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TechNet Radio - How Microsoft Does IT: Enabling Information Security through HBI The HBI Information Classification Solution was developed to enable users to classify and protect their sites and shares. October 30th, 2007 Participants: Eric Ostrowski Kai Axford Olav Opedal Participants Descriptions: Eric Ostrowski - Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer Kai Axford - Senior Security Strategist Olav Opedal - Microsoft IT Security Program Manager...[more] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- November 1, 2007 Demand for renewable energy in the U.S. is growing rapidly -- so rapidly, in fact, that supply cannot keep up. Even though renewables only make up around 7 percent of the U.S. electricity supply, growing voluntary markets and new state renewable portfolio standards (RPS) will ensure that clean sources of energy make up a larger part of the nation's energy mix. [More...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechNet Radio - Get Ready for Microsoft Virtualization Technologies Are you ready to evaluate and deploy Microsoft Virtualization Technologies such as Windows Server Virtualization (Viridian), Windows Server Terminal Services? Start your planning cycle right with Microsoft's Assessment and Planning Solution...[more] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 594: Phantom of the audio board Halloween questions abound today: Is Jason in fact horribly disfigured and that's why his face cannot be seen on the pages of CNET? Is Australia foretelling the downfall of the U.S. from 16 hours in the future? Will Google's phone...er...be cool? OK, not every analogy can go on forever, people. That's just scary. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: October 30, 2007 Dave Mitchell, Program Director IBM Software as a Service, returns to talk about new enablement resources for ISVs transitioning to software as a service. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 593: Resist Melissa's siren song There's a new piece of malware that strips for you. Don't give in. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 592: Leopard is the new Vista This is just our way of warning you that we might possibly have been a little harsh in re: a plan by Universal, Warner, and EMI to sell music on, um, flash drives. Because the kids these days think CDs are dead, and--flash drives? Are cool? Anyway. In other news, a little old lady takes a claw hammer to a Comcast customer service office. We do not condone. We only applaud. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 591: Senator sees shadow The signs and portents have arrived, and they point to seven more years of tax-free Net access. And home page e-email. Apparently, that's a thing. Who knew? In other news today, poor Vonage has to pay Verizon $80 million, but Verizon has to pay you $1 million, and that's a little more satisfying. Also, the U.S. continues to kick some serious spam butt. Er, as in, send a lot of it. Sigh. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 590: What's your brain's bandwidth? Would you get a chip implanted that would let you access the Internet from your brain? Of course you would. Otherwise, we couldn't connect! Also today, Microsoft wins the hand of the fair maiden Facebook. Aw, we're havin' a weddin'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- October 25, 2007 The participants and organizers of the Solar Decathlon are working toward one goal: Educate the public about the viability and importance of green building practices. The hundreds of students who built the 20 green houses on the National Mall in Washington, DC are proving that sustainable design and renewable energy are here, they are cost-effective and they will soon transform the building industry. [More...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 589: The mother of all patents OK, so, IBM files an application for the ultimate patent--the one that crushes all other patent wannabes, including trolls and, OK, anyone with a patentable idea. We feel a little dirty for wondering...would that be any worse than the current system? Guest host: Rafe Needleman. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Did you say Mainframe!?": Deploying to the Eclipse Rich Client Platform with help from WebSphere Ron Craig takes a look at how this new version of HATS helps users deploy to the Eclipse Rich Client platform. He also discusses additional development capabilities provided by HATS V7.0. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 588: Touche Tuesday Touche, Tuesday. You have beaten us again! No, actually, it's just that you, dear listeners, who once again prove you're smarter than us. About Canadian copyright law. In other news, the Rockies mistake "crushing influx of fans" for a "massive denial of service attack." That is so cute. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: October 23, 2007 Prolific developerWorks contributor and perpetual tinkerer, Nathan Harrington, talks about some of his recent contrinutions. See links below. Also, dW blogger and tech briefing guru Doug Tidwell audio blogs on the SCA/SDO briefing tour, and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spotlight on IBM software solutions: Watchfire's Mike Weider on web application security Michael Weider, CTO of Watchfire, an IBM company, explains Web appplication attacks and shares a top-10 list to help organizations focus on the most serious Web application security vulnerabilities. He looks at how IT organizations are addressing these exposure points and shares some best practices that have been gleaned from his work with Watchfire. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 587: Xkcd is awesome It's Monday, we're tired, and we can barely keep it together to get through today's morasse of Zune news, Toshiba-box 360 rumors, AT&T downloads you don't want, and weird European copyright-crossover claims. But one fact emerges triumphant from the rubble: Those Xkcd comics? Those rule. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 586: We h8t flash drives This is just our way of warning you that we might possibly have been a little harsh in re: a plan by Universal, Warner, and EMI to sell music on, um, flash drives. Because the kids these days think CDs are dead, and--flash drives? Are cool? Anyway. In other news, a little old lady takes a claw hammer to a Comcast customer service office. We do not condone. We only applaud. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 585: We love you, too After all these years, it only seems fair to tell it like it is. We love you guys, too. Except the creeps who think it's like, super l337 to hack 911 systems and send SWAT teams to the homes of, say, parents with sleeping children who are then handcuffed and detained because of your horrid little prank. You, we do not love. You make us want to call Game Over on our big life simulation. We clear? Cut it out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- October 18, 2007 PV Manufacturers are having a hard time keeping up with the demands of their customers these days. Because companies can't secure all the silicon they need, they are often having a hard time making enough product to meet the needs of the industry. But even though the silicon supply issues are slowing growth, manufacturers are still finding a way to expand their capacity. We'll have a report on how manufacturers are fairing under the silicon shortage. [More...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechNet Radio - Get Ready for Windows Server Virtualization! Hear from Microsoft Consulting Architect, Robert Larson, on the benefits of server virtualization using Windows Server virtualization technologies. Learn also how upcoming Microsoft Virtualization Solution Accelerators, a combination of automated software tools and guidance can help customers and IT consultants quickly assess their existing infrastructure and workloads and better determine which virtualization technologies to deploy and which servers and workloads to virtualize...[more] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 584: Pirate like a monkey It's not your fault you're a pirate. You've just been trained to download songs from illegal BitTorrent sites, sort of like how you can train a helper monkey. In fact, most likely you are a monkey. Logic. In other news, Steve Jobs says you can have your pesky third-party iPhone applications, but not until February. Why February? Logic. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: October 16, 2007 Erica Carmel, Program Director IBM SOA consumability, talks about the new SOA sandbox features on developerWorks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechNet Radio - IIS7 Roadmap and Modules to Come IIS7 offers a great deal of functionality out of the box but the IIS7 team didn't stop there. IIS7 has some great out-of-band feature/modules coming extending the ability of the server. These features/modules include a migration tool from IIS6 to IIS7, FTP7 and Remote Administrant UI for non-Vista and non-Windows Server 2008 clients. Listen in to what you should expect and how you can utilize these additions to IIS7...[more] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 583 - The Durka Durka Show Google unveils its new YouTube antipiracy tool, which those ungrateful media companies instantly pan as not good enough. Apple announces the Leopard release date and upgrade plan, which bloggers pan as not nice enough. And Verizon admits it turned over your phone record data without court orders "hundreds of times," which everyone pans as not cool enough. In fact, not cool at all. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 582 - Robot love Sure Universal Music is taking on iTunes, and the iPod Touch got jailbreaked, but we're more concerned with robot love. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website developerWorks Interviews: Krugle and code search The recent addition of code search functionality on developerWorks is huge. For this podcast, Ken Krugler, co-founder of code search company Krugle, and Laura Merling, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for Krugle, join to talk about how it works and what it means. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 581: The final EULA! Rest easy, friends. You'll never have to agree to another EULA again. We've uncovered one that, with enough wiggle room, could potentially apply to everything you've ever download. Yay? Meanwhile, Tom and Molly debate the merit of the Internet tax ban and WiMax, but it's a happy Friday, and everybody wins. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- October 11, 2007 One of the biggest barriers in front of the solar industry is the complicated way that consumers pay for their systems. Along with the high upfront cost, consumers must deal with state and federal rebates, renewable energy credits, and net metering. Because of the perceived complications associated with paying back a system, people more often opt for the easier solution -- getting their monthly electric bill in the mail. [More...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 580: (MAWV) Mothers against Windows Vista One mother's brave crusade against Windows Vista leads to a dramatic showdown with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Or something slightly less dramatic. Also, AT&T's new terms of service reveal that the company is REALLY sorry about appearing to try to censor free speech. And, all four Beatles are now selling music online--separately. Ahem. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 579: New rule: All music on floppies Could an artsy-fartsy plan to release music on an "almost obsolete format" turn out to be the surefire DRM scheme the RIAA has been waiting for? Wow, we hope not, or we're going to have to dust off some geezer computers. Also, this one juror really hates Jammie Thomas. Like, really. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spotlight on IBM software solutions: The growing importance of enterprise modernization Hayden Lindsey, Rational® vice president for enterprise tools and compilers, defines enterprise modernization and talks about the five key areas of business and IT focus: assets, architecture, skills, processes and tools, and development investments. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: October 9, 2007 Scott Shekerow, editor of the WebSphere Technical Journal, joins to talk about the web-based monthly on developerWorks and highlights some of the content in the most recent issue. Also, Turbo Todd is back audioblogging about Google and DoubleClick. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 578 - XP best OS ever Ok, apparently Microsoft is now back-porting the good parts of Vista (like kernel security and easier product activation) into Windows XP. This is just getting weird -- and a few service packs from now, XP will be the best OS the world has ever seen! Until Google's comes out, that is. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 577: Steve Jobs' pants I realize that the MacBook isn't really Scottish, but that's no reason Steve Jobs couldn't wear a utilikilt at the next MacWorld keynote. We also have some crazy lawsuits to discuss, and some scientists have created artificial life. You know. In their spare time. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 576: One man's burning NanoPants Pants on fire; now that's a headline for you. Too bad the story's your basic lithium-ion battery blah-blah-blah. In bigger news of the day, the RIAA wins the Jammie Thomas case to the tune of $220,000, unless they play nice. Also, rumor mill points to Mac Nano, and Linux boxes are running massive botnets. No, really. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- October 4, 2007 In order to truly wean the U.S. off fossil sources of energy, we'll need to develop as much renewable baseload power as possible. That's where geothermal comes in. At this week's annual geothermal conference in Reno, Nevada, industry leaders are touting geothermal as the best form of clean baseload power. We'll talk with the event organizers and exhibiting companies about the current status and future potential for the geothermal industry here in the U.S. [More...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 575: Reply to all Breaking news: Reply-all epidemic spreads, hits Homeland Security. Nation at risk. Further updates as events warrant. Sports and weather are next, and later tonight, would you store your health records on a Microsoft server? One podcaster says, "not if my life depended on it." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud extra: Interview with Grooveshark CEO Sam Tarantino In this extra special interview edition, we talk with Grooveshark CEO Sam Tarantino. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 574: Ripping is stealing The head of litigation for Sony BMG says ripping CDs is essentially stealing. Well, that makes me wonder if playing CDs is also stealing. At least, playing a CD twice is stealing, right? Where have logic and good sense gone? Meanwhile, we celebrate the launch of new Zunes and some cool features in the Microsoft players, as well as coming tweaks to the Zune store. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Did you say Mainframe!?": Connecting core applications in a highly available, scalable, and secure way Dermot Flaherty talks about one of the ways to connect core applications hosted on IBM System z (CICS applications, for example), to other distributed applications. He also explores why many organizations are under increasing pressure to do this, and he discusses one solution: IBM WebSphere® MQ for z/OS. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: October 2, 2007 This time we look at the new Krugle-powered code search feature on developerWorks. Laura Merling of Krugle and developerWorks' David Salinas join to talk about how it works and what it means for users of developerWorks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 573: Hard out there for a PMP It's hard to find just the right PMP. Auditioning candidates, trying them out on the street, looking for something that won't dole out tons of abuse. Maybe the Zune 2 can land this coveted position. In other news today, a PS3 price cut is apparently coming, Joost is open to all, and free still doesn't pay. Still. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechNet Radio - What's in Microsoft's next web server and what it took to build it Microsoft has made some huge investments in its web platform starting with Internet Information Services 7 (IIS7). Bill Staples has been the driving force behind the remarkable changes in IIS7. We'll listen in to what it takes to redesign a world class web server...[more] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 572: AT&T, your world, censored AT&T has changed its terms of service to say it can cancel your service if you, basically, say bad things about the company. So, you can consider Episode 572 our official attempt to get ourselves shut off. Meanwhile, Microsoft puts Office online in a limited beta. And we mean "limited." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 571: From the Podcast Expo Luckily, the folks at Doubletree didn't mind us setting up our podcast studio in the front lobby. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- September 28, 2007 It's been another record setting year for the solar industry and the Solar Power conference. In this program, we'll discuss the key take aways from the conference with SEPA and SEIA, examine the emergence of the thin film market in the U.S. and look at other major trends from the clean tech reporter's perspective in our reporter roundtable. Inside Renewable Energy offers the latest in renewable energy news and information. [More...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 570 - Wiki laws are wiki cool In New Zealand, YOU write the laws (but in Russia, the law write you!). Meanwhile, New Zealand is putting one of its laws up on a wiki for the public to edit. Harmless and organized method for gathering public comment, or harbinger of a complete breakdown of worldwide democracy? You decide. Also, today, Verizon flip-flops on censoring texting short-codes, and Verizon may be forcing the FCC to flip-flop on its 700Mhz open-spectrum requirement. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Solar Power 2007 Update -- Wednesday In an interview with Inside Renewable Energy, Julia Hamm, Executive Director of the Solar Electric Power Association and Scott Hennessey, Manager of Policy and Research at the Solar Energy Industries Association talk about today’s CEO panel, utility support of solar and the success of Tuesday’s public night.. [More...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 569: Queen Elizabeth is a hot elf chick A Chinese MMORPG refuses to allow male players to play as female characters, which is a) ridiculous, and b) sparked Tom to confess that he likes to play "Civilization" as Queen Elizabeth. And here I thought it was all about the hot elf chicks. Anyway, iPhone unlocks may break the law, but Apple swears they won't break your iPhone ... er, on purpose. And Microsoft gets the Halo 3 launch right, but not the packaging. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marketing in the Technology Revolution Want to keep up with the latest marketing with new media technology? Podcasting, webcasting, blogging, online video, social networking...is it confusing? This program will help sort it out with special guest and global marketing expert, Larry Weber, Chairman and Founder of W2 Group, Inc., Co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange. Weber and his company help global brands and emerging companies harness social media strategies to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Solar Power 2007 Update Julia Hamm, Executive Director of the Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) and Noah Kaye, Director of Public Affairs for the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) give us an update on the opening day of Solar Power 2007. [More...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website developerWorks Interviews: Massive data mining and the resurgent mainframe Paul Cronan drives the ERP curriculum, and David Douglas is a university professor in information systems, both at the University of Arkansas, Walton School of Business. In this 18-minute talk, Cronan and Douglas talk about the resurgence of mainframe computing, its effect on academic curricula, and the massive data-mining system they are building to share with faculty and students at other institutions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: September 25, 2007 Developers Nick Chase and Keith Stickland join to talk about a new three part tutorial series they have co-authored on building a community Web site of OpenLaszlo animations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechNet Radio - System Center Configuration Manager 2007: Deployment In this episode of TechNet Radio, we discuss System Center Configuration Manager 2007 deployment. What's changed? Learn about internet based Client Management. We also discuss deployment from existing SMS 2003 and recommend some upgrade strategies. September 25th, 2007 Participants:..[more] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 568: I'll break your phone! Why do you have to be so mean, Apple? The company issued a statement Monday saying its next firmware update will likely break unlocked iPhones. That's just mean. You know Apple doesn't have to do it this way, and unlocking is within your rights. Meanwhile there's a new Zune patent, and Google wants you to live in its virtual world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 568: Happy Halo 3 Eve! Get your cookies and milk ready ... you'll need them for standing in line. Halo 3 comes out at midnight tonight, and thanks to Shalin, I'll be spending the next three weeks soldering and sewing a tiny little Master Chief Halloween costume. Plus: who you tryin' to fool with that EULA, Hulu? