startups, Software, facebook Wade Roush wrote: You get home from a big business trip to San Francisco, you’re talking with a friend from out of town, and you find out that he was just there too. If you’d known, you could have met up! It’s a common scenario—and it shouldn’t happen as often anymore. After all, you probably keep an electronic calendar that includes details about your upcoming trips. And most calendars these days allow you to share your appointment data with other people’s calendars, over the Web or corporate networks. There ought to be a central exchange where your calendar program can go to find out whether any of your friends (or colleagues, or potential clients or customers) are going to be in the same area as you at the same time. Well, now there is. It’s called LuckyCal, and it’s being built by a Lexington, MA-based startup that’s one of the first 10 companies to receive a grant from Facebook’ $10 million “fbFund.” Announced last year, the fbFund is run by Facebook with money from Accel Partners and The Founders Fund, and is designed to support independent developers working on applications for the Facebook Platform (the subject of my interview last week with Facebook senior platform manager Dave Morin). LuckyCal got the largest possible grant from the fbFund: $250,000, to be doled out in installments as the startup meets usership milestones. But, while LuckyCal’s Facebook application is an important part of its offerings, you can use the service even if you don’t have a Facebook account, by giving it access to your dekstop- or Web-based calendars and address books and inviting friends to share their own data. LuckyCal’s matching algorithms suck in all this information, along with public event listings from sources such as Ticketmaster, and spit out what the company calls “lucky” events: confluences that you can then decide whether to act upon. Say you’re going to Minneapolis-St. Paul next weekend. LuckyCal might see from your address book that you have a cousin there, and suggest that you give her a call; and it might know from the interests you’ve listed on your LuckyCal profile that you love public radio, and send you a link to purchase tickets to a live broadcast of “A Prairie Home Companion.” When I first heard about LuckyCal’s service, it reminded me of 1990s-era predictions about “intelligent agents” that would scour the Internet, making your travel arrangements, negotiating appointments, doing your holiday shopping, and the like. A full-blown agent would require a level of artificial intelligence that’s still way beyond what computer science can accomplish. But LuckyCal does something very similar, just by crunching together the standard data that can be extracted today from productivity applications like Outlook and iCal and Web platforms like Facebook and Gmail. It’s a no-brainer, in a way. But nobody had done it. “Calendars have been around for a very long time,” observes LuckyCal’s 37-year-old CEO and co-founder Sanjay Vakil, a Canadian-born entrepreneur and software architect who’s a veteran of local startups like Ambient Devices and PatientKeeper. “Electronic calendars have been around for a reasonably long time. And online calendars have been around for 8 to 10 years now. Yet nobody has tried to do this—to solve the simple problem of ‘Here’s where I’m going, show me what’s available while I’m there.” Facebook, where members are already eager to make connections, is an obvious place to try out the model—and so far, a couple hundred Facebook users have signed up for LuckyCal. But ultimately, Vakil sees the software as something that could go beyond the social-networking crowd to become a money-saving tool for big organizations whose employees travel regularly. The fbFund grant comes at a key moment, helping the startup get its idea working first in a friendly environment (and perhaps helping it to earn a bit of money on Ticketmaster commissions along the way). But long-term, Vakil says, the business model is more about licensing LuckyCal’s services to big corporate customers. Vakil says he’s been thinking about better ways to interact with event information for several years—ever since he worked at Ambient, a Cambridge, MA, startup that sells wireless information displays such as the Ambient Orb, which glows red or green according to the direction of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and the Ambient Scorecast, which shows the progress of baseball games, hit by hit. (Vakil wrote the code for the latter device.) “LuckyCal came out of a meeting with David Rose,” Ambient’s director and chair, Vakil says. “We had this idea for the Ambient Clock—a device that would take calendar information and show it on an analog wall clock. If you had an appointment between 2:00 and 3:00 it would fill in that pie piece. But we looked at the data real people put into their calendars, and on average it’s only about one event per day. What do you do with the rest of the clock? Why not try to …Next Page » Comments | Permalink | Share |  E-mail Less

