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Charlene Li: Winning the Social Networks Game

November 3rd, 2006 |
Charlene Li: Winning the Social Networks Game

On this podcast, a discussion with Forrester Research Vice President Charlene Li. Her studies focus on consumer search, social computing, consumer search and more. This is a follow-up to an earlier panel on business and its approach to social computing [See the full post…]

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Now Shipping: Adobe Acrobat 8 and Acrobat Connect!

November 2nd, 2006 |
Now Shipping: Adobe Acrobat 8 and Acrobat Connect!

Kevin Lynch, Adobe’s vice president of product marketing for the knowledge worker business unit, discusses the release of Acrobat 8 and gives four reasons why you’ll want to check it out. Tune in to hear about the new UI, controlling [See the full post…]

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Sun’s Dave Douglas, at Project Blackbox Rollout

October 20th, 2006 |
Sun’s Dave Douglas, at Project Blackbox Rollout

Dave Douglas, vice president of advanced technology at Sun Microsystems, speaks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson at the live unveiling of Project Blackbox, Sun’s high capacity, highly transportable “data center in a box,” or at least a standard 20 foot shipping [See the full post…]

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Sun’s Project Blackbox, “Data Center in a Box”

October 20th, 2006 |
Sun’s Project Blackbox, “Data Center in a Box”

At their headquarters in Menlo Park, California, Sun Microsystems presented the prototype for the “data center in a box,” or Project Blackbox, a portable data system that needs only power, a chilled water source and an internet connection. Listen to [See the full post…]

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Intel’s Genevieve Bell, Global Tech Culture

October 18th, 2006 |
Intel’s Genevieve Bell, Global Tech Culture

As mobile devices rush to keep up with consumers’ lifestyles, Intel is watching how people around the world have been adapting to their changing technologies. Mobile computing was the topic when PodTech’s Michael Johnson caught up with Intel Senior Researcher [See the full post…]

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Intel’s Anand Chandrasekar, Ultra Mobile PCs

October 18th, 2006 |
Intel’s Anand Chandrasekar, Ultra Mobile PCs

Anand Chandrasekher is senior vice president and general manager of Intel Corporation’s Ultra Mobile Group. He spoke with PodTech’s Michael Johnson at Digital Life 2006 in New York City about updates in VIIV home entertainment platforms, and the shrinking computer. [See the full post…]

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Niagara 2: Server on a Chip

October 17th, 2006 |
Niagara 2: Server on a Chip

A discussion on the next evolution of Sun‘s CoolThreads processor (code-named Niagara 2) with Rick Hetherington, chief architect for the Niagara program, and Gary Peterson, director for the Niagara program.

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Solaris DTrace

October 13th, 2006 |
Solaris DTrace

Sun Microsystems’ Bryan Cantrill, senior staff engineer with the Solaris Kernel Development Group, talks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson to discuss DTrace, a debugging feature in Solaris 10. For more information visit www.sun.com.

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Digital Life in BED, Mobile PCs Gets Personal

October 12th, 2006 |
Digital Life in BED, Mobile PCs Gets Personal

At New York’s BED Club, Intel shows off their VIIV platform. Gaming, movies, and multi-tasking, the demand on processors is getting higher. We hear from a variety of areas where mobile computing is branching out. More images on Flickr Related [See the full post…]

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PCs in Bed & Beyond: Genevieve Bell, Intel’s Top Anthropologist

October 12th, 2006 |
PCs in Bed & Beyond: Genevieve Bell, Intel’s Top Anthropologist

Mobile computing is literally going to bed with users, so at the cool BED club in New York, PodTech’s Michael Johnson literally hopped into bed with Genevieve Bell, a senior researcher and anthropologist for Intel. She’s the director of Intel’s [See the full post…]

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Second Life, Real Life, Living Under Glass

October 12th, 2006 |
Second Life, Real Life, Living Under Glass

Second Life designer Versu Richelieu (her avatar name) is living in a fishbowl: A Manhattan storefront. She’ll live there for 72 hours with no other way to communicate than her wireless laptop. Her challenge: to design an entire cityscape in [See the full post…]

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Dave Trowbridge, Network Physics: end users & the sales channel

October 10th, 2006 |

Dave Trowbridge, director of marketing for Network Physics, on end users’ needs and NP’s solutions and approach to the sales channel.

