Teaching in kindergarten through 12th grades continues to incorporate more technology. One Utah-based company, Timpanogos Technologies, has extended the life of existing district-wide systems while providing teachers and students with software that can create personalized study for individual students. Not [See the full post…]

Next week is the famous “Demo” conference. Shel Israel has been going to Demo ever since it started back in the 1980s and helping startups prepare. His companies have won “Demo God” awards seven times. Here he gives startups some [See the full post…]

Callwave makes your cell phone more useful. Here, Josh Fraser, VP of Business Development, showes us Callwave. Some things it does that caught our attention? Forwards calls to any phone. Lets you listen to voice mail while it’s being left. [See the full post…]

Nick Carr is an acclaimed business writer and speaker whose work centers on strategy, innovation, and technology. His 2004 book “Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage,” published by Harvard Business School Press, set off a [See the full post…]

John Chambers, the CEO of Cisco Systems, gave a keynote at Saleforce.com‘s user conference. He spoke about the growing use and importance of Internet video in helping companies collaborate on projects and communicate with staff and customers. Internet video will [See the full post…]

Greg Warnock has a soft spot for entrepreneurs. Whether it’s through mentoring, work deals at vSpring Capital, or angel investing, Warnock has seen a lot of companies. He’s also learned that it takes more than good technology and a strong [See the full post…]

At the recent Office 2.0 conference, we met David Lee, chairman of Editgrid, in the hall at the conference and he gave us a short demo of what’s great about Editgrid for iPhones.

Mint.com was voted the best company out of 700 submissions at the TechCrunch 40 conference. Before he won the award we sat down with CEO Aaron Patzer and got a good look at this financial management service. He showed us [See the full post…]

So you didn’t make it to the TechCrunch 40 conference, where Mint.com won the honors as the top start-up? Fear not, the Mercury News sat down with Aaron Patzer, the founder of Mint, for a quick demo of how the [See the full post…]

Adam Carson is sharing some of his experiences in bringing Enterprise 2.0 to Morgan Stanley. He is providing valuable insights to how large organizations can start thinking about Enterprise 2.0 strategies, adoption methods, deployments, and risks. Adam discusses the approaching [See the full post…]

Online speed dating? Indeed. And WooMe, a San Francisco start-up, is hoping it’s big business. The company launched at the TechCrunch40 conference this week, along with Orgoo, a service that lets users merge all their email and IM accounts into [See the full post…]

The San Jose Mercury News spent a day at the TechCrunch40 conference talking to companies and getting demos of new products. This interview, with Flock CEO Shawn Hardin, is one of several videos we’re publishing from the conference. Tech-watchers will [See the full post…]

Ever see the underside of a Web page? Neither had we until LUNARR came into our lives. Its metaphor of “create, flip, and share” is easy to understand. Will it take off? Watch the video with Toru Takasuka CEO and [See the full post…]

Tom Foremski speaks with Joost Pronk van Hoogeveen from Sun and Ronit Belson from OpTier, an ISV partner of Sun’s, about virtualization. The conversation covers five points about virtualization: Understanding your business application; How do your virtualization technologies fit your [See the full post…]

Have you ever wanted to host a talk radio show? You know where you have guests and can take calls from your audience? Well, Alan Levy, CEO and founder of BlogTalk Radio tells us about his new service aimed at [See the full post…]

Social computing is the rage, everyone knows that. But isn’t it just kid’s stuff? Why should an enterprise focused on B2B even bother with it — and if it does, are the rules of engagement any different than for the [See the full post…]

This is a scaled-down five-minute version of my sidewalk cafe talk with Randi Zuckerberg, producer of digital media at Facebook.

You might not know it, but Facebook is a family affair. Randi Zuckerberg is director of market development at Facebook and also a sister of CEO Mark Zuckerberg. I met her for coffee on University Ave., near Facebook’s headquarters, and [See the full post…]

Generation Y is entering the workforce 70 million strong, should the current organizations implement new ways, structures to accommodate the new behaviors of Generation Y? What else should companies know about the new workforce?

Yesterday, AMD announced that its new Barcelona chips were shipping. These are new quad-core CPUs aimed at use in enterprise datacenters. We have a conversation about what these new chips mean for AMD and some of the trends he sees [See the full post…]

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…]

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.

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…]

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…]

Disclaimer: Seagate is the sole sponsor of the ScobleShow. We greatly appreciate them and once in a while we meet with them to find out what they are up to. This is one of those times. Here you meet Marc [See the full post…]