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Kevin Devin at In the Trenches podcast recently pointed out a relatively new effort from Eclipse.org called "Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools" (BIRT).  This podcast takes a quick look and gives you some details.

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Looking for some ideas on how to give better presentations? 

• Then check out the following PresentationZen.com that was recently highlighted on Guy Kawasaki's Mailing List from Garage Technology Ventures.
• Also, Tom Peter's multicolor fashion PowerPoint presentations are worth checking out . 
• In addition, Beyond Bullet Points is highly recommended.

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Over the weekend I listened to Jon Udell's interview with Bill Gates [podcast, transcript].  If you liked the Microsoft Vista segment in the last Tech Rag Tear Outs, then you'll definitely want to give this a listen.  [Sources: Phil Windley's Technometria, Dan Farmer @ ZDNET]

Here is a list of upcoming conferences that may be of interest organized in the following sections: cyber-security, developers & content providers, enterprise engineers, and business leaders:

• The Federal Information Assurance Conference 2005 at the University of Maryland from 25-26Oct05.
• Black Hat is offering advanced security in Seattle from 10-11Oct05.
• There is also going Japan Black Hat conference at the Tokyo, Keio Plaza Hotel from 17-18Oct05.
• RSA Conference for EUROPE is 17-19Oct05 in Austria, Vienna.  The next U.S. conference is  13-17Feb06 in San Jose CA, and Japan will have an RSA conference at the Tokyo Prince Hote from 26-27Apr06.
• XML 2005 is 14-18Nov05 at the Hilton Atlanta, GA.
• The Satellite Application and Content Delivery Conference & EXPO is 26-27Oct05 in New York City.
• If you are interested in signal processing, you'll want to check out GSPx2005  in Santa Clara, CA from 25-27Oct05.
• The Internet Telephony Conference and Expo will be 24-27Oct05 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in California.
• Gartner's 24th Annual Data Center Conference 2005 will be 05-08Dec05 in Las Vegas, NV.
• The 10th Annual Future Trends Conference is from 14-15Nov05 at the Ritz-Carlton, South Beach, Miami, Florida.
• Forbes Risk Management Forum will be 18Oct05 at The Rainbow Room in New York City.

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The first edition of Tech Blurbs includes the following technology topics:

• MindJet's MindManager v6
• ScotteVest.com's Version 4.0 Technology Enabled Clothing
  
• OpenOffice.org's  OpenOffice v1.1.5 version with support for OASIS
• SmartDraw v7.3 for Windows
• Tripp Lite's new portable TRAVELER100BT surge suppressor
• Sonic Impact Technologies T-AMP and the Apple iPod-savvy i-Fusion

Two items of interest today, one from Tripp Lite and the other from Sonic Impact Technologies.

Tripp Lite has a new portable TRAVELER100BT surge suppressor that offers complete AC and Ethernet or phone line surge suppression for laptops, electronic notepads, personal organizers and other portable electronic devices.

Switching gears from power protection to power audio amplification. 

Check out Sonic Impact Technologies T-AMP and the Apple iPod-savvy i-Fusion.  They seem like great audio amplification and speaker solutions. [Source: Forbes]

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A new version 7.3 of SmartDraw has been released.  This Windows drawing package could be called the "MacDraw for Windows."  Some new improvement areas: help, styles, and templates.  In additional, bug fixes and some GUI enhancements have been added. This version is a free upgrade to all Version 7.0 users.  Previous owners of SmartDraw can upgrade for $99

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Today we are going to look at two quick items: ScotteVest.com and OpenOffice 1.1.5:

• ScotteVest.com has released a new line of Version 4.0 Technology Enabled Clothing or TEC.  There are now shorts, t-shrits, pants, sports coats, and more options in the jacket category like what type of cloth and style (like leather). 
• OpenOffice.org has announced a new 1.1.5 version of their OpenOffice product for Windows (98/ME/NT/2000/XP), GNU/Linux (X86 and PowerPC) and Solaris (SPARC and X86) platforms in a host of languages, not just English.  The big thing in this release is the support for the XML based OpenDocument format approved the  Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS).

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Today we have news of some California Bay Area events from Renee Blodgett, President of Blodgett Communications [blog]. 

Ray Kurzweil will be speaking about the topic "The Singularity" in reference to his new book "The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology", due to hit the streets on September 26:

The Singularity, almost an article of faith in techie circles, is the point at which machine intelligence outstrips human brainpower.

Ultimately, Kurzweil predicts, the predominant component of human intelligence will be non-biological, and more of our experiences will take place in virtual reality than in the physical world.

In this new world, there will be no clear distinction between human and machine, real reality and virtual reality.

The first event will be the SD Forum event in Palo Alto on Thursday, September 22, starting at 6 pm with a book signing following the event at 8:30 pm. It will be held at SAP America, Building D, 3410 Hillview Avenue in Palo Alto, CA 94304.

Then on Friday, September 23 in San Francisco starting at 7 pm, Kurzweil will be at the next LONG NOW event, which will be held at the Herbst Theater, in the Veterans Building, 401 Van Ness Avenue at McAllister in San Francisco.

Unfortunately, TechNewsRadio.com will not be able to attend either event but the speaking topic and the book do sound interesting.

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