Archive for August, 2006

Friendster Steps Back Into the Ring With $10 Million

Friendster Steps Back Into the Ring With $10 Million

SAN FRANCISCO, August 23, 2006 (PodTech News) – Friendster Inc. announced Monday that it has received $10 million in new funding. The money will support a renewed effort to refocus on its original mission to be a “real-world” social network. [See the full post…]

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Web 2.0, Creativity, and the 8-Month-Old Baby Who Didn’t Crawl

Web 2.0, Creativity, and the 8-Month-Old Baby Who Didn’t Crawl

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“There are some really weird, creative companies that are succeeding now in Web 2.0.” With Web 2.0’s recent explosion of creativity, Halley Suitt, prominent blogger, CEO and publisher of Top 10 Sources observes that [See the full post…]

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Dow Jones VentureWire Health Care Innovations Conference

Change is coming fast for health care investors, executives and entrepreneurs. Public investors have rejected companies built on once-surefire models. Big Pharma, after years of nibbling, is acquiring private drug companies to boost internal pipelines. IT may finally be making [See the full post…]

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YouTube Launches Paris Hilton Channel

LOS ANGELES, August 22, 2006, (PodTech News) — The online video sharing site YouTube sees dollar signs in Paris Hilton, launching it’s first brand channel featuring the hotel heiress. The new advertising revenue model will try to integrate advertiser brand [See the full post…]

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Symantec: New Computer

A Symantec Security Response Podcast focusing on the top security measures a consumer should take when setting up a new personal computer. Additionally, this podcast outlines the critical steps new personal computer owners need to take to protect their valuable [See the full post…]

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‘Snakes’ Slithers to #1 at the Box Office

LOS ANGELES, August 21, 2006 (PodTech News) — Horror and comedy mixed to narrowly edge out the competition and come out at the top of the box office over the weekend. “Snakes on a Plane” the suspense-thriller from New Line [See the full post…]

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PodTech News Launches New Series, “Web 2.0 Voices”

August 21st, 2006 |

We’re kicking off a new interview series here at PodTech News, Web 2.0 Voices, and we’d love your ideas. Which companies are on your list of the Web 2.0 firms to watch? Who are the people behind the hot new [See the full post…]

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Digg’s Kevin Rose Says Digg Will Expand Beyond News

Digg’s Kevin Rose Says Digg Will Expand Beyond News

MENLO PARK, August 21, 2006 (PodTech News) — Digg.com‘s Founder and Chief Architect, Kevin Rose, is having a good time. His “social news” website, Digg.com received about $3 million in funding last year from the Omidyar Network, Netscape [See the full post…]

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Do You Ubuntu? Canonical’s Jane Silber on Enterprise and Open Source at LinuxWorld 2006

Do You Ubuntu? Canonical’s Jane Silber on Enterprise and Open Source at LinuxWorld 2006

Canonical COO Jane Silber speaks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson about collaborations between enterprise and open source software. Silber says the cooperative model is the inevitable wave of the future. [See the full post…]

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The Kernel is Calling: Mobile Phones at LinuxWorld

The Kernel is Calling: Mobile Phones at LinuxWorld

There are over 4 million Linux-based mobile phones in China. Linux phones are quietly making their way to the U.S., and at LinuxWorld 2006 in San Francisco, PodTech’s Michael Johnson speaks with Karsten Homann of TrollTech, and Jim Cook [See the full post…]

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Corporate Blogs: Their Use In Marketing Strategy

Corporate Blogs: Their Use In Marketing Strategy

Debbie Weil, Author of a newly published book called The Corporate Blogging Book discusses with host, Jennifer Jones how blogs are used for marketing to develop greater thought leadership, stronger community building and better customer relations. Debbie is a [See the full post…]

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Infoblox CEO Robert Thomas: As IP-Coded Devices Spread, DNS Will Grow to Manage Them

Infoblox CEO Robert Thomas: As IP-Coded Devices Spread, DNS Will Grow to Manage Them

Robert Thomas, CEO of Infoblox, a rapidly growing enterprise infrastructure player, sat down with PodTech founder John Furrier to discuss trends in DNS and infrastructure. “When you think about DNS, it’s boring stuff,” says Thomas. “But if you think [See the full post…]

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Accel Partners VC Theresia Ranzetta Gouw Says the Internet Is a Mainstream Lifestyle, Finally

