“We’ve got the right tools, the right place, the right time: now is the time to activate,” said Intel vPro Expert Center Community Manager Josh Hilliker. What’s he talking about? Intel’s vPro technology, and the tools available to help end-users self-activate their vPro systems, taking them, as Hilliker says, ...

A new processor for the ultra-mobile market is Intel’s latest move to revolutionize mobility computing, from UMPCs to mobile Internet devices and even notebooks and desktops (er, “netbooks” and “net-tops”). While Atom (née Silverthorne) received its brand-new brand name recently, the family of tiny processors, which relies ...

At RSA 2007 in San Francisco, network security podcaster Martin McKeay headed a series of discussions examining the latest communication tools like Skype, IM, and ICQ and enterprise security. McKeay talks with Cindy Bellefeuille, Security Solutions, Verizon Business; Rich Mogul, Gartner analyst, data security; Atif Yusuf, senior security engineer, Verizon ...

Rich Mogull is a research vice president specializing in security and privacy at Gartner, the best known analyst group in the IT and security industries. I caught up with him for a few minutes at RSA 2007 in February to discuss the event, the insider threat and the future ...

Businesses are dealing with compliance and reporting from the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in many ways. Allegiance CEO and Founder Adam Edmunds saw a niche three years ago and entered the market to provide confidential communication with his Silent Whistle product. Today, the company’s offerings have evolved to provide ...

Taking a break from the bustle of RSA 2007, some of the best-known security bloggers got together at the Foreign Cinema, a French bistro and movie house in San Francisco, hosted by network security podcaster Martin McKeay. Check out the guest list, as we roam the crowd ...

In this Thought Leaders podcast brought to you by SAVVIS, Ted Chamberlin, research director at Gartner, discusses drivers and criteria for buying web hosting services, distinctions between the providers, and the future of IT Services.

SAN FRANCISCO, December 30, 2006 (PodTech News) — Do you think 2007 will be an even BIGGER year for blogs? Are you already thinking ahead to what lies beyond the release of Microsoft VISTA? Well, you may want to rethink whatever it is you think you’re thinking. PodTech’s Clark Boyd ...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 14, 2006 (PodTech News) — Samsung’s plan to introduce its OneDRAM fusion memory in 2007 could mean much speedier smartphones. The company announced the device this week, amid the year-end predictions from analysts and enthusiasts for everything from cell phones to start-ups. We look to the ...

Chris Gesell, director of product marketing for IT solutions, discusses a recent Verizon Business announcement that it’s extending IT services down to the desktop. PodTech.net talked with Chris at the Gartner Symposium and ITxpo 2006 in Orlando, Florida.

Managing IT change is a continual balancing act of rapid deployment versus poor execution. Enterprises must understand how to align service providers with specific technology goals to gain competitive advantages. In this talk from the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Florida, Chris Gesell, director of product marketing for IT solutions with ...

Security continues to be a major challenge faced by today’s IP leaders. Listen in on a presentation by Verizon Business’ Chief Information Security Officer, Sara Santarelli, about how to help ensure that risk management touches every system and every action taken. This is the second of a two-part podcast from ...

Security continues to be a major challenge faced by today’s IP leaders. Listen in on a presentation by Verizon Business’ Chief Information Security Officer, Sara Santarelli, about how to help ensure that risk management touches every system and every action taken. This is the first in a two-part podcast from ...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made sure no one would miss his point that Microsoft has been, is now, and will continue to be dogged in everything it does. Even if, as Ballmer said, “we don’t always get it right on the first try.”

“Corporate information technology departments can spend more time reacting to fires than supporting corporate objectives,” said Executive Director of Product Management for Verizon Business’ John Shultz at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo in Orlando, Florida.

Shultz and Verizon Business customer Rick Hawkins, Director of IT Operations and Services for the Timken ...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was interviewed by two tough VPs from research firm Gartner, Inc. at Gartner’s Symposium and ITxpo at the Dolphin Hotel in Orlando Florida October 10th. In the so-called “Mastermind Interview”, Ballmer fielded questions that ranged from lessons learned from the long Vista delay to how ...

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 stock took a dive of over 10 percent. Yahoo’s CFO Susan Decker told investors at the Goldman Sachs conference that the slowdown in automotive and financial services advertising will likely lead the company to “deliver in bottom half of the range” of its third-quarter estimate. Andrew Frank, a research director at Gartner, Inc., told PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau he thinks the market overreacted.

MENLO PARK, September 11, 2006 (PodTech News) - Gartner, Inc. Vice President Martin Reynolds said he thinks Hewlett-Packard Board Chair Patricia Dunn did the right thing to investigate leaks of proprietary HP information to the news media, and that he doesn’t think she knew the private investigative firm she retained would use pretexting to conduct the investigation. (Pretexting is the practice of getting a company to turn over consumer records by pretending to be the consumer in question.) HP has said the practice was used to obtain the personal phone records of board members and nine reporters. HP’s board met yesterday, and is meeting again late today, in the wake of investigations into the practice by the offices of the California Attorney General and the U.S. District Attorney’s office, Northern California District. PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau interviewed Reynolds to get his take on the role of HP Chair Patricia Dunn, who ordered the investigation into the leaks.

MENLO PARK, August 28, 2006 (PodTech News) — Google today announced a partnership with eBay that makes Google the exclusive provider of text-based advertising for eBay’s international sites. While a similar contract for eBay’s domestic sites went to Yahoo Inc. earlier this year, one component of today’s deal is click-to-call, in which users can click on an advertisement or an eBay listing and talk to the seller via a VOIP call. “This deal is mostly about practicality,” said Gartner Inc. Research Director Andrew Frank. PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau interviewed Frank by phone from his office in New York.

SAN FRANCISCO, August 23, 2006 (PodTech News) - Friendster Inc. announced Monday that it has received $10 million in new funding. The money will support a renewed effort to refocus on its original mission to be a “real-world” social network. The 4-year-old company, which was awarded a patent on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

MENLO PARK, July 6, 2006 (PodTech News) — Microsoft is planning to release a digital music and video player to rival the iPod this holiday season, Bloomberg News reported yesterday. Microsoft has partnered with third-party hardware manufacturers to create ...

MENLO PARK, June 28, 2006 (PodTech News) — Convergence of online video-sharing sites and traditional network TV is here. Online video site YouTube and NBC Universal announced a promotional partnership Tuesday, the day after Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Bros. announced it plans to sell movies and TV shows online via ...