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Verizon Business Empowers Network Convergence for K-12

Michael Johnson — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:00:23 +0000

School districts across the nation are upgrading legacy networks to converged Internet protocol (IP) networks, paving the way for the introduction of new advanced capabilities, such as voice-over-IP and distance learning. Designed to enhance the learning experience and access to information for students, IP networks deliver the crucial speed and reliability that enable truly collaborative classrooms. Alex Coleman, group president for government and education markets with Verizon Business, discusses K-12 communications and information technology trends.

Tags: Verizon Business, IP networks, Alex Coleman, K-12, information technology trends, education markets

IDF Shanghai: Keynote Demos Showcase Mobility, Innovation

editor — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:27:59 +0000

In this video podcast straight from Intel’s Spring IDF in Shanghai, the spotlight is on the keynote demos that showed power and performance in newer, smaller and more innovative form factors, many powered by the Intel’s Atom processor. Many of the demonstrations focused on mobility, and they all provided an exciting look at some of the technologies that are just around the corner.

Dr. Ren Ng, president and CEO of Refocus Imaging, led a demo of his company’s light field cameras, which record the full light field as it enters the camera, ultimately extending the capabilities of conventional digital cameras and “turning camera hardware into software.” Ng explains that by doing this, light field cameras “bring the economics and power of Moore’s Law to the camera system.” (snapshots from their Web site illustrate the demo, which they re-created live, on stage at IDF!).

Also on hand was Dr. Mendel Rosenblum, co-founder and chief scientist at VMware. He shared the stage with Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital Enterprise Group, Pat Gelsinger, to demonstrate a flex migration across four generations of hardware as well as the value of the deep collaboration between Intel and VMware.

There was a live demo by Classmate PC, following the news-making announcement of the new, second generation classmate (”featuring a 9-inch LCD screen, 6-cell battery, 512MB memory, a 30GB hard disk drive and a built-in webcam“), the unveiling of Intel’s Tukwila Itanium processor (“Two billion transistors in one processor”), and a mobility-focused Asianux demoonstration of the breadth of Moblin Usage, including a new way to play video from the Web and a new way to order Chinese food.

A Montevina demo was noteworthy after Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s Mobility Group, Dadi Perlmutter, revealed that Intel’s next generation mobile platform, Montevina, will provide twice the 3D processing power of any current integrated solution.

Demos showcasing Neusoft driver assistance, Fuwa robot, Adobe Air, Sobey real-time rendering and MID & mobile designs rounded out the event.

Tags: Intel, IDF, Shanghai, mobility, Ren Ng, Refocus Imaging, light field cameras, Mendel Rosenblum, VMware, Pat Gelsinger, flex migration, Classmate PC, Tukwila, Itanium, processor, Moblin, Montevina, Dadi Perlmutter, Fuwa, Adobe Air, Sobey, IDF2008, Silverthorne, Intel Atom, mobile Internet device, Nehalem, Dunnington, Multithreading, virtualization, high performance computing, wireless technology, Centrino, WiMax, 45nm, 32nm

ConnectCast - Top 100 Venture Entrepreneurs and UofUtah 2nd Behind MIT

Cydni Tetro — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:08:20 +0000

Cydni Tetro and Colin Kelly discuss the key events this week, including the release of the Top 100 Venture Entrepreneurs from vSpring Capital. It is a peer-nominated and peer-selected group of individuals that the community predicts will become a CTO or CEO of a high-tech company in the next five years. This is the fifth year of the program. In addition, the University of Utah was rated 2nd behind only MIT in the number of technology spin-offs based on university research. MIT had 23 and the University of Utah had 20.

Tags: Colin Kelly, Cydni Tetro, MIT, University of Utah, venture captial, vSpring

Connectivity Is Key To Development

Jason Lopez — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:50:50 +0000

Broadband connectivity is rapidly becoming a bottleneck issue for economic development around the world. As nations move into knowledge-based economies, an emphasis on information and communication technologies, or ICTs, is critical to addressing poverty and development concerns ranging from health and education to economic and industrial growth. Knowledge is the driving engine for economic growth, social development, cultural enrichment, and for political empowerment, according to Abdul Waheed Kahn, assistant director-general for communication and information at UNESCO. In this video podcast, he makes the case that enabling a knowledge workforce increasingly requires reliable access to information. As Intel’s John Davies explains, more and more, that means bringing broadband to parts of the world where even basic economic development remains a challenge. IICD Communication Coordinator Hilde Eugelink explains how even simple, relatively small investments in education can have a significant impact on communities and economies.

