Lower-than-expected consumer confidence rattles the markets, Sony’s in even more trouble than it was in yesterday — this time it’s the Feds, Microsoft gets open source religion and Apple releases a new iPod shuffle, just in time for the holidays. [See the full post…]

LOS ANGELES, October 31, 2006, (PodTech News) — As more and more content gets distributed over the Internet, P2P is finally getting a little respect. By distributing a broadcast’s bandwidth requirement over an entire network of participants rather than originating [See the full post…]

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 30, 2006 (PodTech News) — Zero to 60 in 3.9 seconds, at a fuel cost of less than a penny per mile. Sound too good to be true? It gets better — the dream car we’re [See the full post…]

Some 1,500 delegates from across the globe are meeting in Athens, Greece for the inaugural Internet Governance Forum, or IGF. Everything from Icann to cyber-security to phishing attacks will be up for discussion in the week long forum. Amnesty International’s [See the full post…]

Microsoft hears another complaint about anti-competitive practices — this time from Google. Sony’s Playstation 3 is under pressure from less expensive competition. Copyrighted material online is being pulled from MySpace and YouTube, marking important transitions for both peer-to-peer sites. TV-produced [See the full post…]

Bob Sutor is in a unique position to see the broad impact and promise of the drive for open standards and the open source movement. Here, he shares his perspectives on both and on how they relate to IBM’s own [See the full post…]

Bob Sutor is in a unique position to see the broad impact and promise of the drive for open standards and the open source movement. Here, he shares his perspectives on both and on how they relate to IBM’s own [See the full post…]

Alex Iskold – a big PodTech fan and an exciting entrepreneur – caught up with PodTech CEO John Furrier at the evening event prior to Demo, in Los Angeles. Alex talked about his new company, as well as Web 2.0 [See the full post…]

A Symantec Security Response podcast focused on a roundup of the latest Symantec Security Response Weblogs for September 2006. The goal of this podcast is to help you better understand some of the threats and trends that Symantec’s Security Response [See the full post…]

Zaw Thet, CEO of 4Info, gives us a tour of the kinds of things you can do with a cell phone and 4Info.

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Zaw Thet, CEO at 4Info, is doing some remarkable things for cell phones. Yeah, you can use 4Info to search from your phone, but 4Info is so much more. Their advertising can be seen on the front page of [See the full post…]

Keith Benjamin, managing director of Levensohn Venture Partners speaks candidly about today’s average consumer’s social and buying habits and how they are affecting his investment strategy. Benjamin explains why marketers should be considering the impact of social media on their [See the full post…]

Dr. Jim Kajiya, distinguished engineer and a general manager at Microsoft Research discusses his Utah Technology Council‘s 2006 Hall of Fame induction. He talks about solving problems from transforming computer processor and memory design to creating programmable matter [See the full post…]

Steve Ballmer, spoke at the UTC Hall of Fame, where Dr. Jim Kajiya of Microsoft Research was an inductee. Steve spoke about what the technology world will look like over the next ten years, how Microsoft keeps their competitive [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, October 30, 2006 (PodTech News) — Sun Microsystems announced this morning it’s released Netbeans 5.5, the latest version of its Integrated Development Environment. Netbeans 5.5 is a platform for developing applications using Sun’s Java programming language. The [See the full post…]

Fourteen-year veteran at Microsoft, Chris Weber, vice president in charge of the Western Region partner and enterprise group, talks about the strength of the partner network, the sales and marketing activities over the next 12 months for Vista and [See the full post…]

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This week, from PodTech News, a closer look at Internet addiction — what is it, how widespread is it, does it really exist? Gaming is behind a [See the full post…]

Mike Arrington at TechCrunch says he uses BlueDot instead of other bookmarking for social Website sharing services. So, I headed up to Seattle to find out what was behind this innovative company. You’ll meet the entire team, get a demo, [See the full post…]

Julie Gable, president of Gable Consulting, is recognized for her expertise on issues related to regulations and compliance. Julie is also the associate editor of Information Management Journal. We were able to catch up with Julie on [See the full post…]

With OpenText‘s recent acquisition of Hummingbird, it continues to add products and service to strengthen its enterprise content management position. Bill Forquer, executive vice president of compliance solutions, joined OpenText through an acquisition 8 years ago. He brings [See the full post…]

Dr. Dinesh Patel describes himself humbly as a “big fish in a small pond.” The managing director and founding partner of Salt Lake City-based vSpring Capital, he talks with us about his induction into the Utah Technology Council Hall [See the full post…]

Judge Shira Scheindlin oversaw and ruled in the now famous Zubulake vs. UBS Warburg case, which set a key precedent for e-discovery. Judge Scheindlin answers questions posed by ARMA International President Susan Thomas.

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Symantec i3 speeds up the critical applications that drive Quixtar’s online business. Now application developers and DBAs can quickly find–and fix–performance bottlenecks to keep product moving to Quixtar’s network of Independent Business Operators.

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When you think of blogs perhaps you think of BoingBoing or 43 Folders. The conventional wisdom is to get lots of readers and then try make it a money-play: sell advertising. But the real transformation of communication on the web [See the full post…]

Jason Calacanis, as we all know, is a very passionate guy, but not only about media and tech. He’s been talking for a while about “media philanthropy” and what he wants to do for kids and a school dear to [See the full post…]