The Personal Computer Show on WBAI

The FBI wanted fingerprints to unlock smartphones. The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 battery issue. Volkswagen. Ecuador cut WikiLeaks founder's Internet access. HP will cut up to 4,000 jobs over next 3 years. Verizon Pixel phones will get Android bug fixes when they are released. Verizon to close call centers in five states. Verizon ponders walking away from Yahoo. Yahoo applies for patent on mass surveillance system. Two in five people say they'll never buy from Samsung again. In Silicon Valley, 40 is the new 80.

Fund raising again. Samsung stops making Galaxy Note 7 phones. Patent dispute between Apple and Samsung. Yahoo has disabled automatic email forwarding. Best Buy was fined for selling products that had been recalled. An NSA contractor has been arrested.

Samsung kills off the Galaxy Note7. Supreme court hears Apple-Samsung feud over iPhone designs. Best Buy Slapped With Big Fine for Selling Recalled Products. FCC fines Comcast $2.3 million for shady billing practices. Reseller stiffed thousands with suddenly lower quotes. Yahoo Making It Harder for Users to move on. Google class-action lawsuit of discriminating against older employees. Google for Work has a new name: G Suite. NSA Contractor Arrested in Possible New Theft of Secrets. Consumer Review Fairness Act of 2016. Fujitsu considers selling its PC business to Lenovo. Bluetooth 5. New Ethernet standards.

Fund raising. WBAI is in desperate shape - not crying wolf. Transferring email from Yahoo to Gmail. Upgrading to Windows 10 for free is still possible if you have the DVDs we are offering as a membership premium for WBAI. Windows 10 can uncompress compressed and ISO files all by itself. Yahoo scanned all emails from their customers at the behest of the US government. This also opened up a security vulnerability. Hank does not true Yahoo. Still more companies were hacked, exposing user passwords.

Yahoo reportedly gave US government access to all users' emails. Security analyst says Yahoo!, Dropbox, LinkedIn and Tumblr were hacked by the same gang. HP backtracks on third-party ink cartridges. Termination fees for terminated people now against the law. Ludicrous Patent of the Week: Rectangles on a computer screen. Melinda Gates wants more women in STEM. Product review: Antop AT-100 Indoor TV Antenna.

Yahoo was hacked and they lost Hank's trust. Dell is advertising a laptop computer as weightless. Cost of solid state hard drives vs. mechanical ones. Kickstarter. Microsoft is re-introducing a OneDrive sync feature. Upgrading from Vista to Windows 10. Ransomware is rampant. Facebook apologized to advertisers. Millennials listen to country music on the radio. H1B. Transferring emails to Gmail. Listener phone calls.

Chromebooks. Google's upcoming Andromeda operating system. Chromebooks running Android. Yahoo was hacked, Michael suggests lying on security questions. Cost of solid state hard drives vs. mechanical ones. H1B. Using the lowest end laptop running Windows 10. Opera version 40 has a built-in VPN. IT workers brace for outsourcing, layoffs at Chicago Health Care Service Corporation. University of California’s outsourcing is wrong, says U.S. lawmaker.

LinkNYC ends web browsing at kiosks due to pornography. Gmail outage for business users for 2 days. Rule number 41. Still more security flaws found in many Internet of Things devices. Marty Winston on Internet of Things. Phone calls return to WBAI.

HP printers now only take HP cartridges. More on building your own computer. Marty Winston on Internet of Things. Politics. Cutting the cord on telephone service. Magic Jack and Vonage for VOIP. Bags with gussets. LinkNYC ends web browsing at kiosks due to pornography. Gmail outage for business users.

Stevie's last show. Our second show in our new timeslot, an hour later than usual. Hank is no fan of the improved cameras on new iPhones. Upgrading to Windows 10. WBAI may get telephones. Converting a Windows distribution DVD to an ISO.

Second show on PRN.FM. Debunking the iPhone7 camera, Belkin introduces a cable for iPhone 7, HP buys Samsung's printer business, Barebone System Follow-Up, Can you still get a free Windows 10 Upgrade?, Re-installing the free upgraded Windows 10 system, Replacing a mechanical hard disk drive with an SSD.

New Apple toys. Samsung battery recall. Batteries. Marty Winston on texting while driving.

First show on PRN.FM. Apple iPhone 7. Apple Watch. Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Recall, Bureau of Labor Statistics Workforce Report, Tech Corner, Anatomy of a Computer, Barebone PC, Why do lithium batteries explode? Ageism in the Job Market.

Windows 10 free upgrade ends at the end of the month. Upgrading to Windows 10, falling back and then upgrading again - Hank suggests doing an image save after the upgrade and using a Restore Point to restore the older version of Windows in the first 30 days. There is no such thing as a 1TB flash drive for $9. Joe had an adventure with a Windows PC that would not boot up after a power outage. A beta of MacOS is now available. Smart watches can leak PINs. Google My Activity. Hank on backup.

No phone calls because there are no phone lines at WBAI any more. July 29th is last day for free upgrades to Windows 10. Goodbye to Tekserve, the original Apple Store in New York City. The service center will remain open until July 31st, the retail store closes August 15th. Industrial 3D printers from HP are 10x faster than consumer models. HP opens a new office in Canada. The Tesla crash. The future of Seagate and Western Digital. Flash memory prices. An Android smartphone bug is triggered by voice commands. Scam phone calls. The Fisa court turns down nothing. What to look for in a remote backup storage service.