Latest videos & podcasts from Network World.
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Highlight of the week:
Nissan’s Pivo 2 concept car runs entirely on electricity, has a built-in robot to keep answer questions from the driver, keep the driver in a good mood and watch for signs of stress or tiredness.
More videos and podcasts:
I-Mate’s Momento digital picture frames can grab photos from USB drives, SD cards and through the Internet via a wireless network connection. Keith gives the digital picture frame a run through. Twisted Pair podcast: ISPs want to rule the world
Jason and Keith gab about Comcast’s broadband meddling, the Facebook / Microsoft love affair, and whether the Internet can be a good substitute for a significant other. (38:08)
Panorama podcast: One Laptop Per Child leads to greener enterprise computing
One Laptop Per Child, the ambitious non-profit organization created by Nicolas Negroponte and others, is not only trying to bring $100 laptops to kids in developing nations but also trying to save the environment at the same time. The group is touting its XO laptop design as “The World’s Greenest Laptop Computer” and has third-party industry groups backing up that claim. Rebecca Gonzales, senior manager for high-growth Markets at AMD, one of the companies involved in the project, talks with Network World’s Jason Meserve about some of the green technologies in the XO and how they might be applied to future corporate mainstream computer designs. (12:48)
Voices from IT Roadmap podcast: Extreme makeover: Data center
Robert Wakefield, Vice President of IT at Snelling Staffing Services and Intrepid Home Health Services, had seven months to combine two data centers into a single new structure without interrupting critical projects such as a PeopleSoft installation. He explains how his team was able to pull of the construction and move as well as what you should look out for in your own data center construction projects. (7:21)
Panorama podcast: Protecting your intellectual propertyEveryday, it seems, there’s a new charge of one company stealing another’s intellectual property or violating a patent. Most recently, Microsoft charged Red Hat with violating some of its intellectual property claims. Network World’s Jason Meserve talks about the issue and what can be done to protect software assets with Mike Dager, CEO of Arxan, a maker of intellectual property protection tools. (10:16) LinuxWorld podcast: Hardware for the long tail: Peter Semmelhack
Your favorite new embedded Linux device probably doesn’t exist yet, because the economics of hardware makes small production runs prohibitively expensive. A New York startup is making a snap-together platform and development tools to give entrepreneurs the ability to create custom devices with cameras, GPS, wireless, and more. (13:46)
JavaWorld’s Java Technology Insider podcast: Alberto Savoia talks shop about C.R.A.P.According to Alberto Savoia, 80 percent of developers spend most of their career working on other people’s code — and a depressing percentage of that code is crappy! In this engaging interview with code quality evangelist Andrew Glover, Savoia reveals the thinking behind the C.R.A.P. metric, and explains how you can use it, in tandem with the new Crap4j plugin for Eclipse, to evaluate inherited code. Andrew also gets Alberto talking about some of the recent critique of the C.R.A.P. metric, and how he and co-creator Bob Evans would like to see the metric evolve.
