Suranga Chandratillake, Blinkx‘ CEO, recently sat down with me to talk about the online video market. Blinkx is a video search engine that’s a lot of fun to use, we talk about what makes Blinkx better than other video approaches.
Tags: Suranga Chandratillake, Blinkx, online video, video search
Seagate was showing off — at the recent Consumer Electronics Show — when it spotlighted innovative Scion to demonstrate the kinds of entertainment and navigational systems that’ll soon be arriving in cars. Join Rob Pait, Seagate’s marketing manager for global consumer hard disc drives, as he gives us a tour of the Seagate-powered Scion.
Tags: Seagate, Consumer Electronics Show, Rob Pait
Jordan Greenhall, CEO and co-founder of DivX, sits down with me at the Consumer Electronics Show. If you haven’t seen the latest from DivX, you should. Its new Stage6 video system brings dramatically better quality than, say, YouTube. Here Greenhall tells us a little bit about what else DivX is up to.
Tags: Jordan Greenhall, DivX, Consumer Electronics Show, Stage6, YouTube
Here we meet with David Burks who is the senior manager of consumer electronics marketing at Seagate and get a look at what Seagate is doing for home entertainment. Love that media storage farm!
Tags: David Burks, Seagate
Edward Saenz, principal of Gravity Branding, has worked with tons of organizations and companies to come up with product names and marketing insights. He came up with the name “WiFi” and several of Nissan’s truck names, for instance. Here we visit him in his home office to get some insights into the rough and tumble world of product naming.
Tags: Edward Saenz, Gravity Branding, marketing, WiFi, product naming
Jim Jones is a managing director at Scale Venture Partners, a venture capital firm which invests in emerging tech and healthcare companies. Jim’s focus is on semiconductors and consumer electronics, so we met with him last week at CES to see what he was seeing on the show floor.
Tags: Jim Jones, Scale Venture Partners, venture capital, semiconductors, consumer electronics, CES
Yesterday I sat down with Sun Microsystems‘ CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, and Tim Marsland, Sun’s CTO in charge of Solaris, and had a wide-ranging discussion from his pitch to Steve Jobs as to why Apple should include the Java runtimes on the new iPhone to Schwartz’ surviving a train wreck back in the 1980s and how that had a profound effect on his leadership skills.
Tags: Sun Microsystems, Jonathan Schwartz, Tim Marsland, Solaris, Steve Jobs, iPhone
Here, on the final day of the Retrevo Gang from the Seagate booth at the Consumer Electronics Show, Vipin Jain, Retrevo’s CEO, and Andrew Eisner, Retrevo’s biggest gadget freak get together to wrap up what they saw on the show floor with me.
Tags: Retrevo Gang, Seagate, Vipin Jain, Andrew Eisner, gadget
Every day at CES last week we met with the Retrevo Gang - folks from Retrevo, the consumer electronics search engine, who held court and talked about the latest news - Apple iPhone and other gadgets. On the second day, San Jose Mercury News tech columnist Dean Takahashi dropped by for a chat with Vipin Jain, Retrevo’s CEO, and Andrew Eisner, Retrevo’s biggest gadget freak.
Tags: CES, Retrevo Gang, iPhone, gadgets, Dean Takahashi, Vipin Jain, Andrew Eisner
Mary Hodder grants us a demo of Dabble, which is an internet video search engine of sorts, yet something beyond the usual search engines. Dabble self-labels itself as a place to ‘describe, discover and organize’ video, wherever it’s found. Dabble is the ’swiss army knife’ of internet video.
Tags: Mary Hodder, search engine
