A must have for anyone who owns both an iPad and an iPhone. Check out the video review here. These things rock! 
Karl Susman, Westside Gadget Guy
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Friday, July 30th, 2010Karl Susman and Kindle 3 Chat
Thursday, July 29th, 2010With news of the new Amazon Kindle 3, Karl takes to the road and fills you in on what you need to know now.
Remember to visit www.westsidegadgetguy.com for the latest.
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TPNR #60 Cover Events Affordably, Over the Top TV
Sunday, June 27th, 2010The 60th episode of the Tech Podcast Round Table was held on June 26th, 2010. We had a great set of topics, including:
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Introducing the TriCaster
Friday, June 18th, 2010Explaining New Media: Special software on regular laptops or dedicated equipment designed for new media production ? A big decision for any content producer. This interview with Newtek’s Phillip Nelson at NAB2010 explores some of the arguments for specialized gear, featuring the Newtek Tricaster. The Tricaster is deployed at many network level productions, yet has a place in much smaller studios or in the field. In one compact box, it provides production switching and effects, local video for large screen monitors, video for broadcast, and encoded video streams for live web distribution.
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In-Memory Computing Changes IT Landscape
Friday, June 4th, 2010Technologies such as virtualization, multi-core processors and cheap memory are changing the IT landscape. This SDRNews interview at the SAP SAPPHIRENow! conference with Kaj van de Loo discusses how this will impact systems in the immediate future. Enhanced data structures and mobile devices change the availability of up to date information. Complete set of interviews at http://bit.ly/b7GyWu Episode SDRN008
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Sonic Beyond Episode #77 – …And Justice for Apple
Sunday, May 30th, 2010In this weeks show…Justice Department is examining Apple tactics in the market for digital music, Is iTunes.com streaming service around the corner?, Zune Pass Price Drop Coming Soon?, Ireland’s main broadband supplier to crackdown on Internet piracy, LimeWire Begs For Forgiveness. Plus EAC (Exact Audio Copy) for your pick of the week.
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TPN Roundtable #59: Stitcher, Green Screens, Free Windows Programs
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010What an amazing roundtable – They just keep getting better and better. This month, we learned about Podcast aggregators for mobile Phones, Green screens and some very useful utilities for Windows. We had some new presenters, too.
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Firestarter Code Day Mobile Apps and Android
Thursday, April 29th, 2010SDRN006 : The Cincinnati .NET User Group (CINNUG) Firestarter conference, where developers for iPhone, Android, and Windows mobile are given identical project specifications, and then present their development process to peers for comment and review. Over 80 people at the Microsoft office in Mason, OH plus up to 75 people on the uStream. The video series will gradually be released over the SDRNews Special Media Feed, and published on the Event Tab at SDRNews.
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Three Ways Modern Design Drops Tower Machine TCO
Friday, April 23rd, 2010If your IT strategy involves bulk purchase of laptops, adding monitors and keyboards as needed for office based tasks, you may be missing advances in modern desktop (tower) machines.
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In this episode of the SDRN Newsroom, Steve St. Amant of Lenovo uses the A63 ThinkVantage series as an example of a modern design focused on life cycle costs. These modern tower machines reduce energy use and speed maintenance tasks for Small and Medium (SMB) business applications.
Starting with AMD processors for affordable performance, Lenovo has designed this series of machines for low thermal loading. This brings surprising benefits in reduction of direct energy use, and reduced fan speeds greatly improve acoustic performance. Lenovo builds in a suite of Administrator Tools that enable one person to manage thousands of tower machines, remotely- restoring, migrating,updating drivers and eventually shredding the data on the hard drive before disposal.
Annual energy cost reduction of these two design elements average $71 per machine per year. And if you are responsible for a school district, regional office or major installation with hundreds of machines in your fleet, these can add up. A less obvious example of design impact comes from tool-less operation – the ability to quickly open up a unit, replace drives, add memory, or change interface cards rapidly. Give tower machines another look at http://lenovo.com/thinkvantage.
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SDR Newsroom: Announcement
Monday, April 12th, 2010For the past five and a half years, my goal has been to stay on top of tech news and bring the best selected content to the Slashdotreview / SDR News audience. It’s time to move to a new level, both personally and technically.
This is the SDR Newsroom – The event, product and personal news coverage channel for SDRNews, with technology, business, regulation products or services that might be on the SDRNewsroom list. Here’s the rundown:
- Who: I will continue as producer and host of SDRNews, adding guest hosts and interviews on topics related to stories in the news.
- What: The format will be presented as a regular video podcast, and include a weekly summary of links and pointers to significant stories of the week. There will be an audio version of the show distributed as well.
- When: Beginning now, (as I travel to the National Association of Broadcasters show (NAB) in Las Vegas).
- Where: SDRNews.com, Techpodcasts.tv, SDRNewsroom.com and lost of other places.
Why: Since the show began, there has been an explosion of news sources for tech news. Starting in 2004 with Slashdot, adding Digg and Reddit, and eventually moved about 70 RSS feeds that served as sources for the show. At the same time, listeners became aware of services like Google Alerts, PopUrls, and automated RSS readers with speech synthesis. Those with in-depth interests could set up custom RSS feeds, and those with general interests have scores of outlets that they can select from.
The recent listener survey confirmed the obvious that if I made major changes to the business model (continuing the original format) and going to a paid service, that listeners would simply meet their needs elsewhere. SDRNews is continuing the advertiser supported model but changing the format and content to identify Selected, in Depth Reports that are not available elsewhere – still within the content outlines that have met the needs of the audience: Technology, Business and Regulation.
I believe that there is a major shift in consumption patterns on the horizon: The proliferation of platforms such as the iPad, Roku, Boxee, WePad, and Chrome OS – in addition to the iPhone, Android and others make video a crucial part of the mix. At the same time, I will continue to provide audio versions of the programming, since many in the audience fit SDRNews into a driving commute or exercise regimen where video is not practical.
This week, there will be NAB coverage. I know that I have benefited from great support from listeners for many years, and and confident that it will continue.
I’m excited at the opportunity, and welcome your comments, support, and suggestions.
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