Online collaboration is expected to become an integral feature of future business software. While Microsoft can integrate its applications with Windows, third party software vendors will need another platform. Inside Digital Media’s Phil Leigh speaks with Shankar Iyer, vice president for strategic initiatives at WebEx.

When you present a PowerPoint, you may also want to record your narration. That way you can put the entire synchronized presentation on the Internet, available for download and even as a video podcast. Inside Digital Media’s Phil Leigh speaks with Troy Stein, of Tech Smith, about how ...

Remember the “teleputer”? That’s the device that George Gilder predicted years ago. Now that we’ve had a look at Apple’s forthcoming iPhone, it looks like Gilder’s vision may come true. What will the combination of an iPhone and the planned Apple TV mean for consumers? Find out, with ...

The first amendment has always been nettlesome, but a thriving online community of bloggers is proof that excercising constitutional freedoms can be healthy and profitable. Blogs they also have a tendency to rock the boat, raising new challenges for corporations — and the courts — to navigate. This case began ...

Successes like YouTube and MySpace are standout examples of the kind of enthusiasm that the market — and venture funds — have had for all things Web 2.0. One inevitable side-effect of all this exuberance has been skepticism — especially from the veteran investors who have seen this movie already. ...

For the past year, Starz Entertainment has offered a service called Vongo that lets you download recently released movies to your computer. Now Starz lets you stream those movies from your computer to your television. Bob Greene, who is a Starz executive vice president, speaks with Inside ...

Most startups don’t pan out. According to findings from Wilfrid Laurier University entrepreneurship professor Dr. Benson Honig, the ones that do succeed tend to have a few key characteristics in common, but you might be surprised to learn what they are. According to Honig, there isn’t much correlation between ...

Matt Ragas is editor of The Value Raider Report. A dot-com pioneer, Matt was with Raging Bull, later sold to CMGI. He’s also the author of Lessons From the eFront and The Power of Cult Branding, both from Random House. He spoke about YouTube ...

Microsoft’s Zune came out of the Christmas season with less than 3 percent of the MP3 player market share. Its overall sales rank on Amazon - a recent check showed the various 30 GB Zune models fluctuating between #77 and #512 in Electronics - has put ...

Dr. Jon Peddie is the Founder of Jon Peddie Research, a market research firm specializing in multimedia and computer graphics. He believes that by 2010, Hollywood studios will begin to replace human actors with lifelike representations, using computer graphics. Peddie spoke with Phil Leigh about the future of computer graphics. ...

Krisztina Holly is the executive director of the Stevens Institute for Technology Commercialization at the University of Southern California. The Institute was founded to aid the university in technology transfer for its intellectual property and to encourage entrepreneurship among its students and faculty. She spoke with Inside Digital Media’s Phil ...

Wikis are going to change the world, or at least the way the world does business. That’s the thinking behind so much of what Barry Libert, CEO of Shared Insights, has been up to lately. He discusses a future for business that could involve a lot more sharing among ...