Tech News Radio Podcast

TECH NEWS RADIO PODCAST #343 | 080322 | BlackBerry Enterprise, eWeek Top Tech For 2008, DOD Conferences Pointer, WordPress Update, and Interview on Virtual Teams

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Today's show covers: #1.) RIM's latest enterprise news; #2.) eWeek on 2008 technologies you should check out; #3.) a pointer to DOD conferences in the Washington DC area; and #4.) news about the very popular blogging tool WordPress.  Once we get through the news, there is an interview I recently recorded with President/CEO Eric Basu about how his company Sentek Consulting uses the latest technologies to enable effective virtual teams.

Links mentioned during the news portion of the podcast include:

• Download Squad on RIM News
• BlackBerry on Lotus Connections
• Download Squad on RIM News
• eWeek's 2008 Technologies To Not Ignore
• AFCEA's DOD Spring & Fall 2008 Course Schedule
• Automattic's WordPress $29 million venture funding (from The New York Times, True Ventures, Radar Ventures, and Polaris Venture Partners)

Links mentioned during the interview on virtual teams includes:

• RIM Blackberry
• WebEx
• Skype
• Palm Treo Smartphones
• Jott
• GrandCentral

Our microbrew recommendation of the show is the Widmer Broken Halo IPA. And if you have any tech questions post them to: forums.friendsintech.com.

Technorati Tags: beer, blackberry, conference, eweek, mobile, podcast, sentek, team, technewsradio, virtual, wordpress

TECH NEWS RADIO PODCAST #342 | 080122 | EMC Flash Drives, IBM IOPES Email Search, Interview with PacketTrap & Conference Pointers

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Today's Tech Rag Tear Outs podcast examines news from Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on EMC, and an article from eWeek on IBM's new OmniFind Personal Email Search application called IOPES.  Following the news is an interview with PacketTrap about their network monitoring tool PT360. 

After the interview there are several conference pointers:

• SANS 2008
• AJAX World Conference and Expo
  
• CompuMaster
• The Military & Aerospace Electronics Forum
• The AIIM International Expo and Conference

Links mentioned in this podcast include:

• STEC
• Samsung Electronics
• Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA)
• Google Desktop Search
• Viviosimo
• Yahoo Desktop Search
• Microsoft Search
• Ask.com Desktop Search
• IBM's AlphaWorks
• PacketTrap Blog
• PacketTrap Forum
• SNMP
• MRTG
• CACTI

Our sponsor SCOTTEVEST has some new gear that you should check out:

• Evolution Jacket
• Essentials Jacket for Men
• Essentials Jacket for Women

Technorati Tags: conferences, email, emc, flash, ibm, monitoring, network, packettrap, pt360, search, storage, wsj

TECH NEWS RADIO PODCAST #341 | 080115 | LIPS, Google Android, Wireless HD, Adobe, Conferences

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Today's Tech Rag Tear Outs podcast covers the major topics of: mobile Linux Phone Standards Forum (LiPS) news related to Google Android, open source news from Adobe, and details on the new Wireless High-Def specification.  We also have a couple of pointers related to the getting DVD content down to your iPod, and high-performance 802.11n chips from Marvell.

Links mentioned in this podcast include:

• TechWorld, Linux Journal, & TechRepublic on LiPS & Google Android
• Software Developer Times
• Adobe's Blaze Data Services
• Adobe's PDF 1.7 ISO standards
• Wireless High-Definition (HD) v1.0 specification [Digg, MyBroadband, TechPowerUp]
• How To PDF Guide for DVD to iPod Conversion
• Reuters on Marvell's TopDog 802.11n 450-Mbps chip

And the conferences mentioned in the podcast include:

1. SANS Silicon Valley 2008 security conference
2. The AFCEA West 2008 conference
3. Buying & Selling Content
4. O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference (eTech)
5. FutureTest 2008
6. Software Development Conference and Expo

Half-way through the show is a promo for fellow FriendsInTech.com member Technorama's Intro CDs.

Technorati Tags: adobe, android, cellphone, conferences, friendsintech, google, HI-DEF, iPod, technewsradio, wireless

Sad News - Passing Of Marc Orchant

It is with a very heavy heart that I need to let listeners of TechNewsRadio.com know of the passing of Marc Orchant on 12/9/2007.

Marc was a great technology friend who I was very privileged to meet in person and share some time with at eTech 2007.  In fact the interview with Attensia that I recorded at that conference was because of Marc's introductions.  He was always looking out for others and trying to help where he could. Thank you!

