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Verizon Completes Industry’s First Multisupplier Trial of Control Plane Technology. Control plane technology is the next critical step in the evolution of optical networks. By enabling electronic devices in the network to quickly and easily exchange information, control plane technology simplifies operations and enables near real-time provisioning of communications links. Vishnu Shukla, principal member of the technology staff at Verizon, explains how control plane [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sherman ISD Leverages E-Rate Program to Enhance Educational Experience As one of the nation’s leading providers of communications services through the E-rate program, Verizon Business has worked with K-12 educators over the past decade to expand the availability of advanced services. E-rate, a program directed by the Federal Communications Commission, is designed to help school districts and libraries across the United States obtain affordable [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Symantec Security Trends 2008-2009 In this podcast, Symantec Technical Director, Zulfikar Ramzan, provides an overview of the key security trends from 2008, and talks about what can be expected trends for 2009. For more information visit the PR Newsroom at www.symantec.com. Tags: Symantec, security Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BearingPoint Launches Technology Journal on Cost Management for IT Organizations Join BearingPoint Managing Director ,Julien Courbe, as he walks us through the latest edition of BearingPoint’s Financial Services Technology Journal on cost management for IT organizations. The fluctuations of financial services firms’ business volumes reflect the cyclical nature of the overall financial markets. These dynamics are often caused by specific crises or a slowdown in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Verizon Business Offers Teleworking Insights As companies look to equip an increasingly global and mobile workforce, operate more efficiently, and protect the environment,teleworking - keeping employees connected to corporate resources whether working from home or an alternative work location, such as a hotelling site - has become a hot and sometimes heated topic for consideration.Nancy Gofus, senior vice president of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Open Collaborative Architecture&Symantec Developer Program In this podcast, Rob Clyde, Vice President of Technology and Stephen Morton, Vice President of Product Management discuss the announcement of Symantec’s Open Collaborative Architecture and the new Symantec Developer Program which allow greater interoperability with Symantec solutions and provide customers, partners and ISVs with the ability to integrate applications with the Symantec Management Platform. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Perspectives From Guy Kawasaki: On Twitter, His Book: Reality Check And Life Guy Kawasaki is one of the most well known marketers in the world. His new book Reality Check is making its way to the best seller list. Marketing Voices host Jennifer Jones caught him at his home and discussed the new book and Guy’s favorite chapter on entrepreneur’s lies. Jones and Kawasaki also get into [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website VMworld 2008: Intel Keynote - Collaboration for Leading Virtualization Deployments Intel’s Doug Fisher and VMware CTO Steve Herrod met at VMworld 2008 to discuss the collaboration between Intel and VMware that will continue deliver leading virtualization deployments. Fisher is vice president, software and solutions group and general manager of SSG’s Systems Software Division. For more information, expert advice and answers, and the latest Xeon series blogs and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website XML and Enterprise Content Management XML technologies can solve a broad range of business problems around application integration, information access, business process improvement, and compliance. In this EMC technology innovation video podcast, Jerry Silver, XML product marketing manager at EMC, discusses how the combination of advanced XML processing with enterprise content management can help organizations increase business value for all [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Creating a Disaster Recovery Plan with VMware Virtualization Software Learn how to use VMware virtualization software to create a disaster recovery plan for your organization that is rapid, reliable and affordable. Speaker: Jon Bock, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, VMware Tags: VMware, Jon Bock, virtualization, disaster recovery Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website VMWorld08: XEON 7400 Series: Leading Performance with IBM Intel’s Xeon 7400-series processor made a solid impact in 2008, with multiple top scores in benchmark surveys and powerful implementations. What does it mean for virtualization performance, especially as the enterprise moves toward virtualizing its most critical applications with a new generation of virtualization technology? In this video podcast, IBM’s Robert Zuber speaks with Beth Carlton [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Recession Marketing: Virtual Events Leverage Smaller Budgets In these tough economic times, marketer’s budgets are getting slashed and the situation requires innovative thinking to leverage small dollars. Virtual events are now part of the marketing mix and a good means of creating marketing dollar leverage. Jennifer Jones spoke to Brent Arslaner of Unisfair, a virtual events company for marketing and recruiting purposes [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PCI Express 3.0* Intel Chip Chat - Episode 36 PCIe 3.0 will double the bandwidth of the previous generation of this I/O interconnect and will improve power management of platforms - from notebooks to new generation servers. Tags: PCIe, PCIe 3.0, PCI Express, Intel, Intel Chip Chat Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Billing Transformation Means Leaner, Cleaner Bills for Verizon Business Customers Verizon Business has undertaken an extensive billing transformation project focused on providing a world-class customer experience for its large-business and government customers. By reducing the number of billing systems, enhancing self-service options and offering a single billing platform across virtually all accounts, the company has raised the bar on billing performance. Dave Landry, executive [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intel and VMware: Virtualization 2.0 At VMWorld 2008, “Virtualization 2.0″ was the talk of the show. Intel’s Andy Fields met up with Dave Martin from VMware to discuss the collaboration between the two companies, and to explain the impacts of the newsmaking Dunnington release on enabling virtualization. For more information, expert advice and answers, and the latest Xeon series blogs and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Disaster Recovery in the Datacenter Managing your enterprise datacenter with VMware Virtualization Disaster Recovery Solutions. Speaker: Jon Bock, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, VMware Tags: Disaster Recovery, enterprise datacenter, VMware, Virtualization, Disaster Recovery Solutions, Jon Bock Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Where is Unified Communications Going? As a concept, “unified communications” has been around for awhile. It can mean anything from bringing all business communications into a single, seamless user experience to bringing global collaboration and conferencing technologies onto the same basic platform as traditional voice and text communications systems. It’s one of the most exciting ways in which technology is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Understanding UDAP Legislation to Find Revenue Opportunities Join BearingPoint Managing Director Chris Estes and Manager Eileen Perrin in understanding the UDAP Legislation. In May 2008, the Federal Reserve, OTC and NCUA proposed a regulation under section 5(a) of the Federal Trade Commission Act, affectionately known as UDAP (Unfair and Deceptive Acts and Practices). The proposed regulation addresses overdraft processing and credit [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intel and Sun: Business Intelligence Accelerator Time is money. BI Accelerator speeds database query response times by 10x to 100x. Here, Scott Allen, of the SAP Alliance Team at Intel, talks with Sun Microsystem’s Gilly Clough. Clough is a principal SAP architect, and they discuss the advantages that Intel blades bring to Sun’s offerings around the Business Intelligence Accelerator and Solaris [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intel’s Core i7 The Core i7 microprocessor (built on Intel’s Nehalem microarchitecture) represents a major advance in computing to enable chips to handle more data. In this video podcast, Ronak Singhal, a lead architect on Nehalem, says the chip design is an overhaul–the internal core has been changed significantly for added performance, as well as for better energy [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ubiquitous Internet in the Digital Home - Intel Chip Chat– Episode 35 Intel enables the right hardware and software development for dedicated solutions in the growing consumer market segments for ubiquitous Internet in the digital home. Tags: Intel, ubiquitous Internet, Digital Home, Chip Chat Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Citizen Journalism Plus A New Local Ad Model: Topix, The Largest News Community On The Web Chris Tolles, CEO of Topix, and Jennifer Jones discuss the pros and cons of citizen journalism and the objectivity of journalists today. Tolles also describes how Topix which is the largest news community on the web provides an interesting business model for marketers to advertise locally. Tolles mentions how Walgreens used Topix to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radical Rethinking in Chip Design: Intel’s Core i7 Ready to Launch At Intel’s Jones Farm Campus in Hillsboro, Oregon, the new Core i7 chip is going through the rigors of testing. Stephen Gunther is Power Management Architect at Intel who shows how the new Turbo Mode feature revolutionizes multi-core processor performance, giving the best of both worlds – high performance and optimal [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website With New Advanced Web Platform, Verizon Business Helps Welsh Assembly Government Keep Citizens Informed Learn how Verizon Business’ application content management service is helping customers, such as the Welsh Assembly Government, quickly, securely and easily update online content through a simple and intuitive Web interface. In this podcast, Arjan Van Proosdij, senior product marketing manager – IT solutions and hosting, Verizon Business, is joined by Stuart Fitzgerald, head [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intel and HP: Rethinking Virtualization Business are modernizing their SAP landscapes, preparing for ERP6.0 migration. Intel’s Enis Skillern speaks with James G. White, SAP modernization director for HP, about the technologies from the two companies that help enterprises keep costs low while allowing for maximum flexibility and scalability. For more information, expert advice and answers, and the latest Xeon series blogs [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Managing VMware and Your Enterprise Infrastructure The VMware Virtual Datacenter Operating System is now an integral part of the enterprise infrastructure for many customers and needs to be managed alongside other infrastructure in the environment. We’ll discuss how VMware works with key partners to enable integrated management of VMware Infrastructure in the datacenter. Featured Speakers: David Friedlander, Senior Product Marketing Manager, VMware Ryan Day, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TubeMogul: A Single Point For Uploading Video on the Web Given the tons of videos that are online now, how does a marketer get video distributed? Enter Tubemogul, a free service that provides some one a place to upload video and track it. Jennifer Jones spoke to Mark Rotblat, VP of Sales and Marketing for tubemogul, and learned how anyone who wants to get an [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MailShadow Syncs Outlook to Gmail and Google Apps Cemaphore Systems’ MailShadow for Google Apps keeps your Microsoft Outlook environment in sync with Gmail, Google Calendar, and Gmail Contacts. Make a change in one, and the other is instantly updated to reflect the change. MailShadow for Google Apps is receiving a lot of attention since organizations can eliminate the expensive infrastructure, hardware, and co-location [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Verizon Business 2008 Data Breach Investigations Report - Part II In Part II of this podcast series on the Verizon Business 2008 Data Breach Investigations Report, Bryan Sartin, director of investigative response for Verizon Business Security Solutions, summarizes key report findings and discusses actions enterprises can take to help prevent data breaches. Based on an analysis of hundreds of corporate data breaches, including three of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Tools Unleash vPro’s Power Activation and tools are what Intel vPro technology users need to use vPro to the fullest. In this video, Josh Hilliker, community manager of Intel’s online vPro Expert Center, with Tim “The Tool Guy” Duncan and Michele Gartner of the vPro Activation zone, introduces the tools available to IT professionals to make activating their [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intel vPro Experts Say Activate Now “We’ve got the right tools, the right place, the right time: now is the time to activate,” said Intel vPro Expert Center Community Manager Josh Hilliker. What’s he talking about? Intel’s vPro technology, and the tools available to help end-users self-activate their vPro systems, taking them, as Hilliker says, “from zero to 60.” In this [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Winning the battle for new end-user revenue by creating a killer Service Delivery Environment with Alcatel-Lucent IP has enabled the IT, Telephony, Web, and Broadcast domains to battle for the subscriber’s wallet. Successful players in this radical market environment must have a Service Delivery Environment (SDE) built on a vision and framework which will enable them to quickly take advantage of the new trends, new service requirement opportunities and find ways [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Reboot: The Pro Gamer Experience Gaming is a hobby for most people, but a select few have enough talent and dedication to make it a career. Tournaments for popular games like Halo 3, Guitar Hero, Madden and NBA 2k8 are held all around the world, with huge prizes at stake. In this episode of The Reboot, host Rio Pesino puts [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nehalem Microarchitecture - Intel Chip Chat - Episode 27 In this audio podcast, Nehalem lead architect Ronak Singhal discusses the significant performance and power improvements of Intel’s latest leap in microarchitectural design. The technology has significant implications for dynamic scalability, design and performance scalability, simultaneous multi-threading, scalable shared memory and multi-level shared caching. The ground-up design takes advantage of the hafnium-based Intel 45nm hi-k [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Global Enterprises View VDI As A Natural Progression In Virtualization - Part 2 Why is Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) such a “buzzword” within enterprises today? In this podcast, John Lens, who works with some of the largest companies in the world as a VMware Global Account Manager, shares customer stories and explains why VDI is a compelling solution for the enterprise. (Check out the first part of this [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What’s New: IdeaBlade Agile Development in the Real World Hear how IdeaBlade, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, is using Agile Software Development to improve the quality of their product. In this session, William Leong, ISV Architect Evangelist, talks with Ward Bell, VP of Product Management at IdeaBlade, on how they have implemented Agile methods in their product development lifecycle. Since there are many ways [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What’s New: Logotec Bringing Mobility to CRM Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 is a three-tier application that can help organizations manage front office processes, such as sales, marketing, and customer service, and serve as a development platform for business applications in different industry verticals. The platform aspects let you focus on your core needs by providing you rapid development toolkit, well documented SDK, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Global Enterprises View VDI As A Natural Progression In Virtualization - Part 1 Why is Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) such a “buzzword” within enterprises today? In this podcast, John Lens, who works with some of the largest companies in the world as a VMware Global Account Manager, shares customer stories and explains why VDI is a compelling solution for the enterprise. Speakers: Tyler “T-Rex” Rohrer, Product Marketing Manager, VMware John Lens, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What’s New: Cincom Implementing Dynamics CRM Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 is a three-tier application that can help organizations manage front office processes, such as sales, marketing, and customer service, and serve as a development platform for business applications in different industry verticals. The platform aspects let you focus on your core needs by providing you rapid development toolkit, well documented SDK, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website blip.tv: Cool Service For Hosting Video, Marketer’s Delight If you have not heard or seen blip.tv yet, go check it out. It’s a free service for creators of user-generated content and it works well. In this podcast, Jennifer Jones speaks with Dina Kaplan, co-founder of blip.tv, to learn how serialized video shows for the Web are making it big. blip.tv handles everything so [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Vital Role of Mortgage Servicer Join BearingPoint senior manager Marianne Lamkin as she explores the role of a mortgage servicer and why the role is so important. Typically, a mortgage servicer collects payments from the borrowers, and above all, manages the day-to-day relationship. When a borrower cannot commit to a payment schedule or has come into an unfortunate time, the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Former Organic CEO Mark Kingdon On the Power of Persona In an increasingly complex world of demographic, psychographic and ethnographic research, it’s no longer safe to assume that companies actually know their customers. Harnessing the power of persona or a representative profile, which summarizes a key demographic target is a powerful means of figuring out the customer today. Mark Kingdon, formerly CEO of Organic, a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vision 2008 Preview: Financial Services Industry Executive Summit In this podcast, David Miner, Sr.Director of Worldwide Financial Services Industry Solutions, provides a preview of the Financial Services Industry Executive Summit that will take place at the Symantec Vision 2008 conference. Visit vision.symantec.com/fin_vision for more information on the summit or www.symantec.com/vision. Tags: David Miner, Worldwide Financial Services Industry Solutions, Symantec Vision, Symantec Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Reboot: Xbox Spring Showcase 2008 Several new games were unveiled at the Xbox Spring Showcase in San Francisco. Gears of War II, Fable 2, Too Human and Ninja Gaiden II were just a few of the games on display. The Reboot’s Rio Pesino was at the showcase to give you an inside look into the event. Tags: Xbox, Gears of War [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website e-Discovery Virtual Roundtable This podcast is a virtual roundtable on the topic of e-Discovery, in which representatives from various law firms specializing in e-discovery matters come together to discuss the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) Project. For more information, visit www.symantec.com/ev Tags: e-Discovery, Electronic Discovery Reference Model Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Battle to Monitor Reputational Risk Join BearingPoint senior manager Larry Taylor as he explores the importance of managing reputational risk. Reputational risk is a term that is typically used to identify the result of something that changes the perspective of a company. A prime example is the recent credit crisis. Even companies that were not directly affected by it, but [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intel Helps Developers With Multi-Threaded Software Community In this podcast, The Register’s Tim Phillips speaks with Intel’s Shesha Krishnapura about developers’ adoption of multi-core technology. Krishnapura sees that, while multi-core processors have been around for awhile, now is an especially exciting time for multi-threaded software, given the uptake in industry and the increasingly urgent need for the software that will help to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The meaning of the “v” in Intel vPro Technology When Intel released Intel vPro technology into the marketplace in 2006, the press asked us what the “v” in Intel vPro technology meant. Now that the technology has been in the marketplace for almost two years, we thought that the best answer to the question, “What does the “v” in Intel vPro technology mean to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intel’s Craig Barrett: Malaysia’s on Track Intel’s Craig Barrett says that private companies can’t go it alone when trying to make a difference in developing markets, and neither can governments. In a visit to Malaysia, the chairman of the chip giant stopped off at Penang, where the company has committed itself to help local schools. Barrett, a former professor at Stanford [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intel Lowers Energy Costs for High Performance Computing The current uptake in high performance computing means mostly good things, but it also comes with a few built-in challenges. The paradox of this particular progress is this: when you scale hardware, you oftentimes scale power consumption, right along with it. That’s where Intel’s Shesha Krishnapura has some good news to share, in this podcast [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building Confidence In Enterprise Security: Debunking Four Myths of IT Risk Management (Part 4) This is Part Four of the fourth episode of the “Building Confidence in Enterprise Security” video podcast series, featuring Samir Kapuria and Andre Gold. In this segment, the pair discuss the myth that IT Risk Management is a science. Visit the Building Confidence in Enterprise Security Blog. Tags: Samir Kapuria, Andre Gold, blog, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building Confidence In Enterprise Security: Debunking Four Myths of IT Risk Management (Part 3) This is Part Three of the fourth episode of the “Building Confidence in Enterprise Security” video podcast series, featuring Samir Kapuria and Andre