Convenience. That’s the big benefit of having all your music and video entertainment at your fingertips. Control4’s Ed Ryan and Jeff Thomas discuss the benefits of every-room entertainment with Brad Baldwin. Using something called “scenes,” Control4 allows you to integrate audio and video with your lighting and more to create moods and sound in different rooms in your home. And with all your music available with a quick tap on your visual remote that shows album art, allows for playlists, and offers searching, finding the right song is more fun than ever.

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Businesses are dealing with compliance and reporting from the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in many ways. Allegiance CEO and Founder Adam Edmunds saw a niche three years ago and entered the market to provide confidential communication with his Silent Whistle product. Today, the company’s offerings have evolved to provide ...

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 ...

WiLife COO, Grant Beckmann, talks about managing growth in start-up companies. During the past 18 years, Beckmann has worked with some of Utah’s fastest-growing startups, including Folio (now FAST), Tenfold, NextPage, and WiLife. He discusses what he has learned about hiring, communicating with employees, and ...

vSpring’s Dennis Wood speaks with ContentWatch President and CEO Jack Sunderlage, about his participation in some of Utah’s most important economic development initiatives, including the Utah Technology Council, the Utah Partnership for Education, The World Trade Center Utah, and Utah Science Technology and Research ...

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 ...

Utah venture capital and angel investment success is not limited to the Salt Lake Valley. Focusing on matching up investors and early-stage entrepreneurs, Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum chairman Steve Grizzell discusses UVEF’s origins and successes. A 20-year veteran in entrepreneurship, finance, innovation and economic development, Grizzell observes while ...

Mediconnect Global CEO, Amy Rees Lewis, speaks with Dennis Wood about how her own success as an entrepreneur, the passion to sell that successful entrepreneurs must have, and what to expect from venture financing. Lewis is a member of vSpring’s v-100 - a peer-nominated group of the ...

Control4 Co-Founder and CTO Eric Smith speaks with Dennis Wood about how Control4 is bringing home automation to the masses. Smith is a member of vSpring’s v100 - a peer-nominated group of the top 100 venture entrepreneurs in the Rocky Mountain region.

Control4 manufactures a complete line ...

For a highly reliable and secure automated home, networking devices and systems is a core requirement. Eric Smith, a co-founder and CTO at Control4, talks with 3Com Founder Bob Metcalfe. Metcalfe has a well-established reputation as a gifted technologist, as “Mr. Ethernet” (here’s why), as a ...

vSpring v100 member Phil Windley speaks with Dennis Wood about identity management and the emergence of reputation-driven business. He discusses his interest in identity management and reputation systems and the foundational roles these systems play in both the enterprise software and Internet applications spaces. Windley sees the identity ...

Social media and public relations activities are converging at different paces and in different ways for companies. Cheryl Snapp Conner, partner & executive PR director at Salt Lake City-based Snapp Norris Group talks about this evolution and the impact of social media on PR strategy. Describing the phenomenon as ’shifting ...

In this inaugural v|100 Show podcast, vSpring Capital’s Dennis Wood, human capital, and Gavin Christensen, principal, introduce the reason for creating the v100 Top 100 Venture Entrepreneurs program and set the stage for future conversations with v100 members. They discuss how, as technology venture capitalists, finding and retaining ...

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 ...

Rick Alden, CEO and founder of Skullcandy, created a lifestlye technology brand that integrates cell phone and audio switching so the active lifestyle can easily switch from tunes to voice calls. The patented Skullcandy Link is available in Skullcandy-branded products and is also integrated into Giro helmets, ...

ShieldZone Founder Phillip Chipping and CEO Robert Pedersen speak with Brad Baldwin about the benefits of protected, “naked” gadgets. Industrial designers are working hard to create the sexiest and sleekest products. Why hide the design behind a bulky, unattractive case?

Chipping took a protective film developed to

Ed Ryan and Fred Geiger from Control4 talk about their 4Sight service. 4Sight enables remote access to your home via the Web so it’s easier to interact with the automated features of your home. They talked to us about how you can lock down your Wii to ...

Gary Kennedy, one of the first 10 employees at Oracle, has a new home as CEO of RemedyMD, a health care informatics and decision support sevice for practitioners, researchers, and patients.

Kennedy says it’s crazy that retailers can tell you what peanut butter to put on the ...

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 ...

Lee Gibbons talks about how Podango plays in the space by offering a content distribution platform. He shares his vision on where the future of content delivery is going, and he predicts a future where all content, not just the “hits,” will be able to find an audience ...