Archive for September, 2006

A Wallop for Social Media

September 27th, 2006 |
A Wallop for Social Media

LOS ANGELES, September 27, (PodTech News) — Wallop Technologies on Tuesday announced its own social networking site to compete against such heavyweights as MySpace, Friendster and others. Devoid of advertising, the new site debuted at DEMOfall 2006 in San Diego [See the full post…]

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Kill Your Television: Revision3 Gets a Mighty Launch

September 27th, 2006 |
Kill Your Television: Revision3 Gets a Mighty Launch

Tuesday night at The Mighty in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill district, Digg CEO Jay Adelson, Digg co-founder and Chief Architect, Kevin Rose, and a couple hundred friends, fans and coworkers celebrated the launch of Revision3, a new TV network [See the full post…]

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Intel Inside, Outside, In Your Home, In Your Car…

September 26th, 2006 |
Intel Inside, Outside, In Your Home, In Your Car…

SAN FRANCISCO, September 26, 2006 (PodTech News) — Intel’s CEO Paul Otellini said his company is committed to bringing out new silicon manufacturing processes and chips every two years. Essentially, according to Otellini, Intel will prove that Moore’s Law can [See the full post…]

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The State of Alternative Battery Technology

September 26th, 2006 |
The State of Alternative Battery Technology

Intel’s Andy Keates shared his thoughts on alternative battery technology during the “Meet the Mobility Experts” networking event at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. PodTech’s Rio Pesino asked him about the importance of alternative battery power, where the [See the full post…]

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LimeWire Countersuit Against Record Companies

September 26th, 2006 |
LimeWire Countersuit Against Record Companies

LOS ANGELES, September 26, (PodTech News) — The gloves are off for LimeWire in its dealings with the major record companies. The company on Monday filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, charging 13 [See the full post…]

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Intel Mobility Experts Discuss Ultra Mobile PC Technology

September 26th, 2006 |
Intel Mobility Experts Discuss Ultra Mobile PC Technology

Ultra Mobile PCs were on display today at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, CA. Intel’s Pankaj Sinha and Rochelle Whelan met with PodTech’s Rio Pesino to discuss how the technology compares to PCs and laptops, as well as [See the full post…]

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M = $ for Mercora

September 26th, 2006 |
M = $ for Mercora

LOS ANGELES, September 26, (PodTech News) — Santa Clara, Calif.-based Mercora, Inc. Monday released ‘M’ the first wireless, over-the-air mobile media software application for smart phones. The technology enables the user to access their computer’s digital music library from any [See the full post…]

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Intel’s $1 Million Core Processor Challenge

September 26th, 2006 |
Intel’s $1 Million Core Processor Challenge

Intel announced the Intel Core Processor Challenge to award up to $1 million in prizes to the PC or CE manufacturers that designs the smallest, most stylish, multimedia optimized PCs based on Intel Viiv technology with Intel Core 2 Duo [See the full post…]

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Intel CTO Justin Rattner Previews IDF, San Francisco

September 26th, 2006 |
Intel CTO Justin Rattner Previews IDF, San Francisco

On the eve of the second Intel Developers Forum this year, Intel CTO Justin Rattner sat down with PodTech’s Michael Johnson for a sneak preview of the week long conference in San Francisco. [See the full post…]

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Check out PodTech’s new site and ScobleShow!

September 25th, 2006 |

Well everyone, welcome to a new PodTech.net! It’s been a hectic few months, could you tell? We’ve been building out a platform to support video. Robert Scoble joined our team. We’ve been reorganizing our content. We hired a bunch of [See the full post…]

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House Subcommittee to HP: You’re Cordially Invited

September 25th, 2006 |
House Subcommittee to HP: You’re Cordially Invited

MENLO PARK, September 25, 2006 (PodTech News) — Two Hewlett-Packard executives, including senior counsel Kevin Hunsaker and global security manager Anthony Gentilucci, were issued subpoenas by The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee today to appear at this Thursday’s hearing [See the full post…]

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Printing For Less in the middle of nowhere

September 25th, 2006 |
Printing For Less in the middle of nowhere

One of my favorite things to do is get tours of businesses. For instance, if you’re ever in Seattle you should head north and take a tour of the 747 plant. It’s incredible.

