Now that GDC 2008 is behind us, and the reviews are really rolling in, PodTech takes a wide look at the gaming industry, with IDC gaming analyst Billy Pidgeon.

Gaming’s future likely includes more attention from the courts, as it continues to gain in mass popularity and ...

In his CES keynote, Intel CEO and President Paul Otellini introduced the concept of virtual Smash Mouth, and with a nod to the slew of Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) on view on the massive CES show floor, as well as the newer, more powerful laptops and gaming systems on display, he made clear the significance of Intel’s 45 nanometer transistor technology. The bottom line, from Otellini’s keynote: “The Internet is going to come to us.”

Gaming is fast gaining track in India and Mumbai is the epicenter for the industry. I finally caught up with Quentin Staes-Polet, CEO of Kreeda in Bangalore to find out about Kreeda, doing business in India and the challenges of doing business in India. Kreeda bills itself as India’s ...

At their recent launch in New York City, HP Total Care took the spotlight, announcing a program designed to ease IT challenges for the full lifecycle of an HP purchase. HP Total Care’s aim is to provide before, during and after- purchase support, making it easier for companies ...

Silicon Valley is not known for paying much attention to its own history but things are changing. The Computer History Museum’s 2007 Fellow Awards was sold out as much of Silicon Valley’s aristocracy turned out for a $250 fund raising dinner that paid tribute to four top technologists: Morris ...

This is a question and answer session with Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, that I conducted for a workshop on the Transparent Federal Budget project that took place in Austin, Texas last month. The Transparent Federal Budget project is a collaborative, open effort to bring greater ...

A few months ago we did a story about California’s primary utility company, PG&E’s, Let’s Green This City campaign. The green posters were all over the city of San Francisco. Our initial reaction was, “Cool! A corporate utility company is actually talking green!” These posters suggested many things ...

Sentrillion is a new company that has some big homeland security responsibilities, like upgrading and maintaining the technology used to secure both the northern and southern borders of the U.S.

In this episode of Homeland Defense Week’s Listening Post, I talk with the Reston, Va.-based company’s CEO, Jack Larmer, and its ...

David Doane, president and CEO of PresenceID, talks with Brad Baldwin about identity transparency and growing trend towards the virtual workplace. Doane proposes the possibility of ultimately decoupling not only users from the physical network environment, but also allowing all of our files and technology resources to be ...

Today I can’t concentrate, because the BOT house is under a massive attack by six-legged flying invaders. So, in order to go to a happy place, I’m hitting the couch to talk about cats. Lolcats may be so two months ago, but I’m not quite sick of it yet, ...

TinyTube is a very small startup founded by Allen Day, who tells me how TinyTube is bringing massive amounts of video to your tiny mobile screen. His service transcodes and proxies video content from several of your favortite video-hosting sights. Allen gives me a demo of how easy it ...

Don’t want to wait in line for an Apple iPhone? One option is to pay someone to wait in those massive lines for you. In day two of our countdown of the iPhone’s release, PodTech’s Rio Pesino spoke with one person willing to give up his spot in ...

In this first part of the eighth Photowalking show I’ve done with Thomas Hawk 25 photo geeks met one March morning to shoot with a massive 600mm F4.0 lens. Thomas Hawk showed off some prints he made with his new Epson R2400 printer. Dave Sifry, founder of Technorati, showed off ...

Alok Kejriwal is the founder and CEO of the latest gaming company in India, called Games2win. Founded about four months ago, Alok’s company recently received its first round of funding from Clearstone and Silicon Valley Bank. They received $5 million dollars from both the investors.

I caught up ...

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency is relying on technology to balance the needs of homeland security with the needs of legitimate trade and business. To do this, the agency is increasingly turning to information technology as a means of verifying the identity of the 1.1 million travellers who ...

In our second review of videobloggingweek2007, Irina tallies up the hundreds of videos submitted so far and picks out three vloggers she likes: the indefatigable TwitterVlog, the decidedly un-medical Out On the Stoop and the stories behind the photos of Completely Known.

When Frank Russell founded GeoLearning ten years ago, the landscape for delivering corporate training materials was quite different from what it is today. As the network became more and more vital for business, and as software-as-a-service began to mature, Frank saw GeoLearning’s business grow and change in dramatic ways. In this podcast Frank relates his experience as CEO of GeoLearning, and talks about how SaaS plays a vital role in their success.

In San Francisco, Intel, with Motion Computing and the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center, announced the launch of the Motion C5 mobile clinical assistant, a lightweight tablet computer specifically designed for use in hospitals, for nurse patient care. It features a camera, barcode scanner, ...

Olives! Making this show has been such indulgent torture. We’ve been eating, breathing, and [not] sleeping olives for a few days now, and still each time I see the O word I’m struck with desire. I had to laugh today when remembering that once upon a time ...

David Hornik is a general partner at August Capital. As early-stage investors in companies like Microsoft, August knows what makes great companies, and Hornik serves as its social media expert. He sits on six boards including Six Apart. Hornik was also the first VC to blog and to ...

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 ...

You might think Moore’s Law comes with an ancillary set of steps on how to adhere to it. The Law essentially says that technology develops so swiftly that chip engineers can pack twice as many transistors on a piece of silicon every two years. Performance jumps dramatically but the business ...

Gentlemen (and ladies of course) start your blogs. Opening Day of the Bloghaus saw an overflow crowd of bloggers, video bloggers and podcasters. The event, which was sponsored by Seagate, Microsoft and AMD, jam-packed a wide-spectrum of community media into a Bellagio Hotel Suite, all amid the activity around CES ...

Intel is one of many companies attending CES 2007 in Las Vegas next week. PodTech Founder and CEO John Furrier visited with Intel’s Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, Sean Maloney to explore top tech-lifestyle trends for 2007 and the impact of new innovations coming from the chipmaker.