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TechCrunch50: Day 3

Photo by Steve Maller I've been covering TC50 for the past few days, and believe it or not, I'm still hungry for more startup pitches. 6:30 a.m. The final sessions of the conference are posted on BusinessWire: s Akoha...

Tags: Hollywood, YouTube Inc., Video, Photograph, Bojam, Truecar, Playce, Panelist, Corporate Communications, Games, Marketing, Personal Technology, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-09-10

The panelist's nightmare

The panelist's nightmareTuxedo and brown shoesThat pretty much sucks. What was that old "Lonesome George" Gobel quip to Johnny Carson from years back, after following Bob Hope and Dean Martin on the Tonight Show: "Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a...

Tags: Federal government, Larry Lessig, FCC, panelist

Discussion threads 2008-05-22

The panelist's nightmare

What do you do if you are moderating a panel and you are the smartest and most interesting person on the podium? Do what Faisal Rehman Malik, a TV anchor from Pakistan did at the Innovation Journalism conference at Stanford University-- talk the entire time about your...

Tags: Panel, Conference, Panelist, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-05-22

The end of applications?

Sometimes someone says something at a conference that really knocks me for a loop. Such was the case at the High Performance Computer Architecture Conference last year. In typical panel fashion, a group of us were each given a few minutes to state our position on the future of computer...

Tags: computer

Blog posts 2006-08-10

Tech execs: Wake up and smell the spam

Spam is an awareness problem, not a product or technology problem, Symantec CEO John Thompson said during a panel discussion hosted by Esther Dyson on the "Accountable Net." Esther defines the Accountable Net as strengthening the current Internet initiatives toward "authentication of servers so that users know whom to trust,...

Tags: Accountable, Thompson

Blog posts 2004-12-01

Additional Resources

CCHIT fate could be decided today

CCHIT fate could be decided todayUnbelievableHonestly at a loss for words aside from: unbullievable ...Can a large organization keep up?Medicine moves rather fast and I find it hard to believe that CCHIT can keep pace with innovation.But then that might be the objective.And I have a concern when an organization...

Tags: Strategy, Brian Klepper, Self-Interest, CCHIT, CCHIT fate

Discussion threads 2009-07-16

How to make technology conferences suck less

There's a dirty little secret to technology conferences: Most of them suck to some degree. It's about time someone started thinking about how to make conference time more valuable and less stale, especially now that companies are cutting back on travel to shows. I've been thinking about...

Tags: Conference, Wiki, Online Communications, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2009-04-02

Pondering cloud computing at the SaaS Summit

At the SaaS Summit in San Francisco this morning, the discussions are kicking off with plenty of questions and a dose of reality. What exactly is cloud computing? We're hearing buzz terms like Software as a Service, Platform as a Service, Utility Computing, Grid Computing. Aren't those all a...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Cloud Computing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-03-12

PPoPP 2009 Day 1: Parallel Thinking

The 14th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP 2009) and the 15th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-15) opened Monday in Raleigh, NC. Reflecting the growing interdependence of software and hardware the two conferences are being held at the same time in the same...

Tags: Server, Programming, Computer, Development Tools, Productivity, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-02-17

Dell shakes up its Latitude laptops

Dell has revamped its business notebooks, introducing six new Latitude laptops and two Precision mobile workstations. The new models are a clear indication that even with its business lines Dell is continuing its efforts to get away from gray boxes and differentiate its PCs--both in design and features. ...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Memory, Intel Core 2 Duo, Graphics, Dell Latitude, Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., SSD, Latitude E4200, E6400, Notebooks, Processors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-08-13

Cerf's call for simple pricing: Net Neutrality all over again

Cerf's call for simple pricing: Net Neutrality all over againCerf's call for simple pricing: Net Neutrality all over again[i]Rather than a volume cap, I suggest the introduction of transmission rate caps, which would allow users to purchase access to the Internet at a given minimum data rate and be free...

