Archive for February, 2007

Pfizer on Achieving 113% ROI with EMC Documentum

February 23rd, 2007 |
Pfizer on Achieving 113% ROI with EMC Documentum

Hear from Claire Hogikyan, senior director – Intellectual Property at Pfizer, about how Pfizer has achieved a 113-percent ROI with a break even point or payback period of just 18 months after the EMC Documentum deployment, based on a study [See the full post…]

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Geeking out in Germany

February 23rd, 2007 |
Geeking out in Germany

Maryam and I head to Freiburg, Germany. Not exactly a place you’d think you’d find geeks, or bloggers, but we did! In between beers (it’s Germany) we got some fun geeks and bloggers onto camera. [See the full post…]

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Concept: Honda Accord Coupe

February 23rd, 2007 |
Concept: Honda Accord Coupe

During the Chicago Auto Show, I spoke with Sage Marie, Honda‘s manager of public relations, about the new Honda Accord coupe. A new look with new stylings and technologies, the vehicle incorporates Honda’s next-generation Variable Cylinder Management technology [See the full post…]

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The Secrets Behind Proactive MPLS Service Assurance

February 22nd, 2007 |
The Secrets Behind Proactive MPLS Service Assurance

We sat down with Venu Venugopal, vice president of solutions marketing at CA, to discuss strategies for management of an MPLS VPN rollout. There are some great benefits, but along with those benefits come serious challenges. Venu helps you [See the full post…]

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Pass the Mic: Charles Beeler with Steve Hall at DEMO 07

February 22nd, 2007 |
Pass the Mic: Charles Beeler with Steve Hall at DEMO 07

Venture capital investor Charles Beeler speaks with fellow-VC Steve Hall (his DEMO observations can be found here), from Vulcan Capital, at DEMO 2007 in January. Another positive mention for Zink, and agreement that lots of small steps are being [See the full post…]

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Automate Manual Processes with Transactional Content Management

February 22nd, 2007 |
Automate Manual Processes with Transactional Content Management

Learn about solutions and strategies to effectively manage your paper management challenges. You will discover how to apply transactional content management to your manual, paper-based business processes, resulting in increased responsiveness, reduced cycle times, lower costs and better compliance with [See the full post…]

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Hospitals Ready for C5

February 22nd, 2007 |
Hospitals Ready for C5

The University of California, San Francisco Medical center says its pilot study using a portable computer called the C5 helped nurses to be far more productive than with conventional personal computers. The current setup in most hospitals is called a [See the full post…]

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Talking about “She’s Such a Geek”

February 22nd, 2007 |
Talking about “She’s Such a Geek”

I’ve been reading an interesting book recently called She’s Such a Geek, which has tons of stories about women who’ve made an impact on the technology world. Here we meet the authors, Charlie and Annalee, and have a conversation [See the full post…]

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Pontiac’s G8 Revealed

February 22nd, 2007 |
Pontiac’s G8 Revealed

GM continues to leverage its global resources with the introduction of the new Pontiac G8, a rear-wheel-drive sedan developed by its Australian Holden division. Unveiled during the Chicago Auto Show, the new G8 is set to replace the [See the full post…]

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View of a Young European Developer

February 21st, 2007 |
View of a Young European Developer

I haven’t been interviewing as many developers as I’d like, so I’m happy that I got to meet Sebastian Moser, a 20-year-old Austrian developer who has been programming since he was 14. He’s working on starting a company, you can [See the full post…]

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The Motion C5: Mobile Computing for Health Care

February 21st, 2007 |
The Motion C5: Mobile Computing for Health Care

In San Francisco, Intel, with Motion Computing and the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center, announced the launch of the Motion C5 mobile clinical assistant, a lightweight tablet computer specifically designed for use in hospitals, for [See the full post…]

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Gentleman Auction House

February 21st, 2007 |
Gentleman Auction House

The Gentleman Auction House playing at Off Broadway, in St. Louis, at their big Very Special Christmas Spectacular back in December. This was a big show that got some national press from the likes of Spin Magazine.

