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…]

Intel@Research Day is a science fair with some unbelievable demos — unbelievable on one hand because some seem to defy physics and on the other hand because the topics under consideration are clearly anthropological. In this podcast, Intel CTO Justin [See the full post…]

With today’s virtual environment, virtualization can bring clear advantages in how you manage your IT. In this podcast, join BearingPoint technologists Nicolas Boaknin and Laurent Mandorla to explore the virtualization buzz – what it’s all about and why it’s at [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.

Michael Ondaatje is best known for his novel, The English Patient. He has a new book out called Divisadero. I spoke with him on the San Francisco street that gives the book its name, where he told me why it [See the full post…]

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.

Formula One racing is the most technology intensive form of racing with a long history of innovations driven by microprocessor technology. Shortly after Intel invented the first commercial processor in 1971 called the 4004, engineers at Goodyear tire were using [See the full post…]

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…]

Left Arm are from Edwardsville, Ill., and they play rock ‘n’ roll influenced by The Heartbreakers, AC/DC, The Sonics, The Stooges, The Shadows of Knight, MC5, The Animals, Zeke, Motorhead, Fatal Flying Guilloteens, The Oblivians, Bantam Rooster among others. This [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…]

GM’s Chief Engineer of the Volt, Nick Zielinski, has been in the news a lot lately. So, I thought I’d post this interview I did with him back at the Detroit Auto Show that never got published. A lot of [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.

Join EMEA BladeSystem Business Development Manager Anthony Dina as he looks at the pulling power of blades, who is most likely to adopt and why. Learn more about HP blade servers.

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…]

In this podcast, sponsored by Verizon, Mike Marcellin, Verizon’s VP of product marketing, announces new offerings for Fixed Mobile Convergence. PBX Mobile Extension, Wireless Office, and Mobile Conference Connection; mobile solutions for enterprise that enable connectivity and ease of access [See the full post…]

Rene Dechamps Otamendi and Aurelie Pols, from OX2, in Belgium, discuss what to look for in a full-service agency and how to maximize their value. Learn how to measure success, how to deploy this virtual partner, with this interview with [See the full post…]

In this podcast, sponsored by Symantec, we look at endpoints, mobile computing and security, and we introduce Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 with Michael Monzon, Symantec’s senior product manager in the Endpoint Security Group. We also hear from Martin McKeay of [See the full post…]

Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google, Inc., announced a major initiative to spur the adoption of Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles and Vehicle-to-Grid technology, called RechargeIT.org. More than just a Website, the effort brings together the innovators and industry leaders from [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…]