Archive for September, 2006

Sun’s David Kenyon and Nigel Dessau on Security, Encryption and Storage

September 22nd, 2006 |

Sun Microsystems Senior Director of Data Protection and Archive Product Management David Kenyon and Vice President of Storage Marketing and Business Operations Nigel Dessau talk about the New York City event where the company announced new developments in encryption and [See the full post…]

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Sun’s David Profozich on Sun, Software and Sarbanes-Oxley

September 22nd, 2006 |

Sun Microsystems David Profozich, vice president for software, took some time at Sun’s recent announcement event in New York to talk with PodTech Founder John Furrier. According to Profozich, Solaris 10 is much healthier than it was just 18 months [See the full post…]

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IBM ShortCut #5: Fighting blog spam

September 22nd, 2006 |
IBM ShortCut #5: Fighting blog spam

Is your blog awash with comment spam? ShortCuts blogging expert Todd Watson shows how to get rid of the stuff. This week’s links: the Six Apart Guide to Comment Spam and the official Google blog on preventing comment spam. [See the full post…]

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Sun Microsystem EVP John Fowler, Live From New York

September 22nd, 2006 |

John Fowler is executive vice president for the Sun Microsystems systems group. He took some time during a recent event in New York CIty to talk with PodTech Founder John Furrier. They discussed some of the ways that Sun is [See the full post…]

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HP: Straight Story, Damage Control, or Both?

September 21st, 2006 |
HP: Straight Story, Damage Control, or Both?

SAN FRANCISCO, September 21, 2006 (PodTech News) — HP said this afternoon that its President and CEO Mark Hurd has volunteered to appear at the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on [See the full post…]

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Hactivismo Protects Internet Privacy with Torpark Browser

September 21st, 2006 |
Hactivismo Protects Internet Privacy with Torpark Browser

LOS ANGELES, September 21, 2006 (PodTech News) — A group of hackers, human rights workers, lawyers and artists today launched a new web browser to protect computer users from hostile governments who would seek to identify them. Called “Torpark,” the [See the full post…]

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Gnomedex: Not About Being Big or Small, but Open or Closed

September 21st, 2006 |

Marc Canter speaks on evolving open standards, and finding the happy mean between standardizing and differentiating by remaining private.

More on discussions spinning off of Canter’s talk at Gnomedex at Eric’o’theque! and with Richard MacManus. [See the full post…]

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Yahoo’s Ad Downturn a Blip, Not a Trend

September 20th, 2006 |

MENLO PARK, September 20, 2006 (PodTech News) — Yahoo, Inc. executives warned investors at a conference yesterday that advertising growth seems to be slowing in some categories. There was a broad selloff of tech stocks on the news, and Yahoo’s [See the full post…]

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Schwartz Talks Open Source at Sun NY Event

September 20th, 2006 |
Schwartz Talks Open Source at Sun NY Event

Sun Microsystems President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz touted the new open-source version of Sun’s Solaris 10 OS at a Sun product launch event in New York City September 13th. Schwartz gave a keynote address that outlined the reasons behind Sun’s [See the full post…]

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Video from the Amazon: Intel’s World Ahead Program Brings Wireless to the Developing World

September 20th, 2006 |
Video from the Amazon: Intel’s World Ahead Program Brings Wireless to the Developing World

Intel chairman Craig Barrett discusses the World Ahead Program which the company established in May 2006. Intel has pledged over $1 billion over the next five years, to bring internet coverage to various regions around the world. According to Barrett, [See the full post…]

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IDF Preview: Quad Core Microprocessors

September 20th, 2006 |

Intel says its new quad core technology — the result of a four-year development cycle — will be one of the major themes of its upcoming Intel Developer Forum, next week at San Francisco’s Moscone Center West. PodTech’s Jason [See the full post…]

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Security Response, July Blog

September 20th, 2006 |

A Symantec Security Response podcast focused on a roundup of the latest Symantec Security Response Weblogs for July 2006. The goal of this podcast is to help you better understand some of the threats and trends that Symantec’s Security Response [See the full post…]

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Vickram’s View: Kolachi Diary

September 20th, 2006 |

Kolachi is one of the traditional names for the port city of Karachi, in Pakistan’s coastal southern province of Sindh. The city too is a peculiarly South Asian blend of old and new, crowded marketplaces competing for space with [See the full post…]

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Sounds of Interop New York City

September 20th, 2006 |
Sounds of Interop New York City

Interop goes to the Big Apple for its second U.S. IT event this year. PodTech’s Michael Johnson takes to the floor and talks with a few of the exhibitors: Netcordia, CA, Inc., and Network General.