The interview: Talk Social News Episode 5 - length 33:39 download or click to play: Download audio file (TalkSocialNews-005-Yammer.mp3) Subscribe to podcast in iTunes: You can follow Yammer on twitter as : @Yammer_Team - http://twitter.com/yammer_team This week, Kipp and Wayne interview Yammer CEO David Sacks, a quick review of Google’s Andriod OS phone with T-Mobile the G1 and we review how the government could use social media to communicate with the public to inform us on what is in the bailout bill. Also we discuss how the state of the economy will effect startups, what Jason Calacanis calls the Startup Depression. Yammer ScreenCast Yammer on twitter Reminder if you listen to Talk Social News, we’re looking for some “postive reviews” on iTunes (iTunes link), be one of the first 2 or 3, to write a review of the podcast and let us know in the comments and we’ll have something special for you. Check out Ripple6 our sponsor and thanks for listening. If you’re interested in becoming sponsor of Talk Social News see the Become A Sponsor page. September 15, 2008 — Talk Social News Episode 3: Kipp and Wayne Talk TechCrunch 50 and Interview Geoff Livingston September 22, 2008 — Talk Social News Episode 4: Kipp and Wayne Talk With A Co-Founder of Qik.com About The Future of Mobile Video September 8, 2008 — Talk Social News debuts with Brightkite CTO interview On Location Based Applications Share and Enjoy: Less

The interview: Talk Social News Episode 5 - length 33:39 download or click to play: Download audio file (TalkSocialNews-005-Yammer.mp3) Subscribe to podcast in iTunes: You can follow Yammer on twitter as : @Yammer_Team - http://twitter.com/yammer_team This week, Kipp and Wayne interview Yammer CEO David Sacks, a quick review of Google’s Andriod OS phone with T-Mobile the G1 and we review how the government could use social media to communicate with the public to inform us on what is in the bailout bill. Also we discuss how the state of the economy will effect startups, what Jason Calacanis calls the Startup Depression. Yammer ScreenCast Yammer on twitter Reminder if you listen to Talk Social News, we’re looking for some “postive reviews” on iTunes (iTunes link), be one of the first 2 or 3, to write a review of the podcast and let us know in the comments and we’ll have something special for you. Check out Ripple6 our sponsor and thanks for listening. If you’re interested in becoming sponsor of Talk Social News see the Become A Sponsor page. September 15, 2008 — Talk Social News Episode 3: Kipp and Wayne Talk TechCrunch 50 and Interview Geoff Livingston September 22, 2008 — Talk Social News Episode 4: Kipp and Wayne Talk With A Co-Founder of Qik.com About The Future of Mobile Video September 8, 2008 — Talk Social News debuts with Brightkite CTO interview On Location Based Applications Share and Enjoy: Less

Listen! (Size 6.2 MBs, Running Time 13m30s) 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. If you have any technology questions or comments then please post them to forums.friendsintech.com. Less

Security, Software, enterprise Wade Roush wrote: If you’re a typical homeowner, it would probably be overkill to have a live-in plumber who spends all his time checking the pipes for leaks. But if your plumbing system were constantly getting new parts, carrying volatile new liquids, and fending off corrosive agents, it might not be such a bad idea. That’s the basic concept behind automated penetration testing software, a corner of the computer security business pioneered several years ago by companies like Boston-based Core Security Technologies. Given the complex, ever-changing nature of most network-based enterprise software today, it’s unwise to assume that any network or application is totally secure. And by investing in software to attack your own systems, rather than waiting for hackers to do it, you might just discover vulnerabilities in time to prevent major data breaches. Core Security’s whole business is to sell an advanced penetration testing software package called Core Impact—until this week, that is. While Core Impact has been adopted by more than 700 big-company customers, the startup wanted to make penetration testing even more accessible, so today it’s announcing a streamlined version called Core Impact Essential, with a simplified interface tailored for smaller businesses or branch offices of big enterprises. The company’s original product, now called Core Impact Pro, has also been upgraded to detect more types of vulnerabilities in Web-based applications and to deal with the new IPv6 improvements to the global Internet Protocol. Core Security was founded in 1996, and is backed in part by Morgan Stanley Venture Partners, which contributed $4.5 million in Series B funding in 2005. We last wrote about the company in March, when it disclosed a security flaw in workstation virtualization programs from VMware that left the software vulnerable to takeover by hackers. The job of the company’s security lab, which is located in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is to seek out such vulnerabilities, design attacks that exploit them, and incorporate this information into the Core Impact software, the better to pinpoint related security holes in customers’ networks and applications. One of the biggest reasons Core Security’s products appeal to IT administrators, says Core Security CEO Mark Hatton, is that penetration testing results help to persuade higher-ups that their companies should invest the time and money required to install patches for known vulnerabilities. “In a perfect world, all patches would be deployed, and things would be just fine,” says Hatton. But too often, he says, IT people “can’t get their own companies to agree there is a problem. Until they show that an attack can actually happen, they have disagreements about whether or not they are insecure. So one of the values of Core Impact is that it helps them to justify, internally, the need for patches.” Automated penetration testing is gradually becoming standard practice in medium- to large-sized businesses, Hatton says; Core Impact Essential is designed to make it practical for small businesses as well. “There is independent research coming out of NIST and other sources that quite strongly advocates regular, automated penetration testing as part of a security process,” he says. “So what we are not doing today that we might have had to do four or five years ago is educate, educate, educate. We’re seeing customers say they want to do more with our product—so we’re moving quickly do address that need with different products and product families.” Comments | Permalink | Share |  E-mail Less

