Did you know that most movies that are produced in the world never get shown in a theater? Even award-winning movies at film festivals like Sundance often don’t get shown. Not to mention famous films from overseas. Well, Jaman gives [See the full post…]

The countdown begins to iDay, and PodTech’s AppleVoices goes to the Palo Alto Apple Store to check the iPhone hysteria on the street.

PayScale is a service where you can compare salaries with other people in your industry. Here, Joe Giordano, founder and chairman of Payscale, talks to me about the service, what he’s learned, and shows me the latest iteration.

Botnets, phishing scams, password-stealing trojans — they’re all part of an increasingly professionalized world of online crime that’s costing Americans billions every year. Oliver Friedrichs, director of emerging technologies at Symantec Security Response, tells Mercury News software reporter Ryan Blitstein [See the full post…]

Here, John McCrea, vice president of marketing at Plaxo, gives me a tour of its just-released platform. Quite useful, it brings contacts into and out of a bunch of different applications and services like Microsoft’s Outlook, Google’s GMail, among others.

Plaxo‘s founder, Todd Masonis, chief platform architect, Joseph Smarr, and VP of marketing, John McCrea tell me how Plaxo has changed from a contact manager for Outlook to a Web service that lets you back up and share your contacts [See the full post…]

Are you tired of boring PowerPoint presentations with standard effects and boring blue backgrounds? Here, Don Brittain, founder and CEO of Instant Effects, shows us his tool and talks about the state of the art in presentations.

Don Brittain, founder and CEO of Instant Effects, demonstrates how to use it to make your presentations much better than anyone else’s.

Guillaume Cohen, founder and CEO of Veodia, demonstrates live video Webcasting with Veodia. Pros? Professional quality and instant archiving.

Guillaume Cohen, founder and CEO, and Sylvain Rebaud, vice president of engineering at Veodia speak with me about videocasting and Veodia’s part in that market.

Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, is a professor of radiology and bioengineering, director of the Molecular Imaging Program and head of the nuclear medicine division at Stanford University. He shares his vision of the future based on molecular imaging. This podcast is [See the full post…]

In Burlington, Vermont, 20 percent of the real-world residents have joined a new online service called Front Porch Forum. Here, you meet Michael Wood-Lewis, co-founder, and we talk about why he started the service and why it’s been so successful [See the full post…]

Interactive Video Technologies‘ CEO, Greg Pulier demonstrates its Webcasting solution.

Greg Pulier, president and CEO of Interactive Video Technologies, talks with me about corporate Webcasting and how IVT’s solutions help companies and people create better Webcasts.

Net Nanny provides parents with a way to manage how, what and when the Internet can be used in a home. Ken Knapton, ContentWatch‘s chief technology officer, gives us a demo of the latest version of Net Nanny, which includes [See the full post…]

June is National Internet Safety Month. We caught up to Jack Sunderlage, the president and CEO of ContentWatch and maker of the Net Nanny software. As part of their efforts, ContentWatch released their top ten safety tips for keeping families [See the full post…]

Irving Wladawsky-Berger is one of IBM’s top strategists. He has been the key open-source evangelist within Big Blue, persuading the company to standardize on Linux as one of its core business strategies. Linux and the entire open-source movement would have [See the full post…]

Search Engine Marketing isn’t something that many people do. This isn’t optimizing your Web site so it shows up high on Google or Yahoo. It’s coming up with strategies for how to advertise on search engines and then executing on [See the full post…]

Nicole Wong, Google’s deputy general counsel in charge of compliance, is the point person for growing criticism of Google’s privacy practices. More than two dozen European privacy regulators have launched an inquiry into Google’s data protection practices. In the United [See the full post…]

Apple is finally getting its game on. The company is partnering up with video game giant Electronic Arts and id Software to bring gaming to the Mac platform. The deals were announced during Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ keynote at the [See the full post…]

Harry McCracken is the editor-in-chief of PC World. He recently resigned when his publisher asked him not to publish an article critical of Apple, fearing Steve Jobs’ reputation for holding long grudges and not wanting to risk the loss of [See the full post…]

Sonos is a unique addition to your home entertainment system. It lets you play digital music anywhere in your house. Here, John McFarland, CEO, gives us a good runthrough of what Sonos is.

Want a free online alternative to Microsoft Office? Don’t think it’s good enough? ThinkFree‘s offerings might surprise you. Here, Jonathan Crow, director of marketing for ThinkFree, shows of its latest offerings.

Jonathan Crow, director of marketing for ThinkFree, speaks with me about how our office work is changing and how ThinkFree’s online office plays into that.

Footnote.com has the largest collection of digital images from original source documents on the Web. Through a partnership with the U.S. Government’s National Archives and Records Administration, Footnote is digitizing a vast collection of original documents that have been inaccessible [See the full post…]