Deborah Nadoolman Landis, president of The Costume Designer’s Guild, Local 892 in Hollywood, emphatically asserts that costume designers help actors discover their characters. And while big budget movies give designers plenty of resources, it’s not about the budget says Landis–it’s about the script. She appeared on a panel held at ...

The director of the Los Angeles Film Festival, Richard Raddon, says that being overshadowed by Hollywood isn’t the challenge one might think. He says it’s a plus that Hollywood directors and actors live in the neighborhood, literally. The LA Film Festival is held in Westwood Village. Raddon is counting on ...

Analysts predict mass adoption of digital IP-based media only when consumers able to easily download and watch movies. The technology is here but the will apparently isn’t. But the makers of films aren’t letting that stop them from using the new tools. Some of the newest PC-based systems for editing ...

Randy Thom, one of the film industry’s leading film sound designers, says he appreciates the capabilities of faster computer chips and higher performance storage in systems. But he echoes the sentiments of every I.T. manager: he doesn’t want to be forced to think about them. PodTech’s Jason Lopez caught up ...

It’s not a matter of if we’ll be watching movies downloaded on our home theater systems, it’s a matter of when. James Ackerman, CEO of the film producer and distributor Clickstar, points to the convergence of faster chips, media friendly operating systems, broadband adoption, better screens, and access to content. ...

Ask Craig Newmark why he hasn’t made multi-millions off of Craigslist and he’ll look at you as if it’s an odd question. Try asking him why Craigslist is such a great site to avoid being bombarded by ads. There, that’s ...

Six Apart founder Mena Trott says the blogosphere is probably smaller than most people think. She defines it as the space inhabited by people who are “the pundits” trying to get a lot of readers. The blogging universe is much larger comprised of anyone who uses blogging tools. Jason Lopez ...

Independent media distribution over the Internet was once talked about–by independent content creators–as if it were a real option. But it was never realistic on a wide scale basis. The bandwidth, hardware and audience weren’t there. But times have changed. The tools to push content effectively over broadband connections are ...

Research@Intel Day: Join PodTech’s Jason Lopez as he talks with researchers about the possibilities of massive multiple computing power, and future applications of this forward looking technology.

Research@Intel Day: Join PodTech’s Jason Lopez as he talks with researchers about enterprise computing on the future and some of the current thinking in research that will take us there.

Robert Scoble says it wasn’t a defection. We all know the code words: “left to pursue other opportunities.” But in the truest sense of those words, Robert says he leaves Microsoft because his work there was done and he comes to PodTech to participate in a nascent industry that promises ...

CTO Justin Rattner opened Research@Intel Day with an informal talk from stage about the various ideas being hatched at the chip company. Some sound ready to go–like a new technology to help save significant amounts of energy by refreshing static screens from a separate chip–and others are weirdly but satisfyingly ...

PodTech’s Jason Lopez and Intel Chairman Craig Barrett chatted about education reform in the U.S. and his push for marked improvement in American schools.

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

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 average tech trade show in the United States wouldn’t be complete without lots of manufacturers displaying some of the latest toys that we’ll see in the market down the road. But not at TiEcon–which isn’t surprising when you consider this conference, which has gone global, has not lost its ...

TiE – which stands for The Indus Entrepreneurs—started quite by accident in 1992 in Silicon Valley. Seems an Indian government official was due to meet with a group if entrepreneurs with Indian roots. The plane was late and the ...

Jason Lopez of PodTech News chatted with Vani Kola who’s leading the planning for TiEcon 2006, which runs from May 12-13.