Yesterday, Mark Cuban spoke at the Consumer Electronics Association luncheon. Before he spoke I had lunch with him and asked him for a quick comment on his hopes for the Dallas Mavericks basketball team (he’s the owner) and his thoughts [See the full post…]

As mobile devices rush to keep up with consumers’ lifestyles, Intel is watching how people around the world have been adapting to their changing technologies. Mobile computing was the topic when PodTech’s Michael Johnson caught up with Intel Senior Researcher [See the full post…]

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.

Ryan Block is managing editor of Engadget.com and he invited me over to get a tour of his San Francisco “crib.” We see, and talk about, dozens of gadgets from cameras to cell phones to HDTVs.

Tony Conrad, Sphere’s CEO (they make a nice blog search engine) shows me a cool new bookmarklet for bloggers that can help you figure out who is talking about a specific topic.

James Snell, a developer with IBM’s WebAhead development lab, comes on to talk about his new developerWorks article series on the Atom publishing protocol. For more info see: IBM’s developerWorks

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…]

At Demo in Los Angeles, PodTech CEO and Founder John Furrier had a chance to speak with Howard Lee Morgan and Joshua Kopelman, two prominent early-stage venture capitalists from First Round Capital. Although Josh is now deeply involved in the [See the full post…]

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…]

Last Monday, Veer Bothra (seen here on the left) asked me to join in the monthly mixer he organises, called Mobile Monday. It’s loosely tied in with an eponymous event held around the world, an opportunity for mobile platform stakeholders [See the full post…]

What are social bookmarks and why would you want to use them? ShortCuts knowledge management expert Luis Suarez explains how del.icio.us and other social bookmarking services can help you organize, track and share information and expertise. This week’s links: Wikipedia’s [See the full post…]

Go Shopping! Here we interview Michael Yang, CEO of Become.com, which is a new shopping search engine. They claim that it works better than Google for when you’re looking for products to buy. Hear what he sees as his advantages [See the full post…]

This Christmas, Michael Yang hopes you’ll use his search engine to find things to buy for your friends and family. Here, the CEO of Become.com demos what he says makes his service better for shopping than other search engines.

Learn about Instant Messaging (IM) threats and what you can do to protect your working environment. More information at: Symantec.com

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…]

A discussion on the next evolution of Sun‘s CoolThreads processor (code-named Niagara 2) with Rick Hetherington, chief architect for the Niagara program, and Gary Peterson, director for the Niagara program.

LOS ANGELES, October 17, 2006, (PodTech News) — Following in the footsteps of musicians, movies and members of the 18-34 demographic, politicians are now turning to social networking sites like MySpacel and Facebook to spread the word about their campaigns [See the full post…]

In today’s news, CEA analysts’ very rosy predictions for the holiday shopping season, Microsoft opens Vista’s core to software competitors, online video continues to swoon after the recent Google/YouTube deal — including a new deal between CBS and Yahoo — [See the full post…]

PodTech is built on top of WordPress, a blogging and content management package from Automattic. Here we sit down with Toni Schneider, CEO of Automattic, to talk about a variety of things — from Om Malik to splogs and what [See the full post…]

Seagate Technology’s James Druckrey, senior vice president and general manager, branded solutions speaks out on how Seagate is viewing social media. He speaks to Jennifer Jones about why the company decided to set up a social media budget, what social [See the full post…]

Recently-formed Silicon Valley venture capital firm Bridgescale Partners celebrated over cocktails and hors d’oeuvres with a crowd that included PodTech Founder and CEO John Furrier. Here, he talks with partners Matthew Cowan and Rob Chaplinsky about their investment strategies, smart [See the full post…]

Create your own multimedia scrapbook online with Scrapblog. Here CEO Carlos Garcia gives you a good tour. Don’t miss the book that he made with Scrapblog!

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…]

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…]

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…]