But most businesses don’t give tours and, [See the full post…]

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Mad Mojitos at the Ritz: talking tech with CEOs from B5 Media and SmugMug

September 25th, 2006 |
Mad Mojitos at the Ritz: talking tech with CEOs from B5 Media and SmugMug

On weekends I like to walk down to the Half Moon Bay Ritz Carlton resort. It’s nice, as you’ll see (stick around for the bagpiper at the end, he comes down playing his music every Saturday an hour before sunset). [See the full post…]

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For developers only: Language Wars

September 25th, 2006 |
For developers only: Language Wars

Every week on the ScobleShow I’ll try to have a geek on that’ll teach you something, well, geeky. You know, a tip on how to do AJAX right or a look inside a development tool like a new version of [See the full post…]

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Talking about XML with Tim Bray, XML’s co-creator

September 25th, 2006 |

Even Tim Bray is blown away at the popularity of XML. He was one of the co-creators of the XML spec back in the mid 1990s and in this audio interview he and I talk about the state of XML [See the full post…]

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SAP’s exec star talks about the new business

September 25th, 2006 |
SAP’s exec star talks about the new business

Shai Agassi is one of enterprise software giant SAP’s brightest stars. At age 34 he was the youngest to be named to its executive board (one of seven people who run SAP). At SAP’s recent TechED conference I met Shai [See the full post…]

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JotSpot: Enterprise Wiki Service

September 25th, 2006 |
JotSpot: Enterprise Wiki Service

Every week we’ll run a demo of a product you might not have tried yet. When I shoot these I tell the person doing the demo that they have to keep it short. But it’s a good way to see [See the full post…]

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Photowalking with Thomas Hawk, Part I

September 25th, 2006 |
Photowalking with Thomas Hawk, Part I

Thomas Hawk shows up at many Silicon Valley geek events and he makes some of the best images I’ve ever seen.

This video came about because I wanted to learn more about how he does it.

It’s remarkable video where [See the full post…]

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Jonathan Schwartz on why Sun Microsystems is relevant

September 25th, 2006 |
Jonathan Schwartz on why Sun Microsystems is relevant

Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems, sat down with me recently to talk about a wide range of topics from trends in the datacenter to why he thinks more CEOs should blog.

Every week on the ScobleShow I’ll try [See the full post…]

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WIKI WISDOM: Tips from a Social Media Maven

September 25th, 2006 |
WIKI WISDOM: Tips from a Social Media Maven

Giovanni Rodriquez formerly the most senior social media guru of Eastwick Communication is out on his own now and offers great tips on how to use a WIKI for corporate marketing. Jennifer and Giovanni discuss best practices in WIKIS for [See the full post…]

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What is the Image Skinny Models Are Sending to Kids?

September 24th, 2006 |
What is the Image Skinny Models Are Sending to Kids?

Common Sense Media CEO Jim Steyer discusses a fashion show which has banned girls who are too thin and the image that sickly looking models sends to children.

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CommonSenseMedia.org [See the full post…]

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Symantec Home and Home Office Security Report for July 2006

September 24th, 2006 |

A Symantec Security Response podcast focused on the Symantec Home and Home Office Security Report for July 2006. The goal of this podcast is to help you better understand some of the threats and trends identified in the report and [See the full post…]

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HP Press Briefing: We’ll Tell, But Don’t Ask

September 22nd, 2006 |
HP Press Briefing: We’ll Tell, But Don’t Ask

PALO ALTO, September 22, 2006 (PodTech News) — Hewlett-Packard held a press briefing this afternoon at HP headquarters in Palo Alto at which they refused to answer any questions from the press. HP President and CEO Mark Hurd spoke, as [See the full post…]

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BitTorrent Bullish on Digital Downloads

September 22nd, 2006 |
BitTorrent Bullish on Digital Downloads

LOS ANGELES, September 22, (PodTech News) — This week, The Walt Disney Company saw $1 million in revenue from 125,000 sales of digital movies oniTunes, proving — at least for now — that consumers will pay to download and watch [See the full post…]

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Breaking News: Dunn Leaving HP; Hurd Approved Sending Misinformation to Journalist

September 22nd, 2006 |

MENLO PARK, September 22, 2006 (PodTech News) — Hewlett-Packard held a press briefing this afternoon at which they refused to answer any questions. HP CEO and President Mark Hurd, along with Mike Holston, a representative of Morgan Lewis, the law [See the full post…]

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