Always have a contingency

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Our conference coverage continues this week when we air Tom’s visit to the 2010 Contingency Planning and Management EAST show at NYC’s Javits Center.  Commissioner Bruno from the NYC OEM and Amy Herman took time to speak with Tom at the early November event.  Find out more about their work and other guest on the SHOW PAGE.

We are still taking suggestions and feedback for 2011.  What topics are important to you?  What topics can we dive into that are still alien to you?  We pride ourselves in devoting 3/4 of our show to in depth interviews with guests.  While most news outlets bring you tech appetizers, we cover a topic from soup to nuts.

Next week, we are going to close the year with our FLASH conference coverage.  We have a contingency if that doesn’t work out… like related news to keep you busy while we try to find that audio file…

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We’ll never tell…

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Ok, we will tell.  2010 brought some great guests to TechTalk.  So many, we have some great conference coverage from the last couple of months bring the year to a close.

This week, we are excited to bring you a new Week In Review followed by our coverage of this year’s INTEROP NYC. Check out the SHOW PAGE for more info.

As for the rest of the year, we will air coverage from Contingency Planning and Management 2010 East, Federal Alliance of Safe Homes (or FLASH) and start 2011 the same way we started 2010 – with our NY Government Technology Forum coverage from the Brooklyn Marriott.

That’s all we can tell you for now.  We don’t want to spoil the surprise.

We’ll be on Sunday at 5pm EST and 3pm MST on 1100 KFNX.  Click the logo on the right of the page to visit KFNX and try out the live stream so you are ready to go.

Back to the Cloud

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The show will air Sunday at 1pm EST.  Due to sports coverage on KFNX, you can catch us even earlier on Sunday.

Here at TechTalk, we not only talk about the cloud – we rely on it.  We use WordPress.com for our website, Google for our imitechtalk.com mail and a plethora of other services that rely on the cloud – Twitter, bit.ly and Flickr come to mind at first thought.  While the majority of this data is data we want you to see, we want to be sure it will be there and safe from other people trying to pass along information as us.  What does all of that rely on? Security.

This week, Tom is joined by Craig Balding who was our very first Cloud Computing guest.  Craig will let us know what is going on with service providers, how security models are evolving and a new project he is developing. Find out more on the SHOW PAGE.  Don’t forget that the show will be on at 1pm EST …also don’t forget that time goes back an hour everywhere except Arizona.

Don’t forget that Friday, November 5 is GrowSmart Biz conference at the Renaissance Washington DC with friends at the Washington Business Journal.  Be sure to tell Shashi Bellamkonda hello if you see him…or just tweet him.

Speaking of conferences, we have two shows coming soon – one from the FLASH conference and one from our time at Interop.  Tom also had the chance to attend CPM 2010 EAST this week AND GovTech in Brooklyn.  We’ll get those on for you soon.

Pinkies up! Time for Social Media Manners with the Swami

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While we are still putting together our coverage from this year’s Interop in New York City that is just wrapping up, Tom will be on Sunday with Shashi Bellamkonda, Social Media Swami.  Shashi was at BlogWorld this week and is going to educate us on social media and customer service etiquette.  Find out more on the SHOW PAGE.

Our RSS readers are going overtime this week.  Apple’s announcements, New York City made a big announcement about its relationship with Microsoft along with plenty of new product hype with companies looking to take any holiday dollars people are looking to spend.  Speaking of, we are trying to get our hands on some gadgets to review and bring to you.  If you have any products you think we should give a spin before you do, let us know by emailing techtalk@imi-us.com or sending us a DM on Twitter @imitechtalk.

Here are some stories to keep you busy.  This post’s picture is circa 1900 Mulberry Street from Wikipedia.

Related Articles

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• Five Social Refreshers from BlogWorld: Largest Social Media Conference (livingstonbuzz.com)
• ProductCamp DC Recap (networksolutions.com)
• October 28th is great learning day for Small Business (networksolutions.com)
• Microsoft lifts New York City into the cloud (venturebeat.com)
• Hot Topics in Digital Media – Digital East 2010 (revenews.com)

Interop New York 2010 Kick Off

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Interop at the Javits Center in New York City this week.  Lenny Heymann, the show’s General Manager, was on this week’s show with Tom.  Find out about this week’s keynote speakers, sessions not to miss and details on big announcements at this week’s conference.  Tracks for this week’s show include Application Delivery 2.0, Cloud Computing, Data Center, Green IT, Enterprise 2.0, Video Conferencing and more (See All).

For the entire show on Digital Forensics and more teasing about the Verizon iPhone, go to the SHOW PAGE.

INTEROP LINKS

• Interop NY Website
• @Interop_Events on Twitter
• What are people saying about #Interop on Twitter?
• Press Releases from Interop

Glass Houses – Seeing Inside Your Data

 

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We have a great live show on deck this week!  Phillip Rodokanakis joins Tom to scare the heck out of you just in time for Halloween.  We are talking Digital Forensics this week.  What kind of data can be recovered? Encrypted hard drives, deleted browsing history along with the piles and piles of information your smart phone and iPad is racking up on you.  To find out more, check out the SHOW PAGE.