My prayers are with his family and friends.  He will be very missed.

Technorati Tags: great, guy, marc orchant

Administrivia - Update On Marc Orchant

In the last podcast I posted, #340, I mentioned Eric Mack's recent interview with Marc Orchant was a must listen to.  And it still is, but I did want to let TechNewsRadio.com listeners know that Marc Orchant is very ill.  He suffered a very serious heart attack on Sunday, 12/2 and is still in very critical condition in the hospital.

The best place I've found for updates is via my friend Michael Sampson's Effective Collaboration site.

Please keep Marc, his family, and his friends in your prayers. 

I could not say this with more conviction, Marc is one of the nicest, most helpful technologists I have met through podcasting & blogging, and I am pulling for him with all the effort I can muster.

Technorati Tags: blogging, health, marc, marcorchant, orchant, podcasting, updates

TECH NEWS RADIO PODCAST #340 | 070918 | Discussions on: Future Tense, CIO Podcast, IInnovate, Controlling Chaos, Eric Mack, JKOnTheRun, Radio Lab, Technorama, Kevin Devin, Engadget

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Today's Tech News Radio podcast examines a review of information technology related podcasts, and news items related to the tech podcast marketplace.  This is our 7th edition of this format and comments are welcome at: technewsradio@gmail.com.  The promo played in this show is from Mortgages Made Simple.

Specific podcast recommendations mentioned in this podcast include:

• TimeSys Embedded Linux Podcasts
• Jon Gordon's NPR Future Tense
• Mark Frauenfelder "Rule the Web"
• CIO Podcast
• iinnovate podcast
• Controlling Chaos on MindJet Jet Packs
• Eric Mack Online
• Marc Orchant
• JKOnTheRun's TabletPC Podcast
• WNYC's Radio Lab "Emergence" Podcast
• Dr. Robert Ballard @ Technorama
• Kevin Devin @ In The Trenches
• Engadget

Additional links mentioned include:

• Steve Holden @ Twitter
• FriendsInTech.com
• CNET News.com Security Bites Podcast
• Download Squad's Google Reader Podcast Support News
• The Bungie Podcast @ XBOX 360 Fan Boy
• BusinessWire's New Security Podcast Announced
• InfoWorld's New High-Performance Computing (HPC) Podcast Announced   
• SC Magazine's Frank Washkuch talks with Doug Bowers, Symantec
• Sean Coates & Paul Reinheimer new podcast at PHPDeveloper.org
• TypePad supports NowLive’s Talk Show widget
• The SOA Consortium's Governance Roundtable Podcast
• WSJ.com new video podcast called "Andy Jordan's Tech Diary"
  
• Wired on Leo Laporte's TWIT Podcast Network
• The Business Podcasting Book: Launching, Marketing, and Measuring Your Podcast
• Mark Ellwood & Steve Heiner are on new Nikon podcast
• The 8th Episode of Google Developer Podcast examines Google Data API and the Atom Publishing Protocol
• Everex is bundling Open Office on select systems this Holiday system [PR Newswire]
  
• Changes at Network World: Gearhead by Mark Gibbs & CoolTools by Keith Shaw

Technorati Tags: friendsintech, podcast, recommendations, technewsradio, technology

TECH NEWS RADIO PODCAST #330 | 070424 | HP Boot Utility, Microsoft Office Accounting Express, Kitchen PCs, & eTech Interview With RSS Solution Provider Attensa

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Today's Tech Rag Tear Outs podcast examines a couple of miscellaneous technology items that caught my eye, and an interview from eTech 2007 with RSS solution provider Attensa that was made posible by Zimbra.

Links mentioned in this podcast include:

• MaximumPC's pointer to HP Drive Key Boot Utility
  
• PC Magazine review of Microsoft Office Accounting Express [Discuss @ Forums.FriendsInTech.com]
• Dacor Kitchen Entertainment Center

I also have a microbrew recommendation with Port Brewing Wipe Out India Pale Ale.

Technorati Tags: accounting, attensa, audio, beer, etech2007, friendsintech, kitchen, podcast, technewsradio, zimbra

FriendsInTech Halloween Special - It's The Great Server Chuck And Kreg

The great team at FriendsInTech have released another Halloween special podcast called "It's The Great Server Chuck and Kreg." 

Technorati Tags: FriendsInTech, Halloween, humor, podcast, Special, tech, technology

TECH NEWS RADIO PODCAST #329 | 070417 | Tech News From MaximumPC & PC World Plus eTech Interview With Linspire

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Today's Tech Rag Tear Outs examines the latest from MaximumPC on the Zalman CPU cooling technologies, and some reviews of MP3 players. Plus we review the different Microsoft Vista options using a reference guide from PC World, and there are some additional Vista related posts that may be of interest at: sholden.typepad.com/vista.

In addition, we have an eTech 2007 recorded interview with Linspire that discusses the following items:

• CNR.com
• Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
• Virtualization
• Ubuntu
• OpenOffice
• SageTV
• Adobe Apollo

 

Technorati Tags: audio, etech2007, friendsintech, linspire, maximumpc, mp3, player, podcast, show, technewsradio, vista, zalman

LINKS FROM PODCAST #325 - Overview Of eTech 2007 Plus Pointers To Interviews

Links mentioned in TECH NEWS RADIO PODCAST #325 published for March 30, 2007 that covered the topic "Overview of eTech 2007":

• MakerFaire.com
• Where 2.0 Conference
• O'Reilly Release 2.0 Magazine
• Bill Moggridge's "Designing Interactions"
• Rael Dornfest
• Tim O'Reilly
  
• O'Reilly Radar
• Arthur Benjamin's "Secrets of Mental Math"
• DIY & Hacker Ethic: MAKE magazine, CRAFT magazine
• Ubiqutious WI-FI: Chumby platform, Threadless.com
• Collaboration & Attention:  Twitter, Facebook, Jaiku, AttentionTrust
• Web 2.0 business applications: wesabe.com, Open Planning Project, TradeStation, SwiftTrade
• New solutions: freebase - semantic database, Adobe's Apollo
• Jeff Hawkins at Numenta
• Jeff Jonas at IBM on "Advanced Analytics"
• "Incantations of Muggles" by Danah Boyd

Our topic eight technologies that we thought had potential to help IT professionals in the near-term:

1. Amazon's S3 (Storage), EC2 (Processors), and SQS (Messaging) technologies 
2. Sun Microsystems Project Blackbox
   
3. Yahoo! Pipes
4. RSS Tools like Attensa Feed Server, RSS Bus, and Newsgator
5. Zimbra new offline email client
6. Adobe's Apollo
7. Scott Berkun new book "The Myths of Innovation" [NOTE: His previous book "The Art of Project Management" is also highly recommend.]
8. Microsoft's Deepfish
   

Also don't forget to check out our eTech 2007 OPML format conference notes posted to Grazr.com.

We also conducted four interviews at eTech 2007: Attensia, ThinkFree, Zimbra, and Linspire.

Technorati Tags: collaboration, conference, database, development, diy, etech, programming, tech, technewsradio, technology, wifi

New Media Expo 2007 - Getting Started With Audacity Session

I will be at the New Media Expo 2007 this weekend (Sept. 27-30).  I am giving a presentation on 'Getting Started With Audacity' in the Podcaster 101 track:

Session 8 - 3:15pm to 4:15pm
Ballroom B
Saturday, Sept. 30, 2007
http://www.newmediaexpo.com/saturday2007.htm#Audacity

If folks are bringing their laptops to the session, then it is highly recommend that the come with Audacity pre-loaded ... http://audacity.sourceforge.net.  I also have upload some demo audio files in zip format that I will be using if folks are interested in working hands-on with the same material: http://www.newmediaexpo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1634.

If you'd like to meet-up at the Expo please drop me an email or post a message to me on Twitter.

Technorati Tags: audacity, audio, demo, editing, new media expo, nme2007, podcast, podcasting

TECH NEWS RADIO PODCAST #339 | 070914 | More On Skype & eBooks Plus Mobile Scanner, Kid Safe Browsing, & Conference Pointer

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Today's Tech Rag Tear Outs podcast discusses a variety of topics including: Internet VoIP, electronic books, new media content, mobile tools, a Firefox plugin for protecting children's web access, and an enterprise data warehouse conference pointer. 

The sources for these topics includes: eWeek, San Diego Union-Tribune, Forbes, New York Times News Service, and PC Magazine.

