I recently met with Omer Shaikh, one of the co-founders of Friction.TV, a British company launching the U.S. Mr. Shaikh used to head Saatchi and Saatchi Interactive and he says he founded Friction.TV to encourage debate. The site has quickly [See the full post…]

In this podcast, Joe Hicks, product manager for Web Acceleration at F5 talks about application acceleration, the inherent challenges in Web application delivery, caching, and offload modalities that play a key role in optimized server content delivery. For more info [See the full post…]

In this podcast, Joe Hicks, product manager for Web Acceleration at F5 talks about the new challenges that IT managers face as more enterprise and small business operate in “WANspace,” and what technology considerations become necessary for optimized Web app [See the full post…]

In this podcast, Joe Hicks, product manager for Web Acceleration at F5 talks about server offload, and the technologies and solutions that optimize application delivery. For more info, check out learn.f5.com/performance. This is an F5 podcast.

In this podcast, Saxon Amdahl, architect at F5 Networks, discusses byte caching, compression ratios, their role in network latency, and Web application delivery optimization. F5’s Web Accelerator and associated modules, corporate CIFS optimization, TCP Stack and file caching. More info [See the full post…]

In this podcast, Saxon Amdahl, architect at F5 Networks, discusses dynamic caching vs. static caching, Web application delivery, and the technologies involved in caching, like F5’s WebAccelerator — an application delivery solution that enhances Web application performance for mobile workers. [See the full post…]

Companies with retail stores, branch offices or other remote locations will be able to easily and cost-effectively upgrade company networks serving those locations, using a variety of new service options from Verizon Business. In this podcast, Chip Freund, Verizon Business’ [See the full post…]

Vision and viewpoints from Donna Raines, Product Marketing Manager, WebEx Connect Marketplace. An architecture, functionality and feature discussion with Steve Levine of WebEx.

Brad Allen, founder and CTO of Siderean, shows me how Oracle and other companies are using his company’s software to capture and share knowledge. You know, people’s ideas.

A panel discussion on what types of devices are needed by mobile workers. How many devices are needed? What types of formats? The panel was moderated by Oliver Starr, analyst at, Guidewire Group; T.J. Kang, CEO, ThinkFree; Jerry Kurtze, Ecosystem [See the full post…]

Katie Gerrigan’s documentary film, Feeling Fuelish?, highlights her trip from L.A. to Chicago, via Route 66, in a Toyota Prius. I spoke with her at Hybridfestin Madison, Wisc.

Western Canada is very rich in heavy oils. These thick oils that have the consistency of molasses or even peanut butter are rather tricky to produce in an environmentally friendly manner. However, with our strong dependency in the next several [See the full post…]

Almost overshadowed by the reaction to Apple’s iPhone price cuts and its new iPods was the news that Apple and Starbucks reached a deal where anyone will be able to use iTunes at Starbucks without having to pay Wifi fees. [See the full post…]

Ken Burns was at the Telluride Film Festival last weekend, where I spoke with him on the street, before he came to San Francisco for a special screening of his new series, The War, this weekend at the Letterman Digital [See the full post…]

Vice President of Symantec Recovery & Security Don Kleinschnitz discusses data loss and database security, as well as provides an overview of the 3.0 version of Symantec Database Security. For more information, visit www.symantec.com.

We had our first live show last week (“Live-Fi Saint Louis“), and it went really well. We’ll probably do it again. This is a performance from that show where we spent an hour with Jonathan Baer.

Rex Briggs, CEO and founder of Marketing Evolution, tells Jennifer Jones zhow marketers can find the true fans of their brand, which is what hypertargeting is all about. Briggs tells Marketing Voices how to use natural language and technology to [See the full post…]

Will the use of online apps change the way people work? That’s a question discussed by a panel at theOffice 2.0 conference, moderated by Om Malik from GigaOm: Steven Aldrich, VP of strategy & innovation, Intuit; Denis Browne, senior VP, [See the full post…]

On Wednesday, September 5, Steve Jobs announced several new iPods and made the stunning announcement that he was lowering the price of the 8GB iPhone from $599 to $399. This may be good news for potential iPhone buyers but it [See the full post…]

This is a killer app for your cell phone or iPhone. Why? Getting video onto your cell phone is often impossible. Many sites use Flash only, and don’t provide a format that will work on your cell phone. Well, VTap [See the full post…]

The Help is a politically charged (yet fun) punk rock band. I think the singer Jason Toon kinda looks like Cory Doctorow. Enjoy!

While at Hybridfest in Madison, Wisc., I had the chance to speak with Wisconsin Public Power, a regional power company serving 49 customer-owned electric utilities. WPPI is very involved in clean, renewable energy, converting a hybrid Prius to a PHEV, [See the full post…]

Greg Malacane, senior business analyst for Alchemy Solutions Group, provides an overview of how Symantec Endpoint Security played a role in helping a federal government agency secure its infrastructure.

There are quite few challenges for online newspapers, ranging from the reality of multiple authors and the usual workflow issues to creating editorial process. Christina Wodke, of Public Square, discusses some of the challenges facing digital newspapers (find out what [See the full post…]

Seagate‘s a hard drive company, right? So we wondered if they have anything to say about Flash-based memories? You know, memory that doesn’t require a hard drive? Turns out they do. Here’s Seagate’s CEO, Bill Watkins, along with Mike Wingert, [See the full post…]