MENLO PARK, September 22, 2006 (PodTech News) — Hewlett-Packard held a press briefing this afternoon at which they refused to answer any questions. HP CEO and President Mark Hurd, along with Mike Holston, a representative of Morgan Lewis, the law [See the full post…]

Sun Microsystems Senior Director of Data Protection and Archive Product Management David Kenyon and Vice President of Storage Marketing and Business Operations Nigel Dessau talk about the New York City event where the company announced new developments in encryption and [See the full post…]

Sun Microsystems David Profozich, vice president for software, took some time at Sun’s recent announcement event in New York to talk with PodTech Founder John Furrier. According to Profozich, Solaris 10 is much healthier than it was just 18 months [See the full post…]

Is your blog awash with comment spam? ShortCuts blogging expert Todd Watson shows how to get rid of the stuff. This week’s links: the Six Apart Guide to Comment Spam and the official Google blog on preventing comment spam.

John Fowler is executive vice president for the Sun Microsystems systems group. He took some time during a recent event in New York CIty to talk with PodTech Founder John Furrier. They discussed some of the ways that Sun is [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, September 21, 2006 (PodTech News) — HP said this afternoon that its President and CEO Mark Hurd has volunteered to appear at the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on [See the full post…]

LOS ANGELES, September 21, 2006 (PodTech News) — A group of hackers, human rights workers, lawyers and artists today launched a new web browser to protect computer users from hostile governments who would seek to identify them. Called “Torpark,” the [See the full post…]

Marc Canter speaks on evolving open standards, and finding the happy mean between standardizing and differentiating by remaining private. More on discussions spinning off of Canter’s talk at Gnomedex at Eric’o’theque! and with Richard MacManus.

MENLO PARK, September 20, 2006 (PodTech News) — Yahoo, Inc. executives warned investors at a conference yesterday that advertising growth seems to be slowing in some categories. There was a broad selloff of tech stocks on the news, and Yahoo’s [See the full post…]

Sun Microsystems President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz touted the new open-source version of Sun’s Solaris 10 OS at a Sun product launch event in New York City September 13th. Schwartz gave a keynote address that outlined the reasons behind Sun’s [See the full post…]

Intel chairman Craig Barrett discusses the World Ahead Program which the company established in May 2006. Intel has pledged over $1 billion over the next five years, to bring internet coverage to various regions around the world. According to Barrett, [See the full post…]

Intel says its new quad core technology — the result of a four-year development cycle — will be one of the major themes of its upcoming Intel Developer Forum, next week at San Francisco’s Moscone Center West. PodTech’s Jason Lopez [See the full post…]

A Symantec Security Response podcast focused on a roundup of the latest Symantec Security Response Weblogs for July 2006. The goal of this podcast is to help you better understand some of the threats and trends that Symantec’s Security Response [See the full post…]

Kolachi is one of the traditional names for the port city of Karachi, in Pakistan’s coastal southern province of Sindh. The city too is a peculiarly South Asian blend of old and new, crowded marketplaces competing for space with massive [See the full post…]

Interop goes to the Big Apple for its second U.S. IT event this year. PodTech’s Michael Johnson takes to the floor and talks with a few of the exhibitors: Netcordia, CA, Inc., and Network General. More images from Interop 2006

PodTech’s Michael Johnson speaks with Steve Fehr, the Director of Acrobat Sales for Adobe Systems Incorporated. Fehr shares with Michael some information on upcoming Adobe live events as well as the release of the Adobe Acrobat Family, an upgrade to [See the full post…]

SANTA CLARA, Calif., September 20, 2006 (PodTech News) — Intel has chosen to help develop the the IT infrastructure of the Amazon — not the online seller but a portion of the actual river. The initiative is a part of [See the full post…]

LOS ANGELES, September 19, 2006 (PodTech News) — Microsoft officially entered the video sharing space with the beta launch of Soapbox on MSN Video. Codenamed Warhol, Soapbox will be featured on the MSN Video site and be integrated in new [See the full post…]

Real Time Enterprise, Practical Steps & Future Networks: At Interop 2006 in New York City, Scott Kriens speaks about the practical side of growing the emerging network, and the path to a point where people, devices, machines and information can [See the full post…]

SANTA CLARA, CA, September 19, 2006 (PodTech News) — Intel says its new experimental semiconductors could be the breakthrough the chip industry has been looking for — the one that will allow chips to keep pace with Moore’s Law. They’ll [See the full post…]

Tom Hale, senior vice president of Adobe’s knowledge worker solutions business unit, chats with PodTech CEO and Founder John Furrier. Hale shares his views on collaboration and how it will change the way of doing business in the future. Click [See the full post…]

LOS ANGELES, September 18, 2006 (PodTech News) — Only days after Microsoft announced that its Zune media player will be released in time for the holidays, Seattle-based RealNetworks unveiled plans to partner with SanDisk on a new portable music player [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, September 18, 2006 (PodTech News) — Google filed paperwork Thursday to register a new political action committee, Google NetPac, with the Federal Election Commission. Alan Davidson, Google’s Washington policy counsel, said the political action committee will “support candidates [See the full post…]

Advertisers are using the Internet to place up-to-date ads in video games. “Dynamic Advertising” is designed to implement fresh, new ads in games. Justin Townsend, CEO of in-game ad firm IGA Worldwide, spoke with PodTech’s Rio Pesino about dynamic ads [See the full post…]

PodTech CEO and Founder John Furrier sits down and chats with Adobe’s Tom Hale, Senior Vice President of Adobe’s Knowledge Worker Solutions Business Unit to discuss Adobe’s announcement of the new Acrobat family of products. Check out what Robert Scoble [See the full post…]