Home entertainment is switching to digital. Even movie rental places like Netflix are delivering their goods via bits that’ll be stored on a hard drive. So, how do you manage all your music and entertainment stuff? Media Master has a [See the full post…]

The Comedy stylings of Andrew Keen and Steve Gillmor, still bantar on who is more in love with Hillary Clinton. I think Andrew Keen wins hands down! Facebook, 1000 Billion? Are these guys serious?

Actor and activist Ed Begley, Jr. has been an ardent advocate for the environment for nearly 40 years, long before it was politically correct. During the Alt Car Expo in Santa Monica, I spoke with him about his passion and [See the full post…]

The Alley Cat Revue at Rue 13 is on the vanguard of fine Burlesque entertainment in the Mid-west. I spoke to the lovely and talented Lola Van Ella about the history of the current state of the “neo-burlesque” movement. Also [See the full post…]

One of the most unique social networks I’ve seen lately is the one from BluePulse. It’s for mobile phones only and is gaining a lot of fans. Last week I headed over to see what Ben Keighran, founder and CEO [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…]

Jennifer Ellard and Dan Lamorena discuss strategies for High Availability and Disaster Recovery and IT organizations can determine the right solutions(s) for their critical applications. For more information, visit: www.symantec.com/datacenter

For this weeks ConnectCast we attended the inaugural event of the Women Tech Council “Women Advancing in Technology” event. Over 100 women attended and listen to Teri Sundh CEO of Podfitness.com and Carol Fineagan CIO of Energy Solutions. Teri eloquently [See the full post…]

Large business and government customers seeking satellite-based broadband access now have a new option from Verizon Business. The company is offering a commercial broadband satellite service — Verizon Global Broadband Satellite Access, powered by Thrane & Thrane. The new service [See the full post…]

This podcast is the final part of a discussion with Jan Sysmans, Director of Marketing for WebEx, on the topic of business disruptions. Jan says that traditionally, many obstacles to productivity have been written off as a cost of doing [See the full post…]

Jack O’Neil, product marketing manager for LSI’s Network and Storage Product Group, discusses the newly announced Advanced Communication Processor and how it will support the growing demand to deliver and bill for real time services and, at the same time, [See the full post…]

Back to MarketingVoices by popular demand, venture capitalist Sharon Wienbar of Scale Venture Partners, tells Jennifer Jones what is hot and not hot in venture investing for social media today. She also tells why Facebook is gaining incredible momentum and [See the full post…]

Mergers and acquisitions are hot… you just have to know where to look. John Morris, assistant managing editor of The Deal, says a few of the industries that have heated up are real estate and energy. Morris will emcee some [See the full post…]

Aaron Fulkerson, co-founder of Mindtouch, gives us a demo of what makes his wiki tool better than other wiki tools. Specifically its strengths are that it’s open source and that it has a great API.

Aaron Fulkerson and Steve Bjork, co-founders of MindTouch, talk to me about the Wiki market and what makes their tool better than others.

I caught this band at their CD release party a couple of weeks ago. They’re actually making a comeback of sorts from about a year off from the music scene. They’ll be touring around the Midwest — check their MySpace [See the full post…]

Sanjay Rungta works with Intel’s Network Engineering Organization on keeping the Intel computing network safe and intrusion free. In addition to external threats from hackers, Rungta has done a lot to identify and combat internal threats. As increasing numbers of [See the full post…]

You don’t need to be a developer to create mashups or FaceBook apps. Dan Fernandez demonstrates creating a FaceBook app in minutes using an alpha release of PopFly. It is built on Microsoft’s Silverlight technology. With tools such as these, [See the full post…]

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SNWSpotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World. In this final podcast in the series, Catherine Girardeau speaks with Richard Villars and Dave Reinsel, analysts with IDC, about top topics of discussion at the conference. We [See the full post…]

Keynote Systems does testing and caching for Internet services around the world. They know more about the health of the Internet than probably any other company. Here you get a tour into their datacenter and control center. We talk about [See the full post…]

Are you building an Internet service and need to know how it’ll look on computers or mobile phones around the world? What the response times will be? How to make it better? Then you’ll need Keynote Systems. Here, Manny Gonzalez, [See the full post…]

SNWSpotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World. In this podcast Darren Thomas, vice president and general manager of enterprise storage at Dell and Claude Lorenson, senior manager in the storage solution division at Microsoft, talk [See the full post…]

Davi Kutz is your ordinary Joe, living in North Hollywood, Calif. An avid outdoorsman, he’s also one lucky fellow. That’s because for the next three months, he’ll be one of 100 people in L.A., Washington, D.C. and New York City [See the full post…]

Sun has become one of the most enthusiastic supporters for open source technologies after a long period of ignoring the movement. Sun recently hosted an Open Source Summit in a bid to identify itself more closely with open source software. [See the full post…]