With Internet bandwidth demand doubling each year, broadcast media, IPTV, and new user-generated YouTube-style video are culprits exacerbating the problem. This is where

Mark Marshall, Managing Director of The Accend Group, provides outsourced accounting services and the financial decision making on a virtual model. Like Salesforce.com, Marshall’s organization “rents” the CFO and general accounting services on a monthly basis. One of the top [See the full post…]

Marketing organizations are realizing the benefits of social media. Business Wire, traditionally viewed as the distributor of news to the mainstream press, is jumping into the social media world with products and services that expand a marketer’s reach into the [See the full post…]

Edleman’s VP of Interactiv, Gary Goldhammer, shared successes, failures and trends in social media during a keynote at the Blogging for Business conference. Goldhammer offers his insight and experience from working with a number of clients and trying to measuring [See the full post…]

The success of eMoms at Home web site turned entrepreneur Wendy Piersall into a full-time blogger and social media advocate. Now as a contributor to Entrepreneur Magazine and Editor in Chief over 7 content channels and 10 different writers contributing [See the full post…]

New York City-based Lindsey Pollak is and expert on Gen Y and the author of Getting from College to Career: 90 Things to Do Before You Join the Real World. Pollack spends much of her time interacting with college-aged students [See the full post…]

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, [See the full post…]

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 [See the full post…]

After Jay Bean launched and sold his former company ah-ha (now Enhance Interactive) to Marchex, he put his experience in local search, web marketing, and company building to work at OrangeSoda. OrangeSoda’s primary focus is on helping small and medium-sized [See the full post…]

CRM is migrating from desktop applications to Software as a Service (Saas). COMPLETExRM is a new company based in Salt Lake City that offers a highly customizable CxRM foundation based on a SaaS platform. This allowed COMPLETExRM to create PlanPlus [See the full post…]

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 [See the full post…]

Have you ever wondered if being an early adopter of development technologies really pays off? Microsoft ISV Architect Evangelist Jason De Lorme chats with Russ Agrusa, CEO and founder of Iconics. Agrusa and Iconics have lived on the bleeding edge [See the full post…]

Matt Schmitt of Reflect Systems talks with us about their extensive digital signage network and how technologies like WPF and Business Intelligence help to differentiate their product.

Almost all software packages store data. Aneal Roney, an architect from Advaiya and Warren Wilbee be a Microsoft Architect Evangelist sit down and discuss how to craft that data into a world class solution.

Today’s skis are a blend of high-tech construction and art. So to hear that Bluehouse Skis had implemented a ski core based on bamboo seemed a bit “old-fashioned” to say the least. Adam Hepworth and Jared Richards determined their dream [See the full post…]

Broadband Service Providers (including WiMax Providers, Cable Operators, ISP’s, Telco’s, Managed Service Providers, Satellite Broadband Operators, etc.) are feeling pressure from customer churn because competitors offer bundled packages that include voice (VoIP) services. Alianza enables these same service providers to [See the full post…]

Sometimes the best way to test a new software deployment to hundreds or thousands of end users is through Altiris Software Virtualization Solution (or SVS). Such was the case with one customer who wanted to migrate from Novell Groupwise to [See the full post…]

With lots of great options to represent data on maps using Virtual Earth or MapPoint, Microsoft ISV Development Evangelist Warren Wilbee sits down with Steve Milroy from Advaiya. Milroy, a software architect and recognized Microsoft MVP and RD, shares his [See the full post…]

Brad Abrams of Microsoft fame talks about WPF and Silverlight and what’s in it for independent software vendors (ISVs). He talks about .Net and dynamic languages running cross-platform (including Windows, Mac and Linux) and even talks briefly about Surface development.

As a simple matter of limited time, the Microsoft ISV Developer Evangelism Team is only able to work directly with a small subset of all the independent software vendors developing new and interesting products. The ISV What’s New show will [See the full post…]

With lots of new features coming in SQL Server 2008, Microsoft ISV Development Evangelist Warren WIlbee sits down with Glenn Berry from NewsGator. Berry, a database architect and professor at Denver University, shares his insights on early code drops and [See the full post…]

If you need to be transfered from one hospital to another, did you know that it could take hours or days that result in extra healthcare costs and lots of lost physician productivity? That’s why Darin Vercillo, a practicing physician [See the full post…]

Teaching in kindergarten through 12th grades continues to incorporate more technology. One Utah-based company, Timpanogos Technologies, has extended the life of existing district-wide systems while providing teachers and students with software that can create personalized study for individual students. Not [See the full post…]

Greg Warnock has a soft spot for entrepreneurs. Whether it’s through mentoring, work deals at vSpring Capital, or angel investing, Warnock has seen a lot of companies. He’s also learned that it takes more than good technology and a strong [See the full post…]

Charles Coonradt is the author of the book The Game of Work. Coonradt had an epiphany one day when he watched how engaged and excited people were when playing basketball on a work break. His thought was why couldn’t this [See the full post…]