MENLO PARK, July 24, 2006 (PodTech News)–“I doubt that we’re going to see any gaming functionality, at least in the first device. They were pretty clear with me that they weren’t going in that direction,” said analyst Michael Gartenberg of [See the full post…]

PodTech.net sits down with Joe McGarvey, Senior Analyst at Current Analysis, and John Lazar, MetaSwitch CEO, to discuss why service providers are migrating their networks to IMS-based architectures including IP/Ethernet, VoIP, IPTV and converged multimedia services. More information: www.metaswitch.com/podcasts Click [See the full post…]

Sharon Wienbar, a leading venture investor known for her articulate discussions about social media, is Managing Director of BA Venture Partners. Sharon states what she sees as most innovative and powerful about social media companies as well as telling where [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, July 21, 2006 (PodTech News) – PodTech News wraps the week with two stories of new Web 2.0 services. Yahoo and Motorola said late Wednesday that Motorola will embed Yahoo “Go for Mobile” services on tens of millions [See the full post…]

Symantec announces Symantec Backup Exec 10d for Windows Servers and LiveState Recovery 6.0 More information at: Symantec.com

Steve Jobs, former Atari employee? Atari co-founder Al Alcorn tells PodTech’s Rio Pesino about Jobs’ role with Atari, his involvement in some of the historic meetings with the Apple CEO and how the video game manufacturer rejected Jobs’ concept of [See the full post…]

NVIDIA is the worldwide leader in programmable graphics processor technologies. PodSummit’s hosts discuss how Jen-Hsun Huang scaled his company; how his role changed over his many years of success, and where NVIDIA is headed in the future. More from Podsummit

MENLO PARK, July 20, 2006 (PodTech News) – Google CEO Eric Schmidt announced the company’s second-quarter earnings results in a webcast today. “Google really is committed to providing the best end-user search experience worldwide, and that’s not just on PCs, [See the full post…]

Daishiro Okada, President and Chief Operating Officer of Square Enix, Inc. handles operations in North America, including development, marketing and publishing of well-known Square Enix games including Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest. PodTech’s Rio Pesino talks with Okada about porting [See the full post…]

Trip Hawkins, founder of video game juggernaut Electronic Arts and designer of John Madden Football and High Heat Baseball, was at this year’s Mobile Game Conference in Bellevue, WA. Hawkins, who is currently Chairman and CEO of mobile phone game [See the full post…]

During his keynote speech at MGC, Digital Chocolate Chairman and CEO Trip Hawkins called the mobile phone a social computer and stressed the importance of making the mobile phone a first-rate platform. See photos on Flickr

MENLO PARK, July 20, 2006 (PodTech News) – “People don’t believe us when we say this, but we really care about net neutrality not for Google as a company, but for all the small Internet companies out there. We remember [See the full post…]

This entertaining and informative series of podcasts, brought to you by MetaSwitch, brings together industry analysts, technology experts, and service providers to discuss how carriers are transforming their networks and their businesses to benefit from the opportunities offered by multi-service, [See the full post…]

Pinball Photographer Kevin Tiell displayed a series of pinball-eye-view photographs at California Extreme 2006 in San Jose, CA. PodTech’s Rio Pesino asked Tiell about his approach to creating these enhanced photos. More info: kevin.tiell.com

MENLO PARK, July 19, 2006 (PodTech News) – “Internet advertising is exploding,” said Peter Sealey, founder and CEO of The Sausalito Group, Inc. “It was $12.5 billion last year. I personally think it will surpass $20 billion this year. And [See the full post…]

  Recognized for outstanding contributions as a ‘master entrepreneur’ at Ernst & Young Utah Entrepreneur of the Year 2006 Awards, Control4 CEO Will West discusses raising $250M in venture funds across four successful ventures in Utah, and his insights on [See the full post…]

In his welcoming remarks, Managing Partner of the Salt Lake City office of Ernst & Young David Jolley shares anecdotes about entrepreneurship as he kicks off the the Ernst & Young Utah Entrepreneur of the Year 2006 Awards held in [See the full post…]

David Jolley, Managing Partner of the Salt Lake City office of Ernst & Young talks about the 20 year history of Ernst & Young’s internationally acclaimed Entrepreneur of the Year program. Jolley discusses the culture at Ernst & Young that [See the full post…]

Utah Governor Jon M. Huntsman, Jr.’s opening address to the Ernst & Young Utah Entrepreneur of the Year 2006 Awards held in Salt Lake City. Huntsman recognizes entrepreneurship’s importance to the state and it’s future. Governor Huntsman recognizes the award [See the full post…]

After a speech covering net neutrality and other topics at Gnomedex 2006 in Seattle, Marc Canter (Founder of Macromedia) and Senator John Edwards have a hilarious exchange on out what it means to be a red diaper baby and what [See the full post…]

Symantec announces Symantec Backup Exec 10d for Windows Servers and LiveState Recovery 6.0 More information at: Symantec.com

MENLO PARK, July 18, 2006 (PodTech News) – Net neutrality supporters have pounced on Senator Ted Stevens’ (R-Alaska) less-than-tech-savvy description of the Internet as a “series of tubes” and “not a big truck” in a speech.The senator’s words were fodder [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, July 17, 2006 (PodTech News) –Irina Slutsky and Eddie Codel from Geek Entertainment Television have been “acq-hired” by PodTech.net. “It takes a lot of work to make fluff,” Slutsky said at her first PodTech staff meeting. PodTech News [See the full post…]

Carol Wilson speaks with Roger Burkhardt, CTO of the New York Stock Exchange, Tim Cho Oracle’s Outsourcing President, and Pradeep Sindhu, Vice Chairman, Chief Technical Officer and Founder of Juniper Networks. For more information on Juniper Networks, please visit: Juniper.net

Legends of the videogame industry share their thoughts on working for Atari during the early years. Al Alcorn, Eugene Jarvis, Steve Ritchie, Ed Rotberg and Dave Sheppard discuss the stories behind the creation of some of the classic Atari coin-op [See the full post…]