Security, Software, enterprise Wade Roush wrote: January, 2008: French bank Societe Generale discloses that it has lost $7.1 billion, thanks to unauthorized trading by a single employee, Jerome Kerviel, who apparently breached various controls on access to the bank’s computer systems. March, 2008: UCLA Medical Center fires 13 workers and disciplines a dozen others for snooping in the confidential medical files of celebrity patients including Britney Spears, Farah Fawcett, and Maria Shriver. April, 2008: Financial comparison shopping site LendingTree discloses that several former employees gave mortgage lenders passwords they needed to access confidential loan-request data from LendingTree customers. May, 2008: Walter Reed Army Hospital discloses that personal information for 1,000 former patients may have been breached by someone using a peer-to-peer file sharing program on a hospital computer. July 9, 2008 (yesterday): The Washington Post reveals that Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and about 2,000 other clients of a McLean, VA, investment firm had their names, birthdates, and social security numbers exposed to the open Internet by an employee using the LimeWire peer-to-peer file sharing program on a company computer. Hackers aren’t the only threat to computer-system security and confidentiality rules, many security professionals say. The common elements in each of these recent, high-profile data breaches were rogue insiders with inappropriate levels of access to their organizations’ IT systems. And while you might think it would be easy to control who gets access to these systems—the LendingTree debacle, for example, could have been avoided if the company had simply invalidated the former employees’ passwords when they left the company—the reality is that many big organizations are overwhelmed by the problem of managing their employees’ network access. Or so says Kurt Johnson, vice president of corporate development for Courion, a company in Framingham, MA, whose “identity management” software helps large organizations automate the once labor-intensive task of administering thousands of computer accounts. “You want to make sure that information gets into the hands of the individuals who need it, but there have to be controls and security over who should get access. You can’t have one without the other,” says Johnson. “Courion’s goal is to enable organizations to increase security with tighter controls—but without requiring more bodies to do the administration.” The privately held company, which has 130 employees spread across offices in Massachusetts, Georgia, Texas, California, New York, and the U.K., offers a menu of software products—upgraded just two weeks ago—that can be matched to an organization’s specific needs. PasswordCourier—the product that helped to launch the company in 1996—is a basic self-service password management system that helps employees who have forgotten their passwords to obtain a new one after brief, online challenge-and-response session. ProfileCourier allows users to set up the authentication questions used in these sessions—for example, “the name of your favorite childhood pet.” AccountCourier automates the creation and deletion of user accounts; it knows, for example, that ex-employees should have their passwords revoked. CertificateCourier manages the public-key-encrypted digital certificates that many companies use to manage access to internal websites and applications, and ComplianceCourier lets managers quickly review who is using which corporate applications and purge users who’ve been granted improper access. (In that last area, Courion’s product overlaps with those from Ecora, a Portsmouth, NH startup that makes software for tracking and auditing configuration changes in corporate IT systems.) The company’s newest product, RoleCourier, automates the whole process further by letting organizations define standard job roles that involve access to a predefined set of applications or networks. New collections specialists in a big corporation’s finance department, for example, might be …Next Page » Comments | Permalink | Share |  E-mail UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS Less

