Robert Scoble interviews IBM’s patent lawyer David Kappos about software patent reform and open source patents. Also: Parts 1 and 2 of Aron Pruiett’s report on a panel discussion about the the future of the Internet in 20 years.

Tom Foremski talks with David Thompson, CEO of Genius, an on demand software company with a unique technology that enables sales people to track leads. Genius also announces its first conference, Sales 2.0, in San Francisco at the end of [See the full post…]

Take something like Yelp. Great local restaurant reviews. But often you need more information. Palore sits on top of the Yelp results and brings you a lot more. Here, Hanan Lifshitz, CEO and founder of Palore, tells us and shows [See the full post…]

Steven Rosenbaum, CEO of Magnify.net, sits down with me at the AlwaysOn conference and shows me Magnify.net, which builds a community page. Say, for remote control airplanes. Including video and content from around the Internet. If you are looking for [See the full post…]

Huntsman Corp. agreed to be acquired by Hexion Corp. for $10.6 billion cash. John Huntsman, Sr. is donating the majority of his share, $1.6B, to various charities, including the Huntsman Cancer Foundation. Forbes Magazine named Utah the 2nd best State [See the full post…]

Scott Klemmer is an assistant professor in the computer science department at Stanford University. We spend an hour talking about a variety of topics. Modern software development trends that Scott is seeing from companies like Google and Yahoo (both of [See the full post…]

David Orenstein, Communications and PR Manager, and Ian Hsu, director of Internet Media Outreach at Stanford University, greet me and show me around the “Gates building,” aka the Computer Science building. We were there to interview Scott Klemmer, assistant professor [See the full post…]

Motorola is aggressively adopting mobile linux as the key operating system for its cell phones. It is launching its first North American cell phone with Linux, the new Razr V8. Tom Foremski talks with Christy Wyatt, VP Ecosystem and Market [See the full post…]

Tom Foremski speaks with Diedier Diaz, SVP for Product Strategy Management at Access Systems Americas. “Access is one of the largest companies you’ve never heard about,” says Mr. Diaz. Its specialty is in creating applications for cell phones. It also [See the full post…]

Tom Foremski speaks with Kim Polese, CEO of SpikeSource about the company’s packaged application suites. Spikesource takes dozens of open source components and combines them into sophisticated enterprise applications. Each suite is tested, and then retested when upgrades and patches [See the full post…]

Nick DeMonner, Lisa Hansen and Mike Minardi are trying to launch a start-up into a tough market with just modest funding. Which means they’re cutting costs at every turn. But they’ve found that a low-budget lifestyle doesn’t mean eating ramen [See the full post…]

I get pitched all the time in the hallways at conferences and I thought it would be interesting to share one of these pitches with you. Here’s 411Sync‘s CEO and founder Anurag Nigam showing us his service, 411sync which brings [See the full post…]

You’ve heard how Digital Research flubbed the operating system deal with IBM. You’ve heard lots of old-time industry stories in our previous two conversations with Tom Rolander who was Gary Kildall’s best friend and operating system pioneer at Digital Research. [See the full post…]

In the second part of Tom Rolander‘s conversations with us about early computer industry history we head to a restaurant in Pacific Grove (near Monterey, CA) and hear more stories about industry history. Buzz Bruggeman, CEO of Activewords, gets involved [See the full post…]

Crossloop is a great free way to take control of a friend’s computer and help them out. Here Tom Rolander, CTO of Crossloop, demonstrates how it can be used to help your friends and family get over their computer troubles. [See the full post…]

You’ve heard the story. Bill Gates and Microsoft became a hugely successful business after it bought DOS from a small computer store in Seattle and licensed it to IBM. But what really happened? Did you know that Bill Gates didn’t [See the full post…]

Dr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger just retired from a long and decorated IBM career of 37 years. He’s seen it all and here we talk about the future of virtual worlds with him. Also interviewing him is Larry Magid of PodTech and [See the full post…]

Sam Levin and Kevin Edwards do a first look at new iPhone accessories and discuss which iPod accessories you may already have that work with the iPhone. Included are products from: Griffin Technology DLO Incase SpeckProducts Case-mate RadTech SendStation Belkin [See the full post…]

Matthias Henze, founder, demonstrates how to use JimDo to make Web sites. Sounds boring, but this service is very popular in Europe and is worth considering for your next Web project.

Making Web sites is much easier today than when I started. There’s a new set of online tools and JimDo is one of the nicest I’ve seen. Here you meet founder Matthia Henze who tells us what’s going on in [See the full post…]

A handheld cube that lets you browse your Flickr photos. A headset that uses brainwaves to control how fast a bicyclist pedals. And Megaphone, a game that lets users play against each in public spaces with their mobile phones. Those [See the full post…]

When I met Daniel Brusilovsky he impressed me. Why? I can’t exactly say, but everyone who watches this video so far around the office says “wow.” Daniel’s 14, has an IT job and an Apple-focused podcast and we have a [See the full post…]

You’ve heard the hype about Twitter. Maybe you don’t understand why it’s important or what it is. It’s a microblogging tool that I’ve found very useful. It lets you send 140-character messages to the world telling them what you’re doing. [See the full post…]

Highlights of the interview and demo with Arturo Artom, CEO of Your Truman Show, who talks with me about this innovative video storytelling service.

Arturo Artom, CEO of Your Truman Show, talks to me about why telling stories with video is interesting and shows me his innovative video storyline capabilities in Your Truman Show.