Join BearingPoint Senior Manager Kirsten Trusko in this podcast to explore consumer-directed health care and how it is affecting the mergers and acquisitions market. A rush of M&A activity is under way at the convergence of the banking, insurance and health industries. Companies in all three ...

What would your response be to this scenario: you’re watching television and you forget that it’s being distributed to you on the Internet. Who won? TV or the Web? James McQuivey covers television and media technologies for Forrester Research. He spoke with PodTech’s Jason Lopez about the current state of ...

This video podcast, featuring comments from Ivan Seidenberg Verizon chairman and CEO, and Nancy Gofus, chief marketing officer for Verizon Business, discusses how Verizon’s network investments are driving innovations in fixed-mobile convergence. Hear how our powerful global IP and wireless networks are being used as the platform to ...

As enterprises increasingly look to modernize and consolidate voice and data systems, Verizon Business will soon offer another robust managed service option to help pave the way. In January 2008, Verizon Business will begin offering managed IP PBX on the Nortel IP telephony platform, combining the scalability, flexibility and simplicity ...

“On-the-Go” workers require applications that enable access to corporate resources - anytime, anywhere, on any device. This podcast discusses Verizon Business’ mobility solutions and how they can enhance productivity, maximize efficiencies and enable enterprises to focus on wireline-wireless the convergence. We speak with Amanda Chesley, Product Marketing Manager, ...

In this podcast, you get a perspective on how LSI’s PC connectivity, home and business device and service provider-targeted products enable not only the functionality of the devices that serve these markets, but also facilitate the ongoing convergence of the networking world, bringing together people and content through digital ...

Ken Salchow, F5 Network’s manager of Core Technical Marketing, explores the IP Multimedia Subsystem, or IMS. Salchow explains that IMS is set to become the framework that Internet Service Providers will use to deliver new, highly customizable services, by seperating the access network from the service network. IMS will ...

Investors such as Jay MacDonald and Bill Detwiler are bullish on web-based advertising. MacDonald says advertisers have always wanted to know exactly who listened to their ads on radio or saw them in magazines. You cannot click on a newspaper ad. But with features like interactivity and social media that ...

Where is the value in web media? Some say it is in the cost effectiveness of production. Cameras have become quite cheap. Others say it is in the efficiencies of the distribution of quality media products. After the lively panel entitled “Emerging Sector Spotlight–State of IPTV Technology Development,” panelists ...

Competition is coming for broadband providers SBC and Comcast. So say the investors in emerging service such as WiMax and BPL. In this podcast, PodTech’s Jason Lopez talks with Patrick Campbell - Partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, who moderated the panel “Desirable and Viable: Broadband Alternatives and ...

In his morning keynote address at Convergence 2.0, Leo Hindery spelled it out: new media would go nowhere as long as companies could not deliver consistent top line growth, could not enlist quality management, and did not enjoy a barrier to entry. But as quickly as he gave the sobering ...

Convergence 2.0, The Deal’s September 17, 2007 conference being held in New York City is looking like a sell-out event. Richard Morgan, Assistant Managing Editor of The Deal, talks with PodTech’s Jennifer Jones about the gathering of private equity, venture capital and corporate executives who will hear about the ...

John Kneuer (U.S. Department of Commerce) is an expert on technology policy. During Supernova 2007 he spoke of the available spectrums. Will innovation flourish in an open network and will the convergence of Digital TV and the iPhone upon the Internet network vs. broadcast establishment have positive ...

This week on the Vloggies Show, Irina talks to David Prager of Revision3 about the emerging online video market and the convergence of television and the Internet.

TechOne is the first look into the ripple effects of convergence. TechOne goes behind-the-scenes to understand the blurred and converged lines between industry, consumer, and corporate behaviors. In the post-PC on-demand era, TechOne explores the disruption of media, politics, entertainment and technology.

In this podcast, sponsored by Verizon, Mike Marcellin, Verizon’s VP of product marketing, announces new offerings for Fixed Mobile Convergence. PBX Mobile Extension, Wireless Office, and Mobile Conference Connection; mobile solutions for enterprise that enable connectivity and ease of access for wireless and business users.

The convergence of voice and data on the network is now a reality. The same network is expected to carry both data and voice traffic using various technologies including wireless and video. A reduction in the number of networks is an advantage that also increases complexity. Operations staff and line-of-business ...

At the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing, Eric Kim took stage to not only award the winner in the Intel Core 2 Challenge and announce that a new challenge would be issued to PC designers soon, he also shared the company’s plans to foster the growth of the PC as ...

Does your enterprise network infrastructure group face challenges that include a need for differentiated service levels for different business units, or are they stuck using obsolete technologies and non-scalable architecture? Multi Protocol Label Switching - MPLS - could be the answer.

Join BearingPoint technologist Rajiv Jain to explore how new ...

One of my favorite programs was the Future Car series on Discovery. In the show, one of the companies featured was the Narrow Car company, maker of the Naro, two-seat, four-wheel vehicle with the banking action of a motorbike (to prevent it tipping over when cornering) with a ...

Mobile technology isn’t just cool; it’s essential for today’s small business. Our experts separate the hype from the hard truth when it comes to getting business done securely on the road. Join Anita Campbell, founder of Small Business Trends and small business thought-leader; Jeff Zbar, “The Chief Home Officer” and nationally-recognized expert in living the home-office lifestyle; and Pamela Baker, technology guru for Success Magazine, as they share their insights into making mobile technology pay off for you.

This podcast was commissioned by Success Magazine.

The University of California, San Francisco Medical center says its pilot study using a portable computer called the C5 helped nurses to be far more productive than with conventional personal computers. The current setup in most hospitals is called a COW, or “computer on wheels,” which is composed of a ...

Gary Kim, managing editor of IT Business Wire, and Andy Randall, MetaSwitch’s vice president of marketing, chat with PodTech.net at the World Center Marriott in Orlando after a breakfast meeting sponsored by MetaSwitch. The breakfast panel focused on opportunities and challenges for the new competitive local exchange carriers, or ...

PodTech.net’s Michael Johnson investigates the changing landscape of the home, thanks to Intel’s Core2Duo dual core processors, and the next generation of Core2Extreme and Core2Quad, featuring four compute engines on one chip, which is ramping up the possibilities of digital life from downloading and recording viral videos from YouTube ...