Hilde Eugelink is communication coordinator with the International Institute for Communication and Development and John Davies is vice president of Intel’s sales and marketing group and the general manager of Intel’s World Ahead initiative.

Tags: Broadband connectivity, economic development, ICTs, Abdul Waheed Kahn, UNESCO, Intel, Hilde Eugelink, Hilde Eugelink, John Davies, World Ahead

Intel Atom: Chip Packs Internet in Your Pocket

editor — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 02:47:38 +0000

Intel’s smallest processor to date, built with it’s tiny 45nm transistors for a new wave of small, mobile Internet devices. The chip gets the name Intel Atom. There’s also Intel Centrino Atom, a combination of chip technologies for low cost, low power and high performing devices designed to bring better Internet experiences to wireless compute devices.

Intel’s Brian Fravel helped to announce Atom’s brand name on Sunday, followed by Bob Duffy and others. Outside of Intel, conversation continues. Most blog mentions highlight the tiny processor’s likeley impact on mobile internet devices. As Joel Hruska writes at Ars Technica, “The Atom architecture is intended to give Intel a foothold in handheld devices that have traditionally been the sole domain of very low-power RISC processors.” Noting that no Atom-enabled products have yet been announced, Yahoo! Tech’s Christopher Null predicts that “you should definitely expect some in the next few months.”

More info at:
Mobility@Intel blog
The Intel Pressroom

Related Stories: Intel, IntelMooresLaw, IntelMobility

Tags: Intel, 45nm, transistors, mobile Internet devices, Intel Atom, Intel Centrino Atom, Brian Fravel, Bob Duffy, Joel Hruska, Ars Technica, Christopher Null, Intel, IntelMooresLaw, IntelMobility

Software Virtualization Solution to the Rescue

Brad Baldwin — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:00:45 +0000

Sometimes the best way to test a new software deployment to hundreds or thousands of end users is through Altiris Software Virtualization Solution (or SVS). Such was the case with one customer who wanted to migrate from Novell Groupwise to Microsoft Outlook.

Jordan Pusey, product marketing manager at Symantec’s Altiris Division, talks with Brad Baldwin about how customers are using Software Virtualization Solution to eliminate application conflicts, instantly repair damaged applications, significantly reduce testing time for application rollouts, offer on-demand application delivery.

Tags: Jordan Pusey, Altiris

Fireside Chat with Gordon Moore, Live at IDF: Part 2

Rio Pesino — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:21:19 +0000

Gordon E. Moore, Intel retired chairman and CEO (and chairman emeritus of the board) spoke with Moira Gunn onstage at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, in an interview that Intel called a “fireside chat.”

In this segment, find out whether or not you owe your workplace set-up to Moore and Intel (hint: you probably do). Also, was “Intel” ever the hame of a motel company in the Midwest?

The conversation covered a full career, from a time before semiconductors, when the very notion of integrated circuits was new — and controversial. Since then, of course, not only has Moore been on the winning side of the technology, but his name has become synomymous with the notion that the technology of the chip is on an aggressive development track — “Moore’s Law” has guided and challenged the chip industry for more than 30 years. (Asked if he regrets that name, he says, “I guess I don’t - now.”)

An End to Moore’s Law?
Every year sees speculation about a possible end to Moore’s Law. What does Moore, himself say (this year)? The answer is in this podcast. The physical world is subject to limiting factors, and Moore predicts that sometime in the foreseeable future, limits will be reached in the business of chip-making. However, Moore says he’s still impressed at how well the industry has extended the technologies, so far.

Moore easily recalls a time before the name Silicon Valley applied to the high-tech corridor south of San Francisco, but he was also remembers a time before the now-ubiquitous staple of office life worldwide. Cubicles. You may not like your cubicle much, but according to Moore, they came about in an attempt to keep the office from looking like a prison. Besides, he says, he still has the biggest cubicle at Intel.

Gordon Moore co-founded Intel in 1968.

To learn more, click here.

Tags: Gordon E. Moore, Intel, Moira Gunn, Intel Developer Forum, semiconductors, integrated circuits, Moore’s Law, Silicon Valley, Cubicles

Fireside Chat with Gordon Moore, Live at IDF: Part I

Rio Pesino — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:36:20 +0000

In this segment, find out how Intel really got its start, and how much of its success Moore thinks was just great good luck.

An End to Moore’s Law?
Every year sees speculation about a possible end to Moore’s Law. What does Moore, himself say? The answer is in this podcast. The physical world is subject to limiting factors, and Moore predicts that sometime in the foreseeable future, limits will be reached in the business of chip-making. However, Moore says he’s still impressed at how well the industry has extended the technologies, so far.

