This month marks the six-month anniversary of the Department of Homeland Security establishing the post of Assistant Secretary for Cyber Security and Telecommunications. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff named former Information Technology Association of America executive Greg Garcia to the post.

Garcia recently outlined his agenda at this year’s RSA ...

SF Bay Pediatrics has been using Google Apps since last December for the kind of non-sensitive communications that keeps a clinic running smoothly.

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Intel Chairman Craig Barrett says Silicon Valley IT companies are in the right place at the right time to help the United Nations address the world’s health, education, and economic problems. Barrett, who has been appointed the chairman of the U.N.’s Global Alliance for ICT and Development, says, “My job is to make sure that we don’t talk a lot, but we do a lot.” The Alliance will meet today at the the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., to discuss the role of Silicon Valley in the U.N.’s information technology goals. PodTech’s Jason Lopez interviewed Intel’s chairman at the company’s headquarters in Santa Clara. Intel made this video possible.

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The United Nations is embarking on something new: a partnership with the private sector to address some of the developing world’s most vexing issues in areas such as education, health care, economic development and government. Craig Barret, the chairman of Intel, has been appointed to chair the UN initiative called the Global Alliance for ICT and Development. GAID meets with Silicon Valley leaders for the first time at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., for a series of panels and discussions about the ways IT solutions can help the U.N.’s efforts. PodTech’s Jason Lopez spoke with Sarbuland Khan, executive coordinator for GAID.

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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 ...

Intel will host a meeting between representatives of the the United Nations and business leaders in Silicon Valley to discuss ways of solving global problems such as access to health care, education and economic development. Craig Barrett, chairman of Intel, is also serving as the chairman of the UN ...

This is a video of Intel engineers talking about their research into 80-core chip technology. PodTech’s interview with Intel CTO Justin Rattner about the company’s 80-core announcement can be found here.

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Intel says it has developed an 80-core microprocessor chip that could enable PCs and chip-enabled devices to perform Teraflop level computing. The company will offer more details of its research in a series of scientific papers at the annual Integrated Solid State Circuits Conference this week in San Francisco. ...

Platforms are validated as partners develop solutions. Control4 invited a number of their key partners to display and show their solutions at CES. The solutions enhance and extend the lighting, climate, audio/visual, and security benefits. From Somfy’s solutions to manage window coverings and lighting, to iPort’s ...

Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Intel CEO Paul Otellini took the stage in San Francisco Monday to announce a new alliance. Listen here for the audio of the entire presentation and the Q&A session.

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Guest: Jonathan Schwartz - Sun
Guest: Paul Otellini - Intel

Jonathan Schwartz - Sun

Last Monday, Veer Bothra (seen here on the left) asked me to join in the monthly mixer he organises, called Mobile Monday. It’s loosely tied in with an eponymous event held around the world, an opportunity for mobile platform stakeholders to meet and talk about change … and more of the same.

Veer wanted me to talk about podcasting, not the nuts and bolts, but where it’s at and its relevance to the radio paradigm. That’s a juicy opportunity, I thought to myself, and so found myself making the difficult journey to North Mumbai (needs planning and a sort of instinctive feel for which combination of segments and modes of transport make it the least painful overall).

“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 ...

The senior police officer, currently director, cybersecurity, at NASSCOM, India’s IT industry heavyweight association, talks about bringing about awareness on security issues to various stakeholders, including law enforcement, commerce and industry, users and foreign organisations outsourcing work into India.

I have spent more than two decades in technology marketing and have always been a big believer in candor and transparency with the “market”. As a General Manager at Regis McKenna in the 1980s and then later as a Marketing Partner of venture capital firm, Mayfield, I was ...

MENLO PARK, August 3, 2006 (PodTech News) — IBM Corporation, or “Big Blue”, is the world’s largest information services company. It’s also one of the oldest. Since the 1920s, International Business Machines has grown a reputation as a reliable, solid, and somewhat buttoned-down, technology firm. But Ben Edwards, IBM’s ...

Dr. Shashi Tharoor is the Under Secretary General for Communications and Public Information at the United Nations. He spoke with PodTech’s Michael Johnson at TiEcon 2006 about the concept of global imagination and the role that technology would take in creating it.

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