The 2006 LA Film Festival, featured the documentary “East of Havana”. In this podcast, PodTech’s Michael Johnson speaks with the films directors Juaretsi Saizarbitoria and Emilia Menocal, as well as the producers, Juan Carlos Saizarbitoria and actress Charlize Theron.

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Film Independent, the Los Angeles Film Festival organizer, threw a “Porch Party” at the Armand Hammer Museum in Westwood, Los Angeles. PodTech’s Michael Johnson spoke with some of the revelers as well as Film Independent’s Educational Director Maria Bozzi, and [See the full post…]

Film Independent, the Los Angeles Film Festival organizer, threw a “Porch Party” at the Armand Hammer Museum in Westwood, Los Angeles. PodTech’s Michael Johnson spoke with some of the revelers as well as Film Independent’s Educational Director Maria Bozzi, and [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, June 30, 2006 (PodTech News) — “We certainly want the (telecoms) to recover their investment,” said Art Brodsky, communications director of Washington D.C-based public advocacy group Public Knowledge. “The way to get the money is to let the [See the full post…]

This panel discussion focuses on key issues facing US companies investing in emerging companies abroad, including cultural approaches, customer preferences, marketing efforts and more. Panelists include Mintoo Bhandari, The View Group (moderator), Bob Nephew, Korn Ferry, Dr. Shan Nair, Nair [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, June 29, 2006 (PodTech News) — A ‘net neutrality’ amendment to a Telecom bill was rejected by the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee late Wednesday in a tie vote. Both sides of the net neutrality debate [See the full post…]

The director of the Los Angeles Film Festival, Richard Raddon, says that being overshadowed by Hollywood isn’t the challenge one might think. He says it’s a plus that Hollywood directors and actors live in the neighborhood, literally. The LA Film [See the full post…]

Join John Furrier in his discussion of network security with David O’Berry from the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole & Pardon Services. After serving their time in prison, many former convicts are under the jurisdiction of the state upon [See the full post…]

Sunil Paul delves into his life after Brightmail and his success as an angel investor. He gives PodSummit hosts and VC investors Mike Boich and Bud Colligan his ideas on a myriad of subjects including Cleantech, India and China. [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, June 28, 2006 (PodTech News) — Convergence of online video-sharing sites and traditional network TV is here. Online video site YouTube and NBC Universal announced a promotional partnership Tuesday, the day after Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Bros. announced [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, June 27, 2006 (PodTech News) — In a San Francisco news conference Monday, Intel announced it’s shipping a new chip, the Xeon processor 5100 “Woodcrest”, to power network servers. PodTech News talked with Boyd Davis, Intel’s General Manager [See the full post…]

Intel helped bring together movie and technology experts to show and tell how the Internet is changing the entertainment industry. Plus, festival goers saw the future of home entertainment and got to test drive the latest home entertainment systems powered [See the full post…]

Jim Steyer, Founder/CEO of Common Sense Media, reviews this summer’s blockbusters from a family-friendly perspective.

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Kirk Skaugen is vice president of the Digital Enterprise Group and co-general manager of the Intel Server Platforms Group . In this podcast Skaugen talks about practical applications for Intel’s server and workstation platforms working with Intel’s Core Microarchitecture such [See the full post…]

Tom Kilroy is vice president and general manager of Intel Corporation’s Digital Enterprise Group. He covers computing and communications infrastructure platforms for business. In this podcast he introduces Intel’s new microprocessor for server computers, the first chips built with Intel’s [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, June 26, 2006 (PodTech News) — Microsoft unveiled what it calls a “unified communications product road map and partner ecosystem” at a press event in San Francisco today. “The announcement indicates Microsoft’s significant effort to move into a [See the full post…]

Analysts predict mass adoption of digital IP-based media only when consumers able to easily download and watch movies. The technology is here but the will apparently isn’t. But the makers of films aren’t letting that stop them from using the [See the full post…]

Randy Thom, one of the film industry’s leading film sound designers, says he appreciates the capabilities of faster computer chips and higher performance storage in systems. But he echoes the sentiments of every I.T. manager: he doesn’t want to be [See the full post…]

It’s not a matter of if we’ll be watching movies downloaded on our home theater systems, it’s a matter of when. James Ackerman, CEO of the film producer and distributor Clickstar, points to the convergence of faster chips, media friendly [See the full post…]

Ask Craig Newmark why he hasn’t made multi-millions off of Craigslist and he’ll look at you as if it’s an odd question. Try asking him why Craigslist is such a great site to avoid being bombarded by ads. There, that’s [See the full post…]

Six Apart founder Mena Trott says the blogosphere is probably smaller than most people think. She defines it as the space inhabited by people who are “the pundits” trying to get a lot of readers. The blogging universe is much [See the full post…]

Independent media distribution over the Internet was once talked about–by independent content creators–as if it were a real option. But it was never realistic on a wide scale basis. The bandwidth, hardware and audience weren’t there. But times have changed. [See the full post…]

Feedburner CEO Dick Costello talks to Jennifer Jones about how to take the complexity out of publishing consumer generated media. They discuss what more than 200,000 Feedburner customers already know—how to best move their material to the web. [See the full post…]

BMW Sauber F1 Team driver Jacques Villeneuve talks about the need for balancing great driving skills with the latest technology in order to make it to the winner’s circle. Intel’s dual core computer technology processes real-time data sent by the [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, June 23, 2006 (PodTech News) — Social news website Digg.com is expanding beyond the technology geek universe. The 18-month-old startup is adding four new content areas, including video, to its offerings, the company announced Thursday. Starting June 26th, [See the full post…]