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 566 - I'm gonna .su you ICANN is having a bit of trouble with the su top-level domain. Seems they want to retire it, what with the dissolution of the USSR and all. But their " order " to dump the domain has actually increased sales of su websites. The Motherland lives on! Also today: "Halo 3" leaks, triggering massive spoiler alerts, and what you don't know about Bluetooth can snarf you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- September 20, 2007 Under the leadership of Mayor Will Wynn, Austin, Texas is working to become a destination for renewable energy companies and make itself the "clean energy capital of the world." It's going to take a lot of serious action for Austin to realize that goal, but officials there believe that they are on the right track. Set the goals, create the right incentives and the industry will flourish, says Joel Serface, Director of Austin's Clean Energy Incubator. [More...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 565: NBC ruins free NBC has introduced a free, ad-supported Web site where you can download some of its shows after they air on television. See, we thought we wanted that. But the shows expire a week after they air, they come wrapped in an NBC-specific player, they don't work on portable devices, and the service is, for now, Windows-only. Umm...fail. In other news, Southwest Airlines dumps the cattle call, Web rises to the challenge. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spotlight on IBM software solutions: Performance testing portal applications Get a quick overview of the special demands of performance testing in a portal environment and how IBM Rational Performance Tester can help. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: September 18, 2007 Bobby Woolf, dW blogger and member of the IBM® Software Services for WebSphere® consultanting team, talks about his new book, Exploring IBM SOA Technology and Practice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 564: Stop saying Squircle! Stop the presses: there's new news from the Zune camp! New Zunes dropping October 16! Or, you know, you could continue to drool over all things Apple, even though they've announced that they'll actively block iPhone unlocking efforts and they'll be making you re-purchase any of your iPod games if you buy a new Nano or iPod Classic. Your choice. Also: Star Wars comes to the Wii. Wii-saber! W00t! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 563: AMD's three-legged chip If your dog loses a leg, you don't take him out and shoot him, do you? Neither does AMD. In a move that's both clever and ecofriendly, AMD has decided that quad-cores with a single blown core can be packaged and resold as triple-core chips. Genius! Also today, Facebook gets all Google, the New York Times sees the power of search, and software goes toe-to-toe with Web apps. Again. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechNet Radio - System Center Configuration Manager 2007: Deployment In this episode of TechNet Radio, we discuss System Center Configuration Manager 2007 deployment. What's changed? Learn about internet based Client Management. We also discuss deployment from existing SMS 2003 and recommend some upgrade strategies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 562: Mash will save every one of us Yahoo, ever on the cutting edge with hip new ideas and clever, totally not overused naming concepts, has just introduced a new social networking service, called Mash! Finally! And wow, will it do cool things, like let you create a profile and add applications to that profile and get a little feed of current happenings on the...oh, for crying out loud. You know what's cool? Nokia at work on a standardized removable flash memory format. That, we actually NEED. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Did you say Mainframe!?": TXSeries like you have never seen it before — The next generation of distributed CICS Wen Lu talks about IBM TXSeries, the version of IBM CICS for distributed platforms. Wen also discusses why TXSeries® is of interest to mainframe CICS users — in particular, how they can use TXSeries to test newly developed mainframe applications by running them on a desktop machine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Did you say Mainframe!?": Using IBM discovery tools to understand existing and composite applications Daniel Moul talks about how IBM discovery tools, such as IBM WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer and Asset Transformation Workbench, help users discover and understand mainframe applications and composite applications, (applications with components on both the mainframe and distributed platforms). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 561: Skip an ad, go to jail We've already seen lawsuits over skipping commercials on television via VCRs and DVRs. Is the humble pop-up blocker next? Legal experts say, "almost certainly." Sigh. Meanwhile, in other news about overreaching, California says teens can't have cell phones, pagers, or laptops in cars, but everyone else can. Oh, and Google is signing on to fund a $30 million prize to the moon! We won't call it Moon 2.0, but they will. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 560: Does my kilogram look fat? The standard kilogram apparently has lost a few micrograms of weight. Not such a bad thing I suppose, but it makes all the other kilograms look fat. Also fair use makes us trillions of dollars a year, so why don't I ever see any of it? I hear fair use has a posse. Maybe they have all the money. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- September 13, 2007 The Clean Tech Revolution is upon us and it's going to change almost everything we do and consume. It's also going to make many people a lot of money.Clint Wilder, Co-author of the new book The Clean Tech Revolution, joins us to talk about the countless economic opportunities this revolution is creating for companies, investors, and consumers. [More...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 559: A darkness descends Don't worry, Tom and I are actually feeling quite chipper today. We're referring to the darkness of Vista's new antipiracy technique, the "Black Screen of Death." Or ARE we? Hold those e-mails; listen first. We're also hoping the darkness of restrictive cell phone carrier networks will soon be listed by new mobile P2P technology in testing. And an appeals court issues a satellite TV piracy decision that's downright luminary. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 558: How to turn off an iPhone Apparently, turning off an iPhone isn't as easy as, um, pressing the power button. But could it be as easy as HTC teaming up with Google for the long-awaited, hotly rumored gPhone? That's the word from one HTC "insider" via ... well, via some blog. We'll see. Also: porn takes on piracy, and a third HD DVD format proves potentially attractive. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechNet Radio - Learn about System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Currently in Beta 2, and set to release later this year, System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 combines the best aspects of continuous data protection (CDP) and traditional tape backup to provide a complete data protection solution using disk and tape. DPM is designed to protect Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL Server, SharePoint Services, as well as most Windows Server and Windows desktop environments...[more] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website developerWorks Interviews: developerWorks technical briefings in Second Life developerWorks recently held a technical briefing on Web 2.0 in the virtual world Second Life. Anita Mathur (IBM developer strategist), Fred Gutierrez (Manager of developerWorks Technical Marketing), and Rawn Shah (developerWorks Community Program manager) talk about the motivation to expand the developerWorks Live! technical briefings into virtual worlds. They share their thoughts on the appeal of Second Life to software developers and review some of the things they learned from the first ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: September 11, 2007 Dan Jemiolo, Advisory Software Engineer on IBM's Project Zero team, offers practical advice for managing the database requirements of your Web 2.0 components. And Bobby Woolf audioblogs about the decline of the expert. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 557 - One Linux chaser please (urp) All that Apple talk giving you upset? Soothe yourself with a nice, eco-friendly Linux story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- September 6, 2007 The European and U.S. wood pellet industries have grown in opposite directions over the years. While the Europen industry is based mostly on larger centralized wood pellet boilers, the U.S. market is based primarily on smaller residential wood pellet stoves. Steve Walker, President of New England Wood Pellet, tells us about how the U.S. and European markets are changing and what that means for his business. [More...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 554: iPod Touch for president Apple unleashes a whole slew of new iPod gadgetry just in time for the holidays. Meanwhile, Tom dials in from an old phonograph machine, and Jasmine France gives her insight into the announcement. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 552: Apple's new luggable Molly's amazed by Steven Jobs Softcon keynote, while Tom is taken with a new 1200 baud modem. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud Extra: iTunes dropping NBC?! Just when you thought NBC was calling the shots, Apple comes along and says it will not carry any of the fall season! As they say, "ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 551: NBC = Not Being Cool NBC is not being cool in several ways today. First, they apparently tried to get Apple to let them charge $4.99 per episode for TV show downloads on iTunes--not cool. Then, when Apple wouldn't cave, they pulled all of their shows off iTunes starting in December--not cool. And they're going to try to get you to buy them from their new site, Hulu, which might be cool someday, but it's not yet. Oh, and they're probably going to be really, really expensive there. Say it with me now: not cool. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- August 30, 2007 Since Dr. Zhengrong Shi founded the Chinese solar PV module manufacturer Suntech Power in 2001, the company has seen exponential growth. In just five years, Suntech has become the second largest solar manufacturer in the world, with about 325 MW of output expected this year. Dr. Shi joins us this week to talk about why Suntech keeps its manufacturing facilities in China, the implications for ending the silicon shortage, his outlook for the PV cost curve and where he believes the Chinese an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: August 28, 2007 Akmal Chaudhri, a senior IT specialist with the IBM Developer Skills Program, talks about building the next generation of database applications, and about a developerWorks LIVE! technical briefing available on the subject. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website developerWorks Interviews: Taking Web 2.0 into the enterprise David Barnes (IBM Web 2.0 evangelist), Martha Mealy (Lotus marketing), and Lauren Cooney (IBM CTO Office for Information Management), talk about topics they cover at the developerWorks Live! technical briefing titled "Web 2.0 goes to work." Application creation with the alphaWorks mashup-maker QEDWiki, social collaboration in the workplace, and Info 2.0 are covered. If you can't attend one of the upcoming events, this is a good way to get a taste of the topics and some ideas on where to go ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Did you say Mainframe!?": WebSphere Extended Deployment for z/OS Snehal Antani looks at how customers are using IBM WebSphere Extended Deployment for z/OS V6.1 (XD z/OS). He also discusses the considerable benefits the product delivers and the possible areas for future enhancement. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Did you say Mainframe!?": An introduction to z/TPF Bill Supon talks about IBM Transaction Processing Facility products — IBM's unparalleled high-end, high-volume operating systems and transaction processors. As well as TPF, Bill looks at z/TPF — the latest version of the TPF system, enhanced to include many state-of-the-art technologies, including a 64-bit architecture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechNet Radio - How Microsoft IT Uses SQL Server 2005 to Power a Global Forensic Data Security Tool SQL Server 2005 powers a 27 TB data management system called ICE 3.0 that gathers forensic data from more than 85 Microsoft corporate proxy servers into a single database. The ongoing work of forensics engineers, such as query activities and analysis, is not interrupted by event processing or database loading. August 28th, 2007 Participants:..[more] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- August 23, 2007 One of the biggest barriers in front of the hydrogen industry is that of building a complicated infrastructure for producing, shipping, storing and consuming hydrogen for fuel. But what if we could bypass all that and create a distributed system in which consumers produce their own fuel without worrying about filling and changing large tanks filled with hydrogen? Purdue University Professor Jerry Woodall believes we can do just that. We'll talk with Jerry about his potentially groundbreaki ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 543 - Can you spare $4.6 billion? The FCC spectrum auction is set and Google's refunding your money for Google video. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechNet Radio - Windows Branch Office Matt Hester talks with Patrick Hevesi about Branch Office. They discuss the five main scenarios all branch offices face, and how Microsoft's Branch Office offerings address these challenges. Windows Server Virtualizaion, Componentization and Security are all discussed. August 21st, 2007 Participants:..[more] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: August 21, 2007 IBM Web 2.0 evangelist Dave Barnes talks about themes from a new developerWorks LIVE! technical briefing, Web 2.0 Goes To Work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website developerWorks Interviews: Wired's Chris Anderson on The Long Tail In this 19-minute podcast, Wired magazine's Chris Anderson talks about the fun of tracking technology trends and the ideas detailed in his most recent book, The Long Tail: Why the future of business is in selling more of less. He talks about how Web-based digital media is blowing up the old scarcity market model that limited consumer choice and market access for the creators of product, and lists some essentials for establishing a potentially great Long Tail business. He also gives a look a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 542 - Internet goes kabloooey We get under the hood of the Internet and find out if it will really crash. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 541: Dodos in Denmark No, I'm not insulting the Danish. The great 1980s band Dodo and the Dodos won a court case against Sony BMG. Plus, guest host Caroline McCarthy joins in to help us speculate on just how many people are actually responsible for piracy. The power company? The bands themselves being so darned good? Could be. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 540: Bloggers are monkeys? Brazilian newspaper compares bloggers to monkeys to get attention; Molly doesn't care. British ISPs ask for a two-tiered network; U.K. regulatory body doesn't care. Limewire goes legit with DRM-free music sales from no major labels whatsoever. No one cares. Skype is down!? We care, we care! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- August 16, 2007 For six years, the proposed offshore Cape Wind farm has faced a tough battle waged by a group of residents living on the Nantucket Sound. Journalist and author Wendy Williams has written a book about the project's history titled, Cape Wind: Money, Celebrity, Class, Politics and the Battle for Our Energy Future on Nantucket Sound. [More...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 539: Humanity's runtime error We're feeling very existential today, because we might not actually exist. Is that a contradiction in terms? I guess it doesn't really matter. None of it does. Well, either that or it really matters, because we survive only as long as we're interesting to our posthuman ancestor overlords. You'll see. In other news, the RIAA stinks in any universe, real or imagined. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 538: Leo Laporte banned from BOL It was all going so well. Leo was our guest for the day, we were chatting happily about the dangers of batteries, unlocked iPhones, AT&T rampantly censoring political speech in musical performances, and whether dogs can turn into zombies. And then--well, everything just went so horribly awry. Listen for yourself. It's a tragedy in the making. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechNet Radio - Microsoft August 2007 Security Bulletin Today on TechNet Radio we have our August 2007 Security Bulletin. Also, Bryan Von Axelson talks with Caleb Sima of SPI Dynamics about the importance of secure code. They cover how secure code is the backbone of a secure environment, and also discuss ways we can check to verify that code we are using, especially in our online applications, is secure...[more] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spotlight on IBM software solutions: Architecting for SOA management IBM SOA Management's Cristiane Hilkner talks about preparing for manageability in an SOA environment and how IBM can help. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: August 14, 2007 Software engineer and developerWorks contributor Jack Herrginton talks about his article on developing for the iPhone using PHP and XML. Also, emerging technologies blogger Christopher Perrien shares some thoughts on the avalanche of internet video. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 537: Google kills your video Are you one of the millions of people who still need an object lesson in why DRM sucks? How about this: Google is nuking all the videos you bought or rented from Google Video, because they're exiting the for-pay video business altogether. As of August 15, they won't work anymore. That's what happens when you "buy" something that content owners don't believe you should or can actually "own." Are we all clear now? OK, good. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 531: Censor my face Congress is asking the FCC to apply the V-chip to everything. That pretty much means the Internet, but where does it end? Will I have to install a V-chip on my face? Also, Google expands its empire by getting into the phone market. Where will it end? With armed robots, my friends. Armed robots. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechNet Radio - Internet Information Services 7.0 in Windows Server 2008 Provide Learn about some of the new benefits and features in Internet Information Services 7.0 on Windows Server 2008 as experienced during the deployment of IIS 7.0 as the Web and application platform for Microsoft.com. Internet Information Services 7.0 in Windows Server 2008 provides management, security, performance and extensibility improvements when Windows Server 2008 is deployed to host and manage applications and services that run on the server and/or over the Web. July 31st, 2007 Participa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 530: Operation Tangled Web? Apparently law enforcement careers are as close as you can get to superhero living. That's the only explanation for why a raid targeting mass production of game console mod chips would be called "Operation Tangled Web." Oh, and there was a huge raid targeting mass production of game console mod chips, so hack your own consoles, you lazy bums. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- August 2, 2007 Steven Chalk, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Renewable Energy at the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy, talks about the government's role in developing and deploying clean energy technologies. While the budget for renewable energy is small compared to other programs, says Chalk, the amount of private capital moving into the sector is what's really driving the industries. [More...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 529: Send us to space With Molly gone, we actually had three people who would definitely go to space on today's podcast. Jason Howell, Bonnie Cha, and myself all would be willing to ride a rocket. Now we just need a rocket. But we won't have much money left after we bid on the 700 MHz spectrum, which will be partially open, so why wouldn't we want it? Outside of the need for billions of dollars to run. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 528: Mitt Romney hates snowmen Is a YouTube video with a talking snowman an unseemly way to go about the democratic process? Apparently it is, per Mr. Romney. He and Rudy Giuliani have "scheduling conflicts" with the Republican version of the CNN-YouTube debate, and Romney says the snowman thing is just too silly. Sorry, guys, democracy is on the Internet now. Get with the times. Hey, you can also download songs to your AT&T cell phones now! Oh, no, sorry, not the iPhone. Didn't mean to get you all excited. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- July 19, 2007 One of North America's largest unions is trying to organize solar installers in California, saying that all installers should be certified electricians. But Sue Kateley, Executive Director of the California Solar Energy Industries Association (CALSEIA), says that installers have different skills from traditional electricians and should therefore be licensed differently. More importantly, says Kateley, there could be negative economic implications for unionizing the industry. Also in the pod ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: July 31, 2007 Martin Streicher, Editor of Linux Magazine and regular developerWorks contributor, talks about his new article on custom search engines using PHP. Blogger Turbo Todd Watson goes off on email addiction. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spotlight on IBM software solutions: What is WebSphere Integration Developer? In this 10-minute podcast, Bill Lawton, the IBM product manager for Business Integration Portfolio Tools, introduces WebSphere Integration Developer touching on the required developer skills, the place WebSphere Integration Developer holds in the IBM middleware portfolio, and enhancements in recent releases. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 527: Just the pants, ma'am What's a more serious threat to national security than BitTorrent? Well, it's either Microsoft or pants, depending on whom you believe (I suggest you believe neither). Also, HD DVD takes the low road -- the low price road, that is -- and Google is for sure, for realsies, no foolin' going to start filtering copyrighted content off of YouTube any day now. For serious this time. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 524: We're totally in the dark here Well, OK--we were totally in the dark Tuesday during a rolling power outage in San Francisco that took out roughly half the Internet. But did we get to go home early? No! In other news (which we were here reading all afternoon), AllOfMP3's head could be headed for jail, Facebook is headed to court, and Congress is headed to the land of lunacy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 523: Could YouTube fix democracy? If Monday night's Democratic presidential debate is any indication, it actually could! There were, like, concise and hard-hitting questions and, um, they came from the Internets. Weird! In other news, Acer's chief trashes Vista hard-core; and universities almost become slaves to the RIAA and MPAA, then win a reprieve at the last second. Phew! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 161: Darfur Remote Sensing, iLimb, Nigerian Mobiles, and Serious Cell Bling On this week's podcast, Laika Laika has been Found Found. Thanks Evan! Also, we talk remote sensing in Darfur, and find out about a new high-tech prosthetic hand. Then, we're off to Nigeria to hear about cell phone coverage, or lack thereof. And last stop - cell phone bling. Got a spare 10,000 dollars? Try a Vertu. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- July 26, 2007 Increased worldwide demand for wind energy has driven up the prices for commodities such as steel, copper and concrete and caused a shortage of turbines. As a result, project costs have risen as much as 50% over the last two years. Despite this significant cost increase, the industry is thriving and gaining acceptance by utilities, governments and citizens. We’ve got a special report on the status of the wind industry. Also in the podcast:...[More] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: July 24, 2007 John Feller, Manager of the IBM Emerging Technologies Development Team, talks about mashups and the related developerWorks topic space. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website developerWorks Interviews: IBM Business Mashup Challenge winners Kenny Spade, Mark Madsen, Yuval Tarsi, and Renat Khasanshyn discuss mashups they created at Mashup Camp 4 in Silicon Valley and talk about QEDWiki and other mashup builders. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechNet Radio - Microsoft Debuts Windows Vista Hardware Assessment 2.0 Windows Vista Hardware Assessment 2.0 is now available for download. This popular Windows Vista deployment tool offers IT professionals a quick way to assess their existing computers' readiness for Windows Vista in terms of hardware and device compatibility. The new version provides selective inventory, enhanced scalability for larger corporate networks and assessment for Office 2007...[more] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 522: Ski Utah, Hack Nevada As state mottos go, it's not the best we've heard, but that's what Nevada gets for not only failing to reset the password for the governor's e-mail account, but posting it on the Internet! How embarrassing. That and a pickle barrel's worth of new iPhone news, including a security flaw that seems to have some actual teeth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 512: iPhone Liberation Front The race to unlock the iPhone has truly begun, but what we really want is for someone to let us use the T-Mobile SIM card with the iPhone! Yeah, probably not going to happen, but we can dream! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 511: Rough day for Microsoft Microsoft is not having the best week--it's footing a $1 billion bill for extended warranties on the Xbox 360. But at the same time, it fell just short of its shipping goals for the console. Chin up, Microsoft! You could be Sony. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Not Another Tech Podcast: EP-72 Episode 72: Bryan is back for good, Camping, High School Stories/ Crazy Teachers, Small girl disemboweled in pool, crazy no armed freak denied mcdonalds, we test bryan with the theme song game (for the last time, I promise).[...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechNet Radio - Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance On today's TechNet Radio, we discuss Using Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) to make Windows enterprise desktops much easier to control and manage, and make IT much more responsive to end-user and overall business needs, while driving down the cost of desktop Total Cost of Ownership. We also talk with Edwin Yuen about System Center Virtual Machine Manager. System Center Virtual Machine Manager provides centralized administration of virtual machine infrastructure and enables increas ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 510: China unicorn? Truly, the best way to convince people to use your service is with an ice-cold 12-pack of beer, right? At least, that's what two competing mobile phone companies in China think. Oh, and it's actually "Unicom," not "unicorn," but that's what you'll be seeing after all that beer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- July 5, 2007 Americans who belong to automobile clubs like AAA may be surprised to know that their membership fees don't always go toward the services advertised. Instead, many auto clubs use some of that money to lobby against stricter emissions standards, higher fuel economy standards and, in some cases, bicycle lanes. Mitch Rofsky, President of the Better World Club, joins us to talk about how his company is competing with other auto clubs through a mix of activism and greener alternative services. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: July 03, 2007 This week on developerWorks: July 03, 2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spotlight on IBM software solutions: SOA governance, Part 3 Sandy Poi, a strategy consultant for organizational change with IBM Business Services, talks about why SOA governance is important to SOA implementation, touches on key implementation challenges, and discusses IBM capabilities in SOA governance and organizational change. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spotlight on IBM software solutions: SOA governance, Part 2 Sunil Murthy, Product Manager IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR), explains what WSRR does, and talks about the business value as well as primary areas where customers have incorporated WSRR into their SOA needs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spotlight on IBM software solutions: SOA governance, Part 1 Gil Long, an IBM Distinguished Engineer and SOA Governance Integration Lead, talks about SOA governance, the IBM SOA governance model and the ways that IBM assists clients with SOA governance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 509: A rose by any other name AllofMP3.com has finally closed its doors, but never fear! Another site has magically appeared to fulfill your quasilegal music needs. You don't even need a new log-in name! Now that's convenience. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 508: RoboRoomba The future is now, and it's full of tiny robots on wheels packing 50,000 volts. That doesn't sound dangerous or anything! Oh, and more iPhone coverage too, naturally. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 158: ICANN and IDNs, Zimbabwe Ecommerce, and Happy Birthday ATM! As promised, Tech Podcast 158 features absolutely nothing about either Paris Hilton or the iPhone. Instead, we delve into the intricacies of Internationalized Domain Names. Non-speakers of English are pushing ICANN, the California non-profit responsible for, well, the domain name system, among other things. They want to be able to enter URLs in scripts other than ASCII. Also, Zimbabweans are finding it hard to buy essential goods, because of rampant inflation. Now, websites are springing up ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Not Another Tech Podcast: EP-71 Episode 71: Catching up with Bryan (the railroad tycoon), Bryan got suspended from softball, Chris Benoit is a crazy wacko, Paris out of jail (that bitch), Mufti says no more female circumcision, Greg gets high off of dead people farts, Hot dog eating champ has “sprankton”, we’re really drunk and sing songs.[...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 507: I can't buy an iPhone because... I have to wax my hot yak, study my frozen goldfish, and move my sneaky hamster. I know, excuses, excuses. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- June 28, 2007 As the largest operator of landfills in the U.S., Waste Management (WM) sees a lot of potential to generate renewable electricity. When waste material in landfills decomposes, methane and carbon dioxide are released. While most landfills burn that gas off, WM uses it to run turbines and create electricity at 103 of its 281 facilities. The company announced on Wednesday that it will create 60 more landfill gas to energy facilities over the next five years, bringing the company's total electr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 506: You down with FTC? Yeah you know me! According to Tom, it's better to wait and see if anyone takes advantage of Net neutrality before we make any legislation. Also, Apple has put the kibosh on your eBay scheme for the iPhone! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Special from RSDC 2007: Rational CTO Martin Nally developerWorks editor-in-chief Michael O'Connell talks with IBM Fellow and CTO of Rational, Martin Nally, about primary messages at RSDC 2007. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Special from RSDC 2007: Rational Distinguished Engineer Eric Gamma developerWorks editor-in-chief Michael O'Connell talks with Rational Distinguished Engineer and Jazz Project co-leader Eric Gamma. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 505: 2008's hot fashion? WiiWare! When we first heard about WiiWare, we were sure it was a hip, new Wii-inspired fashion statement. As it turns out, it's actually a new software development tool for the Nintendo Wii. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 504: Shhh! Day of silence In protest of the new fees from the Copyright Royalty Board, Web radio is having a day of silence. Obviously, we don't fall into that category, but if you don’t want to listen today, we'll understand. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: June 26, 2007 IBMer and J2EE programmer Paul Reiners talks about algorithmic music compostition and the new developerWorks space on the topic. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechNet Radio - How Microsoft Does IT: The Future of Server Virtualization Building on the success of leveraging Virtual Server 2005 R2 for Microsoft IT's Virtual Server Utility, Microsoft looks forward to leveraging Windows Server's virtualization feature to drive additional value and move virtual machines as the commodity data center platform offering. June 26th, 2007 Participants: Eric Ostrowski Kevin Remde Devin Murray Participants Descriptions: Eric Ostrowski - Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer Kevin Remde - IT Pro Evangelist Devin Murray - Microsoft ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 503: I declare a brain war Someday, in the not-to-distant future, the battle for the remote control will reach a new level of sophistication! Will your brain be ready? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 157: Science and Poverty, Science and Islam, Cyberwar!, and Manhunt 2 Today's podcast is half tech, half science. We'll hear about some MIT researchers who are using scientific methods to help alleviate poverty. Then, a podcast exclusive interview about how science is, and isn't, practiced in the Islamic world. Then, we'll talk about the prospects of cyberwar: who can wage it, and why? And we'll finish with a story about a new video game that's getting bad reviews from British and Irish authorities. Have a great weekend! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 502 - Big hands, small iPhone Apple is being accused of using models with enormous hands to make the iPhone look smaller. Gizmodo has a pretty good comparison of two photos that make it look as if large-handed people may be in the employ of Steve Jobs. In other news, you can now burn your trash for power. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Not Another Tech Podcast: EP-70 Episode 70: Evil Greg’s new Job, TMNT, Mutagin, Age progressed images and missing children, 24 hour McDonald’s staff fired for midnight orgies, McDonald’s characters, Favorite classic video games, Movies not to see, Marvel Movies, Holocaust theme park, Man who called 911 gets tasered (with reenactment), Couple ties cat to train track, 13 year old bangs teacher and her daughter (with reenactment).[...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 501 - The N95 will woo you, Wafe Rafe just doesn't understand. He thinks the Nokia N95 phone is just as ridiculously priced as the iPhone. That's because he hasn't touched one. When he does, it will woo him over to our side--then he will understand. Also, we get into the whole violent video games debate again regarding "Manhunt". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 500 - 500 years of Buzz Out Loud For the 500th episode of Buzz Out Loud, we celebrate 500 years of the podcast. Has it really been that long? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- June 22, 2007 Here's an audio postcard from the Wall Street Renewable Energy Finance Forum held in New York City this past week. The forum brought together policy makers, financiers and project developers to discuss current trends and future projections for investment opportunities in the renewable energy industries. The forum was hosted by Euromoney and the American Council On Renewable Energy. Inside Renewable Energy offers the latest in renewable energy news and information. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 499 - Buyout rumor Wednesday Google and Apple? Yahoo and MySpace? The world is going topsy-turvy with buyout rumor news! Even if none of it ever comes true, it's fun to think of a world where it does. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: June 19, 2007 Application architect Jeff Miller talks about his new tutorial on made-to-order content with Yahoo Pipes. Blogger-of-the-week Doug Tidwell does some fence-mending over comments he made at RSDC 2007 last week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website developerWorks Interviews: Dave Newbold on the IBM 2010 CIO Outlook Chair of the IBM CIO Technology team talks about trends with business impact now, including inhibitors, and solutions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechNet Radio - Review of Server Management in Windows Server 2008 Listen in as Andrew Mason, Principle Program Manager for Server Core, Jeffrey Snover, Architect for PowerShell and Eduardo Melo, Program Manager for Server Manager discuss the role of Server Management in Windows Server 2008. Each will discuss briefly some of the new features of Server Core, PowerShell and Sever Manager and how each role empowers the Windows Server 2008 administrator...[more] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 498: 800-pound guerrillas Yes, it's going to be one of those days. We discuss Yahoo, gorillas, guerrillas, secret DSL plans, and the oldest EULA we've ever seen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 156: Yahoo in China, Cyberwar, Hunting Dirty Bombs, and Blogging World War I. Techpodcast 156: For our podcast today, we’ll take a look at two human rights related measures considered by Yahoo shareholders this week. Also, is China becoming the biggest threat in cyberspace? And, we’ll go on a hunt for dirty nukes in the Caucasus Mountains in Georgia. We’ll finish up with a story about a gentleman who is using a blog to publish his grandfather’s letters home from the trenches in World War I. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 497: Europe snubs Apple Hah! Where's your 3G iPhone now, Europe? Apple is having a hard time finding a carrier for the iPhone across the pond. Fortunately for them, they have a better chance of getting the phone unlocked. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buzz Out Loud 496: PS3 price drop coming? The PS3 might finally get a price drop, but does that mean it will catch on in a big way in time for the holiday season? I doubt it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Special from RSDC 2007: Rational VP Scott Hebner Rational VP of Marketing and Strategy and RSDC 2007 master of ceremonies, Scott Hebner, chats with Michael O'Connell about conference highlights, the boom in attendance, the leap forward that is Jazz, and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Special from RSDC 2007: Rational GM Danny Sabbah Danny Sabbah talks Jazz with developerWorks' Michael O'Connell during a stroll between appointments. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Special from RSDC 2007: IT analyst Melinda Ballou IDC's Melinda Ballou paused at RSDC 2007 to talk with developerWorks Michael O'Connell about trends in IT and software development. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Special from RSDC 2007: Rational VP Lee Nackman Lee Nackman, Rational VP Product Development and Customer Support talks with developerWorks' Michael O'Connell about the Rational Software Development Conference 2007, highlights from Monday, the big Jazz announcement, and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Not Another Tech Podcast: EP-69 Episode 69: Pre-show, Chewie impressions, hillarious random chatter, Joe from NATP is in the studio, Paris back in jail, Paris’ secrets, Field of Dreams 2, Joe is a Computer, I look like Depp?, Mr. Wizard dies, Making our own soundboard, Tiny Tim is a CREEP, Real Ninja Arrested, Dolphin harassing, College days.[...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- June 14, 2007 Over the last decade, as fears over the reliability and cost of wind power have proven overblown or unfounded, utilities have begun to generate more electricity from wind in their service areas. In the last few years, some utilities have fully embraced the renewable resource because of customer demand for cleaner energy...[More] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 06/13/07 - How to get an iPhone We have some tips today for securing an iPhone of your very own, just like Walt Mossberg did! Except he got his from Apple, weeks before the rest of us. Lucky. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 06/12/07 - Of U-Hauls and glass houses Google is up in arms over the search features in Windows Vista, saying that it's anticompetitive and difficult to turn off. We wonder if Google should be careful about talking too much about monopolies--you know what happens when you talk too much, don't ya? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechNet Radio - Direct from Tech Ed 2007 Part Two This week on Tech Net Radio, we listen to interviews from Tech Ed 2007. Kevin Remde talks with Kai Axford and Allyn Lynd about digital forensics. Bryan Von Axelson discusses Group Policy in Windows Vista with Jeremy Moskowitz. We also have our monthly Security Bulletin Segment with Kai Axford and Mark Griesi...[more] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 06/11/07 - Safari for Windows?! Today was WWDC, and while we weren't overly impressed, there were still a few cool things to talk about. For example, Safari for Windows. That was not something that I was expecting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 06/08/07 - Qualcomm quashed Big changes in the mobile industry could be on the horizon! Cell phones using the Qualcomm semiconductors will be banned from being sold in the U.S. What will this mean for smart phones? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Not Another Tech Podcast: EP-68 Episode 68: Sarah Silverman vs. Paris at the MTV Movie awards, Paris goes to Jail…then gets out, Wheel Chaired man attached to front of Semi Truck, Teen gets 10 years in jail for getting a Blow Job, Man sues for getting a permanent erection, Girl found in locked room after a year of confinement, Little Mermaid in Saw 4, Lord of the Rings 4, David Blaine vs. Chris Angel, Emo Kids suck, Key Fob Trick and more![...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 06/07/07 - LOL, JK, Whitacre (sry) Oops! Sorry everyone, we were totally punked yesterday. But let's move on to real news, like porn losing money over user-generated content. We couldn't make that one up if we tried! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- June 7, 2007 Here’s an audio postcard from the American Wind Energy Association’s WindPower 2007 conference held in Los Angeles, California this past week. Wind advocates and business leaders are optimistic about the future as the industry gains more acceptance and faces another record growth year world wide. Inside Renewable Energy offers the latest in renewable energy news and information. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 06/06/07 - Whitacre stinks like tilapia Former AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre had some choice words about Net neutrality as he made his farewell speech--please, Ed, tell us how you really feel! Also today, Dell sets the record straight about its Linux PC warranties! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechNet Radio - Direct from Day One of Tech Ed 2007 This week on TechNet Radio, we listen to interviews from Day one of Tech Ed 2007. Kevin Remde talks with Dustin Jones about monitoring using System Center Essentials. He also talks with Jane Lewis about Women in Tech. Kevin and Bryan von Axelson discuss the Microsoft MVP Program with Connie Rennie...[more] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: June 5, 2007 developerWorks staffers Anita Mathur and Jay Clark talk about the Rational Software Development Conference 2007 activities going on in the virtual world Second Life next week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website developerWorks Interviews: Dan McCreary on XForms XML and metadata consultant Dan McCreary explains XForms and talks about why it offers a way to make applications live elegantly inside a Web browser. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 06/05/07 - Tom is so mad Tom was so mad today, you could hear the anger radiating off of him, even when he wasn't talking. Trust me, I saw the whole thing. It burned my eyes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 06/04/07 - Google: In your face! Google can tell that a face exists on an image search result--just not whose face it is! That might be a good thing; it already knows too much... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 06/01/07 - Flash cache will save every one of us Perhaps we're putting too much pressure on NAND memory here, but the idea of instant boot time is pretty compelling. We also look into the controversy of iTunes messing with songs you've converted to MP3. Conspiracy? Or just another buggy iTunes update? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- May 31, 2007 As the popularity of solar grows in the U.S., more states are adopting programs to encourage deployment of photovoltaics. While these programs are very positive for the U.S. solar industry, they can also be confusing and hard to understand for many people. We do our best to provide information on all the scattered programs around the country and this week we've got a report on two very important solar markets—New Jersey and Washington State. [More] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 05/31/07 - The spam king of zombies An alleged top-10 spammer has been arrested for fraud in Washington. Have you noticed the reduction of spam yet? Didn't think so. We also have a cartload of Apple stories, including a new higher-capacity Apple TV. And Brian says a bad word. We can't take him anywhere. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 05/30/07 - iTunes DRM-free tracks are here! The waiting is over! The EMI DRM-free tracks are finally available on iTunes today, and Steve Jobs says that he hopes half of all iTunes music will be available by the end of the year. Here's hoping! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 05/29/07 - Fill 'er up with cornmeal The future of fuel could be found right in your grocery store, in the form of delicious starch! Also today, our DRM-free tracks on iTunes could be coming this week! Will Tom's prediction finally come true? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 05/25/07 - Mulligan! It's the dawn of a new era, with all three of us in the studio today, as well as new podcast producer Jason! It's Lawsuit Friday, so we have interesting cases about Sony, Nokia, and New Jersey. A great holiday weekend to our listeners here in the States--see you Tuesday! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 05/24/07 - The Internet is for taxes So you know we couldn't last tax-free on the Net forever, but the ax is coming sooner than I thought. This fall we could see it formalized. Yuck. Meanwhile Bill Gates and Steve Jobs will soon be reenacting the Mac vs. PC commercials in front of a large studio audience. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 05/22/07 - I'm in mah car, stealin' yr Wi-Fi Should it be against the law to use Wi-Fi in the comfort of your car? One fellow in Michigan learned the hard way that it is--at least in his situation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: May 22, 2007 Scott Hebner, Vice President of Marketing and Strategy for IBM Rational joins for a final look ahead to the big Rational Software Development Conference coming 10-14 Jun in Orlando, Fla. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website developerWorks Interviews: A preview of Lotus Notes 8 Jan Kenney, Jeff Eisen, and Mary Beth Raven from the Notes 8 development team talk about Web 2.0 features, developer opportunities, and community input in the development of Notes 8. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 05/21/07 - Optimus primed for pre-orders No, we're not talking Transformers! But it is an awesome keyboard that changes, depending on your needs. Say, for example, that you want to have a custom setup for the new Starcraft II! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 05/18/07 - Alpha is the new beta Microsoft is coming out with a very Web 2.0-style product called Popfly, and it's in alpha testing right now. That makes it even more cool, because beta is like, so played out these days. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 05/17/07 - iPhone rumor causes uproar Engadget's posting of an internal Apple e-mail caused quite a stir in the blogosphere--and the stock-o-sphere--yesterday. Listen in to find out why Veronica can't talk about it! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- May 17, 2007 There have been numerous expansion announcements recently from PV module manufacturers and polysilicon producers in the U.S., which many people believe are signs of a healthy solar market. Travis Bradford, Founder of the Prometheus Institute, joins us to talk about what these expansion plans mean for the U.S. solar industry and how the nation's market compares with those in Europe and Asia. [More...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 05/16/07 - Amazon goes DRM-free Amazon is going to offer DRM-free songs from 12,000 labels in the future. We're hoping that more major labels other than EMI will hop on board, but it's a great start! Now they have to work on Unbox. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 05/15/07 - The thrill of open source Today is another day about patents and copyright, so if that bores you then you might want to skip to all the new product announcements! Nothing too earth-shattering there either, but we'll make it exciting, we promise. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website developerWorks Interviews: The state of computer science education, Part 2 Professor Andrew McGettrick from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland talks about the state of computer science education from his vantage point, including challenges faced and opportunities at hand. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: May 15, 2007 Garrett Hall, Program Manager for IBM Web Strategy and Innovation, talks about the new developerWorks Space on IBM Web Innovation. Blogger-of-the-week Turbo Todd Watson shouts about open source scuffles and the latest in office sound effects for the telecommuter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 05/14/07 - Microsoft vs. the free world Microsoft is taking on open source, but we're not entirely sure why. Could it be jealousy, or the innate need to crush all competition? Turn away from the dark side, Microsoft! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: May 8, 2007 Kathy Mandelstein, Director of IBM WW Developer, Marketing, and Web Communities, previews the Rational Software Developer Conference, coming June 10-14 in Orlando, Florida. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 05/11/07 - Super-happy-fun-turbo podcast You can call DRM whatever you want, but it's still the same thing--seriously, it's not an "image issue." Stick around for the end of the podcast for "bunnies made of cheese." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 05/10/07 - Broadband in every pot We don't have fiber (unlike some people), but if a certain senator gets elected, then all that might change! We'll just continue to whine about it until it does. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 05/08/07 - No ID, no CD The state of Florida wants to require you to present an ID and a fingerprint in order to sell your used CDs! I don't know what kind of operation you're running, but I sell all my copied CDs on eBay, where the big money is. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 05/07/07 - ATT mean to VoIP users ATT, why do you have to be so mean to your customers? Taking away their VoIP, but not letting them give forwarding numbers and not helping them keep their own personal number when they switch services? Cold-hearted, man. Just cold. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 05/04/07 - Microhoo? Yahoocrosoft? Merger? Could the news be true? Is there really going to be a $50 billion merger between these two tech giants? It's frighteningly possible! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 05/03/07 - Fightin' Harry McCracken An editor from PC World has resigned over ad pressure--it's sad that it came to that, but we're happy he stood up and kept his integrity. Plus, I get to make "Ask a Ninja" jokes at the expense of his last name. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- May 3, 2007 Many people worry about the impact that wide spread adoption of biofuels will have on the environment. When biofuels like ethanol and biodiesel become primary sources of energy, conscious consumers will want to know that they are purchasing a product that is environmentally sound. So how will anyone tell if the fuel they are buying is actually green? [More...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 05/02/07 - Digg my grave Digg complied with a takedown notice and suffered a hex code deluge. Meanwhile the Xbox 360 Elite has some data transfer problems. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website developerWorks Interviews: Angel Diaz on business process management IBM Director of IBM WebSphere Business Integration defines business process management, the development climate that demands it, and sites examples of how it has transformed businesses. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: May 1, 2007 dW Community Progam Manager, Rawn Shah, introduces developerWorks spaces. Blogger-of-the-week Bobby Woolf says SOA isn't just for IT anymore. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 04/30/07 - Leo says dead goats are 'offal' We have one of our favorite guest hosts back today, Leo Laporte of This Week in Tech! Very strange stories today, Leo Laporte of This Week in Tech! Very strange stories today, including the most disgusting PR stunt in history. Thanks, Sony. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 04/27/07 - Internet radio for the win? Congress may have the final say on the rate hike from the Copyright Royalty Board, and it seems to be a lot easier on Internet and small radio broadcasters. Another "good on ya" to Stephen Hawking, who got his zero-G trip! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 149: The Robots are Coming, Tempura Biofuel, North Korean Radio, A New Planet, and The Trick to a Long Life The robots are coming. What will they do? Let's talk about this first. An interesting biofuel in Kyoto, Japan. Sending radio signals into North Korea. We found a new planet just like our's! And what's the trick to a long and healthy life? Listen up. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 04/26/07 - Olde tyme battery recall Gosh, I feel like it's been months since we've had a battery recall! Acer steps up to the plate this time, and once again the Sony batteries are the culprits. See, Acer? No one is safe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- April 26, 2007 There are currently 21 state renewable portfolio standards (RPS) underway in the U.S., with 12 other states considering passing such laws. The collective environmental and political impact of these initiatives is significant. As state governments and utilities realize the importance of implementing a RPS, their actions are reducing greenhouse gas emissions and encouraging federal lawmakers to push for a national renewable energy standard. [More...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 04/25/07 - Sanjaya for president What is the world coming to today? It seems that MySpace could pick the next presidential candidate. We've seen voting like this go very wrong in the past. ("American Idol", anyone?) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 04/24/07 - America's bloggiest neighborhoods The list of the nation's "bloggiest" neighborhoods wasn't compiled from every area of San Francisco (as I was expecting). In other news, there are a lot of good rumors for the picking today! Will Amazon be the new iTunes? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 04/23/07 - Great Japanese toilet recall Maybe that wasn't the biggest story of the day, but how could I possibly pass up a title like that? However, if you have cash on the mind and thumbs of fury, we might have the means to make you a texting star. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 04/20/07 - Windows XP reunion tour By popular demand, Dell's getting the band back together. Six Dell computers will now sell with Windows XP. That's right. Bad news for Microsoft, but good news for you. Also one thing on the show makes Rafe want to puke, but you'll have to listen to find out what it was. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- April 19, 2007 As the U.S. adopts greater amounts of renewable energy, the economy will see a significant boost as more domestic jobs are created and tax revenue is generated, according to leading researchers in the field. We'll take a look at some recent studies on the subject and report on one rural community that could see a major job boost from a proposed biomass facility expected to come online in 2008. Also in the podcast: [More...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 04/19/07 - Zombies phone home For some reason, the theme of zombies plagues this episode. It has nothing to do with the Google phone, the Zune phone, or the iPhone. But somehow we couldn't kill the idea of zombies. It just kept coming back even when we thought the topic was dead. Oh zombies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 04/18/07 - CrashBerry! It may have only seemed like the world was coming to an end last night, when RIM suffered a major meltdown and service to BlackBerrys crashed. I mean, besides all the withdrawal symptoms, everyone made it through OK. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: Apr 17, 2007 Freelace writer and consultant, Martin Brown, talks about his two-part grid computing zone tutorial on how to design a scalable grid. And in our blogger-of-the-week segment, Todd Watson riffs on Googlenomics and Skypeonomics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 04/17/07 - Fight for e-mail rights How much control should your workplace have over your e-mail? Let's take it a step further: should company officials be tracking your movements if they think you're not properly using company time? One woman has fought back. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 04/16/07 - Save the bees! Could bees be dying off because of cell phone usage? Boing Boing has the story, though it could be a hoax. But if they hear your annoying ringtone one more time, they're seriously outta here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 04/13/07 - This Leopard is slow Because of the iPhone, OS X Leopard will not be out unti October. This really messes up new laptop purchase plans. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- April 12, 2007 Developing nations are some of the most important players in the fight against climate change. As countries like China and India grow rapidly, it is necessary that they meet as much of their energy needs with renewables as possible. It’s a difficult task, but it must be done, says Dr. Bob Watson, Chief Scientist and Director for Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development at the World Bank. Dr. Watson talks with us about how to lower greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 04/12/07 - Firefox in Firefox in Firefox Tom has finally found his favorite link! It's a simple Web app that makes another Firefox browser window within Firefox--over and over and over again. It clearly doesn't take much to amuse us. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechNet Radio - A conversation with Mark Griesi from the Microsoft Security Response Team. In this episode of TechNet Radio Kai Axford, Sr. Security Strategist from the Trustworthy Computing Team, and Mark Griesi discuss the technical details of the April security bulletins. They also talk about the scenario that led to the out of band release of MS07-017 which addressed the Windows Animated Cursor Handling vulnerability... [More] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 04/11/07 - Rent a polar bear Who doesn't have $3K set aside for an animatronic polar bear? Maybe you're more of a robotic collie kind of person? They're perfect for birthday parties and bar mitzvahs! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 04/10/07 - On lasers, Cylons, and Twitter The discussion today is heavily weighed on by Battlestar Galactica and its noticeable lack of energy weapons. I know I should suspend my disbelief a little, but c'mon! I'm totally going to Twitter this. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: Apr 10, 2007 IBM Java JIT compilation control team lead, talks about a new article series on real-time Java. And in our blogger-of-the-week segment, Doug Tidwell talks about the first things he does with a new laptop, and shares a travel tip he calls the "Minibar Meal Planner." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website developerWorks Interviews: Scott Ambler on Agile development IBM Agile Development Practice Lead, Scott Ambler, explains this iterative and incremental approach to software development, lays out the business case for it, and dispels some myths in the process. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 04/09/07 - The 411 on Google's voice search The Internet is a wondrous place. Need to find an Indian restaurant in San Francisco? Ask Google over the phone. Can't find a bathroom in New York? Go online and pick one complete with celebrity sightings. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 04/06/07 - Apple TV goes nuclear If you look closely at the Apple TV box, apparently there is a shout out to the National Nuclear Security Agency. Is the little streaming video box powered by the atom? Or is it just an unfortunate side effect of using images from CBS's Jericho. And is "CBS broadcasting" redundant when the 'B' in CBS used to stand for broadcasting? These and other deep thoughts, as Rafe Needleman guest hosts on today's show. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 04/05/07 - Windmills! In the sky! It will only be a few short years before my city in the clouds is complete! No, you say? This is only a proposition for a new way to harvest wind for electricity? Smash my dreams to bits, why don'cha! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 04/04/07 - Unlimited should be unlimited Verizon, you'd better quit trying to split hairs with this "unlimited data" for your EV-DO service! If you assume that everyone is a criminal trying to download pirated movies, you're going to lose some customers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 04/03/07 - Empire falls to browncoats We're fans of Serenity as much as anyone, but a better movie than Star Wars? Now, that's stretching it a bit much. Also today: is there a possible release date for The Beatles on iTunes? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: Apr 03, 2007 A dW author talks about his article on how to improve the browser for hybrid Web applications and blogger-of-the-week, Bob Zurek, talks AjaxWorld and mavericks at work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website developerWorks Interviews: Jolt Product Excellence Awards Jolt Award officials join dW editor-in-chief Michael O'Connell and Scott Laningham to talk about the history of the Jolt Product Excellence Awards, their meaning in the software community, and how the judging process works. 2007 honorees Grady Booch and Scott Ambler are discussed, as well as developerWorks induction into the Jolt Awards Hall of Fame. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 04/02/07 - EMI drops DRM Well, Tom was finally right about something from his 2007 predictions: a major label has it dropped digital rights management, for iTunes at least. EMI will sell its entire catalog on iTunes, but at a $.30 increase. Hopefully this will be the shape of things to come! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 03/30/07 - iPhone release date confirmed That's right folks, we have a confirmed date from Cingular for the iPhone! Now if only they would get around to releasing Leopard, we rumormongers could take a little rest. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 03/30/07 - Interview with Barry Marshall, Walter McDonough We interview two guests with very different opinions about the recent royalty increases for streaming radio than most bloggers: Barry Marshall (producer and professor) and Walter McDonough of SoundExchange. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 03/29/07 - Turn right, then swim 3,462 miles I knew those people over at Google had a sense of humor, but did they really think they could fool us into swimming to Ireland via France instead of directly? Well, MapQuest probably would have taken us through Spain or something. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- March 29, 2007 As the California Solar Initiative moves into its fourth month, the solar industry is still learning how to navigate the state's new market landscape. In this week's show, Stephen Lacey looks at some of the issues that have surfaced in the first few months of the ambitious solar program. Also in the podcast: The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) recently approved a B20 biodiesel additive from ORYXE Energy that lowers Nitrogen Oxide (NOx) emissions. The approval is significant ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: Mar 27, 2007 Michael O'Connell talks about the 2007 Jolt Awards, and freelance author Peter Seebach previews his article series on the Second Life open source viewer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 03/28/07 - Robots move into middle management Robots are joining the fast-food industry, but not as cooks or servers. They'll be in the back office telling everyone else what to do. Meanwhile, everybody's upping their storage. Xbox goes to 120GB and Yahoo mail goes unlimited. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 03/27/07 - Is the blogosphere out of control? Blogger Kathy Sierra has canceled appearances and stopped blogging after several vicious postings and death threats appeared on the Internet. In less disturbing news, YouTube announced its prize winners and Leopard looks like it's on track fro a spring release. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 03/26/07 - CTIA kills Veronica's phone Risking life and limb, Veronica overcomes a possibly explosive cell phone battery to report on the latest from CTIA. Meanwhile Google denies they're going to do any phones at all and the Apple TV is already getting hacked. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 03/23/07 - Where'd everybody go? OS X Leopard may be delayed until October. Cablevision lost its network DVR case. Molly's on maternity leave and Veronica's off to Disney World. I feel so alone. Thankfully, Rich DeMuro joined me as a guest host. And Bill Gates finally got his college degree! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 03/22/07 - Bum-rush this podcast As podcasters, we feel compelled to promote this movement to get an independent artist recognized on iTunes, but we won't tell you how to spend your 99 cents. In other news, Microsoft has been listed as the "most secure OS" according to a very unlikely source. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- March 22, 2007 When brought online in April, Nevada Solar One will be the largest Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) plant built globally in the last 15 years. The plant's construction marks a return for the CSP industry, which has seen almost no commercial growth in a decade. Stephen Lacey traveled to Nevada Solar One and brought back this report. Also, you can watch video of Nevada Solar One produced by Shaine Ebrahimi of "Life on the Green Side." Follow the link below for the full video. Inside Renewable ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 03/21/2007- Proud to be a mess Tom takes pride in his productive messiness, while Veronica marvels that Tom didn't know Ligers were real. Meanwhile Microsoft goes open source and Sprint gives away GPS for free. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 03/20/07 - Big radio strikes back I never thought I'd be a supporter of any action taken by Clear Channel (also known as "Killer of Small Independent Radio Stations"), but they're taking a stand with NPR against the new Internet radio copyright ruling. Weird, but good. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: Mar 20, 2007 Learn about more efficient search techniques for LDAP databases, and hear "blogger of the week" Grady Booch on email and spam. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 03/19/07 - And the YouTubie goes to... We're back! Luckily, we didn't miss too much news while we were gone, but here's a quick rundown: Viacom sues YouTube, YouTube hits back with a video awards show. We're all about Chad Vader getting the recognition he deserves! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 03/16/07 - Tom's video odyssey Tom shares with us his trials and tribulations of finding videos of Stargate online! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 03/15/07 - Web 2.Buzz What the heck does "Web 2.0" mean anyway? We're not entirely sure of the exact definition, but here are some of the services that we find helpful in our day to day! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- March 15, 2007 At the beginning of March, Sharp Solar held their customer conference titled, "SOLA in NOLA." Before the conference began, the company donated 10 1.5-kilowatt (kW) photovoltaic systems and invited 10 companies to donate their time and resources to install the systems in the Lower 9th Ward. The goal was to create a green example for homeowners and community leaders rebuilding after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Inside Renewable Energy traveled down to New Orleans to check out the installation ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website developerWorks Interviews: Bobby Woolf on SOA quality management Bobby Woolf, developerWorks blogger and member of the IBM Software Services for WebSphere® consultanting team, discusses the what, why, and how of Service-Oriented Architecture quality management. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: Mar 13, 2007 IBM software engineer Shunguo Yan talks about implementing a portal look-and-feel using Struts Tiles and the Portlet Framework in WebSphere Application Server V6.1; Bobby Woolf kicks off our "Blogger of the Week" segment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website developerWorks Interviews: Dan Frye on Linux security IBM Linux and AIX development lead discusses Linux security, SELinux, the IBM Linux Technology Center, and open source. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 03/14/07 - Buzz old skool Travel back in time with us, as Tom and Veronica check out the latest innovations from the 1980s. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 03/13/07 - Generic podcast 2.0 Insert hilarious intro by Veronica here! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 03/12/07 - Interview with Regina Lynn We interview writer Regina Lynn about how pornography will not be the deciding factor in the HD DVD vs. Blu-ray format wars. FYI, we do talk about pornography, so if that bothers you, then maybe skip this particular episode. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- March 9, 2007 Here is an audio collage of the Power-Gen Renewable Energy and Fuels Conference held in Las Vegas, Nevada this past week. There was a lot going on at the conference, and we’ve got some highlights for your listening pleasure. Inside Renewable Energy offers the latest in renewable energy news and information. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 03/09/07 - MySpace to be the new Digg? I guess it was only a matter of time before MySpace jumped onto the social news bandwagon. Will its sheer numbers be enough to beat the Digg machine? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 03/08/07 - Alphabet soup: SXSW and GDC Sorry for the late podcast! We're so busy running around at different conventions and conferences that the podcast had to (gasp!) take a bit of a back seat today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 03/07/07 - Sony PS3rd Life Sony has released some new advancements for the PS3, and one of them is a Second Life-like feature called Home! Fortunately (unfortunately?) there won't be any poo flinging or naked people running around. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 03/06/07 - Your cell phone is worthless According to Apple, if you got your phone for free, well, you got what you paid for. That means the $600 you will spend on the iPhone is totally worth it, right? That's the reasoning, anyway. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website developerWorks Interviews: Is computer science education keeping pace with pervasive computing? Educators share their views on the challenges and promises of computer science education today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 03/02/07 - Sony ready to rumble It's so clear to us why Sony recently made a big deal about the "rumble" feature in its controllers: it was the old "patent dispute" shtick. Meanwhile, Microsoft had its first win against Alcatel-Lucent in that patent drama. Can everyone just settle down? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 141: All sorts of way to recycle, Catch a cheater with ITunes, Wi-fi on a bus, and Israeli rock. A few stories about recycling, some products you might not have thought about too: chairs, kitchen counters, and jackets. Take a ride in Estonia on board a bus with Wi-fi. Thinking about plagiarizing music? Be careful. And Israeli rock. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 03/01/07 - Stephen Hawking in space The dynamic duo of Stephen Hawking and Richard Branson are teaming up to someday send the brilliant physicist into space! In other, less heartwarming news, Lenovo is recalling 100,000 batteries that might "irritate" your skin. It's your lucky day, Sony. These were made by Sanyo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 02/28/07 - Photoshop for free Adobe is planning to release a hosted version of Photoshop that you use online. How cool is that? We're one step closer than ever before to that virtual office. My dreams of working in my pajamas will soon be a reality! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- March 1, 2007 Florida is ripe with waste that could add significant resources to the cellulosic ethanol industry -- citrus peels, membranes and seeds. David Stewart, President of Citrus Energy LLC in Boca Raton, Florida, tells us why citrus is such a great feedstock to work with and why his company is not facing as many challenges as others in the cellulosic ethanol industry. Also in the podcast: Our new European correspondent, former International Solar Energy Society Executive Director Rian Van Staden, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 02/27/07 - No Apple TV for Tom...yet It's day two of piling on Apple TV. Yesterday there were no cables thrown in with the unit, and today we learn that it'll be yet another month of waiting for it to show up at all! Tom is not pleased. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: Feb 27, 2007 Contributing author Nicholas Chase talks about his Sudoku obsession and his new 2-part article on using XForms to create your own Sudoku game. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 02/26/07 - Dear Steve: Send cables Bad news day: Apple TV has no cables that come with it, EMI won't be going DRM-free after all, and Vista and Firefox are not playing nice. I guess everyone has a case of the Mondays. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 140: Wave energy, Abandoned babies, Telecommuters, and Goodbye two-wheels in Vietnam. The power of the ocean: Wave Energy takes off in Portugal. A high-tech solution to, sadly, abandoned babies in Italy. Work from home? Ever get lonely? No longer the case in France. And cars are catching on in Vietnam. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 02/23/07 - Sony sticks it to Europe (again) How come Sony is making a different version of the PS3 for Europe? Is it to make more money, or is there some other reason we haven't yet realized? Whatever it is, Sony's not being very nice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 02/22/07 - SETI good for something SETI was put to good use this week, finding a stolen laptop thanks to the quick-thinking husband of the victim. Contrary to popular belief, the laptop was not stolen by spacemen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- February 22, 2007 Many people worry about the sustainability of the ethanol and biodiesel industries. As more land and food resources are used to fuel our trucks and cars, what will be the future environmental, economic and social consequences? Meghan Murphy, President of Ithaca Biodiesel, says that the industry needs to act to ensure that fuel is coming from sustainable farming practices in the U.S. and abroad...[More] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 02/21/07 - You da Ballmer That Steve Ballmer is one sly fox! He's keeping those Linux people on their toes by gently reminding them that he could sue at any time. Any time! You remember that...Ballmer's watching you." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechNet Radio - Community Corner: Windows Vista Networking with MVP and IT Hero, Doug Spindler. Michael Murphy interviews Sean Livingston about how Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 In this episode of the Community Corner, John Weston interviews Doug Spindler, President of the San Francisco Networking Technologies Users Group. Doug talks about innovations in Windows Vista networking technologies, such as TCP/IP, IPv6, performance enhancements, and security advantages...[more] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: Feb 20, 2007 Cameron Laird, vice president of Phaseit Inc. and longtime developerWorks contributor, talks about a better-than-JavaScript programming language for modern Web applications. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website developerWorks Interviews: Inside look at developerWorks Live! briefings Software developers and presenters Willy Farrell and Jeff Miller offer an insider's look at how the developerWorks Live! briefings work and the win-win they represent for developers and IBM. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 02/20/07 - Very Sirius merger news It's a deal-making day! XM and Sirius are planning their big merge, but will the government let it go any further? And Viacom made big news by putting some of their content on Joost, while they've been fighting to get their content off of YouTube! Very interesting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 02/16/07 - Got my bionic eye on you There's almost nothing cooler than bionic implants, and this new eye is right out of Star Trek! Of course, we see some room for improvement, but I suppose it'll be a while before real science catches up with the 24th century. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 02/15/07 - Ted Stevens and the son of DOPA Why is this guy still trying to make laws for the Internet? Hasn't anyone sat him down and said "Listen, Ted, I know you really like making laws and all, but maybe you should steer clear of the whole 'Internet' thing. Working on leash laws for moose might be more your speed." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- February 15, 2007 In this week's program, Stephen Lacey examines the debate over Citizenre. The company's business model and claims have sparked a lot of controversy in the solar industry over the last couple of months, and we'll have a look at why the company has been exposed to so much criticism. Inside Renewable Energy offers the latest in renewable energy news and information. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 02/14/07 - Daylight killings time It's another Y2K! Everyone run for the hills! The shifting of daylight savings time to a much earlier-than-usual March 11 will wreak havoc on some gadgets and possibly Microsoft Outlook, too. Time to stock up the bunker. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechNet Radio - Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management. Blain Barton continues his conversation on Group Policy, discussing how Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management increases administrators' control over managing Group Policy objects.He speaks with Kevin Sullivan, a Lead Program Manager, and Winni Verhoef, a Senior Product Manager focused on the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack and the underlying components of Advanced Group Policy Management...[more] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: Feb 13, 2007 Elliotte Rusty Harold, co-author of XML in a Nutshell and well-known developer of the XOM library for processing XML with Java technology, joins to preview his new developerWorks article "Ten predictions for XML in 2007." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 02/13/07 - Blu-ray cracked, delusional We're not sure which came first, the cracked or the delusional. But the truth of the matter is that the HD DVD and Blu-ray encryption has been hacked, and Sony has already proclaimed their victory in the format war after outselling HD DVD--for a month. At least they're staying optimistic! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 02/12/07 - Photoshop contest winner announced Well, the votes are in! We've selected our Photoshop BOL winner, and you'll have to check it out! In news today, there's a lot going on with Internet video: MySpace has tools for filtering (are you listening, YouTube?), while Google is making deals for classic TV. Yay for Gumby! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 02/09/07 - Wacky Wii wumors! People love the Nintendo Wii so much that they're making up gadgets that would go with it! From Wii phones to Wii weights, the collection of imaginary technologies is growing. I wonder what will be the first "Wii-ality?" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 02/08/07 - Build a better iPhone iPhone? Call me when it's ready! The Samsung F700 is launching at 3GSM next week, and it's definitely competition for the iPhone in the looks department! We don't know when it's coming to the U.S., but it has to be before June, right? RIGHT?! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: Feb 06, 2007 IBM's Greg Kelleher will be speaking at the LinuxWorld OpenSolutions Summit in New York City next week and joins to talk about the state of the Linux desktop and IBM involvement. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- February 8, 2007 Dr. Eddie O'Connor likes to think big. As CEO of Airtricity -- the fastest growing private wind development company in the world -- he has plans to create a "supergrid" across the North Sea, which will transmit 10,000MW of electricity to countries throughout Europe from Airtricity's offshore wind farms. And that's just the beginning...[More] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website developerWorks Interviews: Bob Zurek on Information Server IBM director of Advanced Technologies and Product Strategy for Information Integration Solutions talks about infoglut, rapidly evolving demands on data, and a first-of-a-kind data integration software platform. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 02/07/07 - Don't walk while you rock iPods are a hazard to our health, according to one politician: he says you're more likely to get hit by a car in a crosswalk if you're plugged in! He also cited BlackBerrys and cell phones as dangers. Do you think that's a bit much? Or will a ban make us safer in the long run? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechNet Radio - Group Policy: Windows Vista, Longhorn Server, ADMX and the Central Store. In this episode, Blain Barton sits down with Kevin Sullivan, a Lead Program Manager, and Jason Leznek, Senior Product Manager for Windows Vista to discuss the Group Policy evolution in Windows Vista...[more] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 02/05/07 - Episode 404: Podcast Not Found The dueling Apples have finally reached an agreement! Does this mean that soon we'll see The Beatles on iTunes? In other settlement news, Turner Broadcasting has paid the city of Boston $2 million for their Aqua Teen hijinks. Those LED signs were a little more expensive than they anticipated! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 02/02/07 - We built our IT on piracy Sing that title to the tune of "We Built This City" by Starship, and you'll get our terrible, terrible humor. Anyhow, we're lobbying our superiors to send us to Tokyo Game Show. We hear it's the new E3, and we want in! Have a good weekend! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 02/01/07 - Be a mindsticker Finally, we get to bring you the "mindsticker" commercial from yesterday that never made it into the final version of the show. Sony is having some trouble with being a mindsticker, at least with the PS3. Can Sony bring back its fans by pushing the PSP to the foreground again? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- February 1, 2007 The United States has fallen well behind Europe in development of renewable energy. Although the U.S. was a global leader in solar and wind energy for some time, countries like Germany, Spain and Denmark have now taken the lead. But why? [More...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 01/31/07 - Podcast, take two Suffice to say, we had some technical difficulties today. But that doesn't stop this podcast machine from rolling! Listen in awe as Tom explains CableCARD, we debate Flickr's new policies, and the Wii gets a new coat. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 01/29/07 - YouTube goes commercial YouTube is not only adding commercials, but they're going to start a revenue-sharing program for creators of original content. That's great, but the program also takes into account how creative the video is! For my sake, I hope they think videos of cats are super interesting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: Jan 23, 2007 We get an update from Lotusphere 2007 and a look at a new HelloWorld tutorial on Rational Application Developer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website developerWorks Interviews: Open standards software and NASA's next-generation space telescope A senior software engineer and a go-to-market manager, both from IBM Rational, talk about open standards system development with the James Webb Telescope project. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechNet Radio - How Microsoft IT Deployed and Architected SharePoint Michael Murphy interviews Sean Livingston about how Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 were deployed internally at Microsoft. In this episode they discuss challenges faced, the architecture, design decisions, lessons learned, and planning that went into the upgrade and rollout of Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services...[more] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 01/23/07 - High-impact Vista Microsoft is already anticipating its first Service Pack update for the new version of Windows--which is pretty funny, considering Vista hasn't even come out yet. I'm all for them being prepared, but maybe they should worry about making it a little less "high-impact." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 01/22/07 - Attack of the snowflake clones Apparently, everything we knew about snowflakes is wrong. And if that weren't big enough news, it seems there's a shift happening in the music industry toward DRM-free music! We can take the good with the bad, I suppose. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 136: Ancient air conditioning in Dubai, Cleaning up oil in the Philippines, Weird weather, Temperate Moscow, Small solar, and A special delivery of snow. Everybody's favorite topic: The weather. It's warm in Moscow. There's no snow in the Alps; no problem. The Philippines worst environmental disaster: How to clean up an oil spill? Ancient air conditioning in Dubai. And our main man in Prague is using the sun to power his cellphone. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 01/19/07 - Apple gets all nickel-dimey We know the iPhone is going to be pretty expensive, but now Apple wants us to pay two whole dollars to upgrade wireless to 802.11n! Couldn't we just get that as a free firmware upgrade? Please? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 01/18/07 - Announcing new Photoshop contest We're having our second Photoshop contest, so stay tuned until the end of the podcast for all the details! In other Photoshop news, we're not sure what we think of the images we've seen of the Google Switch: is it clever digital art or an iPhone killer? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- January 18, 2006 Anaerobic digestion is the decomposition of organic matter. When this organic matter breaks down in an environment without oxygen, it creates methane. The methane can then be cleaned up to natural gas standards or used to create electricity. One company that is using this process to power homes around the country is Microgy, a subsidiary of Environmental Power Corporation. Al Morales, Executive Vice President of Environmental Power talks about the company’s efforts to turn agriculture and f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 01/17/07 - Milliajuple your processor Even though Moore himself said that his law isn't accurate anymore, HP is still determined to beat it. That means chips will have faster or, uh, more transistors? I don't know, something like that. It's too confusing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: Jan 16, 2007 Kurt Bittner, IBM program director for emerging technologies, talks about his new article series on measuring project health in The Rational Edge. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechNet Radio - Community Corner: An Interview with User Group Leader and MVP, Lee Benjamin. John Weston returns with his monthly segment, The Community Corner, to interview Lee Benjamin who is chairman of the largest Exchange User Group in the world. They break down the three themes of Exchange Server 2007, Anywhere Access, Operational Efficiency and Built-in Protection...[More] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 01/16/07 - Welcome to Pirate Island The Pirate Bay, a Swedish file-sharing Web site, is considering the purchase of their very own island to call home: Sealand, an itsy-bitsy plot of space in the middle of the ocean. We may not agree with everything they do, but I have to say that I back this plan completely. Who wouldn't want an island? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 135: The Apple iPhone, Recording your phone calls, Answering them in Manila, Cars in Detroit, Observing the Sabbath in Israel, and Video Games in the Holy Land. Two tech podcasts this week. This one about gadgets, phones and games. The new iPhone from Apple. New software to detect angry callers, and when those angry calls go halfway around the world to the Philippines. Cars in Detroit. And two stories in Israel: Observing the Sabbath high-tech style and video games for Israelis and Arabs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 01/15/07 - Insert title here! We're on vacation, so it's Generic Podcast Day! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- January 11, 2007 The 110th Congress is in session and Democrats are vowing to pursue an aggressive domestic agenda, including providing more funds for renewable energy by repealing some tax breaks for oil and gas companies. The Democrats talk a big game about renewables, but how much will they really deliver in the next two years? Scott Sklar joins us from Washington, D.C. to tell us what we may expect for legislation benefiting renewable energy. Also in the podcast: Steve Redmond is owner of Vermont Heat R ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 01/10/07 - Low expectations for this podcast If we have low expectations, it can only go up from there, right? That's what people in Denmark are thinking, anyway! We know a lot of people had very high hopes for the iPhone, for example, but are people pleased or disappointed now that it's here? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: Jan 09, 2007 IBM IT specialist Nathan Harrington talks about whistling commands to your PC, and Benoit Marchal explains his concern about attending to XML parsing fundamentals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website developerWorks Interviews: Tim O'Reilly, Part 2 In Part 2 of this two-part podcast, Tim O'Reilly takes a look back at the steps that led to what is now the Internet publishing and education giant O'Reilly Media. He then talks about Web 2.0 being a term that truly refers to the natural continuation of the promise of Web 1.0, post the dot-com shakedown, and plots where we are along the road of Web 2.0 adoption. He shares thoughts on the importance of the live software mindset for today's developers, on the creativity-fueling atmosphere of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website developerWorks Interviews: Tim O'Reilly, Part 1 In Part 1 of this two-part podcast, Tim O'Reilly takes a look back at the steps that led to what is now the Internet publishing and education giant O'Reilly Media. He then talks about Web 2.0 being a term that truly refers to the natural continuation of the promise of Web 1.0, post the dot-com shakedown, and plots where we are along the road of Web 2.0 adoption. He shares thoughts on the importance of the live software mindset for today's developers, on the creativity-fueling atmosphere of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechNet Radio - Reliable Recovery with Data Protection Manager Version 2. In this episode Matt Hester interviews Jason Buffington about Microsoft Data Protection Manager Version 2 (DPM v2). DPM v2 which blends the best aspects of continuous data protection (CDP) with traditional tape backup into a single and reliable data protection solution that enables IT administrators and end-users to rapidly and reliably recover from seamlessly integrated disk and tape...[More] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 01/09/07 - Apple grants three wishes We're here at CES once again, but the big topic of the day is Macworld! We've got the Apple phone, the wide-screen iPod, and a tabletlike device, all in one! That's right, the iPhone is here. And yes, it is called iPhone. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 01/08/07 - IPTV on XBox 360 is coming! His Gatesness announced yesterday that the XBox 360 will be able to play IPTV in the future. Of course, you'll need to subscribe to an IPTV provider, but it's still a cool new feature. In other news, apparently we found some Martians, but then killed them. Didn't we learn to not violate the Prime Directive from Star Trek? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechTalkNetwork Special: Charles River Conservancy Boat Cruise. Part 4 Listen to Part 4 of this special TechTalkNetwork series about environmental technology at work along the Charles River in Boston with Bruce Schwoegler. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 01/07/07 - Super Sunday spectacular It's day one of Buzz Out Loud at CES! Not only that, but you get a very special Sunday edition. There's a lot of cool stuff coming out this week, but there's also a lot of nongadget news that will have to share! For example, will the Brazilians revolt without their YouTube? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 01/05/07 - Bring me my terabyte We were expecting to hear about cool new things next week for sure, but Samsung got the jump on us by developing a new chipset that allows phones and other gadgets to receive over-the-air digital TV! Now you can be a couch potato wherever you are. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 01/04/07 - Bring it on down to Askville Amazon is going after Yahoo with their new answer page, called Askville. The citizens of BuzzTown wonder why people couldn't just Google most of the questions we found on there; after all, they're pretty basic. Maybe we just should ask the askers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- January 4, 2007 2006 has been a great year for renewable energy around the world. Here on the Inside Renewable Energy podcast we've provided our listeners with in-depth coverage of the latest developments in technology, policy and finance. This week we take a look back at some of the best interviews featured on the program. Hopefully, the messages of hope and optimism expressed by our guests this past year will carry on into 2007. Inside Renewable Energy offers the latest in renewable energy news and infor ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechNet Radio - Collaborating with Sharepoint Server 2007: An interview with Arpan Shah. Matt Hester speaks with Arpan Shah, Group Product Manager for the Sharepoint Team, about Office Sharepoint Server 2007. They discuss deployment, the upgrade paths to move a 2003 Sharepoint Portal Server to a 2007 Sharepoint Server, new features and functionalities such as Enterprise Search and Business Intelligence, and also how it's easier than ever for the Administrator to maintain Sharepoint Sites...[more] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Customers Can Prepare for Fusion Today The beta release of the 2007 Microsoft Office system provided the Microsoft IT Messaging and Collaboration Services (MACS) team with the opportunity to test improved deployment tools which are designed to simplify the enterprise-wide rollout of applications...[more] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 131: Trams in Paris, Polluting Airplanes, Offsetting that pollution, and tracking snow leopards with GPS A show this week devoted to transportation. An old technology revived in Paris, the tram. Planes flying over Europe must now buy credits to offset greenhouse gas pollution credits. What you can do to offset your carbon emissions when you fly. And tracking snow leopards in Pakistan with GPS tracking. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 12/22/06 - Highlights of 2006 A 12 minute whirlwind tour of the events of 2006 as heard on Buzz Out Loud. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 12/21/06 - 2006 Results show Tom and Veronica comment on last year's predictions show and judge who did best in predicting the events of 2006. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 12/20/06 - 2007 Fabulous Prediction Show! What will be big in 2007? Find out now! Maybe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 12/20/06 - Your Web site makes me sick No, seriously. It makes me physically ill. We redesigned CNET for a reason, folks! Just kidding. Anyhow, today is a day of class action lawsuits: Sony finally settled their rootkit cases in Texas and California, and Nintendo is facing a suit of their own over the Wiimote straps. 'Tis the season to be suing! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- December 21, 2006 A study released last week by the Minnesota legislature found that the state could get 25% of its energy from wind without affecting transmission reliability or significantly raising utility operating costs. The study proves that, in addition to being clean, wind can be a cost-effective and reliable resource for many parts of America. Mark Ahlstrom, President of WindLogics, talks about his company's role in the study what the findings mean for the American wind industry...[More] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 12/19/06 - Internet illegal Down Under Could it be the end of the Internet as we know it? Yes, if certain people (who just don't get it) in Australia have their way! Linking to anything copyrighted would become illegal, which would bring the Internet to a grinding halt. Let's hope that's not how it goes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechNet Radio - Building IT Community: An interview with MVP, David Sanders. David Sanders, a Microsoft MVP and CEO of Culminis speaks with John Weston about building IT community, how you can start a successful user group and what user groups can do to help the IT Pro world...[more] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: Dec 19, 2006 Linux zone editor Tom Young talks about a new article on lazy programming: delaying the processing of a function or request until the results are needed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website developerWorks Interviews: Authors of The Art of Possibility Authors of The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life talk about interpersonal tools and expanded views for living in a flat world, and moving beyond a survivalist, us-against-them paradigm, to what they call "the alchemy of We." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 12/18/06 - Once in a GooMoon We've got phone rumors up the wazoo today! First, the iPhone isn't exactly what we were anticipating. At all. Second, Google and Orange are planning their own phone together, designed by HTC. Finally, make sure to stick around for the end of the podcast. You won't regret it! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 12/14/06 - Bill Gates hates DRM Oh, you read right. Bill Gates thinks you should just buy CDs and rip them! I'm liking this guy more and more every day. Speaking of which, eMusic sold its 100 millionth DRM-free song! Music execs, take note. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: Dec 12, 2006 Open source zone editor Mark Cappel joins to talk about this week's developerWorks feature on migrating Visual Studio C and C++ projects to Eclipse CDT. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: Dec 06, 2006 Michael O'Connell and Rational executives talk about the V7 release of the Rational Desktop tools. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website developerWorks Interviews: Rational execs on empowering the ''A'' in SOA Jamie Thomas, Lee Nackman, and Scott Hebner talk about the leap forward with IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform Desktop products V7. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- December 14, 2006 Our financial contributor Rob Wilder, who is CEO and Founder of Wilder Shares, talks about the ups and downs for renewable energy on Wall Street in 2006. Investing in clean energy can be a risky proposition, but Rob is optimistic about the market next year. New technological and political developments in the U.S. could make 2007 a good year for investing; although, that shouldn't make people forget about the financial risk of investing in clean energy, he says. Also in the program: Dan Reic ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 12/13/06 - Toasted RFID tag: Yum! Toasting really does make everything taste better, doesn't it? Today, Skype is really cranking up the deals and services, hopefully to stay ahead of competitor Vonage. But goodwill is being done by the Piratebay, which is trying to stand up for AllofMP3.com. I guess someone has to! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechNet Radio - Deploying Microsoft Office 2007 In this episode Chris Avis sits down with Josh Edwards, a Technical Product Manager on the Microsoft Office Client Technical Product Management Team, to discuss deployment of the 2007 Microsoft Office system...[more] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 12/12/06 - Attitude control This episode really shows what I know about controlling spacecraft (which frankly, isn't much). But the real news of the day is that Ted "Tubes" Stevens' telecom bill has died, at least for this year. Netizens, rejoice! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 12/07/06 - In memory of James Kim Our dear friend and colleague James Kim passed away this week. In his memory we're rerunning an episode of Buzz Out Loud he co-hosted 9/28/2005. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- December 7, 2006 With only three weeks left until the start of the California Solar Initiative (CSI), there is much speculation about how the program will affect solar businesses in the state. One thing is clear: members of the California solar industry need to be informed about how the market will change on January 1, 2007. In this special report, Stephen Lacey examines the impacts the CSI will have on the solar business community in California. Also in the podcast: The politically outspoken punk band Gree ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 12/05/06 - we're moving to the moon Luckily, if all goes wrong on Earth after the year 2020, we might have a base on the moon available. Maybe someone will even take my advice and start terraforming the moon, so it can be like a little vacation spot for adventurous Earth-dwellers. A girl can dream. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechNet Radio - Open XML Formats in Office 2007 Michael Murphy interviews Gray Knowlton, the Group Product Manager for the Office Client Technical Product Management team. They discuss how Open XML Formats are intended to be standard file formats to which any Developer or Implementer will have access, key aspects of the modular architecture, why Microsoft chose to standardize the Open XML Formats, and how the design of the Open XML Format makes solution development much simpler than it's been in the past...[more] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 12/04/06 - No, seriously, don't tax my gnome It seems as though we're closer to an inevitable MMORPG tax. It probably won't affect your average player, but anyone making real-world money will have to start sending a portion to the IRS. In other news, there are some good Mac rumors today, and Kevin Rose will probably lose his secret contact at Apple. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 12/01/06 - Copying movies? Get a vault The MPAA says that they're allowed to make an illegal copy of a movie, because, you know, they're the MPAA. And they're keeping it in a vault, so no one can ever get it. Right. And on a serious note, please read our coverage of missing CNET editor James Kim and family. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 12/01/06 - Interview with Gary Shapiro We interview Gary Shapiro, President to the Consumer Electronics Association. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 11/30/06 - Buy yourself a bot friend Granted, some people may think you're a loser if you're on a social networking site. We won't judge you for that (glass houses and all). However, we might judge you just a little bit if you start paying a service to add hot, fake girls as your friends. It's an all-new low. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 11/30/06 - Interview with Fritz Attaway of the MPAA We talk DRM with Fritz Attaway, Executive Vice President and Special Policy Advisor of the MPAA. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- November 30, 2006 On November 22nd, Ontario implemented its Renewable Energy Standard Offer Program, which sets a tariff for distributed generators feeding clean energy into the grid. The feed-in tariff is the first for renewable energy in North America since the early 80's, when California designed one for wind developers. Since then, however, countries in Europe have fine-tuned the tariff system, allowing them to advance beyond the U.S. in renewable energy capacity. Author and industry analyst Paul Gipe te ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 11/29/06 - Requiem for AllofMP3.com It's easy to get distracted by naked people, but the real news of the day is the Russian government ousting AllofMP3.com. However, the music site is fighting back--as usual--by saying they're probably legal, even in the U.S.! I don't know--I'd probably just listen to Russia if I were you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechNet Radio - How Microsoft IT Optimizes Client Security by Using Windows Vista In an attempt to strengthen the security of data network and data storage, Microsoft IT deployed an early version of Windows that provided improved defenses against the threats of unauthorized access and communications. In this episode Michael Murphy interviews Andre Howard and Ben Shy who have been focused on client security and driving the technology adoption of emerging security features in Windows Vista...[more] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 11/28/06 - All the video in the world Google says that someday your iPod will hold all the media in the world! We're not sure if they've included Apple in this idea, but how cool would that be? Better yet, what will those crazy Google guys think of next? I hope it's a fridge that holds all the delicious snacks in the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 11/27/06 - Steve Jobs is the walrus? The Beatles may finally allow their music to be sold digitally on iTunes, which would possibly end their long-standing feud with Apple! Of course, they could just be trying to get more money before their copyrights run out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 11/23/06 - Heartwarming Thanksgiving Episode The Buzz team gives thanks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- November 23, 2006 'Tis the start of the holiday season -- and that means a huge rise in the number of travelers. AAA estimates that around 65 million Americans will be traveling in either their cars or on an airplane for Thanksgiving. That's a lot of climate changing emissions. If you can't avoid traveling this holiday season, green tags are one great way to lower your carbon footprint. Tom Starrs, Chief Operating Officer at the Bonneville Environmental Foundation, tells us why supporting development of rene ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 11/22/06 - Special guest Leo Laporte On this day before Thanksgiving, we're very thankful to have Leo Laporte on the show! We talk about more Sony PS3 news, and how the rumor of Google going OS-style is once again popping up. Don't forget to watch us live on the Holiday Helpdesk this Friday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. PT on CNETTV.com! If your call gets played on the air, you'll be entered to win one of those fabled PS3s! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website developerWorks Interviews: Rawn Shah Rawn Shah manages Community Programs for developerWorks and talks about the growing interest in online communities and a ground-breaking course he helped to launch and is co-teaching at the University of Arizona. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechNet Radio - Excel Services for High Performance Computing (HPC) For the first time Excel will be able to take advantage of multi-CPU and multi-core hardware natively which will dramatically enhance the core spreadsheet capabilities. Michael Murphy interviews Anthony Morgante, a Technical Solutions Professional specializing in Directories and Identities technologies, about these advancements...[more] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 11/21/06 - A fair and balanced podcast We usually try to stay out of Bill O'Reilly's way, but now he's gone and really offended us. Apparently, he's never actually "talked to those computer geeks," or else he'd know that we rule! Oh, and way to have a podcast of your show, after saying iPods have a "staggeringly negative effect on America." In the words of geeks everywhere, I'll respond: "o rly, O'Reilly? Srsly? No wai." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 11/20/06 - Sad little Hobbitses A little bit of the LOTR nerd died in me today when we learned that Peter Jackson won't be directing the Hobbit movie or any prequels. What a bummer! Meanwhile, Yahoo is in the news a bunch, first with a weird peanut-butter metaphor, then with some newspaper deals. Personally, I prefer jelly. Would jelly be like Google? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 11/17/06 - The madness that is PS3 Put a bunch of people in a line (perhaps in bad weather), add a superhyped gaming console, and throw in the fact that the stores are completely understocked, and you've got a recipe for disaster. If you missed out on the line, there's always eBay and Craigslist! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 11/16/06 - 12 million iPhones can't be a lie Twelve million: you can't really argue with that, right? I mean, maybe if it was, like, 10,000--then I could see how it would be a less reliable rumor. But nope, it's gotta be true. Maybe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- November 16, 2006 A common criticism of renewable resources such as wind and solar is that they are intermittent -- meaning that storage is necessary for times when the resources are not so plentiful. But Dr. Hermann Scheer, General Chairman of the World Council on Renewable Energy, says that the storage problem isn't as big as opponents of renewables make it. Dr. Scheer, who was also Chairman of the first International Renewable Energy Storage Conference held in Gelsenkirchen, Germany last month, tells us a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 11/15/06 - The Internet is not for porn? I don't believe it either, but apparently the Internet is only 1 percent porn. What could possibly make up the rest of that content? I'm guessing YouTube and MySpace. We also listen to a few opposing viewpoints on the Zune, which made its debut to little fanfare yesterday. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 11/14/06 - Stinking so Zune? The Zune has come into the world, and the reception hasn't been so great. The usual suspects are at its throat, like Walt Mossberg and David Pogue, but even some normal users are turning their backs on it when they see it in person for the first time. So this is the iPod killer, huh? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: Nov 14, 2006 Kathy Mandelstein, director of WW Developer & Rational Marketing Programs for IBM, and Rawn Shah, Community Programs manager for developerWorks, report on the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco last week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 11/13/06 - Pod of thieves You can be labeled a criminal for a lot of stuff these days. According to Universal Music, anyone who owns an iPod is a criminal, because they've got to have some stolen music on there, right? I'm pleading the Fifth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 11/10/06 - Speed killed Google Video Speed kills. In this case, YouTube's ability to instantly post videos from users is what made the site so much more popular than Google Video. Not that it matters now, really. In other news, Sony's PlayStation 3 has arrived in Japan! Big surprise Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 11/09/06 - Goodbye, Mac guy? Despite the fact that you were snarky, and that you may have actually turned people away from switching to a Mac with your attitude, we'll still miss you. It wasn't your fault! The PC was just so...likeable. But we hear Linux is looking for a guy; we'll pass along their number. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- November 9, 2006 The concert business can be very dirty. When factoring in transportation for fans and musicians, electricity for the show, and the amount of trash and lack of recycling at many venues, the environmental impact is immense. In recent years, many bands have become aware of the impact their touring has on the environment. One such band, Barenaked Ladies, has been trying to green up their concerts through use and support of renewable resources. Reverb, an organization that helps bands coordinate ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 11/08/06 - Human hamburger turkey shoot Talk about most disturbing title ever. Anyway, there's a lot of product news today for the holidays: Vista has been released to manufacturers, Sony says they're totally ready for the PS3 launch, and the Macbooks got a Core 2 Duo upgrade! Everyone wins! Except CNET UK. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: Nov 07, 2006 Michael O'Connell on the 5th anniversary of Eclipse, and IBM IT specialist Nathan Harrington on his latest Linux laptop novelties, shakeReset and chordStats. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechNet Radio - What does MVP and Author, Charlie Russel, have to say about Windows Vista? In this episode Michael Murphy speaks with MVP and Expert Zone Columnist, Charlie Russel, about what Charlie thinks of Windows Vista. They talk about Charlie's involvement in the Vista beta process, 64-bit, and new security enhancements in Windows Vista....[more] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 11/07/06 - Google Earth, I kill you! CNET Buzz Out Loud Microsoft is having a pretty good week. First, it's announced that Xbox 360 will allow you to download movies and TV shows (some in HD) to your console. Then, the company released Microsoft Virtual Earth, which is a supercool competitor to Google Earth. In the words of Borat, "That's nice!" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 11/06/06 - Warm, fed, and dead Science tells us that mice live longer when they have a lower caloric intake and a lower body temperature. Personally, I'd rather live my life being warm and full of delicious food. But, that's just me. Those mice might agree, given the choice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 11/03/06 - Are you there, Steve? It's me, Molly CNET Buzz Out Loud We know you're listening to the show, Mr. Jobs, because Molly wanted an 8GB red Nano, and then it happened! While you're out there granting wishes, Veronica wants some recognition for all the fanaticism, and Tom wants to bro down. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 126: Climate Change Study, Pay to Park the SUV, Winds of Canada, and Bombs to coffee machines. Superb podcast this week. Drive an SUV? Live in the London suburb of Richmond? Want to park your car? Better get out your wallet. Then, up in the great white north, a progressive new program in Canada to harness the winds. An interview about the potential economic impacts of climate change. And put down your weapons and drink coffee! Out of your weapons? And lastly a call for help from the listeners. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: Oct 31, 2006 Kane Scarlett, developerWorks Autonomic computing zone editor, talks with Scott about the new article titled "Build a HAL 9000 with IBM autonomic computing technology." HAL himself makes a brief appearance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 11/02/06 - Vote for paper The US elections are only a few days away and it's becoming clear that in many corners of the country, electronic voting could prove to be a disaster. Veronica's out sick, but we found the moon tapes! I'd rather have V AND the moon tapes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website developerWorks Interviews: Jon ''maddog'' Hall, Part 1 Jon Hall, president of Linux International, is a passionate spokesman for the open source community and ideal. In Part 1 of this two-part interview, he speaks at length on the progress and challenges for open source, and on the need to recapture a purer vision of education. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website developerWorks Interviews: Jon ''maddog'' Hall, Part 2 Jon Hall, president of Linux International, is a passionate spokesman for the open source community and ideal. In Part 2 of this two-part interview, he speaks at length on the progress and challenges for open source, and on the need to recapture a purer vision of education. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- November 2, 2006 Last Thursday, the city of Brockton, Massachusetts inaugurated the largest solar power plant in New England. The 425-kilowatt (kW) solar array sits on a 100 year bed of coal ash -- illustrating the emergence of renewable energy over old, dirty sources of fossil fuel. We caught up with many of the lawmakers and renewable energy advocates who were celebrating the opening of the Brockton Brightfield. They spoke with Stephen Lacey about the importance of the solar installation for this industri ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 11/01/06 - The physics of cow tipping CNET may not have the fanciest Halloween parties (like Google) but at least we haven't been attacked with a bomb (like PayPal). But luckily for everyone, Comedy Central clips are mysteriously back on YouTube! As for the cows, you'll just have to wait and see. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechNet Radio - Windows Vista Deployment: An Interview with Manu Namboodiri Chris Avis talks with Manu Namboodiri about innovations in Vista Deployment. They discuss how Windows Imaging Format (WIM) and Modularization technologies will significantly reduce the number of images you'll need to maintain, using ImageX in the WinPE environment and other types of deployment tools. Also in this episode we air a new segment: 'Did you know?' ....[more] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 10/31/06 - I'm a scaaaary codec! Boo! Happy Halloween! The treat today is that Slingbox is now available for Macs, and the Shuffle is finally shipping. The trick is that you might be getting spyware and icky viruses in some video codecs online. Tom's sexy devil costume was also a little frightening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 10/30/06 - MySpace is so 2005 Can you ever stay at the top of "cool?" People are now wondering if MySpace is in it's slow decline. Sure, it's a couple of kids from a Washington Post article, but could they be speaking for a larger segment of the ever-fickle population? Yeah, Facebook is totally the new MySpace. Duh. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 10/27/06 - Vampires vs. werewolves We've grown tired of pirates vs. ninjas, so we've moved on to vampires vs. werewolves. It's a little more seasonally appropriate. But in other random news, it's also Windows XP's fifth birthday this week! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- October, 26 2006 In this week's show, we offer an update on two very important stories -- the discouraging status of some renewable energy programs under Congress and the good news for wind developers in the Midwest. Alyssa Kagel of the Geothermal Energy Association speaks with us about what's going on inside the beltway with regard to renewable energy. Unfortunately, she says, some renewable energy and energy efficiency programs have had their funding slashed. We'll find out what programs are suffering and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 10/25/06 - Microsoft says ''Let them eat cake'' The Firefox team got a nice surprise this week when the IE team sent them a nice congratulatory cake for shipping Firefox 2! And no, poison was not involved. Also today, do you think the holiday season will be a bust? Let us know! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: Oct 25, 2006 Mike Perrow, The Rational Edge editor, is back for a visit to talk about content in the just-released October issue. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 10/24/06 - Show us your drinking thumb Technology is a wonderful thing. It helps us connect with people across the world, encourages business growth and opportunity, and keeps mean drunks out of your local pub! I bet George Orwell never saw that one coming. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechNet Radio - How Microsoft IT Monitors and Manages the Exchange Messaging Infrastructure as a Service E-mail and related messaging services are essential applications used at Microsoft. Employees rely on Microsoft Exchange messaging services in their offices, in meetings, at home, and while traveling. Any outages or delays in messaging services directly affect the ability of employees to perform their day-to-day business functions. Michael Murphy interviews Grant Hogan, who is responsible for the Service Management of Microsoft IT's implementation of Exchange 2007....[more] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 10/23/06 - I want my space elevator! The X Prize Cup has been in full swing for a while, but it seems like more people are being disqualified, or having their projects explode, than are making any real headway. But they're still rocket scientists, so I can't really say anything, can I? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 10/20/06 - National Brandied Fruit Day If you can't see us, that's because we have a cloak of invisibility. You also can't see us because YouTube nuked 30,000 videos. Just kidding. You can never see us. Not here. But you can see us on CNET TV. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 124: Malaria vaccines in Africa, A new island and an old, Banning High-Speed Internet Access in Iran, Cutting down Methane in the UK, and Second Life. This week on the podcast... Finding a vaccine for malaria is the holy grail for medical researchers in Africa; new clinical trials. Building a new island in the Middle East, and reclaiming a very old one in France. The government in Iran announces plans to ban high-speed Internet access. When cows belch, that creates methane, a greenhouse gas: how to cut that down. And a new media bureau in the virtual world in Second Life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- October 19, 2006 This week, we're podcasting to you from Solar Power 2006. There is a lot of excitement and optimism at the largest solar conference and expo in the U.S. And we've captured that mood in our audio postcard. Also, we've got an exclusive interview with Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures on the importance of California's renewable energy ballot initiative Proposition 87. Inside Renewable Energy offers the latest in renewable energy news and information Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 10/19/06 - IE 7 out, gets first bug We could call it growing pains, or we could just say that sadly, we're not surprised. IE 7 came out today, and with it its first vulnerability. Or maybe you got the superspecial Yahoo release of IE 7 yesterday...you know, a day before it was supposed to come out. Oops! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: Oct 18, 2006 James Snell, a developer with IBM's WebAhead development lab, comes on to talk about his new developerWorks article series on the Atom publishing protocol. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website developerWorks Interviews: Laurance Doyle Dr. Laurance Doyle talks about his innovative work at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI) and how the evolving communications ecosystem that we call the Web is helping SETI tap into more computing power, as well as harness the curiosity of people everywhere. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 10/18/06 - iPods attack Windows Windows users, get into your emergency bunkers: the iPods are coming for you, and there's nothing we can do to stop them! That's right, some iPods have been manufactured carrying a Windows virus. We're not ones to start conspiracy theories or anything, but... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 10/17/06 - Don't tax my gnome! I've been thinking about getting more into Second Life, but now I'm worried, not so much about losing all my time but losing all my money! The IRS has begun investigating MMORPG economies, and I fear its eye is on all those hoards of gold out there. Don't virtually tread on me! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechNet Radio - Hear why Nu Skin, a leading global direct-selling company, chose Microsoft Exchange Server Reed Wilson, a Global Infrastructure Architect for Nu Skin, speaks with Chris Avis about how and why Nu Skin chose Exchange Server as a solution. He explains previous problems that they were experiencing before migrating to Exchange, what kind of testing they did in a lab environment to compare products and how successful the actual migration was....