SAN FRANCISCO, August 18, 2006 (PodTech News) – “The radios worked in New Orleans until the power went out,” said Ellen Kirk, vice president of marketing for Tropos Networks, in an interview Wednesday with PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau. That test bodes [See the full post…]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., August 17, 2006 (PodTech News) — Lease your lampposts for $39 a pop, and get a free WiFi network that serves the entire city? No wonder the Google WiFi proposal got a standing ovation and passage in [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, August 16, 2006 (PodTech News) – Google WiFi is open for business in the city of Mountain View. As of 9 p.m. Tuesday, the city of 72,000 became the second, and most populous, U.S. city with completely free [See the full post…]

In 2005 Nationwide, a Fortune 100 insurance company, sought solutions to the increasing costs of data and software. In this keynote speech from LinuxWorld & Expo 2006 in San Francisco, Guru Vasudeva, Nationwide’s AVP and enterprise chief architect, explains how [See the full post…]

Intel’s Richard Wirt continues his talk on the evolution of grid computing and real world applications with guest Peter Lee, CEO of DataSynapse who featured some real time virtualization demos. This is the 2nd of 2 parts from his keynote [See the full post…]

University of Southern California is one of more than 10 universities adding Microsoft’s XNA Game Studio Express into their curricula. PodTech’s Rio Pesino spoke with Michael Zyda, who is the Director of USC’s Gamepipe game development school, about the impact [See the full post…]

Richard Wirt, general manager of Intel’s software and solutions group and a senior fellow at Intel, talks about Linux and highlights the evolution of grid computing and real world applications. He was joined by Bill Coleman, CEO of Cassatt to [See the full post…]

Greg Besio, Motorola’s corporate VP of mobile devices software, talks about Linux in the mobile world, and demos two Linux-based mobile phones popular in China: The Ming and the ROKR E2. The 1st of 2 parts from his keynote address [See the full post…]

Greg Besio, Motorola’s brings on Christy Wyatt, VP for ecosystem and market development at Motorola’s Mobile Devices Business to discuss the latest on MOTODEV and the new places Motorola hopes to take the mobile world. The 2nd of 2 parts from [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, August 15, 2006 (PodTech News) – The posting of some 19 million searches by 658,000 AOL subscribers — an information spill being likened to Exxon’s Valdez accident — has civil liberties groups seeking legal action and senators pushing [See the full post…]

Stanford Law Professor Larry Lessig questions whether or not free culture can remain free, and proposes personal involvement in the political process if creative freedom is to thrive. The 3rd of 3 parts from his keynote address at LinuxWorld.

Larry Lessig talks about how we’ve gone from a READ WRITE society to a READ ONLY society and how a more open licensing environment can encourage creativity, while maintaining manageable rights. Part 2 of 3 parts from a keynote lecture [See the full post…]

At LinuxWorld & Expo in San Francisco, Stanford Law Professor and founder of the Center for Internet and Society Lawrence Lessig spoke at the opening keynote address of the conference about the role of Open Source in a world rapidly [See the full post…]

Juniper Networks correspondent Carol Wilson sits down with industry security experts and investigates how you and your enterprise can win the war against hackers, spammers and criminals. The podcast begins with David Flynn, vice president of products for Juniper Networks [See the full post…]

SAN JOSE, August 14, 2006 (PodTech News) – Microsoft to gamers: DIY! The company kicked off its two-day Gamefest in Seattle today by announcing the release of XNA Game Studio Express. The video game developer’s toolkit will allow consumers to [See the full post…]

Jason Perlow is Contributing Editor at Linux Magazine and talks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson about the importance of LinuxWorld 2006 and about new developments in Linux for enterprise as well as computing in the developing world. More info at: LinuxWorldExpo.com

Google CEO Eric Schmidt was featured in a keynote conversation with Search Engine Strategies Chair Danny Sullivan at the Search Engine Strategies convention in San Jose on Wednesday. In Part One of the keynote, Schmidt talks about the history of [See the full post…]

SAN JOSE, August 9, 2006 (PodTech News) – Google CEO Eric Schmidt talked with the press about search, network neutrality, the recent AOL search term privacy debacle, and more at the Search Engine Strategies conference at San Jose’s McEnery Convention [See the full post…]

Common Sense Media CEO Jim Steyer and his daughter Carly take a trip to AT&T Park to talk to the San Francisco Giants about how they manage their kids’ media use. Jason Schmidt, Steve Finley and Ray Durham talk about [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, August 8, 2006 (Podtech News) — Sprint Nextel today announced plans to develop and deploy a nationwide wireless broadband mobile network using WiMAX. Sprint said it will work with Intel on mobile WiMAX-enabled chipsets and with Motorola and [See the full post…]

The explosion of digital content in the home, the hand, the office and the car has resulted in impressive growth for Seagate. The company reported an increase of over 20% in annual revenue… totaling $9.2 billion for its fiscal year [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, August 7, 2006 (PodTech News) – Apple Computer’s CEO Steve Jobs ended his keynote speech at last year’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with the statement, “The soul of a Mac is its operating system, and we’re not [See the full post…]

Steve Jobs continues the countdown of ten Leopard features in part three of his keynote address from the Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) at San Francisco’s Moscone West. Enhancements to iChat elicited the biggest buzz from the crowd of 4,000 [See the full post…]

At the Apple 2006 World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple CEO Steve Jobs went over the new features of “[tagLeopard”, the next evolution of the OS X operating system for the Macintosh. 1. Full native support for 64-bit apps – [See the full post…]

San Francisco, August 7, 2006 (PodTech News) Apple Computer Chairman and CEO Steve Jobs kicked off the World Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) at Moscone West in San Francisco before a packed convention hall expecting major announcements regarding the company’s line [See the full post…]