Who would ever think that a financial services company would be innovative about marketing? Paula Drum is vice president of marketing for H&R Block. In this podcast, she explains how programs using Twitter, Second Life and other onlines venues have had impressive success. As Drum tells

In an increasingly complex world of demographic, psychographic and ethnographic research, it’s no longer safe to assume that companies actually know their customers. Harnessing the power of persona or a representative profile, which summarizes a key demographic target is a powerful means of figuring out the customer today. Mark Kingdon, ...

“None of us smart enough to call the bottom in financials or any other industry,” says Gary W. Parr, vice chairman at independent investment bank Lazard. Noting the value to investors of structuring deals for a few years of protection before converting to common, Parr says he’s seen funds change ...

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 ...

What was Scoble up to one year ago today? Check out today’s video for a trip down memory lane.
And for more context, check out his blog, from one year ago today!

I was one of the few outsiders to visit eBay and witness an internal “Demo Expo.” ...

Join BearingPoint senior manager Bill Stotzer in exploring the challenges facing the sourcing and procurement organizations today. Many financial institutions have identified procurement cost savings and made an attempt at cost reduction. Some have achieved greater success than others. We see two primary factors contributing to ...

The Trans Pacific Express (TPE) is the first next-generation undersea optical cable system directly linking the U.S. and mainland China, as well as the first major undersea system to land on the U.S. West Coast in seven years. As the only U.S.-based charter consortium member, Verizon Business is playing a ...

In this second of three podcasts on enterprise data security, PodTech’s Michael Johnson speaks with Phil Bullinger, executive vice president and general manager of the Engenio Storage Group at LSI Corporation. Bullinger explains the role of the storage system in the enterprise data storage security ecosystem. Bullinger says that ...

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 ...

DAZ Productions is a market leader in 3D graphics software and content creation. DAZ may be most well known for its “Victoria” line of articulated 3D figures and their popular and active Artzone.com community, a social marketplace for sharing art and exchanging ideas.

The DAZ Studio software ...

In the second of a three-part series on the growing interest in alternative client compute models, Mike Ferron-Jones, manager of Intel’s Emerging Models Program, looks at client-based models, including OS and application streaming.

Video Games Live was in San Francisco, CA, offering full-symphony-orchestra treatments of some of the most popular video games. Fans in attendance were given a special performance, as VGL played the theme to the popular Nintendo game “Metroid.” It was only the second time Metroid ...

Now that GDC 2008 is behind us, and the reviews are really rolling in, PodTech takes a wide look at the gaming industry, with IDC gaming analyst Billy Pidgeon.

Gaming’s future likely includes more attention from the courts, as it continues to gain in mass popularity and ...

Building Confidence In Enterprise Security: What is Your “Blueprint”? - Getting Strategic Using the Security Blueprint (Results of the Participant Survey)

This is Part Four of the second episode of the The “Building Confidence in Enterprise Security” video podcast series, featuring Samir Kapuria and Andre Gold. In this segment, the ...

Building Confidence In Enterprise Security: What is Your “Blueprint”? - Getting Strategic Using the Security Blueprint (The Blueprint in Various Industries)

This is Part Three of the second episode of the The “Building Confidence in Enterprise Security” video podcast series, featuring Samir Kapuria and Andre Gold. In this segment, the ...

Building Confidence In Enterprise Security: What is Your “Blueprint”? - Getting Strategic Using the Security Blueprint (Operational and Strategic Elements of the Blueprint)

This is Part Two of the second episode of the The “Building Confidence in Enterprise Security” video podcast series, featuring Samir Kapuria and Andre Gold. In this ...

Building Confidence In Enterprise Security: What is Your “Blueprint”? - Getting Strategic Using the Security Blueprint.

This is Part One of the second episode of the The “Building Confidence in Enterprise Security” video podcast series, featuring Samir Kapuria and Andre Gold. In this segment, the pair discuss the tactical elements ...

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 ...

This is the second segment of a 3 part podcast interview with Darren Thomson and Jeremy Ward on the Symantec IT Risk Management Report, Volume 2. In this segment, Thomson and Ward provide a general overview and key findings of the report. For more info, visit:
www.symantec.com/riskreport

This episode would probably be better titled “Sage-Pistachio Pesto”, but the allure and onomatopoeia possibilities of the word squash were too many to avoid. This recipe is another winner. We originally shot this episode before we left on our cross-country train trip, but we had the dish again ...

Andrew Eisner, head geek from Retrevo, the consumer electronics search engine, and Fred Davis, who helped start Wired Magazine, among other things, sit down for the second of two fun reports from the Consumer Electronics Show 2008 in Las Vegas.

VMware has just released ESX 3.5 and Virtual Center 2.5. This is the second of a 5-part podcast series, featuring VMware Technical Account Manager Joe Gazarik. In this podcast, he delves deeper into three benefit catagories of ESX 3.5 and Virtual Center 2.5: simplified operations, increased service levels, ...

The trend right now is to create your own social network for your business. Why do that? A few reasons. First, it lets you build better relationships with your customers. Second, you can add value onto your products or services by having a community that’s supporting each other and
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Scaling to 10s and 100s of cores - explore the challenges of creating platforms capable of performing trillions of calculations per second on trillions of bytes of data.

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