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Experience the Power of Adobe Acrobat Launch Tour

September 20th, 2006 |
Experience the Power of Adobe Acrobat Launch Tour

PodTech’s Michael Johnson speaks with Steve Fehr, the Director of Acrobat Sales for Adobe Systems Incorporated. Fehr shares with Michael some information on upcoming Adobe live events as well as the release of the Adobe Acrobat Family, an upgrade to [See the full post…]

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Intel Invests in Wireless-enabled Amazon… River That Is

September 20th, 2006 |
Intel Invests in Wireless-enabled Amazon… River That Is

SANTA CLARA, Calif., September 20, 2006 (PodTech News) — Intel has chosen to help develop the the IT infrastructure of the Amazon — not the online seller but a portion of the actual river. The initiative is a part of [See the full post…]

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MSN Debut: Your Own Personal Soapbox

September 19th, 2006 |
MSN Debut: Your Own Personal Soapbox

LOS ANGELES, September 19, 2006 (PodTech News) — Microsoft officially entered the video sharing space with the beta launch of Soapbox on MSN Video. Codenamed Warhol, Soapbox will be featured on the MSN Video site and be integrated in new [See the full post…]

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Scott Kriens Chairman, CEO, Juniper Networks on “Keeping It Real”

September 19th, 2006 |
Scott Kriens Chairman, CEO, Juniper Networks on “Keeping It Real”

Real Time Enterprise, Practical Steps & Future Networks:

At Interop 2006 in New York City, Scott Kriens speaks about the practical side of growing the emerging network, and the path to a point where people, devices, machines and information can [See the full post…]

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Intel’s Laser-enabled Chips Could be Silver Bullet

September 19th, 2006 |
Intel’s Laser-enabled Chips Could be Silver Bullet

SANTA CLARA, CA, September 19, 2006 (PodTech News) — Intel says its new experimental semiconductors could be the breakthrough the chip industry has been looking for — the one that will allow chips to keep pace with Moore’s Law. They’ll [See the full post…]

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Collaboration Made Easy

September 19th, 2006 |
Collaboration Made Easy

Tom Hale, senior vice president of Adobe’s knowledge worker solutions business unit, chats with PodTech CEO and Founder John Furrier. Hale shares his views on collaboration and how it will change the way of doing business in the future.

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RealNetworks Reveals iPod Rival

September 19th, 2006 |
RealNetworks Reveals iPod Rival

LOS ANGELES, September 18, 2006 (PodTech News) — Only days after Microsoft announced that its Zune media player will be released in time for the holidays, Seattle-based RealNetworks unveiled plans to partner with SanDisk on a new portable music player [See the full post…]

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Google PACs For Washington

September 18th, 2006 |
Google PACs For Washington

MENLO PARK, September 18, 2006 (PodTech News) — Google filed paperwork Thursday to register a new political action committee, Google NetPac, with the Federal Election Commission. Alan Davidson, Google’s Washington policy counsel, said the political action committee will [See the full post…]

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Dynamic Ads in Video Games

September 18th, 2006 |

Advertisers are using the Internet to place up-to-date ads in video games. “Dynamic Advertising” is designed to implement fresh, new ads in games. Justin Townsend, CEO of in-game ad firm IGA Worldwide, spoke with PodTech’s Rio Pesino about dynamic ads [See the full post…]

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Adobe Systems Incorporated Announces Acrobat 8

September 17th, 2006 |
Adobe Systems Incorporated Announces Acrobat 8

PodTech CEO and Founder John Furrier sits down and chats with Adobe’s Tom Hale, Senior Vice President of Adobe’s Knowledge Worker Solutions Business Unit to discuss Adobe’s announcement of the new Acrobat family of products.

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Exclusive: Rick Brown gives the inside scoop about Adobe Acrobat 8

September 17th, 2006 |
Exclusive: Rick Brown gives the inside scoop about Adobe Acrobat 8

Monday saw the official announcement of Adobe Acrobat 8. Rick Brown is director of product management for Adobe’s knowledge worker business unit. He spoke with PodTech’s Robert Scoble about the future of Adobe Acrobat and some of the key features [See the full post…]

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