So, people in glass houses should be careful what they do on a computer, but they should also have conferences.  And there is no better glass house than New York City’s Javits Center – the home of Interop New York 2010.   Along with coverage from the floor and sessions next week, we are also excited to have the show’s general manager Lenny Heymann call in to kick the conference off live on TechTalk!  Lenny will give an overview of the event and details about keynote speakers, sessions and some of the many exhibitors at this year’s event.

Along with the Interop Kick Off, our Week in Review has unicorn meat from the Wall Street Journal about a Verizon-ready iPhone, how your NYC subway ride is about to get more annoying and we’ll tell you all about a former water storage tank that was turned into a data center if we have the time. For the link to listen and the spot where the podcast will drop, head over to this week’s SHOW PAGE.

Related Articles

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• GreenBytes CEO Robert Petrocelli to Speak at Interop New York 2010 (prweb.com)
• Simena will introduce 16 line 40G/10G/1G fiber network taps at Interop NY 2010 (eon.businesswire.com)
• Interop Preview: Virtualization, Cloud Top Tech Strategies Agenda (informationweek.com)
• Akorri to Address Key Requirements for Private Cloud Management at Fall Interop 2010 (marketwire.com)
• The 4 C’s Of Interop NYC: Cloud Computing, Consolidation, Consumerization, And CIOs (informationweek.com)
• Interop in Advance: Certeon Virtualizes WAN Optimization And Secure Tunnels (informationweek.com)
• Lessons I Learned When My Laptop Was Stolen [Laptops] (lifehacker.com)
• Logicube Now Shipping Total Forensic Solution (eon.businesswire.com)
• EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger [Roundups] (gizmodo.com)

What it takes to keep NYC IT running

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New York City‘s Information Technology infrastructure is a big business.  The Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) Commissioner Carole Post joins Tom this week to talk NYC IT.  For more information on the show, check out the SHOW PAGE. What is the agency’s direction? How are they staying social? As a big user of energy, what steps are being taken to increase computing power and reduce the overall footprint?

That and more, this Sunday at 3pm MST | 6pm EDT.

Our Week In Review starts in the City with details about Mayor Bloomberg‘s announcement of the partnership between CUNY and IBM; we let you in on who wants to tap your texts; and help you get your online identity back if your Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo!, Facebook or Twitter account is hacked.

Related Articles

• Green Plan To Stop NYC Rainwater Runoff (newyork.cbslocal.com)
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• NYC Mayor Bloomberg’s Education Reforms Stumble (npr.org)

Lost Dog No More & More Information Overload

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This week, we’ll have a new Week In Review and follow it with an encore presentation of our “Information Overload” show with Gabe Goldberg.  Check the SHOW PAGE for more details on the show and the Week In Review story links after the show airs on Sunday at 6pm EDT | 3pm MST in Phoenix.  Catch it live on the web or on 1100 KFNX in the Phoenix area.

The site of the week is LostMyDoggie.com. They offer three tiers of service to help you find your lost dog.  For prices of $40, $75 or $115, they will create and mail fliers, make automated phone calls or both, respectively.  That’s a small price to pay for an important member of the family.  We like it so much, we put a link to the service on our site (on the right).

We tweeted it but wanted to remind everyone its time to sign up for CES 2011 in Las Vegas. Save $100 on the total cost if you register before September 1. Do that here.

Don’t forget you can get our shared news throughout the week, along with shows and blog posts delivered to your inbox.

• Show Feed – RSS | Email
• Blog Post Feed – RSS | Email
• Shared News from Google Reader – Web | RSS | Email

We also found a new service from Twitter on NYT.

So, tweet it loud – Tweet

July 11 – CES CEA LineShow – Week In Review

Tom attended the most recent CEA LineShow in NYC and brought back information on some very interesting technology products. 3D TVs, solar iPhone stations, how to dispose of your digital waste in NYC and much, much more await when you listen and check out all the links from the exhibitors we interviewed [LISTEN TO SHOW].

Hope you enjoyed the show. Check back later this week for info on our July 18 show.

One more thing speaking of CES – registration for the 2011 CES is now open.  Start thinking about what you want to see and hear about from CES.

June 21- Week In Review

K.C. Blake gave us a very interesting show on “3D Transitions into the Living Room“. It was a good break from evil economy news to talk about a cool developing home technology. Sign up on the right of the page to get shows in your inbox or favorite RSS reader.

Now, for the stories of the Week In Review:

• MySpace Set To Lay Off 400 Workers- NYTimes- [JUMP]
• Sirius XM Phone App Coming This Week, Say Customer Support- Engadget- [JUMP]
• Legit Websites Face Malware Hits- BBC News- [JUMP]
• Cowboys Stadium Technology Will Give Fans a Sensory Experience-Star Telegraph-[JUMP]
• Bus Rapid Transit- Can It Make It in NYC?- WNYC-[JUMP]

Thanks for stopping by, and join us again this Sunday, June 28, 2009 at 6 pm EDT/ 3 pm MST with our guest Julie Germany.