The Rainforest Action Network defends more than just the rainforest these days. Combatting corporate, environmental injustices, RAN works from the inside out- directly negotiating with CEOs to change their policies. At the same time, RAN proactively keeps the public informed of progress on key issues.
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Symantec product manager Steve Fairbanks discusses improvements in their BackupExec System Restore product during the Altiris ManageFusion user conference.
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Eric Engleman, general manager of Bloglines (a very popular RSS feed reader) shows me the hot new features in Bloglines and how they are working to make reading feeds more productive and more fun.
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The Cripplers were one of the finest, trashiest garage/punk/rock’n’roll bands to ever come out of the Midwest. Originally from Columbia, Missouri, the band relocated to St. Louis in the late 1990s. Their debut LP “One More for the Bad Guys” was released on the popular garage/retro rock label Dionysus Records in 2001. The Cripplers played [...]
Dan Sheehan, CEO and Founder of Winplus, gives us a demo of Yada, a device that hooks up to your dashboard that includes a Bluetooth headset for your cell phone. Because you never take your headset out of your car to charge it you’ll never lose it again.
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Blogs and discussion boards are being used the most by corporate marketers. So says a new study directed by Prospero Technologies founder, Rusty Williams. Talking to Marketing Voices’ host Jennifer Jones, 31% of corporate marketers plan to spend more on social media in 2008; 35% have seen a positive return on investment from social media, [...]
Join BearingPoint Managing Director, Robert Hilliard, as he explores Mike 2.0 and the opportunities it offers to Information Management.
Mike 2.0 is a web 2.0 technique that is used to simplify the complexity of finding data. It takes out many of the steps that are currently taken to manage and allocate important information. With a [...]
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“Penryn” is the name for the upcoming family of processors built on new technology that Intel co-Founder Gordon Moore called one of the biggest advances to transistors in 40 years, PodTech’s Jason Lopez talks with Richard Dracott, General Manager of the High Performance Computing Organization in the Digital Enterprise Group at Intel.
Dracott talks about [...]
This podcast previews a new Symantec blog and webcast series titled “Building Confidence in Enterprise Security.” Andre Gold head of technology risk management at ING U.S. Financial Services, and Samir Kupuria, distinguished principal at Symantec Corp., will embark on a monthly video and blog program addressing IT Compliance, IT Risk Management, and operational security. We’d [...]
Helping people engage with ideas and information is how Shantanu Narayen, President and COO of Adobe describes what his company does best. Adobe recently completed 25 years and is expected to about $3 billion in revenue this year.
I caught up with Shantanu, who was on a whistle-stop tour of Bangalore, to find [...]
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While at the Austin InnoTech conference, I talked with John Willis and Mark Hinkle about CMDBs and federated CMDBs. Mark starts out with a general update on Zenoss, and then after briefly talking about model-driven IT management, all three of us talk about CMDBs in general and how federation is doing in that area.
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While at the Austin InnoTech conference, I talked with Luke Kanies about Puppet, the open source server configuration automation (or “provisioning” in my personal lexicon) project. Luke first gives us a detailed overview of Puppet: what it does, how it works, and the puppet DSL. We then discuss the benefits and draw-backs of running the [...]
While at the Austin InnoTech conference, I talked with John Willis and Mark Hinkle about customizing interfaces for IT management software. We start by hearing John’s take on using Eclipse as a front-end, and then hear some more general commentary from both John and Mark about how interfaces are used and customized - and by [...]
Y Fray has been a limo driver for over 20 years. Passionate about the environment, she decided to do her part and started EcoLimo, a company offering ecological chauffeured transportation in Loas Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, DC. During the Alt Car Expo in Santa Monica, I spoke with her about her company, [...]
What’s new in security? In this podcast Intel’s Malcolm Harkins and HP’s Manny Novoa chat about the latest issues in security technologies, notably the emergence of hardware assisted virtualization. They also discuss, with PodTech’s Jason Lopez, coping with zero-day threats and the benefits of automated management of PC fleets.
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