The average tech trade show in the United States wouldn’t be complete without lots of manufacturers displaying some of the latest toys that we’ll see in the market down the road. But not at TiEcon–which isn’t surprising when you consider [See the full post…]

Moore’s Law “could slow or maybe even stop,” offered Mike Fister, CEO of Cadence Design Systems. Before heading off to sit on a TiEcon session on the semiconductor industry. See also: TiEcon.org

“The biggest value of TiE is just the inspiration it provides,” Guraraj Deshpande told PodTech’s John Furrier. “When people become successful, they somehow become inaccessible. What Tie has done is a very good job of bringing these successful people so [See the full post…]

In this speech excerpt, PBS KIDS Senior Director of Programming, Linda Simensky, talks about current and future challenges for children’s programming. She concludes that the development of portable digital entertainment devices is radically changing the way networks conceptualize and produce [See the full post…]

“Where are the women?” Governor Schwarzenegger queried when he noticed the onstage roundtable was composed of five men. Later in the question and answer session, the Governor said his real estate investments allowed him to turn down bad movie parts [See the full post…]

Vyomesh Joshi, who heads up Hewlett-Packard’s Imaging and Printing Group (the company’s jewel) says HP’s development of printing technology is putting pressure on the rest of the industry. “In printing, we are the Microsoft, we are the Intel,” he exclaimed. [See the full post…]

John Doerr, of Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, took to the TiEcon keynote stage in a conversation with interviewer Michael Malone. See also: TiEcon.org

Aliza Peleg delivered her speech as one of the Distinguished Speakers series at TiEcon 2006 in San Jose, CA. See also: TiEcon.org

Dr. Sanjay Jha, president of QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies and executive VP of QUALCOMM, spoke about the convergence of computing and wireless in his Distinguished Speaker series address. In part 1 of this podcast, Jha says the coming revolution is that [See the full post…]

“We must deliver compelling content and ease of use,” said Dr. Sanjay Jha, president of QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies and executive VP of QUALCOMM, in his speech at TieCon 2006. In part 2 of this podcast, Dr. Jha, president of QUALCOMM [See the full post…]

“The substance/relationship tension…is at the backbone of all the work that I do,” David Seibel said in his Distinguished Speaker Series talk at TieCon 2006. In this speech excerpt, Seibel, Co-Founder and President of Insight Partners, takes the audience through [See the full post…]

“Politics as usual, both Democratic and Republican, is broken,” Howard Dean said in a keynote speech at the 2006 TiEcon in Santa Clara, CA. Referring to issues decided upon in the beltway he emphasized, “If you want those decisions to [See the full post…]

Part 2 of Dr. Shashi Tharoor’s Keynote Dr. Shashi Tharoor is the Under Secretary General for Communications and Public Information at the United Nations. See also: TiEcon.org

Dr. Shashi Tharoor is the Under Secretary General for Communications and Public Information at the United Nations. “In a world where groups and even nations have little or no hope of reaping the benefits of globalization, who can be surprised [See the full post…]

Sanjay Jha, President of CDMA Technologies and Executive VP of QUALCOMM talks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson about the implementation of mobile technology in the developing world. He says it’s possible that developing countries will have a complete wireless infrastructure before [See the full post…]

Dr. Shashi Tharoor is the Under Secretary General for Communications and Public Information at the United Nations. He spoke with PodTech’s Michael Johnson at TiEcon 2006 about the concept of global imagination and the role that technology would take in [See the full post…]

On eve of TiEcon 2006, PodTech.net host John Furrier sits down with DNC Chairman, Governor Howard Dean, for a one on one interview. More photos available on Flickr See also: TiEcon.org

The JavaOne conference begins in the next few days. On the final day of the gathering Sun’s Chairman Scott McNealy and James Gosling—who oversees technology development for the company—will take to stage. Gosling is a longtime key person at Sun. [See the full post…]

Christina Recchio is Senior Product Line Manager for 2k Games, and gives a few clues to the upcoming Da Vinci Code video game for PC, xBox and Sony Playstation to PodTech’s Michael Johnson. For more info see: www.thedavincicodegame.com

TiE – which stands for The Indus Entrepreneurs—started quite by accident in 1992 in Silicon Valley. Seems an Indian government official was due to meet with a group if entrepreneurs with Indian roots. The plane was late and the group [See the full post…]

Chris Seitz, Manager of the Developer Resources Group at NVIDIA, tells Podtech’s Michael Johnson about Havok FX, the emerging physics application for gamers, that’s set to enhance the look and feel of gaming graphics. Download FTP link for Havok FX [See the full post…]

Jonathan “Fatal1ty” Wedell, the number one gamer in the world took out some time out from E3 2006 to chat with Podtech’s Michael Johnson about his line of video game gear, and the growing gaming community. More podcasts with Fatal1ty: [See the full post…]

PodTech’s Michael Johnson talks with writer Susan O’Connor about the story writing process for video games at the 2006 E3 video game conference in Los Angeles. “What kind of story can we create that’s going to enhance what the player’s [See the full post…]

There’s generally no such thing as a culturally distinct video game from Northern Europe. The Swedes and Fins say their games are made for a global market. But mobile gaming, unsurprisingly, is big in the land of Nokia. “Most of [See the full post…]

PlayStation 3 (PS3) info has come down the pike in pieces but one thing we know now is that the new vision from Sony is to create a platform for video game development. That’s not really news–Sony revealed its plans [See the full post…]