Tech News Radio

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Today's podcast is a quick review of the Apple iPad and a pointer to a new book "iPad: The Missing Manual" [ISBN: 978-1-4493-8784-6] by J.D Biersdorfer with David Pogue. Links mentioned in this podcast include:

• Steve Holden's iPad Review (Part 1)
• Steve Holden's iPad Review (Part 2)
• How to automatically load PDFs into iBooks
• Steve Holden's Newton & iPad Unboxing Video
• David Allen's Getting Things Done (GTD)
• Answers@O'Reilly
• Missing Manuals Series
• Apple iTunes

Feel free to follow along with Steve Holden at: Twitter, FriendFeed, and/or Delicious.  For tech news only updates follow TechNewsRadio on Twitter.

This podcast is sponsored by SCOTTEVEST and Amazon.

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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Feel free to follow along with Steve Holden at: Twitter, FriendFeed, and/or Delicious.  For tech news only updates follow TechNewsRadio on Twitter.  You can also get other great podcasts and content at FriendsInTech.com.

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.

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This podcast is sponsored by SCOTTEVEST and Amazon.

Today's TechNewsRadio.com podcast examines: Windows 7 book recommendations, network programming toolkits from Catalyst, and screencast tips (PDF)  via Tech Smith. 

In addition the following conferences are highlighted:

• Manager Tools Effective Manager Conference is in Washington DC on Jan. 13, 2010.
• Manager Tools Effective Communications Conference is in Washington DC on Jan. 14, 2010.
• The O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference is scheduled for February 22-24, 2010 at the Marriott Marquis Times Square in New York City. 
• RSA Conference 2010 will be in San Francisco, CA from March 1-5, 2010.

Other links mentioned in this podcast includes:

• Windows 7 Inside Out book
• Windows 7 Secrets book
• Microsoft Press' Windows 7 for Developers book
• Windows 7 Administrator's Pocket Consultant book
• Camtasia Studio for Windows
• Camtasia for Mac

Feel free to follow along with Steve Holden at: Twitter, FriendFeed, and/or Delicious.  For tech news only updates follow TechNewsRadio on Twitter.

This podcast is sponsored by SCOTTEVEST and Amazon.

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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

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 Tech Rag Tear Outs podcast looks at some mobile news from eWeek, Mobile Enterprise Magazine, Wired, PC Magazine, and PC World.  Links and technology items mentioned in this podcast include:

• Microsoft TabletPC
• Toshiba Tecra M7
• Gateway M285-E
• Lenovo ThinkPad X60
• Toshiba Protege R400
• Neoware m100 thin client notebook
• BenQ MP510 ultra-portable projector
• Sony Reader eBook
• Samsung Q1B UMPC
• Asus R2H UMPC
• Dash Navigation's Dash Express
• Inrix

We also recommend you try out the Kona Brewing Company's Fire Rock Pale Ale and check out Forums.FriendsInTech.com.

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

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This podcast mentions the following technology items mentioned in MaximumPC and PC Magazine:

• Nike + iPod Sport Kit for the iPod Nano
• Air Max 1800, Zoom Moire+, and Zoom+ (via RoadRunner Sports)
• Toshiba gigabeat S30 ($300) or the gigabeat S60 ($400)
• iRiver iFP-799
• Garmin NUVI 350 Portable GPS System
• Cingular 8125 Windows Mobile Cellphone
• Toshiba M400 TabletPC laptop
• Bose Quiet Comfort 3
• 10-inch Mustek MP100 portable DVD player
• Thermaltake Blue Orb II CPU cooler
• Dell UltraSharp Widescreen 2007WFP
• Canon Pixma MP500 Photo All-In-One

Other links mentioned:

• NAPSTER
• AOL MUSIC NOW
• TiVo Series 2 DVR
• High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP)

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

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This podcast examines life hacks, a bluetooth-enabled MP3 player, protecting your display systems from eavesdropping, and buying-and-selling computer network attacks.

The links mentioned in this podcast includes:

• Gina Trapani @ LifeHacker.com
• Invisibility Cloak
• Yahoo Calendar
• Quicktext for Thunderbird
• Textpander
• RsyncX
• Windows TabletPC
• Microsoft's SyncToy
• 43folders.com
• MAKE Magazine
• Cool Tools via KK.org
• TradeTricks
• Wired
• Oakley and Motorola's "O ROKR" with Bluetooth
• 3M Privacy Filters
• Starbucks
• Dan Kaplan @ SC Magazine on "Zero Day Vulnerabilities"
• Zero Day Initiative
• Symantec Security Response
• Kaspersky Labs
• Verisign's iDefense
• Microsoft Security Response Center
• 3Com's TippingPoint

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

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TechNewsRadio.com continues to be very impressed with the "technology podcast" space.  The quality and the depth is really amazing.   Here is a quick sample:

• Mobile Tech Roundup looks at Palm, OQO, and Sony technologies.
• On The Run with TabletPC has a great "story" of merging tech and music
• CNET News.com podcast for May 19, 2006 looks at Dell's AMD deal
• Make Magazine has a great research project highlight (video)
• IGN Wireless Podcast examines E3
• Help Net Security (HNS) chats with Nortel on security topics
• GameShout has the latest and greatest from E3 on the Sony PS3.  The also have the latest on Nintendo and Xbox.
• PowerPage looks at the latest in Apple notebooks.

Today we examine some industrial computer solutions from:

• ADL Microspace PCX47
• ADL LX800 (with AMD Geode processor)
• ADL MSEP-800 (AMD) or MSEP-855 (Intel)
• Advantech Panel PCs

Other links mentioned in this podcast:

• FriendsInTech.com
• Microsoft Tablet PC OS
• Intel XScale
• Microsoft Windows CE

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

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