Can the good times roll in the M&A world from 2006 through 2008? Were those good times at all? At The Deal’s “M&A Outlook 2008” in New York, investment experts picked apart the market to explore which deals worked and [See the full post…]

Edleman’s VP of Interactiv, Gary Goldhammer, shared successes, failures and trends in social media during a keynote at the Blogging for Business conference. Goldhammer offers his insight and experience from working with a number of clients and trying to measuring [See the full post…]

The success of eMoms at Home web site turned entrepreneur Wendy Piersall into a full-time blogger and social media advocate. Now as a contributor to Entrepreneur Magazine and Editor in Chief over 7 content channels and 10 different writers contributing [See the full post…]

Do you think Google is the best search engine for cell phones? Think again with Taptu’s Bob Last. He’s senior vice president of business development there and talks with me about search engines and how mobile phones aren’t well served [See the full post…]

We do a little test comparing Google to Taptu on a mobile phone. You might be surprised by how much nicer Taptu is for many searches. Here Bob Lastt, senior vice president at Taptu, and I have a race and [See the full post…]

On this Episode Lo-Fi Saint Louis gets green with a visit to the Earthways Festival. The Earthways Festival is a showcase of green technology and practice held once a year at the Earthways Center in St. Louis. The Earthways Center [See the full post…]

Join BearingPoint Senior Manager Hitesh Anklesaria to explore the importance of categorizing the risks of outsourcing vendors. Whether it’s the local landscaper or the offshore technology support center, financial services organizations outsource various operations to multiple service providers all over [See the full post…]

Application security as a concept has many different connotations, ranging from dealing with application security only in code, implementing solutions in existing technologies such as firewalls, and “porting” application business logic to a traditional on-the-wire Application Firewall solution. The primary [See the full post…]

Andy Wright is owner of FalconEV, a company that distributes electric bikes and scooters that use lithium-ion batteries. He believes his products are the future of transportation. I spoke with him at the AltCar Expo in Santa Monica.

Over the past few years Virtualization has become the new IT buzzword, cropping up in technologies from the end-user client environment all the way back through the Data Center into application, storage, and delivery networks. While Virtualization is solid technology, [See the full post…]

New York City-based Lindsey Pollak is and expert on Gen Y and the author of Getting from College to Career: 90 Things to Do Before You Join the Real World. Pollack spends much of her time interacting with college-aged students [See the full post…]

At their recent launch in New York City, HP Total Care took the spotlight, announcing a program designed to ease IT challenges for the full lifecycle of an HP purchase. HP Total Care’s aim is to provide before, during and [See the full post…]

It’s hard to make the IT industry’s only intelligent enforcement engine better known as BIGFIX interesting and viral. But that is exactly what BIGFIX‘s Vice President of Marketing, David Appelbaum, and his marketing firm Rassak Experience did. Creating a presidential [See the full post…]

About 18,000 people attended the inaugural Entertainment for All Expo video game event in Los Angeles, CA. Attendees were able to play hundreds of games at the event, including Metal Gear Solid 4, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, NFL Tour and [See the full post…]

Seth Goldstein talks about advertising on Facebook and the use of applications as “appvertising.” But some apps involve slinging virtual food between Facebook friends, can such apps also become an effective advertising platform? Can apps like this really be monetized [See the full post…]

In a country marked by influences — Berber, Arab, Jewish, French, Spanish — Morocco faces the challenge of absorbing one more: information technology. Countries like India, China, Brazil and Nigeria have seen the astonishing impact that simple PCs can have [See the full post…]

Rocky, my producer, knows you don’t have time to watch the full interview so he’s pulled the highlights out of the interview I did with John Payne, CEO of CircleUp. Six minutes and you’ll see how CircleUp helps you work [See the full post…]

CircleUp joins your communities together in a way to get your questions answered. Plan a meal. Start an event. Pick a vacation spot. Here John Payne, CEO, shows us the new system.

PUR Purifier of Water is an in-home system delivered to families in developing countries. This technology was developed by Proctor and Gamble and is one of the laureates being honored this year at the Tech Museum Awards. See also, full [See the full post…]

Intel Chairman Craig Barrett, fresh from the Connect Africa Summit in Kigali, Rwanda, toured Nigeria’s National Hospital in the country’s capitol of Abuja, as well as a school in the Jabi district of the city. Barrett also serves as chairman [See the full post…]

NewsGator is one of the best news aggregators out there (a place to subscribe to RSS feeds). In this interview with Dave Keller, general manager, and Chris Echelmeier, enterprise sales rep, you’ll hear why NewsGator is making big moves into [See the full post…]

NewsGator owns many of the most popular news readers around and synchronizes them. But now NewsGator is making big strides in bringing its synchronization system to enterprises. Dave Keller, general manager, and Chris Echelmeier, enterprise sales rep, demo the latest [See the full post…]

Security risk assessments, security risk modeling, and protecting against security threats by maintaining a threat agent library — these and other programs form the basis for understanding threats to network security for Intel. In this video podcast, TIm Casey, senior [See the full post…]

Lance Tokuda is CEO of Rock You, which has emerged as the leading developer of Facebook apps. Rock You can create an app for you over the weekend and launch it by Monday. He talks about some of the issues [See the full post…]

AtTask‘s VP of Sales, Abraham Knell, shows off the @task Project and Portfolio Management solution. The application has a simple UI that is easy to learn and use. Tabs and drop-down menus in headers give the web-based offering a rich, [See the full post…]