The trend right now is to create your own social network for your business. Why do that? A few reasons. First, it lets you build better relationships with your customers. Second, you can add value onto your products or services [See the full post…]

There’s a revolution afoot in the computer industry that’s not so sci-fi. It’s more in line with the notion of “heavy lifting” and “blocking and tackling.” Corporate networks are benefiting from software at the chip level below the operating system. [See the full post…]

Check out how easy it is to make a conference call with Rondee. Here Andre Vanier, CEO, demonstrates his company’s service.

Rondee lets you do conference calls with a twist: it is easier to use than other conference services and it’s free. Here CEO, Andre Vanier, talks to me about the conference calling business and what Rondee’s doing.

In this episode of The Reboot, Fatal1ty, Dave “Walshy” Walsh of Major League Gaming and Regina “Wedge” Wu of the PMS Clan talk about how they became professional gamers, what the “eSport” has done for their careers and what advice [See the full post…]

Scaling to 10s and 100s of cores – explore the challenges of creating platforms capable of performing trillions of calculations per second on trillions of bytes of data. Related Stories: Intel, IntelMooresLaw, IDF

One of the interesting folks I met at EVS 23, the Electric Vehicle Symposium in Anaheim, Calif., was Kathleen Larson, former math teacher and owner of the Fuel Cell Store. Concerned about reducing their carbon footprint, she and her husband [See the full post…]

Aaron Levie, CEO of Box.Net, demonstrates his online storage service and it’s integration with other Web 2.0 services.

Box.Net is a cool way to store files on the internet. It’s like a hard drive in the sky. Here Box.Net CEO, Aaron Levie, talks to me about file storage and the online storage business.

A little Christmas gift for you all. Fred Friction with his band The Highway Matrons performing their cheerful holiday tune acompanied by some scenes from Christmas’s past from the Internet Archive.

Part 2 of Brave Combo’s Holiday Show. This time with a Christmas song, Enjoy and Happy Holidays!

Fav.or.it‘s founder, Nick Halstead, introduced me with a challenge: he thought he could get me to switch my RSS reader. He then proceeded to impress me with his system.

Practical strategies for improving a marketer’s position in a company are explained in this interview with Roy Young, author of the book, Marketing Champions: Practical Strategies for Improving Marketing’s Power, Influence, and Business Impact. He has worked with numerous marketers [See the full post…]

Video Game Audio has evolved over the years, from the simple sounds of PONG to the in-depth, cinematic sounds of BioShock. Although many gamers take Game Audio for granted, it’s just as important as a video game’s graphics, gameplay and [See the full post…]

You might have heard of John Battelle. He plans the Web 2.0 Summits, wrote a book about Google, runs an online advertising company, among many other things. I spent some time with him this week talking about his predictions (which, [See the full post…]

Another company making news during EVS 23, the Electric Vehicle Symposium, was Vectrix Corporation. Durng the show, Chief Marketing Officer Jeff Morrill introduced me to the V3, an all electric three-wheeler featuring twin front wheels that grasp the road during [See the full post…]

Explore the latest innovations in one of the most successful interconnect technologies in computing history – the Universal Serial Bus (USB). Related Stories: Intel, IntelMooresLaw, IDF

Dopplr is a service for frequent business travelers that helps them let their friends know where they are. It’s popular. Wikipedia’s founder says it’s one of his favorite sites. Here we get a demo and hear from the geek behind [See the full post…]

Dopplr is a really cool way to let everyone know where you are while you travel on business. It’s a service that’s gotten very popular with many of us in the tech community and here you meet Lisa Sounio, CEO [See the full post…]

I know that this is late because Hanukkah ended a week or so ago, but I thought I would share Brave Combo playing the Hanukkah Song anyway.

I met EJ Wessel, owner of Big Kid Toys in Napa, Calif., at the LA Auto Show, but sadly, I wasn’t able to go for a ride in his T-Rex then. So when we met at EVS 23, the Electric [See the full post…]

When it comes to email continuity and message availability in times of a network outage or as part of a disaster recovery plan, the small and medium business needs what large organizations spec–but they need it at an affordable price [See the full post…]

Learn more about the software that drives Intel’s Graphics Media Accelerator and about the display interfaces supported. Listen now! Related Stories: Intel, IntelMooresLaw, IDF

Durng EVS 23, the Electric Vehicle Symposium, I spoke with Pitt Moos, Product Manager for the smart ev, a prototype and research electric vehicle being developed by http://www.daimler.com/ Daimler. Currently 100 of them are being built and delivered to consumers [See the full post…]

Intel Fellow and Chief Platform Architect for Intel’s Ultra Mobile Group, Ticky Thakkar, takes you inside Intel’s mobile computing platform research and development. Related Stories: Intel, IntelMooresLaw, IDF