We were really looking forward to Star Trek: Into Darkness. It was a four year wait. That’s almost as long as their five year mission, come to think of it. Plenty of spoilers here, so make sure you’ve seen the movie before you listen in this week. 

Hosts: Tom Kresic, John Kresic, Mike Kresic

Running Time: 49:57

Let’s kick things off with our Mobile App of the Week.

Mobile App of the Week:

• Beethoven’s 9th App – too cool and makes me think of how many other applications this could be used. Careful though, they are quite large. 880MB for iPhone and 1.4GB for iPad.

Our reviews of Star Trek: Into Darkness

• Fans deserved better. We waited four years for this?

• We’ll share our not-so-favorable review.

• We’ll look ahead to other movies that we are excited to see this Summer.

A major server vendor abandons its public cloud offering. Did Google do enough for developers at their conference? And which mobile devices got Pentagon approval last week? We’ve got all of the hot enterprise IT news.

Hosts: John Kresic, Tom Kresic, Mike Kresic

Running Time: 37:34

IT Pro News:

• Dell abandons OpenStack and public cloud offerings.

• Did Google I/O underwhelm? No Android releases, new Nexus devices or Google TV news. Just lots of incremental updates to existing products.

• Is Google planning a sneak attack on Microsoft Office?

• iPhone and iPad get Pentagon security clearance.

• Mobile malware is a problem, but apparently only for Android.

• What will Apple do with all that money? Focus. Not like their competitors.

The Indians are your AL Central leaders. They swept the Mariners in a 4 game series and won three of those games in walk-off fashion. Now THAT’s style! We’ve got plenty of Tribe talk plus some NBA and NFL news, too. It’s GameTime!

Hosts: Mike Kresic, Tom Kresic

Running Time: 37:48

1Q: Indians are rolling now

• We kept giving Seattle opportunities to win on Monday, but the Mariners kept returning the favor. Perez gave up a HR in the 9th AGAIN to put Seattle up before we tied it up when they could not make a routine put out at 1B in our half of the inning.

• Justin Smoak hit a HR in the top of the 10th but we got two on for Gomes in our turn before he ended it with his walk-off HR.

• Masterson was dominant in the 6-0 win on Sunday against Felix Hernandez, striking out 11 in seven innings.

• This time it was Brantley’s turn to drive in some runs. Michael Bourn’s speed on the bases sets the table for a lot of this action. Also a lot of clutch 2-out hitting, especially in that 2nd inning.

2Q: Are they the Kardiac Kids?

• Friday and Saturday featured walk-off wins, one in extra innings Friday when Jason Kipnis hit a 3R HR to end it. Ubaldo struck out nine in 5 innings but the bullpen could not hold the lead.

• Saturday we won 5-4 in the bottom of the 9th after Closer Chris Perez gave up TWO HOME RUNS with two outs in the top of the 9th to allow Seattle to tie it. This wasted a solid pitching performance from Zach McAllister. Reynolds plated Kipnis with the bases full to win it when Seattle catcher Jesus Montero’s foot was came off home plate.

3Q: NBA Final Four

• San Antonio dominated Memphis in Gm1 of the Western Conference Finals. Either of these teams should give Miami some problems (we hope). Oklahoma City was too much of a finesse team (even when healthy) to stop the Heat, as we saw last year. Same with Golden State.

• Miami has to wait until Wednesday to face Indiana in the Eastern Finals. The Pacers will play physical and tough defense but they don’t have enough offense to seriously challenge Miami. Right?

4Q: Lottery talk

• Neither of us won the big PowerBall lotto. Did you?

• The NBA Draft Lottery is Tuesday night. The Cavs will pick between #1 and #6, depending on the ping pong ball bounces.

• The NFL is apparently ready to make themselves a year-round thing. They want to move the NFL Draft from April to May, so free agency can dominate the month of April.

• They also want to move the scouting combine into March, at the start of the new league year.