Venture capitalist Theresia Ranzetta Gouw sat down with PodTech founder John Furrier to talk about online trends. “I only use e-mail to talk to old people.” That’s what Ranzetta Gouw’s 15-year-old nephew told the partner at $450 million venture capital [See the full post…]

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CEA: The Next-Gen Console War Will Benefit the Gaming Market

The Consumer Electronics Association predicts that video games will bring in more than $12 billion dollars this year. In this podcast, CEA’s Sean Wargo talks with PodTech’s Rio Pesino about the growth of the industry, the impact next-gen consoles will [See the full post…]

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iMesh Releases Newest Authorized P2P Application

iMesh Releases Newest Authorized P2P Application

LOS ANGELES, August 18, 2006(PodTech News) — On Thursday, August 17, 2006, iMesh subsidiary MusicLab LLC announced the launch of their new peer-to-peer application (P2P), BearShare 6.0. What does it mean for the company and how will it impact the [See the full post…]

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LinuxWorld Keynote: Xensource CEO, Peter Levine on Virtualization, Past, Present, and Future

LinuxWorld Keynote: Xensource CEO, Peter Levine on Virtualization, Past, Present, and Future

In this keynote speech from LinuxWorld & Expo 2006 in San Francisco, Xensource CEO Peter Levine, says though only 6 percent of new servers feature virtualization, its influence in the future of data center management is inevitable.

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Podcaster Tom Raftery on Global Reach, Human Connections, and Podcasting

August 18th, 2006 |

With traffic to his podcast site growing week by week, Tom Raftery is hosting an increasingly important forum for conversations with various thought leaders. His site, PodLeaders, deals with tech issues at home in Cork, Ireland, as well as [See the full post…]

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From New Orleans to Mountain View

From New Orleans to Mountain View

SAN FRANCISCO, August 18, 2006 (PodTech News) – “The radios worked in New Orleans until the power went out,” said Ellen Kirk, vice president of marketing for Tropos Networks, in an interview Wednesday with PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau. That test bodes [See the full post…]

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Lease Your Lamposts AND Get Free WiFi

Lease Your Lamposts AND Get Free WiFi

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., August 17, 2006 (PodTech News) — Lease your lampposts for $39 a pop, and get a free WiFi network that serves the entire city? No wonder the Google WiFi proposal got a standing ovation and passage in [See the full post…]

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Fast and Free: Mountain View’s Google WiFi

Fast and Free: Mountain View’s Google WiFi

MENLO PARK, August 16, 2006 (PodTech News) – Google WiFi is open for business in the city of Mountain View. As of 9 p.m. Tuesday, the city of 72,000 became the second, and most populous, U.S. city with completely free [See the full post…]

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LinuxWorld Keynote: Nationwide’s Guru Vasudeva: IT Simplification via Linux Virtualization

LinuxWorld Keynote: Nationwide’s Guru Vasudeva: IT Simplification via Linux Virtualization

In 2005 Nationwide, a Fortune 100 insurance company, sought solutions to the increasing costs of data and software. In this keynote speech from LinuxWorld & Expo 2006 in San Francisco, Guru Vasudeva, Nationwide’s AVP and enterprise chief architect, explains how [See the full post…]

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LinuxWorld Keynote: Intel’s Richard Wirt: Virtualized Real World Part 2

Intel’s Richard Wirt continues his talk on the evolution of grid computing and real world applications with guest Peter Lee, CEO of DataSynapse who featured some real time virtualization demos. This is the 2nd of 2 parts from his keynote [See the full post…]

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XNA is coming to USC

XNA is coming to USC

University of Southern California is one of more than 10 universities adding Microsoft’s XNA Game Studio Express into their curricula. PodTech’s Rio Pesino spoke with Michael Zyda, who is the Director of USC’s Gamepipe game development school, about the impact [See the full post…]

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Can You See Me Now? How About Now?

August 16th, 2006 |

Audio and video content is coming to mobile phones — although a new L.A. Times/Bloomberg Poll that Dennis Haarsager points to in his Technology360 blog suggests that the always-on generation isn’t so enthusiastic about getting audio and video content on [See the full post…]

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LinuxWorld Keynote: Intel’s Richard Wirt: Grid Computing Part 1

LinuxWorld Keynote: Intel’s Richard Wirt: Grid Computing Part 1

Richard Wirt, general manager of Intel’s software and solutions group and a senior fellow at Intel, talks about Linux and highlights the evolution of grid computing and real world applications. He was joined by Bill Coleman, CEO of Cassatt to [See the full post…]

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