ShortCuts web etiquette expert Penny Scharfman explains the best (and safest) ways to start an instant message in the workplace. (Hint: there’s more to it than you might think.)

Learn about Instant Messaging (IM) threats and what you can do to protect your working environment. More information at: Symantec.com

developerWorks’ SOA and Web services zone editor Pat Flanders and editor-in-chief Michael O’Connell talk about the big IBM announcement last week around service-oriented architecture and cover some developerWorks resources for SOA. For more info see: IBM’s developerWorks

Intel Senior Fellow Steve Palowski and other Intel fellows took questions from the audience attending the Shop Talk gathering at the Intel Developer Forum. Topics discussed in this “Best of Shop Talk” podcast include memory and quad-core technology.

PixSense launched its new, wide range of installables for cellphones at DEMO/fall in San Diego on Monday September 25, 2006. I met with Adnan Agboatwala, who captains the development of this remarkable new application and service as managing director of [See the full post…]

BOSTON, October 6, 2006 (PodTech News) – Harvard Law School is experimenting this semester with a course taught partly in the real world and partly in the virtual 3D world Second Life. The class, called CyberOne: Law in the Court [See the full post…]

Through its Remote Backup Services, with Veritas NetBackup PureDisk at their core, EDS is able to help many of its clients reduce remote storage by fourfold while lowering remote office backup costs by as much as 50%. More information at: [See the full post…]

At the ARM Developers conference in Santa Clara, California, PodTech’s Michael Johnson caught up with Marc Gayer, a researcher in Real Time Multimedia Systems at Fraunhofer IIS, the German company that invented the MP3. He explains the next evolution of [See the full post…]

developerWorks Web content editor Denise Ruterbories talks about two new developerWorks features: the Ajax resource center and the redesigned Web development zone. For more info see: IBM’s developerWorks.

Can you unsend an email? ShortCuts email expert Alan Lepofsky explains what to do if you hit the send button too soon. This week’s link: Plazes, a web service which illustrates where the user is located, and which can look [See the full post…]

Something is happening that could bring about a fundamental shift in the Indian IT industry: A new pricing model that may improve quality could make India more than just a low-cost outsourcing destination. As per this report, India’s largest software [See the full post…]

PodTech’s cameras bring you to the floor of San Francisco’s Moscone West, where the Intel Developer Forum let the spotlight shine on some applications that might not have occurred to you before. From new technologies that will help acute care [See the full post…]

Liliana Rojas works in the Ultra Mobile PC Group at Intel. At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco this past week, she spoke with PodTech’s Michael Johnson about some of the cool applications of the UMPC to take the [See the full post…]

At the recent Intel Developer Forum, Intel CEO Paul Otellini takes a virtual test drive in a Volkswagen kitted out with Intel’s UMPC. A map to a nearby coffee shop, a complete music collection and movies for the back seats [See the full post…]

A Symantec Security Response podcast focused on the Internet Security Threat Report Volume X and the historical evolution of threats reported by Symantec over the past 4 years. The goal of this podcast is to provide the listener with an [See the full post…]

A Symantec Security Response podcast focused on the Internet Security Threat Report Volume X and Symantec’s predictions on Future Threats. The goal of this podcast is to provide the listener with an overview of the some of the possible threats [See the full post…]

A Symantec Security Response podcast focused on the Internet Security Threat Report Volume X and its key findings. The goal of this podcast is to provide the listener with an overview of the threats and trends covered in Symantec’s latest [See the full post…]

During his mobility keynote address at the Intel Developer Forum, David “Dadi” Perlmutter, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Mobility Group, talked about the improvements being made to the next Centrino Duo platform, code-named “Santa Rosa.” Perlmutter also [See the full post…]

The history of portable computing in ten minutes or less: that’s what we tried to do in our interview with David “Dadi” Perlmutter, Senior VP and General Manager of Intel’s Mobility Group. Dadi is responsible for design, development and marketing [See the full post…]

A Symantec Security Response podcast focused on Win32.Wargbot and the importance of patching. The goal of this podcast is to provide the listener with a technical overview of the latest Microsoft vulnerabilities targeted by Win32.Wargbot and provide an analysis of [See the full post…]

How do you figure out if legitimate-looking email is attempting to steal your personal information? ShortCuts security expert Rocky Oliver explains how to intercept a phishing attack. This week’s links: Snopes.com, a site for researching and reporting internet hoaxes, and [See the full post…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

Is your blog awash with comment spam? ShortCuts blogging expert Todd Watson shows how to get rid of the stuff. This week’s links: the Six Apart Guide to Comment Spam and the official Google blog on preventing comment spam.