How about a NASA shirt? We’re also making our guesses about what Star Trek: Into Darkness will be about based on trailers. Yeah, these aren’t educated guesses.

Hosts: Tom Kresic, John Kresic, Mike Kresic

Running Time: 41:25

Mobile App of the Week:

• Mobile Day – tired of the back and forth from email to phone app to dial a conference call number? Cure the problem with MobileDay app. Also does automatic Sales Force updates!

Nerd News:

• Windows Blue gets a name and a price.

• iCracked.com for your iPhone, iPad or iPod for local repairs.

• Ministry of Supply – who wants a NASA shirt? I do! I do!

• Mobile carriers are gathering momentum to eliminate texting while driving. See how dangerous it is.

• Star Trek guesses. Make it so.

This Week in Nerd History:

• May 18, 1910 – The Earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.

• May 15, 1928 – Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, Plane Crazy

• May 15, 2010 – Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo

Microsoft relents and brings changes to Windows 8.1. Perhaps sales aren’t as strong as they suggest. Facebook gets into the switching business? And what does the proposed European Data Privacy Law mean for IT Pros?

Hosts: John Kresic, Tom Kresic, Mike Kresic

Running Time: 36:56

IT Pro News:

• Firms bracing for new European Data Privacy Law.

• Is Windows 8 really killing the PC market?

• Windows Blue gets a price. And a name.

• Yammer sales are booming, according to Microsoft.

• Facebook tries to spur faster innovation, so it will design an open source switch on their own.

• Trying to differentiate from the rest of the cloud competition, Rackspace will help your developers debug OpenStack programs.

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The Indians are playing much better ball of late. They entered action this week in 1st place. The NBA Draft Lottery is a week away. Who will evil David Stern’s rigged system

Hosts: Mike Kresic, Tom Kresic

Running Time: 32:33

1Q: Indians Getting Hot

Good pitching of late.

• Ubaldo has thrown three consecutive impressive starts, including Saturday’s win against Justin Verlander.

• Masterson looked like an ace in Monday’s 1-0 complete game shutout.

• McAllister pitching better.

• Lack of save opportunities for Perez.

• Lots of good hitting, coming from all spots of the lineup.

MLB leaders:

• Reynolds leading with 11 HRs already 5th in RBI.

• Santana a league leader in BA

• Bourn back from the DL.

2Q: More Tribe

• New players providing big contributions (Reynolds, Swisher)

• Yan Gomes calls a good game (pitchers ERA < 3 when he catches) and throws out runners.

• Chisenhall sent down to AAA Columbus. His throwing error that led to a Tiger run probably sealed the decision since he was already struggling at the plate.

3Q: NBA Lottery Next Week

• Cavs have the third best shot at landing the top overall pick.

  • Orlando 25%

  • Charlotte 19.9%

  • Cleveland 15.6%

  • Phoenix 11.9%

  • New Orleans 8.8%

• The also own the Lakers pick (#19) and #31 and #33.

• Play the Lottery game to see what might happen.

4Q: Who Might the Cavs Select?

• Nerlens Noel is the top candidate for most teams.

• Oladipo, McLemore, Burke, Porter are other top prospects but may not all fit with the Cavs.

It’s time for Summer movie season! Iron Man 3 gets things off to a great start. We’ll give you a review without revealing (too many) spoilers. Some other major movies are in the news, too. Harry Potter is getting more room in Florida. This, plus a cool mobile app for marching band aficionados. And the week in Nerd History.

Hosts: Tom Kresic, John Kresic, Mike Kresic

Running Time: 37:06

Mobile App of the Week:

• Time to plan halftime for the marching band with Drillbook Next from Scott Rundell

Nerd News:

• The Summer Movie season is off to a great start, thanks to Tony Stark. Iron Man 3 does gonzo business at the US box office in it’s first weekend. What did we think?

• Tom Cruise signs on to do a fifth Mission Impossible. Are they really impossible if he can keep doing them?

• Jurassic Park 4 gets delayed.

