Following up on a recent interview I did with analysts from market research firm INPUT, who concluded that nationwide interoperability for first responder communications systems is likely still a decade away, I spoke with Cisco Systems’ Director of Homeland Security Chris Josephs.

Josephs agrees progress has been slow. But he says ...

A few weeks after former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge told me that the biggest deficiency in homeland security is public safety communications, analysts at market research firm INPUT released a report that says nationwide interoperability for first responder communication systems is probably 10 years away.

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David Fair explains how PCI Express* Gen 2 increases speed, device interoperability and bandwidth. He also provides insight into the Geneseo proposal that Intel and IBM gave to PCI-SIG.

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In San Francisco, Intel, with Motion Computing and the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center, announced the launch of the Motion C5 mobile clinical assistant, a lightweight tablet computer specifically designed for use in hospitals, for nurse patient care. It features a camera, barcode scanner, ...

Kevin Hohenbrink, product manager at F5 Networks, discusses Business Impact analysis and its importance in a data disaster recovery strategy. Hohenbrink is the optimization manager for the WANJet, F5’s appliace-based data compression and accelerator tool. This is the second of a two part interview. This is an F5 ...

Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Intel CEO Paul Otellini took the stage in San Francisco Monday to announce a new alliance. Listen here for the audio of the entire presentation and the Q&A session.

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Guest: Paul Otellini - Intel

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Forrester analyst and vice president Lisa Pierce told a group of Qwest customers that the great unknown — whether IT decisions today will fit with technologies of tomorrow — is a fact of life. While the fear of making mistakes in IT decisions doesn’t justify a company’s insistence on ...

In this interview, David Boloker explains Ajax as the culmination of unfolding technologies since the late 1990s and puts Ajax in the Web 2.0 perspective. He also talks about the role of the Open Ajax Alliance in promoting the adoption of Ajax and interoperability across the toolkits.

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IMS is often presented as the “Holy Grail” of network architectures that will enable carriers to choose best of breed components from multiple vendors. In reality, vendors and service providers must jointly invest significant effort to achieve interoperability based on open standards. The MultiService Forum (MSF), a leading industry body ...

Brian Chee, a long time veteran of the InteropNET team and a team lead for wireless, talks with PodTech’s Jason Lopez about the greater effect of the Interoperability event, and its influence on consumers on the web, and enterprise.

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Brian Chee, a long time veteran of the InteropNET team and a team lead for wireless, talks with PodTech’s Jason Lopez about the beginnings of the Interoperability event, in the mid-eighties. Hot Stage happens a month before ...

First there was the B, and then came G, and now there is N or at least draft 11n. No this is not the alphabet turned on its head. This is the series of WiFi standards designed by the IEEE. Join me for a conversation with David Henry, product manager ...

“… What it really gets down to at a corporate level is assets, brand, and compliance…”

What are some key elements when it comes to Network Security? Compliance, and a good defense, among others according to Dr Bill Hancock, Executive Vice President Commercial Business Division for SecureInfo. Michael ...

The International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas provided a glimpse of life in the digital domain. Intel rolled out their Viiv video on demand platform. Microsoft’s Urge is a competitor as well, and players like AT&T Home and more are all vying for the prime real ...

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The International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas provided a glimpse of life in the digital domain. Intel rolled out their Viiv video on demand platform. Microsoft’s Urge is a competitor as well, and players like AT&T Home and others are vying for the prime ...

Update: Here is further reflection from Todd Chanko of Jupiter Media on the barebones announcement on the Google/AOL deal. The hidden move here is the Instant Messenger play. Looks like Google may get more than just content from AOL but also some Internet technology. The ...

Another PodTech Exclusive Podcast Announcement. Network Appliance Podcast Announcement: Network Appliance Exclusive InfoTalk on their “Uncompromised Security Initiative”. I sat down with Kevin Brown, Vice President of Marketing, of Decru, a NetApp company. Kevin talks about this new initiative and the new ...

Microsoft Executive on Venture Capital, Silicon Valley, Competing, Web 2.0 and more. “The IP platform is the broadest standard since oxygen maybe even water!”

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I had a chance to sit down and podcast with Dan’l Lewin, Vice President of Microsoft running the Silicon Valley campus. Dan’l ...