Who hasn’t wished that customer service could be better online? A San Francisco start-up called Satisfaction will launch in the next month or so with the aim of improving online customer service by tapping the collective knowledge of users. The [See the full post…]

James Governor talks with Sun CTO Bob Brewin about the realities of developers: working in multipule languages. They also discuss the recently released JavaFX Script, Spring’s increasingly importance in Java, and the future of Solaris.

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt have something in common: Both are conservative politicians with a rather liberal (and green) agenda. This week, they met in Sacramento, Calif., to talk about green policymaking and how to [See the full post…]

Hear HP executives discuss key CIO trends and findings from the 2007 State of the CIO survey, including technology and management priorities, skills needed to succeed, and IT investments and budget management.

Where do you look if you want to rent a vacation home on a beach in South America? That was the question that led serial entrepreneur and vSpring v100 recipient Bob Barnes to start Zonder, a new Web and eCommerce-based [See the full post…]

This special edition of Innovating@Sun focuses on innovation in the work place. Workplaces and workspaces around the world are changing rapidly to accommodate more globalism, take advantage of new networking technologies, and to cater to the needs and expectations of [See the full post…]

I got a chance to catch this amazing group from Detroit at the Atomic Cowboy in St. Louis a couple of weeks ago. This blurb from their official press release does a good job of describing what they are all [See the full post…]

In this Thought Leaders podcast brought to you by SAVVIS, Sebastian Tevarotto discusses the Four Imperatives of Web 2.0 and how communications and content are coming together. He also reviews the strategies a business can use to enhance the overall [See the full post…]

Continued innovation is key to the success of most companies, and Yahoo is no different. The Internet giant recently opened an “idea incubator” called “Brickhouse” in the trendy South Park area of San Francisco. Select Yahoo employees will take turns [See the full post…]

Peter Morgan is perhaps the most celebrated screenwriter in the world right now, and he deserves to be. He’s written five plays — four screenplays and one stage play — that establish his oeuvre. He’s a great writer at the [See the full post…]

As a former executive with America Online, Netscape, and Lotus, Ben Horowitz knows both the application and IT infrastructure space. In this edition of Thought Leaders, Ben Horowitz discusses the impact Web 2.0 applications have on IT operations, including management [See the full post…]

The Honkeys aren’t to be confused with the band in my last post. This band is an instrumental surf act that recently reunited. They originally “took a break” back in 2001. We’re glad to have them back, as they were [See the full post…]

In this Symantec podcast: As organizations move to Windows Vista, they’ll need a migration strategy that keeps conflicts and system disruptions in check, minimizes user downtime and inconvenience, and doesn’t expose systems to security threats.

Science gurus Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman reach enlightenment when an Intel Centrino Duo-powered laptop saves the day. This video was created to celebrate the introduction of Intel Centrino Duo and Intel Centrino Pro processor technology in May 2007. Related [See the full post…]

Science gurus Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman show how Intel’s incredible shrinking transistors are helping to cram old, super-sized supercomputer performance into small, sleek laptops built with Intel Centrino Duo processor technology. This video was created to celebrate the introduction [See the full post…]

Science gurus Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman race through speed and time to show the explosive wonders of Moore’s Law, which is at the core of advances in computer technology. This video was created to celebrate the introduction of Intel [See the full post…]

If Rock’n’Roll were a town, this band would live in the same neighborhood as ZZ Top. But then again, they are from Texas, so for all I know they DO live in the same neighborhood as ZZ Top. Honky is [See the full post…]

Hear how HP Services can help you achieve better business outcomes.

Your kids’ online actions can have serious legal consequences. This Symantec podcast focuses on how children could land themselves and you in legal trouble, and what you can do to prevent it.

Have you been thinking about setting up shop online? This Symantec Small Business Security podcast focuses on what you need to know to securely conduct online transactions.

U.S. Ambassador to Sweden Michael Wood, has identified green collaborations between Sweden and the United States as his One Big Thing. In Sweden he has filtered out 30 mind-blowing alternative energy projects that he recently presented to a round table [See the full post…]

Lisa Loven is an ingenue from Norway. Right now in her country she is the star of a national advertising campaign for a food product. She moved to Los Angeles four months ago to become a movie actress. People I [See the full post…]

Venus Envy is an arts organization in St. Louis formed to empower women though the arts. They’ve since expanded to four other cities. Once a year they throw one hell of a party. I attended this two-night event for the [See the full post…]

Brad Feld and David Cohen go into detail about their summer project, TechStars, which is bringing 10 startup companies to Boulder, Colo., for an intensive 3-month period of education and mentorship from over 30 of the best entrepreneurial minds in [See the full post…]

Benoy Tamang, CMO of HookSell, talks about turning Website visitors into leads and leads into sales using unique online direct sales tools. Benoy Tamang is the founder of Salt Lake City-based HookSell, a direct response business that focuses on online [See the full post…]