Robert Taylor, CEO of KennTechnologies, Inc. and former CIO at Fulton County, Georgia, spoke with Patrick E. Spencer, Symantec’s director of publishing and customer marketing programs and editor in chief of CIO Digest, about the unique IT challenges local government CIOs face today, ranging from email and document archiving and e-discovery, to endpoint security, to storage management. Under Robert’s direction, the IT department at Fulton County, Georgia received numerous accolades and awards for its technology thought leadership. The role and importance of technology was accentuated in the story surrounding Andrew Speaker, the TB patient who flew to France for his wedding and returned to the U.S. through Canada. For more on Robert and how the technologies his team implemented helped in uncovering email and voice mail related to Andrew Speaker and his interaction with Fulton County, check out the InfoWorld article .
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Most of the time online interaction goes well for companies. Transparency is becoming more accepted and problems are rare. But what does a company or person do if they are attacked? Marketing Voices talks to Denise Shiffman, author of The Age of Engage and founder of Venture ...
Stephanie Agresta, also known as Internet Geek Girl, is hosting the BlogHaus at SXSW Interactive Conference this year in Austin, Texas. Among the highlights will be interviews with Chris Brogan, Deb Schultz, Robert Scoble, Stowe Boyd, Shel Israel and Hugh MacLeod, as well ...
What is human computer interaction? Prof John Canny of UC Berkeley explains that human computer interaction is making computers (technology) available to people. Macintosh is an early example of this. According to John Steve Jobs of Apple was a key entrepreneur and agent in making this happen, but lot ...
How is human computer interaction different in emerging economies like India? Prof John Canny of UC Berkeley discusses some of the projects that he had his colleagues are working in India using mobile phone for real time video and location based services (LBS). John talks at length about ...
Explore how Intel is working to enable new freedoms in mobile information, interaction, user-generated content, and social networking with WiMAX broadband wireless technology.
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Ari Klinger, CEO of Wookah.com, talks with John Ince about their multi-engine search tool. Wookah has a created a knowledge base of the top sites on the Web that combines 1) a spider, 2) human input from an in house editorial team 3) feedback and interaction from users.
Indy Gill, CEO of Unwirednation.com, an Austin-based startup, explains how their voice publishing platform enables mobile content producers to monetize their content through their ad insertions. Gill explains how the platform builds upon a successful partnership with eBay that enabled voice-based interaction with bidders on eBay to notify them when ...
From iPhoneDevCamp, this presentation by Christopher Allen (slides available). Christopher covers the various aspects of using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, different media formats, and then the human interaction methods to keep in mind when developing for the iPhone. Also, check out the community site iPhoneWebDev.
Scott Klemmer is an assistant professor in the computer science department at Stanford University. We spend an hour talking about a variety of topics. Modern software development trends that Scott is seeing from companies like Google and Yahoo (both of which started at Stanford). Mobile development. What his students ...
Sameer Sisodia is a cofounder of Ziva Software, the makers of Zook, a mobile search service. Its an interesting company that is incubated at the prestigious Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.
Ziva Software has built the world’s first Mobile Social Answer Engine. The mobile answer engine delivers precise answers ...
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 ...
Sean Toulon, TaylorMade Golf’s executive vice president of product and brand creation, is passionate about delivering the best performance golf equipment in the world. When Toulon wrote the plan for what would become the number one metal wood on tour, the R7 Quad, a lot of interaction and experience ...
At the end of the Human Genome Project, researcher Niroshan Ramachandran, at the Harvard Institute of Proteomics, opened the door into a much bigger challenge: isolating and measuring the interactions between individual proteins inside DNA. This science, or Proteomics, holds great potential for finding cures to disease and ...
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 ...
I visited the shiny new offices of Jaman, an interesting destination site for cinema-quality independent and international films. Chris Baum, senior product manager, and Ji Kim, senior interaction designer, tell us how Jaman is different from short-form video services like YouTube. They give me a tour of their site ...
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 ...
Utility computing is not a new concept, but the technologies that make it viable are finally maturing. Properly deployed, utility computing can increase server utilization rates, reduce the requirement to build overcapacity and lower operating costs. This podcast identifies key success factors for organizations hoping to capture the benefits of ...
This is the last in the series of podcasts with Frank Buytendijk, vice president for corporate strategy at Hyperion. The series emphasizes the need to address more directly the specific problems any CIO might face in order to arrive at meaningful solutions. In this final, “bonus” podcast, Frank ...
In this fifth podcast in the series examining the changing demands on the CIO, Frank Buytendijk, vice president for corporate strategy at Hyperion, discusses the dilemma of bridging IT service delivery and business focus. Frank examines the unique difficulties a CIO faces, straddling the technical world and the ...
Low power is becoming more and more popular in the design community, pushing designers to become more and more creative. Neil Hand of Cadence gives us a look at the technical considerations and hurdles, and a glance at what Cadence is doing to meet the needs of the marketplace.
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The best company cultures that work for social media are just like people who embrace conversations and two-way interactions — they are open, trusting and talkative. Jennifer McClure, executive director of the Society for New Communications Research talks to Marketing Voices host Jennifer Jones about corporations like IBM that ...
Amit Pande manages Oracle’s user experience practice in Bangalore. This practice defines the user experience of Oracle’s Applications Unlimited and Fusion product lines and provides comprehensive interaction design, usability engineering, and user interface and HCI research for Oracle’s enterprise applications.
Amit talks about how usability is picking up among ...
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 ...
In this third podcast in the series examining the changing demands on the CIO, Frank Buytendijk, vice president for corporate strategy at Hyperion, discusses the dilemma of bridging IT governance and business governance. Although a dilemma like this can seem intractable, Frank says that by taking a closer ...
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