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The new software will attempt to unify online databases and the printed word into a single tool for students. http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/12z0120_Apple_iBooks_Event_sd_DL.m4v Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:34:00 PST 6340195 439 Apple Inc.,Textbook,Tools & Techniques,Storage,Databases,Management,Hardware,Enterprise Software,Software,Data Management ZDNET.com At CES in Las Vegas, American Idol host Ryan Seacrest talks to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer about what to expect from the software giant in 2012. Ballmer previews the new Windows phone OS, Windows 8's metro UI and new Xbox Kinect features. http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/12z0109_CES_Microsoft_sd_DL.m4v Mon, 9 Jan 2012 22:12:00 PST 6337437 315 Phone,Steve Ballmer,Microsoft Windows Phone,CES,Microsoft Xbox,Microsoft Windows 8,Microsoft Windows,Game Players,Operating Systems,Software,Consumer Electronics,Personal Technology ZDNET.com At CES in Las Vegas, Sony executives show off the latest in the company's line of consumer electronics, from the company's new Xperia smartphone, to its new PlayStation Vita portable gaming system, to its Internet-enabled TVs. http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/12z0109_CES_Sony_sd_DL.m4v Mon, 9 Jan 2012 19:37:00 PST 6337341 314 Sony Corp.,CES,Gaming System,Games,Game Players,Internet,Consumer Electronics,Retail,Personal Technology ZDNET.com At CES in Las Vegas, Intel's Mooly Eden updates the company's "ultrabook" efforts, including a concept transparent touch screen on the back side, coupled with the Windows 8 Metro user interface. http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/12z0109_CES2012_Intel_new_sd_DL.m4v Mon, 9 Jan 2012 12:20:00 PST 6336804 242 Intel Corp.,Microsoft Windows 8,Ultrabook,Microsoft Windows,Keyboards,Monitors & Displays,Operating Systems,Software,Hardware,Peripherals,Components ZDNET.com Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal, reveals his favorite consumer gadgets of the year at the Churchill Club’s annual gadgets program. On his list: tangle-resistant ear buds and an iPhone case complete with a beer-bottle opener. Mossberg also demos http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11z1214_WaltMossberg_MIXED_sd_DL.m4v Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:08:00 PST 6333632 244 Wireless USB,Pick,Wall Street Journal,Gadget Pick,Consumer Gadget,Wireless And Mobility ZDNET.com At a Churchill Club event, AllThingsD technology columnist Kara Swisher shows ZDNet some “must have” gift ideas for the holidays, including “lighted finger rats,” a tactile iPad screen, and a classic retro-phone handset designed for your smart phone. http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11z1214_KaraSwisher_MIXED_sd_DL.m4v Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:05:00 PST 6333665 314 Columnist,Smart Phone,Handset,Kara Swisher,Tech Toy,Cellular Phones,Smart Phones,Handhelds,Consumer Electronics,Personal Technology,Hardware ZDNET.com At the GigaOm Net:Work conference in San Francisco, Google's Rajen Sheth talks about how the product development of Gmail inspired Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt to embrace cloud computing. The three at first "soundly rejected the id http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11z1208_NetWork_BeyondSaaS_sd_DL.m4v Thu, 8 Dec 2011 16:10:00 PST 6332650 174 Google Inc.,Google Gmail,E-mail Providers,Google Apps,Cloud Computing,Product Development,Internet,Research & Development,Business Operations ZDNET.com At a Google press event in Los Angeles, the company officially launches its music service and store. Now open to all, the service enables users to upload their music libraries to Google's servers, making those tunes available to stream on Android-ba http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11z1116_Goolge_Music_sd_DL.m4v Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:48:00 PST 6328761 126 Google Inc. ZDNET.com At a Churchill Club event in San Jose, Calif., former PARC engineer Larry Tesler talks about Steve Jobs' trips to Xerox's PARC, including the one where Jobs eyed the company's graphical user interface prototype, which ended up making it in http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11z1110_Churchill_SteveJobs_PARCB_sd_DL.m4v Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:35:00 PST 6327675 386 Job,Xerox Corp.,Xerox PARC,Apple Mac OS,Recruitment & Staffing,Operating Systems,Software,Human Resources,Workforce Management ZDNET.com At a Churchill Club event in San Jose, Calif., Jean-Louis Gassée discusses why Apple chose Steve Jobs NeXTSTEP OS over Gassée's Be OS. In hindsight, Gassée says, "Thank god