LAS VEGAS, NV, January 7, 2007 (PodTech.net) — Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates kicked off CES 2007 with a keynote address that was long on demos and short on pizzazz. It was all about Vista and Vista as connector of the [See the full post…]

In this Thought Leaders podcast brought to you by SAVVIS, Ted Chamberlin, research director at Gartner, discusses drivers and criteria for buying web hosting services, distinctions between the providers, and the future of IT Services.

Frank Buytendijk, vice president for corporate strategy at Hyperion, examines the changing demands on the CIO. He finds that the current fast-paced, solutions-oriented climate can make if difficult to get a clear picture of the underlying dilemmas. In this first [See the full post…]

There’s a whole lot more than consumer electronics going on in Vegas this week. This video, uploaded by a BlogHaus blogger shows a quick clip of the amazing show last night at the Wynn. We highly recommend catching Le Reve [See the full post…]

PodTech’s own Jeremiah Owyang, director of corporate media strategy, knows how to harness user needs, business goals and web technology to craft web programs. Talking with Jennifer Jones about his strategies for media implementation, Owyang explains how listening to the [See the full post…]

We get an exclusive look at the new hard drives that Seagate just announced tonight in the Seagate PodTech BlogHaus at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas.

This is probably Microsoft’s biggest CES ever with Windows Vista shipping in a few days and Bill Gates met with bloggers from Engadget, Gizmodo, Kotaku, PodTech.net, and Joystiq for a wide-ranging interview about everything from Bill’s speeding tickets to software [See the full post…]

Rob Pait, Seagate’s marketing manager for global consumer hard disc drive took a break at the PodTech Bloghaus during the start of the International CES to talk about the new line of small form factor drives unveiled by Seagate at [See the full post…]

It’s a novel concept — pay only for the time you use a car. That’s the business model of Flexcar, whose motto is to revolutionize transportation across America, one neighborhood at a time. I spoke with company representative Walter King, [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, January 6, 2007 (PodTech News) — The 2007 Consumer Electronics Show begins tomorrow night with a keynote by Microsoft Founder and Chairman Bill Gates. Catherine Girardeau takes a look at the CES schedule to see what the next [See the full post…]

Om Malik runs the GigaOm series of properties (some of our favorite blogs) and we sit down and have a nice chat about what he’s working on now and look back at 2006.

Ali Partovi, CEO of iLike.com, shows me his new service, which helps you find new music (it’s really cool!)

Meet Ali Partovi, CEO of iLike.com, which is an innovative new service that helps you find new music.

Intel is one of many companies attending CES 2007 in Las Vegas next week. PodTech Founder and CEO John Furrier visited with Intel’s Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, Sean Maloney to explore top tech-lifestyle trends for 2007 and the impact [See the full post…]

JoAnn Armenta is the Southern California coordinator for Clean Cities Coalition, a program administered by The Partnership. Its mission is to advance the nation’s economic, environmental, and energy security by supporting local decisions to adopt practices that contribute to the [See the full post…]

Larry Knight impressed me because of his spirit. His home had been destroyed in one of the poorer parts of New Orleans (Ninth Ward), but he was taking it all in stride – rebuilding his home. Gave me great optimism [See the full post…]

Meet the team behind Me.dium, an innovative new service coming soon, that will let you watch where your friends are surfing on the Internet. Robert Rich and Kimbal Musk, founders, tell you what’s behind their new service.

Me.dium.com is a lot of fun. You can watch your friends surf the Web and they can watch you. Here Kimbal Musk, Me.dium’s CEO, gives us a good runthrough.

One of the things I was studying is how the Edwards campaign would use bloggers. Here, John Edwards meets a variety of bloggers and videobloggers in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. You’ll see Steve Garfield and Chuck Olsen, videobloggers, in the background [See the full post…]

Alfred Thompson and Don Dodge, who blog for Microsoft, meet up with me at the John Edwards’ campaign stop in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and we talk a little bit about social media and how that’ll intersect with politics. New Hampshire [See the full post…]

Meet some of the Iowan bloggers, sit in on a meeting they had with John Edwards. Toward the end I left in a bunch of “b-roll” video of stuff behind the scenes, waiting for him to get off of the [See the full post…]

It’s become old hat to suggest that the world of media is changing faster than the old media companies, and that the computer and tech world — long accustomed to turning sharp corners quickly — has the advantage of momentum [See the full post…]

Los Angeles-based Left Coast Conversions is the brainchild of Gadget, the company’s chief tech dude, who started the endeavor because of his passion for a cleaner, more self-reliant world. His company’s motto: “converting the world, one EV at a time.” [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, January 4, 2007 (PodTech News) — As MacWorld approaches, it’s time to take stock of the rumors that have been building up. There are a few worth noting, though some Apple-watchers are impressed with the company’s improved ability [See the full post…]

Microsoft’s Zune came out of the Christmas season with less than 3 percent of the MP3 player market share. Its overall sales rank on Amazon – a recent check showed the various 30 GB Zune models fluctuating between #77 and [See the full post…]