Recent Twitter @ Technewsradio updates —

MICROSOFT WINDOWS:

• Microsoft released SyncToy 2.1 (synchronizes files & folders) on 11/10/2009 [tinyurl.com/synctoy2-1]
• Zephyr-tec.com offer's digital dictation and speech recognition for vertical applications like medical, legal, government, education, etc.

APPLE MACINTOSH:

• Cyberduck 3.3 released (FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Cloud Files & Amazon S3 Browser for Mac)
• Filemaker's Bento (Mac OS X) personal database tool is offering a holiday pack
• Dell's new Inpiron Zino HD is pretty interesting if you are looking for a Win7 media player/server [tinyurl.com/inspiron-zino-hd]
• Mac users can use Windows Mobile 6.5 smart phones thanks to Sync Windows Mobile from Mark/Space [tinyurl.com/4k288v]
• Evernote for the Mac has the option to auto update with new beta editions [bit.ly/1diOhL]
• Filemaker has announced that Bento for the Mac now had a "field encryption" option [bit.ly/1XmC2s]

EVENTS:

• KMWorld is having an online presentation "Web Apps CAN STRETCH Any IT Investment" on Tue 11/17 @ 2:00pm ET [tinyurl.com/km-web-value]
• Via KM World – Conquering Complexity webcast was 11/19 … you can watch via www.viddler.com/simple_on_site/b03a01a4
• Network World's IT Roadmap LA is going to be Feb. 8, 2010 @ Long Beach Convention Center

VIRTUALIZATION:

• Sun has released VirtualBox 3.1 Beta 1 (not for production systems) [bit.ly/2U92aB]
• Sun has released VirtualBox 3.0.12 (virtualization) for download (Win, Mac, Linux, etc)

MOBILE:

• Qualcomm has announced some new screen technologies that are geared for the eBook and mobile device market [tinyurl.com/qual-screen]
• Mark/Space Newsletter #93 (Nov09) reports a public beta of Missing Sync for Android is available for the Mac – More @ www.markspace.com
• REDFLY Mobile Companion is now compatible with select BlackBerry smartphones www.celiocorp.com
• It appears (as of Tue 11/10 @ 8:47 PM Pacific) that Dropbox is hacked – get warnings from Firefox & OpenDNS

PODCASTING:

• Google's Android mobile phone OS has a built in podcasting client called Listen groups.google.com/group/listen-discuss
• TechPodcast.com Round Table is 11/7 @ 1 pm Pacific – Connectify, PowerPress Podcasting Plugin, Geekazine
• looking for a podcast catcher … you can do a feature compare at www.podcatchermatrix.org

SECURITY:

• Cisco's Global Security Information now available via Cisco iPhone App [money.cnn.com]
• via email James L has a pointer to an interesting Windows laptop/usb flash drive security tool [bit.ly/1xvrCF]
• Sherpa's Expedite was recently recommend on FIT mailing list for doing email (PST/Lotus) e-discovery [tinyurl.com/sherpa-expedite]

MISCELLANEOUS:

• open source voting project is pretty interesting via Future Tense (@jongordon) [tinyurl.com/ft-opensourcevote]
• O'Reilly Media's Safari Books Online 6.0 is offering a 10-day free sample ssl.safaribooksonline.com/tryitfree
• Scottevest has announced some "new" tech/travel related products
• there is a new Adobe Flash Player v10.0.32.18 for Firefox, Safari, Opera at get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
• Sun is offering a "On-Demand Webinar: Java EE 6 Overview" bit.ly/26kwND [registration required]