As broadband connectivity spreads around the world, IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) is beginning to reshape the industry. In 2007, the number of households using telco/IPTV services grew to over 14 million worldwide (Parks Associates, April 2008). That number is expected to grow to more than 80 million households by ...

Intel’s invitation-only event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., showed off the company’s diverse research projects in areas like visual computing, health, life sciences, green-friendly technologies, and wireless, to name a few. “Intel scientists can propose research on any topic they envision a solution for,” ...

When you hit the road and can’t squeeze your 62 inch monitor into your briefcase, you may want to reach for your Vuzix iWear. So if you’re watching a movie on your laptop or iPod or looking to join multiple friends in a first-person shooter game, Vuzix delivers a ...

After Jay Bean launched and sold his former company ah-ha (now Enhance Interactive) to Marchex, he put his experience in local search, web marketing, and company building to work at OrangeSoda.

OrangeSoda’s primary focus is on helping small and medium-sized companies have online marketing success. They ...

From Mountain View, Calif., the Computer History Museum and MashUp CampIV - a.k.a. The Unconference for the Uncomputer comes part II of a relaxed presentation by Aaron Boodman about Google Gears beta.

Is the need for versioning Web applications now solved with an autoupdate? Will language inhibit where ...

From Mountain View, Calif., the Computer History Museum and MashUp CampIV - a.k.a. The Unconference for the Uncomputer comes a relaxed presentation by Aaron Boodman about Google Gears beta.

Is running applications from within the browser and retrieving data offline creating new efficiency standards for developers?

Mercury News columnist Dean Takahashi takes us on a quick tour inside Google’s Mountain View headquarters.

With regards to global climate change, your computer and anyone’s computer — anywhere in the world — are more likely to be part of the problem than part of the solution. At a press event held at Google’s Mountain View headquarters June 12th, Google co-founder Larry Page, along with ...

Forget ever having to remember a password again. Sxipper is a Firefox plugin that let’s you control and securely manage your online identity information. While at the recent Internet Identity Workshop held in Mountain View, Calif., I sat down with Weston Triemstra, developer and product manager for

User-centric identity is about working relationships and services between individuals and retailers, employers, membership bodies and organizations of any kind. To learn more about user-centric identity, I stopped by the Internet Identity Workshop being held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. I sat town with ...

Benoy Tamang, CMO of HookSell, talks about turning Website visitors into leads and leads into sales using unique online direct sales tools.

Benoy Tamang is the founder of Salt Lake City-based HookSell, a direct response business that focuses on online sales systems. Prior to founding HookSell, Benoy served as president ...

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 ...

Rebecca South, president of Domes for the World, explains how her non-profit is using unique building technology to built very inexpensive and durable structures for third-world countries. But, we talk about how she got into the dome-building business (her dad was one of the innovators in dome building) and ...

Intel Chairman Craig Barrett says Silicon Valley IT companies are in the right place at the right time to help the United Nations address the world’s health, education, and economic problems. Barrett, who has been appointed the chairman of the U.N.’s Global Alliance for ICT and Development, says, “My job is to make sure that we don’t talk a lot, but we do a lot.” The Alliance will meet today at the the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., to discuss the role of Silicon Valley in the U.N.’s information technology goals. PodTech’s Jason Lopez interviewed Intel’s chairman at the company’s headquarters in Santa Clara. Intel made this video possible.

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The United Nations is embarking on something new: a partnership with the private sector to address some of the developing world’s most vexing issues in areas such as education, health care, economic development and government. Craig Barret, the chairman of Intel, has been appointed to chair the UN initiative called the Global Alliance for ICT and Development. GAID meets with Silicon Valley leaders for the first time at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., for a series of panels and discussions about the ways IT solutions can help the U.N.’s efforts. PodTech’s Jason Lopez spoke with Sarbuland Khan, executive coordinator for GAID.

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Tivo changed the way we watch TV. Just like you record your favorite 24 episode, Solera Networks offers network security for enterprises and governments that captures and replays an organization’s network traffic. Steve Shillingford, vice president of worldwide sales, speaks with Brad Baldwin about how customers are ...

Platforms are validated as partners develop solutions. Control4 invited a number of their key partners to display and show their solutions at CES. The solutions enhance and extend the lighting, climate, audio/visual, and security benefits. From Somfy’s solutions to manage window coverings and lighting, to iPort’s ...

Timothy Chou, author and entrepreneur, is the latest guest in this series of discussions with thought leaders, presented by WebEx. Chou was the president of Oracle’s On-Demand business from 1999 to 2005, the author of the book The End of Software, and he remains an influential figure in ...

Skullcandy hosted Supernatural as a booth attraction at CES. Supernatural holds the world’s record for the longest a freestyle rap at over nine hours. In this video, in addition to the impressive skill of Supernatural, you’ll spot Skullcandy CEO Alden enjoying the show. And if you listen carefully, you’ll ...

The Canyons is a massive ski and snowboarding resort. Last year, it was the first resort to use video podcasts as a way to differentiate itself from other destinations (view videocasts | subscribe to videocasts).

My personal favorite from last year is from the Quiksilver Canis Lupus ...

It’s freezing cold in Dharamsala, India, in the mountain state of Himachal Pradesh. Clouds chase the sun away, and rain shatters the sky with numbing regularity. But something about this place has a special meaning to everyone who comes here. Once upon a time, it was for a metaphysical search, ...

Richard Reese is CEO of Iron Mountain, a $2 billion records management and data protection company. He spoke with us at the ARMA International Conference in San Antonio, Texas, about his company’s collaboration with Microsoft on Office 2007, as well as the blurring lines between information assets ...

Driving in Karachi is an exercise in confusion, damped-out road rage and sheer fun. The roads are mostly quite wide, but the combination of a large variety of vehicles and quaint driving styles makes for what the ancient Chinese legendarily called an “interesting life.”

PixSense launched its new, wide range of installables for cellphones at DEMO/fall in San Diego on Monday September 25, 2006.

I met with Adnan Agboatwala, who captains the development of this remarkable new application and service as managing director of PixSense development operations in Pakistan. He’s also co-founder of PixSense worldwide.