Thanks to our colleagues at leading gadget blog UberGizmo and their Uber10 gift list, you know what gadgets to buy for the holidays! Although I suggest to wait at least until Black Friday, just in case you find/get the...

Today I've talked with WooMe CEO Stephen Stokols about his latest speed dating web site. First, I found Interesting that prior to founding WooMe, Stokols was at British Telecom in charge of everything related to innovation for the mass market.......

BEA blew it! And Alfred Chuang, the CEO (pictured), knows it. And it has nothing to do with BEA's perceived "under" value, because at $17 a share that's already a 40-50% premium over its price before "shareholder activist" [more...

So here were are again: the "official" start of the holiday season! It begins with Halloween, then moves along to Thanksgiving, with the inevitable "Black Friday", to finally end on Christmas/New Year. Of course, you have people like me...

I always enjoy reading the San Jose Mercury News' Insider Trader column in the daily's business section (I remember reading it on Mondays though) to find out the new [and old] millionaires on the block. This time, the Merc highlights...

Lovely, the Eastwick PR agency holiday party tonight. Good Chinese food, decent drinks (no French wines, that's why just decent!) but gorgeous company. It was held this year at the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara. I didn't even...

If you own one of the latest Nokia phones or a Windows Mobile smartphone, Boingo has an offer you might find hard to resist. Instead of paying $40 for Boingo's Global Hot Spot plan, you'll only be charged $8!...

Winplus is better known in the automotive industry for it's low tech car accessories like windshield sun protectors, interior covers (seats, mats, steering wheel), or miscellaneous accessories like ash trays, compasses, air freshners and mirrors! All that you can...

I really think Talkster is a Rebtel-me too with a twist. True it doesn't ask you to sign in or enter any personal information. Instead, you and your friend(s) will have to bare with a 10 seconds commercial before...

I could not have said it better... and remember you've heard it here first! Silver Lake Partners co-founder Dave Roux was actually on a roll tonight at the Churchill Club event on Mergers & Acquisitions, sharing a panel with...

It sounds a bit scary but actually there lots of "good" applications to it. NeuroSky is a biosensor company that builds sensors and a signal processing system to read and translate brain and muscle waves into digital signals that...

At the CTIA show, I talked to one of Tele Atlas' "van intern", Ashwin Balan on how the company is using vans to map the world in 2D and 3D. There's actually quite a lot of technology inside and...

At the Pepcom event last night I spoke with Magellan VP Christian Bubenheim who's expecting 3.5" GPS car navigation systems to fall below $100 during Thanksgiving's Black Friday. Although, this will be a one time event this year, the...

At the ShowStoppers media event last night, I've chatted with i-mate CEO Jim Morrison (pictured) who's opening its first US office in Redmond, Washington. Not really a surprise as the cell phone maker is a Windows Mobile only shop. But...

More music for free... and it's legal! Apple had the free Song of the Week going on at iTunes every Tuesday, and now it's Kingston's turn (yes the memory maker!) to have its own song giveaway, this time everyday, for...

Another busy week for conferences (and earnings too!) in the Silicon Valley. - Monday: We'll be heading to the ShowStoppers media event at the Four Seasons in San Francisco to check out some cool companies in the mobility and...

Last night, John Battelle interviewed Rupert Murdoch (pictured in the middle) and MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe (left) at the Web 2.0 Summit. Rupert Murdoch said that he wants to improve the recently acquired Wall Street Journal by expanding the...

After the formal presentations, I had a chance to chat with James Gosling. The Sun Fellow and Father of Java is now spending most of his time coordinating the development of the Java client(s) after several years focusing on...

Yesterday evening, Sun's VP of Software, Rich Greene, and James Gosling, the father of Java, gave an update on JavaFX: the new Java platform introduced earlier this year at JavaOne. This session was indeed needed because in a typical...

Well.. at least, it really feels like it. An overcrowded hotel lobby, a standing room (a Microsoftie complained that they paid $15K for the sponsorship plus $2K for the badge and they can't even get a seat!) and 2...

It's hard to imagine that the office printer could be the weakest link in your IT security infrastructure. But that's exactly what HP coming out saying today at a briefing announcing a system that would securely print sensitive document...

At the eve of the Web 2.0 Summit, we thought we'd share this short video taken during a press conference at the Web 2.0 Conference & Expo, held earlier this year. There, Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle were answering questions...

Here are some of the events in our calendar, coming up this week: - Tuesday: The Internet service provider's ISPCon conference starts at the San Jose convention centre. There you'll be hearing about hosting, pipes/bandwidth, billing, wimax, firewalls, etc. -...

&t I met with Electric Sheep Company CEO Sibley Verbeck (pictured) after his keynote at the Virtual Worlds Conference here in San Jose. Verbeck pointed to early successes of virtual worlds among kids (Club Penguin, Whyville, HabboBarbie...). “The kids virtual...

Anthony Zuiker, creator of the famed CSI:Crime Scene Investigation TV franchise had a nice run giving away chocolate bars at the Virtual Worlds conference audience. "I have a point to this", he said! Well his point was that virtual worlds...

Here are some of the events in our calendar, coming up this week:- Monday: we are "off" for Columbus Day :-) - Wednesday: The Virtual Worlds Conference & Expo starts. If you are into virtual worlds a-la 2nd Life you...

After a day looking at some of Motorola's current and future products, I came back with mixed feelings: both disappointed of not seeing the next generation Razr and impressed on the scope of projects the company engineers are working...

It was kind of a perfect horror story. When John Swainson joined CA in Nov 2004, to become its CEO 6 months later, the ex-IBM executive didn't expect to find a company in such a terrible shape. At a Q&A...

This morning, I was at the SDForum event on software outsourcing and realised that it is far easier said, and decried, than actually done. There, Russian outsourcer Luxoft presented a report, based on online interviews and surveys of 213 outsourcing...

Over the past year, more than 1 million unique visitors came to AMD's Virtual Experience. This web site mimics a virtual tradeshow with virtual booths, presentations, videos and collaterals. For this 2.0 version, AMD added more interactivity, with one-on-one chat,...