Exclusive: Rick Brown gives the inside scoop about Adobe Acrobat 8

September 17th, 2006 |
Exclusive: Rick Brown gives the inside scoop about Adobe Acrobat 8

Monday saw the official announcement of Adobe Acrobat 8. Rick Brown is director of product management for Adobe’s knowledge worker business unit. He spoke with PodTech’s Robert Scoble about the future of Adobe Acrobat and some of the key features [See the full post…]

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Breaking News: Adobe Acrobat 8.0 demonstrated

September 17th, 2006 |
Breaking News: Adobe Acrobat 8.0 demonstrated

Watch Video | Download Video Adobe Acrobat is the product software giant Microsoft would love to kill. But Adobe is hoping to pull ahead – way ahead – in the competition with Microsoft for office worker tools with Acrobat 8. [See the full post…]

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Mobile Marketing: Blogging at DotMobi

September 17th, 2006 |
Mobile Marketing: Blogging at DotMobi

dotMobi is dedicated to delivering the Internet to mobile phones. Google is one of their investors and they are viewed as a company to watch. CEO Neil Edwards and Jennifer Jones discussed how dotMobi is using blogging to educate customers [See the full post…]

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New Survivor Season Raises Issues for Parents

September 17th, 2006 |
New Survivor Season Raises Issues for Parents

Common Sense Media CEO Jim Steyer discusses how parents can talk to their kids about the issues raised by the new season of Survivor, in which four “tribes” are divided along racial lines. More info: CommonSenseMedia.org

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Building Humans, Cell to Organ

September 15th, 2006 |
Building Humans, Cell to Organ

Tengion is a leader in the field of regenerative medicine, developing new human tissues and organs derived from a patient’s own cells. Tengion’s patented technology has the potential to allow adults and children with organ failure to have functioning organs [See the full post…]

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Mobile Games VS. Portable Handheld Games

September 15th, 2006 |
Mobile Games VS. Portable Handheld Games

Will mobile games ever be at the same level as portable gaming devices such as the Nintendo DS or Playstation Portable (PSP)? At CTIA Wireless 2006, PodTech’s Rio Pesino asked Martha Ng, Business Development Manager of mobile game maker Funmobile, [See the full post…]

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CDNLive!: Customer is Key in Designing the Future

September 15th, 2006 |
CDNLive!: Customer is Key in Designing the Future

Ted Vucurevich, Chief Technical Officer at Cadence Design Systems, gave a keynote at Cadence’s CDNLive! event at the San Jose Convention Center, “Designing the Future.” Right after his address, Vucurevich talked with PodTech.net about the future of the chip design [See the full post…]

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Dayton Speaks: the Sky’s the Limit

September 15th, 2006 |
Dayton Speaks: the Sky’s the Limit

HELIO CEO Sky Dayton joined a panel of executives to address Mobile Social Networking at CTIA’s final keynote roundtable Thursday. The crowd was eager to hear the founder of Earthlink and Boingo Wireless discuss his thoughts on the potential for [See the full post…]

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IBM ShortCut #4: Managing your contacts

September 15th, 2006 |
IBM ShortCut #4: Managing your contacts

Wrestling with multiple address books? ShortCuts email expert Alan Lepofsky shows how to consolidate your contacts. This week’s link: Plaxo, a free web service for updating and maintaining the information in your address book.

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SAPFest at Hofbrau Haus in Vegas

September 15th, 2006 |
SAPFest at Hofbrau Haus in Vegas

Sounds from the party & dinner after a great SDN Day at the Hofbrau Haus in Las Vegas. If you weren’t there, you’ll feel like you were. More photos from the Hofbrau Haus on Flickr

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Robert Thomas, CEO of Infoblox: How to Be Successful as a CEO

September 15th, 2006 |

Robert Thomas, CEO of Infoblox, speaks with PodTech founder John Furrier in the second part of a two-part podcast. They talk about entrepreneurship, starting a company, being a CEO, and taking a company public. Thomas was the CEO of NetScreen, [See the full post…]

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CTIA: Mobile Game Maker Bringing Flash-Lite Games to U.S.

September 15th, 2006 |
CTIA: Mobile Game Maker Bringing Flash-Lite Games to U.S.

