Check out another podcast for IT pros at CSTechcast.com. This week John Kembel, CEO of HiveLive, gets us familiar with the ins and outs of getting a business to engage with customers through new social networks. Find more information on them at HiveLive.com. The news brings us a read on IT jobs during an uncertain economy, the hacking of Sarah Palin's e-mail, Apple finally addressing the DNS vulnerability, VMWare Virtual Center coming to the iPhone, and announcements from VMWorld on how to extend virtualization beyond the operating system. Investment bank's lack of real information in a world of technology gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", those who undervalue their IT staff get ripped six ways from Sunday in "The IT Pet Peeve", and "The Weekly Tech Tip" reviews the snapshot feature in Hyper-V.

Links to stories and sites discussed during the show:
Wall Street turmoil unlikely to KO IT industry (NetworkWorld)
Report: Legislator's son at center of Palin hack talk (InfoWorld)
Apple update finally fixes important DNS bug (InfoWorld)
VMware's VirtualCenter coming to Linux, iPhone (InfoWorld)
VMware chief says the OS is history (InfoWorld)

If you'd like to support CS Techcast, vote for us in the Podcast Awards. They are taking nominations until the end of the month, so get your vote in. We'd like any feedback you'd be willing to give. Contact information is up on the home page. This week we took some pictures, so those will be showing up on the web site as well. I hope you enjoy the show and keep coming back to CSTechcast.com.

Link to the episode: http://www.cstechcast.com/home.aspx?Episode=43

- Eric Beehler (consortioservices.com/blog)

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IT professionals get another great podcast; a weekly dose of great content at CStechcast.com. We get into the latest enterprise management tools with Kerrie Meyler, author of System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed. She can be found at the blogs: ops-mgr.spaces.live.com and www.networkworld.com/community/meyler/. The news brings more undying news from Yahoo and Microsoft, an HP buyout of EDS, another standard arriving soon for financial data, the rollout of updated rich media platforms from Sun JavaFX and Adobe Flash, and an ongoing SSL threat to Paypal. Constant bickering over Open XML formats gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we give our "Point/Counterpoint" on Web 2.0 in the enterprise, and we put out another great "Weekly Tech Tip" on SQL tools.

Links to stories discussed during the show:
Microsoft quietly watching as Ichan raids Yahoo (Seattle Times)
Microsoft pursuing new deal with Yahoo (Seattle Times)
HP buys EDS for $13.9 billion (InfoWorld)
SEC to Propose XBRL Mandate (eWeek)
JavaOne: Sun rolls out JavaFX (CNet News.com)
Adobe refreshes Flash Player (InfoWorld)
PayPal XSS vulnerability affects EV SSL (CNet News.com)
ISO calls for end to Open XML 'personal attacks (CNet News.com)

We have hit episode 25 and we are still going strong. Help us keep it going by referring our podcast and writing a quick review on your favorite podcast directory or on your blog! Post comments on our blog or email or call us. We look forward to hearing from you and keep coming back to cstechcast.com.

Link to the episode: http://www.cstechcast.com/home.aspx?Episode=25

- Eric Beehler (consortioservices.com/blog)

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The latest CS Techcast podcast is here with news, views, and interviews for IT professionals at cstechcast.com. This week we discuss Microsoft Expression Web and the approach of these tools in a Web 2.0 world with Jim Cheshire, author of Using Microsoft Expression Web 2. Find Jim at www.jimcobooks.com. The news brings new web mashup design and an updated Live Maps from Microsoft's Live platform, Forrester is going against conventional wisdom with Vista in business, Citrix turns up the heat on the competition with smooth delivery of applications via virtualization on their XenDesktop beta, and an increasing zero day worry as a Microsoft vulnerability exploit is in the wild two days after the patch release. Blog aggregating gets aggravating for "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", virtual Josh gives us advice on Windows and how to avoid getting tripped up by service principle names in "The Weekly Tech Tip", and we take "A Closer Look" at the Microsoft MVP Summit.

Links to stories discussed during the show:

Ozzie's Mesh Mashup (eWeek Microsoft Watch)
Hands on: new Microsoft Live Maps improvements impressive (Ars Technica)
Don't Skip Vista, Forrester Study Says (PC World)
Citrix`s Smooth New XenDesktop (eWeek)
MS08-021: A Must-Patch Vulnerability (eWeek)
For Sale: 3 Blogs, Barely Used; Seller Highly Motivated (TechNewsWorld)

CS Techcast is proud to bring you a quality podcast every week, without fail. If you enjoy it, share it with your friends and point them to cstechcast.com. As always, thanks for listening.

Link to the episode: http://www.cstechcast.com/home.aspx?Episode=21

- Eric Beehler (consortioservices.com/blog)

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Just a quick note today. Our buddy, SQL Server MVP and author Paul Nielson has decided to throw some code out there (two stored procedures) in the wild that will help DBAs understand and utilize the new data compression feature in SQL Server 2008. Head over to his site, www.sqlserverbible.com, to get the details (I don't want to steal his thunder here)! Thanks Paul!

--Josh

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The latest podcast available at cstechcast.com is now offering free stuff, check it out. This week we discuss the methods behind debugging the Windows operating system with Mario Hewardt and Daniel Pravat. Read the book Advanced Windows Debugging for all the in-depth information and check out advancedwindowsdebugging.com. News brings us a drop in spending, a potpourri of security issues, Blackberry leaves executives stranded on the island, and Starbucks is hooking us up with free Wi-Fi. The Microsoft-Yahoo merger gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week" and not why you think, our "Tech Tip" imparts experience about SQL Server I/O performance, and we take "A Closer Look" at Windows Vista Service Pack 1.

Show Notes

Links to stories discussed in the show:
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Infrastructure/IDC-Reports-Finds-Less-IT-Spending-in-08/
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206401778&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206504526&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206504526&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All
http://www.news.com/8301-10789_3-9872415-57.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,142574-pg,1/article.html
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/142438/service_outage_gives_blackberry_a_black_eye.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jWMyD27h1rk_SBZVXkqf4e6lHcVQD8UOAEC80

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