Gold. In this segment, the pair discuss the myth that technology alone mitigates IT risk. Visit the Building Confidence in Enterprise Security Blog. Tags: Samir Kapuria, Andre Gold, blog, Symantec Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building Confidence In Enterprise Security: Debunking Four Myths of IT Risk Management (Part 2) This is Part Two of the fourth episode of the “Building Confidence in Enterprise Security” video podcast series, featuring Samir Kapuria and Andre Gold. In this segment, the pair discuss the myth that IT risk Management is a project. Visit the Building Confidence in Enterprise Security Blog. Tags: Samir Kapuria, Andre Gold, blog, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building Confidence In Enterprise Security: Debunking Four Myths of IT Risk Management (Part 1) This is Part One of the fourth episode of the “Building Confidence in Enterprise Security” video podcast series, featuring Samir Kapuria and Andre Gold. In this segment, the pair discuss the myth that IT risk is security risk. Visit the Building Confidence in Enterprise Security Blog. Tags: Samir Kapuria, Andre Gold, blog, Symantec Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building Confidence In Enterprise Security: Scoping the Challenges of Endpoint Security (Part 3) This is Part Three of the third episode of the “Building Confidence in Enterprise Security” video podcast series, featuring Samir Kapuria and Andre Gold. In this segment, the pair reviews recent survey results on the practice of endpoint security. Visit the Building Confidence in Enterprise Security Blog. Tags: Samir Kapuria, Andre Gold, blog, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building Confidence In Enterprise Security: Scoping the Challenges of Endpoint Security (Part 2) This is Part Two of the third episode of the “Building Confidence in Enterprise Security” video podcast series, featuring Samir Kapuria and Andre Gold. In this segment, the pair discuss the process of selecting an implementing an endpoint security solution. Visit the Building Confidence in Enterprise Security Blog. Tags: Samir Kapuria, Andre Gold, blog, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Virtualizing the Application: How Thinstall Streamlines Deployment and Support For IT professionals responsible for introducing applications into an enterprise, compatibility testing can often be a daunting exercise. You must not only test every known OS version against the application, but you also need to understand what other applications may conflict with this new application. Application compatibility challenges account for a large percentage of end-user [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building Confidence In Enterprise Security: Scoping the Challenges of Endpoint Security (Part 1) This is Part One of the third episode of the “Building Confidence in Enterprise Security” video podcast series, featuring Samir Kapuria and Andre Gold. In this segment, the pair discuss the importance of endpoint security in today’s environment of diverse devices connected to the corporate network. Visit the Building Confidence in Enterprise Security Blog. Tags: Samir [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intel Research Day: Showcase for Creativity When Intel’s research teams think about the future of computing - from mobile devices with near-limitless functionality to technology for the developing world to virtual worlds and advanced robotics, they are literally mapping our future (a future that could include, for example, a cafe table with networking ability). In this podcast preview of the 2008 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Verizon Business Expands Consulting Services Meeting the growing demand from large corporations for high-tech services, Verizon Business is significantly increasing the number and range of its professional consulting services. Nancy Gofus, senior vice president and chief marketing officer, Verizon Business, discusses how the company is now delivering a standardized set of more than 50 professional services in 30 countries around [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Symantec Vision 2008 Preview: Financial Services Industry Executive Summit In this podcast, David Miner, senior director of Worldwide Financial Services Industry Solutions, provides a preview of the Financial Services Industry Executive Summit that will take place at the Symantec Vision 2008 conference. Visit http://vision.symantec.com/fin_vision for more information about the summit. Also, visit www.symantec.com/vision. Tags: David Miner, Symantec, Symantec Vision 2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website F5 and HP Partner to Optimize SharePoint Server 2007 HP ran tests on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 using F5 technology, and the results were dramatic: F5’s BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager with WebAccelerator improved throughput to the branch office by up to 8x in a symmetric configuration. Listen to this podcast to hear about the testing methodologies and results, discussed by Jimi Ibbett, senior member [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intel to Work with Grameen Bank In a surprise announcement at the 16th World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Intel Chairman Craig Barrett informed a keynote audience that the world’s biggest chipmaker would work together with Grameen Bank. The financial institution was started by Professor Muhammad Yunus as a way to provide credit to the rural poor [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Citizen Journalism: Evolving Relationship Between the Press and the Public Everyone has the power to participate in communication today through blogs and community groups. Many bloggers have become powerful, given the popularity of their blogs. Some have become citizen journalists - citizens who play “an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news.” But with millions reading their words through a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Infopia’s SaaS eCommerce Platform for Growing eTailers Applying the right technology solutions to enhance business growth is something Bjorn Espenes, CEO at Infopia, is passionate about. As a growth company itself, Infopia delivers a SaaS (software as a service) eCommerce platform for businesses that need to manage the common operational challenges that growth creates. Things like inventory management and merchandising, order management, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Deal Keynote: Kenneth D. Moelis Kenneth Moelis has a unique talent for translating his 25-year career on Wall Street into the kind of information that financial specialists from the Street and beyond need the most. In this keynote podcast, Moelis puts the current Wall Street climate in clear perspective, from explaining how he sees the terrain post-Bear Stearns to the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Reboot: Top Five Things You Must Do in GTA IV Grand Theft Auto IV has been out for a few weeks now, and most hardcore gamers have probably finished the story mode. So what else is there to do in Liberty City? Plenty. In this episode of The Reboot, host Rio Pesino gives you his top-five list of the things you must do in GTA [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Deal - Gary W. Parr on Sovereign Wealth Funds “None of us smart enough to call the bottom in financials or any other industry,” says Gary W. Parr, vice chairman at independent investment bank Lazard. Noting the value to investors of structuring deals for a few years of protection before converting to common, Parr says he’s seen funds change their practices to keep up [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Deal - Opportunities in a Sluggish Market When times get tough, investors need to answer a few key questions: which industries are most attractive for investment? What deal structures are investors choosing? Where are sellers’ expectations? In this podcast, although there was some consensus around the prediction that deal flow in the U.S. will drop below the impressive levels it has achieved in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Deal - Deals in the Middle Market Whether you call it a credit crunch or a credit squeeze, there’s evidence to be found that the chilled climate for deals has spread from the realm of the mega-deal into the middle market. To discuss the new economic realities in deal-making, The Deal convened a panel, “Deals in the Middle Market: How do they [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CIO Digest Preview: Define Retentive: Email Document Policy Management In this podcast, writer Alan Drummer provides an overview of a CIO Digest article titled Define Retentive. Drummer expands on ways organizations can streamline their email and document management policies. For more information, visit www.symantec.com/ciodigest. Tags: CIO Digest, IT, Symantec, Alan Drummer, Define Retentive Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Taylor, formerly of Fulton County, GA Robert Taylor, CEO of KennTechnologies, Inc. and former CIO at Fulton County, Georgia, spoke with Patrick E. Spencer, Symantec’s director of publishing and customer marketing programs and editor in chief of CIO Digest, about the unique IT challenges local government CIOs face today, ranging from email and document archiving and e-discovery, to endpoint security, to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website California State Parks Explore the World of IP The California Department of Parks and Recreation is harnessing the power of IP to converge networks, increase capacity and support new capabilities. Alan Friedman, department CIO, discusses the migration from frame relay to managed MPLS and highlights how the new Verizon Business network is enabling new school outreach programs and transforming department operations, all while [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Exploiting end-user trends to create value with sticky services - The “Me” network for the “We” experience The communications industry is experiencing the explosion of the “Me-We” phenomenon! Customers want “Me” services that are personalized, easy to use and focused on their needs. At the same time they want what we call the “We” experience, access to their friends and their social communities, such as MySpace, Facebook and YouTube. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fujitsu North America CIO Discusses Working Effectively With Your Service Provider In this podcast, Jeff Meier, chief information officer for Fujitsu North America, discusses how a broad range of Verizon Business services enable his firm’s U.S.-based business operations. Meier then looks ahead to future initiatives with Verizon Business and offers personal suggestions on how to create and maintain a productive relationship with a communications services provider. Tags: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website vPro Expert Center: Where we are, where we’re headed In this podcast, we check in with Josh Hilliker, who manages Intel’s online vPro Expert Center, for a community status report. How has the community grown? What topics are people blogging, vlogging, and discussing? How is the content feeding the community — and the community enriching the content? From an online talk radio show, to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brand Engagement: The Latest Insights From Brian Haven, Forrester Analyst Brian Haven, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research talks to Marketing Voices at the Forrester Marketing Forum in Los Angeles about the latest thinking about brand engagement today. Haven tells Jennifer Jones that although social marketing is taking off and many corporations are engaging in conversations with their customers, the science of brand engagement is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Keynote Podcast: John Doerr and Michael Moritz, Live at the National Venture Capital Association In this podcast, John Doerr, partner at Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, and Mike Moritz, of Sequoia Capital, talk openly about themselves and their lives in venture capital. The keynote session was recorded live at the National Venture Capital Association May 2008 annual meeting. Doerr and Moritz are among the most successful venture capitalists practicing [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Reboot: Xbox 360 Blu-Ray in the Works? A new Xbox 360 Blu-Ray rumor is circulating around the Web. Chinese newspaper Economic Daily News claims a subsidiary of computer hardware firm Asus has been chosen by Microsoft to produce internal Blu-Ray players for the Xbox 360. Also in this episode of http://www.rebootshow.com The Reboot with Rio Pesino, the Grand Theft Auto sales war [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Virtual Desktops - The Wave of the Future? Join BearingPoint Senior Manager Laurent Mandorla as he explores the importance of virtual desktops and why they are being hailed as the wave of the future. Over the last few years, there has been a lot of buzz around virtualization, although it’s only recently that organizations have begun to embrace it. Statistics show that by [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intel ISEF 2008: Atlanta Hosts Global Science Fair In this video podcast, Dr. Oren Shriki, a science teacher at the Israel Arts and Sciences Academy, speaks about Intel’s International Science and Engineering Fair, taking place in Atlanta, May 11-16. (As excitement builds toward the event’s opening, you can follow along on a dedicated Intel ISEF blog.) Many of the best young scientists from around [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mobile Marketing: The Next Opportunity Worldwide mobile content revenues are expected to surpass $44 billion by 2011, so it shouldn’t surprise anyone that mobile entertainment and campaigns are growing annually by leaps and bounds, with marketers beginning to investigate mobile opportunities seriously. Marketing Voices spoke with the head of Phluant Mobile, David Breckling, to find out what the trends and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Reboot: Grand Theft Auto IV Launch Party Videogame chain Game Crazy held a number of Extreme GTA Experience Parties to celebrate the launch of one of the most anticipated games for 2008, Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto IV. GTA IV has received rave reviews from just about every video game Web site out there, including Gamespot, Gametrailers and IGN. The Reboot’s Rio Pesino [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Seven Steps to Better Financial Services Risk Management Join BearingPoint Managing Director Brian Hart to explore the seven steps to more effective performance and risk management. As a result of the recent credit crisis, organizations are faced with a challenge of making the best use of a very constrained balance sheet. BearingPoint has created a seven-step methodology to help organizations address these issues, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Reboot: Grand Theft Auto 4 Review Hits the Web In this episode of The Reboot with Rio Pesino, the first Grand Theft Auto 4 review is on the Web, weeks before the game’s release on April 29th. Some are questioning the validity of the review of GTA 4, which is the most-hyped game of 2008. Also on this week’s show, Call of Duty 4’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SNWSpotlight: The Week In Review It’s a busy time of year for storage folks. For the many who made it to Orlando for this show, and for those who followed online from around the world, there was plenty to learn and share, from the floor (where you might have seen this IBM System Storage on display) to the Xiotech announcement. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SNWSpotlight: 8G FC and FCoE, Solid State Storage In this podcast, a focus on the state of 8-Gigabit fibre channel and fibre channel over Ethernet. Joining the conversation, Tom Hammond-Doel, senior alliance manager at LSI and vice chairman of the Fibre Channel Industry Association, and Greg Schulz, founder and senior analyst with The StorageIO Group. Also in this podcast, a look at solid [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SNWSpotlight: High Performance Computing, Green Data Center In this podcast, we hear about a new development in the high performance computing market from Raj Das of SGI and Greg Schulz, analyst with The StorageIO Group, weighs in on the “green gap” in the data center. SNWSpotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World. It’s brought to you by LSI. Tags: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Voices of Shanghai: IDF 2008 This year’s Spring IDF, in Shanghai, brought the global community of Intel developers to one of the fastest-growing cities in the world, to discuss one of the most rapidly-changing technologies, and the incredible impact that all of that change is bound to have. Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager for the Digital Enterprise Group, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SNWSpotlight: Storage Virtualization, Green Data Centers In this podcast, reporter Michael Johnson delves into storage virtualization technology, speaking with Don Fautt, LSI director of software marketing, and Doug Jury, LSI’s director of software business sales. Catherine Girardeau tackles power efficiency in the data center, speaking with Dave Vellante and William Souder about Vellante’s Wikibon Project. It’s had a terrific impact on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Verizon Business Discusses its Industry-Leading Approach to Data Protection and Data Loss Prevention In this podcast, we hear from Bart Vansevenant, director of strategy for Verizon Business Security Solutions. Mr. Vansevenant highlights Verizon Business’s announcement of a new suite of services that help large businesses and government agencies protect data and prevent data loss within the extended enterprise. He talks about why data loss is such a hot [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SNWSpotlight: Harry Mason and Dr. Claudine Simson, at SNW In this podcast, we chat with Harry Mason, president of the SCSI Trade Association. Also, Dr. Claudine Simson, chief technology officer for LSI, gives us a preview of her keynote address. SNWSpotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World. It’s brought to you by LSI. Tags: Harry Mason, SCSI Trade Association, Claudine [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ROI of Data Center Heat Recovery Intel IT has designed a new system to reduce energy costs, recycle excess heat, and the reduce environmental impact of the data center. In Part 2 of this podcast, Intel IT Data Center Design Engineer Doug Garday plugs in some numbers that show potential energy cost savings, amount of heat recovery, and return on investment [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SNWSpotlight Conference Preview: Security Partnerships SNWSpotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World. Here at the Shingle Creek Resort in Orlando, Fla., we start our coverage with a preview of the conference, featuring Derek Hulitzky of Computerworld, and we preview a security partnership among some industry leaders. SNWSpotlight is brought to you by LSI. Tags: SNWSpotlight, Storage Networking [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ConnectCast: Scoble Talks About Cemaphore, Solera Raises $5M, Innovation Awards Finalists Good PR gets Robert Scoble to break news for Cemaphore product. 22 Finalists named for the Utah Innovation Awards. Solera raises $5m from Canopy Group and the MWCN entrepreneur of the year for 2008 award goes to Amy Reese Andersen of Mediconnect. Tags: Robert Scoble, Cemaphore, mediconnect, solera, utah innovations Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Verizon Business Discusses Investment in Trans Pacific Express The Trans Pacific Express (TPE) is the first next-generation undersea optical cable system directly linking the U.S. and mainland China, as well as the first major undersea system to land on the U.S. West Coast in seven years. As the only U.S.