I met Frank Braski, manager of Aflac’s high performance workplace initiatives at the BEA Participate conference and he gives me a rundown on what Aflac (one of the world’s largest insurance companies) is trying to do with its IT initiatives.

Danny Kolke, CEO of Etelos, talks about what Etelos is trying to do for office workers with services like CRM for Google.

Etelos is building a suite of office applications that bring salesforce productivity and marketing applications to your browser. They call it CRM for Google and Danny Kolke, CEO of Etelos, demonstrates it for the camera.

Drobo is an amazing device. It lets you add new hard drives live, without powering down your computer. It makes sure your data is always safely stored across multiple hard drives. And more. You have to see this thing work [See the full post…]

Drobo is a data robot, it makes using multiple hard drives safe and easy – far easier than RAID or other solutions. Here, I talk with Jim Schaff, director of marketing, and Geoff Barrall, CEO and co-founder of Data Robotics, [See the full post…]

John Fowler, executive vice president at Sun Microsystems, invited us over for a press conference where they announced their new blade server 6200 series (servers for the data center). Here’s first look at these new servers. Here’s the highlights of [See the full post…]

What do you get when you throw a productive photographer into a show with 2,000 machines? Sheer chaos, that’s what. Oh, and some great photos! Come along for Half Moon Bay’s Dream Machines show, where you follow Thomas Hawk along [See the full post…]

We met Samantha Murphy last year at the Podcast Hotel and she instantly gripped us with her singing. She dropped by the CES BlogHaus that Seagate sponsored earlier in the year and here’s our interview with her. Yeah, we’ll be [See the full post…]

If you’re really following Tim’s plan, you’ll just watch the highlights of the interview I did with this New York Times’ best selling author. He wrote the book on the four-hour work week, and here you get the highlights of [See the full post…]

Tim Ferriss wrote a New York Times best seller. Why is it so hot? Because it lays out how you can work less and enjoy life more. Here, I sit down with Tim and talk about some of the ideas [See the full post…]

Here are the highlights of the new RealPlayer that Jeff Chasen, vice president at Real Networks, showed me. Highlights? It lets you download YouTube videos (and other online videos) for offline viewing so you can watch your favorite videos while [See the full post…]

Jeff Chasen, vice president of Real Networks, gave me an exclusive look at the new Real Networks’ RealPlayer, which will let you download YouTube videos (and other online videos) and store them for offline viewing. We also catch up on [See the full post…]

In this Editor’s Choice, we show you the highlights of an interview and demo that Brad Cohen, director of Applied Research at GroupScope did to show how it can present information in new, more graphical, ways so you can more [See the full post…]

Brad Cohen, director of applied research at GroupScope, shows me his new system that presents information in more graphical ways so you can more easily visualize networks.

Here, David Sacks, co-founder and CEO of Geni, demonstrates a new kind of genealogy software that lets you stay in touch with your family tree in a new way.

David Sacks, co-founder & CEO of Geni, talks with me about genealogy and how software is enabling a new (and more social) way of keeping in touch with your family members and learning about your family’s past. Don’t know who [See the full post…]

Dave Grannan CEO, and Mike Phillips, CTO, of a new company that’ll come out this fall give us a sneak peak at technology that’ll come to cell phones that’ll let you talk with them. The company is code-named Mobeus (they [See the full post…]

I love Goowy’s YourMini‘s customized start page, which gives you tons of widgets that make your life better. Here, Gary Benitt, COO, demonstrates YourMinis.

Customized start pages with tons of widgets are hot and Goowy’s yourminis is one of the best. Here we talk with Alex Bard, Goowy’s CEO and Gary Benitt, COO about yourminis.

See the just shipped Zoho Notebook and other Zoho applications demoed by Evangelist Raju Vegesna. Zoho Notebook lets you take notes in a meeting — and record them, too — in audio, and share those notes with coworkers or other [See the full post…]

Here we sit down with Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu and Evangelist Raju Vegesna in Zoho‘s Pleasanton, Calif. office. If you haven’t heard of Zoho yet, you will. They just were named to PC World’s 100 best products of 2007 list [See the full post…]

Jeff Bell is Microsoft’s vice president of global marketing, interactive entertainment business. That’s the division that makes and markets the Xbox. He gave a keynote at the Market to the Max conference in Seattle earlier this week, and gave some [See the full post…]

I sit down with Andrew Filev, co-founder of Wrike, to talk about his online collaboration app that is basically a smart email organizer with some added features.

BlogHer was one of our favorite conferences of 2006. Why? Beause it was different. You had mommy bloggers talking with tech bloggers and political bloggers. There’s a myth that there aren’t many bloggers who are women and BlogHer is going [See the full post…]

Pandora is one of my favorite Internet services. It lets you build a customized radio station by starting with the names of your favorite bands and songs. It then brings you more music that’s similar to that. Here Pandora’s CTO, [See the full post…]