SAN FRANCISCO, January 4, 2007 (PodTech News) — As MacWorld approaches, it’s time to take stock of the rumors that have been building up. There are a few worth noting, though some Apple-watchers are impressed with the company’s improved ability [See the full post…]

Sanaz Ahari, program manager in charge of Microsoft’s Live.com home page, gives us a good demo of the things you’re able to do with Live.com, which is a host page for gadgets that’ll bring you news, games and lots of [See the full post…]

Maryam interviews Sanaz Ahari about what it’s like to work as a program manager on Microsoft’s Live.com team. She is responsible for the Live.com home page, which is pretty big shoes for anyone to fill.

While at the Alternative Car & Transportation Expo, I had a chance to talk to Bryon Bliss of Phoenix Motor Cars. Their new SUT is a zero-emission, all-electric sport utility truck, powered by Altairnano NanoSafe (TM) battery technology. It has [See the full post…]

Last week, I was invited to ride on Senator John Edwards’s plane as he visited four states (Louisiana, Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada) following his announcement that he is running for President in the 2008 election. Here I sat down [See the full post…]

While I was recording John Edwards in one of his many, many “exclusive” interviews last week, following his announcement that he’s running for President, I ran into some technical difficulties with the camera (battery life!). Luckily, I did have an [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, January 3, 2007 (PodTech News) — The finalized merger of BellSouth and AT&T included an unprecedented agreement with serious implications for network neutrality. Also, security issues set the year off to a jittery start, with a short-lived malware [See the full post…]

Paul Davis Restoration restores homes after disasters. Their new Tallahassee branch uses an “instant office” IT infrastructure made resilient, available, and secure with Symantec solutions. It’s designed for small businesses that want to focus on customers rather than infrastructure details. [See the full post…]

Intel gave people all over the world a chance to make it big in New York City’s Times Square. Jennifer Jones discussed the standout Intel Core 2 Duo Multiply promotion with Intel Senior Media Manager Thom Campbell. Related Stories: IntelMultiply

Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional’s “Acrobat Connect” is based on technology originally created by Macromedia. It’s flash-based, which means that anyone invited to attend can get your message using a flash player, even if they don’t have the Adobe software.

It doesn’t park itself, it’s park assist. That was the message from Bob Allen, dealer education manager for Lexus. I spoke with him recently about the new Advanced Parking Guidance System, or APGS, available on the 2007 LS460. For those [See the full post…]

Meet David Zatz, winner of the NETGEAR 2007 CES Blogger-in-Residence competition, out of 65 entranrants and 4 finalists. David’s tech blog ZatzNotFunny.com, and he talks about what it takes to run a great tech review site, while keeping it current, [See the full post…]

Tim Bajarin, principal analyst with Creative Strategies, a Silicon Valley tech analysis firm, says look no further than your digital home to see what will be hot in technology this year. Today on PodTech News, we’ll get an inside look [See the full post…]

This fourth in the series of podcasts from WebEx features a conversation with Bill Appleton, chief technical officer and founder of Dream Factory. His background as a developer gives him unique insights into the world of on-demand software, and he [See the full post…]

Marketers are still doing marketing like they were 15 years ago and it is time to adopt social media in a big way and learn the tools says renowned marketer Regis Mckenna. Access is replacing broadcast and people want to [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, December 30, 2006 (PodTech News) — Do you think 2007 will be an even BIGGER year for blogs? Are you already thinking ahead to what lies beyond the release of Microsoft VISTA? Well, you may want to rethink [See the full post…]

The questions that Robert is left with are both new and old. How a campaign rolls in the newer social media (if, indeed, social media is even still alive?) is a crucial aspect of political campaigns, and it’s appropriate for [See the full post…]

Adobe Acrobat has had the ability to combine separate PDFs into one for some time now. In this episode you will see how not only to combine PDF pages from various documents into one PDF, but also how to package [See the full post…]

Some good coverage from the day’s activities in New Hampshire. Looks like our embed has recovered from a late night — by the way, a few other folks have enjoyed the phone call with PodTech’s Paul Lancour last night. One [See the full post…]

Doug Rowan, former CEO of Corbis (Bill Gates’ photo/image company) and founder of ZoomAlbum, met up with Scott Beale, founder of Laughing Squid (and an excellent photographer) to talk about photography and to show off his latest product: ZoomAlbums, which [See the full post…]

You’ve heard of PayPerPost, which is a company that pays you to write posts on your blog. Here we hear from Agloco, which takes that idea a little further. If you’re interested in taking advertising on your blogs, this is [See the full post…]

If having some citizen journalists on the bus will give alternative coverage to the relationship between the traditional media and candidates, then it is a welcome change, right? Not necessarily. The early questions over who was paying for Robert Scoble’s [See the full post…]

At the 6th Annual EMC Software Developer Conference in San Francisco, attendees immersed themselves in the Documentum software platform to learn inside tips on EMC products and services, from overviews and hands-on tech labs to architectural and developer best practices. [See the full post…]

You may have seen them on the roadways of North America: Natural Gas Vehicles or NGVs. They look like any other vehicle. The difference is, NGVs operate on natural gas as opposed to the fuel we typically pump into our [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, December 29, 2006 (PodTech News) — Robert Scoble was invited by Senator John Edwards’s campaign team to join the Senator, his staff, other “social media” representatives and the more traditional press corps for the first few days of [See the full post…]