Stephen Frears may not be entirely comfortable as an Oscar nominee. Lucy Gray remembers a conversation with him — back in 1985 — when he was focused on keeping his production costs down and his financial expectations about the same. [See the full post…]

MOTO is Paul Caporino‘s band from Chicago. This punk rock outfit has been around since 1981 and is still going strong. Paul turns simple, infectiously dumb lyrics into punk rock gold that is somehow reminiscent of The Ramones. This is [See the full post…]

Hear from Claire Hogikyan, senior director – Intellectual Property at Pfizer, about how Pfizer has achieved a 113-percent ROI with a break even point or payback period of just 18 months after the EMC Documentum deployment, based on a study [See the full post…]

Maryam and I head to Freiburg, Germany. Not exactly a place you’d think you’d find geeks, or bloggers, but we did! In between beers (it’s Germany) we got some fun geeks and bloggers onto camera.

During the Chicago Auto Show, I spoke with Sage Marie, Honda‘s manager of public relations, about the new Honda Accord coupe. A new look with new stylings and technologies, the vehicle incorporates Honda’s next-generation Variable Cylinder Management technology and features [See the full post…]

We sat down with Venu Venugopal, vice president of solutions marketing at CA, to discuss strategies for management of an MPLS VPN rollout. There are some great benefits, but along with those benefits come serious challenges. Venu helps you sort [See the full post…]

Venture capital investor Charles Beeler speaks with fellow-VC Steve Hall (his DEMO observations can be found here), from Vulcan Capital, at DEMO 2007 in January. Another positive mention for Zink, and agreement that lots of small steps are being taken [See the full post…]

Learn about solutions and strategies to effectively manage your paper management challenges. You will discover how to apply transactional content management to your manual, paper-based business processes, resulting in increased responsiveness, reduced cycle times, lower costs and better compliance with [See the full post…]

The University of California, San Francisco Medical center says its pilot study using a portable computer called the C5 helped nurses to be far more productive than with conventional personal computers. The current setup in most hospitals is called a [See the full post…]

I’ve been reading an interesting book recently called She’s Such a Geek, which has tons of stories about women who’ve made an impact on the technology world. Here we meet the authors, Charlie and Annalee, and have a conversation about [See the full post…]

GM continues to leverage its global resources with the introduction of the new Pontiac G8, a rear-wheel-drive sedan developed by its Australian Holden division. Unveiled during the Chicago Auto Show, the new G8 is set to replace the Pontiac Grand [See the full post…]

I haven’t been interviewing as many developers as I’d like, so I’m happy that I got to meet Sebastian Moser, a 20-year-old Austrian developer who has been programming since he was 14. He’s working on starting a company, you can [See the full post…]

In San Francisco, Intel, with Motion Computing and the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center, announced the launch of the Motion C5 mobile clinical assistant, a lightweight tablet computer specifically designed for use in hospitals, for nurse patient [See the full post…]

The Gentleman Auction House playing at Off Broadway, in St. Louis, at their big Very Special Christmas Spectacular back in December. This was a big show that got some national press from the likes of Spin Magazine. Also I announce [See the full post…]

This interview at the Chicago Auto Show happened by chance. I was standing next to the Chevy Volt and began a conversation with a gentleman who turned out to be Rich Lannen, one of the lead engineers of the this [See the full post…]

WiLife COO, Grant Beckmann, talks about managing growth in start-up companies. During the past 18 years, Beckmann has worked with some of Utah’s fastest-growing startups, including Folio (now FAST), Tenfold, NextPage, and WiLife. He discusses what he has learned about [See the full post…]

Edgeio today is shipping into beta “Marketplaces,” which let you put classified ads and other board-type information onto your own blog. John Dowd, product manager on Edgeio’s Marketplaces, explains more about why these are useful in this interview and demo.

Can a luxury vehicle come in a hatchback? That’s the challenge Chrysler addressed with its new concept car, the Nassau. With sweeping curves and a more emotional expression of what it means to be a Chrysler, the 4-passenger luxury model [See the full post…]

In this podcast from NETGEAR, Sanjay Kumar discusses Gigabit Stackable Smart Switches. Already popular as a powerful, cost-effective solution to the network needs of small- and medium-sized business, NETGEAR has added gigabit speed to these versatile products. Click here for [See the full post…]

Sister Judith Zoebelein, editorial director of the Holy See, runs the team that builds the Vatican‘s Website. We have a fun talk at the recent LIFT conference, where we discuss the challenges of building a site for one of the [See the full post…]

Nicole Simon is the German blogger we see most often at various conferences around the world. She’s a geek — and more — and here we get to know her a little bit better, and hear why she does so [See the full post…]

One of the newest lineups of automobiles was completed during the 2007 Chicago Auto Show, with the world premeire of the new, 2008 Saturn Astra. With a 140 horsepower, 1.8-liter engine, the Astra is part of a joint venture with [See the full post…]

It’s alphabet soup at the NETGEAR booth, as Vivek Chugh talks about SSL VPN at RSA. It’s a flexible, low-cost, secure solution that allows an organization to provide remote access to their network. Check out this podcast ASAP. Click here [See the full post…]

David Hornik is a general partner at August Capital. As early-stage investors in companies like Microsoft, August knows what makes great companies, and Hornik serves as its social media expert. He sits on six boards including Six Apart. Hornik was [See the full post…]

Taking a break from the bustle of RSA 2007, some of the best-known security bloggers got together at the Foreign Cinema, a French bistro and movie house in San Francisco, hosted by network security podcaster Martin McKeay. Check out the [See the full post…]