Japan-based mobile game developer Cell is bringing its popular flash-based mobile games to the United States. PodTech’s Rio Pesino spoke with Cell’s Wataru Anzai about flash-lite games, their popularity in Japan and what he says separates their games from the [See the full post…]

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SDN Day: Mark Yolton, VP SAP Community Network

September 15th, 2006 |
SDN Day: Mark Yolton, VP SAP Community Network

Mark Yolton, vice president of SDN, speaks at the introduction session of SDN Day at SAP TechEd 2006 in Las Vegas. Read more about the BPX Community launch (also here). Check out what Tim Marman has to say about SDN. [See the full post…]

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The Sounds of CTIA

September 14th, 2006 |
The Sounds of CTIA

Thursday saw the conclusion of this week’s CTIA show in Los Angeles — a show that was billed as “two personalities/one show” — featuring the intersection of enterprise and entertainment. During the week’s activity, some notable news was announced, including [See the full post…]

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SDN Day Introduction With Mark Finnern

September 14th, 2006 |
SDN Day Introduction With Mark Finnern

Mark Finnern, the head honcho behind SDN, kicks off the introductory session of SDN Day at SAP TechEd 2006 in Las Vegas. More photos from TechEd on Flickr

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Debut: SAP Introduces a New Scripting Tool For the SDN Community

September 14th, 2006 |
Debut: SAP Introduces a New Scripting Tool For the SDN Community

Bala (Balamurugan Kalia) and Andre Labahn, from the emerging solutions division at SAP, were on hand at SAP TechEd to help introduce SAP’s new scripting tool. PodTech’s Michael Johnson got a chance to hear a little bit more about it [See the full post…]

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Chuck Norris, Dagfinn Parnas, and SAP Facts: TechEd, Las Vegas

September 14th, 2006 |
Chuck Norris, Dagfinn Parnas, and SAP Facts: TechEd, Las Vegas

Dagfinn Parnas explains the roots of SAP Facts, what Chuck Norris has to do with it, and the more serious side of SDN. The Netweaver developer spoke with PodTech’s Michael Johnson at TechEd, in Las Vegas. More photos from TechEd [See the full post…]

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Inside NVIDIA SLI Technology

September 14th, 2006 |

NVIDIA’s Chris Daniel introduces NVIDIA SLI technology, a revolutionary platform innovation that allows you to intelligently scale PC graphics performance by combining multiple NVIDIA graphics solutions in a single system with an NVIDIA nForce(r) SLI media and communications processor (MCP). [See the full post…]

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Web Dynpro with SAP’s Bertram Ganz and Marco Ertel at TechEd, Las Vegas

September 14th, 2006 |
Web Dynpro with SAP’s Bertram Ganz and Marco Ertel at TechEd, Las Vegas

Web Dynpro developer Bertram Ganz and UI strategist Marco Ertel talk with PodTech’s Michael Johnson about Web Dynpro in Java. More photos from TechEd on Flickr

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CDNLive!: Collaborative Innovation Powers Sony PS3

September 14th, 2006 |
CDNLive!: Collaborative Innovation Powers Sony PS3

The cell chip is the heart, soul and brain of the Sony Playstation 3 game console. Cell is essentially a super-computer on a chip, and when PS3 comes out this fall, it’s going to take gaming to a whole new [See the full post…]

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CDN Live: Cadence CEO Unveils Chip Design Platform

September 14th, 2006 |
CDN Live: Cadence CEO Unveils Chip Design Platform

Cadence Design Systems, Inc., President and CEO Mike Fister kicked off the CDN Live Silicon Valley conference at San Jose’s McEnery Convention Center by unveiling Virtuoso, a new chip design platform, and Xtreme III, a hardware-assisted verification system used at [See the full post…]

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Dave Halitsky on SDN at TechEd 2006, Las Vegas

September 14th, 2006 |
Dave Halitsky on SDN at TechEd 2006, Las Vegas

Dave Halitsky, from Tennessee-based Infoworks, speaks about SDN, collaboration, and vertical possibilities. More images from TechEd on Flickr

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Virgin Mobile USA CEO Daniel Schulman on Social Responsibility

September 14th, 2006 |
Virgin Mobile USA CEO Daniel Schulman on Social Responsibility

During Thursday’s CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment show in Los Angeles, Virgin Mobile USA’s CEO Daniel Schulman participated in a keynote roundtable on social networking and the mobile community. His comments about the company’s views on social responsibility and its [See the full post…]

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CTIA Wireless 2006: Mobile Gaming and Hip-Hop

September 14th, 2006 |
CTIA Wireless 2006: Mobile Gaming and Hip-Hop

Video game developer Hudson, well known for its Bomberman series, showed off some of its new games at CTIA Wireless 2006 in Los Angeles. John Greiner is president of Hudson. He spoke with PodTech’s Rio Pesino about the rapid growth [See the full post…]

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CTIA Day 3: Association President and CEO Steve Largent on the Wireless Industry

September 14th, 2006 |
CTIA Day 3: Association President and CEO Steve Largent on the Wireless Industry

The CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment show began its final day at the Los Angeles Convention Center with a keynote address from Steve Largent, president and CEO of CTIA. Largent, in turn, introduced special guest Paris Hilton. After the discussion, [See the full post…]

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