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Dwight Barker, Network Physics, Network Analysis in the age of Broadband

October 10th, 2006 |

Dwight Barker, vice president of product management for Network Physics, provides an outlook on industry trends and needs for accurate application performance management.

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Net Sensory 6.0: Dave Trowbridge of Network Physics

October 10th, 2006 |

Dave Trowbridge, director of marketing for Network Physics, describes the latest version of NP’s NetSensory, an application performance management analysis tool.

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Solving Business Challenges With Acrobat

October 9th, 2006 |
Solving Business Challenges With Acrobat

Adobe‘s Michael Folkers, senior product manager for Acrobat, sits down with John Moebes, director of construction for Crate and Barrel to discuss how Moebes has used Acrobat to combat a number of business challenges. PodTech’s own Michael Johnson moderates the [See the full post…]

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Tracking the Art of “The Deal” with Josh Jaffe

October 6th, 2006 |
Tracking the Art of “The Deal” with Josh Jaffe

Josh Jaffe is the senior writer for THE DEAL magazine and the organizer of the Technology Summit for VCs, acquirers, and other investors. He spoke with Podtech’s Michael Johnson about analyzing market trends from an investor’s point of view.

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Fox’s Mike Lang on My Space Stewardship

October 6th, 2006 |
Fox’s Mike Lang on My Space Stewardship

Fox owns MySpace, and it’s watching how it’s being used. Mike Lang is executive vice president of business development and strategy at Fox Networks. He spoke with PodTech’s Michael Johnson at “THE DEAL” Technology Summit in Mountain View, Calif., about [See the full post…]

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Intel’s Louis Burns on Future Digital Health

October 2nd, 2006 |
Intel’s Louis Burns on Future Digital Health

In his keynote, Louis Burns, vice president and general manager of Intel’s digital health group, delivered an impassioned appeal for health care solutions to developers at IDF Fall 2006 in San Francisco. More information from IDF Intel Digital Health Group’s [See the full post…]

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Liliana Rojas on Ultra Mobile PC at IDF San Francisco

September 29th, 2006 |
Liliana Rojas on Ultra Mobile PC at IDF San Francisco

Liliana Rojas works in the Ultra Mobile PC Group at Intel. At the IDF in San Francisco this past week, she spoke with PodTech’s Michael Johnson about some of the applications intended to aid a seamless flow of information access [See the full post…]

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IPv6 – Bridging the Gap to Tomorrow

September 29th, 2006 |
IPv6 – Bridging the Gap to Tomorrow

Increasingly, especially in international and governmental markets, organizations of all kinds are finally feeling the pressure to migrate from the well known and universal IPv4 standard towards the IPv6 standard. IPv6 has been around for over a decade but has [See the full post…]

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Ross Mayfield and Andrew McAfee: Web 2.0 for Enterprise

September 28th, 2006 |
Ross Mayfield and Andrew McAfee: Web 2.0 for Enterprise

According to these leaders of the Web 2.0 movement, businesses can stimulate collaboration from within by adopting blogs, wikis, RSS, AJAX and other tools and services. Jointly conducting a keynote address at the Fall ’06 Interop meetup in New York [See the full post…]

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It’s A Little Bit More Complicated Than That: CA CEO John Swainson on Complexity, Live at Interop 2006

September 28th, 2006 |
It’s A Little Bit More Complicated Than That: CA CEO John Swainson on Complexity, Live at Interop 2006

New developments in technology are having an impact on businesses and organizations, sometimes in unexpected or challenging ways. John Swainson, president and chief executive officer of CA, used a keynote address at Interop 2006, in New York City earlier this [See the full post…]

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Do Telecoms Matter? Qwest’s Scott Cassell, Director, Product Management

September 27th, 2006 |
Do Telecoms Matter? Qwest’s Scott Cassell, Director, Product Management

Scott Cassell, director of product management at Qwest Communications proposes that the role of telecoms has to change, as we approach a future of unified communication, with the integration of wireless, VoIP, presence, conferencing and messaging. He spoke at the [See the full post…]

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LAN Security: ConSentry Networks’ Dan Leary

September 27th, 2006 |
LAN Security: ConSentry Networks’ Dan Leary

According to ConSentry Networks Vice President of Marketing Dan Leary, LAN security perimeters have changed, given that security threat sources can come from within (and not just from outside) the LAN. Leary spoke with PodTech’s Michael Johnson at INTEROP 2006 [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.

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