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Rallying & Rebuilding in New Orleans: A Model for the entire USA

Rallying & Rebuilding in New Orleans: A Model for the entire USA

At the Belle Chase Primary School in Plaquemines Parish, just across the river from New Orleans, Enterprise, Education, and Empathy were the keys to helping a shattered school district pull together. PodTech’s Michael Johnson speaks with Terry Smithson, Intel’s Education [See the full post…]

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Sounding the Alarm on America’s Education

Sounding the Alarm on America’s Education

In New Orleans, PodTech’s Michael Johnson speaks with Richard Whitmire, Education Op-ed writer for USA Today and Secretary of the Educational Writer’s Association. He talks about educational journalism, and the seeming lack of awareness in the US of slipping educational [See the full post…]

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Retooling Schools in New Orleans, Post-Katrina

Retooling Schools in New Orleans, Post-Katrina

PodTech’s Michael Johnson speaks with Carol Roberts, Asst. Superintendent of Curriculum & Instruction for Plaquemines Parish School District, about rebuilding educational infrastructure in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. More info at: ppsb.org Related Stories: IntelWorldAhead

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PodTech Interview with Intel Chairman Craig Barrett

PodTech Interview with Intel Chairman Craig Barrett

PodTech’s Jason Lopez and Intel Chairman Craig Barrett chatted about education reform in the U.S. and his push for marked improvement in American schools. More info at: ewa.org Related Stories: IntelWorldAhead

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Intel Chairman Says Computers are Important in Schools But Good Teachers Are the Magic

Intel Chairman Says Computers are Important in Schools But Good Teachers Are the Magic

Intel’s Craig Barrett says K-12 schools in the U.S. must measure themselves against the world and not just against each other. The chairman of the world’s largest chip company spoke about improving America’s economic competitiveness before writers and journalists at [See the full post…]

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Q&A Session Intel Chairman at the Education Writers Association conference in New Orleans

Q&A Session Intel Chairman at the Education Writers Association conference in New Orleans

Intel Chairman Craig Barrett took questions from education writers and journalists after his speech on ways to think about and improve U.S. schools. More info at: ewa.org Related Stories: IntelWorldAhead

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Podcast of Bloglines New Blog and Feed Search

Podcast of Bloglines New Blog and Feed Search

Here is a podcast on how the blog and feed search works on BlogLines. This is part two of this report focuses on how blog and feed search works on the blog search engine, Bloglines.OAKLAND, CA, June 1, 2006 (Podtech [See the full post…]

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Ask.com Podcasts Launch of New Blog Search Capability

Ask.com Podcasts Launch of  New Blog Search Capability

OAKLAND, CA, June 1, 2006 (Podtech News) – Search engine Ask.com, formerly known as Ask Jeeves, announced today it has teamed up with web blog search engine Bloglines to launch a new blog and feed search capability. Doug Leeds, VP [See the full post…]

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Industry Analysts Look At Recent Internet Portal/E-Commerce Partnerships

Industry Analysts Look At Recent Internet Portal/E-Commerce Partnerships

MENLO PARK, May 30, 2006 (Podtech News) ­- Allen Weiner of Gartner and Shar Van Boskirk of Forrester Research are keeping tabs on the recent spate of Internet portal/E-commerce partnerships. Yahoo announced last week it has teamed up with Ebay [See the full post…]

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What’s Your Power Song? Nike’s is on the iPod Nano

What’s Your Power Song? Nike’s is on the iPod Nano

SAN FRANCISCO, May 26, 2006 (Podtech News) — Nike and Apple have teamed up to give other athletic shoe companies a tuneful run for their money. The companies earlier this week jointly announced the Nike+iPod Sport Kit, a running shoe [See the full post…]

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Industry Expert Says Google’s New Video Ad Service Doesn’t Guarantee a Market Lead

May 24, 2006 — Google, Inc. announced this week it’s ready to launch video advertising on the web. The move positions Google to compete with television for advertising dollars. Google isn’t the first company to put video ads on the [See the full post…]

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JavaOne: Sun Chairman McNealy is Honored by Colleagues

JavaOne:  Sun Chairman McNealy is Honored by Colleagues

In part two of this Sun Microsystems general session podcast from JavaOne, Sun Chairman and former CEO Scott McNealy asked for Java developers’ help on technical solutions to privacy issues. “In my new role, I’m going to be spending an [See the full post…]

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JavaOne: BEA Workshop Developers Dispel Myths About Java

JavaOne: BEA Workshop Developers Dispel Myths About Java

Bill Roth, VP, BEA Workshop Business Unit said, “In reality, we believe innovation is everywhere,” during his presentation at JavaOne, “Lies, Damn Lies, and Java.” In part one of this three-part podcast, Bill Roth and Patrick Linskey of BEA talk [See the full post…]

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JavaOne: SOA 2.0 is Next Application Platform for Enterprise Computing

JavaOne: SOA 2.0 is Next Application Platform for Enterprise Computing

In part 2 of this two-part podcast, Senior VP of Oracle Server Technologies Thomas Kurian sheds light on SOA 2.0, and discusses Web 2.0 as the next application platform from dynamic user interfaces.