• Star Trek: Into Darkness is up next. John really knows nothing about it.

• Disney contracts EA to do Star Wars games

• Universal Studios making more room for Harry Potter in Florida.

• Are you one of the 78,000 people that applied to live on Mars?

This Week in Nerd History:

• May 10, 1869 – Promontory Summit, Utah where the linking of the two railways is marked by a golden spike.

• May 8, 1959 – The final broadcast of One Man’s Family was heard on NBC radio after being on the air 27 years. The show had completed 3,256 episodes since its beginning back in 1932.

What does the BMC acquisition to go private mean for innovation? Microsoft, SAP and Adobe make moves to leverage software as a service and subscription models. Plus, it’s the top of the month so we’ve got IT conferences to tell you about. And some reading for NoSQL pros.

Hosts: John Kresic, Tom Kresic, Mike Kresic

Running Time: 42:16

IT Pro News:

• BMC is going private in a $6.9 Billion deal.

• Shareholders file $1 Billion lawsuit against HP for the Autonomy fiasco.

• Microsoft expanding Office Web Apps. But where is the iOS support?

• Microsoft also working on Windows desktop-as-a-service and Windows Blue.

• The strategy for SAP lives in the cloud.

• Adobe explains its move to licensing software on a subscription basis.

Conference Calendar:

• We cover upcoming IT Conferences during the 1st show of each month.

• Is there a conference you think we should be mentioning in this segment? Let us know!

• Azure Jump Start session, May 16, online

• Microsoft TechEd North America – June 3-6, New Orleans, LA

• Microsoft Build, June 25-28, San Francisco

• Microsoft TechEd Europe – June 25-28, Madrid, Spain

• VMworld US – August 25-29, San Francisco, CA

• VMworld Europe – October 15-17, Barcelona, Spain

IT Pro Bookshelf:

• NoSQL data modeling techniques

Microsoft surpasses a big milestone as a hybrid cloud provider. But the Open Data Center Alliance wants to help you avoid vendor lock-in. And IBM makes an appliance for the ‘Internet of things’. These stories, plus news from the IBM Impact conference and a great article on BYOD.

Hosts: John Kresic, Tom Kresic, Mike Kresic

Running Time: 32:49

IT Pro News:

• Has Microsoft surpassed VMware in hybrid cloud management?

• Lookout Amazon, Microsoft Azure sales surpass $1 Billion.

• Are you worried about vendor lock-in once you move your data to the public cloud? You’re not alone and the Open Data Center Alliance is trying to do something about it.

• IBM launches an appliance for the Internet of things.

Conference Calendar:

• We cover upcoming IT Conferences during the 1st show of each month.

• Is there a conference you think we should be mentioning in this segment? Let us know!

IT Pro Bookshelf:

• In his continuing series, Doug Newdick’s overview of BYOD

• Video and interviews from IBM Impact conference.

Can you give Joe Banner a passing grade for the Draft when he passed on two rounds altogether? We’ve got the recap of the players the new Browns Front Office picked, and the picks that they traded, during the 2013 NFL Draft. It’s GameTime!

Hosts: Mike Kresic, Tom Kresic

Running Time: 41:43

1Q: The Browns add some Bark to the Dawg Pound

• Browns picks.

• The scenario most fans wanted to unfold, did. CB Dee Milliner was available for the Browns at #6. But they went another way and took LSU DE/LB Barkevious Mingo to the fold.

• He’s the fastest pass rusher in the draft, but also a very light 240 pounds.

• Interestingly, this is about the size of Chip Banks and he turned out to be a pretty good player (though off-the-field problems ruined his career).

• DC Ray Horton promised an aggressive defense and this gives the Browns an OLB to play opposite Paul Kruger and (hopefully) give the Browns their best pass rushing attack since they’ve been back.

• Jabaal Sheard is also projected to be an OLB, so unless they end up moving him, this should give the team some depth at LB.