that didn't happen, because I hated Apple's management." http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11z1110_Churchill_SteveJobs_NEXTvsBE_sd_DL.m4v Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:26:01 PST 6327673 173 Operating System,Apple Inc.,Operating Systems,Software ZDNET.com Speaking Tuesday at a Churchill Club event in Palo Alto, Calif., the country's Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel discusses innovation in the federal IT landscape. He says cybersecurity concerns should not be used as an excuse not to innovat http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11z1025_Churchill_VanRoekel_sd_DL.m4v Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:13:00 PDT 6321241 116 Cybersecurity,Innovation,Leadership,Strategy,Security,Management ZDNET.com At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks about why users should buy a Windows phone rather than an Android device: "You don’t need to be a computer scientist to use a Windows phone and you do to use and Android phon http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11z1019_Web2.0_Balmer_sd_DL.m4v Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:40:00 PDT 6317709 51 Phone,Steve Ballmer,Microsoft Windows Phone,Microsoft Corp.,Web 2.0,Microsoft Windows,Telecom & Utilities,Internet,Operating Systems,Software ZDNET.com At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Michael Dell, CEO of Dell Computer, talks about the state of the PC industry, competition with HP, Apple's near bankruptcy in 1997, and the first time he met Steve Jobs. http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11z1019_Web2.0_Dell_sd_DL.m4v Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:39:00 PDT 6317644 302 Steve Jobs,Dell Computer Corp.,Hewlett-Packard Co.,Apple Inc.,Web 2.0,Litigation,Personal Finance,Internet,Business Operations ZDNET.com At Oracle's OpenWorld in San Francisco, CEO Larry Ellison announces a new social-networking tool for enterprise customers. The new software will allow businesses to collaborate and exchange information over a private social network. http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11z1005_OOW_Ellison_SocialNetwork_sd_DL.m4v Thu, 6 Oct 2011 10:21:00 PDT 6309866 227 Oracle Corp.,Network,Oracle Open World,Larry Ellison,Enterprise Customer,Social Networking,Social Business,Social Media,Online Communications,Marketing,Advertising & Promotion ZDNET.com At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison discusses the company's new cloud offering. Ellison says: “The key difference is that our cloud is based on industry standards and supports full operability with other clouds and data ce http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11z1005_OOW_Ellison_Cloud_sd_DL.m4v Wed, 5 Oct 2011 17:30:00 PDT 6309864 349 Oracle Corp.,Larry Ellison,Cloud,Data Centers,Converged Infrastructure,Storage,Workload Optimization,Hardware,Data Management ZDNET.com Join us on a journey through the ups and downs of a career that has changed both the tech industry and our culture at large. http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/Jobs_CNET_sd_DL.m4v Wed, 5 Oct 2011 17:29:00 PDT 6309863 366 Steve Jobs,Industry,Tech Industry,Professional Development,Strategy,Career,Management ZDNET.com Apple's Scott Forstall shows off Siri, the company's new voice recognition-enabled personal assistant for the iPhone 4S. The new software will allow you to ask for help and will respond back to you in human-like language. http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11z1004_Apple_Siri3_sd_DL.m4v Tue, 4 Oct 2011 14:23:00 PDT 6308988 205 Voice Recognition,Apple Inc.,Telephony,Telecommunications,Networking ZDNET.com At Apple's headquarters, Apple's senior vice president of marketing, Philip Schiller, unveils new iPod Nano features, including a new multitouch icon screen, new sensors for runners, and the ability to wear the device as a watch. The Nano comes http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11z1004_Apple_Nano_sd_DL.m4v Tue, 4 Oct 2011 12:41:00 PDT 6308854 211 Apple iPod,Apple iPod Nano,Digital Music,Digital Media,Personal Technology,Consumer Electronics ZDNET.com Apple's SVP of marketing Philip Schiller announces the latest version of the company's popular iPhone, the iPhone 4S. The new smartphone touts a faster A5 chip, dual-core graphics, a longer battery life, a better camera, and dual-mode CDMA and http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11z1004_Apple_iPhoneOverview_sd_DL.m4v Tue, 4 Oct 2011 13:29:00 PDT 6308959 228 Apple iPhone,Phone,Dual-core,Apple Inc.,Smart Phones,Processors,Cellular Phones,Consumer Electronics,Personal Technology,Semiconductors,Hardware,Components ZDNET.com Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen says he