SoftImage, is known for its character creation and effects tools used by animators and digital artists in the film, broadcast, and video game industries. The company’s software has been used in games created by companies including Electronic Arts and Capcom, [See the full post…]

During SXSW, I catapulted myself into digital storytelling by asking everyone to tell me about the worst injury they’d ever had, and to use sound effects when they told the story. These are the sound effects!

NETGEAR has announced its new Digital Entertainer HD. It’s the next step in bridging the barrier between your television and the digital media on your computer. Listen to this conversation with Jamison Ching of NETGEAR, as he outlines all the [See the full post…]

Gnanesh Dholakia, senior product marketing manager at CA, and Jim Metzler, vice president, Ashton, Metzler & Associates, discuss the changes to the media, entertainment, and communications industries, and the accompanying challenges to network management.

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At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Sun Microsystems announced its plans to enter the online gaming realm. In this podcast, PodTech’s Rio Pesino speaks with Sun’s Chris Melissinos, Seth Proctor and Jonathan Kaplan about its open source, online [See the full post…]

At the recent Clean Tech Venture Network Conference in San Francisco, Nora McDevitt interviewed Peter Fusaro, chairman of Global Change Associates, Dan Kammen, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and Maurice Gunerderson, venture partner with CMEA Ventures on [See the full post…]

As host of The Next Gear, I get to meet people who are trying to bring about postitive changes in the automotive industry. Many of the people I meet are entrepreneurs whose inventions have the potential to change the world, [See the full post…]

In this Thought Leaders podcast brought to you by SAVVIS, James Richardson, senior vice president at Cisco discusses how Cisco is helping enterprise CIOs prepare for the Web 2.0 world. He also sheds some light on Services Oriented Network Architecture [See the full post…]

There are four major IT integration models that companies adopt, depending on their existing business and technology environments and their post-M&A business goals. Each model has distinctive characteristics in speed of integration, costs, complexity and synergies. Recent studies have shown [See the full post…]

Thousands of game artists, animators, programmers and others were at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, hoping to land their dream job of working for a video game company. Despite the fact that there are gaming gigs out there, [See the full post…]

Size matters — especially when you put it in the context of an urban area with traffic congestion and parking capacity. That’s the thinking behind Spokane, Wash.-based Commuter Cars Corp. The company has unvelied an ultra-narrow, high performance zero-emissions vehicle, [See the full post…]

Hu Yoshida, CTO of Hitachi Data Systems, invited Jeremiah Owyang (web-strategist.com) to capture an historic lunch with Jack Harker, one of the innovators of Data Storage, accompanied by his son John Harker. Claus Mikkelsen and Eric Tibbard also join in. [See the full post…]

Sony unveiled its new “Home” service for the Playstation 3 at the Game Developers Conference this week. The 3D online avatar-based world will allow PS3 users to chat, share content, shop and join games online. PodTech’s Rio Pesino spoke with [See the full post…]

At RSA 2007 in San Francisco, network security podcaster Martin McKeay headed a series of discussions about the new tools available to consumers, and how far we’ve come. Joining McKeay are Dan Mathews and Brae Legg of Verizon Business.

In the race to bring to market the first scalable PHEV, it all comes down to developing the best battery that delivers the furthest range, longest life and lowest cost. And one company may have it figured out. Altairnano, a [See the full post…]

Here Brian Walsh, founder of Castfire, gives us a good demo of how new media businesses can manage their video and audio content and make better use of it with Castfire’s mediacasting platform.

Are you a new-style media business (like PodTech)? If you are, you’re probably trying to manage tons of video and audio content. We sit down with Brian Walsh, founder of Castfire, to talk about how his system helps media (er, [See the full post…]

David Weinberger is co-author of Cluetrain Manifesto. In this podcast, Weinberger discusses the ways in which business will work in the newly connected marketplace. Speaking at the New Communications Forum in Las Vegas, Weinberger believes that a generational shift has [See the full post…]

Last weekend, the “Witness to War: Documentary Perspectives World War II to Iraq” was programmed by the inestimable and reliable Tom Luddy. He has had a long and varied career in the business that has, in part, resulted in him [See the full post…]

At RSA 2007 in San Francisco, network security podcaster Martin McKeay headed a series of discussions examining the latest communication tools like Skype, IM, and ICQ and enterprise security. McKeay talks with Cindy Bellefeuille, Security Solutions, Verizon Business; Rich Mogul, [See the full post…]

The Firecracker Press is a small boutique design shop in St. Louis, unique because they also print their own work on antique letter presses. Eric Woods, the proprietor, gave me a tour. Much of the design is done using modern [See the full post…]

This Symantec podcast provides a summary of the February 2007 IT Risk Management Report, available for download at: www.symantec.com/riskreport. More information at: Symantec.com

One of the new technologies that has me very excited is the promise of V2G, or Vehicle to Grid, technology, where PHEV’s plug into the electric grid to help handle periods of peak energy demand. In this second of a [See the full post…]

Here we continue the tour of the Stanford Linear Accelerator by Bebo White. Follow photographer Thomas Hawk as he captures some great images of this wonderful building (the longest in the U.S.).