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.

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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…]

PixSense launched its new, wide range of installables for cellphones at DEMO/fall in San Diego on Monday September 25, 2006. I met with Adnan Agboatwala, who captains the development of this remarkable new application and service as managing director of [See the full post…]

Surveys on the economy, a completely unsubstiated rumor that gained some traction online today, a pretty hefty incentive to get cracking on your map of the human genome, and a bigger moon. You asked for it, you got it. (Moon [See the full post…]

Geoffrey Arone is the co-founder of Flock, which is a new browser that’s based on the same open-source engine that powers Firefox. Why do we need yet another browser? Geoffrey demonstrates that Flock integrates in services like Flickr photo sharing [See the full post…]

Josh Jaffe is the senior writer for THE DEAL magazine and the organizer of the Technology Summit for VCs, acquirers, and other investors. He spoke with Podtech’s Michael Johnson about analyzing market trends from an investor’s point of view.

Fox owns MySpace, and it’s watching how it’s being used. Mike Lang is executive vice president of business development and strategy at Fox Networks. He spoke with PodTech’s Michael Johnson at “THE DEAL” Technology Summit in Mountain View, Calif., about [See the full post…]

Jennifer Jones of PodTech and Cole Bader discuss how private companies which are seeking an exit need to market their company. Badar offers insights into the exit process. Packaging a company as a market leader by thinking small and owning [See the full post…]

SANTA CLARA, California, October 5, 2006 (PodTech News) — Conventional wisdom says the mobile industry is set to explode with content offerings. After all, the billions of handsets in the world dwarfs the market penetration of the iPod. “In reality [See the full post…]