believes we’re at a crossroads in IT, and that much of it is thanks to what is happening in the consumer world of tech. He spoke at the BoxWorks 2011 conference in San Francisco. http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11z0928_BoxWorks_Andreessen_sd_DL.m4v Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:20:00 PDT 6306163 211 Facebook,Marc Andreessen,San Francisco,Conference,Venture-capitalist Marc Andreessen,Consumer World,Venture Capital,Investment,Finance,Financing Startups ZDNET.com At the Mobilize conference in San Francisco, Pandora CTO Tom Conrad discusses his views on the competitive landscape in music and the differences between Pandora and Spotify. http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11z0926_Mobilize_Pandora_sd_DL.m4v Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:44:00 PDT 6304418 121 CTO,Radio,Media ZDNET.com At the F8 developer conference in San Francisco, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduces a revamped profile page called Timeline, which gives users more control and a chance to look back on everything they've ever published on the social network. http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11z0922_F8_Timeline_sd_DL.m4v Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:45:00 PDT 6302822 230 Facebook,San Francisco,Mark Zuckerberg,Social Media,Social Networking,Online Communications,Marketing,Advertising & Promotion ZDNET.com At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Brett Carpenter, from Microsoft’s Windows ecosystem group, shows off Windows 8. Its Metro-style UI has live tiles that can be programmed using existing tools and languages. It also supports full-screen apps. http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11z0915_IDF2011_BrettCarpenter_Windows8_sd_DL.m4v Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:41:00 PDT 6298373 243 Microsoft Windows 8,Microsoft Windows,Operating Systems,Software ZDNET.com At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Andrzej Nowak, staff researcher at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, explains how the organization is working to understand the universe and is processing the data it collects. http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11z0915_IDF2011_AndrzejNowak_CERN_sd_DL.m4v Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:57:00 PDT 6298436 536 Researcher,CERN,San Francisco,Intel Corp. ZDNET.com At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Mooly Eden, who heads up Intel's PC Client Group, shows off power-saving, self-refreshing display panels that he says will be the new standard in less than two years. http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11z0914_IDF2011__MoolyEden_SelfRefreshB_sd_DL.m4v Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:36:00 PDT 6297416 195 California,San Francisco,Battery,Intel Corp.,Engineering ZDNET.com At the Microsoft Build conference in Anaheim, Calif., Steven Sinofsky, the president of the Windows Division, takes the wraps off of Windows 8, unveiling the company's new operating system in front of an audience of software developers. http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11z0913_Windows8Preview_sd_DL.m4v Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:27:00 PDT 6296585 78 Microsoft Corp.,Microsoft Windows 8,Microsoft Windows,Operating Systems,Software ZDNET.com At the Intel Developer Forum, Google announced it is teaming up with the chipmaker to optimize Android for Intel-powered mobile devices. Google Senior Vice President Andy Rubin made an appearance during the keynote address with Intel CEO Paul Otellini to http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11z0913_IDF2011_PaulOtellini_AndyRubin_sd_DL.m4v Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:14:00 PDT 6296276 214 Google Inc.,Phone,Intel Corp.,Semiconductors,Processors,Hardware,Components ZDNET.com At the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff interviews Google Chairman Eric Schmidt about the state of the technology industry. Highlights include remarks about Apple's Steve Jobs, Motorola, the current patent system, http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11z0902_Dreamforce_Schmidt_sd_DL.m4v Fri, 2 Sep 2011 11:38:00 PDT 6290378 467 Steve Jobs,Google Inc.,Eric Schmidt,Patent,Microsoft Corp.,Sales Force Management,Sales ZDNET.com At the company's Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Salesforce.com executives demo how Disney and Toyota are using the company's social-networking tools to create better user engagement with customers. http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11z0831_Dreamforce_Disney_Toyota_sd_DL.m4v Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:45:00 PDT 6288935 400 Disney Corp.,Toyota Motor