Marc Canter speaks on evolving open standards, and finding the happy mean between standardizing and differentiating by remaining private. More on discussions spinning off of Canter’s talk at Gnomedex at Eric’o’theque! and with Richard MacManus.

Intel chairman Craig Barrett discusses the World Ahead Program which the company established in May 2006. Intel has pledged over $1 billion over the next five years, to bring internet coverage to various regions around the world. According to Barrett, [See the full post…]

A Symantec Security Response podcast focused on a roundup of the latest Symantec Security Response Weblogs for July 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…]

Kolachi is one of the traditional names for the port city of Karachi, in Pakistan’s coastal southern province of Sindh. The city too is a peculiarly South Asian blend of old and new, crowded marketplaces competing for space with massive [See the full post…]

Monday saw the official announcement of Adobe Acrobat 8. Rick Brown is director of product management for Adobe’s knowledge worker business unit. He spoke with PodTech’s Robert Scoble about the future of Adobe Acrobat and some of the key features [See the full post…]

Ted Vucurevich, Chief Technical Officer at Cadence Design Systems, gave a keynote at Cadence’s CDNLive! event at the San Jose Convention Center, “Designing the Future.” Right after his address, Vucurevich talked with PodTech.net about the future of the chip design [See the full post…]

Wrestling with multiple address books? ShortCuts email expert Alan Lepofsky shows how to consolidate your contacts. This week’s link: Plaxo, a free web service for updating and maintaining the information in your address book.

The cell chip is the heart, soul and brain of the Sony Playstation 3 game console. Cell is essentially a super-computer on a chip, and when PS3 comes out this fall, it’s going to take gaming to a whole new [See the full post…]

At BlogCamp India in Chennai this past weekend, Robert Scoble spoke to a spirited crowd of Indian bloggers, who came from all over India to converge upon a weekend-long hub of activity, ideas and passionate people. After a few initial [See the full post…]

Shai Agassi addresses the value of SDN and announced Business Process Expert Community and its place in the construction of coherent business software models. Part 2 of 2.

Shai Agassi, president of the product and technology group and member of the executive board of SAP, addressed the crowd at SAP TechEd today in Las Vegas. He spoke and demonstrated principles involved in building modernized cores for business. This [See the full post…]

Part 2 of 2 of Apple’s announcement of new iPods, games, movies, and the upcoming iTV. Listen to part 1 of 2 Photos on Flickr

Steve Jobs delivered a special announcement at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco this morning. Major points: – New iPods. – iPod games can be purchased from iTMS. – Movies are available from iTMS. – [See the full post…]

Common Sense Media CEO Jim Steyer offers advice on how to talk to kids about the death of Steve Irwin, television’s beloved “Crocodile Hunter”. More info: CommonSenseMedia.org

Here is your chance to preview some of the content for the soon-to-be-launched PodTech India channel. PodTech India is dedicated to on-the-ground coverage of ideas, trends, and people involved in the Indian technology industry. PodTech India gives you direct access [See the full post…]

Back in February this year at Robert Scoble and Shel Israel’s book launch of “Naked Conversations”, John Furrier engaged Kaboodle CEO Manish Chandra in a fascinating discussion about the history of the entrepreneurial culture in India, and how that culture [See the full post…]

The senior police officer, currently director, cybersecurity, at NASSCOM, India’s IT industry heavyweight association, talks about bringing about awareness on security issues to various stakeholders, including law enforcement, commerce and industry, users and foreign organisations outsourcing work into India.

Web 2.0 is at a fairly nascent stage in India. There are a bunch of India centric Web 2.0 products (or applications) that currently exist but that bunch is steadily growing. So, now you have a, not too insignificant number [See the full post…]

About Manish Chandra: Manish Chandra arrived in Silicon Valley in 1989. His passion for growing small ideas took shape very early when he left Intel to join a small start-up called Sybase (with less than 80 people) while the valley [See the full post…]

About Amit Ranjan: Amit Ranjan is a techie turned marketer turned entrepreneur. He heads the Delhi office of Uzanto (a Silicon Valley user experience startup), where he drives the company’s product development team. He tracks emerging trends in the Indian [See the full post…]

About Vickram: Vickram Crishna, a graduate of IIT Delhi and IIM Calcutta, has worked in and around the Indian technology sector for three decades, including ten years spent in mainstream media. His stint as deputy editor at the fortnightly Business [See the full post…]

BOSTON, September 8, 2006 (PodTech News) — After the 9/11 attacks, there was talk of a cyber Pearl Harbor, in which trained terrorist groups would use computers and the Internet to attack critical infrastructure in the United States. Five years [See the full post…]

Do you find filing a daily challenge? ShortCuts email expert Alan Lepofsky shows how to automate your email archive. This week’s link: Alan’s blog, IBM Lotus Notes/Domino Hints and Tips, dishes out handy tips for getting the most out of [See the full post…]

About Amit Agarwal: Amit Agarwal is a professional blogger based in Agra, the city of The Taj Mahal. He writes for Digital Inspiration and also provides one-to-one professional consulting to both companies and professionals. Amit’s professional interests include technical writing, [See the full post…]

Who’s looking in when you send an instant message? ShortCuts web etiquette expert Penny Scharfman explains when, where and how IM can be seen and searched by others – and offers some tips on smart IM usage. This week’s links: [See the full post…]