Software, acquisitions, deals Wade Roush wrote: Bedford, MA-based Progress Software, which makes software that allows companies to tie legacy business applications together into so-called service oriented architectures (SOA), said yesterday that it has acquired smaller competitor Mindreef. The Hollis, NH-based company, which makes software for building, testing, and maintaining SOA systems, had raised $4 million in a 2003 venture funding round led by Kodiak Venture Partners and will operate as a separate product unit of Progress.  The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Permalink | Share |  E-mail Less

enterprise, Software, europe Wade Roush wrote: Software developer Aveksa, based in Waltham, MA, announced today that it will open a headquarters for Europe, the Middle East and Africa in London.  Aveksa’s business is “enterprise access governance solutions”–in other words, controlling who has access to what information inside a company. Permalink | Share |  E-mail Less

startups, Web 2.0, networking Gregory T. Huang wrote: Nathan Kaiser is connected. His office is wherever he feels like working. He walks into shared startup digs on Alaskan Way, and people flash him knowing hand signals. I probably shouldn’t even be talking to him, given my lack of an iPhone; my Nokia brick looks like it’s from 1998. (I’m 10 years behind when it comes to consumer tech—don’t ask.) We’re sitting in a Downtown Cups cafe in Seattle, across from the ferries, enjoying a nice latte (7.8 on the Huang scale) and iced chai, respectively (”I can’t drink coffee,” he says). While I wolf down a sandwich, Kaiser tells me about his Seattle-based company, nPost, which runs a resource site for tech entrepreneurs. It is dedicated to promoting startups and matching up companies with talent via networking events, online interviews with entrepreneurs, and a job board that covers major tech centers from the Northwest to New York City. Kaiser’s own entrepreneurial story is a good one. In the late 1990s, he studied microbiology at the University of Washington, then went into marketing at Medtronic. Around 2000, he began putting up online Q&As about the entrepreneurial experience, on the side—the genesis of nPost. “I started calling up CEOs, doing informational interviews. ‘How do you engage a sales team? How did you deal with restructuring the company as a leader?’” he says. “I found I had a passion for early-stage startups.” Those networking chats with CEOs led directly to new jobs for him—first in Austin, TX, at United Devices. Then, in 2001, he went to New York City to join LinkShare. (He was a block away from the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001, attending what he calls a “Web 0.0″ conference, when he felt the impact of the first plane.) In 2003, Kaiser moved back to Seattle, still running nPost on the side. Two summers ago he went full-time, bootstrapping the company and selling sponsorships. In February 2007, nPost started making money, thanks in large part to its job board. The company’s networking events have been getting “bigger and bigger,” says Kaiser, and now draw up to several hundred participants. The next big one is July 15 at the Columbia City Theater in Seattle. So what are the tech trends Kaiser is looking at these days? A common lament among recruiters seems to be the local labor market. “Recently, recruiting has been really difficult,” he says. “It’s essentially a poaching market.” On the bright side, he’s seeing a lot of activity in two emerging areas: startups that use Web 2.0 tools to help large businesses connect with users and sell more products; and companies that filter online data, helping people and businesses manage their vast amounts of email, RSS feeds, and search information. What isn’t hot, at least for local Internet startups, is consumer retail and search sites. “It’s hard to make money until you get to scale. Advertising is really hard,” he says. What Kaiser thinks the Seattle area needs most at this point is infrastructure to support risk-taking—lawyers with entrepreneurial expertise, and more depth in executive management talent, for starters. “It’ll take time, and we need to recruit people,” he says. It would also help, he adds, to build up collaborations in the Northwest, with places like Portland, Spokane, Boise, and Vancouver, BC—and to become more established as a tech innovation center for the region. As we wind down, he leaves me with a page-long list of early-stage entrepreneurs and networking experts to tap into. “Just the tip of the iceberg,” he says. Comments | Permalink | Share |  E-mail Less

