CSTechcast.com brings you the weekly podcast for IT pros. This week we talk about the challenges of delivering as an IT pro to the small and mid-sized business with Art Hollingsworth and Mike Scott of the Two Guys Tech podcast. Find them at Twoguystech.com. In the news: MacWorld excitement comes not from Apple hardware but from third party software, Palm tries to makes a comeback with the Pre smartphone, HP reports six hour battery life for their new netbook, and Windows 7 beta is brought to the public with much fanfare. The bungled digital TV transition gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we talk about the common security breaches made by employees in "A Closer Look", and we get you going dual-booting Windows 7 in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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Links to stories and sites discussed during the show:
Macworld: New Software Puts Macs To Work (InformationWeek)
Palm's Comeback Starts With Pre, WebOS (InformationWeek)
HP Boosts Netbook Battery Life (PC World)
Ballmer to CES: Windows 7 Beta Off and Running (Internetnews.com)
The 4 Security Rules Employees Love to Break (PC World)

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Link to the episode: http://www.cstechcast.com/home.aspx?Episode=58

- Eric Beehler (consortioservices.com/blog)
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CSTechcast.com welcomes you to another episode of the podcast for IT pros. Today we talk the trends in the database space with Billy Bosworth, SQL Server VP & GM of Quest Software. Find their solutions at Quest.com. In the news Cisco announces a full rack solution for the data center including a complete set of servers, Toshiba announces their 512GB flash-based SSD drive for notebooks, the SEC requires ZBRL on financial documents as soon as mid next year, Sun’s open source VirtualBox VM solution gets popular, and IE7 gets a shiny new out-of-band patch for the holiday. The hoopla over breaking embargos by the need-to-be-first blogger set gets “The Worst Tech Move of the Week”, we take “A Closer Look” at netbooks for the corporate folks, and we give some advice when you encounter the Cannot Open User Default Database SQL Server error in “The Weekly Tech Tip”.

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Cisco Preps Server-Switch As HP Prepares Flank Attack(InformationWeek)
Toshiba Unveils 512-GB Notebook SSD (InformationWeek)
SEC Requiring Big Companies Use XBRL By Mid-2009 (InformationWeek)
Sun Updates VirtualBox 2.1 Again (InformationWeek)
Microsoft Releases Critical Internet Explorer Patch (InformationWeek)

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Link to the episode: http://www.cstechcast.com/home.aspx?Episode=55

- Eric Beehler (consortioservices.com/blog)

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