May 10 - Week In Review & More

It was great to have Michael Cocanower from itSynergy our May 10th show. Michael's experience as a Microsoft MVP has helped both him and his business along with opening up opportunities to work directly with Microsoft on the very solutions his company implements.

We also hope you enjoyed our guest spot from Gabe Goldberg of www.tiplet.com on User Groups. Check out tiplet for more tech tips from Gabe and others. Here are all the links from our Week In Review and interview with Michael.

Week In Review Links

• Swede charged with hacking Cisco and NASA


• BlackBerry Storm 2 Brewing, Curve Coming


• Intel CPU Virtualization confusion undermining Windows 7 XP Mode


• Mini-Links to Web Sites Are Multiplying


• INTEROP - details below in Event section

Links from the interview

Microsoft MVP Program Blog - find out more about the MVP program; where you can find help; or where you can go to show off your IT expertise with Microsoft products

itSynergy - Michael's Phoenix based IT Consulting, Solutions & Support

Event Links/Info

INTEROP comes to Las Vegas - Tuesday-Thursday, May 19-21

Attend the Interop Conference for a comprehensive, integrated view of technologies that will give your business a competitive edge. Learn how the recent surge of IT innovation can help you cut costs, get closer to your customers and increase revenue.Cloud Computing, Data Center, Enterprise Wireless, Green IT, Virtualization, Unified Communications & Wireless Technology tracks and many others are available for attendees

Amy Wohl will be back on the show this Sunday with Computing in the Cloud.

TechTalk Product Review - WildCharge: Stay in Charge of Your Battery

We first saw the WildCharge in an article from David Pogue at the NY Times (and a video).

This intrigued us to try it for ourselves.

As seen below and on the WildCharge site, the WildCharge comes with a pad adorned with metallic strips. When the phone (with the adapter) is placed on the mat, the 4 small posts on the back of the case make contact with the mat and begin the charge.

Picture from WildCharge Products page.

The mat is smart enough to detect human fingers. No electroshock therapy here. If a person touches multiple strips, the device shuts off.

Our use proved to be ...well, just as expected. We did not run scientific stopwatch tests , but the WildCarge charged our BlackBerry's in around the same time it takes the wall charger. We did not notice any difference in the length of time the phone stayed charged.

As of now, there are a few cases for phones. Motorola Rzrs (some models. see site for details), BlackBerry Curve & Pearl are the only models with cases available now. iPhone cases are planned for the first part of 2009 and WildCharge is also planning to expand their offerings to video games as well.

We'll let you make the call on this. If you already have a case you like or don't want a case in general, this may not be for you. If you are always running out of battery because you forget to plug in your phone, then you may have found your soul mat.

The mat will run you around $65 and each case comes in at around $35