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IDF Keynote: Wirt on Software Threading

October 18th, 2006 |
IDF Keynote: Wirt on Software Threading

Richard Wirt, vice president and general manager of Intel’s software and solutions group, delivered his insights on software threading during his keynote address at the Intel Developer Forum.

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Intel’s Anand Chandrasekar, Ultra Mobile PCs

October 18th, 2006 |
Intel’s Anand Chandrasekar, Ultra Mobile PCs

Anand Chandrasekher is senior vice president and general manager of Intel Corporation’s Ultra Mobile Group. He spoke with PodTech’s Michael Johnson at Digital Life 2006 in New York City about updates in VIIV home entertainment platforms, and the shrinking computer. [See the full post…]

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Facilitating the Rollout of the Wireless LAN

October 18th, 2006 |
Facilitating the Rollout of the Wireless LAN

When deploying a wireless LAN, businesses can use a managed service provider to help ensure non-intrusive deployment, comprehensive security policies, mitigation against unauthorized access and investment protection. Verizon Business’s Program Manager for Managed Services Andy Boyer talks about how Verizon [See the full post…]

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The Application-Aware MPLS Network

October 17th, 2006 |
The Application-Aware MPLS Network

Application-aware VPN tools enable private IP enterprises to achieve high levels of performance for applications such as VoIP, enterprise resource planning (ERP) and video. With the proper network assessment, reporting, dynamic bandwidth and packet-marking tools, enterprises can more closely monitor [See the full post…]

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Office 2.0 Party – Sounds of Office 2.0

October 13th, 2006 |
Office 2.0 Party – Sounds of Office 2.0

At the Office 2.0 event pre-party, PodTech Founder and CEO John Furrier had a chance to catch some candid sound bytes from fellow attendees. Interviewed here: Connie Ellerbach, partner at Fenwick and West; Don Farber of CNet; Oren Michaels of [See the full post…]

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HPC Hardware Costs Plunge, Software Another Story

October 13th, 2006 |
HPC Hardware Costs Plunge, Software Another Story

With big iron machines it’s all about keeping costs down. As Moore’s Law is challenged by the physical constraints of designing nano-sized devices, it might be aided by more efficient software. However, software isn’t cheap. Intel Fellows David Kuck and [See the full post…]

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Video: Digital Life With Katlean de Monchy

October 13th, 2006 |
Video: Digital Life With Katlean de Monchy

Forty percent of us are taking our laptops to bed. Everyone knows that technology is changing rapidly. With so many computers in so many beds, it sounds like we’re changing right along with it. Katlean de Monchy brings us coverage [See the full post…]

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Integrated Hosted Communications

October 13th, 2006 |
Integrated Hosted Communications

Availability, cost control and predictability, upgrades, control over employee communications and protection against security threats — hear about these issues and more in this PodTech.net interview with Patrick Verhoeven, group manager in the product management division with Verizon Business.

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Building an Actionable Risk-Management Strategy, Part 2

October 12th, 2006 |
Building an Actionable Risk-Management Strategy, Part 2

Security continues to be a major challenge faced by today’s IP leaders. Listen in on a presentation by Verizon Business’ Chief Information Security Officer, Sara Santarelli, about how to help ensure that risk management touches every system and every action [See the full post…]

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Building an Actionable Risk-Management Strategy, Part 1

October 12th, 2006 |
Building an Actionable Risk-Management Strategy, Part 1

Security continues to be a major challenge faced by today’s IP leaders. Listen in on a presentation by Verizon Business’ Chief Information Security Officer, Sara Santarelli, about how to help ensure that risk management touches every system and every action [See the full post…]

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Transitioning to Hosted VoIP

October 12th, 2006 |
Transitioning to Hosted VoIP

Avoid the common road blocks that can jeopardize the smooth transition from traditional telephony to IP telephony. In this podcast, Verizon Business Vice President of Managed Services Marketing Jim DeMerlis talks with PodTech.net about moving into a managed services approach [See the full post…]

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Ballmer: “Microsoft Just Keeps Coming”

October 12th, 2006 |
Ballmer: “Microsoft Just Keeps Coming”

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made sure no one would miss his point that Microsoft has been, is now, and will continue to be dogged in everything it does. Even if, as Ballmer said, “we don’t always get it right on [See the full post…]

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From Old-School IT to Managed Services

October 12th, 2006 |
From Old-School IT to Managed Services

“Corporate information technology departments can spend more time reacting to fires than supporting corporate objectives,” said Executive Director of Product Management for Verizon Business’ John Shultz at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo in Orlando, Florida. Shultz and Verizon Business customer Rick [See the full post…]

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Digital Life in BED, Mobile PCs Gets Personal

