Jim Jones is a managing director at Scale Venture Partners, a venture capital firm which invests in emerging tech and healthcare companies. Jim’s focus is on semiconductors and consumer electronics, so we met with him last week at CES to [See the full post…]

Twelve b-i-l-l-i-o-n dollars in cash and more coming in with a billion in profit for the last quarter…. With these record earnings, what will Steve Jobs decide to do with all that crazy iPod money? Apple Voices’ Michael Klinger and [See the full post…]

A Symantec Security Response podcast featuring two high-profile zero day vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft and the Broadcom Wireless device driver set. This podcast features a technical discussion of the vulnerabilities and offers listeners insight on likely attack scenarios and mitigating strategies. [See the full post…]

At the International CES in Las Vegas, Jim Hollingsworth, senior vice president of marketing for Gracenote, talks about the music database company and its new applications for cars, mobile phones, lyrics search and more. Transcript: Host: Michael Johnson – PodTech [See the full post…]

While I wasn’t around for the 1953 FJ Holden, Australia’s legendary automobile that compares in status to the 1957 Chevy in the U.S., I can appreciate its design. Speaking with Richard Ferlazzo, chief designer of GM Holden Ltd, I got [See the full post…]

Yesterday I sat down with Sun Microsystems‘ CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, and Tim Marsland, Sun’s CTO in charge of Solaris, and had a wide-ranging discussion from his pitch to Steve Jobs as to why Apple should include the Java runtimes on [See the full post…]

Here, on the final day of the Retrevo Gang from the Seagate booth at the Consumer Electronics Show, Vipin Jain, Retrevo’s CEO, and Andrew Eisner, Retrevo’s biggest gadget freak get together to wrap up what they saw on the show [See the full post…]

Every day at CES last week we met with the Retrevo Gang – folks from Retrevo, the consumer electronics search engine, who held court and talked about the latest news – Apple iPhone and other gadgets. On the second day, [See the full post…]

Intel CFO Andy Bryant says that 2006 was a year when chipmaker AMD won some marketing battles with better products. But that changed in the 4th quarter of the year when Intel was able to start applying pricing pressure to [See the full post…]

You might think Moore’s Law comes with an ancillary set of steps on how to adhere to it. The Law essentially says that technology develops so swiftly that chip engineers can pack twice as many transistors on a piece of [See the full post…]

Building and maintaining a network always presents challenges, but as Manager of Networking for the University of Alaska, Craig Collar has some additional difficulties. Hear how Juniper Networks helped him tackle the tundra. This Juniper Networks podcast is part of [See the full post…]

For those of us who attend auto shows with any regularity, there’s a familiarity to the love/hate relationship we have with concept vehicles. They steal our hearts, promise us a brighter future, show us that anything is possible. Of course, [See the full post…]

Sports and technology were on display at ESPN’s stage at CES 2007 in Las Vegas. In recent years, the self-proclaimed “Worldwide Leader in Sports” has implemented podcasts, blogs and interactive video on its popular website and in video games created [See the full post…]

I had the opportunity to speak with Saturn‘s Jill Lajdziak at December’s Los Angeles Auto Show and she was expressive about the past year for Saturn and the renewal of the brand. During the North American International Auto Show in [See the full post…]

In this inaugural v|100 Show podcast, vSpring Capital’s Dennis Wood, human capital, and Gavin Christensen, principal, introduce the reason for creating the v100 Top 100 Venture Entrepreneurs program and set the stage for future conversations with v100 members. They discuss [See the full post…]

Video game developer 2K Sports unveiled a playable Xbox 360 version of its latest major league baseball game, MLB 2K7, at CES 2007. In this podcast, PodTech’s Rio Pesino talks to 2K Sports Marketing Coordinator Alex Hayden about improvements made [See the full post…]

The Ford Interceptor is a good old fashioned display of ‘American Muscle.’ I met with Andreas Nilson, exterior design manager for the Interceptor, for a conversation and a preview of the sporty (and menacing) vehicle. It’s a concept car, and [See the full post…]

At the International CES in Las Vegas, Randy Stude, of Intel’s gaming strategy department, talks about the processor demands of new computer games. He demos Bill Roper’s highly-anticipated online action RPG Hellgate: London, the first original PC title from developer [See the full post…]

More and more small and medium size businesses find that their workforce needs to This is a series of informative podcasts tackling SMB networking challenges. In this episode we talk with Vivek Chugh, product line manager, about the challenges of [See the full post…]

This is the second podcast with Susan Andersen, director of product marketing for voice management solutions at CA. In part one we talked about the network assessment that needs to be done before migrating to VoiP. In part two, Susan [See the full post…]

How prepared is your organization to deal with the challenges of a disaster? How safe are your facilities, your data, your people? What is the most common disaster that causes a disruption of services in business today? Sometimes it’s the [See the full post…]

Frank Buytendijk is vice president for corporate strategy at Hyperion. In this second podcast in the series examining the changing demands on the CIO, Frank discusses the dilemma of controlling cost and maintaining an organization’s ability to grow. Although a [See the full post…]

Guy Kawasaki, blogger, author of 8 books, venture capitalist and former Apple marketing executive, believes CMOs today should “just quit” if they are working with CEOs who don’t get social media. Talking from his home in Silicon Valley, Guy explains [See the full post…]

This footage is of the fountain outside the Bellagio in Las Vegas during CES 2007. It’s the first of several clues to be shown in several locations around the world as part of the Vanishing Point contest, the winner of [See the full post…]

While at the Detroit Auto Show (proper name, the North American International Auto Show), I spoke with Freeman Thomas, Ford’s design director, at North American Strategic Design, about the new Airstream concept. Being a lover of the outdoors and car-camping, [See the full post…]