Listen! (Size 5.1 MBs, Running Time 10m54s) This podcast is sponsored by SCOTTEVEST (SeV) - makers of fine tech clothing. Today's Tech Rag Tear Outs podcast examines: the recent release of Audacity 1.3.5; new services for XTuple an open source ERP solution; introduction to Cisco's 'new brain' for your network called Nexus (NX-OS); pointer to zBoost YX300 & YX510 devices which aims to help you expand your cell phone coverage; and two links to PC World articles on VoIP hacks (Link#1 and Link#2). Additional links mentioned in this podcast includes: Defense Acquisition University (DAU) eLearning 2008 conference at George Mason University in Washington DC New Media Expo in Las Vegas, NV from August 14-16, 2008 VoIP Hopper SIPtap HSM Group's World Business Forum will be at Radio City Music Hall in NYC from Sept. 23-24, 2008.  Speakers include Colin Powell, Jack Welch, and Marcus Buckingham to name a few.  Sponsors include: WSJ, Business Week, Adecco, Novell, Nokia, and Delta. Our microbrew recommendation of the show is the Red Hook Long Hammer IPA. And if you have any tech questions post them to: forums.friendsintech.com. Less

Listen! (Size 12.7 MBs, Running Time 27m26s) This podcast is sponsored by SCOTTEVEST (SeV) - makers of fine tech clothing. Today's show covers: #1.) RIM's latest enterprise news; #2.) eWeek on 2008 technologies you should check out; #3.) a pointer to DOD conferences in the Washington DC area; and #4.) news about the very popular blogging tool WordPress.  Once we get through the news, there is an interview I recently recorded with President/CEO Eric Basu about how his company Sentek Consulting uses the latest technologies to enable effective virtual teams. Links mentioned during the news portion of the podcast include: Download Squad on RIM News BlackBerry on Lotus Connections Download Squad on RIM News eWeek's 2008 Technologies To Not Ignore AFCEA's DOD Spring & Fall 2008 Course Schedule Automattic's WordPress $29 million venture funding (from The New York Times, True Ventures, Radar Ventures, and Polaris Venture Partners) Links mentioned during the interview on virtual teams includes: RIM Blackberry WebEx Skype Palm Treo Smartphones Jott GrandCentral Our microbrew recommendation of the show is the Widmer Broken Halo IPA. And if you have any tech questions post them to: forums.friendsintech.com. Less

Listen! (Size 13.7 MBs, Running Time 29m41s) This podcast is sponsored by SCOTTEVEST (SeV) - makers of fine tech clothing. Today's Tech Rag Tear Outs podcast examines news from Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on EMC, and an article from eWeek on IBM's new OmniFind Personal Email Search application called IOPES.  Following the news is an interview with PacketTrap about their network monitoring tool PT360.  After the interview there are several conference pointers: SANS 2008 AJAX World Conference and Expo CompuMaster The Military & Aerospace Electronics Forum The AIIM International Expo and Conference Links mentioned in this podcast include: STEC Samsung Electronics Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) Google Desktop Search Viviosimo Yahoo Desktop Search Microsoft Search Ask.com Desktop Search IBM's AlphaWorks PacketTrap Blog PacketTrap Forum SNMP MRTG CACTI Our sponsor SCOTTEVEST has some new gear that you should check out: Evolution Jacket Essentials Jacket for Men Essentials Jacket for Women Less

Listen! (Size 6.8 MBs, Running Time 14m35s) 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: technewsradio@gmail.com.  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 Less

Listen! (Size 9.4 MBs, Running Time 20m24s) This podcast is sponsored by SCOTTEVEST (SeV) - makers of fine tech clothing. Today's Tech Rag Tear Outs podcast examines a couple of miscellaneous technology items that caught my eye, and an interview from eTech 2007 with RSS solution provider Attensa that was made posible by Zimbra. Links mentioned in this podcast include: MaximumPC's pointer to HP Drive Key Boot Utility PC Magazine review of Microsoft Office Accounting Express [Discuss @ Forums.FriendsInTech.com] Dacor Kitchen Entertainment Center I also have a microbrew recommendation with Port Brewing Wipe Out India Pale Ale. Less

Listen! (Size 9.0 MBs, Running Time 19m25s) 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   Less

Listen! (Size 5.3 MBs, Running Time 11m33s) This podcast is sponsored by SCOTTEVEST (SeV) - makers of fine tech clothing. Today's Tech Rag Tear Outs podcast discusses a variety of topics including: Internet VoIP, electronic books, new media content, mobile tools, a Firefox plugin for protecting children's web access, and an enterprise data warehouse conference pointer.  The sources for these topics includes: eWeek, San Diego Union-Tribune, Forbes, New York Times News Service, and PC Magazine. Additional links mentioned in this article: Promo for Pauldotcom.com Skype Tina Engler Mobipocket Microsoft Reader Fictionwise Plucker Connect's eBooks Plustek OpticSlim M12 Corporate portable scanner Glubble The Data Warehousing Institue's World Conference 2007 "Getting Started with Audacity" @ New Media Expo Less

