“There are different concepts here, which are created by the designers in order to illustrate the opportunities of a new material,” said IDEO Co-Founder Bill Moggridge. He took PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau on a walk through the exhibition “IDEO Prototypes the [See the full post…]

Intel launched its family of Core 2 Duo processors at its headquarters in Santa Clara, California. PodTech’s Michael Johnson was there and gather a few moments from the event floor.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 28, 2006 (PodTech News) – AMD announced this week it’s acquiring Canadian graphics firm ATI for $5.4 billion. PodTech News talked with semiconductor analyst Shane Rau of IDC at Intel’s Core 2 Duo press event yesterday about [See the full post…]

The trio discusses the history of Palm, the challenges of building the company and the worldwide market for mobile computing and communications.

SANTA CLARA, July 27, 2006 (PodTech News) – Intel Corporation showed off its new Core 2 Duo processors today at a press event at the company’s Santa Clara headquarters. The Core 2 Duo processors will power desktop and laptop PCs [See the full post…]

Eddie Codel shows you what it’s like inside Intel’s Performance Benchmarking Lab by interviewing Matt Dunford, Intel Worldwide Chief Benchmarking Manager, and Regina Wu, Performance Engineer & Mad Gamer. Related Stories: IntelGaming

At Gnomedex, blogging, RSS, and podcasting pioneer looks back on the past and ahead to the future, given the evolution of Internet, computing, and the new economics of decentralization. In a world shifting towards user-driven ideation, Winer envisions creativity as [See the full post…]

At AlwaysOn 2006 in Palo Alto, CA, Hjalmar Windbladh, CEO of RebTel.com tells PodTech’s Michael Johnson about the new decentralized method of calling international long distance on your mobile phone. See: RebTel.com Photos on Flickr

“The Future of Pinball” is a film that documents Williams’ plan to recreate the pinball machine and revive a dying industry. PodTech’s Rio Pesino spoke with Greg Maletic, who is the producer, writer and director of the documentary, about the [See the full post…]

“The Future of Pinball” is a film that documents Williams’ plan to recreate the pinball machine and revive a dying industry. Hear Rio Pesino’s interview with Greg Maletic, who is the producer, writer and director of the documentary. Official film [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, July 26, 2006 (PodTech News) –“It’s going to be advertising,” said YouTube CEO Chad Hurley said, when asked how he was going to make his company profitable, though he stressed any additional ads on YouTube will not disrupt [See the full post…]

The focus of this podcast is to help consumers and enterprise understand some of the issues surrounding Phishing and Symantec’s latest efforts at combating online fraud. More information at: Symantec.com

MENLO PARK, July 25, 2006 (PodTech News) — We’re having a heat wave here in Silicon Valley, and the heat is also on in the world of silicon chip-making. Number-two chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices put the pedal to rival Intel’s [See the full post…]

Stephen Smith, Intel Corporation’s VP & Director of Desktop Platform Operations speaks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson, about the development of the new line of Intel Core 2 Duo processors, at Intel’s “proving ground”, the Benchmark Lab in Santa Clara, California.

MENLO PARK, July 24, 2006 (PodTech News)–“I doubt that we’re going to see any gaming functionality, at least in the first device. They were pretty clear with me that they weren’t going in that direction,” said analyst Michael Gartenberg of [See the full post…]

PodTech.net sits down with Joe McGarvey, Senior Analyst at Current Analysis, and John Lazar, MetaSwitch CEO, to discuss why service providers are migrating their networks to IMS-based architectures including IP/Ethernet, VoIP, IPTV and converged multimedia services. More information: www.metaswitch.com/podcasts Click [See the full post…]

Sharon Wienbar, a leading venture investor known for her articulate discussions about social media, is Managing Director of BA Venture Partners. Sharon states what she sees as most innovative and powerful about social media companies as well as telling where [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, July 21, 2006 (PodTech News) – PodTech News wraps the week with two stories of new Web 2.0 services. Yahoo and Motorola said late Wednesday that Motorola will embed Yahoo “Go for Mobile” services on tens of millions [See the full post…]

Symantec announces Symantec Backup Exec 10d for Windows Servers and LiveState Recovery 6.0 More information at: Symantec.com

Steve Jobs, former Atari employee? Atari co-founder Al Alcorn tells PodTech’s Rio Pesino about Jobs’ role with Atari, his involvement in some of the historic meetings with the Apple CEO and how the video game manufacturer rejected Jobs’ concept of [See the full post…]

NVIDIA is the worldwide leader in programmable graphics processor technologies. PodSummit’s hosts discuss how Jen-Hsun Huang scaled his company; how his role changed over his many years of success, and where NVIDIA is headed in the future. More from Podsummit

MENLO PARK, July 20, 2006 (PodTech News) – Google CEO Eric Schmidt announced the company’s second-quarter earnings results in a webcast today. “Google really is committed to providing the best end-user search experience worldwide, and that’s not just on PCs, [See the full post…]

Daishiro Okada, President and Chief Operating Officer of Square Enix, Inc. handles operations in North America, including development, marketing and publishing of well-known Square Enix games including Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest. PodTech’s Rio Pesino talks with Okada about porting [See the full post…]

Trip Hawkins, founder of video game juggernaut Electronic Arts and designer of John Madden Football and High Heat Baseball, was at this year’s Mobile Game Conference in Bellevue, WA. Hawkins, who is currently Chairman and CEO of mobile phone game [See the full post…]

During his keynote speech at MGC, Digital Chocolate Chairman and CEO Trip Hawkins called the mobile phone a social computer and stressed the importance of making the mobile phone a first-rate platform. See photos on Flickr