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Engineering the Volt

February 21st, 2007 |
Engineering the Volt

This interview at the Chicago Auto Show happened by chance. I was standing next to the Chevy Volt and began a conversation with a gentleman who turned out to be Rich Lannen, one of the lead engineers of the this [See the full post…]

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WiLife COO Grant Beckmann on Startups and Growth

February 20th, 2007 |
WiLife COO Grant Beckmann on Startups and Growth

WiLife COO, Grant Beckmann, talks about managing growth in start-up companies. During the past 18 years, Beckmann has worked with some of Utah’s fastest-growing startups, including Folio (now FAST), Tenfold, NextPage, and WiLife. He discusses what [See the full post…]

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Edgeio ships new Marketplaces, classified ads for your blog

February 20th, 2007 |
Edgeio ships new Marketplaces, classified ads for your blog

Edgeio today is shipping into beta “Marketplaces,” which let you put classified ads and other board-type information onto your own blog. John Dowd, product manager on Edgeio’s Marketplaces, explains more about why these are useful in this interview and demo. [See the full post…]

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Concept: Chrysler Nassau

February 20th, 2007 |
Concept: Chrysler Nassau

Can a luxury vehicle come in a hatchback? That’s the challenge Chrysler addressed with its new concept car, the Nassau. With sweeping curves and a more emotional expression of what it means to be a Chrysler, the 4-passenger luxury [See the full post…]

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NETGEAR Introduces Gigabit Speed to Their Stackable Smart Switches

February 19th, 2007 |
NETGEAR Introduces Gigabit Speed to Their Stackable Smart Switches

In this podcast from NETGEAR, Sanjay Kumar discusses Gigabit Stackable Smart Switches. Already popular as a powerful, cost-effective solution to the network needs of small- and medium-sized business, NETGEAR has added gigabit speed to these versatile products.

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Meet the techie “sister” behind Vatican’s Website

February 19th, 2007 |
Meet the techie “sister” behind Vatican’s Website

Sister Judith Zoebelein, editorial director of the Holy See, runs the team that builds the Vatican‘s Website. We have a fun talk at the recent LIFT conference, where we discuss the challenges of building a site for one of [See the full post…]

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Meet best-known German blogger

February 19th, 2007 |
Meet best-known German blogger

Nicole Simon is the German blogger we see most often at various conferences around the world. She’s a geek — and more — and here we get to know her a little bit better, and hear why she does so [See the full post…]

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Introducing the Saturn Astra

February 19th, 2007 |
Introducing the Saturn Astra

One of the newest lineups of automobiles was completed during the 2007 Chicago Auto Show, with the world premeire of the new, 2008 Saturn Astra. With a 140 horsepower, 1.8-liter engine, the Astra is part of a joint [See the full post…]

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Secure Remote Access from NETGEAR

February 19th, 2007 |
Secure Remote Access from NETGEAR

It’s alphabet soup at the NETGEAR booth, as Vivek Chugh talks about SSL VPN at RSA. It’s a flexible, low-cost, secure solution that allows an organization to provide remote access to their network. Check out this podcast ASAP.

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August Capital’s David Hornik On Social Media

February 18th, 2007 |
August Capital’s David Hornik On Social Media

David Hornik is a general partner at August Capital. As early-stage investors in companies like Microsoft, August knows what makes great companies, and Hornik serves as its social media expert. He sits on six boards including Six Apart. Hornik [See the full post…]

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RSA Security Bloggers Meetup in San Francisco. Somebody Call Security!

February 16th, 2007 |
RSA Security Bloggers Meetup in San Francisco. Somebody Call Security!

Taking a break from the bustle of RSA 2007, some of the best-known security bloggers got together at the Foreign Cinema, a French bistro and movie house in San Francisco, hosted by network security podcaster Martin McKeay. Check [See the full post…]

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Meet Mazu: Visualizing Your Network

February 16th, 2007 |
Meet Mazu: Visualizing Your Network

At RSA 2007 in San Francisco, PodTech’s Michael Johnson spoke with Paul Brady, CEO, and Dimitri Vlachos, senior product manager at MAZU Networks, about Mazu’s visual network analysis and control applications.

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Combating Rising Insider Security Threats. Omar Khawaja and Larry Bickner, Verizon Business

February 16th, 2007 |
Combating Rising Insider Security Threats. Omar Khawaja and Larry Bickner, Verizon Business

Omar Khawaja and Larry Bickner of Verizon Business, give an insider’s view on current and future enterprise security. Michael Johnson caught up with them at RSA 2007 in San Francisco. [See the full post…]

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