October 12th, 2006 |
Digital Life in BED, Mobile PCs Gets Personal

At New York’s BED Club, Intel shows off their VIIV platform. Gaming, movies, and multi-tasking, the demand on processors is getting higher. We hear from a variety of areas where mobile computing is branching out. More images on Flickr Related [See the full post…]

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PCs in Bed & Beyond: Genevieve Bell, Intel’s Top Anthropologist

October 12th, 2006 |
PCs in Bed & Beyond: Genevieve Bell, Intel’s Top Anthropologist

Mobile computing is literally going to bed with users, so at the cool BED club in New York, PodTech’s Michael Johnson literally hopped into bed with Genevieve Bell, a senior researcher and anthropologist for Intel. She’s the director of Intel’s [See the full post…]

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Second Life, Real Life, Living Under Glass

October 12th, 2006 |
Second Life, Real Life, Living Under Glass

Second Life designer Versu Richelieu (her avatar name) is living in a fishbowl: A Manhattan storefront. She’ll live there for 72 hours with no other way to communicate than her wireless laptop. Her challenge: to design an entire cityscape in [See the full post…]

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UMPC Goes Auto

October 11th, 2006 |
UMPC Goes Auto

Intel says its Ultra Mobile PC is designed to give users full PC capability in places where a laptop is too big or clunky. How about in a car? A project with Volkswagen looks fairly promising. It would provide three [See the full post…]

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Ballmer Banters, Rants with Gartner Analysts

October 10th, 2006 |
Ballmer Banters, Rants with Gartner Analysts

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was interviewed by two tough VPs from research firm Gartner, Inc. at Gartner’s Symposium and ITxpo at the Dolphin Hotel in Orlando Florida October 10th. In the so-called “Mastermind Interview”, Ballmer fielded questions that ranged from [See the full post…]

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Tracking the Art of “The Deal” with Josh Jaffe

October 6th, 2006 |
Tracking the Art of “The Deal” with Josh Jaffe

Josh Jaffe is the senior writer for THE DEAL magazine and the organizer of the Technology Summit for VCs, acquirers, and other investors. He spoke with Podtech’s Michael Johnson about analyzing market trends from an investor’s point of view.

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Fox’s Mike Lang on My Space Stewardship

October 6th, 2006 |
Fox’s Mike Lang on My Space Stewardship

Fox owns MySpace, and it’s watching how it’s being used. Mike Lang is executive vice president of business development and strategy at Fox Networks. He spoke with PodTech’s Michael Johnson at “THE DEAL” Technology Summit in Mountain View, Calif., about [See the full post…]

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Cole Bader, Partner for Mergers and Acquistions of Thomas Weisel Partners offers Tips on Exit Strategies

October 6th, 2006 |
Cole Bader, Partner for Mergers and Acquistions of Thomas Weisel Partners offers Tips on Exit Strategies

Jennifer Jones of PodTech and Cole Bader discuss how private companies which are seeking an exit need to market their company. Badar offers insights into the exit process. Packaging a company as a market leader by thinking small and owning [See the full post…]

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Chip Design CEO Cautions Against Mobile Content Explosion

October 6th, 2006 |
Chip Design CEO Cautions Against Mobile Content Explosion

SANTA CLARA, California, October 5, 2006 (PodTech News) — Conventional wisdom says the mobile industry is set to explode with content offerings. After all, the billions of handsets in the world dwarfs the market penetration of the iPod. “In reality [See the full post…]

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Marc Gayer of Fraunhofer: “We made the MP3″

Marc Gayer of Fraunhofer: “We made the MP3″

At the ARM Developers conference in Santa Clara, California, PodTech’s Michael Johnson caught up with Marc Gayer, a researcher in Real Time Multimedia Systems at Fraunhofer IIS, the German company that invented the MP3. He explains the next evolution of [See the full post…]

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Liliana Rojas on Ultra Mobile PC at IDF San Francisco

September 29th, 2006 |
Liliana Rojas on Ultra Mobile PC at IDF San Francisco

Liliana Rojas works in the Ultra Mobile PC Group at Intel. At the IDF in San Francisco this past week, she spoke with PodTech’s Michael Johnson about some of the applications intended to aid a seamless flow of information access [See the full post…]

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IDF Keynote: Gelsinger Promotes Quad-Core and More, Part 2

September 29th, 2006 |
IDF Keynote: Gelsinger Promotes Quad-Core and More, Part 2

In the second part of a podcast of his Wednesday keynote at the Intel Developer Forum, Intel senior vice president Pat Gelsinger announced several industry initiatives, including a project with BAPCO, which makes 3D benchmarking software, to help businesses manage [See the full post…]

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