E3 isn’t known as a showcase for sports games, but this year’s event featured some of the hottest new sports titles. Madden 09, NBA Live 09, TNA iMPACT, WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2009 and Wii Sports: Resort were just a few of the ...

David S. Finn, VP and CIO at Texas Children’s Hospital, whose background is in theatre, describes the “production” aspects of IT and the nuances of pediatric IT to Patrick E. Spencer, Symantec’s director of publishing and customer marketing programs as well as editor in chief of CIO Digest. Under his ...

Patrick E. Spencer, Symantec’s editor in chief of CIO Digest, sat down with Myrna Soto, VP of Governance and CISO at MGM MIRAGE, to discuss how she leverages a mixture of industrial psychology, Six Sigma, an MBA, and best practices from the Project Management Institute to map a successful path ...

Patrick E. Spencer, Symantec’s editor in chief of CIO Digest, sat down with Myrna Soto, VP of Governance and CISO at MGM MIRAGE, to discuss how she leverages a mixture of industrial psychology, Six Sigma, an MBA, and best practices from the Project Management Institute to map a successful path ...

A new Xbox 360 Blu-Ray rumor is circulating around the Web. Chinese newspaper Economic Daily News claims a subsidiary of computer hardware firm Asus has been chosen by Microsoft to produce internal Blu-Ray players for the Xbox 360. Also in this episode of http://www.rebootshow.com The Reboot with Rio ...

In this video podcast, Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital Enterprise Group, Pat Gelsinger explains Intel architecture and its wide-ranging capabilities (”architecture for life”), and Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s Mobility Group, Dadi Perlmutter and Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager, Ultra ...

In this video podcast straight from Intel’s Spring IDF in Shanghai, the spotlight is on the keynote demos that showed power and performance in newer, smaller and more innovative form factors, many powered by the Intel’s Atom processor. Many of the demonstrations focused on mobility, and they all provided an ...

As video streaming, file sharing, database delivery and business continuity solutions drive bandwidth demand, industry experts are increasingly looking toward 100 Gbps network upgrades. In late 2007, Verizon successfully completed the industry’s first successful field trial proving that the existing network can be upgraded to carry 100 Gbps ...

Darren Yee, Tech Marketing Engineer Intel Software Solutions Group, and I shot a video demo of TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress, a popular video encoder that was optimized for Quad-core and Intel Streaming SIMD Extensions 4 (Intel SSE4) instructions on the Penryn family of Intel processors at the Fall 2007 Intel Developer ...

Electronic Arts plans to give Wii owners a chance to rock out. Rumors of a Wii version of EA/Harmonix’s popular video game Rock Band have been circulating for months. Now those rumors can be put to rest. The Orange Box is being split into ...

Prior to the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), one news story getting a lot of traction was the conversion of a Saturn Hybrid into a Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) capable of 150 miles per gallon. So I was quite excited to speak with Don ...

The Consumer Electronics Show usually isn’t a big show for gamers, but this year’s event was expected to be different. CES dedicated more show floor space for its Gaming Showcase and there were even rumors that Microsoft’s Bill Gates would reveal a new version of the ...

One of the most anticipated games for the Playstation 3 was on display at CES 2008. LittleBigPlanet is a unique side-scroller that allows users to play the game, create their own characters and design playable levels to share with others online. The Reboot’s Rio ...

If you’ve got the winter golf blues, Electric~Spin has the cure. Electric~Spin’s Golf Launchpad Tour is a unique golf simulation device that allows users to play golf in the convenience of their home, with their own clubs. The golf Launchpad Tour can be used with a PC, Mac and ...

When it comes to email continuity and message availability in times of a network outage or as part of a disaster recovery plan, the small and medium business needs what large organizations spec–but they need it at an affordable price point. Cemaphore Systems has created an email continuity ...

I’m so sick of getting my utility bill and seeing that a huge majority of my money goes to pay for energy from Natural Gas and Nuclear (and in many places in the US, Coal). I want my money to go towards renewables and I’m not the only one. Many ...

Roy Johnson, CEO of CaliSolar Inc. talks with John Ince about new techniques for reducing the cost of photovoltaics. PV Cells have long held the promise of providing clean electricity and competitive rates, but the stumbling block has always been the cost of the silicon chips. CaliSolar believes ...

Roy Johnson, CEO of CaliSolar Inc. talks with John Ince about new techniques for reducing the cost of photovoltaics. PV Cells have long held the promise of providing clean electricity and competitive rates, but the stumbling block has always been the cost of the silicon chips. CaliSolar believes ...

Roy Johnson, CEO of CaliSolar Inc. talks with John Ince about new techniques for reducing the cost of photovoltaics. PV Cells have long held the promise of providing clean electricity and competitive rates, but the stumbling block has always been the cost of the silicon chips. CaliSolar believes ...

Common Sense Media CEO Jim Steyer talks about a new study that finds smoking cigarettes on the big screen can lead teens to light up.

Statistics cited in the podcast from CBS 5 San Francisco:
2,000 teens start smoking every day in the U.S.
60% of movies feature a ...

Mike Krasnow, F5 Networks’ Product Marketing Manager, discusses BIG-IP version 9. Krasnow explains the benefits that organizations can expect by upgrading from version 4. In version 9, F5 has taken a quantum leap ahead with both their software architecture and hardware platforms to ensure that ...

In the second part of my conversation with BMC Software’s Israel Gat, we talk about virtualization and IT Management for SaaS. Israel points to the energy savings benefits of virtualization and also the deployment benefits it brings, using the example of managing many different types encryption software.

We then talk ...

Companies with retail stores, branch offices or other remote locations will be able to easily and cost-effectively upgrade company networks serving those locations, using a variety of new service options from Verizon Business. In this podcast, Chip Freund, Verizon Business’ director of managed services product marketing, discusses how Verizon ...

Pat Cadam is owner of Pat’s Garage, an independent auto repair shop located in San Francisco’s SOMA district. He and his mechanics work primarily on hybrids like the Toyota Prius and Honda Insight. He’s also one of the few “green” auto repair shops in the Bay ...