Second Life designer Versu Richelieu (her avatar name) is living in a fishbowl: A Manhattan storefront. She’ll live there for 72 hours with no other way to communicate than her wireless laptop. Her challenge: to design an entire cityscape in [See the full post…]

“Ray was like a Super Hero. He wasn’t wearing the cape and everything else, but he was always fighting the big fight for everyday people,”

Intel says its Ultra Mobile PC is designed to give users full PC capability in places where a laptop is too big or clunky. How about in a car? A project with Volkswagen looks fairly promising. It would provide three [See the full post…]

In the news today, stock-option issues strike at two more Silicon Valley companies, Nokia is planning to make wireless connectivity even more mobile with phones using new WiMAX technology, Eudora is heading for an Open Source future, Google stays in [See the full post…]

ShortCuts web etiquette expert Penny Scharfman explains the best (and safest) ways to start an instant message in the workplace. (Hint: there’s more to it than you might think.)

Eric Billingsley used to design nuclear power plants, but his new job is no less interesting: he is the senior director of eBay’s new research labs. Come along and listen as he tells you what eBay is up to and [See the full post…]

Dori Smith — credited with getting Robert to blog and the author of the definitive book on JavaScript — speaks with Maryam and Robert Scoble about JavaScript issues past, present and future as she finds herself at the center of [See the full post…]

IBM’s mainframe team recently did an experiment on YouTube with branded entertainment. IBM podcasting really hit the mark with the developerworks group. The group goes into detail about their corporate blogging and podcasting guidelines.

Learn about Instant Messaging (IM) threats and what you can do to protect your working environment. More information at: Symantec.com

developerWorks’ SOA and Web services zone editor Pat Flanders and editor-in-chief Michael O’Connell talk about the big IBM announcement last week around service-oriented architecture and cover some developerWorks resources for SOA. For more info see: IBM’s developerWorks

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was interviewed by two tough VPs from research firm Gartner, Inc. at Gartner’s Symposium and ITxpo at the Dolphin Hotel in Orlando Florida October 10th. In the so-called “Mastermind Interview”, Ballmer fielded questions that ranged from [See the full post…]

In today’s news, the Adam Sandler comedy, “Click,” is released for Sony’s Blu-Ray. Also, IBM is bringing some pressure to competitors Sun and Intel, with a processor chip in the offing that may improve speed and lower temperatures.

LOS ANGELES, October 10, 2006, (PodTech News) – Last month, Apple unveiled its long-awaited movie download store and within a week sold 125,000 downloads, generating $1 million in revenue for the House of Mouse. Yet despite the success, only 75 [See the full post…]

Intel Senior Fellow Steve Palowski and other Intel fellows took questions from the audience attending the Shop Talk gathering at the Intel Developer Forum. Topics discussed in this “Best of Shop Talk” podcast include memory and quad-core technology.

Jim Lussier is a general partner at Norwest Venture Partners. The highly-regarded venture capital firm has invested in more than 300 companies, including Tivoli, Documentum, Peoplesoft and Collabnet. PodTech Founder and CEO John Furrier caught up with him at the [See the full post…]

Dave Trowbridge, director of marketing for Network Physics, on end users’ needs and NP’s solutions and approach to the sales channel.

Dwight Barker, vice president of product management for Network Physics, provides an outlook on industry trends and needs for accurate application performance management.

Dave Trowbridge, director of marketing for Network Physics, describes the latest version of NP’s NetSensory, an application performance management analysis tool.

In today’s news, Google finally pulled the trigger, ending much public speculation over whether or not it would purchase the video-sharing phenomenon YouTube for more than $1 billion. YouTube also announced agreements that might shore-up some of its copyright-related vulnerabilities.

LOS ANGELES, October 9, 2006, (PodTech News) — Google and video-sharing site YouTube announced a stock-for-stock transaction today valued at $1.65 billion. The deal, expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of this year, will combine YouTube with Google’s [See the full post…]

Adobe‘s Michael Folkers, senior product manager for Acrobat, sits down with John Moebes, director of construction for Crate and Barrel to discuss how Moebes has used Acrobat to combat a number of business challenges. PodTech’s own Michael Johnson moderates the [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, October 9, 2006 (PodTech News) — California just gave telephone companies what they wanted – a big piece of the video franchise pie. An assembly bill that Governor Schwarzenegger signed into law September 29th makes a fundamental change [See the full post…]

Alan Kelly, CEO and founder of The Playmaker’s Standard, LLC and newly minted author of the book called the Elements of Influence suggests to MV host Jennifer Jones that what social media lacks is a coherent vocabulary/lexicon and ultimately playmaking [See the full post…]

The wiki is coming to the enterprise and Atlassian has more than 15,000 enterprise users and is coming on strong. Here you’ll meet Mike Cannon-Brookes, CEO of Atlassian and Jonathan Nolan, director of developer relations and they talk about what [See the full post…]

David Chamberlain runs one of the more interesting socially responsible businesses we’ve ever heard of: one that’ll take you on an interesting vacation! Obviously aimed at affluent people who are looking for ways to experience an authentic cultural immersion, Exquisite [See the full post…]