-based charter consortium member, Verizon Business is playing a critical role in deploying this [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Encryption Key Management and Enterprise Data Security In this third of three podcasts on enterprise data security, PodTech’s Michael Johnson speaks with Bob Cancilla, vice president of disk systems at IBM. Cancilla explains the important role of encryption key management across the enterprise data storage security space, especially with an encrypted drive. Cancilla says that key management, paired with smart storage arrays, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Role of the Controller and Storage System in Enterprise Data In this second of three podcasts on enterprise data security, PodTech’s Michael Johnson speaks with Phil Bullinger, executive vice president and general manager of the Engenio Storage Group at LSI Corporation. Bullinger explains the role of the storage system in the enterprise data storage security ecosystem. Bullinger says that LSI’s storage system works to authenticate [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Self-Encrypting Disk Drives to Move into Data Centers Seagate, IBM, and LSI have been working to make changes in how data is protected in enterprise Data Centers. Today Seagate announced it is making available the world’s first self-encrypting hard drive for data centers. PodTech spoke with key executives at Seagate, IBM, and LSI about this new technology shift, how it works and why [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Social Media is Impacting the Corporate Marketing and PR Functions There are no established practices for setting up social media within most corporations. Those are the findings of Comrade Managing Partner Thelton McMillian in an exclusive study conducted for Marketing Voices. In this podcast, McMillian speaks with Jennifer Jones about the study, which is based on conversations with corporate marketing professionals, and found also that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IDF Shanghai: Sights and Sounds In this video podcast, Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital Enterprise Group, Pat Gelsinger explains Intel architecture and its wide-ranging capabilities (”architecture for life”), and Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s Mobility Group, Dadi Perlmutter and Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager, Ultra Mobility Group, Anand Chandrasekher update the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Defining Application Ready Networks with F5’s Ken Salchow Ken Salchow, F5’s manager of technical marketing, talks about F5’s Application Ready Networks (ARNs). These road-tested architectures cover best practices and deployment support for specific solutions from F5 and major software vendors. F5 currently offers ARNs for Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle products. This podcast describes how ARNs benefit customers and why F5 believes they are [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IDF Shanghai: Keynote Demos Showcase Mobility, Innovation In this video podcast straight from Intel’s Spring IDF in Shanghai, the spotlight is on the keynote demos that showed power and performance in newer, smaller and more innovative form factors, many powered by the Intel’s Atom processor. Many of the demonstrations focused on mobility, and they all provided an exciting look at some of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Reboot Video Review - God of War: Chains of Olympus Kratos makes his debut on the Playstation Portable in God of War: Chains of Olympus. The game is a prequel to the first God of War, which was one of the best games ever to come out on the Playstation 2. Fans of the God of War series and PSP owners have been looking forward [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SNW Spotlight Spring 2008 SNW Spotlight, the latest news from Storage Networking World, will be brought to you by LSI twice daily during the SNW conference, held April 7-10 at the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort in Orlando, Fla. Subscribe now for daily podcasts of news from the conference, as well as stories on hot topics featuring industry leaders. This [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Verizon Business’s Ultra Long Haul Strategy Moves Forward Tom Meagher, director of transport planning for Verizon Business, explains how Verizon Business’s multi-year Ultra Long Haul (ULH) strategy provides customers with reduced provisioning times, improved reliability and lower latency. This network strategy reduces network elements by 70 percent, thereby enabling the network to operate more efficiently. Tags: Tom Meagher, Verizon Business, Ultra Long Haul, ULH Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sendside Networks, the FedEx of Electronic Delivery William Borghetti, founder and CEO of Sendside Networks, is no stranger to big ideas–he sold his last startup, Campus Pipeline, to Sungard after automating inefficient “stand-in-line” processes at Universities. Now, in the same way FedEx revolutionized traditional mail with overnight delivery, Sendside Networks aims to provide an entirely new way for individuals and organizations to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intel’s Emerging Compute Model Forum There are now possibilities in enterprise computing that have the potential to solve mainstream problems and become widely adopted. These “Emerging Compute Models” are creating a lot of buzz, but also a lot of confusion in the IT community. That’s why this video podcast focuses on Intel’s Emerging Compute Model Forum. Jason Davidson, technical evangelist [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Verizon Completes Industry’s First 100 Gbps Field Trial As video streaming, file sharing, database delivery and business continuity solutions drive bandwidth demand, industry experts are increasingly looking toward 100 Gbps network upgrades. In late 2007, Verizon successfully completed the industry’s first successful field trial proving that the existing network can be upgraded to carry 100 Gbps traffic. The trial carried a single 100 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DAZ 3D’s Digital Figures and Social Marketplace DAZ Productions is a market leader in 3D graphics software and content creation. DAZ may be most well known for its “Victoria” line of articulated 3D figures and their popular and active Artzone.com community, a social marketplace for sharing art and exchanging ideas. The DAZ Studio software — available as a free download, allows anyone to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Intelligent is Your Enterprise Business Intelligence Strategy? Join BearingPoint director Larry Manno to explore enterprise business intelligence (BI) strategies and the opportunities it presents to an organization. Many organizations recognize the opportunity to capture performance benefits through the use of BI tools. Increasingly, they are turning to BI as the means to transform their raw data into actionable information for competitive advantage. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Data Centers Recycle Excess Heat Instead of wasting all the excess heat your data center generates, wouldn’t it be more efficient to reuse it to heat offices, water, and more? With the growing number of data centers being built, now is the time to integrate energy saving and reuse methods. In part one of this two-part podcast, Doug Garday, a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shanghai IDF Preview, with Intel’s Pat Gelsinger In this podcast, a preview of this year’s Spring IDF 2008, bringing thousands of hardware and software engineers from around the world to Shanghai, China, for a developer forum with a telling theme: “Invent the New Reality.” Intel Senior Vice President and Digital Enterprise Group co-GM Pat Gelsinger speaks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson about what is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building Communities in Consumer Markets with Ugobe and Pleo Ugobe’s VP of Marketing Lisa Abbott tells how her company built strong communities for the unique lifelike creature called Pleo. Pleo is a baby dinosaur that has attracted the attention of thousands. Targeting both developers and consumers helped drive demand for the dinosaur. Tags: Jennifer Jones, Marketing Voices, Pleo, social media, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Classic Scoble : Talking software productivity tools Seapine Software What was Scoble up to one year ago today? Check out today’s video for a trip down memory lane. Paula Rome, director of product management, Seapine Software sits down with me to talk about its suite of software development tools, including bug tracking and source code management, and how its suite is different from others on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Reboot: Sonic Unleashed In this episode of The Reboot, Sonic the Hedgehog fans went nuts after several screenshots and a video trailer of the blue-haired hero’s latest adventure, Sonic Unleashed, were leaked online. SEGA Europe later confirmed that the game will come out this year. In other gaming news, Sony and Harmonix were hit with lawsuits this week [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Classic Scoble : TeamDirection keeps your projects on schedule and online Here is another Classic ScobleShow post. Also read what Robert was saying a year ago on his blog. We interview John Milan, founder and senior software architect of TeamDirection, as he takes us around TeamDirection’s project management software which lets your teams collaborate around schedules in a new way online. You’ll hear how he’s using Amazon’s S3 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Social Media for the Vietnam War Memorial Footnote.com is adding social media tools to The Vietnam Memorial, one of the most recognized memorials in Washington, D.C. For those who have visited the wall, you know finding names is not easy. Nor does a visit to the wall allow you to learn more about many people and heros who served. Footnote.com’s new social [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Welcome to Classic ScobleShow It started with an innocuous audio interview with the then-President of the Products and Technology Group at SAP AG, Shai Agassi. Then came Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz, sitting at a table with an umbrella. It wasn’t long before Scoble introduced us to Thomas Hawk (investment advisor by day, ubiquitous digital media creator by night). [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Miss America Goes Digital As CMO of StoryRock Electronic Publishing, Sharlene Hawkes wants every service man and woman to have a Remember My Service digital yearbook that highlights their military experience. And this former Miss America and one of the first female, on-air, ESPN sportscasters certainly has the energy and passion to make it happen. As Hawkes points out, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Social Marketing Insights from the Obama and Clinton Campaigns The Democratic campaigns provide multiple opportunities for learning about social marketing. Pete Blackshaw EVP of Nielsen Online just completed an analysis of the campaigns and gives Marketing Voices his perspective on what corporate marketers need to do to make their brands better. Blackshaw also alerts Marketing Voices that he will be releasing his new book [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ConnectCast - Top 100 Venture Entrepreneurs and UofUtah 2nd Behind MIT Cydni Tetro and Colin Kelly discuss the key events this week, including the release of the Top 100 Venture Entrepreneurs from vSpring Capital. It is a peer-nominated and peer-selected group of individuals that the community predicts will become a CTO or CEO of a high-tech company in the next five years. This is the fifth [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What’s New: Client Profiles - Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Platform Adoption Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, released to manufacturing recently, is designed with a single unified-code base for both on-premise and on-demand deployments. It enables customers to choose the right deployment model for their specific business and IT needs with flexibility to change deployment models over time. Sanjay Jain speaks with Kevin Wydra, vice president and director [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What’s New: Axonom - Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Platform Adoption Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, released to manufacturing recently, is designed with a single unified-code base for both on-premise and on-demand deployments. It enables customers to choose the right deployment model for their specific business and IT needs with flexibility to change deployment models over time. Sanjay Jain speaks with William Barrow, CTO of Axonom, a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Reboot: Martin Leung’s Performance at Video Games Live Martin Leung, also known as the Video Game Pianist, gained worldwide recognition for playing video game themes on the piano. He’s best known for the 2004 video of him playing the theme to Super Mario Bros. blindfolded. In this episode of The Reboot, Leung performs a tribute to perhaps the most famous Role Playing Game, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Reboot: Inside Video Games Live Video Games Live is a festival highlighting some of the most popular video game music soundtracks performed by top orchestras and choirs. Super Mario Brothers, Sonic the Hedgehog, Halo, Mass Effect, Bioshock and Metal Gear Solid are just a few of the games featured at every show. The Reboot was at the Video Games Live [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Healthcare Dealmaking Symposium: Deal Outlook Deals in health care M&A have soared over the past two years, continuing to attract capital and drive activity in the sector. Industry insiders are monitoring the current pace of health care M&A deals and developing an outlook for 2008. In this podcast, Ken Hitchner, partner, global head of healthcare investment banking, Goldman Sachs; John [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Healthcare Dealmaking Symposium: Private Equity From the panel, Private Equity and the Healthcare M&A Market: What’s on the Radar? comes this podcast featuring the panelists Benjamin Edmands, managing director, CCMP Capital; Jonathan Korngold, managing director, global head of healthcare, General Atlantic; Todd Richter, managing director, global healthcare group, head of financial sponsor coverage & transaction development, Bank of America; and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Healthcare Dealmaking Symposium: Technology Charles Ditkoff is managing director and co-head of the global healthcare services group with Banc of America Securities. In this podcast, from the Healthcare Dealmaking Symposium hosted by The Deal in New York City, Ditkoff speaks with PodTech’s Jason Lopez about the state of I.T. in the medical industry. Ditkoff participated in the symposium’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Healthcare Dealmaking Symposium: 12-Month Outlook In 2007 deals in the health care M&A marketplace soared. Siemens’s $7 billion purchase of Dade Behring, Medtronic’s purchase of Kyphon and Carlyle Group’s purchase of Manor Care are just a few of the deals that contributed to a trend-setting year in the health care sector. In this podcast, an interview with Russell Carson, fresh [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Global Service Delivery Affects Overall Performance Join BearingPoint managing director Gil Mermelstein to explore Global Services Delivery and how it can reduce costs while still providing several opportunities for growth. While many companies, especially in the capital markets industry, have done a lot around realigning their global footprint, there are many organizations that are just beginning. Countries such as India and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Consumer-Directed Healthcare: Transforming the M&A Market Join BearingPoint Senior Manager Kirsten Trusko in this podcast to explore consumer-directed health care and how it is affecting the mergers and acquisitions market. A rush of M&A activity is under way at the convergence of the banking, insurance and health industries. Companies in all three areas, as well as private equity and venture capital [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What’s Inside SxSW Interactive? In this video podcast, we travel to Austin, Texas and the SxSW Interactive festival, to focus on what’s inside people’s computers, and just how much they’re relying on those computers for work, communication and - all-important at the SxSW Festival — creativity. Intel’s Bryan Rhoads took the opportunity to blog from the conference using a MID. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brand Engagement = Social Media + Storytelling The many online social media have become an important part of the marketing mix for many corporations and organizations. Whether it means listening to online conversations, participating in communities of enthusiasts, clients, consumers or social networks, or simply increasing transparency, understanding how social media can be made to work for you is key to building [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Social Video Marketing: Save Money, Build Engagement The many online social media have become an important part of the marketing mix for many corporations and organizations. Whether it means listening to online conversations, participating in communities of enthusiasts, clients, consumers or social networks, or simply increasing transparency, understanding how social media can be made to work for you is key to building [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IDF Shanghai 2008: Atom-Enabled Devices To Debut A new processor for the ultra-mobile market is Intel’s latest move to revolutionize mobility computing, from UMPCs to mobile Internet devices and even notebooks and desktops (er, “netbooks” and “net-tops”). While Atom (née Silverthorne) received its brand-new brand name recently, the family of tiny processors, which relies on 45nm technology just like the Penryn line [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Microsoft’s Porcaro on Online Community As one of the world’s most renowned gamers, John Porcaro, Manager of the Online Community of Microsoft knows what is happening online whether it concerns games or not. He talks with Marketing Voices of online trends and where the world of online is headed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Brogan in AMD’s SXSWi BlogHaus InternetGeekGirl and Chris Brogan rap about the first day at SXSWi and BlogHaus. Tags: InternetGeekGirl, Chris Brogan, SXSWi, BlogHaus Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AMD’s Scott Carroll Welcomes Tech and Media Bloggers to SXSWi BlogHaus AMD is hosting the largest congregation of technology influencers on the planet today, right here at BlogHaus at SXSWi. Scott Carroll of AMD explains, and welcomes all! Tags: AMD, BlogHaus, SXSWi, Scott Carroll Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Scoble and Loren Feldman, Live from SXSWi Bloghaus Robert Scoble, now of FastCompany.tv, and Loren Feldman of 1938 Media talk about what’s hot and what’s not at SXSWi from the BlogHaus with InternetGeekGirl. Apparently, it’s all about mobile video. They have not always agreed in the past, but at least they agree on Twitter as the leading social media app. Tags: Robert Scoble, FastCompany.tv, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Apple iTunes: Make Money by Losing Money Recently, NPD Group reported that Apple’s iTunes store moved into the number two spot in 2007 for music retail sales in the U.S. (Wal-Mart remained at number one.) Selling music has been tough — ever since the RIAA took on Napster and Grokster, less downloaded music is being paid for, not more. Where does this [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SXSWi BlogHaus with the Internet Geek Girl Stephanie Agresta, also known as Internet Geek Girl, is hosting the BlogHaus at SXSW Interactive Conference this year in Austin, Texas. Among the highlights will be interviews with Chris Brogan, Deb Schultz, Robert Scoble, Stowe Boyd, Shel Israel and Hugh MacLeod, as well as interactions with SXSW attendees and sponsers. Tags: Stephanie [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How IT Effectiveness Creates Savings and Increased Performance Join BearingPoint managing director Frank Mackris to explore how IT effectiveness can reduce costs while improving performance. With all the pressure on the CIO of an organization to deal with the ever-changing marketplace, now more than ever, they are turning to technology resources for assistance. The main obstacle for an organization is delivering technology in a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Retail Banking Solutions Can Cut Costs and Still Deliver Join BearingPoint managing director Peter Nikonovich to explore the Retail Banking Solution in the Enterprise Performance Improvement solution suite. With all the pressure on the economy due to the sub-prime crisis, now more than ever, banks are focused on ways to cut costs and still deliver services to their clients. In its current state, banks [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intel Atom: Chip Packs Internet in Your Pocket Intel's smallest processor to date, built with it's tiny 45nm transistors for a new wave of small, mobile Internet devices. The chip gets the name Intel Atom. There's also Intel Centrino Atom, a combination of chip technologies for low cost, low power and high performing devices designed to bring better Internet experiences to wireless compute [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Freshtopia.net - The Director's Cut There's a raw juice movement sweeping the nation. …as is seems to do from time to time. I remember my family briefly going through a similar craze when I was young. It seems to be a binge and purge business, there one minute, gone the next. This goes a long way [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eugene Speaks IT Blog Preview In this podcast, Director of Customer References and Publishing, Patrick Spencer, provides an overview of "Eugene Speaks IT," a newly launched blog column on the Symantec Technology Network. Click here to view the blog. Tags: Patrick Spencer, Eugene Speaks IT, blog, Symantec Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alltop: Guy Kawasaki's Newest Venture in Social Media Guy Kawasaki uses his marketing flair to launch his newest site, ALLTOP. Leading with the egos site which contains the top tech blog feeds, Kawasaki talks how he leveraged the egos focus to drive traffic to Alltop. Kawasaki also metaphorically jousts with Forrester Analyst, Jeremiah Owyang as the young samurai. Tags: alltop, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intel Science Talent Search Some of the future leaders in science and research in the U.S. will be recognized next week at the Intel Science Talent Institute, where the search for the best high school scientists and their projects will convene in Washington, D.C. In this podcast PodTech's Jason Lopez speaks with two of the finalists as well as [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Re-Engineering the Commercial Lending Process is Affecting the Current Credit Crisis Join BearingPoint senior manager Kevin McClafferty to understand the importance of re-engineering the commercial lending process and how it can impact your organization. When you re-engineer the current process, you open your organization up to the benefits of efficiency, effectiveness, transparency and flexibility. In light of the recent credit crisis, it is essential to find [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Enterprise Performance Solutions Impact the Bottom Line Join BearingPoint director Joe Monti to explore the Enterprise Performance Solution and how it can affect your organization's bottom line. With all the pressure on the economy due to the sub-prime crisis, now more than ever, people are focused on cutting costs and saving money. In an effort to help our clients, BearingPoint has adopted [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building Confidence In Enterprise Security: What is Your "Blueprint"? - Part 4 Building Confidence In Enterprise Security: What is Your "Blueprint"? - Getting Strategic Using the Security Blueprint (Results of the Participant Survey) This is Part Four of the second episode of the The "Building Confidence in Enterprise Security" video podcast series, featuring Samir Kapuria and Andre Gold. In this segment, the pair discuss the results of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building Confidence In Enterprise Security: What is Your "Blueprint"? - Part 3 Building Confidence In Enterprise Security: What is Your "Blueprint"? - Getting Strategic Using the Security Blueprint (The Blueprint in Various Industries) This is Part Three of the second episode of the The "Building Confidence in Enterprise Security" video podcast series, featuring Samir Kapuria and Andre Gold. In this segment, the pair discuss the similarities and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building Confidence In Enterprise Security: What is Your "Blueprint"? - Part 2 Building Confidence In Enterprise Security: What is Your "Blueprint"? - Getting Strategic Using the Security Blueprint (Operational and Strategic Elements of the Blueprint) This is Part Two of the second episode of the The "Building Confidence in Enterprise Security" video podcast series, featuring Samir Kapuria and Andre Gold. In this segment, the pair discuss the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building Confidence In Enterprise Security: What is Your "Blueprint"? - Part 1 Building Confidence In Enterprise Security: What is Your "Blueprint"? - Getting Strategic Using the Security Blueprint. This is Part One of the second episode of the The "Building Confidence in Enterprise Security" video podcast series, featuring Samir Kapuria and Andre Gold. In this segment, the pair discuss the tactical elements of the Symantec Security Blueprint: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DIGG Campaign with Federated Media Breaks New Ground for Intel Digg is an incredible place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. David Veneski, Digital Campaign Manager for Intel, talks about a campaign they did with Digg that helped consumers truly understand Intel technology. Intel worked with Federated Media to make this marketing sponsorship happen. It was the first time [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Network Investments Drive Fixed-Mobile Convergence Innovation This video podcast, featuring comments from Ivan Seidenberg Verizon chairman and CEO, and Nancy Gofus, chief marketing officer for Verizon Business, discusses how Verizon's network investments are driving innovations in fixed-mobile convergence. Hear how our powerful global IP and wireless networks are being used as the platform to deliver new services such as Wireless Office, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MEI Group Turns to Verizon Business for New Managed Global Network Brian Fenimore, director of global infrastructure for MEI Group discusses how close collaboration with Verizon Business resulted in the on-time deployment of a brand new managed global network. Fenimore speaks to the advantages of a fully managed global infrastructure and offers suggestions on how to maximize the value a managed network service provider. Tags: Brian Fenimore, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PCI: What Does It Mean for You? In this podcast, Barbara Mitchell, product manager for Verizon Business, provides valuable insight on the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, better known as PCI. She explains what the PCI Data Security Standard means for businesses and who is affected, as well as how businesses can work toward compliance. Ms. Mitchell also discusses the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cymphonix Prioritizes Bandwidth for Web Content and Application Traffic When small and medium-sized businesses or K-12s want to manage how their Internet bandwidth is being used, they turn to Cymphonix. 