The 28th podcast of Tech Rag Tear Outs (TRTO) has been posted.  Here are the detailed show notes:

• (00:00-04:02) Introduction
  • Promo for: Tech Podcasts;
    and Douglas E. Welch’s Career
    Opportunities: The High-Tech Career Handbook
  • Pointer to
    
    Todd Cochrane’s "Podcasting: Do It Yourself Guide" book
  • Official Beer Of The Show:
    San
    Miguel’s Dark Lager
• (04:03-32:23) Primary Content
  • eWeek (www.eweek.com)
    • Network Appliance has new
      midrange storage solutions
    • FullArmor has some new
      Active Directory security solutions
    • New HP Color LaserJet 2600n
    • Avflyer has a new web-base
      collaboration solution
    • O’Reilly has a new "SharePoint User Guide" book
  • InfoWorld (www.infoworld.com)
    
    • palmOne has released
      LifeDrive Mobile Manager
    • Macromedia,
      Nokia, and
      Oddcast have some new
      Flash technology for cell phones
    • Ben Barbante examines “The Browser Reloaded: A new development
      model called AJAX breathes new life into Web apps”
    • Test Center looks at two XML database solutions:
      Apache Xindice 1.0 and
      Sleepycat
      Berkeley DB XML 2.0
  • Information Week (www.informationweek.com)
    
    • Small article notes that open-source like
      Metadot’s Portal Server
      competes against solutions from Plumtree, Vignette, and Microsoft
      SharePoint
  • Network Computing (www.nwc.com)
    
    • Labs report on “Low End Switches”: The highest rated product was HP’s ProCurve 2626 followed by Netgear FSM726S
    • Labs report on “Network Device Configuration Management” rated
      
      Opsware Network Automation System 4.0 an ‘A’ score with
      AlterPoint Device Authority Suite
      3.5 a ‘B+’
    • Polycom QSX conference phone integrates into video conferencing
      sessions
  • Software Development Times (www.sdtimes.com)
    
    • Has coverage of
      
      Telelogic’s purchase of Popkin’s System Architect tool and plans
      for integration into Telelogic’s DOORS requirements management tool.
  • Network World (www.nwfusion.com)
    
    • Keith Shaw in his “Cool Tools” section recommends the Sony MFM-HT75W display
    • Verizon
      Wireless has dropped monthly EVDO pricing for corporate
      customers from $80 a month to $60
    • Curt Cornum has a great article called “QoS talking points: How
      to navigate the politics of quality-of-service initiatives”
  • Wired (www.wired.com)
    • Is recommending in their “Drill Down” section the Sony HDR-FX1
      for the dedicated video hacker wanting to get into 1080i resolution
  • Communications of the ACM (www.acm.com/communications)
    
    • June 2005 edition (starting on page 101) had a great article
      called “Criminal Network Analysis and Visualization” by Jennifer Xu
      and H. Chen (both at the University of Arizona) [www.i2inc.com,
      www.knowledgecc.com]
  • Federal Computer Week (www.fcw.com)
    
    • Alienware is now offering
      via GSA schedule a base-line high-end graphics workstation called
      “Bot”
  • Forbes (www.forbes.com)
    • Quentin Hardy examines
      Pillar Data Systems from both a business and tech focus. Larry
      Ellison from Oracle is a big
      investor.
    • Nokia is running full page ads across all the tech magazines it
      seems including Forbes for the
      Nokia 9300.
    • There is a big insert on “valuable brand” companies. Here are
      Forbes’ top ten picks: Apple, BlackBerry, Google, Amazon.com, Yahoo,
      Ebay, Red Bull, Starbucks, Pixar, and Coach.
  • Computer Reseller News (www.crn.com)
    
    • A Test Center review of the
      Cubix LaserStation
      PC
• (32:24-28:52) Closing
  • End the show with a Billy Watson  & Robin Henkel song entitled “Dark
    Harp” from the album "MADCAP EXTRAVACANZA"
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  • Have a great day!