Gordon Moore co-founded Intel in 1968.

To learn more, click here.

Tags: Gordon E. Moore, Intel, Moira Gunn, Intel Developer Forum, semiconductors, integrated circuits, Moore’s Law, Silicon Valley, Cubicles

How Use Cases are Helping to Productize the IT Organization

Paul Lancour — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:00:44 +0000

Join BearingPoint manager and technologist Zahra Rahemtulla, as she presents a case for use cases and their role as an effective vehicle to map out activities an IT organization should put in place for a proactive approach to service delivery.

Productization is a means of helping an organization to think about its IT products and services, and how they could be packaged to offer and sell to end users. It’s about providing a bundled service that delivers business value to the end users.

Transforming the thinking and IT operations is a cultural shift that requires a new mindset. The use cases help organizations see on paper how it would work, because they represent a real life scenario that depicts how a service should behave in a future state (not just the ideal state). They help show minimum requirements to help deliver and support the service.

Tags: BearingPoint, Zahra Rahemtulla, Productization

Naturally Powered by Roz Savage

Margot Gerritsen — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 06:01:55 +0000

After rowing across the Atlantic in 2006, Roz Savage is leaving San Francisco (her Website has updated departure dates) to conquer her next ocean: the Pacific.

Roz’s rowing vessel is fully self-sustained. During this two-plus months adventure, a total of 6 sonar panels and a wind turbine will provide power for her desalination system, her communications system, computer system and various miscellaneous systems including her iPod and on board soundsystem. We have added a few more gadgets: data loggers that will show us how much energy Roz’s system is generating each day. The Roz Savage page on Smart Energy publishes this data and predicts future generation based on the weather forecast.

I talked to Roz prior to her departure about her ambitions and day-to-day life on the vessel.

Tags: Roz Savage

Techno Addicts Episode 2 - Marvin the Sponsor

editor — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:14:31 +0000

The Story So Far…
A former high-tech genius, Shiloh Anderson struggles against his addiction to technology. In an effort to free himself, he abandons all forms of technology introduced after 1971, the year the first mass-produced answering machine was available to the public. Friends, family and other addicts offer many temptations which he resists, with the help of a 12-step program and his sponsor. He transfers the energy behind his addiction into shaming and belittling everyone still plugged into the modern world. This gives him an excuse to keep up with the latest in technological advancements, and frequently causes him to relapse, going on technological binges.
(more…)

Tags: Shiloh Anderson, addiction

TechNo! Addicts Episode 1

editor — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:55:28 +0000

A former high-tech genius, Shiloh Anderson struggles against his addiction to technology. In an effort to free himself, he abandons all forms of technology introduced after 1971, the year the first mass-produced answering machine was available to the public. Friends, family and other addicts offer many temptations which he resists with the help of a 12-step program and his sponsor. He transfers the energy behind his addiction into shaming and belittling everyone still plugged into the modern world. This gives him an excuse to keep up with the latest in technological advancements, and frequently causes him to relapse, going on technological binges.

Tags: high-tech, Shiloh Anderson, addicts

Enterprise Security: Managing the Windows Vista Migration

editor — Thu, 10 May 2007 22:25:55 +0000

In this Symantec podcast: As organizations move to Windows Vista, they’ll need a migration strategy that keeps conflicts and system disruptions in check, minimizes user downtime and inconvenience, and doesn’t expose systems to security threats.

Tags: Symantec, Windows, Vista, security

Shooting the Breeze with Nordic Windpower

Rio Pesino — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:00:11 +0000

Wind-turbine manufacturing company Nordic Windpower was one many clean technology companies at the Cleantech Venture Forum in New York. In this podcast, NWP Chairman and CEO Steve Taber talks about the company’s goals, how its products differ from its competitors’ and his thoughts on Cleantech.

The Cleantech Forum is right around the corner, February 19-22, in San Francisco. The San Francisco Cleantech Forum brings together more than 600 top investors, companies and thought-leaders for two days of unparalleled networking and cutting edge exchange. Register here.

Transcript:

Host: Rio Pesino - PodTech
Guest: Steve Taber - Nordic Windpower

Rio Pesino - PodTech
This is Rio Pesino for Podtech.net, I am here with Steve Taber who is the Chairman and CEO of Nordic Windpower, welcome to the Podcast.

Steve Taber - Nordic Windpower
Thank you Rio very much, it’s a great pleasure.

Rio Pesino - PodTech
Steve, first question, go and tell our listeners what your company is, and what do they do, what’s your company all about?