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In the fourth of a 5 part podcast series, VMware Technical Account Manager Joe Gazarik explains more of the new features of ESX 3.5 and Virtual Center 2.5 including support for 64G of RAM in virtual machines, larger memory page support, hardware assisted nested [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Freshtopia.net - Valentine's Day This episode we take you on a quick and dirty (and occasionally bloody) history of Valentine’s Day. The story of this holiday and its patron saint is still a bit of a mystery. From Roman pagan festivals Lupercalia, to saintly love letters sent from the joint, the truth behind the origins of Saint [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fall IDF Video Demo - Faster video encoding on Penryn family of processors Darren Yee, Tech Marketing Engineer Intel Software Solutions Group, and I shot a video demo of TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress, a popular video encoder that was optimized for Quad-core and Intel Streaming SIMD Extensions 4 (Intel SSE4) instructions on the Penryn family of Intel processors at the Fall 2007 Intel Developer Forum. The demo in the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Elf Yourself's Marketing Campaign's Success Office Max's Elf Yourself marketing campaign attracted 193 million visitors and was the best viral campaign in the history of the Web. 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Mathias Craig, executive director and chairman of the board of the nonprofit corporation, was on-hand last year to receive the prestigious Accenture Economic Development Award at the Tech Museum Awards, presented by Aplied Materials. He spoke to PodTech for this video podcast, live [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Advertising Analytics: Doing more with Less Join BearingPoint senior manager Richard Birt to understand the fundamentals of Marketing Performance Management. Even though it’s starting on the small, analytics are framing the way an organization can look at their future marketing efforts. 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For more info, visit: www.symantec.com/riskreport Tags: Darren Thomson, Jeremy Ward, Information Risk Management, Security, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IT Risk Management Report, Volume 2: Part One This is the first segment of a 3 part podcast interview with Darren Thomson[tag] and [tag]Jeremy Ward on the Symantec IT Risk Management Report, Volume 2. In this segment, Thomson and Ward provide a general overview and key findings of the report. For more info, visit: www.symantec.com/riskreport [tags]Information Risk Management, Security, Storage, Symantec[/tag] Tags: Darren Thomson[tag] and [tag]Jeremy [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website GK3 Video: Alcatel-Lucent and Intel to Collaborate on Developing World Issues Broadband access for the developing world was a key topic at the Third Global Knowledge Conference, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in December 2007. Attendees there called for action items to to bring underdeveloped nations - including populations sometimes referred to as "the next billion" - into the connected world. Broadband services are an important [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Automattic's Mullenweg on Funding and Futures "It's been a busy couple of weeks," Matt Mullenweg said with a grin in response to the question about Automattic's recent $29M funding round. Interestingly enough, this funding trails the initial investment of $1M that wasn't fully expended. In this podcast, Mullenweg talks with Brad Baldwin while visiting Park City, Utah about their development team, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Freshtopia.net - How To Ruin A Perfectly Good Grapefruit This recipe was inspired by Anthony, aka the Raw Model, and his nifty list of 5 things to eat every day for health and beauty. It was a well-intentioned soup, simple and unassuming, comprised of some of my very favorite things to eat, all in one convenient bowl. What we ended up with however, was [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of Social Media Product Applications From MOTO DEVELOPMENT GROUP Daniell Hebert, CEO of Moto Development Group joins Jennifer Jones at PodTech's CES Bloghaus to talk about the future of social media applications. Moto develops products, then manages their work through manufacturing. Hebert explains what his explorations at CES provide in terms of a look through the crystal ball of social media. Tags: Daniell Hebert, Moto [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Data Privacy the Next Electronic Border? Join BearingPoint managing director Warren Zafrin to explore how the Internet's ability to allow information to flow freely between countries has become the electronic border that will expand or contract depending on the privacy borders. In 1995, Europe established a privacy law that provides a common privacy framework to protect its citizens from fraudsters. This [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vertafore and SmartClient Deployment How should SmartClient technology integrate with web solutions? VP Development at Vertafore Chris Kinsman talks with Microsoft Architect Evangelist Bruce Kyle about how and why SmartClient deployment of Windows Forms deliver the most value to its financial services customers in the AMS 360 product. And he describes how the Software + Services (S+S) company uses [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 150 MPG with AFS Trinity's PHEV Technology Prior to the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), one news story getting a lot of traction was the conversion of a Saturn Hybrid into a Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) capable of 150 miles per gallon. So I was quite excited to speak with Don Bender, chief technology officer for AFS Trinity, the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blending Trading Performance - Risk Management Insights Join BearingPoint managing director Brian Hart to explore trading performance and risk management, and what has been learned from the recent credit crisis. The recent credit crisis has demonstrated to companies that there were certain capabilities they were lacking in managing their business effectively. BearingPoint has identified some critical ways [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cadillac Provoq's a Response at NAIAS During the North American International Auto Show, (NAIAS), I spoke with Clay Dean, global design director for Cadillac about the Provoq, the luxury SUV concept based on the Volt E-flex platform, unveiled at CES. Tags: Cadillac, CES, Clay Dean, E-Flex, NAIAS, North American International Auto Show, Volt Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NAIAS: Ford's Explorer America with EcoBoost Another exciting discovery at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) was Ford's EcoBoost platform and the unveiling of their Explorer America concept. Dan Kapp, Ford's Director of Powertrain Research, introduces me to this next-gen SUV and it's performance enhancing technologies that will boost power and increase mileage while also reducing harmful emissions. Paul [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Freshtopia.net - Squash! This episode would probably be better titled "Sage-Pistachio Pesto", but the allure and onomatopoeia possibilities of the word squash were too many to avoid. This recipe is another winner. We originally shot this episode before we left on our cross-country train trip, but we had the dish again last night and I can [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CES 2008: Do You Do DivX? On the floor of CES 2008 in Las Vegas, PodTech's Michael Johnson speaks with Bruce Lidl, PR Manager, DivX, Inc. about DivX. In this podcast, we’ll found out about the oft-cited but little understood codec: what it is, and how it is an increasingly used format for online, and in home video and audio entertainment. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CNET's Needleman on His Views of Traditional Versus New Media Marketing Voices caught CNET's Rafe Needleman at the PodTech BlogHaus at CES in January. In a candid conversation, Needleman shares his thoughts on how he views "traditional" versus new media. Jones and Needleman discuss the frustration of journalists who wish many of the bloggers had more academic training and knowledge. Tags: CES, BlogHaus, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mobile Internet Devices Make a Splash at CES 2008 Intel continues to develop smaller and smaller microprocessors, and to fit them into elegant platforms to run just about any kind of computer, from sophisticated server arrays to a brand-new class of ultra-portable devices, known as Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs). MIDs created some genuine buzz at CES 2008 in Las Vegas. Intel's MID bar at [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website GM's Bob Lutz Holds Court at NAIAS During the North American International Auto Show, (NAIAS) GM's Vice Chairman Bob Lutz joined a roundtable discussion with a group of online journalists including (but not limited to) Brian Dooley at HummerGuy.net, Lyle Dennis of GM-Volt.com, Joe LaMuraglia-Gaywheels.com, Vincent Nguyen at Slashgear.com, Paul Stamatiou, Gear Diary's David Goodspeed, Hybridcarblog's Chad Snyder, Hank Green of Ecogeek.org, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tour of AMD's booth at CES 2008 Here Stephen DiFranco, VP of Sales and Marketing at AMD, gives us a tour around AMD's booth and shows us several trends that one of the world's largest semiconductor companies is seeing. Tags: Stephen DiFranco, AMD, semiconductor, CES, BlogHaus, CESBlogHaus Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Retrevo Gang: Report from CES, Part I Andrew Eisner, head geek from Retrevo, the consumer electronics search engine, and Fred Davis, who helped start Wired Magazine, among other things, sit down for the first of two fun reports from the [tag]Consumer Electronics Show 2008[/tags] in Las Vegas. Tags: Andrew Eisner, Retrevo, Fred Davis, Wired Magazine, CES, BlogHaus, CESBlogHaus Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Transforming IT Infrastructure with Enterprise-Class Virtualization from VMware, Part 2 VMware has just released ESX 3.5 and Virtual Center 2.5. This is the second of a 5-part podcast series, featuring VMware Technical Account Manager Joe Gazarik. In this podcast, he delves deeper into three benefit catagories of ESX 3.5 and Virtual Center 2.5: simplified operations, increased service levels, and scaling virtual infrastructures. Tags: VMware, ESX 3.5, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wireless Charging with Powercast Powercast's chief inventor and CEO John Shearer is pitching manufacturers on a wireless vision: a world where gadgets and devices are powered and charged without all the hassle of wires. The Powercast Wireless Power Platform includes a Power Caster and a Power Harvester. The Power Harvesters are attached to something like an iPod or [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jamming with Guitar Hero Air Guitar Rocker Know one of those guys who is always acting like he's strumming the air guitar while listening to music? Well then this $29.99 toy is the perfect gift, the Guitar Hero Air Guitar Rocker. Not only is George a sales guy working the CES floor, he's also an accomplished air guitarist capable of riffing just [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Social Media Worldwide: Shel Israel's Perspective Shel Israel, well-known blogger, author and consultant, has just completed a worldwide study of social media adoption and use. His biggest revelation is all about the kids and how they are using the tools. He also describes how other countries are experimenting with its use. His perspective on social media adoption is a must-hear for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cyrstal Clear Calls with ClearOne ClearOne, a Salt Lake City-based company, holds a majority of the global market share in the professional audio conferencing systems category. It should come as no surprise that their conference phone products for the desktop and individuals wouldn't include significant technology enhancements that set them apart from the "el'cheapo" models you see on eBay. With [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website GM's Rick Wagoner at CES During CES, GM's Chairman Rick Wagoner spoke with a group of bloggers and journalists. Tags: CES, GM, Rick Wagoner Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pack a 62 Inch Monitor in Your Briefcase When you hit the road and can't squeeze your 62 inch monitor into your briefcase, you may want to reach for your Vuzix iWear. So if you're watching a movie on your laptop or iPod or looking to join multiple friends in a first-person shooter game, Vuzix delivers a big experience with a mobile form [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MacWorld 2008 and CES 2009: Steve Jobs' Keynote Previews PodTech's Jason Lopez and Kevin Edwards roamed the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show floor where it seems Apple rules–in certain product categories–without even being there. In this 18 minute podcast Kevin and Jason check out a few of the many products made for iPods/iPhones and talk about Apple at CES 2009 in anticipation of MacWorld next [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BlogHaus and CES 2008: A Flying Success The final stretch for CES revealed bleary eyes from late night parties, cheers for Scoble as he appeared on CNBC, and a rocking good time at BlogHaus. In this installment we get to see rapping about memory chips, amazing flat panel TVs , new technologies for wireless home entertainment from Belkin, and the final [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ScobleWatcher: All Scoble All the Time (but in Less Time) Next week I'm launching ScobleWatcher.com - the ten minutes of Robert Scoble you need to see each day :-) Robert is an extraordinary and tireless media producing machine. He would run 24/7 if he could, and he sometimes does. Here are a couple of days of Robert at CES2008 in Las Vegas and the PodTech BlogHaus, (which [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CES 2008: Shelly Palmer on the Buzz of the Show If anyone is in a position to say something about emerging technologies to bring us entertainment, we couldn't have done any better than to get Shelly Palmer's comments. His resume is too long for this post but knowing that he's managing director of Advanced Media Ventures Group and president of the National Academy of Television [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Biodiesel: Out of the FOG (Fat's Oils, Greases) During the first annual Renewable LA, a day long “consumption-lite” eco fest celebrating renewable energy and transportation, Joe Gershen, Board Member, Green Depot sustainable energy organization, gave a presentation on the many benefits of Biodiesel. Tags: biodiesel, Green Depot, Joe Gershen, Renewable LA, Joe Gershen Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Meet Mr. TechCrunch UK When I was in London I sat down for a beer with Mike Butcher, the editor of TechCrunch UK and we talk about what's happening in Europe. Tags: Mike Butcher, TechCrunch Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Editors Choice of Twine, the semantic Web tool A saturated and short extraction of the Twine interview. Got a quick 10 minutes? Tags: Twine Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twine, semantic Web tool, revealed Nova Spivack, CEO of Radar Networks demonstrates its new Twine service which goes way beyond other Web bookmarking and collecting tools. It's hard to explain what this tool does because we haven't seen a tool that does a lot of what Twine does before. Once you try it, though, you'll want everything on the Web [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building Confidence in Enterprise Security The "Building Confidence in Enterprise Security" video webcast series, featuring Samir Kapuria and André Gold, addresses various topics related to enterprise security. Together, they use Symantec’s Security Blueprint as a lens for examining topics that include: IT compliance, IT risk management, and operational security. In their first webcast, titled "Introduction: The Business of Security," [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Neelum Sharma: Food Not Lawns in Los Angeles Neelam Sharma is the Programs Director for CSU, Community Services Unlimited, an organization empowering South Central Los Angeles residents to eat and grow healthy food. The "Food Not Lawns" attitude towards neighborhoods, I must admit, is infectious. After hanging out with urban and suburban farmers in the last year, we see people watering grass and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EVS 23: ExxonMobil Chemical's Separator Film During EVS 23, Jm Harris, SVP for ExxonMobil Chemical Co., gave a presentation about the company's new battery separator film that can reduce heat issues with lithium-ion batteries. I had a few questions for Jim after his presentation, during the Q & A. Read more about it from Green Car Advisor at edmunds.com. Tags: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intel vPro Technology: Activation Getting Easier In this video podcast, IT pros from the Enterprise Soutions Group at Intel join Josh Hilliker, manager of the Intel vPro Expert Center, to discuss vPro activation. "We have studies that show that on the laptop or notebook side, it saves you $50 per year and on the desktop side it saves you approximately [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Making video interactive Nat Kausik, CEO of Asterpix, shows me more of the ways that video creators can use Asterpix to add links to certain parts of the video, to interact with the surrounding area, to add clickable areas to the video, and much much more. This is some of the coolest video technology I've seen lately and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The technologist behind Asterpix's cool interactive video tech Anoop Bhattacharjya, CTO, gives me the details behind Asterpix' very cool new interactive video technologies that let video content creators put clickable links on top of the video (and a whole lot more). 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The team, including Robert Shelton, Terry Hodgson and Stephanie Smith, designed tecnology to teach abstract mathematical concepts to blind and visually impaired students, opening up careers in science [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MSN India's Krishna Prasad Part-1 MSN India is getting ready to unveil its video feature for its audience next week. I caught with Krishna Prasad, aka KP, executive producer at MSN India’s office in Bangalore to find out more about MSN India’s business and content strategy for India and its global Indian audience? Recently MSN Indian tied up with WorldSpace [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The EV1 Electrifies Audience at Renewable L.A. American Hi Definition and Sweetwater Digital of Van Nuys, CA, hosted the first annual Renewable L.A., a day long "consumption-lite" eco fest, celebrating renewable energy and transportation. The first annual solar open house and green holiday gift event put a spotlight on the largest solar installation in the area, constructed by Energy Efficiency Solar [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Microsoft brings "live" collaboration to the office Kirk Gregeresen, director Office Client Product Management and Eric Gilmore, MS Office Product Manager Information Worker group show off a new version of Microsoft's Office Live which brings far better collaboration features to Office users than they had previously. Tags: Kirk Gregeresen, Product Management, Eric Gilmore, MS Office, Microsoft, Office Live Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Latest Uses of Microblogging for Marketers Microblogging is a social media tool that allows users to send brief updates to public and private networks. Peter Kim, Senior Analyst of Forrester Research tells how marketers are using the medium today and what best practices are for its use. Kim reports that there really are no rules for use of Twitter and that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Verizon Business Rolls Out New Managed Option for Enterprises Moving to IP Telephony As enterprises increasingly look to modernize and consolidate voice and data systems, Verizon Business will soon offer another robust managed service option to help pave the way. In January 2008, Verizon Business will begin offering managed IP PBX on the Nortel IP telephony platform, combining the scalability, flexibility and simplicity of Nortel’s portfolio with Verizon [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New IP Trunking Capabilities Help Optimize VoIP This podcast discusses recent enhancements to Verizon Business' VoIP portfolio, specifically its IP trunking services. These new capabilities are designed to enhance network efficiencies for current VoIP customers, while simplifying the transition to VoIP for new customers. Tags: IP Trunking, Verizon, voip, Verizon Business Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Emerging Water Crisis - Part 2 Jeff Green, CEO of NanoH2O talks with John Ince about the outlines of the emerging water crisis and how their next generation reverse osmosis membranes employing nano technology with polymer thin films can create a more energy efficient membrane in the desalinization technology. This Part 2 of a 2 Part Series Tags: desalinization, Jeff [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gaming Company Kreeda's Quentin Staes-Polet Part-2 Kreeda, a gaming startup located in Mumbai, the epicenter of India’s nascent gaming industry. Earlier this year Kreeda received an undisclosed amount of money from IDG Ventures India and Bodhi Softbank Holdings. In Part-2 of the conversation we talk to Quentin about doing business in India vs. doing business in China. Quentin has spent the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EVS 23: eGO Vehicles During EVS 23, the Electric Vehicle Symposium, Kris Sorensen, VP, sales & marketing for eGo Vehicles, took to the podium to introduce the audience to his company which offers eco-friendly personal transportation for business, commuting, errands or recreation. At the conference he announced a major partnership with Intrago, a Boulder, CO company providing personal [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MailFoundry CEO David Troup Speaks Their spam guarantee doesn't mince words: no false positives. David Troup explains how and why they developed their spam appliance and how long it takes customers to believe that guarantee. Troup also tells why he provides spam filtering for companies with 10 mailboxes or less for free. Tags: email, open source, Spam Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Emerging Water Crisis - Part 1 Jeff Green, CEO of NanoH2O talks with John Ince about the outlines of the emerging water crisis and how their next generation reverse osmosis membranes employing nano technology with polymer thin films can create a more energy efficient membrane in the desalinization technology. This Part 1 of a 2 Part Series Tags: desalinization, Jeff [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Smugmug brings us "Mugnormous" photos and videos Don MacAskill, co-founder and CEO of Smugmug, gives us a little tour of the Smugmug office and also demonstrates for my cameras its new photo and video sharing service which blows away other photo sharing sites on large monitors. Tags: Don MacAskill, Smugmug Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Community Services Unlimited: Rocking LA with Food and Beauty We first met the Community Services Unlimited folks at the Just Us For Food Justice Bioneers day. They told us we should come check out their work in community gardening in South Central LA. How could we not? These folks are on the front lines of urban gardening in an LA neighborhood most famous for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gaming Company Kreeda's Quentin Staes-Polet Part-1 Gaming is fast gaining track in India and Mumbai is the epicenter for the industry. I finally caught up with Quentin Staes-Polet, CEO of Kreeda in Bangalore to find out about Kreeda, doing business in India and the challenges of doing business in India. Kreeda bills itself as India’s first dedicated Massive Multiplayer Online Game [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EVS 23: GM's Jonathan Lauckner At EVS 23, the Electrical Vehicle Symposium held this year in Anaheim, CA, Jonathan Lauckner, General Motor's VP for Global Program Management, addressed the audience during the opening plenary session, detailing GM's plans and goals regarding sustainable transportation and specificially their E-Flex platform and the Chevy Volt. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Locke Speaks About Running an Open Source Support Company John Locke's book "Open Source Solutions to Small Business Problems" in 2004 set the stage for his Freelock Computing company to expand into all areas of Open Source development, administration, and support. Locke explains how his company thrives in Seattle. Tags: open source Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of the Electric Car - Part 2 Gary Starr, Chairman of Electric Vehicle Company, Zap! talks with John Ince about the challenges facing widespread consumer acceptance of electric vehicles. Starr points out that in regions like China and Europe, where the government has actively promoted electric vehicles, the adoption rate by consumers is soaring. Starr believes that as consumer [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beneath great user experiences Anthony Franco, President of EffectiveUI, shows me some of the Web apps that his company has created for eBay and gives us the story behind the user experience. Tags: Anthony Franco, EffectiveUI, eBay Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Creating Killer UIs RJ Owen, Senior Developer at EffectiveUI, talks to me about creating great user experiences for Web apps. Tags: RJ Owen, EffectiveUI Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Creating great UIs for clients I sit down with Anthony Franco, President of EffectiveUI and talk about the design process. EffectiveUI creates software for a ton of big companies including eBay, Microsoft, and others. Tags: Anthony Franco, EffectiveUI, eBay, Microsoft Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website LA Auto Show: Chrysler Designer Ryan Nagode Ryan Nagode is only 27 years old, but don't let his youth fool you. He is Senior Designer and Car Stylist for Chrysler, and was the Exterior Designer for the 2009 Dodge Journey, unveiled at the LA Auto Show. Tags: Chrysler, Dodge Journey, LA Auto Show, Ryan Nagode Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Untangle Open Source Network Gateway Overview Carly Adams, West Coast sales manager for Untangle, explains what the company does, what a network gateway is, and how they support the Open Source movement yet still make money. Tags: Carly Adams, Untangle, open source Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of the Electric Car - Part 1 Gary Starr, Chairman of Electric Vehicle Company, Zap! talks with John Ince about the challenges facing widespread consumer acceptance of electric vehicles. Starr points out that in regions like China and Europe, where the government has actively promoted electric vehicles, the adoption rate by consumers is soaring. Starr believes that as consumer [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Freshtopia.net - The Winnies We drove to LA to present our hand-crafted awards at The Winnies. If you're not familiar, think the Oscars meet Santa's secret workshop. The event was organised by Irina Slutsky (Geek Entertainment TV), Lan Bui and Bonnie Pierzina (NoodleScar), and Vu Bui (Vu Goes Vegan), Gary Vaynerchuk (Wine Library TV) served as co-host [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vermicompost: Our Worm Bin Rocks! As you might remember, we made a new worm bin after our original bin failed. This new one is doing great! The drainage holes in the bottom have helped keep it moist but not too wet, the shallow shape allows the worms to get to everything faster and the blending of food scraps allows the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Conversation Targeting: Getting To The Heart Of Blogs And Social Media Isolating conversations around products, brands and issues is now possible through BuzzLogic's new ad targeting feature. In this Marketing Voices product demo video podcast, BuzzLogic CEO Rob Crumpler explains how his company can help marketers better determine who is driving online opinions. When the service launched earlier this month, news coverage highlighted the potential value to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website LA Auto Show: T-Rex EJ Wessel owns Big Kid Toys in Napa, CA, a company that sells electric cars and trucks, including the T-Rex, a gas or electric, three-wheeled performance vehicle. With its' triangular wheel configuration, low center of gravity and open cockpit and distinctive apprearance, the T-Rex provides exotic motorcycle performance and side-by-side seating, as I found out [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Rise of the Millennials Many are considering the "Millennials" as being the next big market for communications services. In this podcast, Jay Peterson, VP of Global Market Development for user-centric services for Alcatel-Lucent, talks about who the Millennials are, why they should matter to service providers and how Alcatel-Lucent can help service providers address this particular market segment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Audio: PRSA Live - What's Hot and What's Not in 2008 Wall Street Journal's Kara Swisher and Don Clark, Business Week's Rob Hof, Forbes' Victoria Murphy Barrett and Scobleizer's Robert Scoble joined Ann Winblad of venture capital firm Hummer Winblad, at the annual What's Hot and What's Not, for 2008. Hosted by the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) at Predictions 2008 these top-tier journalists gave [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: PRSA Live - Q&A from What's Hot and What's Not in 2008 Wall Street Journal's Kara Swisher and Don Clark, Business Week's Rob Hof, Forbes' Victoria Murphy Barrett and Scobleizer's Robert Scoble joined Ann Winblad of venture capital firm Hummer Winblad, at the annual What's Hot and What's Not, for 2008. Hosted by the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) at Predictions 2008 these top-tier journalists gave [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: PRSA Live - What's Hot and What's Not in 2008 Wall Street Journal's Kara Swisher and Don Clark, Business Week's Rob Hof, Forbes' Victoria Murphy Barrett and Scobleizer's Robert Scoble joined Ann Winblad of venture capital firm Hummer Winblad, at the annual What's Hot and What's Not, for 2008. Hosted by the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) at Predictions 2008 these top-tier journalists gave [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Virtualization and Enterprise Architecture: The Security Architect Data centers today are under pressure from rising compute requirements, demand for storage capacity and energy costs. In this video podcast from IT@Intel, Alan Ross, principal engineer and enterprise architect with Intel IT, shares experiences, technology assessments and best practices around data center efficiency, virtualization and consolidation. Transforming the data center requires understanding the underlying domains: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website LA Auto Show: Kia Unveils the KND4 Another auto show and another concept car from Kia, following in the design style of the concepts Kia Kue and Kia Soul. After the KND4's unveiling, I spoke with Kia's public relations manager Alex Fedorak at the LA Auto Show. Tags: Kia, Kue, Soul, Alex Fedorak, LA Auto Show Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Broadcasting Education and Culture in Brazil Brazillian educational broadcasting organization Canal Futura was one of the Microsoft Education Awards Laureates at this year's Tech Museum Awards, presented by Applied Materials, Inc. Canal Futura uses technology to augment Brazil's education system, which faces challenges like poverty as well as many different cultures and languages spread across the large geographic diverse nation. By recognizing [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Q&A with Tim Berners-Lee and the Web Science Research Initative After his talk Tim Berners-Lee took questions from the audience on a variety of topics including what should Facebook look like in five years? Tags: Tim Berners-Lee, Facebook Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview with inventor of the Web After his talk at HP Labs on Tuesday I got a chance to sit down with the inventor of the Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Here’s that interview where we talk about his passions and his view of what will happen in social software and the future of the Web. Tags: HP Labs, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, social [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inventor of the Web talks about future of the Web Tim Berners-Lee, on Tuesday, visited HP Labs in Palo Alto where he talked with employees and the press about the trends he’s seen happen on the Web and where its future lies. He’s working with the Web Science Research Initiative and the University of Southampton in England on a variety of research initiatives, mostly focused [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cheap and Green Insulation: Recycled Paper Cellulose Recently, Jay's dad started building on some property he owns in rural Virginia. The first structure built was the garage/workshop. Jay and I were eager for the chance to try out some green building materials as an alternative to the usual stuff. Before traveling over to the east coast for Turkey Day, we did some [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website LA Auto Show: Chrysler's Frank Klegon After the Chrysler LA Auto Show, I spoke with Frank Klegon, Chrysler's executive vice president, product development about the company's unveiling of their new hybrid SUV's. Tags: Chrysler, LA Auto Show, Frank Klegon Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ojas Rege, VP of Yahoo! Global Mobile Products Part-2 "We want to be on a billion phones," says Ojas Rege, VP of Yahoo's global mobile products. So, imagine the challenge that Ojas and his team have in order to achieve that goal. You need to have an entrpreneurial bent of mind to do make the internet fit your phone points out Ojas. In Part-2 of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ojas Rege, VP of Yahoo! Global Mobile Products Part-1 How does Yahoo! access the power of the Internet on the mobile phone? They way a user uses Yahoo! on their desktop is vastly different from the way they use it on their mobile phones. Delivering a seamless, oneclick experience on the mobile phone is a key component of what Ojas Rege does at Yahoo! [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Collect and share favorite videos with WorldTV WorldTV.com is a unique way to collect and share your favorite videos. I interview Alx Klive, CEO, and he shows me Worldtv.com and shares with me what they'll be doing in the near future. I'm using the system to collect YouTube videos and build a feed of those for my family and friends to watch. Tags: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website LA Auto Show: GM's Dave Barthmuss After Chevy's hybrid Tahoe SUV won Green Car of the Year at the LA Auto Show, I spoke with Dave Barthmuss, group manager of GM's western regional environment and energy communications team about the win. Tags: Chevy, hybrid, Green Car of the Year, LA Auto Show, GM Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building a Business Case for Voice Over IP (VoIP) Join BearingPoint manager Takashi Yoskizaki to learn how to build a business case for VoIP. Industry trends show that over the years nearly every organization has done something around utilizing VoIP. Before any new technology can be implemented, a business case needs to be developed to be presented for business buy-in. Once the business [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Consulting Managers with Jackie Bassett Jackie Bassett has just finished writing a couple of books designed to help managers figure out how to do marketing and take risks. Interesting discussion with her about the latest management and marketing trends. She's CEO of BT Industrials, a firm that consults with executives about their corporate strategies. Tags: Jackie Bassett, BT Industrials, corporate strategies Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Keen on…2008 Presidential Candidates and Technology Will qualifications in leading a country make a difference in 2008, or will 2000 replicate itself with more consequences by electing dividers sown by special interest? Maybe 2008 will mark a breakthrough in unification and prosperity led by technology and collaborative record? In this final episode from an outdoor courtyard break during AlwaysOn 2007, Andrew [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Keen on…the Internet and Democracy Continuing with more episodes from an outdoor courtyard break during AlwaysOn 2007, Andrew Keen asks questions about the Internet and democracy. Will the Internet continue to prosper under any rule but democracy? Tags: AlwaysOn, Andrew Keen Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DYMO File Overview Remember those handheld DYMO labelers? The company now has ways to help you scan and later find your paper documents. Jeremy Petty, Business Development Manager for the DYMO File product line, explains how it works and gives a demo. Tags: DYMO, Jeremy Petty Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anant Jhingran on Web 2.0 in the Enterprise While at the IBM Software Group Connection Summit 2007, James talks IBM's Anany Jhingran about IBM's application of Web 2.0 ideas to information management in the enterprise. Of note, they spend some time talking about the navigating the cultural waters and changes in the IT department and balancing the need for IT control with the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website System Center, Battling over Virtualization, Microsoft and IBM, PowerShell, and open source at Microsoft TechEd IT Forum 2007 Wrapping up the episodes from Microsoft TechEd IT Forum in Barcelona, James and I talk about the discussions and announcements at the event. First, James comments on the seeming maturity that both the attendees and Microsoft itself has after all these years of TechEd. Then we get ask if virtualization will avoid the usual zero-sum [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Distributed Energy Systems: Energy Savings Through Production Near the Point of Use - Part 2 Danny B. Pratte, Chairman and CEO of PrimeGen Power talks with John Ince about their distributed energy system that enables significant saving by producing energy very close to the point of use. PrimeGen Power is developing solid oxide fuels cells for the electric utility industry that can aid in this process. Part 2 of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Distributed Energy Systems: Energy Savings Through Production Near the Point of Use - Part 1 Danny B. Pratte, Chairman and CEO of PrimeGen Power talks with John Ince about their distributed energy system that enables significant saving by producing energy very close to the point of use. PrimeGen Power is developing solid oxide fuels cells for the electric utility industry that can aid in this process. Part 1 of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Build your own live TV station with Mogulus Mogulus is the most interesting of all the streaming services like Justin.tv, Ustream.tv, and Stickcam. Why? Because they built their system around a TV station metaphor. You know, multiple cameras. Switchers. Producers. Graphic overlays. Here Max Haot, CEO, shows off Mogulus and talks with us about how he used the system to do the live [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TakingITGlobal: Adding Social Change to the Curriculum This year's recipient of the Microsoft Education Award at The Tech Awards went to TakingITGlobal, an online community that connects youth to find inspiration, access information, get involved, and take action in their local and global communities. With hundreds of thousands of unique visitors each month, TakingITGlobal technology provides young people worldwide with an online [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website System Center Tour - Microsoft TechEd IT Forum 2007 Finishing up the interview series at Microsoft TechEd IT Forum in Barcelona, I talk with Eric Berg (Director of Product Management, System Center) about the System Center product lines. While we focus on only Operations Manager, Configuration Manager, and Virtual Machine Manager, we go into detail on each. We start out going over the linage [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website System Center Strategic Alliances and Partners - Microsoft TechEd IT Forum 2007 Outside the main conference center for Microsoft TechEd IT Forum in Barcelona, James talks with Carl Coken (Director of Strategic Alliances, System Center) about partnerships and standards in System Center land. Carl manages the relationships with third parties, organizations, and others that work with the System Center platform, for example, by providing management packs. James [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Case for Romania, Outsourcing Your IT, Part 1 Romania is famous for the world’s 2nd largest building, Andrei Codrescu, Nadia Comaneci, Dracula, its striking woman, incredible foods and libations, and wild parties. It also would like to be known as a country where you can outsource your IT. In this podcast, Florin Vrejoiu, Executive VP, at the Romanian Association for Electronic & Software [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Producing BioFuels for Mass Markets - Part 2 Philip Brown, President and CEO of Diversified Energy Corporation talks with John Ince about how they have developed a proprietary technology that enables them to make conventional transportation fuels from renewable sources, that can be distributed through the existing pipelines and infrastructures of the major oil companies. This is a major advantage [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Producing BioFuels for Mass Markets - Part 1 Phillip Brown, President and CEO of Diversified Energy Corporation talks with John Ince about how they have developed a proprietary technology that enables them to make conventional transportation fuels from renewable sources, that can be distributed through the existing pipelines and infrastructures of the major oil companies. This is a major advantage [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Yarborough of Computer-Plus Speaks David Yarborough, President of Computer-Plus, talks about the printer support business while standing over the smoking printer he uses to catch attention during the ITEC conferences. Guess what's the most disgusting thing he ever dug out of a printer? 