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Salesforce demos Service Cloud 2
At Dreamforce Global Gathering 2009 in San Francisco, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Kraig Swensrud, senior vice president of product marketing, show attendees the ...
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Salesforce CEO chatters about new social media platform
At Dreamforce Global Gathering 2009 in San Francisco, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and technology head Parker Harris show attendees Chatter, a new collaboration and ...
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Adobe CTO: Flash in the future
At the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch talks about how the companys Flash software is coming to new devices ...
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NBC brings new media player features to Winter Olympics and NFL
At the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco, Vertigo CEO Scott Stanfield shows new HD video player features for the Winter Olympic Games, adding ...
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Short clip: American Airlines’ upgrading its passenger service system
Monte Ford, CIO of American Airlines describes how the companys new passenger service system will work in the future. He says it will be ...
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Short clip: American Airlines social media experiment
Monte Ford, CIO of American Airlines describes how the company is embracing Twitter and Facebook, and how these social networking tools are benefiting interactions ...
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Monte Ford, CIO, American Airlines
Monte Ford, CIO of American Airlines talks to ZDNets Sumi Das about developing a new passenger service system that will allow customers to connect ...
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Peering inside Microsoft's giant data center
CNET's Ina Fried speaks to two of the designers of Microsoft's just-opened data center in Chicago.
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The month ahead: Will Droid do damage to the iPhone's mojo?
ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das and senior editor Sam Diaz discuss the new Droid phone set to release in early November. Diaz also previews the ...
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Facebook COO sees economic models changing on the Web
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg talks about the how the Web usage patterns are shifting from an ...
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U.S. CTO: Health care needs better billing systems
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Franicsco, U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra talks about IT changes that need to be made to the current ...
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HP CEO: The challenges of cloud computing
At the Gartner Symposium in Orlando, Fla., HP CEO Mark Hurd talks about how the company plans to layer cloud services on its infrastructure ...
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Microsoft demos Twitter feeds in Bing
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Yusuf Mehdi, a senior vice president at Microsoft, previews Twitter integration with Bing search results. One ...
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Shadman Zafar, CIO, Verizon Telecom
Shadman Zafar, CIO of Verizon Telecom talks to ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das about the companys promise to deliver the Internet to television with its ...
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Short clip: Verizon launches widget store
Shadman Zafar, CIO of Verizon Telecom, discusses the launch of the companys new widget store where consumers can buy new social media applications like ...
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Short clip: Verizon invests in growth over cost-cutting
Shadman Zafar, CIO of Verizon Telecom, describes how the company is responding to the current economic downturn by investing in growth and innovation as ...
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Short clip: How American Airlines faced the challenges of 9/11 and the recession
Monte Ford, CIO of American Airlines discusses how the company was able to overcome the tragedy of 9/11 and weather the current economic downturn ...
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GE shows off mini ultrasound device
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, GE Chief Executive Jeff Immelt introduces a handheld ultrasound gadget called Vscan. Immelt believes that the ...
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Twitter CEO: Why he turned down Facebook
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Twitter CEO Evan Williams explains to Federated Media CEO John Battelle his rationale for turning down ...
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Gartner: 'Worst year ever' for IT spending
At the Gartner Symposium/ITExpo 2009 in Orlando, Fla., Peter Sondergaard, a senior vice president of research at Gartner, says 2009 was the worst spending ...
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Adobe CTO: Flash in the future
At the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch talks about how the companys Flash software is coming to new devices such as game consoles, smartphones, and TVs. Lynch says Adobe is working with chip vendors and TV manufacturers on a variety of different television platforms to bring more interactivity to the living room.
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The month ahead: Will Droid do damage to the iPhone's mojo?
ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das and senior editor Sam Diaz discuss the new Droid phone set to release in early November. Diaz also previews the upcoming Salesforce.com conference and weighs in on whether consumers will buy Windows 7 during the holiday season.
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Salesforce CEO chatters about new social media platform
At Dreamforce Global Gathering 2009 in San Francisco, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and technology head Parker Harris show attendees Chatter, a new collaboration and social media tool built for the enterprise. Benioff says the new tool will leverage social-networking models and bring them into a secure and private cloud where people, content, and applications will have profile feeds and groups.
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NBC brings new media player features to Winter Olympics and NFL
At the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco, Vertigo CEO Scott Stanfield shows new HD video player features for the Winter Olympic Games, adding to its existing Sunday Night Football coverage. The new video player includes PVR features such as slow motion, fast-forward, and rewind, and gives users the ability to zoom in more closely to photos.
