It’s been awhile since we first began hearing about WiMAX, and it may have sounded impossible at first. Not to Frank Gruber. He says it was inevitable, that it works, and it’s cool.

Beginning this week, you can think of Baltimore as one big hotspot. The computing potential ...

So you’ve gone wireless. Now think about where you can go, and what you can do, now that you’re not tethered to the wall. We ventured out to hot spots in San Francisco, to check out mobility in action, and how its changing the way we, work, live, and play! ...

Learn how three diverse organizations - Plateau Systems, EquiLend, COOP Systems - outsource their IT needs to meet critical business objectives, including driving revenue, expanding globally, and better serving their customers. This video podcast features Shelly Heiden, executive vice president of global operations of Plateau Systems; Benjamin Glicher, ...

What was Scoble up to one year ago today? Check out today’s video for a trip down memory lane.
And for more context, check out his blog, from one year ago today!

Don’t miss this one, Electric Rain has a killer presentation application called “Standout,” and here we ...

Deals in healthcare M&A have soared over the past two years, continuing to attract capital and drive activity in the sector. Industry insiders are monitoring the current pace of healthcare M&A deals and developing an outlook for 2008. On Wednesday, The Deal hosts a one-day symposium with attendees such as ...

Broadband connectivity is crucial for emerging communities and markets. Until recently, many governments turned a deaf ear to the calls for infrastructure in many of the world’s poorest cities and in rural areas where outreach was almost non-existent. But the urgency has been made clearer as communities, technology companies and ...

Gaming is fast gaining track in India and Mumbai is the epicenter for the industry. I finally caught up with Quentin Staes-Polet, CEO of Kreeda in Bangalore to find out about Kreeda, doing business in India and the challenges of doing business in India. Kreeda bills itself as India’s ...

As you might remember, we made a new worm bin after our original bin failed. This new one is doing great! The drainage holes in the bottom have helped keep it moist but not too wet, the shallow shape allows the worms to get to everything faster and ...

Common Sense Media CEO Jim Steyer gives parents the scoop on two items sure to top kids’ holiday wish lists this season: Sony’s PlayStation 3 (PS3) and Nintendo’s Wii.

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Cross border investments have helped keep deal flow robust through 2007, despite the credit crisis. Private equity investors are looking for good deals across the board and companies are beginning to find smaller firms in other parts of the world that complement their product offerings. In this podcast, PodTech’s Jason ...

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 which didn’t… and more importantly, what will carry over into ...

The Green City Gallery is an eco-demonstration site/art gallery/community meeting and event space in downtown Berkeley, Calif. A collaboration between Bay Localize, an Oakland-based non-profit focused on post petroleum community empowerment, and Dig Cooperative, an eco-design crew helping to re-invent urban environments to be more sustainable. The ...

It’s no surprise that online videos are growing in quantity, quality and audience reach. Podaddies helps video producers make money from their video creations through an advertising network in conjunction with the major video hosting sites. I had lunch with Podaddies founders Nate Pagel, CEO, and Robert Boyle, CTO, ...

Kiptronic is a platform that gives podcasters, videobloggers and advertisers a way to dynamically insert ads into any downloadable media. Kiptronic works with most major media hosting platforms and a whole range of big brand advertisers. I sat down with Jonathan Cobb, Kiptronic’s founder and chief technology officer, at ...

SeeqPod is an interesting music discovery service that provides a way to find most any linked music files on the Internet. You can quickly build playlists from found music, discover similar music based on genetic similarities and share your playlists by embedding them in your blog. SeeqPod also has ...

Ebay, Intuit, Campbell Soup and Mini Cooper all are using social media to help drive their marketing. Peter Friedman, CEO of LIVEWORLD tells Marketing Voices how mapping communities to brands and moderating the conversations these brands are having are driving connections marketers never before ...

We’re back in the kitchen, turning up the heat on raw foods with South of the Border Tomatillo Rawvioli! I wanted to do a dish that showcased the delightful flavor of tomatillos, the husky green cousin of the tomato. The resulting creation is a lively celebration of Mexican-inspired flavor, beauty ...

Last weekend, while we were at Get Tough or Die Farms (Tanja’s Mom’s house), we were introduced to a new summer dessert. In Sacramento, the mid-day temperature can get brutal by this time of year, and one day while we were all sitting outside sweltering, Melissa brought out a round ...

Here Rocky Barbanica, my amazing editor, picks the highlights of the interview and demo I did with Mixercast’s CEO, Jennifer Cooper.

MixerCast’s CEO, Jennifer Cooper, demonstrates how to use Mixercast to build new “media stories” that include photography, music, photos, and other media. Here we mix up an interview and get a demo of Mixercast too.

Kevin Bayuk rents an apartment in the Haight Ashbury district of San Fransicso. He also grows a large amount of his own food, actively composts, raises ducks and captures rainwater - total urban permaculture. One might think you need to own a large plot of land in the country ...

In this week’s ConnectCast, Rocky Mountain Voices’ Cydni Tetro and Connect Magazine Executive Editor Colin Kelly discuss this week’s highlights, including:

- Allegiance closes on a $5.7M round of funding

- Logoworks to be acquired by HP

- Arkona to be acquired by DealerTrack

- PricewaterhouseCoopers report ...

I dropped by the San Francisco offices of Attendio, an events discovery and recommendation service. I sat down with Attendio’s CEO, Gerardo Capiel, and CTO, Eric Hansen, to get the scoop on how they differ from other online event calendar services. Attendio goes beyond seeing just what events your ...

Mike Soucie, president and CEO of Electric Rain, talks with me about their breakout application, Standout, which gives presentation professionals an innovative new way to bring their ideas to audiences. We start out by talking about his business, Electric Rain, which is a bleeding edge software design/development house that ...