  Listen!   (Size 13.6 MBs, Running Time 29m35s) This podcast is sponsored by SCOTTEVEST (SeV) - makers of fine tech clothing. Today's "mini" Tech Rag Tear Outs examines nine top things to consider checking out and a great interview with FileMaker expert John Mark Osborne from Databasepros.com.  During the interview we discuss: history of FileMaker, John's expertise, hands-on training options for FileMaker Pro, and online training tools. Links mentioned in this podcast include: #9.) Attensa Enterprise 2.0 Feed Readers #8.) Alltel's new Where #7.) Vlingo Mobile #6.) Mark/Space Missing Sync for Windows Mobile 4.0 #5.) Thornsoft's ClipMate 7.2.05 for Windows #4.) Mindomo online mind mapping tool #3.) DivX Author 1.5 editing tool #2.) Freebase 'open source data' database #1.) Newsgator - NetNewsWire - FeedDemon We also recommend checking out Pa so Robles, CA based Steinhaus Brewing Co's Mission Street Pale Ale microbrew. Less

  Listen To Podcast   (Size 6.0 MBs, Running Time 12m56s) Today's Tech Rag Tear Outs podcast includes some pointers to some upcoming conferences, hardware & software news related to mobile smart phones, and a list of potentially helpful graphics card recommendations to help out your future or current Vista installation. It includes content from the following sources: PC Magazine, Maximum PC, Software Developer Times, PC World, Mobile Enterprise, Federal Computer Week, and Computer Reseller News. Links mentioned in this podcast included: Conferences: The IDC Security Forum CSI Executive Retreat for Information Security Professionals Enterprise Search Summit West Gartner's Identity and Access Management Summit 2007 Windows Mobile 6 Smartphones: Cingular 8525 T-Mobile Wing T-Mobile DASH Motorola Q9  T-Mobile Hotspot@home Nokia N95 camera smartphone Microsoft Vista Graphics Cards: Diamond Viper x1650 GeForce 8500 GT ATI Radeon HD 2400 ATI Radeon X1950 Pro EVGA e-GEFORCE 8800 GT XFX GeForce 7900 GTX Edition EVGA e-GeForce 7950 GX2 We also had a microbrew recommendation from the Lake Tippecanoe area of Northern Indiana with the Warbird Brewing Company's Warbird T-6 Red Amber Ale. This podcast is sponsored by SCOTTEVEST (SeV) - makers of fine tech clothing. Less

  Listen To Podcast   (Size 2.0 MBs, Running Time 4m21s) Today's Tech Tidbit podcast examines ServerLift. If you have a comment or thought about this product, please post it to FriendsInTech.com. This podcast is sponsored by SCOTTEVEST (SeV) - makers of fine tech clothing. Less

Listen To Podcast   (Size7.6 MBs, Running Time 16m22s) Today's Tech Rag Tear Outs podcast comes from content from: MaximumPC, NetworkWorld, PC Magazine, PC World, SC Magazine, and Military & Aerospace Electronics magazine. Links mentioned during the technical content of this podcast includes: Network Access Control (NAC) open-source solutions: PacketFence RINGS NETREG FreeNAC HUPNET UNGOLIANT Tomator @ PolarCloud PaulDotCom.com Linksys WRT45g Hack Book Yoggie Gatekeeper Pro Vulnerability Tools: Netclarity & CoreImpact Viewsonic PJ258D Viewdock    UMPCs: FlipStart E-1001S & OQO Model Q2 Kelly Systems Sun's Project Blackbox Rackable Systems Concentro IBM & CISCO Management Services for Crisis Response Cray XT4 super computer Core WordPerfect Lightning (Beta) PC Mag Review Core WordPerfect Lightning Bridge Ratings survey on vehicle media consumption Other links mentioned in this podcast include: Friends In Tech Audacity @ AztecMedia.net New Media Expo (PNME) You can also get connected via: Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, & LinkedIn. This podcast is sponsored by SCOTTEVEST (SeV) - makers of fine tech clothing. Less