Tech News Vermont

A county in Kentucky gets robbed by computer criminals who used software to trick county computers into transferring funds into money mole bank accounts.  Those moles were people who thought they were working for a legitimate business, but later found out that they’d been scammed. Make sure you check out any company that offers to hire [...]

A short episode this week, running through some of the tech news from last week.  There was a major outage around Washington and Rutland counties due to a fiber line that was blasted by a shotgun.   Fairpoint may go into bankruptcy, but not to worry there are alternative ISPs in Vermont and Fairpoint won’t [...]

Send ideas for the poll question to feedback@technewsvt.com. For people interested in the Commodore 64.  I’d recommend the wikipedia entry as a great starting place to find out all about one of the first truly mass market personal computers. Enhanced podcast:

The first few days with the iPhone 3.0 software has been fairly good.  I lost my contacts and calendars when I tried to turn on Push, but I restored them from backup.  I still don’t fully understand the relationship between the Mac applications, .mac (or as it’s know now-a-days MobileMe *ick*) and the iPhone. I mentioned [...]

I didn’t change the episode tag at the front of the podcast, I know it says episode 4 then after the music I start into episode 5…. Sorry for the confusion, this is really episode five. Don’t forget to check out www.vtsda.org.  The Vermont Software Developers Alliance is hosting a lunch and learn on the 17th. Enhanced [...]

After a long break the podcasts are back.  I received an email from Verizon about some comments that were posted on the Concord Monitor’s web site.  I cover some of the hightlights from E3 and talk about the troubles with Conficker seen in certain hospitals.  Short show this week, working on getting back into a [...]

I talk about how the iPhone handled being used as a GPS on my road trip.  Some more Fairpoint information about the transition from Verizon.  Good luck to the Green Team, team 885 at the Granite State Regional.  Check out http://www.baesystemsfirst.org/regional/ or http://www.thebluealliance.net/ For a taste of what the Lego League is all about, check [...]

In addition to talking about the past weeks blog posts, I cover my Fairpoint service call.  I’m part of the 28,000 people that WCAX is talking about in this news story http://www.wcax.com/global/story.asp?s=9793260  For the security corner we talk about how to prevent having your credit card compromised and I introduced the FIRST organization, check them out at [...]

Episode one is a quick introduction to the podcast, the podcaster, and a survey of the iPhone mania that swept Vermont this month.  The purpose of technewsvt.com is to talk about tech in Vermont.  The best place to get Vermont iPhone news is at radmacdaddy’s blog http://iphonevt.wordpress.com/ In the security corner I talked about Downadup and you [...]