This Symantec Security Response podcast is an analysis of future threat trends found in the latest Internet Security Threat Report Volume XI. The goal of this podcast is to alert listeners to emerging threats and trends that Symantec expects to [See the full post…]

In this podcast, Wendell Davis interviews Symantec Internet Safety Advocate Marian Merritt on “cyberbullying,” and what parents can do to help prevent it from happening to their children. More information at: Symantec.com

I always make reports to tell Japanese people what’s going on around SiliconValley. This time, I was at SXSW in Austin Texas, and I’ve realized that I’d been always making reports by myself, and I felt kind of lonely… Through [See the full post…]

The Ottomen are a really fun band that’s been around quite a while. They started in 1996 and have gone on to establish franchises of the band around the world — and former member of the Ottomen has the right [See the full post…]

Learn about what you can do to quickly and effectively recover your business’ systems in the event of a disruption. More information at: Symantec.com

With the Intel Core 2 Challenge PC Design contest deadline looming, tea-drinkers drank coffee, testers didn’t sleep, and boxes got packed in overdrive. This video, produced by BICOM, takes you behind the scenes, during the race to the finish, at [See the full post…]

The Monads play a strange mix of Bluegrass and Punk. Sounds strange huh? It’s true. If you want to know what that might sound like check out this video from a show I caught of them in St. Louis recently.

Paddy White, CEO of RealTime Technologies, in Dublin, Ireland, sent us this video about his company’s entry in Intel Core 2 Challenge PC Design competition. The iONYX imitates the look of stone, appropriate for geologically-rich Ireland. White contends this design [See the full post…]

Industrial designer Anthony Forsythe talks about Norwegian company Asono’s Merium, entered in the Intel Core 2 Challenge PC Designs. The Merium can be done in custom colors, using a material usually found in kitchen countertops — corian. “As far as [See the full post…]

Now through April 19, 2007, people can visit www.intelchallenge.com and vote for their favorite concept PC design. Voters get to choose from designs submitted by companies competing for $1 million in the industry Intel Core Processor Challenge. A group of [See the full post…]

Tony Pearce, president and co-founder of MyComfort, talks with Kip Meacham about they company’s path from startup to leader in the market for innovation-driven cushioning and mattress technology. As an inventor, engineer, researcher and entrepreneur, Pearce took his knowledge and [See the full post…]

Johnny O and the Jerks brewed us up a delicious cocktail of drunkin’ blues, tipsy rock-a-billy and stagering punk two weeks ago at Off Broadway, in St. Louis. Check them out on MySpace or at Big Muddy Records.

Lynn Hershman Leeson was a very early digital filmmaker and creator of virtual realities. She has made three films for the American theatrical market but had terrible trouble with distribution. I spoke with her about her new documentary, “Strange Culture.” [See the full post…]

Sun Microsystems has unveiled the world’s only application utility that enables on-demand delivery of HPC (high-performance computing) applications over the network. Called Sun Grid Application Catalog, and available through network.com, the utility offers immediate pay-per-use access to 20 unique open [See the full post…]

Kevin Chang, project director at Acer, in Taiwan, talks up his company’s entry in the Intel Core 2 Challenge PC Design competition, the Aspire L320 Desktop PC. Chang said at three liters volume size, Acer’s Aspire L320 Desktop PC is [See the full post…]

“The first thing we did when we designed this thing was, we threw everything out, everything that you expect from a computer,” said Jeffrey Stephenson, president of Florida-based Slipperyskip Computers. The Decomatic 12b combines Art Deco-inspired design with state-of-the-art Intel [See the full post…]

The Magic Box is actually two units: a fully functioning computer that detaches from the media server base featuring a 2.5-inch HDD bay, two-way speakers and a USB port for connecting it to other PCs. A high performing, energy-efficient Intel [See the full post…]

It’s more common than ever to use purpose-built hardware and software solutions, ( Xbox, firewalls and VPN appliances, Google Search appliance, etc.). John Yoon, VP of marketing, and Bill Harper, director of development at Control4, discuss the advantages to a [See the full post…]

This podcast provides an overview of the Symantec white paper, “Compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard.” This white paper breaks down each requirement and details how Symantec solutions can help organizations get–and stay–compliant. It documents only the [See the full post…]

Curves of brushed aluminum grace the BICOM HMS7, a combination PC and media server designed for the digital home. Inside, there’s a high-performance, energy-efficient Intel Core 2 Duo processor, but outside the user-friendly front panel features touch-screen LED controls for [See the full post…]

“The PC has been a clunky box for a long time,” said Ekin Binal, VP of product development for BICOM. “We’re taking a new spin on it.” The HMS8’s cubicle design is a high-end PC media server that integrates a [See the full post…]

An easy-to-use interface and touch-sensitive buttons were the main breakthroughs in the three systems Connecticut-based BICOM submitted to the Intel Core Processor Challenge PC Design. This aluminum covered media server is styled for the digital home. Built on the Intel [See the full post…]

“We tried to reduce everything to the necessary minimum,” said mCubed Information Technology GmbH’s Managing Director, Maik Berendt. mCubed’s submission for the Intel Core Processor Challenge PC Design, the aluminum and acrylic HFX micro, uses an Intel Core 2 Duo [See the full post…]

At the recent Clean Tech Venture Network Conference in San Francisco, Nora McDevitt interviewed Dave Jones of Live Fuels, Inc. This start-up is developing biofuel technologies using algae. Algae multiplies so quickly and produces so much oxygen that it could [See the full post…]

During SXSW, I catapulted myself into digital storytelling by asking everyone to tell me about the worst injury they’d ever had, and to use sound effects when they told the story. These are the sound effects!