The Nintendo Wii may not spark an exercise fad, but, in at least one well-publicized case, it may be leading to some welcome weight loss. Also this week, we stopped by Intel, which was showing off its latest chip, Penryn. [See the full post…]

Intel announced that it will begin making 45 nanometer chips, code-named Penryn, in the second half of the year. The new microprocessors are the culmination of years of R&D using new materials to improve the efficiency and performance of silicon-based [See the full post…]

Kelin Kuhn is the 45 nanometer device group manager. She runs one of Intel‘s most important test labs where Intel figures out what needs improvement. Intel’s profitability rests on her shoulders because if a fab isn’t yielding enough good chips [See the full post…]

Moore’s Law is very much alive, according to Intel Senior Fellow, Mark Bohr. He gave me a tour of Intel’s newest 45 nanometer fab. This is a very rare look inside Intel‘s newest fab that’ll make processors you’ll be buying [See the full post…]

Rob Csonger, vice president of corporate marketing at NVIDIA, talks about the upcoming visual emphasis of Microsoft Vista and the prevalence of graphics processor units with 3D user interfaces in games, operating systems and personal electronics.

Fourteen years ago, in the early days of the Internet, it may have been hard to imagine shopping for a car, ordering food, or making other important consumer decisions all online. Organic saw an opportunity, though, and that’s when it [See the full post…]

High-Volt-age is more like it. This concept car has everything — an attention to styling, a variable eco-friendly propulsion platform, StabiliTrak and room for four. I want one! Only a concept at this time, how long will it be before [See the full post…]

Ever wonder what happened to all those Punk rockers in the 70’s and 80’s? Well they grew up, cut off their Mohawks, got real jobs and had kids. Those kids are now teens and guess what? They discovered their parent’s [See the full post…]

Jeremiah Owyang interviews Angela Vargo, program manager of group blog Nuts about Southwest. Jeremiah’s captured notes and thoughts from their Business Blogging panel at Frost and Sullivan’s 2007 Sales and Marketing conference in Phoenix, Ariz.

Suranga Chandratillake, Blinkx‘ CEO, recently sat down with me to talk about the online video market. Blinkx is a video search engine that’s a lot of fun to use, we talk about what makes Blinkx better than other video approaches.

“Quiet vehicles with little to no emissions that look cool.” Those are the words of Honda‘s Chris Martin. I spoke with him at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit about the release of Honda’s latest hydrogen hybrid concept, [See the full post…]

For a highly reliable and secure automated home, networking devices and systems is a core requirement. Eric Smith, a co-founder and CTO at Control4, talks with 3Com Founder Bob Metcalfe. Metcalfe has a well-established reputation as a gifted technologist, as [See the full post…]

It’s no secret that we rely on our batteries to power just about every consumer electronic device, or that we are increasingly relying on those devices for just about everything we do. Lithium-Ion batteries are considered the next generation battery [See the full post…]

Seagate was showing off — at the recent Consumer Electronics Show — when it spotlighted innovative Scion to demonstrate the kinds of entertainment and navigational systems that’ll soon be arriving in cars. Join Rob Pait, Seagate’s marketing manager for global [See the full post…]

Jordan Greenhall, CEO and co-founder of DivX, sits down with me at the Consumer Electronics Show. If you haven’t seen the latest from DivX, you should. Its new Stage6 video system brings dramatically better quality than, say, YouTube. Here Greenhall [See the full post…]

Here we meet with David Burks who is the senior manager of consumer electronics marketing at Seagate and get a look at what Seagate is doing for home entertainment. Love that media storage farm!

PodTech.net’s Michael Johnson investigates the changing landscape of the home, thanks to Intel‘s Core2Duo dual core processors, and the next generation of Core2Extreme and Core2Quad, featuring four compute engines on one chip, which is ramping up the possibilities of digital [See the full post…]

PodTech Founder and CEO John Furrier discussed Seagate‘s second-quarter earnings with CEO Bill Watkins. In this podcast, Watkins talks about the company’s year-to-year revenue growth, the completion of the Maxtor merger, its new product line and expected profitability over the [See the full post…]

Edward Saenz, principal of Gravity Branding, has worked with tons of organizations and companies to come up with product names and marketing insights. He came up with the name “WiFi” and several of Nissan’s truck names, for instance. Here we [See the full post…]

This unique concept, showcased in a Saab 9-3 Convertible, combines fossil-free bioethanol fuel (E100) with electric-only propulsion, using the advanced, two-mode hybrid system that Saab’s parent company, General Motors Corp., is co-developing with DaimlerChrysler and BMW Group. The Saab BioPower [See the full post…]

Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Intel CEO Paul Otellini took the stage in San Francisco Monday to announce a new alliance. Listen here for the audio of the entire presentation and the Q&A session. Transcript: Guest: Jonathan Schwartz – Sun [See the full post…]

Jean Bozman is research vice president of the enterprise computing group at IDC. In this podcast, recorded at the St. Regis hotel in San Francisco, she shares her thoughts on the just-announced Sun/Intel strategic alliance. Transcript: Host: Paul Lancour – [See the full post…]

vSpring v100 member Phil Windley speaks with Dennis Wood about identity management and the emergence of reputation-driven business. He discusses his interest in identity management and reputation systems and the foundational roles these systems play in both the enterprise software [See the full post…]

A Symantec Security Response podcast focused on the recent Trojan.Peacomm trojan horse. The goal of this podcast is to help you better understand the threat this malicious code poses to your systems and offers solutions to prevent initial infection and [See the full post…]

Sun Microsystems and Intel announced an alliance in which Intel endorses Sun’s Solaris operating system and Sun will produce servers and workstations based on Intel’s Xeon processor. Paul Lancour spoke with Sun’s John Fowler and Intel’s Pat Gelsinger about this [See the full post…]