Data Doctors Radio Program

Wednesday, Congress held a secret vote on CISPA, the modern government surveillance system that every website, including Google, Facebook, and Twitter could participate in, if it becomes law. The threat of CISPA moving forward in the House is very real. The bill passed out of Committee Wednesday and will be rushing to a floor vote next week. Learn more about CISPA and how you can help stop it.

Aside from CISPA, what do you think are...

Everyone has one attached to their ear these days, in front of their noses in the elevator or in their hands in the bathroom. The cellphone turned 40 this week. We'll look back to the brick and see how this device has forever changed our lives.

Amazon rips it for vinyl lovers. Even if you prefer the warm, fuzzy sound of vinyl records, Amazon wants to give you some MP3s for the road.

Blackberry wants to convert you iPhone and Andr...

T-Mobile kicks contracts to the curb and announces the iPhone 5 in the same breath. Is it worth it to go without a contract, or should you stick with the subsidized plan? We'll break it down for you.

Windows 8 has been around for a little while now, yet many still have avoided making the switch. We'll tell you what we think about this new Widows operating system and why you shouldn't fear it.

Summer is just around the cor...

Less than a year from their last big product launch, Samsung announced the new Galaxy S4 smart phone. We'll talk about some of the cool new features of this next generation Android powered phone and the benefits to those of you who were waiting to buy one.

Can you sing happy birthday in 140 characters or less? Twitter turned seven years old this week, we'll look back at the power of this microblogging platform and how it has...

What you like on Facebook says a lot about you as a person. The posts you like publicly, give away so much about you that people can accurately determine your gender, political affiliation, if you're a smoker and more. We'll tell you how to protect your info.

Is it time to put Java back on your computer? We'll talk about the what it does, the safety of it, and why you shouldn't just jump back to Java.

When SMART statu...

Facebook rolls out a news feed change to make your user experience more like that of a custom newspaper. We'll tell you why you'll love this new look.

In App purchases. Those hidden virtual goodies in free apps that you can buy. We've talked about them before, but when a kid makes inadvertent purchases of $2,500 with an ipad, it's time to talk about them again. We'll tell you Android and iOS users how to prevent ...

The entertainment industry has finally put some teeth into copyright violations. Introducing the pirate police CAS or Copyright Alert System. How will this 6 strike warning system impact you?

Bye, bye mouse, a new tech is leaping on to the scene and it's a better way to control your PC. Leap Motion turns your computer control into a gesture based swipe, not on the screen, in midair.

Can your company read your texts sent at work? ...

Hotmail just got a new Outlook! Microsoft is retiring the old Hotmail email service, and replacing it with the newer, more streamlined, and far better Outlook.com service.

With the success of Apple retail stores, is it possible that the search giant Google will follow in Apple's footsteps? With sales of over $10 billion a year, we're betting yes.

With Facebook Graph Search rolling out, now is the time to go through your priva...

Some lawmakers have reintroduced the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), a bill that would allow private companies to share a wide range of cyber threat information with U.S. government agencies. We'll tell you why is CISPA a bad law if it passes.

The first ever real life zombie attack unfolded on live TV. How could this attack have been avoided?

Intel is joining the world of cord cutters and will soon give you...