Steve Taber - Nordic Windpower
We are a wind-turbine manufacturing company, we manufacture turbines based on a very innovative Swedish technology, and what is innovative about this technology is that the equipment is simple and reliable and low in cost. If you think of our competitors as being Ferraris we are a Volvo. We may not be the sexiest machine, but we are absolutely predictable and reliable. We give years and years of trouble free operation with minimum maintenance and low cost.

Rio Pesino - PodTech
Now, what makes your product different than your competitors?

Steve Taber - Nordic Windpower
The main design which our competitors have followed is a rigid massive design, which is very heavy. It’s over engineered, it’s very heavy and it responds rigidly to the wind. Our design is designed to be flexible, so that it flexes with the wind. So, eccentric forces from turbulence are dissipated harmlessly, so that the turbine itself can be operated in a very low stress environment. That saves us weight, it saves us failures, maintenance problems and ultimately gives us a bottom line cost that is anywhere from 10% to 30%.

Rio Pesino - PodTech
Now, I noticed your Windpower system has two blades as opposed to three?

Steve Taber - Nordic Windpower
Well, two blades have a number of advantages. It saves weight; it makes the design much more elegant in its ability to respond flexibly and passively to the wind. Like I say, the three-bladed turbine is a rigid design, it’s kind of like an ocean liner, the two-bladed design is kind of like a sail boat. It goes with the wind rather than fighting against the wind.

Rio Pesino - PodTech
What’s your existing customer base?

Steve Taber - Nordic Windpower
The existing customer base right now is entirely in Sweden and of Swedish utilities. What we’re doing with this company is introducing the technology to the United States and here our customers will be the established Wind power developers in utilities and the community energy movement. There’s a great deal of growth right now in that sector of the industry in the United States. Communities, farmers, school districts, small towns, Swedish districts and things like that, they’re all trying to put or many of them are trying to put up a few turbines, one, two or three turbines where they can use it as a revenue source to help their basic bottom line.

Rio Pesino - PodTech
Now, what are the some of the challenges you guys are facing bring your product here to the United States, if any?

Steve Taber - Nordic Windpower
Well, the first challenge and the challenge which brings me here today to the Cleantech Forum is the challenge of having enough money. We don’t personally have enough money to fund this, we need about $10 million on our Balance Sheet in order to get our company up and running and sustain our growth curve, so that’s challenge number one. We are confident, we will solve that challenge because right now renewable energy is such a high growth industry that there’re a lot of real smart investors that are trying to get in it, so I’m confident we’ll get over that.

Rio Pesino - PodTech
Now in regards to Cleantech, what are your thoughts on this event overall?

Steve Taber - Nordic Windpower
I am hugely impressed; this is a Cracker Jack organization. I mean at this organization, one of the very smart things they do is that they invite all their investors but they screen the entrepreneurs very carefully so there’s only a handful of companies here in comparison to several hundred investors. So, that I think makes for an environment in which the investors don’t feel beleaguered and in which the companies that do, that are fortunate enough to be selected to come, can have a courteous reception from anybody I’ve talked to. I really admire this organization, my hat is off to Nick and Loren and everybody to put this together.

Rio Pesino - PodTech
Steve, I appreciate the Podcast, thanks a lot for the time, and goodbye.

Steve Taber - Nordic Windpower
Thank you; it’s been a great pleasure.

Rio Pesino - PodTech
Alright.

Tags: Nordic Windpower, Cleantech Venture Forum, Steve Taber, Cleantech, The Cleantech Forum

Podango CEO Lee Gibbons on Building a Podcast Delivery Platform

Brad Baldwin — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:35:07 +0000

Lee Gibbons talks about how Podango plays in the space by offering a content distribution platform. He shares his vision on where the future of content delivery is going, and he predicts a future where all content, not just the “hits,” will be able to find an audience big enough to support creative and delivery. With the explosion of user-generated content, the power of RSS subscription and delivery, and cheap storage, Podango provides a podcasting and videocasting service that allows anyone to be a station director.

Unlike a standard hosting services, Podango allows station directors to stake their claim and then use their passion and expertise to create, collect, manage and publish channels. Podango also takes care of the tech confusion of RSS feed subscription for various systems like iTunes.

Podango’s business model is to monetize channels with advertisers seeking to reach specific audiences. The cool thing is that Podango shares a good chunk of the revenue with the station director. Still in beta, Podango is currently adding stations quickly.

This podcast is brought to you by Rocky Mountain Voices.

Click here for transcript.