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Peering inside Microsoft's giant data center
CNET's Ina Fried speaks to two of the designers of Microsoft's just-opened data center in Chicago.
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WWDC 2009: Apple offers a $99 iPhone
At Apple's WWDC in San Francisco, Apple's SVP of marketing, Philip Schiller, announces that the company will make its cheapest iPhone even cheaper. The 8GB model will start selling immediately for $99, a $100 price cut.
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Windows 7 demo: Windows XP Mode
Is an incompatible program or device standing between you and a Windows 7 upgrade? If youre willing to pay for Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate edition, you might be able to use a clever solution to fool that old code into running in the new OS. Windows XP Mode lets you run Windows XP applications in a virtual machine right on the Windows 7 desktop. ZDNet's Ed Bott provides a close-up look at how XP Mode works.
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HP CEO: The challenges of cloud computing
At the Gartner Symposium in Orlando, Fla., HP CEO Mark Hurd talks about how the company plans to layer cloud services on its infrastructure in the future. However, with more than 1,000 hacks a day, security creates an important need on differentiating what they put in public versus private clouds. "We wouldnt put anything material in nature outside the firewall," Hurd says.
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Salesforce demos Service Cloud 2
At Dreamforce Global Gathering 2009 in San Francisco, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Kraig Swensrud, senior vice president of product marketing, show attendees the company's new customer service software, Service Cloud 2. The new tool helps businesses connect their traditional call center technologies with social media applications through a cloud computing infrastructure.
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The future of... Sticky notes
Without a doubt, sticky notes are handy, but in many ways they're stuck in the analog world. ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das introduces us to Quickies, an MIT Media Lab invention that combines sticky note convenience with PC intelligence. Think smart notes that send meeting reminders and add phone numbers to your address book.
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Short clip: American Airlines’ upgrading its passenger service system
Monte Ford, CIO of American Airlines describes how the companys new passenger service system will work in the future. He says it will be easier for customers to handle reservations, ticketing, and flight information through their mobile devices.
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The lightbulb of the future?
Silicon Valley's Luxim has developed a lightbulb the size of a Tic Tac that gives off as much light as a streetlight. News.com's Michael Kanellos talks to the company about its technology and its plans to expand into various markets.
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Samsung introduces flat-panel wireless TV
ZDNet Executive Editor David Berlind talks to Samsung's senior manager for plasma TV marketing, Bill Dickey, about the company's new FPT 5094 50-inch wireless flat-panel TV. The package includes an audio and video receiver that transmits information to the plasma display. The television is due out in October with a retail price of $4,500.
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Short clip: American Airlines social media experiment
Monte Ford, CIO of American Airlines describes how the company is embracing Twitter and Facebook, and how these social networking tools are benefiting interactions with customers.
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Sex, games and videotape
Hear from folks attending the Sex in Videogames conference--a meeting of game developers and marketers who aim to create adult entertainment for the next generation. Also check out some game play from the upcoming "Virtual Hottie 2," a game that simulates--well, you know.
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Gartner: 'Worst year ever' for IT spending
At the Gartner Symposium/ITExpo 2009 in Orlando, Fla., Peter Sondergaard, a senior vice president of research at Gartner, says 2009 was the worst spending cycle ever. He adds that Silicon Valley will no longer be in charge of the rebound and emerging regions will drive IT spending and how it's deployed.
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Oracle announces Exadata 2
At Oracle's OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, CEO Larry Ellison previews the company's Exadata Version 2 computer. He says the new database computer is designed for online transaction processing and data warehousing. He adds that Exadata 2 can do faster processing at a much lower cost than can its biggest competitor, IBM.
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U.S. CTO: Health care needs better billing systems
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Franicsco, U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra talks about IT changes that need to be made to the current health care system. He believes one of the biggest areas of waste is the money spent on billing within the system, with 17 cents of every dollar going towards medical billing. He says his department is working on solutions to reduce these costs.
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Windows 7: A worthwhile upgrade?
Will Microsoft's Windows 7 succeed where Vista failed? The new operating system offers a new graphical user interface, more reliable power management tools, and better search, but it still might not offer enough to convince PC users to buy it. ZDNet Correspondent Sumi Das talks to Larry Dignan, editor in chief of ZDNet, and Ed Bott, ZDNet's Microsoft Report blogger, about Windows 7's pros and cons.
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Twitter CEO: Why he turned down Facebook
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Twitter CEO Evan Williams explains to Federated Media CEO John Battelle his rationale for turning down Facebook in October of 2008. He says, "he didn't see a reason to sellthe point is really what we can build."
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