Intuit recently launched software with community building capability built into its functionality. Scott Wilder, group manager of their small business group, tells Marketing Voices how their users are loving the product already. The functionality is not a link or popup, but part of the overall community experience. ...

Understanding is Only Human: Discover how the Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs Human Factors team is helping to deliver a superior user experience

Alcatel-Lucent is committed to helping operators deliver a superior user experience. One of the ways to help is to gain an intimate understanding of end-user behavior and the Bell Labs Human Factors team is one of the many groups within Alcatel-Lucent doing just that. The team is made up of Ph.D.s with an average of 15+ years professional usability experience working to:

Will the use of online apps change the way people work? That’s a question discussed by a panel at theOffice 2.0 conference, moderated by Om Malik from GigaOm: Steven Aldrich, VP of strategy & innovation, Intuit; Denis Browne, senior VP, SAP Labs; Danny Kolke, CEO of Etelos; Richard McAniff, corporate ...

Michael Cote talks with Chip Holden about applying and using Agile Software Development in large scale projects. Chip tells us about his experience applying it over the years and across three different teams. His comments at the beginning about Agile software accentuating Conway’s Law are an interesting, ...

Sameer Sisodia is a cofounder of Ziva Software, the makers of Zook, a mobile search service. Its an interesting company that is incubated at the prestigious Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

Ziva Software has built the world’s first Mobile Social Answer Engine. The mobile answer engine delivers precise answers ...

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 ...

Beyond the help desk, there are a number of technologies that have been around for years, but today there are more and more intuitive tools that allow for better automation. Now the IT organization can turn the dial, depending on what the business is doing, and better integrate and align ...

I recently sat down with VodPod CEO Mark Hall at his San Francisco office. VodPod is an interesting video aggregation and sharing service that works by building ‘pods’ of videos by using the sharing embed code of popular video hosting sites. These pods can then appear as sidebar widgets ...

An easy-to-use interface and touch-sensitive buttons were the main breakthroughs in the three systems Connecticut-based BICOM submitted to the Intel Core Processor Challenge PC Design. This aluminum covered media server is styled for the digital home. Built on the Intel VIIV technology platform using a mobile Intel Core 2 ...

Scott K. Wilder, group manager of the small business division for Intuit tells how to make social media tools work for a large corporation. Intuit is viewed as a leading social media company — one that has created guideposts and guardrails — which gives parameters to Intuit employees seeking ...

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 care. It features a camera, barcode scanner, ...

Frank Buytendijk is vice president for corporate strategy at Hyperion. In this second podcast in the series examining the changing demands on the CIO, Frank discusses the dilemma of controlling cost and maintaining an organization’s ability to grow. Although a dilemma like this can seem intractable, Frank says ...

It doesn’t park itself, it’s park assist. That was the message from Bob Allen, dealer education manager for Lexus. I spoke with him recently about the new Advanced Parking Guidance System, or APGS, available on the 2007 LS460. For those who are parallel parking “challenged,” the feature is certain ...

Maxtor’s goal is to help bring consumers’ digital content to life through an extended family of simple, elegant and intuitive
solutions. Today, the way people access, share, view and experience digital content is quickly evolving, and Maxtor is introducing several new products and an online service in Q2′06 to ...

Steve Forbes’ first ever podcast in a PodTech exclusive. I traveled to New York City to sit down with Steve in his office to talk about flat tax, politics, world economics, blogs, podcasts, and social media. This interview is timely given the recent cover story by Forbes and ...

I had a chance to sit down with Reid Hoffman an early employee at PayPal and the cofounder of LinkedIn to talk about the future of web 2.0 and social networking as the basis for the new Internet. Reid is a pioneer and active angel investor as well ...