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Steve Holden at TechNewsRadio.com and his family do a dual unboxing of an Newton MessagePad 100 and a new Apple iPad 16-GB.

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You can also watch the video on YouTube if you want.

More information about the topics, products, etc can be reviewed via:

• Newton history and devices
• Apple's new iPad
• AT&T EO
• Franklin Rex

This podcast is sponsored by SCOTTEVEST and Amazon.

Members of FriendsInTech.com have created an "Original Geek Christmas Story" audio program for this holiday season:

“Mattie Stevens, a young boy of the early 80’s, dreams of owning a Commodore 64. He sets out to convince everyone this is the perfect gift. But, along the way runs into opposition from his parents and everyone around him including old Santa Claus.”

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Over the last week the following were posted to TechNewsRadio @ Twitter.com:

• BIAS has announced that Soundsoap Pro 2.0 (noise removal audio tool) has been released - upgrades from previous version are $199
• NS Basic Desktop lets you create Windows .exe applications from VBScript also supports many databases
• Tips on how to pick a content management system (CMS) [bit.ly/LXidz]
• Michael Sampson noted on 10/29 that Microsoft is working on a Mac offline SharePoint tool
• Amazing - the Acer AspireRevo Nettop with Intel Atom processor is $199 at BestBuy, comes with XP vice Win7, uses NVIDIA Ion LE for graphics
• Sun released VirtualBox 3.0.10 (a maintenance release with fixes several bugs and regressions)
• GDGT.com has some new features that bring in social media options and ways to share the tech you want, need, & have with others
• MaximumPC has a good article on how to build a Windows home server [bit.ly/21hVS5]
• Streaming server option #1 - Darwin Streaming Server
• Streaming server option #2 - VideoLAN's VLC media player
• IT Leadership Strategies from 12 CIO Speakers is 11/5/2009 in Chicago
• Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) beta offers full MySQL capabilties
• O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference is coming March 2010, focus: location, iPhone, sensors, audio, video, games
• Microsoft has a detailed Learning Center Catalog
• Technorati has there annual "State of the Blog" world site updated

Over the last week the following were posted to TechNewsRadio @ Twitter.com:

• When are $10 ebooks coming to O'Reilly tech books? - lowest price looks like $15 most over $20
• FYI -- Network Sound Effects Library (120 CDs with 10,000 effects) is $995
• Audit Control Manager (screencast) for Mac OS X [bit.ly]
• DARPA is working on R&D projects that could lead to DoD energy independence [bit.ly]
• OpenOffice.org 3.2 Beta Release available download
• Manager Tools Effective Manager Conference is Dec. 10, 2009 in Toronto, Canada, & Jan. 26, 2010 in  London, UK
• FYI -- WinX DVD Author deal [link via email - no experience with this software]
• Sierra Wireless AirLink PinPoint XT in-vehicle gateways are now available on CDMA & EV-DO networks [tinyurl]

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

Today's TechNewsRadio.com podcast mentions the following links:

• Information Week coverage of EMC & AT&T's consolidated data storage services 
• Amazon cloud computing services
• EMC's Atmos
• AT&T's Synaptic Storage
• Computer Reseller News' review of the NEC NP 905 projector
• Wired's review of the Griffin Clarifi iPhone Case
• SATCON will be held in NYC from October 14-15, 2009
• TechnologyTraining.com's Irregular Warfare conference will be held in San Diego, CA from October 21-22, 2009
• Knowledge Management (KM) World 2009 will be in San Jose, CA from Nov. 17-19, 2009
• EnterpriseSearchSummit.com and TaxonomyBootcamp.com are mini-conferences held around KM World

We are giving away a Tom Bihn Checkpoint Flyer in the Black/Steel color pattern with a 15" laptop compartment to celebrate the start of our 5th year of podcasting.  Listen to the podcast for directions.

We also played a promo from the Geek Cred Podcast.

Sorry, no microbrew recommendation or podcast recommendation.  Hopefully next week.

Feel free to follow along with Steve Holden at: Twitter, FriendFeed, and/or Delicious.

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

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

Today's traditional Tech Rag Tear Outs show covers: a Time Warner Telcom name change; PDF is now an ISO standard; IBM's Jazz collaboration tools; two mobile gadgets one from CradlePoint and the other from Better Engergy Systems look interesting; and a warning on industry technology research reports they might not be as transparent as you think.  Some of the sources mentioned in this podcast include: Software Developer Times, Forbes, and Wall Street Journa.

Links mentioned in this podcast includes:

• MacObserver on PDF ISO Standard
• The Register on PDF ISO Standard
• Lee Gomes
• Aberdeen Group
• Audacity @ AztecMedia.net
• David Allen GTD

Conferences mentioned in this podcast includes:

• LandWarNet 2008 from AFCEA (August 19-21, 2008 in Ft. Lauderdale, FL)
• CIO 100 Symposium (August 24-28, 2008 in Colorado Springs, CO)
• Office 2.0 (September 4-5, 2008 in San Francisco, CA) with $100 registration discount
• Digital ID World (September 8-10, 2008 in Anaheim, CA)
• Manager-Tools Effective Communications Conference (September 9-10, 2008 in San Antonio, TX)
• New Media Expo 2008 (September 14-16, 2008 in Las Vegas, NV)
• Enterprise Architecture Conference and Expo (September 9-10, 2008 in Washington DC)
• UCLA Extensions' Technical Management (September 14-19, 2008 in Los Angeles, CA)
• Knowledge Management World 2008 (September 23-25, 2008 in San Jose, CA)
• Taxonomy Boot Camp (September 25-26, 2008 in San Jose, CA)
• Enterprise Search Summit West (September 23-24, 2008 in San Jose, CA)
• Software Test & Performance Conference Fall 2008 (September 24-26, 2008 in Boston, MA)
• SANS Network Security 2008 (September 28 - October 6, 2008 in Las Vegas, NV)

The microbrew recommendation for this show is Widmer Brothers' Drop Top Amber Ale.

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

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: [email protected].  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

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

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

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.

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.