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The winner could pull the wrappings off a new Intel Centrino Pro based Lenovo T61p [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Guatemala Cookstove Project: Fighting Disease and Improving Living Conditions In many countries in the developing world, cooking is a role assigned to women, who tend open fires, sometimes inside their homes. In Guatemala, the respiratory illnesses, eye infections and severe burns that come from this reality seemed eminently avoidable to Donald O'Neal. With the intent of finding a safer way to cook, O'Neal developed [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Defending the Extended Enterprise Today's enterprise extends beyond the four walls of an office. The adoption of effective security strategies will help protect the extended enterprise and mitigate potential security risks. This podcast discusses how to defend the extended enterprise by leveraging the efficiencies of communications and sharing information across the enterprise while minimizing risk at the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Maximizing Enterprise Collaboration Access to business tools is increasingly essential to the success of today’s global enterprise. Collaborative tools enable productivity, efficiency and responsiveness. This podcast discusses the broad range of services offered by Verizon Business that facilitate enterprise-wide collaboration and teamwork with employees, partners and customers. We hear from Karen Gergelyi, Product Marketing Manager – [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Maximizing Hosted Contact Center Solutions Contact centers underpin the customer service strategies of a broad range of global enterprises. Enterprises should carefully the decision to use a hosted approach versus a premises-based approach and base vendor selection on the ability to offer scalability, expert implementation and a broad service portfolio. Learn how Verizon Business can meet the contact [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Defining an Integrated Hosted Communications Platform Hosted messaging, instant messaging, collaboration and archiving services are all business critical applications. Hear how Verizon Business can deliver ongoing management and security, and help ensure these services are combined to enhance operational performance and employee productivity. In this podcast, we hear from Beth Joseph, Practice Principal – Messaging and Collaboration Services, Verizon Business. Tags: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Battle of IT Best Practices Join BearingPoint managing director Frederic Veron to explore the battle of finding the right IT best practice for your organization. It is important to understand that there is not one universal best practice. An organization must define their framework so that the appropriate solutions can be recommended. Once the framework is determined, a customized [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Global Network Solution for Mission-critical Applications Verizon Business’ Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) combines the simplicity of Ethernet, the flexibility of MPLS and the reliability of SONET. This podcast provides insight into how large business and government customers can leverage VPLS to converge voice, video and data applications onto a single cost-effective local-to-global network solution. The guest is Alla Reznik, Group [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website LA Auto Show: Chrysler Press Conference Frank Klegon, Chrysler executive vice president, product development, took to the stage during the Chrysler Press Conference at the LA Auto Show to present the company's entry into the mid-sized cross-over market, the Dodge Journey, as well as two new hybrid's, the Dodge Durango Hemi and Chrysler Aspen hybrids. Tags: Frank Klegon, Chrysler, Chrysler, LA [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Conserving Bandwidth IP Multi-casting IP multi-casting can conserve bandwidth and optimize network performance. Learn how Verizon Business Private IP Multicasting VPN@Work can be used to stream applications to multiple corporate site while limiting bandwidth requirements, with Steve Goodman, Product Marketing Manager – Private IP, Verizon Business. Tags: Verizon Business, Private IP Multicasting, VPN, Steve Goodman Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Driving Value with Managed Unified Communications IP telephony is not just another application running on the data network. Special attention should be paid to help ensure benefits of managed unified communications to both end users and IT staff. This podcast highlights some of the potential pitfalls that should be considered when planning your own unified communications implementation. We hear [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Meeting CIO Requirements in the Global Market This podcast discusses the issues that keep CIOs up at night. Hear how the Verizon Business portfolio of managed, IT and professional services, can be leveraged to meet today’s most pressing business requirements. We hear from John Shultz, executive director – product management and development, managed network services, Verizon. Tags: CIO, Verizon Business, John Shultz Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Facilitating On-The-Go Workers "On-the-Go" workers require applications that enable access to corporate resources - anytime, anywhere, on any device. This podcast discusses Verizon Business’ mobility solutions and how they can enhance productivity, maximize efficiencies and enable enterprises to focus on wireline-wireless the convergence. We speak with Amanda Chesley, Product Marketing Manager, enterprise mobility, Verizon Business. Tags: Verizon Business, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MPLS - Why & How: A Firsthand Customer Account In this podcast, Verizon Business' Danellie Young, executive director — data and IP services, hosts a discussion with customer Ken Levonaitis, CIO of McCarter & English, a Newark, New Jersey-based AmLaw 200 law firm. Levonaitis discusses his experience deploying a managed MPLS-based network and the benefits of management by Verizon Business. Tags: Verizon Business, Danellie [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Highlights of Photowalk with professional photographer Marc Silber Here's just a few minutes of a really great photowalk with professional photographer Marc Silber who takes us around the Long Ridge Open Space Preserve above Silicon Valley. Photos and Photography tips packed in to a few short minutes. Tags: photowalk, Marc Silber, Long Ridge, Silicon Valley, Photography Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Photowalking above Silicon Valley This is a different kind of photowalking than we usually do. First, no Thomas Hawk. Second, we have a real, professional photographer (he even has the license plates to prove it). Third, we go for a nature walk up in the Long Ridge Open Space Preserve above Silicon Valley. The photographer is Marc Silber, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What's New: SharePoint Expert Mauro Cardarelli from Jornata SharePoint is all the buzz. You can find out how ISV applications can benefit. Spend a few minutes with SharePoint expert Mauro Cardarelli from Jornata as he talks with Jason De Lorme at Microsoft discussing how ISVs are successfully building solutions on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Mauro discusses the key strategies for ISVs to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Adelphi University Helps Faculty and Students Foster Collaboration Securely In this podcast, we hear from Verizon Business customer, Jack Chen, Chief Information Officer for the Office of the Provost for Adelphi University in Garden City, New York. Mr. Chen discusses how collaboration is at the heart of the university and how the university leverages technology to foster collaboration with staff, faculty, students and visiting [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intel World Ahead: Education in Nigeria Nigeria’s education system is one of the targets of the UN’s Millenium Development Goals. Some of those goals are to reduce infant mortality, combat AIDS, malaria & other diseases, and of course improve education worldwide. The millennium goal for education is to ensure, by 2015, that all boys and girls complete a full course of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intel and Sunflowers? Sunflowers, with the unique ability to pull lead and other metals from the dirt, improving the soil and environment, are a metaphor to promote Intel's innovative new lead-free processors. Intel will donate $1 in your name to the Boys & Girls Club - find out how at sunflowers.intel.com Tags: Boys & Girls Club Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Keen on…Irving Wladawsky-Berger Another political season is upon the nation. During an outdoor courtyard break from AlwaysOn 2007, Andrew Keen asked questions about technology and politics . In the first episode, Andrew Keen speaks with Irving Wladawsky-Berger. Tags: AlwaysOn, Andrew Keen, Irving Wladawsky-Berger Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Improved Diagnostics For Infectious Disease in the Developing World Fighting infectious diseases like Chlamydia, hepatitis B and Trachoma in developing countries is complicated because so many diseases go undetected. Diagnostic efforts are slow and expensive, and require specialialized facilities and skilled technicians. The disease may be preventable or treatable, but without effective diagnostics, millions suffer. Two teams, the Diagnostics Development Unit at the University of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website LA Auto Show: GM Press Conference During the LA Auto Show, I attended the GM Press Conference, where Vice Chairman of Product Development Bob Lutz and Chevrolet GM Ed Peper, introduced the company's lineup of gas-friendly to gas-free vehicles, including the Chevy Malibu hybrid, the all new Chevy Silverado hybrid, Chevy Tahoe hybrid, and of ourse, the Chevy Volt. Tags: LA Auto [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Team Blogging: Tips From Southwest Airlines Southwest Airlines blog called Nuts About Southwest is one of the more popular team blogs online today. Talking to Paula Berg, the PR Manager of Southwest, Marketing Voices learns (no surprise) that passion is what makes a team blog great. But Paula and her team managed to find thirty bloggers to contribute on a quarterly [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Longjump into a new kind of business workflow Are you a small business? Want to find a new way to work? Longjump is the most interesting company I've seen recently in the "Work 2.0" space and they are hot off of a DemoGod award at the famous Demo conference. Here Pankaj Malviya, CEO, takes me through what LongJump does for businesses. Tags: Longjump, Work [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ConnectCast - Guy Kawasaki Speaks Logitech Buys WiLife Guy Kawasaki came to Utah to speak to a group of over 500 business and technology leaders. With a packed room Guy, as always, motivated the crowd and created energy for the attendees. And in the M&A space WiLife, a privately held startup that developed home surveillance hardware and monitoring software was acquired by Logitech [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Replicate and Strategize for Full Disaster Recovery Join BearingPoint managing director Daryouche Behboudi in exploring disaster recovery and the importance of technology architecture. When considering the technology architecture of your company, there are many factors to look at. Besides being cost-effective, one must determine if the plan is compatible with their firm's standards and its strategy for organizational survival. Now more then [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Ko: Yahoo's Mobile Strategy In Asia Asia has the largest and fastest growing mobile users in the world. Yahoo! mobile has a pretty significant presence in Asia. David Ko, Vice President and General Manager of Yahoo! Connected Life Asia talks about Yahoo’s strategy and plans in the Asian market. David is responsible for the deployment of Yahoo’s mobile products and strategy [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website LA Auto Show: Green Car of the Year During the 2007 LA Auto Show, Green Car Journal announced the winner of it's 2008 Green Car of the Year award. The contenders were the new Chevy Malibu hybrid, Saturn Aura hybrid, Mazda Tribute hybrid, Nissan Altima hybrid and Chevy Tahoe hybrid. The winner? Watch and find out! Tags: LA Auto Show, Green [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The state of Russian venture capital Yuri Ammosov, a senior policy officer of the Russian Government in charge of venture capital and high tech development programs, talks with me about how Russia is flush with cash thanks to the rising energy prices (they are one of the world's leading oil producers) and are working with Silicon Valley venture capital firms to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PowerShell Overview and Remote Update - Microsoft TechEd IT Forum 2007 In the lobby of the Microsoft TechEd IT Forum in Barcelona I got the chance to catch up with Jeffrey Snover, Architect, Management Services Division. Jeffery gives us an overview of PowerShell and then we talk about Microsoft and other's use of PowerShell since it's release a year ago. As Jeffery tells us that PowerShell [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bringing Down The Cost of Photovoltaic Solar Cells - Part 3 Roy Johnson, CEO of CaliSolar Inc. talks with John Ince about new techniques for reducing the cost of photovoltaics. PV Cells have long held the promise of providing clean electricity and competitive rates, but the stumbling block has always been the cost of the silicon chips. CaliSolar believes they have found a better [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bringing Down The Cost of Photovoltaic Solar Cells - Part 2 Roy Johnson, CEO of CaliSolar Inc. talks with John Ince about new techniques for reducing the cost of photovoltaics. PV Cells have long held the promise of providing clean electricity and competitive rates, but the stumbling block has always been the cost of the silicon chips. CaliSolar believes they have found a better [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bringing Down The Cost of Photovoltaic Solar Cells - Part 1 Roy Johnson, CEO of CaliSolar Inc. talks with John Ince about new techniques for reducing the cost of photovoltaics. PV Cells have long held the promise of providing clean electricity and competitive rates, but the stumbling block has always been the cost of the silicon chips. CaliSolar believes they have found a better [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Technology Trendspotting - Intel Chip Chat - Episode 20 Dr. Moira Gunn, host of NPR’s Tech Nation, discusses everything from biotech demands on computing architectures to how she became a talk show host. Related Stories: Intel, IntelMooresLaw, IDF Tags: Moira Gunn, NPR, Tech Nation, biotech, Intel, IntelMooresLaw, IDF Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building System Center Management Packs - Microsoft TechEd IT Forum 2007 While at Microsoft TechEd IT Forum in Barcelona, I talked with Barry Shilmover (Senior Program Manager, System Center) about creating System Center management packs. Management packs are the sort of "plugin" parts of the System Center platform that do the discovery, monitoring, and management for System Center in addition to containing the help "knowledge." Barry [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The latest in video advertising with YuMe Since I'm in the video business I wanted to find out what the latest is in video advertising. Jayant Kadambi, CEO of YuMe networks shows me the latest. If you're in the video business you'll want to watch this one. Tags: Jayant Kadambi, YuMe Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Producing BioCrude from Algae? Price is the Key Lissa Morganthaler-Jones, President and CEO of LiveFuels talks with John Ince about the process of converting algae into BioCrude Oil. She and an alliance of scientists and labs at LiveFuels are betting that they can make the conversion at a reasonable price–approaching a dollar a gallon by 2010. Tags: Lissa Morganthaler-Jones, LiveFuels, BioCrude Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intel's 5400 Chipset-based Platform - Intel Chip Chat Episode 19 Explore what’s inside Intel’s first 45nm quad-core and dual-core platform for workstations. Related Stories: Intel, IntelMooresLaw, IDF Tags: Intel, 45nm, quad-core, dual-core, Intel, IntelMooresLaw, IDF Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Follow your comments around the web with SezWho If you're a blogger you should check SezWho out. It's a technology that you add to your blog server that lets your blog's comments be FAR more useful. Here Jitendra Gupta, CEO, and Tedd Corman, VP of business development, gives us all the details. VentureBeat uses this, along with many other blogs I like. Tags: SezWho, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Just Us For Food Justice: Youth at Bioneers Just Us for Food Justice is a youth track of the Food and Farming program at The Bioneers Conference that happens annually in Marin County, California. We had the privilege of hanging out with this crew of folks who came from as far as Costa Rica and as close as Oakland. The day included a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Photowalking tour of Stanford University This is a real treat. Stanford University's Ian Hsu setup a tour for a fairly large group of photographers. We met Patience Young, who gave us a tour of the Rodin Statue Garden, Bernard Barryte who told us a story about the Burghers of Calais, and Gabe Hoffman and the rest of the hybrid systems [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jerrilyn Glanville on Analyst Relations In this segment from the IBM Software Group Connection Summit 2007, James talks with Jerrilyn Glanville, a veteran of IBM Analyst Relations ("AR" for short). The discuss the role of AR, both on the side of the analyst and executives, some examples of different styles and idiosyncrasies of both analysts and execs, and then talk [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Multi-core, Dynamic Languages, and Concurrency While at the IBM Software Group Connection Summit 2007, James talks with IBM Distinguished Engineer Bob Blainey about the present and future of multi-core processors and dynamic languages. They talk about which languages are out in the wilds of the IBM customer and user base, and then discuss some possible scenerios for the future. Tags: IBM, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Appvertising: The Future of Social Advertising Seth Goldstein talks about advertising on Facebook and the use of applications as "appvertising." But some apps involve slinging virtual food between Facebook friends, can such apps also become an effective advertising platform? Can apps like this really be monetized in a fashion that yields gratifying returns? From the recent Graphing Social Patterns conference. Tags: Seth [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Morocco's Tech Challenge: Literacy In a country marked by influences — Berber, Arab, Jewish, French, Spanish — Morocco faces the challenge of absorbing one more: information technology. Countries like India, China, Brazil and Nigeria have seen the astonishing impact that simple PCs can have on an economy - but the key to unlocking the potential of an information-driven workforce [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Highlights of CircleUp Rocky, my producer, knows you don't have time to watch the full interview so he's pulled the highlights out of the interview I did with John Payne, CEO of CircleUp. Six minutes and you'll see how CircleUp helps you work with people to get answers to your questions like "where should we go for lunch [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Get an answer with CircleUp CircleUp joins your communities together in a way to get your questions answered. Plan a meal. Start an event. Pick a vacation spot. Here John Payne, CEO, shows us the new system. Tags: CircleUp, John Payne Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Museum Awards: P's PUR PUR Purifier of Water is an in-home system delivered to families in developing countries. This technology was developed by Proctor and Gamble and is one of the laureates being honored this year at the Tech Museum Awards. Tags: PUR, Purifier of Water, Proctor and Gamble, Tech Museum Awards Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Basic Technologies Matter in Sub-Sahara Africa Intel Chairman Craig Barrett, fresh from the Connect Africa Summit in Kigali, Rwanda, toured Nigeria's National Hospital in the country's capitol of Abuja, as well as a school in the Jabi district of the city. Barrett also serves as chairman of the UN's Global Alliance for ICT and Development (UN GAID). PodTech's Jason Lopez followed [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Force.com Chalk Talk: Salesforce.com, Adobe and StakeWare Adam Gross (Vice President of Developer Marketing, Salesforce.com) presents an interactive technical conversation involving both SaaS and platform application development technologies as well as the partnerships with Adobe and StakeWare. On-Demand data bases, infrastructure, integration, developer priorities and resource management all get attention in this setting hosted from OutCast Communications. Web as platform is quickly gaining capability [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cisco's John Chambers in India Cisco, the networking giant is bullish about doing business in India and that was the central message delivered by John T. Chambers, Chairman and CEO of Cisco in India. So far Cisco has invested $1.1 billion in India. Tags: Cisco, John T. Chambers Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NewsGator moves to the Enterprise NewsGator is one of the best news aggregators out there (a place to subscribe to RSS feeds). In this interview with Dave Keller, general manager, and Chris Echelmeier, enterprise sales rep, you'll hear why NewsGator is making big moves into large corporations and how its synchronization system is helping both corporate employees as well as [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Demo of NewsGator's enterprise feed system NewsGator owns many of the most popular news readers around and synchronizes them. But now NewsGator is making big strides in bringing its synchronization system to enterprises. Dave Keller, general manager, and Chris Echelmeier, enterprise sales rep, demo the latest for me. Tags: NewsGator, news reader, Dave Keller, Chris Echelmeier Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Security Plan - Risk Assessment, Modeling and War Gaming Security risk assessments, security risk modeling, and protecting against security threats by maintaining a threat agent library — these and other programs form the basis for understanding threats to network security for Intel. In this video podcast, TIm Casey, senior strategic analyst for information security at Intel, discusses the strategy behind Intel's efforts. Intel maintains a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Facebook, API's and the Social Graph Lance Tokuda is CEO of Rock You, which has emerged as the leading developer of Facebook apps. Rock You can create an app for you over the weekend and launch it by Monday. He talks about some of the issues in developing Facebook apps. Tags: Lance Tokuda, Rock You, Facebook Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Demo: AtTask Project and Portfolio Management AtTask's VP of Sales, Abraham Knell, shows off the @task Project and Portfolio Management solution. The application has a simple UI that is easy to learn and use. Tabs and drop-down menus in headers give the web-based offering a rich, desktop client-like experience without the hassle of software installs or updates. AtTask offers APIs [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AtTask is Used by Apple, Disney, CBS, and More… AtTask provides on-demand project and portfolio management software. Scott Johnson, CEO and Founder, and his team have self-funded and enhanced the @task offering over the past six years with dashboard UI, Web 2.0 collaboration, workflow, templates, APIs, and global language support. In that time, AtTask landed an impressive customer list, including Apple, Chevron, Johnson & [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Julie Wolk: Rainforest Action Network The Rainforest Action Network defends more than just the rainforest these days. Combatting corporate, environmental injustices, RAN works from the inside out- directly negotiating with CEOs to change their policies. At the same time, RAN proactively keeps the public informed of progress on key issues. Tags: The Rainforest Action Network, rainforest, RAN Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Journey to Connect Africa: First Leg, Lagos Intel Chairman Craig Barrett is traveling this week in Africa, as part of an ongoing effort by the United Nations, the International Telecommunication Union and private enterprise to improve Africa's Information and Communication Technology, or ICT infrastructure. Barrett, who heads up the UN's Global Alliance for ICT and Development (UN GAID), is accompanied by PodTech's [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Delivering Next-Gen Mobile Platforms - Intel Chip Chat - Episode 16b Intel Mobile Technology Evangelist, Mike Trainor, unveils promising new technological advancements built into Intel's latest and upcoming mobile processors and platforms. Related Stories: Intel, IntelMooresLaw, IDF Tags: Intel, Mobile Technology, Mike Trainor, mobile, Intel, IntelMooresLaw, IDF Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bloglines