Hosting a great SoCal IT Pro meeting. To

Hosting a great SoCal IT Pro meeting. Topics are Microsoft Hyper-v on Windows 8 server and also Outage Management. http://ow.ly/i/z2eE

Some interesting stats were released fro

Some interesting stats were released from Nielsen today on TV, Mobile Phones, Broadband and more. We definitely live in a technology age.
• Americans own 290 million TV’s
• 211 million Americans are online
• 143 million are watching TV on the internet
• Mobile phones (ages 13+) 232 million users
• Broadband with paid TV access 85.9 million users
• 162 million users own a video game console
• 111 million watch “time-shifted” TV via DVR
• 30 million are watching TV using their cellphones

Don’t miss Comdex Virtual 2011.

Don’t miss Comdex Virtual 2011. It’s online today and tomorrow. I attended Comdex for 24 years before it closed in 2004. A great event. If it hadn’t closed, this would be my 31st annual Comdex. View it online at http://ow.ly/7uvZq

What To Do if Your Ebook Reader is Lost or Stolen

If your Nook or Nook Color device goes missing, you’ll need to call customer service at 1-800-843-2665 or de-register your Nook at bn.com. The company says that you are liable for all purchases made until you de-register the device. You should also change your bn.com login credentials immediately.

One of the benefits of a Nook ereader is that all side-loaded content (i.e. all of the potentially sensitive documents you uploaded to your Nook yourself) will be safe as soon as you de-register the device. However, you will not be able to retrieve those documents.

Should you decide to replace your ereader, you will be able to redownload all of your content once you sync your new device with your bn.com account.

Presenting Social Media in partnership with Constant Contact at the Mission Viejo Microsoft Store today.

Attending ‘ build windows’. Great Windows 8 information.

Presenting today to non-profits

Think your small business is not a target for hackers? Think again.

Read this article published in the WSJ about a small business owner loosing over $22K just because he thought he was so small no one would want to hack his network. 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304567604576454173706460768.html

Bing, Facebook Deepen Ties, Threaten Google +1

Microsoft has unveiled a deeper conglomerate of Bing and Facebook that harvests the power of the social Web, one year after forming a partnership to take “social search” to the next level.

When the partnership was formed it seemed meaningless and redundant. After all, if you’re checking Facebook and Twitter several hundred times a day, do you need your friends’ updates appearing in your Bing search results? Where’s the value in that? Well here’s a look at Bing’s new Facebook features and why this may mean the end of Google +1.

Interop 2011

Just completed a week of IT continuing education at Interop.