Corp.,Automotive ZDNET.com At the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff says that enterprise technology is going to face an uprising akin to the Arab Spring in the Middle East. The theme is that customers are going to revolt against traditional en http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11z0831_Dreamforce_Benioff_sd_DL.m4v Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:35:00 PDT 6288774 126 Salesforce.com Inc.,CEO,Marc Benioff,Sales Force Management,Sales ZDNET.com Watch key moments from Steve Jobs' speeches since he returned to Apple in 1997. http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11z0824_SteveJobs_HisWords_sd_DL.m4v Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:42:00 PDT 6284680 321 Steve Jobs,Apple Inc. ZDNET.com Steve Jobs stepping down as CEO of Apple marks the end of an era. Come with us on a journey through the ups and downs of his career. From the development of the first Mac in 1984 to the unveiling of the iPhone and iPad, Jobs has changed the face of an in http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/Steve_Jobs_retro_sd_DL.m4v Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:55:00 PDT 6284616 311 Steve Jobs,Professional Development,Strategy,Desktops,Career,Management,Hardware ZDNET.com At the Churchill Club in Mountain View, Calif., technology executives from Microsoft, Facebook, SAP, and Juniper Networks discuss the barriers women face landing a job in the technology industry and offer recommendations for increasing the number of wome http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11z0714_CC_Women_Tech_Exec_sd_DL.m4v Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:30:00 PDT 6259543 363 Women,Gender And Diversity,Human Resources BNET.com See the largest and tallest green roof in New York City -- installed for the same price as a regular roof. Learn how solar film and better equipment maintenance help reduce CBS Corporation's energy consumption in this EcoMedia video. Editor's N http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11s0711_EcoHeroes_BlackRock_sd_DL.m4v Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:21:00 PDT 6257971 215 Roof,CBS Corp.,SmartPlanet,Sustainability BNET.com When your smartphone is dead and there's no electrical outlet in sight, you're usually out of luck. But if the sun was shining and you were sporting the OffGrid Solar Backpack, you'd have plenty of talk time. SmartPlanet correspondent S http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11s0708_SmartPicks_Solar_BackPack_sd_DL.m4v Fri, 8 Jul 2011 13:07:00 PDT 6257344 104 Electrical Outlet,SmartPlanet,Sumi,Smart Phones,Cellular Phones,Handhelds,Consumer Electronics,Personal Technology,Hardware ZDNET.com Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces a new Skype-powered video-calling feature that will begin rolling out to Facebook users immediately. Video connections will be nearly instant, with no downloads or technical expertise required, Zuckerberg says. http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11z0706_Facebook_Video_Calling_sd_DL.m4v Wed, 6 Jul 2011 12:58:00 PDT 6256589 246 Facebook,Video Call,Video,Mark Zuckerberg,Corporate Communications,Social Media,Marketing BNET.com Andre Anders, a senior scientist with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, leads the team that develops technology for "smart" windows. The window glass lets more or less light into a building depending on the climate outside and on settings http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11s0623_SmartWindows_sd_DL.m4v Tue, 5 Jul 2011 05:31:00 PDT 6251496 120 Window,Zinc,Climate,SmartPlanet,Window Glass,Construction BNET.com San Francisco start-up Fenix International has developed the ReadySet, a lead-acid based battery, housed in a safe, leak-resistant plastic casing that has plug-in adapters on the exterior shell. The battery can power multiple lights and electronics at th http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11s0623_FenixBatteries_sd_DL.m4v Wed, 29 Jun 2011 08:41:00 PDT 6251498 188 Battery,Lead-acid Battery,SmartPlanet,Engineering BNET.com Analysts discuss how your smartphone could become your digital wallet as banks bring new technologies and apps to these devices. http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11s0525_MobileBanking_Show4_sd_DL.m4v Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:56:00 PDT 6239023 203 Smart Phone,Wallet,SmartPlanet,Smart Phones,Cellular Phones,Handhelds,Consumer Electronics,Personal Technology,Hardware BNET.com Your afternoon cuppa has never been so green. When you put the kettle on, how much water is left over, only to be tossed later? Well, grab your biscuits and listen up. Tea lover and SmartPlanet correspondent shows us how the ECO Kettle