MENLO PARK, June 26, 2006 (PodTech News) — Microsoft unveiled what it calls a “unified communications product road map and partner ecosystem” at a press event in San Francisco today. “The announcement indicates Microsoft’s significant effort to move into a ...

MENLO PARK, June 12, 2006 (PodTech News) — “Unsanctioned corporate blogging is absolutely a tough call. And it happens in just about every organization,” said Allen Weiner, a media analyst and Research Vice President with Gartner, Inc. In an ...

MENLO PARK, May 30, 2006 (Podtech News) ­– Allen Weiner of Gartner and Shar Van Boskirk of Forrester Research are keeping tabs on the recent spate of Internet portal/E-commerce partnerships. Yahoo announced last week it has teamed up with Ebay to offer advertising service. Right on that announcement’s heels was ...

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.

PodTech’s Jason Lopez sat down with Gartner analyst Martin Reynolds to talk about Sun Microsystems, Apple and the mark of successful companies.

Press conference of Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo in San Francisco May 17, 2006.

PodTech’s Michael Johnson checks in with Tom Barsi, CEO of ConSentry Networks at Gartner. Barsi speaks about secure LAN systems solutions and their place in the rapidly changing Web Services Universe. Recently Consentry Networks won a Best of Interop Award at Interop 2006 in Las Vegas.

“I think viral distribution is still in its infancy,” Gartner’s VP for Research Allen Weiner told Podtech’s Catherine Girardeau. “We’ve seen some pretty interesting little proof points along the way about how powerful this could be.” In this podcast, Weiner touches on a few of his many areas of research ...

Daryl Plummer is Gartner’s Managing VP and Chief of Research. At the Gartner ITxpo Symposium 2006 in San Francisco, Plummer speaks about Service-Oriented Architecture’s with PodTech’s Michael Johnson , and about how it’s really not a static concept. Plummer says, “You can define (SOA) conceptually, but in reality ...

Sun Microsystems, which dominated the server market during the dot-com boom, has been searching for major revenue drivers over the past 5 years. The company has been criticized, especially by the financial community, for its stumbles. But Schwartz says the market is growing so robustly that the promise for Sun ...

Jonathan Schwartz (the new CEO of Sun Microsystems–he’s barely been the chief of the company for three weeks) began the Wednesday sessions at the 2006 Gartner Symposium ITxpo in San Francisco. This is the second part of three podcasts covering the keynote, in which Schwartz was interviewed by Gartner analysts ...

The Wednesday morning keynote at the 2006 Gartner Symposium ITxpo featured Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, interviewed by Gartner analysts Paul McGuckin and Daryl Plummer. We’ve broken the podcast up into three parts. In this first segment, Schwartz talks about his first weeks on the job as CEO since taking the ...

Why can’t you buy any cell phone and easily use it with most any carrier? Don’t blame Motorola. Chairman and CEO Ed Zander doesn’t blame the carriers either, even though they dictate which phones their customers will use. In this podcast, Zander argues (civilly with Gartner analysts Nick Jones and ...

One piece of Motorola’s business the public usually doesn’t see are the products sold to governments and municipalities, such as wireless communications gear. The systems used by cities and states during 9-11 and Hurricane Katrina did not hold up well, but Motorola Chairman and CEO says product development at his ...

Motorola Chairman and CEO Ed Zander says the ultimate cell phone would come back into the home–that is, it would be the only phone one would need. But that development seems far away for users in North America. “People always say to me, ‘I can go to China, and go ...

PodTech’s Jason Lopez met with Gartner analyst Steve Kleynhans, who covers the PC space, to talk about the state of the industry and prospects for the future. It’s easy to think that broadband is the magic bullet for personal computer makers, but emerging markets may be a bigger driver.

The Gartner Symposium ITxpo at the Moscone Center in San Francisco features keynote speakers like Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz, Symantec CEO John Thompson, and Motorola CEO Ed Zander. On PodTech we’ll have the keynotes as well as podcasts of interviews with notable Gartner analysts like Martin Reynolds, Steve Kleynhans ...

There could be trouble ahead for broadcast radio, unless it learns a thing or two from podcasting. On this podcast from PodTech news, a chat with Gartner analyst Laura Behrens on the co-evolution of these two formats. She says broadcasters will have to consider which will best ...

Advertising Schmadvertising. Well, the Google-AOL agreement is about advertising, but the big prize might be on web-based TV. There’s some Google-bashing over the deal , but ruling the Internet in the future may entail having to rule television. Bet you won’t find a disagreement from Terry Semel. ...

Dion Hinchcliffe, CTO of Sphere of Influence recorded this podcast from his speech at SAIC Content Exploitation Day on Nov 16 at SAIC Headquarters in Virginia.

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With Web 2.0 being one of the more exciting developments on the Internet in the last couple of years, there’s been ...