[more] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 10/16/06 - Dating advice from Steve Jobs I knew there was a romantic in there: Steve Jobs says that if you want to impress the ladies, share your earbuds. Apparently sending tracks to them over Wi-Fi, like on the Zune, will have them running for the hills! I think he's been hanging around Oprah too much. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 10/13/06 - Buy the red Nano Friday the 13th is a lucky day for Veronica as she gets the day off. That leaves us to deal with the new iPod, restrictive Vista license terms and poor unfortunately named uTube.com. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- October 12, 2006 This week, Stephen Lacey reports on the status the New Jersey Clean Energy Program (CEP). The solar program-which is considered by many to be the best in the U.S.-has reached a significant turning point. Because the CEP rebate system has been so popular, the flood of applications for solar projects has caused some backup. Therefore, the program is undergoing a major transition from rebates to Solar Renewable Energy Certificates (SRECs). Some say the transition is taking too long, which is h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 10/12/06 - I see brandy We never said our titles had to make sense. It seems that China is taking steps to open up the Internet to their citizens. It's unblocked most of Wikipedia, with the exception of a few vital bits of information. Also today, Sony is bringing back the MiniDisc. Nah, I'm just foolin' ya! It's the Walkman. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: Oct 11, 2006 developerWorks' SOA and Web services zone editor Pat Flanders and editor-in-chief Michael O'Connell talk about the big IBM announcement last week around service-oriented architecture and cover some developerWorks resources for SOA. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 10/11/06 - ICANN says I can't We couldn't resist that subject line. Anyhow, ICANN says it can't comply with a court order to delete Spamhaus's domain name, not because it wants to be difficult, but because it just doesn't have the authority to do so! Also today, pennies are the answer for higher DSL speeds--in my perfect world, anyway. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechNet Radio - An Interview with Exchange MVP and Author, Paul Robichaux Chris Avis speaks with Paul Robichaux, discussing Exchange Server 2007. They go into detail on how Unified Messaging will change an Exchange Admin's job, what you can do with PowerShell in Exchange, how you can automate tasks within PowerShell to simplify everyday activities, and the best way to go about migrating to Exchange Server 2007...[more] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 10/10/06 - Who's a moron now? We're not pointing any fingers, but there were definitely a few people wrong about the Google/YouTube deal announced yesterday (one hint: it was Molly). But now everyone is trying to figure out what's going to happen next. Will other acquisitions follow, or will Google start a legal war? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 10/09/06 - GooTube! We just found out that Google is going to buy YouTube. We didn't know that at the time of the recording, but we did make some predictions. Tune in to see who was wrong and who was so very right! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTP 123: Stoves in Sudan, High-Tech Exploitation, Global Warming Conference in Mexico, Army Recruiting, Immune Italians, and the Smells of NYC Subways Back in Boston for this week’s podcast. Stoves in Darfur that use less wood to burn are saving lives. The dark side of technology: exploitation of low-wage workers building semiconductors. A global warming conference in Mexico. The Army’s newest recruiter: an online avatar. Are Italians immune to certain diseases? And the smells of New York City Subway. An extra long podcast this week, cause there ain’t no podcast for next week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 10/06/06 - A $1.6 billion rumor Someone has to buy YouTube eventually, right? Well, the rumor mill is churning today, and people are saying that Google is the most likely company to do just that. If you ask us, Google folks are doing it only to prove to Mark Cuban that they're not morons. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 10/05/06 - ATT gets it right You heard it right! Tom and Molly are all excited, because ATT is doing away with its DSL contracts. That's the good news today. The bad news is that there's a PS3 launch party in L.A., and we're not invited. Was it something we said? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Special episode: Back to Basics on SOA with Bobby Woolf Listen to Bobby Woolf -- a member of IBM Software Services for WebSphere -- explain what SOA is, and how it makes applications more reusable and more robust. Discover how composite applications communicate in an SOA environment and find out which IBM products are available for developing SOA and ESB applications. Also: Download the IBM Enterprise Architect Kit for SOA from developerWorks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website developerWorks Interviews: David Boloker In this interview, David Boloker explains Ajax as the culmination of unfolding technologies since the late 1990s and puts Ajax in the Web 2.0 perspective. He also talks about the role of the Open Ajax Alliance in promoting the adoption of Ajax and interoperability across the toolkits. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: Oct 04, 2006 developerWorks Web content editor Denise Ruterbories talks about two new developerWorks features: the Ajax resource center and the redesigned Web development zone. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- October 5, 2006 In this week's show, Stephen Lacey will take an in-depth look at why the Production Tax Credit (PTC) is so important for large-scale wind. Find out why the industry is pushing Congress so hard to get the PTC renewed. Also, Dr. Rob Wilder will join us to talk about the WilderHill Clean Energy Index. He'll give us an update on how the various renewable energy sectors are performing on Wall Street. Plus: commentary and analysis on the role of Nanotechnology in renewable energy. Inside Renewabl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 10/04/06 - Beautiful robot music So now robots are learning from us how to play music? What's stopping them from learning emotional cues so that they can better blend in with human society? Sure, it may seem cute that they're becoming more like us, but I don't think we're looking at the long-term consequences here. Don't say I didn't warn you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website developerWorks Interviews: Bob Sutor, Part 2 Bob Sutor is in a unique position to see the broad impact and promise of the drive for open standards and the open source movement. Here, he shares his perspectives on both and on how they relate to IBM's own strategic vision.. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website developerWorks Interviews: Bob Sutor, Part 1 Bob Sutor is in a unique position to see the broad impact and promise of the drive for open standards and the open source movement. Here, he shares his perspectives on both and on how they relate to IBM's own strategic vision.. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechNet Radio - We Answer Your Exchange 2007 Questions In this episode Kevin Remde speaks with Exchange experts to answer your pressing questions on Exchange 2007. Topics include Deployment, Unified Messaging, Disaster Avoidance & Recovery in Exchange 2007...[more] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 10/03/06 - Et tu Hello Kitty? We've learned today that it doesn't always take a lithium-ion battery to make a gadget explode: Hello Kitty has recalled its bed-warming kitties because some of them blew up due to the gel used. Also, the Firefox flaws we reported on yesterday were a hoax! Guess the joke's on us. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 10/02/06 - Aliens don't want to see you naked Sorry, they're just not that into you. Anyhow, browser developers are scrambling to fix their products for security flaws. Some, like Microsoft, are getting the flaws fixed for them. But at least Microsoft is optimistic about Vista: it says people will adopt it twice as fast as they did XP. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 09/29/06 - Earwigs in space I know our title sounds alarming, but we thought it was important for you to know that there are 150-foot-long earwigs roaming the German countryside. Oh, in other news, Sony is doing a worldwide recall of batteries. But we won't need batteries when our earwig overlords take over. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 09/28/06 - Never say never, Lenovo See what happens when you get all high and mighty, Lenovo? Yeah, your laptop batteries start exploding. We tried to warn you, but I guess karma is giving you some payback now! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- September 28, 2006 Speaking on Capitol Hill last week, representatives for the ethanol industry told members of Congress that cellulosic ethanol is ready to be commercially deployed. However, lack of investment is stalling projects and causing this portion of the industry to stagnate. Arnold Klan, President and CEO of BlueFire Ethanol, Inc., was one of those who briefed Congress. He will join us on the program to talk about the financial challenges for cellulosic ethanol and why there has been little investme ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: Sep 27, 2006 John Swanson, developerWorks e-mail newsletters editor, joins to talk about new offerings that target audiences for specific topic areas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 09/27/06 - Microsoft protects your porn We all know that at Microsoft, they're creatures of habit, so we were a little surprised that they actually released a security patch out of cycle! But that probably means that they just have too much pride to let other people fix their problems for them. Whatever works, guys. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechNet Radio - What do the Scripting Guys really do? As we close out our Scripting month we thought it only appropriate to bring back everyone's favorites, the Scripting Guys. Hear what they are up to these days. Kevin Remde speaks with them about such topics as PowerShell, VBScript, Compute Cluster Server, Windows Remote Management and Headless Servers. September 26th, 2006 Participants: Charlie Harger Kevin Remde Dean Tsaltas Greg Stemp Peter Costantini Jean Ross Aurora Queen Participants Descriptions: Charlie Harger - Your show host. Kevin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechNet Radio - Scripting Answers with Don Jones. Continuing on our theme of Scripting for the month we speak with Don Jones a noted guru in the world of Windows administrative scripting. He breaks it down with Kevin Remde, guiding you on your quest to master scripting. September 19th, 2006 Participants: Charlie Harger Kevin Remde Don Jones Aurora Queen Participants Descriptions: Charlie Harger - Your show host. Kevin Remde - IT Pro Evangelist. Don Jones is a noted guru in the world of Windows administrative scripting. He's authored severa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 09/26/06 - Three words: zero-gravity surgery Surgery...in space! I guess we have to figure it out at some point, but do we really need to test it in 30-second intervals? That's going to be a long surgery. They should probably just test it on a roller coaster to up the "fun" value. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 09/25/06 - Wal-Mart on the warpath Wal-Mart is continuing to throw its weight around with the movie studios about underselling it for DVDs. Steve Jobs even gave the retail behemoth's CEO a call to smooth things over, but to no avail. We love a good titan battle here at Buzz Out Loud, and this one could turn out to be one of the most epic! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website developerWorks Interviews: alphaWorks success stories -- Bob Schloss John Feller, Bob Schloss, and Marshall Schor have all contributed to and benefited from the IBM alphaWorks program. This series of conversations looks at their respective experiences, projects, and involvement with alphaWorks, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this month. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website developerWorks Interviews: alphaWorks success stories -- Marshall Schor John Feller, Bob Schloss, and Marshall Schor have all contributed to and benefited from the IBM alphaWorks program. This series of conversations looks at their respective experiences, projects, and involvement with alphaWorks, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this month. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Update Wizard 2006.09.23 - Saturday Coming up in today's feed: Microsoft promises more than meets the eye - I'll tell you what to look for, and there's good news for PS3 shoppers and bad news for the Census bureau. Then there's social network news for facebook and lonelygirl15, and a weird gadget for reminders. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website developerWorks Interviews: alphaWorks success stories -- John Feller John Feller, Bob Schloss, and Marshall Schor have all contributed to and benefited from the IBM alphaWorks program. This series of conversations looks at their respective experiences, projects, and involvement with alphaWorks, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this month. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 09/22/06 - The government's disposable laptops When I heard that the Census Bureau had lost 1,137 laptops in the past few years, it got me to thinking: where did they all go? Did they spontaneously combust? And in other confusing news, Sony is lowering the price of the PS3--but only in Japan. Gotta win back those fan boys from Nintendo, I guess. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 09/21/06 - We're going to Yale! OK, we're not actually Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- September 21, 2006 The Worldwatch Institute and the Center for American Progress released a report on Monday titled, "American Energy: The Renewable Path to Energy Security." The report outlines the status of renewable energy in the United States and around the world. This week on Inside Renewable Energy, we'll speak with Christopher Flavin, President of the Worldwatch Institute and co-author of the report. Flavin says that history will judge this year and next as a positive turning point for the world's ener ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: Sep 20, 2006 Marc Goubert, manager of alphaWorks, joins to reflect on alphaWorks' success and the future, all in advance of next week's 10th anniversary celebration. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 09/20/06 - Sorry, Zune. Our bad. We're hanging our heads in shame today for accusing the Zune of terrible, horrible things like being more expensive than the iPod and wrapping non-DRM'd music in its own DRM. We feel bad, seriously. The PS3 is also trying to make us apologize by helping the Folding@home project to find cures for diseases. It's going to take more than that, Sony. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Update Wizard 2006.09.19 - Tuesday Coming up in today's feed: Disney calls iTunes Movies a success, but wants more - I'll tell you how much; Toshiba joins the recall crew; and hackers worm into AIM again, then Uncle Sam wants YouTube, Google and Apple may be chatting, and Toyota gets smaaaaaall.... When technology news breaks, I'm here to fix it. So let me get my tools out, for tonight's Update Wizard! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 09/19/06 - You'll ne'er get me pirate booty! Arrr, did you know today is Talk Like a Pirate Day? 'Tis harder than ye think. More batteries be explodin', the Zune's price was leaked by those scurvy dogs at Wal-Mart, and Microsoft launches its beta video site, shiver me timbers! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 09/18/06 - Mmmm... pi The battle for video online continues! Warner Music gets onboard with YouTube for music videos, but they can also watch for copyright violations in the meantime. And Wal-Mart is going against Apple with movie downloads of its own at kiosks. Kiosks? Well, I guess millions of people go to Wal-Mart every day! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Update Wizard 2006.09.15 - Friday Coming up in today's feed: Microsoft releases details on Zune and I've got them, along with talk of a Zune Phone, and everything you wanted to know about Nintendo's Wii... Then the Fox gets a tuneup, Yahoo gets Ajax, and the Red Cross gets you 2HELP. When technology news breaks, I'm here to fix it. All coming up next, on tonight's Update Wizard! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 09/15/06 - Tom hates hydrogen Nintendo shocked the console world when they announced that they planned on making money off of the Wii! To us (and Nintendo, obviously) it just sounds like good business. In other "duh" news, Microsoft says that they plan on making a Zune phone in the future. How refreshing to have a company just come out and admit something for once! Also, look for our interview with Steve Wozniak in the feed today! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Update Wizard 2006.09.15 - Friday Wii are getting way too excited over Nintendo's console news today. Wii can't believe that Wii're getting it before Japan is, and poor Europe doesn't even have a release date yet! But Wii can be certain that it's going to be a huge hit in the States with that $250 price. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- September 14, 2006 In this episode of Inside Renewable Energy, Stephen Lacey takes an in-depth look at energy legislation floating through Congress. Although there are only a handful of days left in this legislative session, the various renewable energy industries are pushing for key policy changes. Although the probability of energy legislation passing this year is low, industry representatives are working hard to ensure that renewable energy stays on the minds of lawmakers. Listen in to learn about the prog ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 09/13/06 - Embroidery is a crime You'd better tell your grandma to stop downloading copyrighted embroidery patterns, or she's getting sued! In fact, we have a lineup today filled with stories of pirated software, DRM, and payoffs. Not too different from any other day, I suppose! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This week on developerWorks: Sep 13, 2006 This week, Scott Hebner, vice president of Marketing and Strategy for IBM Rational, comes on to talk about the IBM Rational Elite Support for Eclipse announcement made at EclipseWorld last week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Update Wizard 2006.09.12 - Tuesday - with Mac OS Ken Coming up in today's iPod-flavored feed: It's iPod mania as Apple revises its whole iPod family... I'll tell you how. Then iTunes gets movies, and Steve looks into the future, and a visit from Mac OS Ken Ray! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website developerWorks Interviews: IBM executives on alphaWorks at 10 years Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Rod Smith, and Gina Poole have all played important roles in the history of alphaWorks, IBM's early-adopter developer program that is widely regarded for its business model and success rate in nurturing emerging technologies. The three share their thoughts on the impetus for the program, as well as successes and lessons along the way. Since 1996, alphaWorks has offered early-adopter developers worldwide a way to experience the latest innovations from IBM and to cont ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Update Wizard 2006.09.01 - Friday Mozilla unleashes another Fox, and Samsung to unleash a flop? Then some thoughts on Web2.0, and a call for electric cars... Enough laboring for a while... put some rss on the grill and get ready to be fed, on tonight's Update Wizard! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Renewable Energy- August 31, 2006 The Vote Solar Initiative was formed in 2001 by two young activists who helped draft a ballot initiative in San Francisco allocating $100 million in bonds for solar arrays on municipal buildings. After passage of the initiative, the two men quit their jobs and hit the road to promote "public" solar to cities and states around the country. A lot has changed in the five years since the Vote Solar Initiative was born. Rapid growth in the industry has changed the focus of the organization's lob ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 09/01/06 - Apple vs. Wal-Mart: Smackdown There's nothing we love here at Buzz Out Loud more than a good smackdown! Apple's forthcoming movie store might match Wal-Mart's low prices, and that makes the retail giant angry. Will Wal-Mart pressure movie studios to not ink deals with Apple? Let the battle begin! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 08/31/06 - Verizon surrenders Verizon has dropped their DSL surcharge; obviously it's because we talked about it. I mean, they had to have felt the pressure we were putting on them. Or maybe it was the FCC. Whatever. In other news, the RIAA is trying to brainwash the youth of America. That's not so much "news" as "obvious." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BuzzCast 08/30/