2Q: Browns go for a CB in the 3rd round

• Finally addressing a glaring need, they nab CB Leon McFadden from San Diego State (Sipe’s alma mater).

• At 5-9 5/8 he is undersized. He has to face the likes of AJ Green (2x) & Calvin Johnson this year.

• On the plus side, he played a lot at SDSU and was in a pass-happy conference, so he should have a lot of good experience playing the position.

• Aside from his lack of size, he was also the 11th CB drafted.

• Our alternatives are Buster Skrine or Chris Owens (signed from ATL)

3Q: Then the Browns punted.

• Traded with the STEELERS ! Traded our 4th rd pick for their 3rd rd pick next year.
• Traded our 5th rd pick for the Colts 4th rd pick next year.
• C’mon. They weren’t ANY guys that could have helped us there? There were still some good Safeties on the board.
• PIT used our pick to draft one (Shermarko Thomas, Syracuse).
• Phillip Thomas (Fresno St) was taken later in the round.
• Unless the Browns didn’t have them rated as 4th/5th rounders.
• We took Jamoris Slaughter (Notre Dame) in Rd 6. Tore his Achilles Tendon in GM3 last year and didn’t expect to be drafted at all.
• Two picks in Rd 7 from Div II schools. DE Armonty Bryant (East Central – Okla) and OL Garrett Gilkey (Chadron State – NEB)

4Q: Traded for WR Davone Bess

• acquired Bess from the Dolphins for a swap of picks

• signed him to three year extension already

• never had <50 receptions as a pro

• a veteran that works best as a slot receiver (we’ve lacked a vet there since Jurevicius)

• with addition of Buffalo WR David Nelson, the WR spot is getting crowded (Gordon, Little, Bess, Josh Cooper, Travis Benjamin, Jordan Norwood)

A fantastic way to play pong… if you have a skyscraper available to you. Plus news about some routers that just aren’t secure. Do you have one? All this and more, including our mobile app pick and the week in nerd history.

Hosts: Tom Kresic, John Kresic, Mike Kresic

Running Time: 30:48

Mobile App of the Week:

• Videoscope App – video processor app with various special effects. Kind of neat way to take some pics. Here’s one of me getting scanned into the Grid.

Nerd News:

• Are those long slow drives home from work boring you to tears? One company wants to ease your gridlock pain by putting a drum kit in your steering wheel. Who needs air bags?

• Get you a$$ to Mars! That’s what Arnold said. But in July the search will begin for astronauts to go on the Mars Colony Project.

• Some of the most popular home routers are not secure. How vulnerable is your home router?

• Want a cool way to have kids learn Java programming language? Check out what Codespell did.

• Philadelphia provided the biggest pong game ever. On skyscrapers no less.

This Week in Nerd History:

• April 22, 1864 – The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that mandates that the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.

• April 21, 1934 – The “Surgeon’s Photograph”, the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail (in 1999, it is revealed to be a hoax)

• April 22, 1970 – The first Earth Day is celebrated.

IBM reportedly ready to sell off their x86 server line. Botnet targets are on the rise. And Microsoft gets two-factor authentication for web services.

Hosts: John Kresic, Tom Kresic, Mike Kresic

Running Time: 30:12

IT Pro News:

• IBM reportedly in talks to sell its x86 server line to Lenovo.

• Symantec claims industrial espionage is on the rise and SMBs are a target.

• Microsoft plans to boost security with two-factor login.

• Microsoft also announces moves to match Amazon Web Services.

• Forbes says integration is one problem that Microsoft, and many others, have not been able to solve.

Conference Calendar:

• We cover upcoming IT Conferences during the 1st show of each month.

• Is there a conference you think we should be mentioning in this segment? Let us know!

IT Pro Bookshelf:

• A history of AMD on ArsTechnica

Pilot Flying J is in big trouble. How will this affect the Browns? This mess makes the NFL Draft seem much less important, but it’s still coming on Thursday. What do the Banner/Lombardi duo have in store? We’ll soon find out. It’s GameTime!

Hosts: Mike Kresic, Tom Kresic

Running Time: 43:29

1Q: FBI Affidavit alleges Haslam fully aware of fraud activities

• Innocent until proven guilty, but this can’t possibly end well for Haslam or Pilot Flying J. Best case, Haslam will be cleared, but his company won’t. And it’s not going to help sales.
• On Monday, Haslam outline his “5 point plan” which basically passed the blame to everyone else in his organization. His points include:
  • placed several employees on administrative leave.
  • hiring a compliance officer
  • hiring an external auditor to report to the Board
  • stopping their manual sales transactions
• What will this mean for his ownership of the Browns?
• How will the NFL (Goodell and other owners) react? Will they allow him to continue owning the team? Will they ask him to step down?
• Is this a bad dream? What in the world is happening here?

2Q: NFL Draft

• Banner & Lombardi’s 1st draft with the Browns comes up on Thursday. Could it also be their last (if another ownership change is ahead)?

• Will they trade down?

• There’s no way they take Milliner if the CB is still on the board, is there? Banner seems to value D-Line & O-Line.

• Can they find a partner to trade down and get more picks?

• There’s no way they take a QB in the 1st round, is there?

3Q: Byron Scott out as Cavs Coach

• Said he doesn’t believe he got fair shake.

• thought he’d be coaching LBJ when hired

• never had Verajao for more than 31 games in any of his 3 seasons

• where were the free agents?

• Omri Casspi?

• Team rumored to be courting Mike Brown to come back. What in the world is happening here?

• No chance Phil Jackson comes here, despite ESPN report saying that Gilbert reached out to him.

4Q: Big Ten will realign again in 2014

• Finally dumping the Legends and Leaders designation.

• Big Ten divisions will be aligned geographically and named accordingly as East and West

• Dropping protected games between divisions with one exception.

• Intended to allow teams to get 7 home games.

John talks about the new Microsoft Store that opened in our town. We’ve got more companies embracing open source and cloud, but don’t think that the traditional IT skill sets are going away any time soon.

Hosts: John Kresic, Tom Kresic, Mike Kresic

Running Time: 33:57

IT Pro News:

• John attends the Microsoft Store opening in Beachwood, OH

• Who’s running Citrix Xen, as it’s part of the of Linux Foundation now ?

• OpenStack endorsed by Redhat with RDO

• A $10 Billion market for AWS?

• Enterprise Software ain’t dead yet?

• How little of your time is spent on building software?

Conference Calendar:

• We cover upcoming IT Conferences during the 1st show of each month.

• Is there a conference you think we should be mentioning in this segment? Let us know!

• Currently in the planning phase for three IT conferences, Mike shares some tips for conference registration and planning.

IT Pro Bookshelf:

Time to catch up on your reading, so no new items for the bookshelf this week!

We’ve got lots of amazing new gadgets to talk about, even if we can’t afford all of them. We’ve got a couple of handy real estate apps and our week in Nerd history.

Hosts: Tom Kresic, John Kresic, Mike Kresic

Running Time: 32:07

Mobile App of the Week:

• Trulia app – real estate app

• Zillow app – real estate app

Nerd News:

• Need to get around town and don’t want to mess with the size and cost of a Segway? Then its time to go solo. wheel. Solowheel.

• If you don’t like one wheel, how about 4? Zboard, for the skating elite.

• OK so growing up, I thought the Emperer’s chair in Empire Strikes Back was cool, but I don’t think it was as useful as this: The Emperor 1510

• I thought Turbonium was cool. Germanium? What?

• Got a need to scan some stuff for your 3D printer? Check out the Matterform.

• Solar panel charger that sticks to a window. XDModo.

This Week in Nerd History:

• April 15, 1924 – Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.

• April 15, 1955 – McDonald’s restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois

• April 14, 1956 – In Chicago, Illinois, videotape is first demonstrated