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Larry Greenberg – Larry has always had a passion for gear and gadgets. It all started for him with the release of the very first Palm Pilot. He has always had an interest in handheld electronics. From handheld PDAs, to cell phones, Mp3 players, watches and other products, Larry is the first person his friends, family and colleagues call when they need advice on tech.

Larry has roots in the online tech. forum community. He served as the Administrator to Howard Forums.com and as a Moderator at both Treo Central.com and Blackberry Forums.net. Under the screen name “lgreenberg” he’s amassed 50,000+ postings. He’s always eager to help.

As a Blackberry user he ran a web site showcasing accessory reviews for the Blackberry. However that all changed when the iPhone was born, and Larry has since become a Mac user through and through. He recently launched a You Tube channel doing product reviews for the iPhone.

Larry is a trained Chef and a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America. He worked in the food industry as a Chef, Food Researcher, in Sales and Marketing and in Recipe Development for close to twenty years.

While living in NYC Larry was greatly effected by the events of 9/11 and shortly after left the foodservice industry and fulfilled his dream of becoming a firefighter. Larry likes to say that he takes his gear places where most people don’t dream of going and if they do it’s probably a nightmare.

Now living in the suburbs of Philadelphia Larry spends his time with the Ludwig’s Corner Fire Company. When he’s not answering the fire alarm he’s usually caring for his three young daughters. Larry also enjoys running and is planning on running his 10th full marathon in May of ’09.

Jason Reese – Jason has worked in IT and telecommunications the last 12 years, focusing on wireless/mobile technology and applications for the last 5 — which has become his passion. Mobile applications have become the “great new frontier” and our devices (don’t call it a phone or pager) are now just beginning to live up to the promise we’ve been hearing about for so long.

A native of of Johnson City, TN, Jason moved to Atlanta in ‘94 and has been there ever since. Jason was fortunate enough to support emergency teams sent to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina and was able to see how a wide scope of mobile devices and applications made a positive impact to not only restore services to families — but even save lives.

When Jason isn’t working to promote and support new technologies in the enterprise, he is spending time trying (key word) to pick up the latest updates in mobile application development — working on Java/J2ME for BlackBerry, xCode for iPhone, and Android. Maybe one day he’ll have enough time to get proficient and even add some more to the ever growing list.

Jason lives in Atlanta with his wife, Stephanie and their dog. They enjoy traveling, cooking, spending time with family and friends, and — of course — technology.

Michael Anderson – Despite living in New York’s ‘Southern Tier’ (more precisely the ‘Crystal City’ of Corning) for nearly a year, Mike and his family still consider themselves Massachusetts natives. They love the vineyards and hiking and climbing offered by the Finger Lakes, but miss the Boston influence on arts and shopping. Mike made the move to work as a Statistician with Corning Incorporated, famous for products such as Pyrex and Corelle, but now the biggest maker of optical fiber, LCD flat panel glass and ceramic filters for car and truck engines.

Mike has been a techno-junkie for ages, mixing a love for gadgets, computers, electronic music making, and video games. From the Apple ][ to the HP 200LX to a new Macbook Pro powering Mac & Windows games and music software, he has had his fingers in nearly every generation of device ... except for phones, which have remained fairly utilitarian for him. This hasn't ben helped by restrictions at his last two employers, including a 'no camera' rule at Corning. His main gadgets right now are a new 15" Macbook Pro, a Lenovo s10 netbook, a Dell Axim x51v, a Nintendo DS, a Sony PSP and a Motorola Z6cx phone.

While not crunching numbers for Corning, Mike and the family enjoy spending time outdoors and generally doing stuff together - anything from hiking and biking to watching movies and playing board games or thrashing around playing Guitar Hero World Tour.

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Adrian Leibas - Adrian is 27 years old and lives in Newark, Ohio with his wife Katie, 2-month old son Cooper, and two cats Tyson & Samar. He is a claims adjuster for State Farm Auto Insurance, and he has also worked in their systems department. He was a computer science major at Mt. Vernon Nazarene University, where he also played baseball. He quickly realized that he did not like writing code or script, which is why he changed both majors and schools, graduating from Franklin University with a BS in Business and minor in HR Management.

Adrian has been a gadget enthusiast as far back as he can remember, and his wife might say that he spends more time in Best Buy than he does with her. In his spare time he likes to spend time with his new little family, reading, watching baseball, and assistant coaching on his high school varsity baseball team. He is also in the process of deciding if he is ready for the transition from PC to Mac, as he's sure many of you can relate.

Carly Z - Carly blames her sense of humor on genetics and walking into too many things head first as a child. She developed a love of gadgets sometime in college and it has snowballed since then. She loves her macbook, but cheats on it with a windows mobile phone (Samsung Epix). Her non-geek time is spent hanging out with her dog and patient and wonderful girlfriend, reading voraciously, and being a bum around the house. Occasionally she remembers to do her chores.

Carly majored in philosophy in college, a degree that while fun, is generally non-applicable to real life. However, she's always available for discussions of whether a chair is really a chair, and whether your pinkie can be you if it contains your personality.

She lives in New Jersey, and is one of the few residents of the state who maintains there are good parts to it beyond being close to New York City.

Jeff Frantz - Like many geeks, Jeff’s interest in computers and technology began by watching too many Star Trek reruns after school. His first computer was a Timex-Sinclair, for which he had the 16K – yes, 16K - add-on pack. His current interest in gadgets was spurred on by the original Palm Pilot; from there it was a slippery slope to Pocket PCs, Archos media players, Sony Cliés, and various Apple products.

Jeff’s non-technology hobbies include listening to music, reading, playing golf very poorly, and spending time with his family. To fund his gadget hobby, he works as an environmental planner for a large engineering consulting firm.

Jeff lives in the Chicago area with his wife and daughter.

Jessica Fritsche - Jessica Fritsche is a writer, editor, and designer hailing from Dallas, TX.  She is currently the associate editor for So New Publishing, blogs about writing at paper graffiti and about technology at Daily Tech Diva.

Jessica is an Internet junkie-slash-geek. She has been an early adopter since somewhere around the age of 3 or 4, when her father brought home an Apple ][ computer and she became addicted to Frogger.  It was all downhill from there, and now you'll have to pry her technology from her cold dead hands. She is an avid Apple and Ubuntu user and is always on the prowl for the "next best thing" in gadgets. By day, Jessica works in the eLearning industry writing, designing, and managing corporate adult learning and marketing projects.  The rest of the time you’ll find her blogging, reading, listening to her vast music collection, playing video games, doing something with new media, plugging away on her first novel, or spending time with her husband Shawn and their three cats.

Raymond Ser – Profile coming soon…he promises!

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Drew Guttadore – Drew is a native of Denver Co, who currently resides in Sydney, Australia.  He worked for many years in a number of IT roles, but made the switch to Marketing after running his own company and realising Sales & Marketing rocks!  Since then a variety of roles across the globe have kept him following his true passion, which is learning about new places and cultures.

Mitchell Oke – Mitchell Oke is a 19 year old university student studying film and TV production at the JMC Academy “down under” in Sydney, Australia. He has a great love for gadgets, always wanting to have the latest and greatest phones, PDAs and other electronic toys.

He is a huge fan of Star Trek, Seinfeld and NCIS, citing them as his favourite TV shows. In December 2006 he became a Mac convert, having used Windows since he was 5. Gadgets he uses regularly are his MacBook Pro with HSDPA Data Card, Nokia N95 8GB, 16GB iPod Touch and Canon 400D DSLR, as well as a self-built Media Centre PC running Vista displayed on a 26″ Samsung LCD TV.