At the conference I had a chance to sat down with chief executive Donna Dubinsky, to talk about her latest company: Numenta. What is Numenta? We are creating a platform that allows people to create applications that we think will...

Yesterday, I talked to Forrest Norrod, vice president and general manager of Dell's Data Center Solutions Division, who unveiled this new business unit that sits inside the company's Product Group. This is an evolution of the Dell model, from configure...

Just chat with Brad Horowitz (I didn't realise i was sitting just behind him!), about making the Yahoo APIs commercially available. "There's no problem to use our APIs in a commercial environment. You just have to talk to us to...

I'm here this morning in Palo Alto's Four Seasons for Sun's Media Summit where CEO Jonathan Schwartz and the company's top executives/CxOs are presenting to a small group of 20 or so international journalists a new tag line "Growth @...

At the Kelsey conference in Santa Clara, I had a discussion this week with an executive in the advertising business that had this interesting comment about how secretive Google was, and still is today, and that I found sort of...

Yesterday afternoon I chat with Shantanu, Adobe's president and COO, after the company released its first quarter earnings. In our conversation, I was particularly interested in how Saas or software as a service might impact Adobe's business long term,...

At the Kelsey conference focused on local search and local online commerce, the attendees had a chance to discover, an Internet-based ad agency launched last year and that makes it easy and affordable (less than $500) for businesses (small or...

Again during a discussion at the New Video Summit today, Bram Cohen of BitTorrent had some harsh words on the old Napster, which he describes as a system that was built from the ground up to promote piracy. On the...

Today, at the New Video Summit hosted at the VON show in San Jose, Bram Cohen, CEO and co-founder of BitTorrent was very much critical on Joost's business model. This upcoming start-up that wants to bring TV to the Web...

HP shareholders are out of luck! 6 cents/share is all they will get for this fiscal year, said Cathie Lesjak, the company's chief financial officer, which is "in the middle of the pack" compare to what other comparable companies...

Is that HP's new new Way og going about and promote the company? Well maybe. During the Q&A session following the shareholder meeting, a spokesperson from a parents' non profit organisation accused HP of supporting TV shows that include graphic...

During the casting of the votes, Mark Hurd gave a business overview of the company. HP wants to be the leading IT infrastructure company in the world. Currently, HP's CEO thinks that the company can do better in cutting...

During the meeting, HP shareholders were to vote on 6 proposals, including the election of new board directors, the appointment of Ernst&Young as HP's accounting firm, the separation of Church and State (i.e. separating the roles of CEO and Chairman......

I'm here at HP's shareholder meeting held in Santa Clara. The last time i attended such a meeting was during the proxy fight shareholder meeting held at De Anza College when Carly Fiorina was battling against Walter Hewlett following...

GrandCentral has finally released its WebCall Button. When you click on the above button, GrandCentral will call the number you've entered and my GrandCentral number, and connect the call. I'm not sure this works from abroad as the service...

This morning Cory Ondrejk, Linden Lab's CTO, spoke at a Churchill Club breakfast event about Second Life' success amongst both users and businesses. So, with a GDP of $60 million per month and over 22,000 subscribers making money in...

Samsung spokesperson Jason Ledder confirmed that inspite the Korean manufacturer lack of Wi-Fi enabled cameras yet, there are plans in place to bring yet un-announced Wi-Fi cameras to market to complement the copmany's 3G cameras. The i70 and the...

No new products at the Nikon booth. The Japanese company was just showing off their already announced 8 Coolpix cameras as well as a couple of SLRs like the D40x with 10.2 megapixel resolution. I liked the Wi-Fi support built...

Fairly unknown in the US, Canada-based PhotoChannel Networks (PNI) is actually one of the leader in digital photo ordering providing the back-end platform for large retailers like Kmart, CVS/pharmacy and Eckerd Drugs. In the US, we probably have a 30%...

Not a lot of excitement at the PNY booth this year, inspite of latest 8GB and 16GB USB flash drives and a new 8GB Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) Class 6 card. We have the widest array of flash...

At the Sharpics booth I got a demo of the D-Flector. Resembling a briefcase, this portable photo studio can be used on any tabletop or desk and is ideal to photograph products (jewelries, toys, glass...). Just put the object on...

Brian Segnit, manager of photo and book printing at Xerox Production Systems Group, was showing some outputs of the company's digital printers, like the Phaser 7760 or the DocuColor 240/250 that enable retailers to make photo specialty products on-site,...

At Sneak Peak, Chromaluxe's photo channel products manager Tom Johnson was demonstrating the company's "Brand Photo Panels": a new display/mounting option for digital images that uses the sublimation printing process. The benefit is that it is extremely durable and a...

At Sneak Peak, I chat with Jennifer Culter with DivX about the video specialist presence in an "imaging" conference. We are partnering with Pentax to demonstrate our DivX certified digital still cameras. What it does is it shoots videos natively...

I've just arrived before noon in Las Vegas to cover PMA 07, the world's largest annual international photo imaging convention and trade show... so *they* say. I heard Photokina in Cologne, Germany is also another major event in this industry...

Over the week-end, I overheard a conversation by San Jose-based Business Objects' staff on their cafeteria: it just sucks! "The French in the company bring their own food [...] they don't go to the cafeteria". The whole discussion actually started...

Right at the end of the ETel conference, I caught up with Sean Moss-Pulz, a product manager for OpenMoko to show me the FIC Neo1973 GPS/GSM/Bluetooth mobile phone. The phone is expected to ship next month for 350 US...

Google is just not conducive to create products according to Jeff Bonforte. During our conversation last Tuesday, the Yahoo director of Real-Time Communications told us a story about one of his best product manager that went to Google but...

Yesterday, I briefly attended a summit at Mountain View's Computer History Museum jointly organised by Intel and the United Nations Global Alliance for Information and communication technologies and Development (UNGAID). A United Nations initiative to bring the benefits of...