February 8 - Week In Review

What a great show we had last night with guest Bill Seaver. Now that you know how to use social media like a pro, go out and start following imitechtalk on twitter and tell us how much you learned.

Now for the Week in Review links to stories and upcoming IT events of interest

• Time Warner Cable To Expand Its Bandwidth Caps To Additional Cities- Gizmodo - [JUMP]
• Data Breach Costs On The Rise-ChannelWeb.com-[JUMP]
• Nintendo Wins the Graying Gamers-NY Times-[JUMP]
• New Wireless Standard Promises Ultra-Fast Media Applications-ScienceDaily.com-[JUMP]
• Bluetooth 3.0-Wireless Deisgn Asia .com-[JUMP]

Upcoming conferences and events:

IWCE Expo in Las Vegas – March 18-20
Having the ability to receive the right information has never been more important. If you are responsible for the dependability, reliability and interoperability of your organization’s integrated communications systems, then IWCE is your must attend event. IWCE provides the applications and solutions you need in order to communicate anytime, anywhere.

NEW for 2009! Surveillance Pavilion
Surveillance is a hot topic in the integrated communications systems field. This new pavilion includes companies displaying products such as cables and connectors, cameras, consoles, data storage and transmission, digital recorders, monitors, video transmission equipment and so much more!

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

Join us on Sunday, February 15 when we will bring you interviews from Sun Microsystem about the future of the data center.

December 7th - Week In Review

Thanks to everyone that tuned into the show last night. As promised, here is the week in review:

• Lower Manhattan Security Initiative Launched [1010 Wins]
• How to Run A Meeting Like Google [BusinessWeek 2006 - Internal Testing?]
• Google launches iPhone voice search app [ComputerWorld]
• The World’s Most Super-Deisgned Data Center [Pingdom.com]

Check back later in the week for details for the Sunday, December 14th show. Both the December 14th and December 21st shows are geared for gear.

December 14 @ 3pm MST/5pm EST
Ben Patterson*, the Gadget Hound, from Yahoo! Tech with the Holiday Gadget Gala.

December 21 @ 3pm MST/5pm EST
Keith Shaw of Network World will join Tom with the Cool Yule Tools for the Holidays and highlight some of his Rock & Roll Fantasy Tech Pics.

*The latest from Ben is that "thousands" of Wii's are at Walmart.com. Here at TechTalk, we do not recommend the Wii. But that is only due to the fact Tom told us the two hours per day scheduled for "Wii Testing" was no longer acceptable.