Cisco yesterday announced the TelePresence 3000 but last week Robert Scoble got to attend a demo of the system with his camera. This is a new kind of videoconferencing room, one where you feel you’re actually in the same room [See the full post…]

With competitors to the popular social bookmarking service del.icio.us springing up, there is more choice than ever in bookmarking tools. ShortCuts knowledge management expert Luis Suarez gives his tips on the best services out there, and why. This week’s links: [See the full post…]

Bill O’Reilly throws grenades at political blogs. McAfee throws stones at Microsoft, Microsoft throws them back. YouTube removes more than 30,000 files that infringe on the copyrights of a number of Japanese broadcasts. Sony revises shipping estimates for the PS3. [See the full post…]

Iqbal Gandham has been involved with internet startups since before the days of Yahoo and Hotmail, when the coolest thing to do with a webpage was to make the text blink. Initially based in the UK, Iqbal setup several ISPs, [See the full post…]

Dave Douglas, vice president of advanced technology at Sun Microsystems, speaks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson at the live unveiling of Project Blackbox, Sun’s high capacity, highly transportable “data center in a box,” or at least a standard 20 foot shipping [See the full post…]

At their headquarters in Menlo Park, California, Sun Microsystems presented the prototype for the “data center in a box,” or Project Blackbox, a portable data system that needs only power, a chilled water source and an internet connection. Listen to [See the full post…]

BOSTON, MA, October 20, 2006 (PodTech News) – The Huichol Indians in Mexico have few options when it comes affordable, reliable lighting. Now, a Boston architect is at the forefront of a team of designers that wants to create lighting [See the full post…]

Olivier Garbe, founder and CEO of Winnov, demonstrates its new CBox 3, which lets you build educational experiences on the Web. Really unique video camera and room recording system.

Managing IT change is a continual balancing act of rapid deployment versus poor execution. Enterprises must understand how to align service providers with specific technology goals to gain competitive advantages. In this talk from the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Florida, [See the full post…]

An in depth conversation with Forrester EMC analyst Kyle McNabb, discussing Forrester’s content-centric view of Enterprice Content Management (ECM). You’ll learn why Forrester believes customers are making purchase decisions based on the types of content involved in their business processes [See the full post…]

Google blows the doors off. Cingular blows the doors off. A former game executive blows the doors off someone else’s Ferrari.

Here is the demo that AOL gave live in Santa Clara when they announced that they are opening up APIs for their ‘crown jewel’ AIM Instant Messenger. In a previous video AOL execs talked with PodTech’s CEO John Furrier in [See the full post…]

AOL’s Stephen Benedict announced today at the WebGuild.org annual conference that AOL is opening up APIs for their ‘crown jewel’ AIM Instant Messenger. AOL execs talked with PodTech’s CEO John Furrier in Santa Clara GigaOm had the story yesterday. Here [See the full post…]

The Home Depot discusses standardizing on the EMC Documentum content management platform. In this podcast, you’ll learn what criteria The Home Depot used when choosing EMC Documentum as their Enterprise Content Management platform. In this episode, you will hear Lee [See the full post…]

Steve Koenig, senior manager, industry analysis, CEA, and Joseph Bates, director of research, CEA, led the final panel discussion of the day on October 17th: Five Burning Questions in the CE Industry. The panel combined quick audience surveys with videotaped [See the full post…]

Data security breaches are becoming an almost daily occurrence as mobile PCs and USB drives become the status quo. The porous enterprise security perimeter requires a new approach to solving the problem – “endpoint security.” We sat down with Nolan [See the full post…]

What is SPIM, and why can it be so dangerous? ShortCuts IM expert Akiba Saeedi explains how to keep your instant messaging spam-free, both inside and outside the office. This week’s link: Wikipedia’s guide to messaging spam.

Roman Scharf, Jajah‘s CEO, talks about what Jajah is trying to accomplish – they are one of a handful of companies that let you call overseas for free, or a very low price, with your regular phone. Sorta like Skype, [See the full post…]

Roman Scharf, Jajah‘s CEO, demonstrates how Jajah works to make low-cost – even free – phone calls around the world with a regular phone. On the other line is Guy Kawasaki, famous evangelist and blogger.

Paul O’Brien is manager of interactive marketing at Hewlett-Packard’s direct-to-home and consumer home office store. He talked with us about trends HP Direct has seen in online consumer behavior. We spoke at the CEA Industry Forum, a gathering of consumer [See the full post…]

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are a growing threat for Internet-enabled businesses. Cindy Bellefeuille and Chris Hunsaker, security experts at Verizon Business, discuss DDoS attacks and alternatives to traditional security services such as firewalls and IDS/IPS solutions.

Mark Cuban, chaiman and president of HDNet, gave his thoughts on the YouTube/Google deal during his keynote address at the 2006 CEA Industry Forum in San Francisco. The owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks also gave talked about the future [See the full post…]

“Understanding How Consumers Use the Internet to Research and Shop for Consumer Electronics” was the topic of a CEA forum panel October 17th at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco.

Driving in Karachi is an exercise in confusion, damped-out road rage and sheer fun. The roads are mostly quite wide, but the combination of a large variety of vehicles and quaint driving styles makes for what the ancient Chinese legendarily [See the full post…]

Common Sense Media CEO Jim Steyer gives parents the information they need to know about YouTube, the popular video sharing website that was bought by Google this week. More info: CommonSenseMedia.org