Tech News Radio

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

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Today's TechNewsRadio.com's podcast covers seven topics: Enterprise Content Management (ECM); network security; military how-to guides; Sun's latest SunFire x4150 servers; personal-sized network attached storage (NAS) appliances ; and conference pointers.  After the technical content there is a Tom Bihn  product review update.

Links mentioned in this podcast include:

• Information Week Open Source Center
• Alfresco content management system
• SpringCM hosted content management system
• Microsoft Oxite CM and Blog Engine
• NetClarity NACwall Micro security appliance
• ArtechHouse.com reference books
• Wired.com
• Buffalo LinkStation Quad NAS
• Maxtor Central Axis Business Edition NAS
• HP MediaSmart Server
• Iomega StorCenter ix2 NAS
• AFCEA West 2009
• ASPE-SDLC.com Business Analysts Boot Camps
• TechnologyTraining.com DOD and Homeland Security Courses

The microbrew beer recommendation for this podcast is the Fat Weasel Pale Ale by River Trent Brewing in Ukaih, CA.

The recommend podcast resource to checkout for this podcast is the "main feed" at IT Conversations.

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

Today's traditional Tech Rag Tear Outs podcast examines:

• PC Magazine's reviews four dual-band routers
• Maximum PC's rating of the Lenovo ThinkPad X300
• Fujitsu Mac-savvy S300M automatic document scanner
• Cloud Camp conferences
• Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor release
• VMWare's ESXi hypervisor release
• EMC's Documentum CenterStage technology
• Fujitsu's Mag Erasure P3M hard drive destroyer

The microbeer recommendation for this show is the Beach Bum Blonde Ale (North American Beer Award Bronze Medal winner in 2006).

Today's podcast summarizes TechNewsRadio.com's thoughts and impressions related to attending eTech 2007 held in San Diego, CA from March 26-29, 2007.

The podcast is organized in four main sections: expo attendee bag review, opening night keynotes, thoughts on the term 'magic', and then eight top technologies you should be aware of.

In addition detailed conference notes have been posted in OPML format to Grazr.com.

All the links mentioned in this podcast will be posted in the very near future (sorry for the delay).

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

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Today's podcast examines the latest upcoming technology conferences organized in the following topic clusters: Enterprise, Development, Security, Government, and Military.  Links mentioned in this podcast include:

• Gartner Business Intelligence Summit 2007
  
• eContent
  
• Gilbane San Francisco
  
• SaaScon conference
• Business Process Management
• Information Technology Compliance Conference
  
• Interop Las Vegas 2007
• Software Development West 2007
  
• Tim O'Reilly's Web 2.0 Expo
  
• Software Test and Performance Conference
• Portals, Collaboration, & Content Conference
• Software Security Summit
• ASIS 2007
• SecurTech 2007
  
• SANS 2007 San Diego
• FOSE 2007
• The Military Technologies Conference
• Sensors Expo and Conference
  
• AFCEA's Professional Development Center
  
• Contrux

We also recommend you check out Forums.FriendsInTech.com.

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

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This podcast covers a great article on AJAX from Peter Wayner in InfoWorld (plus a  screencast is available); a detailed summary of MOM 2005 to SCOM 2007 functionality by Cameron Sterdevant in eWeek; and Baseline's "Top Ten Projects in 2006" list by Todd Spangler [discuss].

Links mentioned in this podcast include:

• Open Source AJAX Solutions: Dojo, Google Web Toolkit, Microsoft Atlas, Open Rico & Prototype, Yahoo Ajax Library, Zimbra Kabuki AJAX Toolkit
• Commercial AJAX Solutions: Tibco's General Interface, JackBe, Backbase, IceSoft, Nexaweb, and Kapow
• Microsoft: MOM/SCOM, Active Directory, Exchange, and SQL Server

Other items of potential interest noted during the podcast: new FriendsInTech.com bloggers, Internet Child Safety Flier, and Firestone Double Barrel Ale.

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

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This podcast is all about EMC.com.  We examine content from the following industry trade magazines: Network World, Information Week, InfoWorld, Computer Reseller News, eWeek, Federal Computer Week, and Computer World; and try to synthesize the information into a systems analysis quick-look summary.

Here is a list of companies that we mention from the research that EMC has recently had an acquisition announcement, partnership agreement, or a technology purchase from:

RSA Security, Dell, Arkivio, StoredIQ, Kashya Interlink Group, Acxiom, Internosis, Acartus, Captiva, Maranti, Rainfinity, Legato Systems, Documentum, and Smarts.

EMC has also announced the following new or updated products in recent months:

• Clariion AX150 and AX150i
• Insignia Solution Data Protection
• Clariion Disk Library
• SAFE 2.2 (for Microsoft Exchange)
• Smarts Application Discovery Manager
• Assessment Service for Storage Security
• Symmetrix DMX-3 storage array systems (more info)

From our perspective, EMC definitely seems to have a structured roadmap to transition from 'just a storage solutions provider' to a full service 'data classification system' with hooks from the bottom of the protocol stack to the top.

This podcast is sponsored by O'Reilly and Associates Safari Bookshelf online technical library.

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This podcast reviews eWeek's report by Charles Babcock on Red Hat's recent annoucement to purchase JBoss that was published on April 17, 2006.  Links mentioned in this podcast include:

• IBM
• BEA Systems
• Oracle
• JEMS
• Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
• Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)
• Apache Software Foundation's Geronimo project
• Microsoft Windows
• Sun Solaris

This podcast is sponsored by O'Reilly and Associates Safari Bookshelf online technical library.

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This podcast is with Richard Lusk (CEO) and covers what Foldera.com recently demoed at eTech, and more details on what they are offering and who they are targetting as potential customers.  Some additional links mentioned during this podcast include: Michael Arrington,  Robert Scoble, and Emily Chang.

In my opinion, if you have a distributed group of people working on a project via the Internet then you should check out Foldera.

If you'd like to discusss this or any topic related to eTech then check out the eTech 2006 Forum at FriendsInTech.com.

This podcast is sponsored in part by: TradePub.com - your source for technology resources, and the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT.

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Today we look at topics from Computer Reseller News , Keith Shaw @ Network Computing, and Software Developer Times:

• ATI All-In-Wonder X1800 XL graphics card
• Symantec i3 v7.5
• PowerSquid Surge 3000 protector

The updates mentioned at the start of the podcast worth checking out:

• TechNewsRadio Frapper Map
• Billy Watson's Absolutely Live At The Rythm Cafe
• Dave Slusher at Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast has a new project called AmigoFish (Blog)
• I'm at eTech 2006 this week and on vacation next week with my family in Yosemite

And some other products mentioned:

• Veritas
• Sybase ASE databases
• IBM Websphere Portal
• BEA WebLogic Portal
• Microsoft .NET
• J2EE

This podcast is sponsored in part by: TradePub.com - your source for technology resources, and the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT.