The Magic Box is actually two units: a fully functioning computer that detaches from the media server base featuring a 2.5-inch HDD bay, two-way speakers and a USB port for connecting it to other PCs. A high performing, energy-efficient Intel [See the full post…]

It’s more common than ever to use purpose-built hardware and software solutions, ( Xbox, firewalls and VPN appliances, Google Search appliance, etc.). John Yoon, VP of marketing, and Bill Harper, director of development at Control4, discuss the advantages to a [See the full post…]

This podcast provides an overview of the Symantec white paper, “Compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard.” This white paper breaks down each requirement and details how Symantec solutions can help organizations get–and stay–compliant. It documents only the [See the full post…]

One of my newest heroes is John Q. McMillan, a gentleman from Tennessee, who, along with his business partner Xander Carey and a group of Canadian investors, has designed a “purpose-built” electric car, the Predator, an efficient, three passenger, electric [See the full post…]

Ann Crady, founder of parenting site Maya’s Mom, takes us on a tour of the startup’s Silicon Valley garage where her team is hard at work building a new Web site for parents.

Maya’s Mom, a fun parenting site, is the first Silicon Valley startup that we’ve toured that actually is starting up inside a garage. Here, we meet founder Ann Crady and talk about what Maya’s Mom is trying to do and [See the full post…]

Middleware firm Emergent Game Technologies launched its new set of game development tools, named Emergent Elements, at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Emergent’s technology has been used in a number of popular video games, including The Elder Scrolls [See the full post…]

Curves of brushed aluminum grace the BICOM HMS7, a combination PC and media server designed for the digital home. Inside, there’s a high-performance, energy-efficient Intel Core 2 Duo processor, but outside the user-friendly front panel features touch-screen LED controls for [See the full post…]

“The PC has been a clunky box for a long time,” said Ekin Binal, VP of product development for BICOM. “We’re taking a new spin on it.” The HMS8’s cubicle design is a high-end PC media server that integrates a [See the full post…]

An easy-to-use interface and touch-sensitive buttons were the main breakthroughs in the three systems Connecticut-based BICOM submitted to the Intel Core Processor Challenge PC Design. This aluminum covered media server is styled for the digital home. Built on the Intel [See the full post…]

“We tried to reduce everything to the necessary minimum,” said mCubed Information Technology GmbH’s Managing Director, Maik Berendt. mCubed’s submission for the Intel Core Processor Challenge PC Design, the aluminum and acrylic HFX micro, uses an Intel Core 2 Duo [See the full post…]

Robert Scoble talks to Rocketboom‘s Andrew Baron and ReinventingErica‘s Erica O’Grady, at SXSW.

At the recent Clean Tech Venture Network Conference in San Francisco, Nora McDevitt interviewed Dave Jones of Live Fuels, Inc. This start-up is developing biofuel technologies using algae. Algae multiplies so quickly and produces so much oxygen that it could [See the full post…]

Developing more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly highway transportation technologies that enable Americans to use less petroleum is the mission of the FreedomCAR and Vehicle Technologies Program, which supports the mission of the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency [See the full post…]

SoftImage, is known for its character creation and effects tools used by animators and digital artists in the film, broadcast, and video game industries. The company’s software has been used in games created by companies including Electronic Arts and Capcom, [See the full post…]

During SXSW, I catapulted myself into digital storytelling by asking everyone to tell me about the worst injury they’d ever had, and to use sound effects when they told the story. These are the sound effects!

NETGEAR has announced its new Digital Entertainer HD. It’s the next step in bridging the barrier between your television and the digital media on your computer. Listen to this conversation with Jamison Ching of NETGEAR, as he outlines all the [See the full post…]

Gnanesh Dholakia, senior product marketing manager at CA, and Jim Metzler, vice president, Ashton, Metzler & Associates, discuss the changes to the media, entertainment, and communications industries, and the accompanying challenges to network management.

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At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Sun Microsystems announced its plans to enter the online gaming realm. In this podcast, PodTech’s Rio Pesino speaks with Sun’s Chris Melissinos, Seth Proctor and Jonathan Kaplan about its open source, online [See the full post…]

At the recent Clean Tech Venture Network Conference in San Francisco, Nora McDevitt interviewed Peter Fusaro, chairman of Global Change Associates, Dan Kammen, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and Maurice Gunerderson, venture partner with CMEA Ventures on [See the full post…]

As host of The Next Gear, I get to meet people who are trying to bring about postitive changes in the automotive industry. Many of the people I meet are entrepreneurs whose inventions have the potential to change the world, [See the full post…]

In this Thought Leaders podcast brought to you by SAVVIS, James Richardson, senior vice president at Cisco discusses how Cisco is helping enterprise CIOs prepare for the Web 2.0 world. He also sheds some light on Services Oriented Network Architecture [See the full post…]

There are four major IT integration models that companies adopt, depending on their existing business and technology environments and their post-M&A business goals. Each model has distinctive characteristics in speed of integration, costs, complexity and synergies. Recent studies have shown [See the full post…]

Thousands of game artists, animators, programmers and others were at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, hoping to land their dream job of working for a video game company. Despite the fact that there are gaming gigs out there, [See the full post…]