Since Apple quietly discontinued the iSight camera almost 2 years ago, there were really no high-end external webcams for Macs... well until this week, when Logitech unveiled the QuickCam Vision Pro. Probably the only one since Logitech acquired Connectix......

At a media question and answer session with John Chambers (pictured) yesterday, I've raised the issue of Cisco's "channel" strategy following the lawsuit of silver-partner Infra-Comm, covered by ChannelWeb here and more recently here. For Cisco's CEO, the numbers...

At the show, Cisco's CEO (pictured) spent about 30 minutes responding to questions posted by avatars in Second Life. On a fun note, the Second Life software on Chambers' laptop kept on crashing and I'm not sure how much...

Cisco's Chief kicked-off the company's premier customer event in front of more attendees than last year. And that's inspite of higher travel costs and a recessionary economy. According to Lance Perry (pictured), Cisco's VP of IT Infrastructure and the...

Did you know that John Chambers had a video blog? That Cisco built its own version of YouTube behind the firewall for its employees only and dubbed "C-Vision"? And that usage of social network tools (blogs, wikis...) is spreading...

Palo Alto PR firm Voce Communications threw a party last night to celebrate its 9th year anniversary. For the last time, it was hosted at the Cafe Rosso & Bianco (formerly the Niebaum-Coppola bistro) on University Avenue. For the...

No point looking for a corporate Intranet at Serena Software. It was replaced by Facebook! And don't look for that feature on Facebook's site either... The Web 2.0 company has no enterprise offerings yet inspite its interest in the...

Inspite being the moderator of the Churchill Club's Enterprise 2.0 debate, Forrester Research analyst Charlene Li could not help but giving this final advice on how to embrace social networking in order to be a successful enterprise in this Web...

Now you have it... and right from a company that has been in business for over 20 years recuperating failed hard disks. "It's a matter of when, not if", said a DriveSavers' spokesperson. At the HP Tech Forum, the...

At HP's Tech Forum today, I talked with Medis VP of Marketing, Michelle Rush (pictured), about the company's fuel cell battery pack. The Medis 24/7 Power Pack provides portable energy for handheld products specifically for up to about 3...

What a nice surprise! After a long day and inspite of Tim Draper's lively keynote, I thought I'll call it a day and head to the event's cocktail... But that was before Draper started singing his Ode to entrepreneurs,...

After seeing over the years what entrepreneurs go through to make their dream come true - from jeopardizing their social life to running into bankruptcy and sometimes worse - I always considered them the true heroes versus financiers, e.g....

I was yesterday evening at AMD's "Computex" event in San Francisco (top picture) where senior VP Randy Allen (pictured) gave more details on the company's next generation mobile platform, Puma. Allen stressed that AMD is still one of 2...