“The PC has been a clunky box for a long time,” said Ekin Binal, VP of product development for BICOM. “We’re taking a new spin on it.” The HMS8’s cubicle design is a high-end PC media server that integrates a [See the full post…]

An easy-to-use interface and touch-sensitive buttons were the main breakthroughs in the three systems Connecticut-based BICOM submitted to the Intel Core Processor Challenge PC Design. This aluminum covered media server is styled for the digital home. Built on the Intel [See the full post…]

“We tried to reduce everything to the necessary minimum,” said mCubed Information Technology GmbH’s Managing Director, Maik Berendt. mCubed’s submission for the Intel Core Processor Challenge PC Design, the aluminum and acrylic HFX micro, uses an Intel Core 2 Duo [See the full post…]

Robert Scoble talks to Rocketboom‘s Andrew Baron and ReinventingErica‘s Erica O’Grady, at SXSW.

At the recent Clean Tech Venture Network Conference in San Francisco, Nora McDevitt interviewed Dave Jones of Live Fuels, Inc. This start-up is developing biofuel technologies using algae. Algae multiplies so quickly and produces so much oxygen that it could [See the full post…]

Developing more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly highway transportation technologies that enable Americans to use less petroleum is the mission of the FreedomCAR and Vehicle Technologies Program, which supports the mission of the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency [See the full post…]

SoftImage, is known for its character creation and effects tools used by animators and digital artists in the film, broadcast, and video game industries. The company’s software has been used in games created by companies including Electronic Arts and Capcom, [See the full post…]

During SXSW, I catapulted myself into digital storytelling by asking everyone to tell me about the worst injury they’d ever had, and to use sound effects when they told the story. These are the sound effects!

NETGEAR has announced its new Digital Entertainer HD. It’s the next step in bridging the barrier between your television and the digital media on your computer. Listen to this conversation with Jamison Ching of NETGEAR, as he outlines all the [See the full post…]

Gnanesh Dholakia, senior product marketing manager at CA, and Jim Metzler, vice president, Ashton, Metzler & Associates, discuss the changes to the media, entertainment, and communications industries, and the accompanying challenges to network management.

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At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Sun Microsystems announced its plans to enter the online gaming realm. In this podcast, PodTech’s Rio Pesino speaks with Sun’s Chris Melissinos, Seth Proctor and Jonathan Kaplan about its open source, online [See the full post…]

At the recent Clean Tech Venture Network Conference in San Francisco, Nora McDevitt interviewed Peter Fusaro, chairman of Global Change Associates, Dan Kammen, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and Maurice Gunerderson, venture partner with CMEA Ventures on [See the full post…]

As host of The Next Gear, I get to meet people who are trying to bring about postitive changes in the automotive industry. Many of the people I meet are entrepreneurs whose inventions have the potential to change the world, [See the full post…]

In this Thought Leaders podcast brought to you by SAVVIS, James Richardson, senior vice president at Cisco discusses how Cisco is helping enterprise CIOs prepare for the Web 2.0 world. He also sheds some light on Services Oriented Network Architecture [See the full post…]

There are four major IT integration models that companies adopt, depending on their existing business and technology environments and their post-M&A business goals. Each model has distinctive characteristics in speed of integration, costs, complexity and synergies. Recent studies have shown [See the full post…]

Thousands of game artists, animators, programmers and others were at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, hoping to land their dream job of working for a video game company. Despite the fact that there are gaming gigs out there, [See the full post…]

Size matters — especially when you put it in the context of an urban area with traffic congestion and parking capacity. That’s the thinking behind Spokane, Wash.-based Commuter Cars Corp. The company has unvelied an ultra-narrow, high performance zero-emissions vehicle, [See the full post…]

Hu Yoshida, CTO of Hitachi Data Systems, invited Jeremiah Owyang (web-strategist.com) to capture an historic lunch with Jack Harker, one of the innovators of Data Storage, accompanied by his son John Harker. Claus Mikkelsen and Eric Tibbard also join in. [See the full post…]

Sony unveiled its new “Home” service for the Playstation 3 at the Game Developers Conference this week. The 3D online avatar-based world will allow PS3 users to chat, share content, shop and join games online. PodTech’s Rio Pesino spoke with [See the full post…]

At RSA 2007 in San Francisco, network security podcaster Martin McKeay headed a series of discussions about the new tools available to consumers, and how far we’ve come. Joining McKeay are Dan Mathews and Brae Legg of Verizon Business.

In the race to bring to market the first scalable PHEV, it all comes down to developing the best battery that delivers the furthest range, longest life and lowest cost. And one company may have it figured out. Altairnano, a [See the full post…]

Here Brian Walsh, founder of Castfire, gives us a good demo of how new media businesses can manage their video and audio content and make better use of it with Castfire’s mediacasting platform.

Are you a new-style media business (like PodTech)? If you are, you’re probably trying to manage tons of video and audio content. We sit down with Brian Walsh, founder of Castfire, to talk about how his system helps media (er, [See the full post…]

David Weinberger is co-author of Cluetrain Manifesto. In this podcast, Weinberger discusses the ways in which business will work in the newly connected marketplace. Speaking at the New Communications Forum in Las Vegas, Weinberger believes that a generational shift has [See the full post…]