SAN JOSE, November 8, 2006 (PodTech News)–Sony launches the PlayStation 3 later this month — its most important product launch in years. Featuring Blu-ray technology and other features, the new device has a lot is riding on it. Sony Computer [See the full post…]

Eric Rice, a pioneer in vlogging, has been dark for a few months and plans to come out of the darkness — he’s been playing around with Second Life. He even learned something new at the Vloggies — the existence [See the full post…]

Real celebrity Daniel McVicar tells PodTech’s [tagJohn Furrier how he decided to join the new media revolution. He talks about how back in the day, TV was “out there” — it wasn’t really an exchange. Now it is, he says. [See the full post…]

Blip.TV co-founder Dina Kaplan explains the importance of the vlogging industry in the new media world, where a single vlogger in the middle of Minnesota is as important as a studio in Hollywood used to be. Now, she tells PodTech’s [See the full post…]

Judges’ Favorite News Vlog winner Rocketboom producer Andrew Michael Baron — who compares himself to Woody Allen — introduces us to some of his correspondents, including Steve Garfield of VlogSoup, Chuck Olsen of Minnesota Stories and Zadi Diaz of JetSetShow. [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, November 8, 2006 (PodTech News) — Vint Cerf, vice president and chief internet evangelist for Google and one of the “founding fathers” of the modern-day Internet, says a free and open network is crucial to the Internet’s continuing [See the full post…]

Take one URL that costs $100,000, 250 servers, a room full of PhD’s, a hot visual search technology (this is the team that built the groundbreaking Riya face detection technology) and add some keen insights from users and you get [See the full post…]

Here Riya‘s CEO, Munjal Shah, demonstrates Riya’s new visual search engine: Like.com. This is an interesting new search engine unlike any you’ve ever seen before. Just type “red strappy shoes” into the interface and you’ll see this experience is much [See the full post…]

Understanding what consumers are doing with new media is instrumental. Speaking together at the Dow Jones VentureWire Consumer Technology Ventures Conference, Larry Gerbrandt tells PodTech’s Jennifer Jones about iPod research that will move the needle for executives assessing podcasts. Click [See the full post…]

Yahoo is making headway by being bold and thinking young. Jennifer Jones of PodTech interviews Marco Boerries at the Dow Jones Venture Wire Consumer Technology Ventures Conference about Yahoo’s strategies for connecting users whether they are on the road, at [See the full post…]

In part two of this podcast series, Craig “Tech Daddy” Tate explains why he uses NVIDIA SLI Technology for his modding projects. Craig also details his upcoming modding project for the Dallas Stars NHL Hockey team as well as his [See the full post…]

Microsoft’s Trojan Horse news, Verizon’s plan to bring YouTube to mobile phones, Google looks to the airwaves in its new media move, and more tech news from PodTech News. Click here for transcript.

Doug Cooper of Intel and Michelle Boykins of the National Crime Prevention Council talk about what companies and individuals can do to deter computer crimes, and McGruff the Crime Dog makes a cameo at Digital Life in New York City. [See the full post…]

The news is already way, way out there about Jeremiah Owyang joining us as director of corporate media strategy. Jeremiah writes a great post about it here. Jeremiah will bring and apply invaluable expertise to our customers. He will start [See the full post…]

TiE Delhi’s annual conference, TiEcon 2006, was held on the 26th-28th October. The conference theme was ‘Entrepreneurship: The DNA of Growth’ and the event was a meeting ground for entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, investors, industry leaders etc. Besides the main conference [See the full post…]

Yay! We’re announcing the date for the Second Annual Vloggies – as a big heads up. The industry will evolve so much within one year, and once again, we will ask the community for their input in how most effectively [See the full post…]

A Symantec Security Response podcast focused on information-stealing programs designed to gather account information for online games. The goal of this podcast is to help you better understand the threats these programs pose to more than just your online game [See the full post…]

Greg Butterfield is chairman, president and CEO of Utah-based Altiris. Altiris was the first successful enterprise technology company IPO in the US after 9/11. Today, the company’s annual sales are over $200 million. Butterfield discusses his his 10 principles of [See the full post…]

Craig “Tech Daddy” Tate, a well known PC modder, talks with NVIDIA to discuss his experiences with modding computers. In the first in a two-part podcast series, Craig introduces modding basics, reveals techniques for new modders, and provides recommendations for [See the full post…]

At the Forrester Consumer Forum Conference 2006 in Chicago, Forrester Researcher Michaela Ion spoke with PodTech’s Michael Johnson. Ion studies patterns in the adoption and use of technology in Asian/Pacific consumers. Click here for transcript.

The markets are back up, with several big corporate buyouts bolstering confidence on the day before Election Day. Google made the papers today, as it prepared to roll out auctioned-off ad space in some of the most prestigious newspapers in [See the full post…]

Finding stuff you want to listen to in podcasts and audio files can be frustratingly hard. Why should you listen to an ESPN report when all you want to hear is how Tiger Woods did over the weekend? Well, Pluggd [See the full post…]

Sit down with Pluggd‘s CEO, Alex Castro, and hear his plans for making Internet audiocasts easier to find and consume. Click here for transcript.

We’re really happy to post the official list of The Vloggies winners announced on Saturday night. Many congratulations to Alive in Baghdad, which won six awards including Favorite Vlog, Favorite Group Blog, Favorite Political Vlog, and Favorite Interview Vlog. Alive [See the full post…]

“Every brand is a distribution channel,” says Kevin Townsend. It’s been a long time since digital media meant special effects. Townsend was at Industrial Light and Magic when it produced Jurassic Park. Now, his company, Science + Fiction, is helping [See the full post…]