This is Google with brains — Agent Logic, an Arlington, Va.-based company supported by the CIA’s venture capital firm, In-Q-Tel, was born from a very simple idea: can Web page update alerts be automated?

Well, of course they can. But Agent Logic took the concept to a new level, delivering alerts ...

For most of us, connecting technology systems is a bit outside our normal capacity. That’s why there are home automation dealers and integrators who can connect separate technologies in the home into a single automated system. Like other tech specialists, the home automation dealer can also share a vision ...

Smart lighting makes that “old” light switch cool again. It also saves you money as you conserve power.

Ed Ryan and Scott Moulton at Control4 talk about how little, everyday tasks can become conveniences with Smart Lighting. With Control4 “scenes,” you can wake up to lights that come up ...

Kelin Kuhn is the 45 nanometer device group manager. She runs one of Intel’s most important test labs where Intel figures out what needs improvement. Intel’s profitability rests on her shoulders because if a fab isn’t yielding enough good chips per wafer, Intel will make a lot less money. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ken Gardner, founder and executive chairman of SOASTA, explains what’s behind his new startup which builds visual tools to automate web testing. Ken’s an interesting guy, believes that enterprise software needs a user interface that looks more like Apple’s Garage Band and less like SAP’s interface. One thing that ...

PodTech’s Michael Johnson podcasted the news of Maxtor’s upcoming products. Infoworld links to the podcast.

Maxtor places the emphasis squarely on mobility and security in the latest addition to its OneTouch line of external drives, the OneTouch III Mini Edition.

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Multimedia formats are changing the landscape of the search business. Yahoo’s multimedia guru Jeff Karnes talks with me about ‘multimedia’ search and how it is developing.

Multimedia search is one of those things that not alot of people are talking about but is a big deal. As ...