Nicholas Negroponte is taking a leave of absence from his position as director of the MIT Media Laboratory to chair the non-profit One Laptop Per Child. The organization seeks to re-think the portable computer, and to put thousands of machines [See the full post…]

The future of phones could be television, Microsoft plans a party in New York City, a Spanish judge jumps into the Digital Rights Management fray, the end of seafood as we know it, and news about mice. It’s PodTech News. [See the full post…]

Victor Owuor, Stellent‘s product manager for Universal Records Management, discusses the new emphasis from senior management on records management and industry trends. This podcast is brought to you by NextPage and ARMA. Click here for transcript.

Recall Corporation is a leading document management outsourcing service with over 270 office locations and 78,000 customers. Russell Skinner discusses Recall’s new RFID solution that offers accuracy and speed advantages. Russell Skinner is the vice president of global business integration [See the full post…]

FileNet‘s recent acquisition by IBM continues the document management acquisition trend. Craig Rhinehart, vice president of compliance products, talks about FileNet’s products in the compliance and records management space. And he talks about how it forces you to understand the [See the full post…]

Meridio has a deep integration and strategy built on the Microsoft platform. Becky Thomas, senior vice president of North American operations, discusses the importance of picking a platform that delivers solutions in the future, even with the current market consolidation. [See the full post…]

Eric Olsen talks about the introduction of the Kodak i1860 high productivity high production scanner as well as other products introduced in 2006. Eric shares with us the trends in the marketplace including file format, scanning technology and distributed vs. [See the full post…]

Half Moon Bay in California (just a few miles from Silicon Valley) is famous for pumpkins. Thomas and I got lucky with the light and scenery and he made more than 500 images in a little more than an hour, [See the full post…]

Thomas Hawk starts off a day of shooting in Half Moon Bay by cleaning his sensor on his Canon 5D. Over the next few days you’ll see the rest of Photowalking with Thomas Hawk and discover how he made 60 [See the full post…]

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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…]

Launched today, George Zachary talks about Charles River Ventures‘ QuickStart program, a seed funding program to jumpstart “capital lite” companies. He talks about the benefits to entrepreneurs, why it’s good timing for the current landscape, and why he is excited [See the full post…]

George Zachary of Charles River Ventures speaks with PodTech Founder John Furrier about CRV QuickStart, a new, innovative program the VC firm launched today. QuickStart offers loans of up to $250,000 to entrepreneurs to get their businesses started. Why? It’s [See the full post…]

Nick Baum, product manager on the Google Reader team, demonstrates Google Reader and gives us several key tips. Here are a few: Use the “J” key to go to the next feed item. “K” to go back. “U” makes the [See the full post…]

Nick Baum, product manager on the Google Reader team, and Jason Shellen, new business development manager at Google, sit down with me in front of the Google Master Plan 2.0 to talk about Google’s news aggregator (that’s how I read [See the full post…]

SANTA CLARA, October 31, 2006 (PodTech News) — Danielle Levitas is vice president of IDC’s consumer and broadband research. She spoke with PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau at the Women in Technology Summit about the results of a survey on women’s digital [See the full post…]

What is happening in the industry today with remote users and branch offices and the need for continuous secure networks? PodTech CEO and Founder John Furrier sits down with Stephen Philip, director of product marketing security products group at Juniper [See the full post…]

Lower-than-expected consumer confidence rattles the markets, Sony’s in even more trouble than it was in yesterday — this time it’s the Feds, Microsoft gets open source religion and Apple releases a new iPod shuffle, just in time for the holidays. [See the full post…]

LOS ANGELES, October 31, 2006, (PodTech News) — As more and more content gets distributed over the Internet, P2P is finally getting a little respect. By distributing a broadcast’s bandwidth requirement over an entire network of participants rather than originating [See the full post…]

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 30, 2006 (PodTech News) — Zero to 60 in 3.9 seconds, at a fuel cost of less than a penny per mile. Sound too good to be true? It gets better — the dream car we’re [See the full post…]

Some 1,500 delegates from across the globe are meeting in Athens, Greece for the inaugural Internet Governance Forum, or IGF. Everything from Icann to cyber-security to phishing attacks will be up for discussion in the week long forum. Amnesty International’s [See the full post…]

Microsoft hears another complaint about anti-competitive practices — this time from Google. Sony’s Playstation 3 is under pressure from less expensive competition. Copyrighted material online is being pulled from MySpace and YouTube, marking important transitions for both peer-to-peer sites. TV-produced [See the full post…]

Bob Sutor is in a unique position to see the broad impact and promise of the drive for open standards and the open source movement. Here, he shares his perspectives on both and on how they relate to IBM’s own [See the full post…]

Bob Sutor is in a unique position to see the broad impact and promise of the drive for open standards and the open source movement. Here, he shares his perspectives on both and on how they relate to IBM’s own [See the full post…]

Alex Iskold – a big PodTech fan and an exciting entrepreneur – caught up with PodTech CEO John Furrier at the evening event prior to Demo, in Los Angeles. Alex talked about his new company, as well as Web 2.0 [See the full post…]