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JavaOne: Java Tools for Enterprise Computing

In a general session, Senior VP of Oracle Server Technologies Thomas Kurian outlined tools and trends in enterprise computing for Java developers. Part one of this two-part podcast covers Java EE5 and other tools and standards.

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JavaOne: Analyzing IT Infrastructures Made Easy

JavaOne:  Analyzing IT Infrastructures Made Easy

At JavaOne 2006 in San Francisco, PodTech’s Michael Johnson speaks with Mike Baum, CES (Chief Executive Splunker!) about Splunk, an innovative software solution for IT Infrastructure analysis. Splunk tracks complex IT datastreams in real time and creates event fingerprints and [See the full post…]

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Gartner Symposium: Building web services on a secure LAN foundation

Gartner Symposium: Building web services on a  secure LAN foundation

PodTech’s Michael Johnson checks in with Tom Barsi, CEO of ConSentry Networks at Gartner. Barsi speaks about secure LAN systems solutions and their place in the rapidly changing Web Services Universe. Recently Consentry Networks won a Best of Interop Award [See the full post…]

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Gartner Symposium: Analyst Allen Weiner Says Viral Distribution is Web 2.0’s Next Big Thing

Gartner Symposium: Analyst Allen Weiner Says Viral Distribution is Web 2.0’s Next Big Thing

“I think viral distribution is still in its infancy,” Gartner’s VP for Research Allen Weiner told Podtech’s Catherine Girardeau. “We’ve seen some pretty interesting little proof points along the way about how powerful this could be.” In this podcast, Weiner [See the full post…]

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Gartner Symposium: Redefining SOA… again.

Gartner Symposium: Redefining SOA… again.

Daryl Plummer is Gartner’s Managing VP and Chief of Research. At the Gartner ITxpo Symposium 2006 in San Francisco, Plummer speaks about Service-Oriented Architecture’s with PodTech’s Michael Johnson , and about how it’s really not a static concept. Plummer says, [See the full post…]

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Gartner Symposium: Sun’s Jonathan Schwartz Running Company on Go-Forward Basis

Gartner Symposium: Sun’s Jonathan Schwartz Running Company on Go-Forward Basis

Sun Microsystems, which dominated the server market during the dot-com boom, has been searching for major revenue drivers over the past 5 years. The company has been criticized, especially by the financial community, for its stumbles. But Schwartz says the [See the full post…]

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Gartner Symposium: Schwartz Says Java is the Internet

Jonathan Schwartz (the new CEO of Sun Microsystems–he’s barely been the chief of the company for three weeks) began the Wednesday sessions at the 2006 Gartner Symposium ITxpo in San Francisco. This is the second part of three podcasts covering [See the full post…]

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Gartner Symposium: Sun CEO Says Top Line Revenue Key to Turnaround

The Wednesday morning keynote at the 2006 Gartner Symposium ITxpo featured Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, interviewed by Gartner analysts Paul McGuckin and Daryl Plummer. We’ve broken the podcast up into three parts. In this first segment, Schwartz talks about his [See the full post…]

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JavaOne: General Session Kickoff Part 4

Jeff Jackson, SVP of Java Enterprise Products & Developers Products continues the morning presentation with Steve Jones CTO of Capgemini, and Sun’s Technical Director for Tools, Charles Beckham about BEPL engines and new open source resource. Also featured: Richard Bair [See the full post…]

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JavaOne: General Session Kickoff Part 3

JavaOne: General Session Kickoff Part 3

Jeff Jackson, SVP of Java Enterprise Products & Developers Products takes the stage from Rich Green, and welcomes veteran EE developers Greg Murray and Craig McClanahan, to demonstrate Java Studio Creator and AJAX blueprint development.Also featured: Microsoft’s Project Tango, and [See the full post…]

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JavaOne: General Session Kickoff Part 2

JavaOne: General Session Kickoff Part 2

Jonathan Schwartz, President and CEO of Sun Microsystems along with Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Connonical, Inc, Mark Fleury CEO of JBoss, and Rich Green, EVP of Software at Sun, make special announcements about new software tools for the Netbeans Community.

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