Looking at social networking at Mashup Camp in Mountain View, California, with PodTech’s Michael Johnson. More from Mashup Camp Photos on Flickr

So many great ideas at Mashup Camp, so llittle time. PodTech’s Michael Johnson spoke with a few of the folks who attended the “summer camp” session. Photos on Flickr

Eugene Jarvis, creator of breakthrough arcade games such as Defender, Robotron, NARC and Cruis’n USA, tells PodTech’s Rio Pesino about how he got into the video game business and what he thought about games during the golden age of gaming [See the full post…]

Dave Balter, CEO and Founder of BzzAgent, discusses word-of-mouth marketing and harnessing its incredible power. Balter tells how to do marketing where honest opinions rule. More Marketing Voices

A Symantec Security Response Podcast featuring information from the latest Symantec Security Update for May 2006. The goal of this podcast is to help you better understand some of the threats and trends identified in the report and to help [See the full post…]

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

    “…the people that move the nuts and bolts, that are reinventing technology as we speak; reinventing how applications are run on your desktop, reinventing how different websites and different services on the web are woven together, integrated, and [See the full post…]

Al Alcorn, former Vice President of Engineering at Atari, spoke with PodTech’s Rio Pesino about designing the classic video game PONG, the early days of gaming, game emulation and his prediction on where coin-op arcades will be in five to [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, CA , July 14, 2006 (PodTech News) — Reuters reported yesterday that U.S. digital entertainment company Gracenote said it obtained licenses to distribute song lyrics on the Web. PodTech News called Gracenote’s Senior VP of Sales and Marketing, [See the full post…]

Mike Fridgen, vice president of marketing and product management at FareCast is creating a better shopping experience for airfare with price prediction and direct-to-carrier booking. A web service competing with Orbitz, Travelocity, and Expedia by letting users know where and [See the full post…]

NVIDIA is the worldwide leader in programmable graphics processor technologies. PodSummit’s hosts discuss the founding and early days at NVIDIA, and how the company creatively managed its way out of potentially going out of business by focusing on innovation. Correction [See the full post…]

Glen Mella, Chief Marketing Officer for Salt Lake City-based Control4 talks about delivering consumer home automation technology and how Control4 will disrupt established players and make the digital home and lifestyle available to the masses.

MENLO PARK, July 13, 2006 (PodTech News) – Instant message users on Yahoo’s Yahoo Messenger or Microsoft’s Windows Live can now chat with each other. Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft said yesterday they’ve started a limited public test to let their [See the full post…]

Brad Walters, CEO & president of Lindon, Utah-based MaxStream and winner of the 2006 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in the technology category of the Utah region talks during the Entrepreneur of the Year awards reception. Walters [See the full post…]

Kabir Shahani, Dot Connector for Blue Dot talks about the launch of their social discovery web service that connects people with their friends’ knowledge, information, and content experience. Automation tools for sharing of content–‘dotting’ in Blue Dot-speak–in the context of [See the full post…]

NVIDIA’s Drew Henry and George Myers introduce NVIDIA nForce(r)-based motherboards, the stable, reliable, high-performance foundation for Windows Vista Capable PCs. Get details on how the combination of NVIDIA nForce-based motherboards and NVIDIA GeForce GPUs are essential ingredients for a great [See the full post…]

Eugene Jarvis, part of the “Vid Kidz” team responsible for some of the most popular video arcade games of all time, talked about the making of Robotron. Jarvis reveals how the concept of the game came about, how the Robotron [See the full post…]

IDEO’s Diego Rodriguez shares his thoughts on working at the intersection of design and business with PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau. “It’s a logical evolution of designing for people,” Rodriguez said. More podcasts from IDEO

MENLO PARK, July 12, 2006 (PodTech News) – Microsoft is holding a conference in Boston this week, the Worldwide Partner Conference 2006, for its over 7,000 vendor partners. David Wascha, Microsoft’s Director of Partner Marketing for Windows Client, spoke with [See the full post…]

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

Use of new media like streaming web videos and cellphone “vodcasts” is growing rapidly — and not just among adults. Common Sense Media Founder and CEO Jim Steyer discusses how preschoolers are using new media and how parents can manage [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, July 11, 2006 (PodTech News) — PodTech News reported yesterday on Freescale Semiconductor’s announcement that it’s shipping a new memory chip, the MRAM, or “magnetoresistive random access memory device.” This is being called a significant breakthrough in memory-chip [See the full post…]

Bob Ellingson, a California Extreme staff member and exhibitor, tells PodTech’s Rio Pesino about the Arcade Classic Game show, it’s history and where he thinks retro gaming is headed in the future. For more information see: www.caextreme.org See photos on [See the full post…]

SAP Senior Vice President of Architecture Vishal Sikka discusses key information technology topics like SOA, Open Source, and industry consolidation and competition. Mr. Sikka shares his thoughts on the future of enterprise applications and what SAP is doing to shape [See the full post…]

Michael Seto, Polycom’s VP of Voice Market and Business Development, speaks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson in the first part of a series on Voice over IP market structure, trends, and next generation technology. More info: Polycom.com