It’s been awhile since we first began hearing about WiMAX, and it may have sounded impossible at first. Not to Frank Gruber. He says it was inevitable, that it works, and it’s cool.

Beginning this week, you can think of Baltimore as one big hotspot. The computing potential ...

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, released to manufacturing recently, is designed with a single unified-code base for both on-premise and on-demand deployments. It enables customers to choose the right deployment model for their specific business and IT needs with flexibility to change deployment models over time. Sanjay Jain speaks with ...

When small and medium-sized businesses or K-12s want to manage how their Internet bandwidth is being used, they turn to Cymphonix. On average, 50% of any Internet connection is used for browsing–some critical and necessary, and some not. The other 50% of any Internet connection is used for Internet ...

Blogger and trendwatcher Vincent Everts showed up at the Bloghaus on opening night without his Segway, but sporting a “One Laptop Per Child” OLPC “XO”. The machine, developed by Nicholas Negroponte’s nonprofit One Laptop Per Child project, and touted as “rugged, durable, and child-friendly, inside and ...

During EVS 23, Jm Harris, SVP for ExxonMobil Chemical Co., gave a presentation about the company’s new battery separator film that can reduce heat issues with lithium-ion batteries. I had a few questions for Jim after his presentation, during the Q & A. Read more about it ...

EJ Wessel owns Big Kid Toys in Napa, CA, a company that sells electric cars and trucks, including the T-Rex, a gas or electric, three-wheeled performance vehicle. With its’ triangular wheel configuration, low center of gravity and open cockpit and distinctive apprearance, the T-Rex provides exotic motorcycle performance ...

Tom Foremski and Lee Cummings capture the business and technology of Facebook during their recent Graphing Social Patterns conference. Opening up the social web, user content, viral applications, user etiquette, privacy and profiles are discussed as Tantek Celik moderates David Recordon (SixApart), Chamath Palihapitiya ...

Home entertainment is switching to digital. Even movie rental places like Netflix are delivering their goods via bits that’ll be stored on a hard drive. So, how do you manage all your music and entertainment stuff? Media Master has a really great answer. Here Neil Day, CEO, and Eric ...

Is Hillary Clinton Richard Nixon in disguise? And why does everything always come back to 1968? The 2-dollar question of the day: Are we going to get real BROADBAND?!

In the United States, Bebo may not be a household word, but in the UK, Ireland, New Zealand and Australia it is well known. In those countries, Bebo is the most popular social network, attracting some 34 million registered users globally. I sat down with husband-and-wife founders Michael ...

In this podcast, Saxon Amdahl, architect at F5 Networks, discusses byte caching, compression ratios, their role in network latency, and Web application delivery optimization. F5’s Web Accelerator and associated modules, corporate CIFS optimization, TCP Stack and file caching. More info at learn.f5.com/performance. This is an F5 podcast.

In this podcast, Saxon Amdahl, architect at F5 Networks, discusses dynamic caching vs. static caching, Web application delivery, and the technologies involved in caching, like F5’s WebAccelerator — an application delivery solution that enhances Web application performance for mobile workers. This is an F5 podcast.

Joseph Smarr, Plaxo’s architect, and John McCrea, VP of marketing, introduce Robert Scoble to Plaxo’s new offices, talk about a new feature, to be released on Wednesday, which is an “online identity aggregator,” and explain how it works and why you’ll want to try it out.

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At MashUp Camp 4 at the Computer History Museum, Plaxo showed its Pulse application, which looks very much like FaceBook, with similar features. Are we heading into a mashup world where everything shares addresses, photos, movies, etc? Does FaceBook hold pole position?

K.B. Chandrasekhar (”Chandra”) is co-founder, CEO and chairman of the board of Jamcracker. His career as a high-technology entrepreneur has spanned Exodus Communications, Fouress Inc., Rolta India, Ltd and Wipro.

He is also the co-founder and chairman of the board of e4e, Inc., a global technology holding company. Serving ...

Many people strive for the freedom that working for themselves and freelancing brings. You can work odd hours in your pajamas at home, travel to exotic locales but still be on the job, not have to clock in at an office. After the initial exhilaration of being independent cools a ...

Here, John McCrea, vice president of marketing at Plaxo, gives me a tour of its just-released platform. Quite useful, it brings contacts into and out of a bunch of different applications and services like Microsoft’s Outlook, Google’s GMail, among others.

Plaxo’s founder, Todd Masonis, chief platform architect, Joseph Smarr, and VP of marketing, John McCrea tell me how Plaxo has changed from a contact manager for Outlook to a Web service that lets you back up and share your contacts (and follow your social network based on such) with ...

If you think secure online collaboration is an impossibility, you may want to talk to Exostar. They’ve built a secure online collaboration network for some of the biggest names in the aerospace and defense industries. And there’s no reason that other verticals can’t take advantage of the Exostar approach.

It’s been called an unfunded mandate and a train wreck, but Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (a.k.a. HSPD-12), which makes it the policy of the U.S. government to conduct background checks on all employees and issue a common access smart card for both physical and network access, is likely to foster one of the most significant improvements in security in the last decade.

If there is one networking event where people of the Indus or South Asian region congregate to network and connect, it is the The Indus Entrepreneur’s annual event: TiECon. Over the years, TiECon has evolved to become an important networking event for technologists, investors and entrepreneurs from around the ...

Biometric-enabled smart cards have helped the Department of Defense stop hundreds of thousands of unauthorized individuals (including several known terrorists and criminals) from gaining access to U.S. military facilities around the world.

However, according to Mary Dixon, deputy director of the Defense Manpower Data Center, who spoke at the 6th Annual ...

Eighty-eight colleges and universities. Two-and-a-half million downstream users. Paul Schopis is associate director of OARnet, based at The Ohio State University, and as such he oversees an expansive network for users with a wide range of needs. In this podcast Paul discusses the challenges he faces in building and maintaining such a network, shares some knowledge learned in his ten years at OARnet, and explains the fish problem.

This Juniper Networks podcast is part of the Juniper Networks Master of IT program.

Market data services in today’s global financial services institutions can prove to be an ever- escalating issue that can have a severe bottom-line impact. If market data services are not carefully planned for and service levels drop, it can cost a financial services firm dearly.

In this podcast, Farid Moussavi, managing ...