was made, to where it was taken. A global journey, indeed. Also, what happened to the Large Hadron Collider, and when will it be fixed? Good questions. Then, we talk with Drew Cogbill, who is trying to create a social network for people who don't have access ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 221: Inveneo, Amazon Heat Sensing, Catapult Design, Global Conflicts: Latin America, and Child's Play WTP will never quit Cold Turkey, especially at this time of year. We've got A Very Worthy Thanksgiving Podcast for you. We've got Inveneo, a non-profit that's taking a different approach to getting the developing world online. Also, body heat sensing to find Amazon tribes. We also speak with Heather Fleming of Catapult Design about making better products for markets in the developing world. And we end with a double-hit on gaming. First up, a serious game that explores the issues facing man ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 220: Coltan and Congo, 419 9-1-1, Persian Blogfather Arrested?, ISS @ 10, and the Yugo An incredibly full show this week folks. We start with a discussion of coltan, a substance you can find in your cell phone, Playstation and other electronics. One of the main sources of coltan is the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo. Is it fueling the war? Also, West Africa tries to tackle its reputation as a hotbed of Internet scammers, and we hear about Google Earth's Virtual Rome. Then, we've heard that the so-called "Blogfather of the Persian Blogosphere" may or may not have been ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP Special Plea: Help Us Make Audio Magic! Hi folks. We need your help. You may have read about President-Elect Barack Obama's love of his BlackBerry. We're looking for other politicians around the world who are using high-tech toys in interesting ways. Email me with your suggestions at clark.boyd[at]bbc.co.uk. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 219: Google the Flu, Electrifying Rice Husks, Burmese Blogger Blues, and Blogging World War I An audio extravaganza this week, folks. We hear about Google-backed efforts to track flu outbreaks in the United States, and many more kinds of disease outbreaks across the globe. Also, a new US Army recruitment tool -- the web! We also talk at length about how to turn rice husks into electricity in rural India. Then, we hear about a harsh sentence handed down to a Burmese blogger. And we end with an audio paen to Private Harry Lamin, who has been blogging from the trenches of World War I. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 221: Inveneo, Amazon Heat Sensing, Catapult Design, Global Conflicts: Latin America, and Child's Play WTP will never quit Cold Turkey, especially at this time of year. We've got A Very Worthy Thanksgiving Podcast for you. We've got Inveneo, a non-profit that's taking a different approach to getting the developing world online. Also, body heat sensing to find Amazon tribes. We also speak with Heather Fleming of Catapult Design about making better products for markets in the developing world. And we end with a double-hit on gaming. First up, a serious game that explores the issues facing man ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 220: Coltan and Congo, 419 9-1-1, Persian Blogfather Arrested?, ISS @ 10, and the Yugo An incredibly full show this week folks. We start with a discussion of coltan, a substance you can find in your cell phone, Playstation and other electronics. One of the main sources of coltan is the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo. Is it fueling the war? Also, West Africa tries to tackle its reputation as a hotbed of Internet scammers, and we hear about Google Earth's Virtual Rome. Then, we've heard that the so-called "Blogfather of the Persian Blogosphere" may or may not have been ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP Special Plea: Help Us Make Audio Magic! Hi folks. We need your help. You may have read about President-Elect Barack Obama's love of his BlackBerry. We're looking for other politicians around the world who are using high-tech toys in interesting ways. Email me with your suggestions at clark.boyd[at]bbc.co.uk. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 219: Google the Flu, Electrifying Rice Husks, Burmese Blogger Blues, and Blogging World War I An audio extravaganza this week, folks. We hear about Google-backed efforts to track flu outbreaks in the United States, and many more kinds of disease outbreaks across the globe. Also, a new US Army recruitment tool -- the web! We also talk at length about how to turn rice husks into electricity in rural India. Then, we hear about a harsh sentence handed down to a Burmese blogger. And we end with an audio paen to Private Harry Lamin, who has been blogging from the trenches of World War I. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 218: Campaign Hacks, Tech in Transition, and Exporting Obama's Net Success Right, last show about the elections, I promise. We start with news that both the Obama and the McCain websites suffered attacks from a "foreign entity" over the summer. Someone apparently wanted policy details. Also, what will an Obama presidency look like when it comes to tech policy issues like net neutrality. And we end with a story about how the folks behind Obama's net success have set up shop already in Britain. The next great American export? Show notes, links and pics at tinyurl.c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 217: Twitter, Texts, Facebook and YouTube, Tech and the US Elections Finally, more than two years after it began, the campaign for the US presidency is near an end. Well, unless some chads decide to hang it up again. Anyway, we've got a special podcast devoted to looking at how technology shaped, and was shaped by, the Obama and McCain campaigns. And we look at how one mobile phone company is using text messages to get out the vote, and help people find their polling stations. Show notes, links and pics at tinyurl.com/wtpblog. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 216: The Global Network Initiative, "Clean" Coal, Tsunami Science, Ushahidi, and the Eggbeater Centrifuge Happy Halloween everyone. We've got lots of tech treats for you, starting with something called The Global Network Initiative, which has been signed on to by the likes of Yahoo, Google and Microsoft. Then, what is "clean" coal, and when will it be commercially available? Also, some new scientific studies of tsunamis, and an update on a project called Ushahidi. We end with a segment on low-cost solutions to disease diagnosis in the developing world. Show notes, links and pics at tinyurl.com ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 217: Twitter, Texts, Facebook and YouTube, Tech and the US Elections Finally, more than two years after it began, the campaign for the US presidency is near an end. Well, unless some chads decide to hang it up again. Anyway, we've got a special podcast devoted to looking at how technology shaped, and was shaped by, the Obama and McCain campaigns. And we look at how one mobile phone company is using text messages to get out the vote, and help people find their polling stations. Show notes, links and pics at tinyurl.com/wtpblog. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 216: The Global Network Initiative, "Clean" Coal, Tsunami Science, Ushahidi, and the Eggbeater Centrifuge Happy Halloween everyone. We've got lots of tech treats for you, starting with something called The Global Network Initiative, which has been signed on to by the likes of Yahoo, Google and Microsoft. Then, what is "clean" coal, and when will it be commercially available? Also, some new scientific studies of tsunamis, and an update on a project called Ushahidi. We end with a segment on low-cost solutions to disease diagnosis in the developing world. Show notes, links and pics at tinyurl.com ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 215: @Pop!Tech, Mobile Metrix in Brazil, Algae Bio-Fuel, E-voting, and LittleBigPlanet WTP 215 comes to you from Camden, Maine and the Pop!Tech conference. We feature an interesting project in Brazil called Mobile Metrix, which is using PDAs to get baseline demographic data from the favelas of Rio. Then, algae. It's green, it's slimy, and it might just be able to power jet airplanes. We also look at the challenges of e-voting, and a controversy over a video game called LittleBigPlanet. Good times. Show notes, links and pics at tinyurl.com/wtpblog. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 214: DarkMarket, Shrinks and Debris in Space, E-papers, and The Fake Azeri Presidential Candidate We get the podcast party started this week with news that DarkMarket, a website used by cyber-criminals to buy and sell things like passwords, credit card numbers and so forth, has been shut down. Then, we launch into space for a trio of interesting stories...one about something called the Virtual Space Station, one about the problem of space junk, and one about an attempt to really expand your social network. We end with e-paper, and Shiraslan Qurbanov, the Virtual Lion of Azerbaijan. Sho ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 213: OpenMRS, Open Source Medical Record Systems for the Developing World WTP 213 comes to you a few days early, and packing a Scottish wallop -- a nod to a listener who wants more stories on open source. It's his lucky day. This week's podcast is all about OpenMRS, an open source project trying to bring better medical record keeping to the developing world. That might not sound important to you, but to millions of patients across the globe, better record keeping might mean better health. Show notes, links and pics at tinyurl.com/wtpblog. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 213: OpenMRS, Open Source Medical Record Systems for the Developing World WTP 213 comes to you a few days early, and packing a Scottish wallop -- a nod to a listener who wants more stories on open source. It's his lucky day. This week's podcast is all about OpenMRS, an open source project trying to bring better medical record keeping to the developing world. That might not sound important to you, but to millions of patients across the globe, better record keeping might mean better health. Show notes, links and pics at tinyurl.com/wtpblog. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 212: Skype Surveillance in China, High-Tech Relief in Haiti, and Mouse DNA as Archaeological Tool Sorry we missed you last week, but here goes. We've got news about Skype being surveilled in China. We also talk about the importance in telecommunications in UN relief efforts in Haiti. Then we check out a South African built electric car, complete with photovoltaic panels on the roof. We'll also give a tip of the wing to FusionMan, Yves Rossy, and talk mouse DNA. Show notes, links and pics at tinyurl.com/wtpblog. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 211: Risk Management Software and Global Financial Meltdown, Cell Phone Therapy, and H2G2 Trilogy To Get Sixth Book In the midst of this week's global financial meltdown, we ask -- just what kind of risk management software were these financial giants using, anyway? Also, how much would you pay for therapy via cell phone? We also travel to India where we hear about a website designed to help busy Indians arrange their marriages. And we end with news that The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy will add a sixth book to the increasingly unaptly named trilogy. Find out who's going to write it. Show notes, lin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 210: LHC Fires Up, Google's For the Birds, Tracking African Elephants, and a Bletchley Park Update The Large Hadron Collider switches on, the universe doesn't wink out of existence, and some in the US are wondering why America is not playing host to it. Also, we look at Google's move to invest in bringing low-cost, high-speed internet access to the developing world via satellite. Then, we hear about efforts to track African elephants using GSM cell phones. We also explore the case of Moroccan blogger Mohamed Erraji, and we have an update on Bletchley Park. Show notes, links and pics at ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 209: Google@10, Seesmic, Online Poker, Geoengineering, and The Large Hadron Collider Rap Google releases a shiny new browser called Chrome this week, which also happens to mark 10 years that the company's been incorporated. We have an assessment. Also, a famous French blogger uproots his family and moves to San Francisco to start Seesmic, a kind of Twitter for video. Then, we hear about the dark world of online poker, and some of the far-out ideas of geoengineering. And we wax lyrical to end the show, with the Large Hadron Collider rap. Show notes, links and pics at tinyurl.co ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 208: iTunes in China, iPhone Girl, Internet Piracy, Google Maps, and Animal Magnetism A full podcast this week. We lead with the strange tale of iTunes in China over the last week or so. Seems that it keeps going, well, on and off. And we hear about the iPhone Girl, and about a possible crackdown on Internet news portals in South Korea. Then, an in-depth look at the issues and technologies surrounding music piracy on the Internet. Also, a British cartographer says online mapping services are killing our appreciation for map-making. And we end by asking some cows which way i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 207: Missile Defense Tech, Identity Theft, and Japan's So Over the iPhone. We lead with a look at what the US has in mind, technology-wise, for a missile defense shield based partly in Poland, and partly in the Czech Republic. Also, in the wake of the news that the US has busted a global cyber-crime ring, we take an in-depth look at just how safe your identity is. And we end with a great little piece that explores why the Japanese just aren't that crazy about the iPhone. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 206: Georgia/Russia Hacks, Deep Sea Mining, The Telemegaphone, and the Science of Beer Goggles. Georgia and Russia fight it out on the ground, and apparently on the Internet as well. Also, we take an in-depth look at the technologies and techniques involved in mining the deep ocean floor. Then, to Norway to listen in to something called a Telemegaphone. We'll also learn that, shock, the beer goggle phenomenon is real. And we end with a look at some labor-saving technologies from the Victorian Era. Good fun. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 205: Global ID Theft, Ghana Ewaste, AfriGadget, and the Science of Boredom We lead this week with news that a major global group of cybercriminals has been busted for identity theft. We'll dig deep into that story, and we'll dig deep into electronic waste in the West African nation of Ghana. Then, our semi-regual check in with the folks at the AfriGadget blog. And we end this week with a fun take on some new research on, yawn, boredom. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 204: Gary McKinnon Loses Appeal, Emotibots, Portugal Courts Intel, Ancient Greek Calendar, and George Orwell a Blogger? Lots to chew and stew on this week. We start with an Olympic back-and-forth over Internet access for foreign journalists. Then, an update on the case of British hacker Gary McKinnon. That's followed by a foray into the world of emotibots. We'll also hear about Portugal's decision to buy 500,000 Classmate computers from Intel. And what's more fun than a 2,000 year old Greek computer? Well, how about a blog written by George Orwell? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 203: Oyster Card Hacks, Sahara Solar Farms, e-Cars Now!, and Bletchley Park A very full program this week. First, we look at the International Olympic Committee's test for EPO, a performance-enhancing drug. The test for EPO may not be very effective. Also, a card used for travel on the London Underground appears vulnerable to hacking and cloning. Then, we hear about plans to build giant solar farms in the Sahara desert, and also how Finns are using a wiki to convert gas-powered cars to electric vehicles. And we end with a look at efforts to save Bletchley Park, si ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 202: Selling Soap, Biosolids, The Future of News, and Cooking Oil Cars Network glitches force a rethink of the World's Tech Podcast this week. We've got everything from selling a serious public health issue, to the latest in hydrogen vehicles. In between, we'll talk biosolids (yes, it's what you're thinking), and about running cars on cooking oil. Oh, and this just in -- the Internet is killing newspapers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 201: France says Non to Ebay, Sir Clive Sinclair, and Sir Tim Berners-Lee Onward and upward. A French court tells auction giant Ebay to fork over 60 million in damages over the sales of fakes. Also, a major flaw in the Web is discovered. Then, two Knights for the price of one -- we have interviews with Sir Clive Sinclair and Sir Tim Berners-Lee. All that, plus an anecdote to the cynicism which runs rampant on the Tech Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 198 China Hacks House?, Stopping Net Child Porn, Safaricom Stock, and Shh...Sound Cloak! A whole host of interesting stories for this special Friday the 13th edition of the Tech Podcast. We start with claims from two US Congressmen that sources inside China have hacked their computers. Then, some new measures to stop child internet pornography. We also hear about a hurricane simulator, no joke, in Florida. Also, an item on East Africa's most sought after stock these days, Safaricom. And we end with discussion of a device straight out of Get Smart. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 194: Satellites Aid Burma and Kenya, Cell Phones Aid Ghanian Doctors, and the Deep End of the Platypus Gene Pool The venerable Sigue Sigue Sputnik blasts us into the past and the podcast this week. We've got two items on satellites; the first looks at how the UN's Rapid Mapping Unit is using satellite images to assess damage in Burma. The second looks at how satellites are aiding conservation in Kenya. Then a podcast exclusive interview with Dr. Brian Levine, who is helping to connect Ghanian doctors to one another via cell phones. And we'll end by dipping our toes into the genetic quagmire that ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 193: Global Online Freedom Act, OLPC Update, Afrigadget, and Rise and Shine This week's 'cast takes a look at a new bill making its way through the US Congress called The Global Online Freedom Act. Then, another update on the One Laptop Per Child project. Also, the latest Afrigadget segment, followed by a look at an online outfit that turns the news into music, and fast. Finally, the Old Bailey gets grisly online. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 191: Higgs-Boson meet thy maker, German Robot Restaurant, Holy Batdisease! Just a short WTP this week, since Clark's out and about reporting. So in his absence we're heading first to Cern, in search of the Higgs-Boson. That story features Professor Peter Higgs himself.. That's got to screw with your head, right, having a particle named after you? Then it's to Germany where in a quest to eliminate inefficient service one restaurant has automated the delivery of food to table. And finally, a story about bats in New England. Something's killing the bats, and that's ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 190: Tidal Turbines, Darfur Websites Hacked, Flood the Jail with Mail, and the Reactable OK, here we go. First, to the Irish Sea to hear about a new tidal turbine technology. Then, we'll examine the recent hacking of some Darfur-related websites. Could the Chinese be involved? Then, to the Iranian city of Qom to hear about the digitization of Muslim scholarship there. We'll follow that with a report on a new old-school campaign to raise awareness of an imprisoned Egyptian blogger. And we'll end in Barcelona with a report on the birth of a new instrument. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 185: Technology and Global News, Committee to Protect Bloggers, and Bell X1 A little bit different feel to the Tech Podcast this week. First, an interview with Alf Hermida, new media watcher, about how technology is changing the way we produce and consume news. Then, we kick off a monthly segment on threats to bloggers worldwide. We have an interview with Curt Hopkins of the Committee to Protect Bloggers. Finally, a music piece on Ireland's Bell X1, a fine soundtrack to this podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 182: North Korea Goes Mobile, Cable Cuts Hamper Net Access, and Cashless Papers in London I can't believe we give this show away for free sometimes. What a line-up. First, an Egyptian telecom company signs a deal to bring, wait for it, cell phone access to North Korea. Then, undersea cables get cut off the coast of Egypt, and millions worldwide are left with super slow, or no, internet connections. Then, we'll hear about efforts to digitally reconstruct paper files shredded by the East German government's security service during the waning days of the Cold War. And finally ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 179: Global E-waste, India's People's Car, Online Music, and Turkish Cymbals This week's podcast looks first at the growing problem of global electronic, or e-waste. Then, to India to look at the launch of the Tata Nano, billed as the world's cheapest car. Also, an in-depth look at how the internet is changing the way people buy, or don't buy, music. And finally, we step back in time to look at the old school technologies that go into making cymbals. Too cool. I can't believe we give this stuff away! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 178: Radio in Papua, Meraki, Scottish Drive-By, and Animation Mentor Our first 'cast of 2008 features a cracking lineup. First, to the Central Indonesian highlands to hear how good old radio is making an impact on people's lives. Then, a California company works to bring low-cost, reliable wireless internet access to the developing world, and beyond. Then, to Scotland, where we'll hear about a new campaign to place public service announcements in video games. And finally back to the United States, for a profile of an animation school run entirely online ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 173: Yahoo Settles China Lawsuit, Robo-Roaches, and Por Que No Te Callas? We're filled to the gills this week folks. Yahoo, charged with handing over information on two Chinese writers to the Chinese government, settles a pending lawsuit in the US. Also, Kenya's dreams of going fiber-optic, and one South Korean beats out tens of thousands of others to become the country's first astronaut. Then, what's better than a roach? A robo-roach! And we finish with something of a cyber-spat between Spain and Venezuela. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 170: DARPA's Urban Challenge, Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales, and Facebook in Lebanon This week's podcast is full of fun and frolics. First, the Bush Adminstration's offered to let NGOs and faith-based groups set up computers and internet access in Cuba. We'll look at whether that's likely to happen. Also, Darpa, the research wing of the US Defense Department, is offering $2 million to anyone that can build a robotic car than can drive itself through a simulated urban environment. Then, an interview with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. And we'll end with a segment look ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 167: Guatemala Human Rights Database, Burma Info War, and OLPC Special Deal It's a cracking line-up for Tech Podcast 167. We have a great piece on the technology being used to digitize and analyze the archive of Guatemala's National Civil Police. We'll also talk about how the way technology is shaping the way we look at news out of Burma, or Myanmar if you prefer. Also, a report from Vietnam on how a democracy activist found his IBM job offer suddenly rescinded. And we'll end with another update on the One Laptop Per Child project. Hint: Give One, Get One! H ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 165: Building a Better Soldier, Yahoo in China, and AbiWord in Bolivia On this week's podcast, our four part series on the US military's efforts to build a better soldier. Also, Yahoo is taken to court in the United States for turning over information about bloggers in China. And we'll hear about AbiWord, an open source project to develop software in one of Bolivia's indigenous languages. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 162: OLPC, Microsoft Pre-Pay, Video Game Ratings, and Malaysian Bloggers The inaugural podcast from our new studios in Boston features an update on the One Laptop Per Child project. Also, Microsoft tries "pay-as-you-go" Office software in South Africa. Then, a listener suggests we do a report on video games ratings systems worldwide -- so, we do. We turn to Israel next for a report into how ultra-Orthodox Jews are using the internet. And we end with a look at the recent crackdown against bloggers in Malaysia. Have a great weekend. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 159: Insurgent Web, Information Overload, Iran Dual-Fuel, and Alan Johnston First up -- a new from highlights how insurgent groups in Iraq are using the internet to put out their messages. No real surprise, but the report is a real behind the scenes look at this material, most of which is in Arabic. Download the entire report in PDF. Next up -- information overload goes global. Tired of being connected 24/7 to your BlackBerry, Palm, or gulp...iPhone? Well, apparently you're not alone. The World's Jason Margolis will fill you in. Third -- Iran says it wi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 157: Science and Poverty, Science and Islam, Cyberwar!, and Manhunt 2 Today's podcast is half tech, half science. We'll hear about some MIT researchers who are using scientific methods to help alleviate poverty. Then, a podcast exclusive interview about how science is, and isn't, practiced in the Islamic world. Then, we'll talk about the prospects of cyberwar: who can wage it, and why? And we'll finish with a story about a new video game that's getting bad reviews from British and Irish authorities. Have a great weekend! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 151: Electric Cars, The Downside of Biofuels, Oil in Iraq and Russia, An Iraqi Blogger HIV in Mexico and South Africa. Who needs a car that goes over25 mph anyhow? The all-electric car is back! What's so great about biofuels? Oil issues in Iraq an Russia. Checking in with the Iraqi blogger Riverbend. And two stories about HIV in Mexico and South Africa. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 153: La Sagrada Familia at Risk, Under Surveillance via your Cell Phone, Finding Fossils near the Panama Canal, Rebuilding Noah’s Ark, Underwater Weapons, Working in Antarctica, Fees to Drive in Manhattan. Techpodcast 153: A high-speed rail puts Spain’s La Sagrada Familia at risk. Our lives under surveillance… because of our cell phones! They’re widening the Panama Canal, and finding fossils from 20 million years ago. Rebuilding Noah’s Ark in Turkey. The latest weaponry to fight war underwater. What would it be like to work in Antarctica? Want to take your car into Manhattan? Pay up. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 146 A new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change looks at the impacts of global warming. This podcast explores how climate change is affecting our world: from Africa, to South America, to Europe. And what global warming could mean in your neck of the woods. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 147 A range of wonderful stories this week. Let there be light in the hills of Mexico! Don’t litter in England; Big Brother is watching. A radio station in a psychiatric ward in Argentina. Can they build an underwater tunnel from Africa to Europe? What about through the Alps? Like text messaging in Cambodia? Not so fast. And genetically modified crops that can make human insulin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 145: Wi-Fi in India, Technology for the Disabled, A solar ship, Power in Iceland, You Tube shenanigans. The modern Pony Express delivers the Internet in rural India. How technology can help the disabled. A fantastic journey across the sea in a solar-powered ship. Clean power in Iceland, but at what price? And capturing dangerous stunts on You Tube. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 142: The Reverse Brain Drain, The Brain, Ethanol, Carbon Capture, Renewable Energy, and Leg Power. Can the brain make you rich? Indian high-tech workers heading for the promised land: Back home. How green is ethanol? Capturing carbon underground. Making renewable energy work in Spain. And get on the Stairmaster and make some energy! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 141: All sorts of way to recycle, Catch a cheater with ITunes, Wi-fi on a bus, and Israeli rock. A few stories about recycling, some products you might not have thought about too: chairs, kitchen counters, and jackets. Take a ride in Estonia on board a bus with Wi-fi. Thinking about plagiarizing music? Be careful. And Israeli rock. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 139: Climate Conference in DC, Mexican Drug Cartels online, The cheese-cam, Making Changes, and Tracking footprints A major conference on climate change in Washington DC and the view from China, India, and South Africa. Mexican drug cartels go online. A cheesy webcam in England. 365 suggestions for how you can make the world a better place. And, careful where you leave your footprint: the British police are watching. Intermixed within it all, some good ole' fashioned banjos from Nashville. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 135: The Apple iPhone, Recording your phone calls, Answering them in Manila, Cars in Detroit, Observing the Sabbath in Israel, and Video Games in the Holy Land. Two tech podcasts this week. This one about gadgets, phones and games. The new iPhone from Apple. New software to detect angry callers, and when those angry calls go halfway around the world to the Philippines. Cars in Detroit. And two stories in Israel: Observing the Sabbath high-tech style and video games for Israelis and Arabs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 133: Folk music in Georgia, Flooding in Venice, A bad year for Nuclear Weapons, Mobile phones in Kenya, AIDS in Cameroon. It’s flooding in Venice: What to do? 2006: A bad year for nuclear proliferation. Need to make a phone call in Kenya? Buy a mobile. Fighting AIDS in Cameroon. And they’re listening to restored music in Georgia that’s a century old. How’d they do that? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 129: Nuclear Fusion, Edible Cotton, Great Tech Gag Gifts, Media Censorship in China, and Hot Wine in France. Last Tech Podcast for two weeks, so get your fix this week. What if we could make energy in the same way that the sun does? It’s called nuclear fusion. Can it be done? How’s this one: edible cotton. Comedians Kasper Hauser has some holiday tech gift ideas. Can the Internet ease media censorship in China? And what climate change means for growing wine in France. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 128: Adapting to climate change in Kenya, Sony’s new Playstation, Neanderthal DNA, Disposing of the dead in India, and Internet companies in Guinea Another week, another Tech Podcast. On the podcast this week, a story about people waiting in line for days to buy Sony’s new Playstation. Decoding the DNA of Neanderthals, and what this can tell us about us. What to do with the dead in India? Adapting to climate change in Kenya. And booming Internet businesses in Guinea. And the results are in for Alex G’s impersonation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 123: Stoves in Sudan, High-Tech Exploitation, Global Warming Conference in Mexico, Army Recruiting, Immune Italians, and the Smells of NYC Subways Back in Boston for this week's podcast. Stoves in Darfur that use less wood to burn are saving lives. The dark side of technology: exploitation of low-wage workers building semiconductors. A global warming conference in Mexico. The Army's newest recruiter: an online avatar. Are Italians immune to certain diseases? And the smells of New York City Subway. An extra long podcast this week, cause there ain't no podcast for next week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 115: Russia's Spam King, The PC Turns 25, and Endangered Coral Reefs Vardan Kushnir was regarded as Russia's Spam King. His company sent out millions of junk email messages everyday. So, when Kushnir turned up bludgeoned to death, nobody was surprised, and even fewer grieved. We'll hear about Kushnir today on the podcast. Also, the personal computer turns 25. What's next for this mean machine? And we'll also hear about internet censorship in Vietnam, and new attempts to save endangered coral in the Caribbean. Plus, find out who will take Clark's place ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast 116. Wikimania, Javanese sludge and airline carbon emissions The World's Alex Gallafent visits the annual Wikimania conference and meets people excited about how the online encyclopedia is helping to transform the language of the internet. Plus a report on how toxic mud is causing serious problems for people on the Indonesian island of Java. And a look at how the rise in air traffic is threatening Europe's ability to cut its carbon emissions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 120: The PC Turns 25, Artic Seed Bank, Siberian Permafrost, Australian Climate Views, Green Tea A birthday celebration: looking back at 25 years of the personal computer. A bank filled with seeds buried deep in the Artic. Permafrost melts in Siberia. A conversation from Australia: the stance on climate change from Down Under. And the benefits of green tea? And your letters, along with the magical sounds of the one and only Alex Gallafent on keyboard, drums, trumpet and guitar. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 119: Traffic Reports, Melting Glaciers, Coral in Danger, and HD DVD A new, high-tech way to avoid a traffic jam in Rome. The effects of global warming: on Europe's glaciers and the world's coral reefs. And the fight for High Definition DVD supremacy. More music from Mobius Operandi, the band that builds their own instruments. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 118: A nuclear symphony, Online virtual world Second Life, Jellyfish boom, Irrigation in Greece, crackdown on Internet and Terror The World's Jason Margolis takes over the reins of the Tech Podcast this week. A symphony from Kiev about nuclear ambitions in Iran. Also, a story about the online virtual world, Second Life. A few water-related pieces on the program: Irrigation fights in Greece and a jellyfish boom in the Mediterranean. Last, a piece about the crackdown of Internet usage in Europe to fight terrorism. And some music from new featured artist: Mobius Operandi. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 114: Dells Go Bang, Iranian President Blogs, and Dare to Be Digital Dell, the world's largest computer maker, is being forced to recall more than 4 million notebook computers because of problems with the batteries, which are made by Sony. We'll hear why Dell is making the move. Also, Iran's president starts his own blog. Then, we're off to the University of Abertay in Dundee, Scotland to hear about the Dare to Be Digital computer game design competition. And we'll finish off with some cool, literally, new technology from Japan. All that, plus music fr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 109: Taking Games Seriously A big old theme-based podcast for you today. Clark spent the week reporting on the Games For Change conference in New York City. He came back with tons of material. Today's cast is a mix of what he did for The World radio program, and some extra special bonus features, including an interview with Steven Johnson, author of Everything Bad is Good For You. Let's hope so. All that, plus theme music from Spunkshine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 110: London Bombings Anniversary, N. Korea Nuke Tests, Bamboo Trains, and An Announcement Tech Podcast #110 takes a look at how much, or how little, has been done to improve mobile communications in London in the year since the transport attacks on July 7, 2005. Also, North Korea finally launches those missiles. What did they learn? What did we learn? Then, we're off to run with the bulls in Pamplona. Well, we'll sample some software that can predict how you'll fare against the horned followers. Finishing things off is a report from Cambodia on an incredibly homemade trai ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 109: Taking Games Seriously A big old theme-based podcast for you today. Clark spent the week reporting on the Games For Change conference in New York City. He came back with tons of material. Today's cast is a mix of what he did for The World radio program, and some extra special bonus features, including an interview with Steven Johnson, author of Everything Bad is Good For You. Let's hope so. All that, plus theme music from Spunkshine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 106: The Humble Toilet, Desalination, and The Great Ape Debate Tech Podcast #106 talks toilets. Just how important is toilet technology to civilization? We'll talk to the man who's written a book about this very topic. Also, can the technology of desalination -- removing salt from water -- serve as the answer to the world's water problems? Then, we're off to France to hear about a government-sponsored video game that let's you play Finance Minister. Halo 2 it is not, we assure you. And we'll end with a debate over whether apes deserve some, if n ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 99: High Tech Trash, Sat Phones in Libya, Alzheimer's Disease in the developing world This week, The World's Technology Podcast looks at what happens to computers when they die - it's not pretty . Reporter Marco Werman describes the technology he used to file reports from the middle of a desert in Libya. Plus a look at the state of Alzheimer's research in the developing world. With The World's Alex Gallafent. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 97: Mapping The Media, Piracy in China There's a new voice on the podcast this week while The World's Technology Correspondent, Clark Boyd, is away. The World's Alex Gallafent introduces a report from China about efforts to combat music and software piracy there. And The World's host, Lisa Mullins, speaks with The Carter Center about online efforts to map the influence of the media in South America. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The World's Technology Podcast: NSA Eavesdropping, Technology and the Law For Tech Podcast #79, we go as deep as we can into the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program. We look not only at what technologies and techniques the NSA might be using, but also put those technologies and techniques in both historical and legal context. So listen in, and find out how the NSA might be listening in. Check out show notes and more atwww.worldstechpodcast.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 268: Homemade African Windmill, Internet Governance, Semtex, and Book Six in the H2G2 Trilogy Marvin the Paranoid Android gives the podcast a boost this week. And fair enough, as we have an interview with Eoin Colfer, author of Book Six of the Unaptly Named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy. Also, we talk Internet governance, Semtex and homemade windmills in Africa. Cool. Give to the podcast at www.pri.org/give. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 264: EpiCollect, Electric Cars, and Political Tweets in the US and UK This week's tech podcast comes to you not from Boston, but from London. We speak to a researcher who is trying to bring the power of smartphones to field data collection in the fight against infectious diseases. Also, as more car makers come out with electric cars, how far does the technology still have to go? And we end with a transatlantic comparison of political Tweets. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website