The 31st podcast of Tech Rag Tear Outs (TRTO) has been posted.  Here are the detailed show notes:

• (00:00-03:27) Introduction
  • TechPodcast.com announces
    advertising deal with GotoMeeting.com
    (a Citrix company)
  • Official Beer Of The Show:
    BridgePort India Pale Ale brewed out of
    Oregon
• (03:28-12:49) Primary Content
  • Computer Reseller News (www.crn.com):
    • Converged Access offers network compression appliances
  • PC Magazine (www.pcmag.com)
    
    • Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Tablet (formerly from IBM) gets PC
      Magazine Editor’s Choice Award
  • Government Computer News (www.gcn.com):
    • Product Reviews of PDAs and SmartPhones:
      BlackBerry 7250 and the
      Dell Axim
      X50v are GCN Lab Reviewer Choice award winners.
  • SC Magazine (www.scmagazine.com):
    • Christopher Moody has an in-depth GROUPTEST: Intrusion Prevention that looked
      at 12 solutions with
      TopLayer Networks’ IPS 5500 Attack Mitigator getting a
      "recommend" rating and
      SourceFire’s 3D System getting a "best buy" rating.
• (12:50-20:52) Closing
  • Normally I play a Billy Watson 
    song at the end but today we listen to
    Minus Vince from
    Podsafe Music Network
  • Special thanks to DarnPC
    for the extra bandwidth
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  • Have a great day!

TechPodCasts.com, the top technical audio podcast resource worldwide, announced today a first of its kind sponsorship deal with GotoMeeting.com, a Citrix Online product

Spokesperson Todd Cochrane says, what is significant is that this is
the very first multi-podcast sponsorship deal. This agreement is a
large win for our members and the techpodcasts.com network. A
significant amount of work lead to getting to this day, with the
network barely being 6 months old it is evident that when like minded
podcasters come together and build a branded network, along with
developing a legal marketable framework, with the necessary statistics
reporting, then by presenting a well laid out marketing plan, we were
able to sign this sponsorship deal. This solidifies our ideals that
"podcasters do the work, and indeed podcasters get paid".

TechPodcasts.com is uniquely positioned to deliver the GoToMeeting.com
message. More impressive in June the network reached 135,000 unique
listeners, and saw record traffic of over 750,000 unique downloads
among the 20 reporting affiliates.

This sponsorship is the perfect marketing fit, we have the technical
audience, and we will be able to directly reach decision makers in the
technical community. We look forward to a successful campaign and a
long term relationship with GotoMeeting.com.

TechPodcasts.com is a network of
independent audio content producers who have agreed to create child
safe, educational content as well as work collectively to build the
best collection of Technical Podcast available on the Internet.