Well everyone, welcome to a new PodTech.net! It’s been a hectic few months, could you tell? We’ve been building out a platform to support video. Robert Scoble joined our team. We’ve been reorganizing our content. We hired a bunch of [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, September 25, 2006 (PodTech News) — Two Hewlett-Packard executives, including senior counsel Kevin Hunsaker and global security manager Anthony Gentilucci, were issued subpoenas by The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee today to appear at this Thursday’s hearing [See the full post…]

One of my favorite things to do is get tours of businesses. For instance, if you’re ever in Seattle you should head north and take a tour of the 747 plant. It’s incredible. But most businesses don’t give tours and, [See the full post…]

On weekends I like to walk down to the Half Moon Bay Ritz Carlton resort. It’s nice, as you’ll see (stick around for the bagpiper at the end, he comes down playing his music every Saturday an hour before sunset). [See the full post…]

Every week on the ScobleShow I’ll try to have a geek on that’ll teach you something, well, geeky. You know, a tip on how to do AJAX right or a look inside a development tool like a new version of [See the full post…]

Even Tim Bray is blown away at the popularity of XML. He was one of the co-creators of the XML spec back in the mid 1990s and in this audio interview he and I talk about the state of XML [See the full post…]

Shai Agassi is one of enterprise software giant SAP’s brightest stars. At age 34 he was the youngest to be named to its executive board (one of seven people who run SAP). At SAP’s recent TechED conference I met Shai [See the full post…]

Every week we’ll run a demo of a product you might not have tried yet. When I shoot these I tell the person doing the demo that they have to keep it short. But it’s a good way to see [See the full post…]

Thomas Hawk shows up at many Silicon Valley geek events and he makes some of the best images I’ve ever seen. This video came about because I wanted to learn more about how he does it. It’s remarkable video where [See the full post…]

Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems, sat down with me recently to talk about a wide range of topics from trends in the datacenter to why he thinks more CEOs should blog. Every week on the ScobleShow I’ll try to [See the full post…]

Giovanni Rodriquez formerly the most senior social media guru of Eastwick Communication is out on his own now and offers great tips on how to use a WIKI for corporate marketing. Jennifer and Giovanni discuss best practices in WIKIS for [See the full post…]

Common Sense Media CEO Jim Steyer discusses a fashion show which has banned girls who are too thin and the image that sickly looking models sends to children. More info: CommonSenseMedia.org

A Symantec Security Response podcast focused on the Symantec Home and Home Office Security Report for July 2006. The goal of this podcast is to help you better understand some of the threats and trends identified in the report and [See the full post…]

PALO ALTO, September 22, 2006 (PodTech News) — Hewlett-Packard held a press briefing this afternoon at HP headquarters in Palo Alto at which they refused to answer any questions from the press. HP President and CEO Mark Hurd spoke, as [See the full post…]

LOS ANGELES, September 22, (PodTech News) — This week, The Walt Disney Company saw $1 million in revenue from 125,000 sales of digital movies oniTunes, proving — at least for now — that consumers will pay to download and watch [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, September 22, 2006 (PodTech News) — Hewlett-Packard held a press briefing this afternoon at which they refused to answer any questions. HP CEO and President Mark Hurd, along with Mike Holston, a representative of Morgan Lewis, the law [See the full post…]

Sun Microsystems Senior Director of Data Protection and Archive Product Management David Kenyon and Vice President of Storage Marketing and Business Operations Nigel Dessau talk about the New York City event where the company announced new developments in encryption and [See the full post…]

Sun Microsystems David Profozich, vice president for software, took some time at Sun’s recent announcement event in New York to talk with PodTech Founder John Furrier. According to Profozich, Solaris 10 is much healthier than it was just 18 months [See the full post…]

Is your blog awash with comment spam? ShortCuts blogging expert Todd Watson shows how to get rid of the stuff. This week’s links: the Six Apart Guide to Comment Spam and the official Google blog on preventing comment spam.

John Fowler is executive vice president for the Sun Microsystems systems group. He took some time during a recent event in New York CIty to talk with PodTech Founder John Furrier. They discussed some of the ways that Sun is [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, September 21, 2006 (PodTech News) — HP said this afternoon that its President and CEO Mark Hurd has volunteered to appear at the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on [See the full post…]

LOS ANGELES, September 21, 2006 (PodTech News) — A group of hackers, human rights workers, lawyers and artists today launched a new web browser to protect computer users from hostile governments who would seek to identify them. Called “Torpark,” the [See the full post…]

Marc Canter speaks on evolving open standards, and finding the happy mean between standardizing and differentiating by remaining private. More on discussions spinning off of Canter’s talk at Gnomedex at Eric’o’theque! and with Richard MacManus.

MENLO PARK, September 20, 2006 (PodTech News) — Yahoo, Inc. executives warned investors at a conference yesterday that advertising growth seems to be slowing in some categories. There was a broad selloff of tech stocks on the news, and Yahoo’s [See the full post…]

Sun Microsystems President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz touted the new open-source version of Sun’s Solaris 10 OS at a Sun product launch event in New York City September 13th. Schwartz gave a keynote address that outlined the reasons behind Sun’s [See the full post…]