In this third podcast in the series examining the changing demands on the CIO, Frank Buytendijk, vice president for corporate strategy at Hyperion, discusses the dilemma of bridging IT governance and business governance. Although a dilemma like this can seem intractable, Frank says that by taking a closer ...

The design studios of seven automakers competed in a Design Challenge at the L.A. Auto Show. The competition combined wood, alloys, glass, rubber and other materials to create 100 percent recyclable roadsters of the future. The eco-friendly vehicles were designed with environmental sustainability in mind and included features like ...

What will it take for CLECs (competitive local exchange carriers) to thrive in the coming decade? What business strategies are they adopting and do new technologies offer opportunities to compete - or destroy their ability to differentiate? And what regulatory changes are imminent that will change the ground rules - ...

What does Yahoo! India’s research and development center in Bangalore do? Listen to Pranesh Anthapur, the new chief operating officer discusses the broad roadmap for Yahoo’s India office and shares what it takes to merge companies.

Prior to relocating to Bangalore, Pranesh was the VP of HR and ...

The Web 2.0 mantra is that old media — NBC, Hearst, Disney, etc. — are too incompetent to be successful on the Web. The reality is that old media has invested a lot of time, effort and money in positioning their valuable offline properties to make money online. Some of ...

The Home Depot discusses standardizing on the EMC Documentum content management platform. In this podcast, you’ll learn what criteria The Home Depot used when choosing EMC Documentum as their Enterprise Content Management platform. In this episode, you will hear Lee Dallas, systems architect at The Home Depot, discuss his experience ...

Driving in Karachi is an exercise in confusion, damped-out road rage and sheer fun. The roads are mostly quite wide, but the combination of a large variety of vehicles and quaint driving styles makes for what the ancient Chinese legendarily called an “interesting life.”

“Ray was like a Super Hero. He wasn’t wearing the cape and everything else, but he was always fighting the big fight for everyday people,”

SAN FRANCISCO, October 9, 2006 (PodTech News) — California just gave telephone companies what they wanted - a big piece of the video franchise pie. An assembly bill that Governor Schwarzenegger signed into law September 29th makes a fundamental change in the way video services can be offered to consumers. AB 2987 creates videofranchises on a statewide scale

Entreprenuership is increasingly becoming big in India. However, there aren’t many events that allow entrepreneurs to showcase the working prototypes for the world. Here comes PROTO to fill that void.

LOS ANGELES, September 27, (PodTech News) — Wallop Technologies on Tuesday announced its own social networking site to compete against such heavyweights as MySpace, Friendster and others. Devoid of advertising, the new site debuted at DEMOfall 2006 in San Diego hyping a Flash-based multimedia experience to sepearate itself from the rest of the crowd. The company is relying on

MENLO PARK, August 8, 2006 (Podtech News) — Sprint Nextel today announced plans to develop and deploy a nationwide wireless broadband mobile network using WiMAX. Sprint said it will work with Intel on mobile WiMAX-enabled chipsets and with Motorola and Samsung on devices. PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau talked with Chris Thomas, ...

I would have liked to see the debate between Benkler and Calacanis that almost happened. Jason make news this past month when he offered to pay the top Diggers to post on Netscape. Jason is turning around the Netscape brand and Benkler is the author of “Coase’s ...

Over 1,000 gamers converged on this recent tournament in Edmonton to compete for cash, prizes, and bragging rights. Intel attended Fragapalooza and celebrated the launch of its latest and most powerful processor, the Core 2 Extreme processor. The new Core 2 Extreme carries 291,000,000 transistors and is over 40% faster ...

Now we’re seeing it the battle of branding. Intel and AMD are reshaping their brands. AMD is dropping the ATI brand according to a blog post today by Custom PC News.

Intel has been aggressively branding the Core 2 Duo line. The challenge for AMD ...

S. Ramadorai says sustaining quality and employee competency is one of the big challenges in the industry, especially as the playing field evens out around the world. He is the CEO and Managing Director of the $2.25 billion software company Tata Consultancy Services Limited. “In terms of I.T. services and ...

May 24, 2006 — Google, Inc. announced this week it’s ready to launch video advertising on the web. The move positions Google to compete with television for advertising dollars. Google isn’t the first company to put video ads on the Internet, but the search giant’s approach has some unique aspects. For one thing, users are given control over whether to watch, or not. The video ads appear on the screen as static images, and it’s not until a consumer clicks on the image that the video starts playing. But what’s in it for advertisers? And how does this affect Google’s positioning in the Internet advertising marketplace? Podtech’s Catherine Girardeau called Andrew Frank, a media analyst with Gartner, in his New York office, to get his perspective.

by Jason Lopez

Microsoft Says OK to Licensing Open Source Software

SAN FRANCISCO, February 14, 2006 (PodTech News) — Microsoft has announced it will partner with the open source enterprise software firm SugarCRM, which will launch new products under a Microsoft Community License. The companies, which compete head-to-head as CRM solution ...

Multimedia formats are changing the landscape of the search business. Yahoo’s multimedia guru Jeff Karnes talks with me about ‘multimedia’ search and how it is developing.

Multimedia search is one of those things that not alot of people are talking about but is a big deal. As ...

Another PodTech Exclusive Podcast Announcement. Network Appliance Podcast Announcement: Network Appliance Exclusive InfoTalk on their “Uncompromised Security Initiative”. I sat down with Kevin Brown, Vice President of Marketing, of Decru, a NetApp company. Kevin talks about this new initiative and the new ...

I had a chance to sit down with Reid Hoffman an early employee at PayPal and the cofounder of LinkedIn to talk about the future of web 2.0 and social networking as the basis for the new Internet. Reid is a pioneer and active angel investor as well ...