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…]

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…]

Here are more Facebook application tips from the recent Facebook Developer Garage in Palo Alto, Calif. Learn from successful developers and also Facebook representatives tell you what you need to know. [See the full post…]

RockYou is one of the largest social media application developers around. Millions of people use their apps on MySpace and Facebook. Here, we meet Jia Shen, CTO and co-founder of RockYou, where we talk about RockYou’s plans. Yes, mostly we [See the full post…]

Tom Foremski speaks with Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL, the second-largest open source company, about Silicon Valley and the challenge of managing teams of programmers spread across the world. [See the full post…]

Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems president and CEO, discusses how emerging markets are beginning to realize the unlimited potential of the Internet.

Also on TechOne: Jay Smooth comments on who’s smarter, Miss Teen South Carolina or George Bush? [See the full post…]

Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems president and CEO, discusses how emerging markets are beginning to realize the unlimited potential of the internet.

Also on TechOne: Michael Cote reports from the iPhoneDevCamp. [See the full post…]

Mike Montemerlo is the artificial intelligence guy on Stanford University’s DARPA challenge team. Basically, they are building a robotic car that’ll be able to negotiate a course without humans being involved. He also thinks about the act of driving [See the full post…]

Joseph Smarr, Plaxo‘s architect, and John McCrea, VP of marketing, introduce Robert Scoble to Plaxo’s new offices, talk about a new feature, to be released on Wednesday, which is an “online identity aggregator,” and explain how it works and [See the full post…]

I spent Saturday afternoon crammed into a room in Palo Alto with a couple of hundred people listening to presentations from young developers creating Facebook apps. The enthusiasm was great and there was a sense of being at the start [See the full post…]

Valerie Cunningham interviews Jamis McNiven, the owner of Buck’s Diner, in Woodside, Calif. This is where many of Silicon Valley’s most famous companies got their start: pitching their business plans in breakfast meetings with local VCs. Also on TechOne: Josh [See the full post…]

Josh Hallett and Alex Kim, from Solution Set, talk about building social media platforms within enterprises and the roadblocks that IT departments create. Lots of good advice on overcoming those obstacles. A Silicon Valley Watcher report from a meeting [See the full post…]

It’s Day 11, and Roz Savage is dealing with 40 knot Pacific winds on her rowing journey across the Pacific, singing the theme song to Hawaii Five-O. More videos from the Roz Savage Voyage:

– Roz’s launch party

– Naturally [See the full post…]

Dr. Elliot Soloway has taught some interesting people in his classroom at the University of Michigan. How about Larry Page, co-founder of Google? Among others. He’s been named “Teacher of the Year,” but that’s not why I talked with him. [See the full post…]

I ran into Anurag Nigam, CEO and co-founder of IncSync recently, and got a quick demo of their 411Sync service. It’s a really easy and quick way to move any kind of information onto your cell phone without requiring any [See the full post…]

You might know Marc Canter as the founder of Macromedia but that’s his past. You probably don’t know what he’s thinking about now as head of Broadband Mechanics, which makes social networks. We talk about that and a whole lot [See the full post…]

VC are investing more money than ever before. But is it a good time to investment? There is a dearth of good exit strategies. The IPO market is still moribund and there are fewer large companies that are interested in [See the full post…]

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. [See the full post…]

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 [See the full post…]

Dan’l Lewin, corporate vice president at Microsoft, heads up its strategic and emerging business initiatives. This means that he and his team work with startups in Silicon Valley and beyond, and with large companies partnering with Microsoft. Mr. Lewin is [See the full post…]

Google Docs and Spreadsheets provides free online Office-like applications. Product manager Jen Grants explains how it can benefit families. [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 [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…]