The weather outside is frightful, so if you’ve no place to go, download the latest podcast from CSTechcast.com. This week we talk the open source option and why it makes sense for your operations with Curt Finch, CEO of JourneyX and author of All Your Money Won't Another Minute Buy: Valuing Time as a Business Resource. In the news, IE8 is winning the war to have the least bugs, new patches for critical vulnerabilities released after Patch Tuesday, the .tel domain aims to make it easy to share contact information, Sun retires Network.com and launches a new cloud initiative, and version 5.1 of MySQL is released debuting several new features. Sony and Facebook get dissed for their collection of private data in “The Worst Tech Move of the Week”, people who put desktop in service as servers get the wrath of “The IT Pet Peeve”, and a little tip to help get your Hyper-V machines shut down cleanly in “The Weekly Tech Tip”.

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Links to stories and sites discussed during the show:
Internet Explorer Has Fewer Software Bugs Than Firefox, Chrome (InformationWeek)
Zero-Day Microsoft Vulnerabilities Being Exploited (InformationWeek)
Microsoft Security Advisory (960906) (Microsoft.com)
.Tel Them Where to Find You (New York Times)
Sun Discloses Plans To Enter Cloud Computing (InformationWeek)
Sun MySQL 5.1 Upgrades Partitioning, Replication (InformationWeek)
Sony Violates Children's Privacy Act (Washington Post)

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Link to the episode: http://www.cstechcast.com/home.aspx?Episode=54

- Eric Beehler (consortioservices.com/blog)

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CSTechcast.com is the source for our weekly podcast for tech pros. This week we discuss ways to keep your job in a bad economy with Bruce Culbert, CEO of iSymmetry and myCRMcareer. In the news Microsoft takes Exchange and SharePoint to the cloud, CA aims to help manage cloud services, OOXML gets finalized but the controversy remains, USB devices threaten network security, and Internet Explorer 8 gets a ship date, or at least a ship quarter. Seagate's being incommunicado about hard drive problems while pushing themselves on the chattiest services in social networking gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at remote desktop tools, and we bring you tips on handling the bandwidth issues of WSUS in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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Links to stories and sites discussed during the show:
Microsoft on the cloud: Sharepoint and Exchange go Online (Ars Technica)
CA Unveils Cloud Management Strategy, SaaS Unit (InformationWeek)
ISO publishes Office Open XML specification (InfoWorld)
Symantec Sees Rise in USB-Based Malware as Reports of U.S. Army Ban Surface (eWeek)
IE8 Update: Browser to Ship in 2009 (eWeek)
Anyone here own a 1.5TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11? (ZDNet)

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Link to the episode: http://www.cstechcast.com/home.aspx?Episode=51

- Eric Beehler (consortioservices.com/blog)

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Another fine podcast for IT professionals found here at CSTechcast.com. This week we talk enterprise 2.0 with Ross Mayfield, social networking extraordinaire and Chairman, President, and co-founder of Socialtext. Find Ross' blog at ross.typepad.com and SocialText's offerings at Socialtext.com. In the news, possible privacy issues with the IE8 beta phoning home, Dell's pushing into the VM space with new blade servers and storage, the DOJ is questioning the Google-Yahoo ad deal, HP's building an OS of their own, and the LHC gets hacked. Apple's new BSOD causing iTunes 8 gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at Yammer and the benefits and drawbacks of micro-blogging in the enterprise, and "The Weekly Tech Tip" talks about Core Config, a new utility for Windows Server 2008 Server Core configuration.

Links to stories and sites discussed during the show:
MS defends IE 'phone home' feature, clarifies privacy policy (InfoWorld)
Dell unwraps products designed for virtualization (InfoWorld)
Sandy Litvack, a dogged trustbuster in pursuit of Google (CNet)
Hackers deface LHC site, came close to turning off particle detector (ZDNet)
iTunes 8 causes Windows Vista problems (ZDNet)
TechCrunch50: Yammer Wins TechCrunch50 (PC Magazine)
Core Config Utility (Codeplex)

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Link to the episode: http://www.cstechcast.com/home.aspx?Episode=42

- Eric Beehler (consortioservices.com/blog)

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A new interview, tech news, and insight from the podcast for IT pros at CSTechcast.com. This week we talk about smartphone and mobile device security with Dan Dearing, Vice President of marketing at Trust Digital. Find out more about Trust Digital at trustdigital.com. In the news, we discuss a kaleidoscope of a patch from Microsoft, social networking for G Men, Dell shutting down factories of their once high-flying made-to-order operations, a six-core server chip from Intel, and a recall of overheating Sony Vaio laptops. Comcast's FCC countersuit gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", Chrome, Firefox, and IE8 start up the browser wars once again when we take "A Closer Look", and "The Weekly Tech Tip" delves into the NETSH command.

Links to stories and sites discussed during the show:
Upcoming Microsoft patch lineup could be 'massive,' says researcher (ComputerWorld)
CIA, FBI push 'Facebook for spies' (CNN)
Dell Plans to Sell Factories In Effort to Cut Costs (Wall Street Journal)
Intel ready to announce six-core chip (CNet)
Sony recalls 440,000 Vaio laptops (ZDNet)

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Link to the episode: http://www.cstechcast.com/home.aspx?Episode=41

- Eric Beehler (consortioservices.com/blog)

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