Tech News Radio

Today's Tech Rag Tear Outs podcast examines some security news from PC World & eWeek, and an interview from O'Reilly's eTech 2007 (podcast review) with Zimbra.

Links mentioned in this podcast include:

• PasswordMaker
• Andrew Garcia
• "Hacking VoIP Exposed: Voice Over IP Security Secrets & Solutions" written by David Endler (TippingPoint) and Mark Collier (SecureLogix) [Buy On Amazon!]
• Voice over IP Secuirty Alliance

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

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Today's podcast brings listeners some great audio interviews of attendees at the recent Manager-Tools Effective Manager Conference. 

The collective wisdom of this podcast is based on the answers to the question: "What is your biggest take away from attending this conference?"

You can also get my complete personal impressions of the conference via an interview I did with Douglas E. Welch on his Career Opportunities podcast.

This podcast is sponsored by: SCOTTEVEST (SeV) - makers of fine tech clothing. And thanks to Zimbra for sponsoring our recent attendance at eTech 2007 (podcast review).

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I'd like to announced that I am going to be joining fellow FriendsInTech.com member Douglas E. Welch, host of the excellent Career Opportunities podcast, for a Talkshoe Talkcast on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 at 9PM EDT/6 PM PDT.

The subject of the Talkcast will be a re-cap from my recent attendance at the Manager-Tools.com's Effective Manager Conference held last week in Washington, DC.

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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There are several ways to follow along with TechNewsRadio.com at eTech 2007:

• OPML file via Grazr
• Twitter
• del.icio.us

Today's podcast has a great interview with Dina Moskowitz at Spoken Translation.  We discuss the company, the marketplace, the technology, and the future for their core product called Converser.

If you have a need or an interest in bringing voice recognition, pen interface, and language translation to a single platform, then you'll want to listen to this podcast.

Other links mentioned in this podcast include Friends In Tech and eTech 2007.

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

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Today's podcast includes a conference review and then a couple of pointers to new news and tips about Google from eWeek and MaximumPC.

The review is of a recent Edward Tufte Conference that was attended in late January 2007 [detailed PDF of notes]. Attending the conference also includes the following Edward Tufte books: Beautiful Evidence, Envisioning Information, Visual Explanations, and The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.

Links mention in this podcast include:

• eTech 2007
• eWeek on "Google's Apps Premiere Edition" by John Pallatto
• Google search suggestion "define"
• Google search suggestion "search site"
• Google search suggestion "calculator & currency conversion"
• Firefox extensions: Gmail Manager, DownLoadHelper, and CacheViewer
• Discussion on other Google suggestions

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

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I was lucky to be invited as a guest co-host with fellow FriendsInTech member Kevin Devin on his excellent In The Trenches podcast on Friday night.

From my perspective, the main topics include Microsoft Vista RC1 and Office 2007 (beta).

It was a lot of fun, and I really enjoyed doing a 'live' one-pass podcast show format.

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 covers the following technology conferences (and then some books):

• Software Development Best Practies Conference and Expo will be Sept 11-14 in Boston, MA. 
• CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment 2006 conference is in Los Angeles, CA from Sept 12-14. 
• Knowledge Management World 2006 Conference & Expo will be Oct 31 through Nov 2 in San Jose, CA.
• Hammer and Company is offering five different process related seminars during the months of Sep-Dec 2006. 
• Santa Clara University is holding a Information Technology Leadership Program from Oct. 17-19, 2006.

We also cover the following computer network security conferences:

• The Security Standard is going to be Sept 6-7, 2006 in Boston, MA.
• SANS Network Security 2006 will be Las Vegas, NV from Oct. 1-9, 2006. [Paul Dot Com's Security Weekly]
• Institute for Defense and Government Advancement is offering Tactical Information Assurance 2006 - Securing Critical Information to Protect the Warfighter in Arlington, CA from Oct. 23-25, 2006.
• ASIS International 2006 will be hosting their 52nd annual "Maximum Security" seminar and expo for this group in San Diego, Ca from Sept 25-28, 2006.

The last part of this podcast quickly examines some recently released O'Reilly and Assoicates Books that look pretty interesting:

• Combating Spyware in the Enterprise [O'Reilly]
  
• How to Cheat at Securing a Wireless Network [O'Reilly]
• RFID Security [O'Reilly]
• Configuring SonicWALL Firewalls [O'Reilly]
  
• Configuring Check Point NGX VPN-1/FireWall-1 [O'Reilly]
• Practical VoIP Security [O'Reilly]
• DNS and BIND (5th Edition) [O'Reilly]
  
• Nagios - System and Network Monitoring [O'Reilly]
• IPv6 Essentials (2nd Edition) [O'Reilly]
• Enterprise Integration with Ruby [O'Reilly]
• Virtualization with VMware ESX Server [O'Reilly]
• "Skype Hacks" by Andrew Sheppard [O'Reilly]

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

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