Tags: Pricing, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, NETWORKING, Net Neutrality, Vint Cerf, simple pricing, pricing strategy, Internet, Cerf, network

Discussion threads 2008-08-05

Japan's ISPs agree to ban P2P pirates

Four of Japan's largest Internet provider organizations have come to an agreement with copyright holders on how to tackle the illegal file trading on P2P Peer to Peer networks.  Comprised of about 1000 major and smaller Japanese Internet providers, the four organizations agreed to target flagrant copyright violators by first...

Tags: Internet Provider, Japan, File-trading, P2P, Internet Service Provider, Piracy, Internet, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet Service Providers (ISPs), George Ou

Blog posts 2008-03-16

FCC hearings: Comcast versus Vuze

The FCC held its hearing on Comcast's Network Management practices at Harvard University yesterday.  Vuze executive Gilles BianRosa whose company filed one of the two FCC complaints against Comcast reportedly told the FCC yesterday that BitTorrent does not hog bandwidth.  Since most Internet experts would dispute that claim, I generated the...

Tags: FCC, Bandwidth, BitTorrent, Network, Comcast Corp., Broadband Provider, Broadband, Vuze, Congestion Problem, Free Press, Broadband Internet, Networking, Network Technology, Telecommunications, George Ou

Blog posts 2008-02-26

Smartphone makers, mobile operators still baffled by iPhone

A report about a panel session on mobile user experience at Barcelona's Mobile World Congress shows that only Apple "gets it." And if the industry's experience with the iPod is anything to go by, this situation will only get worse for the competition. According to an EE...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Patent, Apple iPod, Mobile, Wireless Communication, Apple Inc., Smartphone, Advertising & Promotion, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Marketing, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-02-14

CES: Big thinkers and disruptive technologies

The Consumer Electronics Show about the size of 36 football fields and exhausting, and so are the names of some of the conference sessions. I attended "Big Thinkers and Disruptive Technologies: Today's Thought Leaders and Tomorrow's Technologies," with panelists Dave Habiger, CEO of Sonic Solutions; Levy Gerzberg, CEO of Zoran;...

Tags: Facebook, Specification, Photograph, Sonic Solutions, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Open Source, Security, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-01-09

Complex Event Processing and SOA: a 'beautiful thing'?

The drums keep beating louder for the impending marriage of SOA with Event Driven Architecture and Complex Event Processing. This is top of the news for many analysts, and something IBM, Oracle, and other vendors are positioning future offerings around. Is this the year when organizations will start linking SOA...

Tags: Business Process, BPM, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Operational Planning, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-01-04

Are 'Guerrilla SOA' and Web 2.0 one in the same?

In recent weeks, we've been talking about 'Guerrilla SOA,' a term put forth by Jim "World Wide" Webber, as an effective strategy for bringing service-oriented methodologies and solutions into SOA-resistant organizations. Both Guerrilla SOA and Web 2.0 emphasize rapid, lightweight Web-based solutions to pressing problems ...

Tags: Web, Idea, Web Service, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web 2.0, Channel Management, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Marketing, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2007-10-31

Soothing words for BEA's nervous customers

In the event Oracle is eventually successful in buying out BEA Systems, would BEA customers eventually be forced to upgrade away from WebLogic to Oracle Application Server, and so on? Analysts interviewed in Network World don't see this happening -- it's in Oracle's best interest to keep...

Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Jim, Middleware, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Strategy, Application Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Web Services, Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2007-10-15

Oh boy, what a toy!

Sports car, all electric. Sure, green tech is about saving the planet, curtailing global warming, maybe making a buck or two. But when wrightspeed showed up with their sorts car prototype, green tech got to be really fun. So do you want one?...

Tags: Green Technology, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-09-11

How do we really know when SOA 'fails'?

There's no place to hide when a huge software project hits the skids. Lots of money is invested, but things just don't work. Fingers of blame are pointed in all directions. The business kept on changing the specs for the application. The software was crapware. The vendors acted like schmucks...

Tags: SOA, Failure, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2007-08-13