Additional links mentioned in this article:

• Promo for Pauldotcom.com
• Skype
• Tina Engler
• Mobipocket
• Microsoft Reader
• Fictionwise
• Plucker
• Connect's eBooks
• Plustek OpticSlim M12 Corporate portable scanner
• Glubble
• The Data Warehousing Institue's World Conference 2007
• "Getting Started with Audacity" @ New Media Expo

Technorati Tags: conference, ebook, firefox, friendsintech, media, mobile, podcast, skype, technewsradio, voip

TECH NEWS RADIO PODCAST #338 | 070904 | Top 9 Email News Items Plus Interview With FileMaker Expert John Mark Osborne

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Today's "mini" Tech Rag Tear Outs examines nine top things to consider checking out and a great interview with FileMaker expert John Mark Osborne from Databasepros.com.  During the interview we discuss: history of FileMaker, John's expertise, hands-on training options for FileMaker Pro, and online training tools.

Links mentioned in this podcast include:

#9.) Attensa Enterprise 2.0 Feed Readers

#8.) Alltel's new Where

#7.) Vlingo Mobile

#6.) Mark/Space Missing Sync for Windows Mobile 4.0

#5.) Thornsoft's ClipMate 7.2.05 for Windows

#4.) Mindomo online mind mapping tool

#3.) DivX Author 1.5 editing tool

#2.) Freebase 'open source data' database

#1.) Newsgator - NetNewsWire - FeedDemon

We also recommend checking out Paso Robles, CA based Steinhaus Brewing Co's Mission Street Pale Ale microbrew.

Technorati Tags: beer, clipboard, database, databasepro, dvix, filemaker, filemakerpro, freebase, mindmap, mobile, Newsgator, podcast, RSS, sync, TechNewsRadio

TECH NEWS RADIO PODCAST #337 | 070828 | Mobile Ads, Skype Outage, VMARE IPO, Wall Street Journal Plug, Panologic, Sony eBook Reader, Conference Pointers

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Today's Tech Rag Tear Outs podcast examines some pretty mainstream tech news from the San Diego Union-Tribune and the Wall Street Journal, and why it might matter to IT Professionals. 

We also have a quick run down of three upcoming conference pointers that might be of interest:

• Knowledge Management World 2007
• Real-Time & Embedded Computing Conference
• OpenOffice Annual Conf. (OOoCon) 2007

If you have a comment about any of these items please post to: Forums.FriendsInTech.com.

Additional links mentioned in this podcast includes:

• Skype
• VMWARE
• EMC
• Microsoft
• Citrix
• XenSource
• Virtual Iron Software
• Wall Street Journal
• Manager Tools
  
• PanoLogic
• ClearCube
• IBM
• Sony eBook Reader

We also recommend checking out Chicago's Stockyard Brewing Company's Oatmeal Stockyard Stout microbrew.

Technorati Tags: beer, conference, eBook, panologic, podcast, skype, Sony, Stout, TechNewsRadio, technology, vmware, wsj

TECH NEWS RADIO PODCAST #336 | 070821 | Conferences Updates, Mobile Phone News, and Vista Savvy Graphic Cards

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Today's Tech Rag Tear Outs podcast includes some pointers to some upcoming conferences, hardware & software news related to mobile smart phones, and a list of potentially helpful graphics card recommendations to help out your future or current Vista installation.

It includes content from the following sources: PC Magazine, Maximum PC, Software Developer Times, PC World, Mobile Enterprise, Federal Computer Week, and Computer Reseller News.

Links mentioned in this podcast included:

• Conferences:
  • The IDC Security Forum
  • CSI Executive Retreat for Information Security Professionals
  • Enterprise Search Summit West
  • Gartner's Identity and Access Management Summit 2007
• Windows Mobile 6 Smartphones:
  • Cingular 8525
  • T-Mobile Wing
  • T-Mobile DASH
  • Motorola Q9 
• T-Mobile Hotspot@home
• Nokia N95 camera smartphone
• Microsoft Vista Graphics Cards:
• Diamond Viper x1650
• GeForce 8500 GT
• ATI Radeon HD 2400
• ATI Radeon X1950 Pro
• EVGA e-GEFORCE 8800 GT
• XFX GeForce 7900 GTX Edition
• EVGA e-GeForce 7950 GX2

We also had a microbrew recommendation from the Lake Tippecanoe area of Northern Indiana with the Warbird Brewing Company's Warbird T-6 Red Amber Ale.

This podcast is sponsored by SCOTTEVEST (SeV) - makers of fine tech clothing.

Technorati Tags: Cards, Conference, Enterprise, FriendsInTech, Graphics, Mobile, Search, Security, Smartphone, TechNewsRadio, Vista