makes reading feeds more fun Eric Engleman, general manager of Bloglines (a very popular RSS feed reader) shows me the hot new features in Bloglines and how they are working to make reading feeds more productive and more fun. Tags: Eric Engleman, Bloglines Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website F5 - FirePass 6.0.2 Update Listen to key benefits and new capabilities of F5 FirePass 6.0.2 and how you can use FirePass SSL VPN to maximize productivity of your mobile workforce. F5’s Product Marketing Manager, Nigel Baker and Hari Krishnan, Product Managaer for FirePass talk about how FirePass differs from other SSL VPN products and adds additional business value to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website F5's Big-IP v9 - Time to Migrate Mike Krasnow, F5 Networks’ Product Marketing Manager, discusses BIG-IP version 9. Krasnow explains the benefits that organizations can expect by upgrading from version 4. In version 9, F5 has taken a quantum leap ahead with both their software architecture and hardware platforms to ensure that applications are not only available, but also [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website LSI Networking - Connecting People and Information In this podcast, you get a perspective on how LSI’s PC connectivity, home and business device and service provider-targeted products enable not only the functionality of the devices that serve these markets, but also facilitate the ongoing convergence of the networking world, bringing together people and content through digital access and transport. Tags: LSI, PC connectivity, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reduce noise on Skype and other VoIP systems with Noise Free Do you work in noisy conditions? Want to make VoIP systems like Skype work better? Get Noise Free. Here Bill Ribble, VP of marketing at Noise Free, talks to me about how it works. Tags: VoIP, Skype, Noise Free, Bill Ribble, Noise Free Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whrrl brings social networking to local discovery Jeff Holden, co-founder and CEO of Pelago which released WHRRL last week. He discusses how you'd use whrrl from a mobile phone to find restaurants and other things. Tags: Jeff Holden, Pelago, WHRRL Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bootstrapping an open source company In this second part of a conversation with Puppet creator and Reductive Labs founder Luke Kanies, we talk about bootstrapping an open source company. More so than just finding a need and the code to fill it, Luke walks us through the personal risk management thinking he went through before deciding to start his own [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of Mobility & WiMAX - Intel Chip Chat - Episode 16a Intel Senior Fellow, Kevin Kahn, provides insight into Wi-MAX, Ultra Wide Band technologies and the exciting future of mobile and wireless computing. Related Stories: Intel, IntelMooresLaw, IDF Tags: Intel, Wi-MAX, Ultra Wide Band, mobile, wireless, Intel, IntelMooresLaw, IDF Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Euro Taxi During the Alt Car Expo in Santa Monica, I spoke with Don Alexander, owner of Euro Taxi of Santa Monica, another business offering green transportation throughout the LA region. With help from Clean Energy, Euro Taxi offers even more alternative fuel choices for concerned consumersnow with CNG fueled taxicabs. Tags: Alt Car Expo, Santa [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Katherine Paul: CommonDreams.org CommonDreams.org was one of the first progressive news aggregation sites on the web. Funded entirely by supporters, CommonDreams.org remains one of the most popular sites for International, Progressive and Environmental information. Tags: CommonDreams.org, news aggregation Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of Intel Architecture - Intel Chip Chat - Episode 15 Intel Senior Fellow, Steve Pawlowski, explores the next 10 years of challenges and innovation for Intel architecture. Related Stories: Intel, IntelMooresLaw, IDF Tags: Intel, Steve Pawlowski, Intel, IntelMooresLaw, IDF Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website International calls for free with Talkster Do you have family overseas and spend a lot of money on phone calls? You need Talkster. Here Mark Gelman, chief architect, demonstrates the free service for me. Tags: Talkster, Mark Gelman Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Big brands on Facebook: What doesn't work Charlene Li is a senior analyst at Forrester Research on social media and related technologies. She talks about some of the mistakes big brands are making on social network platforms such as Facebook, and the challenges they face. From the recent Graphing Social Patterns conference. Tags: Charlene Li, Forrester Research, social media, Facebook, Graphing Social Patterns Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mobile entertainment with Thumbplay Thumbplay brings a bunch of great games to your mobile device. James Finn, executive vice president for Thumbplay.com, talks with me during the CTIA Showstoppers event last week. Tags: Thumbplay, games, mobile device, CTIA, Showstoppers Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stop losing your Bluetooth headset with Yada Dan Sheehan, CEO and Founder of Winplus, gives us a demo of Yada, a device that hooks up to your dashboard that includes a Bluetooth headset for your cell phone. Because you never take your headset out of your car to charge it you'll never lose it again. Tags: Dan Sheehan, Winplus, Yada, Bluetooth Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Getting ready for SXSW with City of Austin One of our favorite events of the year is the SXSW events, which really are three events in one city over two weeks. One focused on interactive media (the one we go to), one focused on music, and another focused on movies. But here Jim Butler, creative industries development manager for the City of Austin, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Fairbanks on BackupExec System Recovery Symantec product manager Steve Fairbanks discusses improvements in their BackupExec System Restore product during the Altiris ManageFusion user conference. Tags: Symantec, Steve Fairbanks, BackupExec, System Restore, Altiris, ManageFusion Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shantanu Narayen, President and COO of Adobe Part-2 In Part-2 of the interview with Shantanu Narayen, President and COO of Adobe describes his company’s India strategy. What about mobile strategy in India? Tune in to find out. Adobe established its India office in Noida about 10 years ago. Tags: Shantanu Narayen, Adobe, India, Noida Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bringing Back The Clothes Line: No Dryer Needed! When I was little, my best friend's family never dried their clothes in their dryer but on a clothes line or indoor rack next to the radiators. In my house, we did use a dryer. I never understood their reasoning until now. Why use all that electricity or gas when you can just hang your [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Venture Investing in the Social Media Space: Sharon Wienbar of Scale Venture Partners Back to MarketingVoices by popular demand, venture capitalist Sharon Wienbar of Scale Venture Partners, tells Jennifer Jones what is hot and not hot in venture investing for social media today. She also tells why Facebook is gaining incredible momentum and what other social media trends are affecting VC investing. Sharon shares amazing Facebook facts and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Demo of Mindtouch, "best open source wiki" Aaron Fulkerson, co-founder of Mindtouch, gives us a demo of what makes his wiki tool better than other wiki tools. Specifically its strengths are that it's open source and that it has a great API. Tags: Aaron Fulkerson, Mindtouch Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Talking about Wikis with Mindtouch Aaron Fulkerson and Steve Bjork, co-founders of MindTouch, talk to me about the Wiki market and what makes their tool better than others. Tags: Aaron Fulkerson, Steve Bjork, MindTouch Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Silicon Valley Turns Out to Honor Top Technologists Silicon Valley is not known for paying much attention to its own history but things are changing. The Computer History Museum's 2007 Fellow Awards was sold out as much of Silicon Valley's aristocracy turned out for a $250 fund raising dinner that paid tribute to four top technologists: Morris Chang, John Hennessy, David A. Patterson [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intel's OnConnect Authentication Saves Intel Millions Through Secure Networking Sanjay Rungta works with Intel's Network Engineering Organization on keeping the Intel computing network safe and intrusion free. In addition to external threats from hackers, Rungta has done a lot to identify and combat internal threats. As increasing numbers of Intel employees work from home or WiFi hotspots, opportunities for exploiting certain network vulnerabilities increase. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Sanghi of Microchip, Part 2 Steve Sanghi, CEO of Microchip Technology, talks about how the company went from a small, struggling outfit to a successful one. What made Steve believe in Microchip Technology? How did he do it? He also talks about the connection between the U.S. housing market and Microchip Technology. And then there is his favorite toy: Segway, which [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Popfly: Microsoft Shows Mashups for Consumers - Make Your Own FaceBook App In Minutes You don't need to be a developer to create mashups or FaceBook apps. Dan Fernandez demonstrates creating a FaceBook app in minutes using an alpha release of PopFly. It is built on Microsoft's Silverlight technology. With tools such as these, brace yourself for a flood of FaceBook apps coming your way. Tags: FaceBook apps, Dan Fernandez, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RIDE DRIVE: Chevy's Equinox Fuel Cell Vehicle During GM's Electric Drive University in Newport Beach, Calif., I had the opportunity to get behind the wheel of the new Chevy Equinox fuel cell prototype vehicle for a ride and drive with Brad Beauchamp. He's a driver relationship manager for GM's Project Driveway, and is a veritable wealth of information of the crossover hydrogen-fueled, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SNWSpotlight AM - Thursday October 18th, 2007 SNWSpotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World. In this final podcast in the series, Catherine Girardeau speaks with Richard Villars and Dave Reinsel, analysts with IDC, about top topics of discussion at the conference. We also hear from attendees about what's on their minds as the Storage Networking World wraps up. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tour of Keynote: one of biggest Internet traffic points Keynote Systems does testing and caching for Internet services around the world. They know more about the health of the Internet than probably any other company. Here you get a tour into their datacenter and control center. We talk about what happens there when something breaks on the Internet. Tags: Keynote Systems Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Testing Mobile services on the Internet with Keynote Systems Are you building an Internet service and need to know how it'll look on computers or mobile phones around the world? What the response times will be? How to make it better? Then you'll need Keynote Systems. Here, Manny Gonzalez, Sr., director of mobile technologies, talks to me about what the company does and some [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Microchip Technology's Steve Sanghi, Part 1 Arizona-based Microchip Technology is an important player in the microcontroller and analog semiconductor space. The company registered $1.039 billion in net sales for fiscal year 2007. Yesterday, I spoke with Steve Sanghi, the CEO and the chairman of the board of directors of Microchip Technologies, in Bangalore, to find out about the company's India plans. Microchip Technologies [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SNWSpotlight PM - Wednesday October 17th, 2007 SNWSpotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World. In this podcast Darren Thomas, vice president and general manager of enterprise storage at Dell and Claude Lorenson, senior manager in the storage solution division at Microsoft, talk iSCSI and virtualization. Also hear about a data integrity initiative by Oracle, Seagate, Emulex, and LSI. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Meet Davi Kutz Davi Kutz is your ordinary Joe, living in North Hollywood, Calif. An avid outdoorsman, he's also one lucky fellow. That's because for the next three months, he'll be one of 100 people in L.A., Washington, D.C. and New York City who will be driving a new Chevy Equinox hydrogen fuel cell vehicle as part of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sun Microsystems: Open Source Worldwide Panel Sun has become one of the most enthusiastic supporters for open source technologies after a long period of ignoring the movement. Sun recently hosted an Open Source Summit in a bid to identify itself more closely with open source software. This event offered global perspectives and was moderated by Sun's Ian Murdock. It featured Joe [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stone Soup: We Know Where Our Food Comes From A Word of Warning: This is a graphic video. If you do not eat meat and think killing animals to do so is bad, you should not watch this video. We live at The San Mateo Eco-Village, where we know our neighbors, garden together and learn how to live more sustainably. Part of living sustainably is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Keyword Discovery and Competitive Intelligence in Search Becky Ryan, director of business development with Trellian, discusses strategies for boosting Web traffic using keyword discovery and competitive intelligence. She explains why it is crucial for online storefront owners or anybody with a Web business model based upon search generated traffic must develop a strategy for maximizing the value of their assets using the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Microsoft partners with Atlassian over Sharepoint Wiki Atlassian builds enterprise wikis and is white hot. Today at the Web 2.0 Summit Microsoft's CEO, Steve Ballmer, will announce that it is partnering with Atlassian, who is building a Sharepoint connector so that Sharepoint customers can use Atlassian's wiki. This is pretty significant news and here Jeffrey Walker, Atlassian's president, and Mike Cannon-Brookes, Atlassian's [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SNWSpotlight AM - Wednesday, October 17, 2007 SNWSpotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World. This SNWSpotlight features Mitch Siegel of LSI talking about the state of the company, and Tom Edsall of Cisco on the future of the data center. SNWSpotlight is brought to you by LSI. Tags: SNWSpotlight, Storage Networking World, Mitch Siegel, LSI, Tom Edsall, Cisco, data [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SNWSpotlight PM - Tuesday, October 16, 2007 In this afternoon's program we speak with Harry Mason telliing everything he knows about SAS, and we take a look at how green technology is playing in the storage industry. SNWSpotlight is brought to you by LSI. Tags: Harry Mason, SAS, SNWSpotlight, LSI Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Turning dumb phones into smart phones Migg33 is a mobile social networking company and a phone software developer. The comapny has found a way to enhance regular phones with extra smart features including ways to use VOIP for cheap international calls as co-founder Steven Goh explains to Larry Magid. Tags: Migg33, mobile social networking, Steven Goh, Larry Magid Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An in-depth look into Feedhaus: tag clouds for your feeds Want a new way to discover what is going on in your feeds? FeedHaus has a way: a tag cloud. Chris Bucchere, CEO, discusses and demostrates his new service. Tags: FeedHaus, Chris Bucchere Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website One Arm Bandits with a Brain Slot machines have been around since the 1880s and they still do basically the same thing: take your money with the odds clearly slanted towards the house. But they are getting more interesting to play. WMS Gaming has a new series of machines that include touch screen technology but still use those old fashioned spinning [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ADSDAQ: A Stock Exchange for Advertising, Part 2 Jay Sears, senior vice president for Context Web and ADSDAQ talks with John Ince about how advertising exchanges have suddenly emerged as premium Web properties with Google acquiring Doubleclick for $3.1 billion, Yahoo! acquiring Right Media for $800 million and Microsoft acquiring aQuantive for $6+ billion. Sears believes that this trend is significant because the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Exclusive earnings interview with Seagate's Brian Dexheimer Exclusive Seagate 1st quarter earnings interview with Seagate's Brian Dexheimer, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer. Tags: Seagate, Brian Dexheimer Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Disruptions: Part 2 This podcast is the second part of a discussion with Jan Sysmans, director of marketing for WebEx. Jan says that traditionally, many obstacles to productivity have been written off as a cost of doing business. However, tools exist that not only make employees more productive on a day-to-day basis, but also can make business disruptions [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SNWSpotlight AM - Tuesday, October 16, 2007 SNWSpotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World. In this installment, we get a security overview from Claudine Simpson, chief technnology officer, LSI, and Catherine Girardeau talks with LSI Director of Product Marketing Steve Gardner about iSCSI: simple and low-cost networked storage. SNWSpotlight is brought to you by LSI. Tags: SNWSpotlight, Storage Networking [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Meet the STARMAC robotic helicopter at Stanford During our recent photowalking, Stanford University rolled out its STARMAC team (Stanford Testbed of Autonomous Rotorcraft for Multi-Agent Control). These are quadrotor helicopters that can fly remotely without much human assistance. Really cool research project that you'll want to check out. Anyway, here you meet the team: Gabe Hoffmann, Ph.D. candidate, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Haomiao [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SNWSpotlight PM - Monday, October 15, 2007 SNWSpotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World. In this installment we get a preview of the conference from Computerworld's Derek Hulitzky, and Michael Johnson reports on some of the security issues being faced by the industry. SNWSpotlight is brought to you by LSI. Tags: SNWSpotlight, Storage Networking World, Derek Hulitzky, LSI Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Adsdaq: A Stock Exchange for Advertising - Part 1 Jay Sears, senior vice president at Context Web, talks about the ADSDAQ online advertising exchange. ADSDAQ is distinguished from other advertising exchanges by 1) premium inventory, 2) pricing control both for advertisers and publishers, 3) a contextual search engine that reads content in real time 4) open access to publishers large and small. This is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SNWSpotlight SNWSpotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World, taking place in Grapevine, Texas, from October 14-17. Subscribe to these podcasts for valuable up-to-the-minute news from the conference, plus interviews with industry leaders about issues of interest at the world's largest and foremost storage networking event. Subscribe now to SNWSpotlight. Tags: SNWSpotlight, Storage [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Avinti iSolation Server Prevents Malware Malware delivered through links in email is working. Unfortunately, those organizations that don't have a strategy to prevent this attack stand to suffer significant financial loss, and perhaps worse, their reputation. Avinti provides a solution that processes email through a gateway on the edge of the network. Unlike other solutions that rely on knowing about a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CDNLive! Silicon Valley 2007: The Present and Future of the Semiconductor Industry Ted Vucurevich, SVP and CTO at Cadence, and Tom Reeves, vice president, Technology Licensing, IBM Intellectual Property & Standards, discuss the current state of the semiconductor industry and where it's heading tomorrow and beyond. Topics include IBM's market focus for chips, the technologies needed to keep shrinking process nodes, and the design collaboration between Cadence [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website (Explicit) Dan Farber on… Is the valuation a term that is taken too lightly? These days, new tech companies like Facebook seem to be popping up from every part of Silicon Valley. Can Facebook actually monetize the bazillion apps that are being thrown their way? And from the consumers perspective, do we care? Farber and Gillmor discuss the particulars [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Measuring Social Media: No-Cost Tracking Tools That Work Tracking discussions in the blogosphere is tough enough, but they also need to be measured. Katie Delahaye Paine tells MarketingVoices what success criteria is for social media measurement and how organizations need to set their objectives in order to properly measure what matters. Katie gets into detail about the tracking tools that are free online [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Highlights of Six Apart conversation My producer knows you don't have time to sit through an hour-long conversation with the Six Apart executives, so he's pulled out a few highlights. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Talking with Six Apart: blogging pioneers Six Apart just released a new Moveable Type, so I wanted to find out what was up cause it really has a lot of great services that help people communicate. From LiveJournal, which is used by people to talk with their social networks, to Vox, which is a blog tool with great permission control so [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Earth Stories: Gore in Palo Alto on Winning Nobel PALO ALTO, October 12, 2007 - Former Vice President Al Gore, who was named co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize earlier today, said at a brief press conference at the Alliance for Climate Protection he hopes the award will raise global consciousness about climate change. Gore shares the peace award with the Intergovernmental Panel [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bags: Dan McWeeney's Crumpler Part and Parcel In the continuing series of geek bag profiles, while at SAP Tech '07 in Las Vegas, I talked with Dan McWeeney about his Crumpler Part and Parcel bag. Dan shows us all the nooks and crannies of his bag, explaining that it fits all his computer junk well. The bag just works for said junk [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World Space's Velu Shankar Velu Shankar is head of content strategy at the India office of WorldSpace Satellite Radio, the 24-radio station. I recently caught up with Velu at his downtown Bangalore office to find out on how WorldSpace started its India operations, and the potential and future growth of radio in India. WorldSpace offers about 40 radio channels [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Facebook Fanboys: Are you Pro or Con? part 2 The final session of the recent Graphing Social Patterns conference featured a "Fanboy" panel discussion moderated by Michael Arrington from TechCrunch. With his bosom buddy Jason Calacanis on the panel, it became the "Arrington & Calacanis Show." Fellow panelists Robert Scoble, Rodney Rumford, and Dave McClure had to fight their way into the conversation. Tags: Graphing [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bags: Matthias Zeller's Waterfield Cargo While at SAP TechEd '07, I talked with Matthias Zeller about his Waterfield Cargo bag. I have an over-active interest in laptop bags, so I'm always on the look-out for The Perfect Bag. Matthias' seemed nice and he details the different compartments, pockets, and little things like if it fits under an airplane seat well. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Get collaborative with Chandler While it was earlier hyped by some in the press as an "Outlook killer" (probably due to Mitch Kapor's statements — he funded this open source project) Chandler has evolved to be a new collaborative tool aimed at small groups of people who want to work together. We visited Mimi Yin, project designer, and Katie [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website GME's Anthony Lo on the Opel Flextreme During the Frankfurt Auto Show, I had the opportunity to sit down with Anthony Lo, design director for General Motors Europe Advanced. Anthony led the team that brough the Opel Flextreme from drawing board to it's unveiling in Germany last month. Designed on the same E-Flex platform as the Chevy Volt, the Flextreme came [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Disruptions: Part 1 This podcast is the first of three parts of a conversation on business continuity with Jan Sysmans, director of marketing for WebEx. Jan says that traditionally, when employees can't get to the office due to traffic, weather, or health, companies write these productivity impacts off as a cost of doing business. However, tools exist that not [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "The Next Big Thing" part 2 In part two of the Dreamforce07 keynote, Robert Thurman and George Lucas open their conversation up to personal insights and philosophies around education, survival and knowledge. As part of an ecosystem, what roles will innovation and technology take on? As populations grow and diversity increases globally, will the momentum be matched in education? Is there profitability [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roger McNamee and Moonalice rockin' at Union Square It's no secret in the valley that venture capitalist Roger McNamee is a rocker at heart. By day, he does deals from his Elevation Partners office on Sand Hill Road. But in his spare time, he writes songs and plays guitar for Moonalice (his "old" band was called The Flying Other Brothers). We caught up [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Overview of the U.S. Army's Web Strategy John Robinson, the chief of Media Services Center, manages the United States Army's official Website. This is the fourth largest government site in the U.S., and the largest military site in the world. John shares with me the intention, features, and community reached at the Army's site. Tags: John Robinson Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It's a myth the US can be energy independent within the next several decades The US imports 10 million barrels of oil per day. This is more than it is producing itself, and over half of its oil consumption. If the US keeps consuming oil as it is now, imports will make up an estimated 70% of consumption in 2025. It has been suggested by various policy makers that the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The State of Emerging Markets, Part 2 Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems president and CEO, discusses how emerging markets are beginning to realize the unlimited potential of the Internet. Also on TechOne: Jay Smooth comments on who's smarter, Miss Teen South Carolina or George Bush? Tags: Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems, Jay Smooth Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Talking about U.S. computer science university enrollment trends A short talk on computer science enrollment trends with Mehran Sahami, associate chairman of undergraduate education at Stanford University. Tags: computer science, Mehran Sahami Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brand Marketing to Cell Phones Russell Morgan, chief operating officer of GroupieTunes, explains how the company uses cell phones to reach out to customers and increase the awareness for customers. Their "Mobile Community Network Enabler" platform allows, for instance, music fans to get messages and alerts from favorite groups anytime and anywhere. Tags: Russell Morgan, GroupieTunes Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Umang Gupta on Entrepreneurship, Part 3 In the final part of our conversation, Umang Gupta, CEO of Keynote Systems, talks about his experience as an entrepreneur the second time around. After leaving his first company, Gupta Technologies, Umang took some time off to rethink and reinvent himself before coming back to head Keynote Systems and taking it through to a successful [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Resonate With Customers During my keynote speeches for the spring ITEC conferences, I explained to people from small and medium businesses how to use new marketing tools, like blogs, to better connect with customers. Since only about 10 percent of attendees admitted having their own company blogs, I focused less on blog technology and more on blog philosophy [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Professor Phil Taylor on BPO and ITES in India ITES and BPO are two of the fastest-growing sectors in India. I rencently spoke with Prof. Phil Taylor of Strathcylde University, Glasgow, to find out about the BPO and ITES sector in India, misperceptions on outsourcing and the challenges for growth in this sector. Phil was a speaker at a recent two-day event about the chaging [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Information Technology Solution Providers Alliance Russell Morgan, founder and president of ITSPA, discusses the group during a break while taping the Wells Fargo Small Business Webcast on Technology and Your Business. Morgan also explains bad ideas in big businesses others should avoid, and good ideas small businesses should learn from big businesses. Tags: Russell Morgan Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Review of Global Data Privacy Regulations and Their Constraints on IT Join Bearing Point Senior Manager Benedicte Lambert, as she describes the current state of data privacy regulations throughout the world and offers advice for IT managers with data centers in different continents. This is a Bearing Point podcast. Tags: Bearing Point, Benedicte Lambert, data centers Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The State of Emerging Markets, Part 1 Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems president and CEO, discusses how emerging markets are beginning to realize the unlimited potential of the internet. Also on TechOne: Michael Cote reports from the iPhoneDevCamp. Tags: Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems, iPhoneDevCamp Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website San Francisco's Green Garage Pat Cadam is owner of Pat's Garage, an independent auto repair shop located in San Francisco's SOMA district. He and his mechanics work primarily on hybrids like the Toyota Prius and Honda Insight. He's also one of the few "green" auto repair shops in the Bay Area. Not only that, but Pat and his [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Overlay your stuff on top of video with Overcast Are you a director who wants to overlay your commentary on top of your video? Sort of like when you get a DVD? Or, are you a critic that wants to point out mistakes in the film? Now you can, with Overcast Media. Here, Rich Staokley, founder and CEO, shows off what his system can [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Demo of the easiest Wiki service: WetPaint WetPaint is my favorite Wiki service. A Wiki is a page where a group of people can collaboratively work together to update the page. Sign in, click "edit" and away you go. But there's a lot more to WetPaint than just that, and CEO Ben Elowitz gives us a tour. Tags: WetPaint, Wiki, Ben Elowitz Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mayfield's Kevin Fong on Investing in China, Part 2 Mayfield Fund's Managing Director, Kevin Fong, heads their firm's China-based strategy and investment. In Part-2 of our conversation, Kevin talks about investing in China and the synergy between India and China. He thinks the two neighbors have a lot in common and is quick to point out that there could be some challenges that might stall [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Social media in the enterprise: How to deal with IT roadblocks Josh Hallett and Alex Kim, from Solution Set, talk about building social media platforms within enterprises and the roadblocks that IT departments create. Lots of good advice on overcoming those obstacles. A Silicon Valley Watcher report from a meeting of the Third Thursday club held at Voce Communications, in Palo Alto. Also on TechOne: Larry [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ConnectCast v100 Show: Kevin Rollins on economic opportunities in Utah This is a special edition of ConnectCast and the v100 Show. We were at the vSpring Capital v100 luncheon for the top 100 venture entrepreneurs, where Kevin Rollins, former CEO of Dell, gave the keynote. We spoke with Kevin about the economic growth opportunities that Utah faces over the next 10 years. Utah is currently [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intel Launches social media experience Open Port "Corporate Websites are losing a bit of relevance," says Bob Duffy, Intel's online community strategist. "Open Port is Intel's first public online community targeted at the IT tech enthusiast audience; it's a central destination for Social Media." Because of the Web every company is suddenly a media outlet. Intel says it has positioned itself to communicate [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. David Travis at Hybridfest Have you ever looked up and watched a jet high in the sky leaving a long contrail? Have you also wondered what effect that contrail might have on global warming and our environment? Dr. David Travis, from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, has, and during Hybridfest in Madison, Wisc., he gave a talk entitled "Climate Change: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intel's Malcolm Harkins on PC Security Remember those old movies in which a whiz kid accidentally breaks into the network of the Strategic Air Command? Malcolm Harkins, general manager of Intel's Information Risk and Security Group, remembers the 80s, when hackers broke in with cracked passwords. Today's threats are more sophisticated and more serious. In this podcast Harkins tells PodTech's Jason [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website vPro's Extensive Roadmap "I'd like to call it the perfect storm," says Hewlett-Packard's Bruce Michelson, distinguished technologist for the company's PC division. He says the features on today's business PCs have come together in such a way that they're years ahead of the average user's needs… today. "What you are going to see with vPro as you go [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joe Hewitt, author of my favorite iPhone apps On Sunday, at the HP Garage, we met Joe Hewitt, the author of Facebook's iPhone application. We just had a short chat with him, mostly to say thanks for building a cool app. There's a longer audio conversation with Joe on TechCrunch today. Tags: HP, Joe Hewitt, Facebook, iPhone application Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Visiting "Birthplace of Silicon Valley:" HP Garage during BarCampBlock I've lived in Silicon Valley most of my life and, while I've been to the HP Garage several times, I've never gotten to actually visit it. HP was gracious enough to open the garage for me and a few of my friends who have added me as a Facebook friend and we visit the garage [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ConnectCast v100 Show: University of Utah Launches 7 Startups in 2007 In this special, combined ConnectCast and v100 Show, news from the vSpring Capital v100 luncheon for the top venture entrepreneurs. We spoke with Jack Brittain about his position as Innovations Czar at the University of Utah. The U of U is an economic engine for the State of Utah, and 2007 fiscal year-end results [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 11: Roz videoblogging on Pacific's rough seas It’s Day 11, and Roz Savage is dealing with 40 knot Pacific winds on her rowing journey across the Pacific, singing the theme song to Hawaii Five-O. More videos from the Roz Savage Voyage: - Roz’s launch party - Naturally Powered by Roz: Roz gives Stanford Professor, Margot Gerritsen and host of SmartEnergy a tour of her [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SaaS and IT Management, with eVapt's Divakar Jandhyala Coté speaks with Divakar Jandhyala of eVapt about what IT management for Software as a Service (SaaS) looks like and needs. Conversation also turns to the effects of SaaS on the IT department, and what the IT department of the future may look like. Finally, they end up talking about the effect of wider use [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Where Will Facebook Be in Five Years? Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder of Facebook, discusses the future of Facebook, their desire to remain an independent company, their strategy for building out their platform, expanding to other demographics, and how Facebook helps people to increase their "social capital." Tags: Dustin Moskovitz, Facebook Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Startups in Bangalore: Rajiv Poddar of Sedna Wireless Bangalore is fast-emerging as a hub for wireless and mobile value added servicess startup companies. I recently caught up with Raji Poddar of Sedna Wireless to find out how and why he started his company. Doing startups in India provides some interesting challenges. Recruiting the right kind of person to work is not an an [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Internet Strategiest Bryan Rhoads Jeremiah Owyang interviews Bryan Rhoads, Intel's internet and marketing strategist. He's helping the company embrace social media, cultivate communities and use new conversational tools. This interview takes place at the Internet Strategy Forum Summit in Portland, in July 2007. Learn how a large technology company adopts these new tools, improves from its lessons and embraces community. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ex-Satyam Director Talks About His Startup Funding Experience GB Prabhat talks about what made him leave his top position as a Director at Satyam, one of India's biggest software companies, and take the hard route to entrepreneurship. This particular edition will be of special interest to both entrepreneurs and to those who aspire to be one. When he quit Satyam recently, he had [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IMSafer - Do you know what your teens are doing? Larry Magid talks with Brandon Watson, CEO of IMSafer talks about a tool that parents can use to be alerted if their kids are doing something dangerous online. Is it parenting or spying. Watch and decide. Tags: Larry Magid, Brandon Watson, IMSafer Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Guy Kawasaki Interview He’s funny, articulate and generally regarded as a visionary. In this interview Guy Kawasaki talks about his latest venture, Truemors.com, but not until he tells us why “life is good” for anyone wanting to venture out on the net. Whether you watch this for the advice or the humor, you won’t be disappointed spending [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tony Perkins - AlwaysOn Tony Perkins is the head honcho of AlwaysOn which, among other things, runs an annual conference for high-tech companies, venture capitalists and other tech insiders. Larry Magid caught up with him between sessions as the annual AlwaysOn Stanford Summit was getting underway. Tags: Tony Perkins, AlwaysOn, Larry Magid, Stanford Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Becoming a Sales 2.0 Business: Rethinking the Funnel This is the first of three podcasts focusing on the practical side of Sales 2.0. In this interview, Jeff Weinberger, in charge of marketing for sales solutions at WebEx, talks with Stu Schmidt, VP of Solutions at WebEx. Stu has 25 years of experience in the tech industry, including 10 years developing sales [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechOne: Sun breakthrough in processors; The back story on Microsoft DOS Sun Microsystems leaped ahead of rivals this week with what it claims is the world's fastest server microprocessor. Analysts such as Nathan Brookwood from Insight64 were impressed. Sun also said that it would open up all of its business units as standalone profit centers in a bid to attract additional partners using Sun technologies. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eco-innovation with 45nm Lead-Free - Intel Chip Chat - Episode 5 What’s important about 45nm and Intel’s 100% Lead-Free initiative? Hear about this and what’s in Intel’s DNA in this insightful interview with Todd Brady, Corporate Environmental Manager. Related stories: Intel, IntelMooresLaw Tags: 45nm, Intel, Lead-Free, DNA, Todd Brady, Intel, IntelMooresLaw Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Part 2 of conversations with Tom Rolander In the second part of Tom Rolander's conversations with us about early computer industry history we head to a restaurant in Pacific Grove (near Monterey, CA) and hear more stories about industry history. Buzz Bruggeman, CEO of Activewords, gets involved too along with Mrinal Desai, VP of Sales and business development at Crossloop, Tom's new [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Help your friends and family with Crossloop Crossloop is a great free way to take control of a friend's computer and help them out. Here Tom Rolander, CTO of Crossloop, demonstrates how it can be used to help your friends and family get over their computer troubles. Tom started the company after his mom had trouble due to Alzheimers disease. Tags: Crossloop, Tom [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roger McNamee on Balancing Dealmaking with Playing In a Rock Band Roger McNamee, is Founding Partner of Elevation Partners and a business partner of U2 rock star, Bono.   Around Silicon Valley, McNamee is known as an insightful dealmaker and the consummate power player, but after hours he plays in a rock band called Moon Alice.  His band plays upwards of 60 gigs a year to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roger McNamee: The "Shaggy Haired Liberal" on the Forbes Board Roger McNamee, is Founding Partner of Elevation Partners, a business partner of U2 rock star, Bono and a political liberal.  Elevation partners recently took a 40% stake in the parent company of Forbes, creating unlikely mix of political persusations and lifestyles.  He explains why the new "shagggy hair" of the Forbes board is good for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Identity Management Frontier — Chips Embedded in People? Yes. In this revealing interview about the current state-of-the-art and future of identity management, Charles Scruggs, the Vice President of Identity Management and Information Assurance at American Systems in Washington, D.C., offers a brief overview of exactly what is possible today from a technological perspective and the lengths to which some are willing to go to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Experiments in DIY gasification: transforming waste biomass into fuel I'm always excited to find creative, DIY, ways to generate energy from waste. Jim Mason gives a wonderful example. Check out his informative website and enjoy his interview with my students. You may also want to check out the podcast with Adam Kreek, another "fuel from waste" enterpreneur. Tags: Jim Mason, Adam Kreek Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechCrunch MeetUp 9 at August Capital Michael Arrington & Steve Gillmor talk with vendors at TechCrunch MeetUp9 and have a chat with Om Malik or someone who looks a lot like him. Tags: Michael Arrington, Steve Gillmor, TechCrunch, MeetUp9, Om Malik Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Freshtopia.net - Holy Mole with Faux Frijoles Today’s recipe is absolutely divine! We’re making Mexican mole fresh-style! In this rich yet nutritious sauce, the delicious heat of chilies and the rich flavor of chocolate caper across the palate. Treat yourself to a dish that’s fit for Aztec royalty, and so sexy, you won’t believe that it was invented by nuns! [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Great Lakes BioFuels During Hybridfest in Madison, Wisc., I met Jamie Derr, a farmer and advocate for biodiesel and biofuels. He's also COO of Great Lakes BioFuels, a privately-held biodiesel distribution and services company that's also involved in biofuel raw materials (feedstock) research and supply-chain development. Tags: Hybridfest, Madison, Jamie Derr, biodiesel, biofuels Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Apple's new iMacs and iLife On Tuesday, August 7th, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced a new crop of iMacs as well as new versions of iLife and iWork software. Larry Magid shows the new Macs as well as his favorite iLife feature – the newest version of iMovie with its revolutionary “skimming” function that makes quick work out of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The rest of the story: How Bill Gates beat Gary Kildall in OS war, Part 1 You've heard the story. Bill Gates and Microsoft became a hugely successful business after it bought DOS from a small computer store in Seattle and licensed it to IBM. But what really happened? Did you know that Bill Gates didn't want the operating system business at first, for instance? Did you know that Gary Kildall, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The fast, easy way to connect servers to networks - HP BladeSystem podcasts The breakthrough technology streamlines datacenter operations between server, LAN and SAN domains, making it ‘change-ready.’ ONLY HP has it. Learn more about HP server blades Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Protect your PC - Part 1 Don't let your computer come to this. For more videos and more information, visit: Symantec's www.safetytown.com Tags: Symantec, safetytown Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website GB Prabhat, CEO of Anantara Solutions, on Second Generation Outsourcing GB Prabhat helped net in $200 million in revenue when he decided to quit Satyam Computer Services, one of India's largest software companies. Prabhat left his cushy job to found a startup called Anantara Solutions which received investments of $6.5 million from Helion Venture Partners, Walden International Silicon Valley Bank. His new company [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone |