After a couple of interviews this morning in Palo Alto with execs from Pubmatic and Nominum, I'll be on my way to Las Vegas... again! This time it's to attend Interop, the tradeshow for enterprise networking products and services...

At Sofcon, earlier this week, I talked with Fabrizio Capobianco (pictured), the CEO of mobile open source company Funambol, just after his panel titled "Who Will Provide the Software and Services?" that I found pretty information-free. In a nutshell,...

In his keynote at Web 2.0 Expo yesterday, Tim O'Reilly (pictured, by Duncan Davidson) described the Internet as THE global plaform for everything connected, that will harness collective intelligence. This "open" plaform will make everybody smarter akin to literacy....

If you're looking for money to finance your idea/project/start-up, here are the best advices I got out of the Churchill Club's "Successful Strategies for Early Stage Companies: The Investor Perspective" event this morning with Keith Larson, VP of Intel...

After the panel on "Business Models and Investment Opportunities" at the Mobile Future conference, I caught up with Kleiner Perkin's partner, Matt Murphy (pictured), the point person for the $100 million iFund for iPhone Application Developers. In the 5...

According to EFF co-founder, John Gilmore (pictured), speaking at SOFCON, one of the reason the municipal WiFi project failed apart was that it was tied to tracking the location of everyone using the network and keeping that information forever...

Verizon promises to "openly" connect places to people to devices and in any of these combinations. The carrier also claims 65.7 million wireless subscribers (out of a total of 255.4 million in the U.S.) and that 55 per cent...

Is the mobile era, a repeat of the mainframe, the minicomputer and the PC revolutions? Very much so, says Nokia CTO, Bob Iannucci (pictured), who gave today's luncheon keynote at SOFCON 2008. For the head of Nokia's Silicon Valley...

I just came back from a dinner organised by the International Press Club of California at San Francisco's restaurant Bong Su and hosted by Spanish company FON. Sitting at the table were the foreign correspondents based in the Bay...

Here are some of the events our team will be covering this week: - Monday: The International Press Club of California is receiving the CEO of FON, who will talk about the Spanish company strategy to create its global...

After his presentation, I caught up with John Lam to drill down on his work at Microsoft. The #1 goal for Iron Ruby is to run "real" Ruby programs on Windows. Lam expects to finish implementing the Ruby language...

After the jump i've put the presentation Microsoft's Iron Ruby Guy and Open Source Evangelist, John Lam (pictured), gave at SD Forum's Ruby conference. Hard core Ruby fans would certainly enjoy it. The others should just pass :-)...

After his presentation at SDForum's Third Ruby conference this afternoon, I talked with Anant Jhingran (pictured) about his role as CTO of IBM's Information Management division. Our conversation also touched upon the fact that he's using a silver Macbook...

After a brief passage amongst the cool and chichi-esque advertising/marketing crowd (I might get to like that!) at ad:tech, I'm back to the root of what Silicon Valley is known best for: hardcore technology! And believe me, it'll be...

Again, listening at eMarketer CEO, Geoff Ramsey, who's session was probably the best one at this year's show, marketers must deliver advertising that online video viewers want to see. The focus should be on relevancy and impact/entertaining... forget Pre-rolls....

For eMarketer CEO and co-founder, Geoff Ramsey, here are the main reasons why marketers and advertisers should be excited about online videos: - Greater measurability, target-ability and share-ability; - You can do a better job in story telling; -...

Is this the beginning of the end for the TV industry? U.S. consumers are watching less TV these days. And my guesstimate is that this is true around the world as well where broadband Internet is ubiquitous. According to...

After the super-geeky MySQL conference, I've now joined the crowd of "huppies" here at San Francisco's Moscone convention centre for ad:tech. Now I know what marketing is all about: flashy, cool and just plain beautiful! No, I'm not talking...

At the MySQL conference, I talked with Marten Mickos (pictured, photo by James Duncan Davidson), the newly appointed VP of the Database Group at Sun. This group is comprised of the former 400+ MySQL employees plus the 60 or...

At the MySQL conference today I had a chance to chat with Sun Microsystems' CEO, Jonathan Schwartz (pictured in the centre, photo by James Duncan Davidson). We covered several topics including the MySQL integration, the subject du jour, free/open...

It was very entertaining to see Verisign's new CEO, Bill Ropert, trying to both court RSA and IBM, comparing his company as a "mid-morning snack" for them, and play hard to get :-) Verisign is a bit in a...

I had mixed feeling with IBM's Internet Security Systems general manager, Val Rahmani, performance at RSA's CEO panel. On one hand, Rahmani was very eloquent on general topics, such as protecting smaller firms and consumers from "smart hackers", the...

At the security CEOs panel this morning, McAfee's chief predicted more dangers for consumers surfing the Internet and enterprises online presence. I know that security is its daily bread and the more people buy its antivirus and such, the...

With a handful of my journalist peers (Bloomberg News, Wall Street Journal, San Jose Mercury News and Investor's Business Daily), I attended a "fireside chat" this afternoon with EMC chief, Joe Tucci (pictured, left), and RSA's Art Coviello (right)....

Today is the second Tuesday of the month as known in the security community as "Patch Tuesday", when Microsoft releases security updates for its products. It all started in 2003 after customers asked Microsoft to stop releasing patches whenever...

This afternoon, at the W hotel in San Francisco, Microsoft was giving out some details on what the company's chief strategist, Craig Mundie, is going to talk in his keynote tomorrow morning. In a nutshell, the idea is to...

The show actually kicks off tomorrow with keynotes from RSA chief, Art Coviello, John Thompson, Symantec CEO and Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer. But I came in San Francisco this afternoon for a Microsoft meeting in...

At the Pepcom event I chat with Asus' President of Personal Mobile Devices, H.C. Hung (pictured) who was unveiling his company's latest cell phones. The Taiwanese company has now grown up from being a PC component suppliers (motherboards et...

At Pepcom's MobileFocus event, I talked to Kyocera Wireless' Communications Director, John Chier, who gave me a roundup of the company's current line-up of CDMA phones as well as its first four GSM phones to be introduced exclusively in...

We already met with Mobivox at CES last January when they launched their free calling service. The service lets its members call another member, anywhere in the world. You just call one of their 400 local access numbers, tell...