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Making Change Happen Every Day: Q&A With GSA's David McClure September 03, 2010 
The U.S. government spends $80 billion annually on information technology. The U.S. General Services Administration is directly involved in nearly 25 percent of federal IT procurement activities through its Schedule 70 acquisition program, including nearly $9 billion directly for information technology investments. GSA has emerged as a leader in guiding federal investments for information technology.
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Who You Gonna Call? Q&A With Software Freedom Law Center's Eben Moglen July 23, 2010 
The Software Freedom Law Center provides free legal representation and other law-related services to open source software developers. The organization began in 2005 under the direction of Eben Moglen, a professor of law and legal history at Columbia University Law School. His law center represents many of the most important and well-established free software and open source projects.
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The Subscription Prescription: Q&A With Zuora CEO Tien Tzuo July 14, 2010 
Zuora, a provider of on-demand subscription billing and payment services, was cofounded in March 2008 jointly by Tien Tzuo, who serves as its CEO; Cheng Zou and K.V. Rao. It received $6.5 million in Series A funding later that month and $15 million in Series B funding in October of 2008. It has been profitable since.
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When GNOME Met KDE: Q and A With GNOME Foundation Director Stormy Peters June 25, 2010 
The GNOME Project is widely recognized in the world of Linux as a leading developer community of a free and easy-to-use desktop environment. GNOME is part of the GNU/Linux Project. The label "GNU" is a recursive acronym meaning GNU's Not Unix, according to GNU.org. Based in Cambridge, Mass., the GNOME Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to furthering the goals of the GNOME project.
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Rewriting the Language of 3-D: Q&A With Pixar Chief Scientist Loren Carpenter June 07, 2010 
If you're a parent of young children and you've sat through any number of bad "family" movies during a crowded matinee, then you've probably thanked Disney/Pixar for conjuring up the likes of Buzz Lightyear and Woody, Nemo and Dory, Mike and Sully, Mr. Incredible, Wall-E, Lightning McQueen and Remy the gourmand rat.
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'The End of the Old': Q&A With CA Technologies EVP George Fischer June 03, 2010 
CA Technologies recently unveiled its cloud management road map, along with a working plan for a family of new solutions that will form its CA Cloud-Connected Management Suite in the months to come. That's not the only change for CA. The new CA Technologies is ready to take on the world and become the infrastructure service provider of choice, said EVP George Fischer.
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'I'd Rather Sell to 10,000 SMBs': Q&A With Citrix Online President Brett Caine May 17, 2010 
Citrix Online, a division of Citrix Systems, offers remote connectivity tools to the small and medium-sized business market. These include GoToMyPC, which offers remote access; GoToMeeting, an online collaboration tool; GoToTraining, an online training package; and GoToWebinar. Most recently, Citrix bought up Paglo and stepped into the managed services software market with a new product.
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When to Give Customers What They Didn't Ask For: Q&A With Salesforce.com CMO Kendall Collins May 17, 2010 
Over the years, Salesforce.com has gradually transformed itself from being a CRM company to a cloud services provider. Along the way, it partnered with leading-edge Web 2.0 companies such as Google and Facebook, and most recently, it teamed up with virtualization giant VMware to offer VMforce, a new platform for application developers.
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Better Software Through Pixel Tinkering: Q&A With Prefab Dev James Fogarty May 04, 2010 
How do you allow consumers to modify the software that's on their desktop computers -- to be able to take parts of Windows, iTunes and Photoshop and put them on the same screen -- without having the entire legal departments of Microsoft, Apple, Adobe and other companies knocking on their doors? The answer may lie in Prefab.
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Security Is an Infrastructure Problem: Q&A With Trend Micro CEO Eva Chen April 19, 2010 
Eva Chen, CEO of security vendor Trend Micro, wears many hats. She's a mom, a chief executive, a philosopher, an idealist and a highly savvy technologist who's guided the development of several award-winning security technologies while serving first as the company's executive vice president, then as its chief technology officer.
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The Taming of the Tweet: Q&A With Twitter Cocreator Dom Sagolla April 12, 2010 
Dom Sagolla doesn't have to dig deep into his own Twitter profile to look back on his very first tweet. It just happened to be one of Twitter's very first tweets -- tweet #38, to be exact, appearing March 21, 2006. "Oh this is going to be addictive," it read. "It was so easy and simple that I felt that this was going to consume us if we're not careful," Sagolla told TechNewsWorld.
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The Linux Desktop Will Have Its Day: Q&A With Canonical Founder Mark Shuttleworth March 05, 2010 
Canonical founder and CEO Mark Shuttleworth, developer of the Ubuntu open source operating system, announced in December that he was stepping aside to develop cloud product design and curry new partners. He named Chief Operating Officer Jane Silber to take his place as CEO. Several weeks ago, Silber announced the hiring of open source industry veteran Matt Asay to fill her old job as COO.
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Next-Gen Collaboration: Q&A With Avaya President of Global Services Chris Formant March 01, 2010 
With last summer's launch of Avaya Aura and the purchase of Nortel Enterprise Solutions and Nortel Government Solutions in December, Avaya has placed itself squarely in the No. 1 spot for the global enterprise telephony and unified communications, audio conferencing, enterprise messaging and contact center/ACD spaces.
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Rethinking the Fortifications: Q&A With Heartland CIO Steven Elefant February 01, 2010 
Following a breach of its computer systems a year ago, Heartland Payment System, one of the five largest payment card processors in the United States, came under considerable pressure to strengthen its IT security, and it's been embroiled in several lawsuits because of the breach.
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Startup, Know Thyself: Q&A With Sierra Ventures Managing Director Tim Guleri January 29, 2010 
In this business climate, the road to striking a venture capital deal is difficult for both funder and fundee. Small startups with big ideas obviously have a harder time finding VC firms willing to take a chance on them, but those VC firms themselves are under added pressure to make the correct decisions regarding where to put their limited resources.
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FOSS Feats and Follies: Q&A With Red Hat Fedora Project Leader Paul Frields January 22, 2010 
Red Hat Linux and the Fedora Project developers will soon introduce core technological improvements to provide better desktop environments and video driver support in the upcoming release of both the commercial and the free open source operating systems later this year.
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The Web's Next Layer of Innovation: Q&A With Creative Commons CEO Joi Ito January 15, 2010 
Web surfers, whether hardcore business professionals or amateur Web site creators, frequently find images online either through search engines or Web page browsing. However, in most cases, these images are not free to use. Maybe the photographer who created the image would be open to selling rights for a small fee; perhaps he or she only wants attribution but no pay.
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Civilization's High Stakes Cyber-Struggle: Q&A With Gen. Wesley Clark (ret.) December 02, 2009 
The conflicts in the Middle East and Afghanistan, to name the most prominent hot spots in the world today, are taking their toll on human life and limb. However, the escalating cyberconflict among nations is far more dangerous, argues retired general Wesley Clark, who spoke with TechNewsWorld in an exclusive interview.
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Cloud Security's Silver Lining: Q&A With ISF President Howard Schmidt November 18, 2009 
The Information Security Forum may bill itself as the world's leading independent authority on IT security, but the companies and agencies that its members work for are finding themselves more dependent than ever on its computer security expertise. Current trends that are expanding access to networks for companies and consumers are also providing more potential opportunities for IT's "bad guys."
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Privacy in the Public Cloud: Q&A With Terremark Exec Jason Lochhead October 12, 2009 
When Amazon began offering cheap pay-as-you-go access to computing resources in the cloud to the public, it broke new ground. Independent developers, small businesses and individual departments of large businesses leaped at the chance to work on projects while keeping infrastructure costs down.
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