Tags: Lee Gibbons, Podango, Rocky Mountain Voices

Intel’s Laser-enabled Chips Could be Silver Bullet

Jason Lopez — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:27:59 +0000

SANTA CLARA, CA, September 19, 2006 (PodTech News) — Intel says its new experimental semiconductors could be the breakthrough the chip industry has been looking for — the one that will allow chips to keep pace with Moore’s Law. They’ll do this by using lasers instead of wires to shuttle around data. Semiconductor experts have been pointing to a possible end of the “Law” that predicts that chip performance will essentially double every 18 months. (more…)

Tags: Intel, Moore’s Law

Intel Chief Strategist Chris Thomas: Generational Shift Speeds Development

editor — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:26:16 +0000

Chris Thomas, chief strategist at Intel, recognizes that a new generation of users is pushing the pace of change in the marketplace — even developing products they want themselves. Thomas predicts that community innovation will intersect with development best practices to bring a rapid adoption of new tools and technologies, all leading to a baseline goal: smoother, simpler and more transparent user interfaces. PodTech’s John Furrier spoke with Thomas at Supernova 2006.

Tags: Chris Thomas, Intel, John Furrier, Supernova

CEA: The Next-Gen Console War Will Benefit the Gaming Market

editor — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 17:06:12 +0000

The Consumer Electronics Association predicts that video games will bring in more than $12 billion dollars this year. In this podcast, CEA’s Sean Wargo talks with PodTech’s Rio Pesino about the growth of the industry, the impact next-gen consoles will have on the gaming market and comments on the Yankee Group’s prediction that the Sony Playstation 3 will win the console war.

Reporter’s Notes: The fact that videogames have become a billion dollar industry is no surprise. Sean Wargo’s prediction that the PS3 will win the next-gen console war came as something of a shock to me. Sure, Sony has a huge market share right now, but with Microsoft’s early release of its Xbox 360 and Nintendo’s expected cheap price tag on the Wii, I can see Sony losing a lot of gamers. The PS3’s expensive price tag and inclusion of Blu-Ray is also a risk. Gamespot has an in-depth interview with Sony Computer Entertainment American President Kaz Hirai.

In other CEA-related news, I got a chance to speak with CEA Communications Director Tara Dunion about the scaling down of the E3 Expo and the company’s thoughts on perhaps creating a West Coast venue to replace E3.
- Rio Pesino

Tags: Consumer Electronics Association, Yankee Group, Sony Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo, Wii, Sony, Blu-Ray, Kaz Hirai, Tara Dunion

Juniper Networks Master of IT, David O’Berry: South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole & Pardon Services

editor — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:52:21 +0000

Join John Furrier in his discussion of network security with David O’Berry from the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole & Pardon Services. After serving their time in prison, many former convicts are under the jurisdiction of the state upon their release. While they are in this transition, former prisoners in South Carolina are overseen by the Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services, a 750-person unit that supervises more than 35,000 offenders, who are on probation, out on parole, or who have been released as youthful offenders.

This Juniper Networks podcast is part of the Juniper Networks Master of IT program.

Tags: network security, David O’Berry

TiECON East 2006: Build, Succeed, Sustain: Execs Share Tips

editor — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 04:14:58 +0000

“Strong personalities have strong opinions, and most of the time, those opinions may differ. Being able to resolve those conflicts is challenging,” said Harry Ruda, the founder and CEO of Softricity. Ruda was one of four panelists who discussed how they define, create and maintain high performance organizations.

More info at:
TieCONEast.org

TiECON East 2006: Futurist Kurzweil Predicts Pace of Technological Evolution

editor — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:38:37 +0000

“The pace of paradigm shift is growing exponentially,” said author and futurist Ray Kurzweil in his keynote speech at TiECON East 2006. Kurzweil talked about exponential growth of information technology, what comes after Moore’s Law, and reverse-engineering the human brain.

More info at:
TieCONEast.org

Providing Brands with Radar: Measuring the Power of Consumer Generated Media

editor — Mon, 22 May 2006 07:06:46 +0000

Peter Blackshaw Chief Marketing Officer of Nielsen/Buzzmetrics discusses a new global measurement standard for consumer generated media. Consumer generated media includes blogs, podcasts, videoblogs and online news forums. Pete provides marketers with a perspective on why this media is important to measure and how to measure it. He also describes how consumer generated media is evolving and predicts future trends.

Check out his blog at:
consumergeneratedmedia.com

Company’s site at:
NielsenBuzzMetrics.com.

Tags: Peter Blackshaw, Nielsen, Buzzmetrics