Verizon Business is expanding its unified global communications capabilities to help large businesses and government agencies enhance collaboration and improve business processes and employee productivity. In this podcast, Roberta Mackintosh, executive director of global voice services at Verizon Business, discusses how organizations can leverage their IP-based networks and services to ...

In this video podcast, we travel to Austin, Texas and the SxSW Interactive festival, to focus on what’s inside people’s computers, and just how much they’re relying on those computers for work, communication and - all-important at the SxSW Festival — creativity.

Intel’s Bryan Rhoads took the opportunity to ...

In this video podcast, find out how HP’s line of handheld PCs and business notebooks bring mobility and connectivity to SMBs, and how HP Total Care helps business users get the experience they need from their mobile devices.

HP’s notebook portfolio has expanded, with offerings designed for small business ...

When Celio Corporation received a 2008 CES Innovations Award this past November, the news was out that Ceilo was up to something cool. Kirt Bailey, CEO of Celio Corporation — and former Intel Capital director involved with mobility markets, sat down with Brad Baldwin of

Nigerians are optimistic that basic technologies like mobile telephony and the Internet can change their country and their lives. As knowledge becomes power in emerging countries, people are making these technologies their own. In Nigeria, local companies are offering IT services to the developing market. One has even launched a ...

Prof. Tapan Parikh is a teacher, an innovator and a social entrepreneur, who currently teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. He was recently named as the Humanitarian of the Year by MIT’s Tech Review. While at graduate school in Seattle, Tapan took some time off and travelled ...

Dopplr is a service for frequent business travelers that helps them let their friends know where they are. It’s popular. Wikipedia’s founder says it’s one of his favorite sites. Here we get a demo and hear from the geek behind the site, CTO Matt Biddulph, who gives us more ...

Dopplr is a really cool way to let everyone know where you are while you travel on business. It’s a service that’s gotten very popular with many of us in the tech community and here you meet Lisa Sounio, CEO of Dopplr. We catch up to her in a ...

When it comes to email continuity and message availability in times of a network outage or as part of a disaster recovery plan, the small and medium business needs what large organizations spec–but they need it at an affordable price point. Cemaphore Systems has created an email continuity ...

Recently, Jay’s dad started building on some property he owns in rural Virginia. The first structure built was the garage/workshop. Jay and I were eager for the chance to try out some green building materials as an alternative to the usual stuff. Before traveling over to the east coast for ...

Intel Chairman Craig Barrett is traveling this week in Africa, as part of an ongoing effort by the United Nations, the International Telecommunication Union and private enterprise to improve Africa’s Information and Communication Technology, or ICT infrastructure. Barrett, who heads up the UN’s Global Alliance for ICT and Development (UN ...

Your flight is delayed which throws off your connecting flights. What do you do? If you had WorldMate it would send you a message giving you alternative flights and other info. Eyran Blumberg, VP of enterprise business at Worldmate, gives me a tour.

While at SAP TechEd ‘07, I talked with Matthias Zeller about his Waterfield Cargo bag. I have an over-active interest in laptop bags, so I’m always on the look-out for The Perfect Bag. Matthias’ seemed nice and he details the different compartments, pockets, and little things like if ...

I know, I know - flying places is not very green at all, I hear ya - but getting to and from the airport can be. Recently, on a trip to L.A., I decided to bypass the forever clogged L.A. highway system and go the Green LA Girl route ...

Jeremiah Owyang is Forrester Research’s new senior analyst focused on Social Computing. He is leaving PodTech where he was community manager and spent a lot of time travelling and speaking at conferences evangelising social media. Previously to that he managed the community marketing program at Hitachi Data Systems where ...

Last week, I sat down with a group of bloggers including Brandy Schaffels of AutomotiveTraveler.com & AskPatty.com, C. Scott Miller of BIOConversion Blog, Donna Schwartz Mills of SoCal Mom, John O’Dell of Edmunds.com, Mark Durham of Autopia, Kristin Underwood of Treehugger and

Luke Beatty, President of Associated Content talks with John Ince about how anyone can publish text, images, audio or video content and get either free distribution or share ad revenues with Associated Content. Beatty describes AC as an eBay for content or Associated Press in a social media context in ...

Dan Verton traveled to New York City to investigate security preparedness six years after 9/11. Here’s what I learned.

In this video clip I quiz Rodrigues, who works for a tour and travel company in Bangalore, on how he uses his cell phone. We start with the missed call phenomena to SMS and ringtones.

Never heard of missed calls?  In India missed calls and SMS are the preferred means ...

Harish founded Smile Interactive, the company that incubated Quasar, one of India’s top digital advertising agencies. It’s also behind Tyroo, an advertising network that Yahoo recently bought a substantial part of. It also built the technology behind MakeMyTrip, India’s biggest travel portal.

In this podcast, Harish talks ...

Traffic Jams are a curse to city life. Finally, a startup has found a solution to overcome some of the problems.

When I was in Bangalore recently, a city notorious for its atrocious traffic jams, I was pleasantly surprised to see a sign at a traffic signal which told me ...

During Hybridfest, in Madison, Wisc., I met Bill Kinney, a hypermiler from the Seattle area, who traveled to the event in his Honda Insight, averaging about 108 miles per gallon and spending only $56 on gas for the 2000+ mile trip. During Hybridfest, Bill also won the ...

Gopal Srinivasan belongs to Chennai-based TVS family, which runs the TVS groups of companies. TVS has led to the growth of Chennai as the automotive capital of India, and today Chennai is known as Detroit of India.

I caught up with Gopal in Manhattan, to find out about the ...

We walk around with Flickr-famous photographer (he’s also CEO of competitor Zooomr) Thomas Hawk at the second Maker Faire. If you’ve never been to a Maker Faire, this is a good chance to get a look at some of what goes on there. Thousands of people who make things ...