helps put an end t http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11s0623_SmartPicks_EcoKettle_2_sd_DL.m4v Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:41:00 PDT 6251475 90 Correspondent,Waste,SmartPlanet,Sumi ZDNET.com At Structure 2011 in San Francisco, Cisco's Lew Tucker and HP's Joe Weinman talk about emerging cloud technologies and a new era of large-scale geographically dispersed computing. http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11z0623_StructureConf-LewTucker_sd_DL.m4v Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:19:00 PDT 6251395 250 Cloud Computing,Hewlett-Packard Co.,Era,Cisco Systems Inc. BNET.com The International Air Transport Association recently unveiled this prototype at its annual general meeting in Singapore. After arriving at the airport, passengers would enter one of three security lanes and be checked according to risk. Advances in scree http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11s0623_AirportSecurity_sd_DL.m4v Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:50:00 PDT 6251369 71 Airport,Passenger,SmartPlanet,Security ZDNET.com At a Churchill Club event in Palo Alto, Calif., executives from Cisco, ARM, and McKinsey Global Institute talk about the role social networking is playing inside the enterprise. They discuss who is using it, strategies they've implemented, and best http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11z0621_Churchill_Club_social_networked_sd_DL.m4v Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:59:00 PDT 6250479 230 ARM,Network,Palo Alto,Role Social Networking,Social Networking,Social Media,Online Communications,Marketing,Advertising & Promotion BNET.com Heavy metal thunder? Maybe not. But clean and “green” for sure. Zero Motorcycles, a start-up in Scotts Valley, Calif., is steering motorcycle technology in a different direction by going all-electric. The company's motorcycles run on 50-pound, lith http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11s0525_ZeroMotorcycles_sd_DL.m4v Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:51:00 PDT 6239639 190 Motorcycle,SmartPlanet,Automotive BNET.com Good news for shower singers. Whether you're listening to top 40 or shock jocks, there's a greener way to tune in to your favorite station. SmartPlanet's Sumi Das shows us a radio that runs solely on water power. http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11s0616_SmartPick_ShowerRadio_sd_DL.m4v Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:10:00 PDT 6248717 124 Radio,SmartPlanet,Sumi,Media BNET.com At NASA Ames Research Park, scientist Peter Wasowski has developed an alternative exercise machine called Vasper. The user wears compression cuffs on the arms and legs and core-cooling panels on the chest and head. During exercise, the machine traps larg http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11s0420_Vasper_MIXED2_sd_DL.m4v Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:41:00 PDT 6246488 137 Chest,Machine,SmartPlanet BNET.com Let there be light. Simple and sun-powered, this lantern is a safer alternative to harmful kerosene lamps. SmartPlanet's Sumi Das explains how it could improve life for millions. http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11s0608_SmartPick_DLight_sd_DL.m4v Wed, 8 Jun 2011 13:33:00 PDT 6244395 125 Pick,Mobile,Light,SmartPlanet,Sumi BNET.com The new pharmacy at the University of California at San Francisco is believed to be the most automated hospital pharmacy in the country. Robots now track and prepare doses of pills, IV bags, and syringes. These medications, untainted by human contact, ar http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11s0601_RoboticPharmacy_sd_DL.m4v Wed, 8 Jun 2011 00:00:00 PDT 6241157 190 Pharmacy,SmartPlanet,Robots,Emerging Technologies ZDNET.com At Apple's WWDC in San Francisco, CEO Steve Jobs announces the company's cloud service, iCloud. The service will store content in the cloud and then push it wirelessly to all of the user's devices. Apple is not charging for the service at http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11z0606_ApplePress_Steve_Jobs_sd_DL.m4v Mon, 6 Jun 2011 14:31:00 PDT 6243102 446 Steve Jobs,Xcerion iCloud,Apple Inc. ZDNET.com At the WWDC conference in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils iTunes Match, part of the company's new iCloud service. For a $24.99 annual fee, users can use iTunes Match to scan their music library for non-iTunes purchased songs. Apple then http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/11z0606_Itunes_Steve_Jobs_sd_DL.m4v Mon, 6 Jun 2011 15:44:00 PDT 6243187 236 Steve Jobs,Xcerion iCloud,WWDC,Apple Inc.,Apple iTunes,Digital Music,Digital Media,Digital Rights Management (DRM),Personal Technology,Consumer Electronics,Security