LOS ANGELES, October 17, 2006, (PodTech News) — Following in the footsteps of musicians, movies and members of the 18-34 demographic, politicians are now turning to social networking sites like MySpacel and Facebook to spread the word about their campaigns [See the full post…]

In today’s news, CEA analysts’ very rosy predictions for the holiday shopping season, Microsoft opens Vista’s core to software competitors, online video continues to swoon after the recent Google/YouTube deal — including a new deal between CBS and Yahoo — [See the full post…]

PodTech is built on top of WordPress, a blogging and content management package from Automattic. Here we sit down with Toni Schneider, CEO of Automattic, to talk about a variety of things — from Om Malik to splogs and what [See the full post…]

Seagate Technology’s James Druckrey, senior vice president and general manager, branded solutions speaks out on how Seagate is viewing social media. He speaks to Jennifer Jones about why the company decided to set up a social media budget, what social [See the full post…]

Recently-formed Silicon Valley venture capital firm Bridgescale Partners celebrated over cocktails and hors d’oeuvres with a crowd that included PodTech Founder and CEO John Furrier. Here, he talks with partners Matthew Cowan and Rob Chaplinsky about their investment strategies, smart [See the full post…]

Create your own multimedia scrapbook online with Scrapblog. Here CEO Carlos Garcia gives you a good tour. Don’t miss the book that he made with Scrapblog!

At the Office 2.0 event pre-party, PodTech Founder and CEO John Furrier had a chance to catch some candid sound bytes from fellow attendees. Interviewed here: Connie Ellerbach, partner at Fenwick and West; Don Farber of CNet; Oren Michaels of [See the full post…]

With big iron machines it’s all about keeping costs down. As Moore’s Law is challenged by the physical constraints of designing nano-sized devices, it might be aided by more efficient software. However, software isn’t cheap. Intel Fellows David Kuck and [See the full post…]

Forty percent of us are taking our laptops to bed. Everyone knows that technology is changing rapidly. With so many computers in so many beds, it sounds like we’re changing right along with it. Katlean de Monchy brings us coverage [See the full post…]

Sun Microsystems’ Bryan Cantrill, senior staff engineer with the Solaris Kernel Development Group, talks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson to discuss DTrace, a debugging feature in Solaris 10. For more information visit www.sun.com.

Availability, cost control and predictability, upgrades, control over employee communications and protection against security threats — hear about these issues and more in this PodTech.net interview with Patrick Verhoeven, group manager in the product management division with Verizon Business.

In today’s news, continued fallout and speculation from the Google/YouTube deal, Palm is taking its Treo to the next level (and giving it a marketing blitz, too), Bully hits the courtroom in Florida, and Americans need to pick up the [See the full post…]

Security continues to be a major challenge faced by today’s IP leaders. Listen in on a presentation by Verizon Business’ Chief Information Security Officer, Sara Santarelli, about how to help ensure that risk management touches every system and every action [See the full post…]

Security continues to be a major challenge faced by today’s IP leaders. Listen in on a presentation by Verizon Business’ Chief Information Security Officer, Sara Santarelli, about how to help ensure that risk management touches every system and every action [See the full post…]

Avoid the common road blocks that can jeopardize the smooth transition from traditional telephony to IP telephony. In this podcast, Verizon Business Vice President of Managed Services Marketing Jim DeMerlis talks with PodTech.net about moving into a managed services approach [See the full post…]

In the video game world, there is this idea that games are just for boys. That’s not the case in today’s gaming realm. Recent reports have revealed that 20-percent of “hardcore” gamers are women and that two-thirds of roughly 117 [See the full post…]

Ever need to cut something out of a movie? Or want to come up with a custom edit, but didn’t know how to do it? Well, Cuts is a new way to watch your movies and here CEO Evan Krauss [See the full post…]

Evan Krauss had a problem – his kids were scared by certain parts of certain movies. So he wanted to cut them out, but found that the process of doing that (ripping the DVDs onto his computer, then using editing [See the full post…]

If you hear the name “Brad Chase,” do you think of the Internet? I do. He was one of the key executives at Microsoft and helped build Internet Explorer, among other things. So, when he said he had something cool [See the full post…]

Brad Chase, a former Microsoft executive, came over to PodTech’s offices to talk about blogging and mobile devices. He’s now an investor in Vizrea and talks about why he’s excited about the company.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made sure no one would miss his point that Microsoft has been, is now, and will continue to be dogged in everything it does. Even if, as Ballmer said, “we don’t always get it right on [See the full post…]

PodTech Founder and CEO John Furrier stopped in to talk with the folks at Google while he was at Office 2.0. The topic for Google today: their release of Google Docs & Spreadsheets. A company spokesman was on-hand for a [See the full post…]

“Corporate information technology departments can spend more time reacting to fires than supporting corporate objectives,” said Executive Director of Product Management for Verizon Business’ John Shultz at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo in Orlando, Florida. Shultz and Verizon Business customer Rick [See the full post…]

At New York’s BED Club, Intel shows off their VIIV platform. Gaming, movies, and multi-tasking, the demand on processors is getting higher. We hear from a variety of areas where mobile computing is branching out. More images on Flickr Related [See the full post…]

Mobile computing is literally going to bed with users, so at the cool BED club in New York, PodTech’s Michael Johnson literally hopped into bed with Genevieve Bell, a senior researcher and anthropologist for Intel. She’s the director of Intel’s [See the full post…]