Facebook has claimed to not be a media company in the past but this past year it seems its position has softened. That’s especially true as it’s discovered it needs media solutions, not engineering ones, to media problems such as [See the full post…]

Silicon Minds: The book may be the most powerful technology ever invented. In the hands of a child the results are nothing short of miraculous. Dubose Montgomery, founder of Menlo Ventures in Silicon Valley, can attest to a journey that [See the full post…]

Silicon Minds: After graduating from Georgia Tech in the early 1950s, Earle Jones thought he would merely pursue a graduate degree. “Georgia Tech and Stanford had a close relationship three thousand miles apart,” he recalls. “I wanted to go to [See the full post…]

Silicon Minds: Alan Turing was born on June 23, 1912. Well before World War II he conceived of a machine which could compute and it was a machine that, although an abstraction, could solve problems. It was a monumental achievement [See the full post…]

Connected Social Media’s Kevin Edwards knows a thing or two about Apple technology. In this podcast Jason Lopez chats with Kevin about the highlights of the company’s newest announcements at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2012.

Inertia – Apple WWDC 2012: In the mid-90s, when the Wintel platform came to dominate the sweet spot of the business/consumer computer business, Apple at least had one loyal constituency: high end users. While Apple didn’t sell a lot of [See the full post…]

Silicon Minds: Open source continues to make gains despite the perception that its era has passed. Just recently, the NYSE Technologies announced it was using the open source software called Drupal to make collaboration tools and for content management, an [See the full post…]

Inertia – Interop 2012: What are some of the hot issues in IT? In this edition of Inertia, we took to the floor of Interop to talk with experts, IT pros and vendors. OpenFlow, which was an Interop Labs demo [See the full post…]

Silicon Minds: The legend goes that Don Massaro, President of Shugart Associates in the 1970s, drew the 5.25 inch dimension of the minifloppy diskette on a napkin at lunch. “That’s not quite true,” says Don Massaro. “If you go look [See the full post…]

Inertia: Two-steps-forward-one-step-back has been an apt description for much of professional web-based media. As Joe Casale, CEO of Casale Media says, “I’ve heard it said there’s four steps to putting an ad on TV and like 90 steps for doing [See the full post…]

IT Security: Defending against intrusion was a hot topic at previous RSA conferences. But users are using their devices outside the network perimeter of their organizations, which exposes data like never before. In this podcast we asked several security experts [See the full post…]