Vickram’s View: The PixSense Story

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…]

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New, Improved Moon and Google Rumors

October 6th, 2006 |
New, Improved Moon and Google Rumors

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…]

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Demo of Flock: your next browser?

October 6th, 2006 |
Demo of Flock: your next browser?

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…]

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Tracking the Art of “The Deal” with Josh Jaffe

October 6th, 2006 |
Tracking the Art of “The Deal” with Josh Jaffe

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.

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Fox’s Mike Lang on My Space Stewardship

October 6th, 2006 |
Fox’s Mike Lang on My Space Stewardship

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…]

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Cole Bader, Partner for Mergers and Acquistions of Thomas Weisel Partners offers Tips on Exit Strategies

October 6th, 2006 |
Cole Bader, Partner for Mergers and Acquistions of Thomas Weisel Partners offers Tips on Exit Strategies

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…]

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Chip Design CEO Cautions Against Mobile Content Explosion

October 6th, 2006 |
Chip Design CEO Cautions Against Mobile Content Explosion

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…]

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Harvard Law Students Get a Second Life

Harvard Law Students Get a Second Life

BOSTON, October 6, 2006 (PodTech News) – Harvard Law School is experimenting this semester with a course taught partly in the real world and partly in the virtual 3D world Second Life. The class, called CyberOne: Law in the Court [See the full post…]

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CEO Talk: Joe Kraus of JotSpot talks wikis, Excite at Home, and more

October 5th, 2006 |
CEO Talk: Joe Kraus of JotSpot talks wikis, Excite at Home, and more

Joe Kraus, CEO of JotSpot, has seen Silicon Valley’s highs and lows (he was founder of one of the 1990s hottest companies: Excite at Home) and here he shares with us his insights about whether we’re going through a bubble, [See the full post…]

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Clona Lisa

October 5th, 2006 |
Clona Lisa

The Hewlett-Packard investigation moves into the courthouse, Google gives geeks the ability to search code and announces a plan to aid literacy programs worldwide, Starbucks and iTunes ink a deal to share some space, George Lucas drops a few hints [See the full post…]

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Customer Reference: EDS Reduces Remote Storage While Lowering Remote Office Backup Costs for Clients Using Veritas NetBackup PureDisk

Through its Remote Backup Services, with Veritas NetBackup PureDisk at their core, EDS is able to help many of its clients reduce remote storage by fourfold while lowering remote office backup costs by as much as 50%. More information at: [See the full post…]

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Marc Gayer of Fraunhofer: “We made the MP3″

Marc Gayer of Fraunhofer: “We made the MP3″

At the ARM Developers conference in Santa Clara, California, PodTech’s Michael Johnson caught up with Marc Gayer, a researcher in Real Time Multimedia Systems at Fraunhofer IIS, the German company that invented the MP3. He explains the next evolution of [See the full post…]

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Jeans. Celery. Cheap Office software…

October 4th, 2006 |

Among the less sexy but more important stories we’re covering like the HP boardroom leak, a mea culpa from Apple CEO Steve Jobs, and the inevitable comment that — if the RIAA can scare the crap out of universities for [See the full post…]

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This week on developerWorks: Oct 04, 2006

developerWorks Web content editor Denise Ruterbories talks about two new developerWorks features: the Ajax resource center and the redesigned Web development zone. For more info see: IBM’s developerWorks.

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IBM ShortCut #7: Unsending email

IBM ShortCut #7: Unsending email

Can you unsend an email? ShortCuts email expert Alan Lepofsky explains what to do if you hit the send button too soon. This week’s link: Plazes, a web service which illustrates where the user is located, and which can look [See the full post…]

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India Technology 2.0: Result Based Pricing Model

Something is happening that could bring about a fundamental shift in the Indian IT industry: A new pricing model that may improve quality could make India more than just a low-cost outsourcing destination. As per this report, India’s largest software [See the full post…]

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CEO Talk: The whole kit and Kaboodle with Manish Chandra

October 4th, 2006 |
CEO Talk: The whole kit and Kaboodle with Manish Chandra

Have you ever tried to plan something like a family vacation overseas and got lost in all the details you had to track? Hotels. Flights. Meals. Museums. Sights. Well, Manish Chandra, CEO of Kaboodle, designed a new service to help [See the full post…]

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CEO Talk: The organization Wiki with Wikia’s CEO, Gil Penchina

October 4th, 2006 |
CEO Talk: The organization Wiki with Wikia’s CEO, Gil Penchina

As we get around to meet the various Wiki companies, one name stands out: Wikipedia. Well, Wikia has the same parents and the same technology. Here we meet Gil Penchina, Wikia’s CEO and learn more about why Wikia is seeing [See the full post…]

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Jason Calacanis Talks About Gillmor Gang, Netscape and Starting a Company

October 3rd, 2006 |
Jason Calacanis Talks About Gillmor Gang, Netscape and Starting a Company

Jason Calacanis is senior vice president of AOL and general manager of Netscape. PodTech CEO John Furrier caught up with him last Friday at the Portable Media Expo, where they talked about the PodShow financing, the latest taping of the [See the full post…]

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Nobel Prizes in Physics and Yogurt From Space

October 3rd, 2006 |
Nobel Prizes in Physics and Yogurt From Space

In the news today, a record-setting showing for the Dow Jones, some sordid details from the Hewlett-Packard investigation, a new gadget from Nokia, an update from the Blu-ray v. HD DVD front, Nintendo’s raised expectations for the fourth quarter, and [See the full post…]

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Live, From IDF

Live, From IDF

PodTech’s cameras bring you to the floor of San Francisco’s Moscone West, where the Intel Developer Forum let the spotlight shine on some applications that might not have occurred to you before. From new technologies that will help acute care [See the full post…]

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McAfee v. Vista, ICANN Rules Change, and a Google Shrine is Born

October 2nd, 2006 |
McAfee v. Vista, ICANN Rules Change, and a Google Shrine is Born

MENLO PARK, October 2, 2006 (PodTech News) — In the news today, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based antivirus and computer security company McAfee speaks out against Microsoft and its long-anticipated and forthcoming Vista operating system, the federal government eases its grip [See the full post…]

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Intel’s Louis Burns on Future Digital Health

October 2nd, 2006 |
Intel’s Louis Burns on Future Digital Health

In his keynote, Louis Burns, vice president and general manager of Intel’s digital health group, delivered an impassioned appeal for health care solutions to developers at IDF Fall 2006 in San Francisco. More information from IDF Intel Digital Health Group’s [See the full post…]

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The Ultra Mobile PC, in Action at IDF

The Ultra Mobile PC, in Action at IDF

Liliana Rojas works in the Ultra Mobile PC Group at Intel. At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco this past week, she spoke with PodTech’s Michael Johnson about some of the cool applications of the UMPC to take the [See the full post…]

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Intel CEO Paul Otellini Presents the UMPC VW at IDF

Intel CEO Paul Otellini Presents the UMPC VW at IDF

At the recent Intel Developer Forum, Intel CEO Paul Otellini takes a virtual test drive in a Volkswagen kitted out with Intel’s UMPC. A map to a nearby coffee shop, a complete music collection and movies for the back seats [See the full post…]

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