The current uptake in high performance computing means mostly good things, but it also comes with a few built-in challenges. The paradox of this particular progress is this: when you scale hardware, you oftentimes scale power consumption, right along with it. That’s where Intel’s Shesha Krishnapura has some good news ...

In this podcast, we check in with Josh Hilliker, who manages Intel’s online vPro Expert Center, for a community status report. How has the community grown? What topics are people blogging, vlogging, and discussing? How is the content feeding the community — and the community enriching the content? From ...

Dion Hinchcliffe moderates the panel of Diane Davidson ( Director of Customer Marketing, WebEx Communications ), Robert Duffy ( Online Communities Strategist, Intel ), Mark Finnern ( SDN Collaboration Wiz, SAP ), Josh Hilliker ( Intel vPro Expert Center Community Manager, Intel ) and

Dion Hinchcliffe moderates the panel of Diane Davidson (director of customer marketing, WebEx Communications), Robert Duffy (online communities strategist, Intel), Mark Finnern[/ta] (SDN Collaboration Wiz, SAP), [tag]Josh Hilliker (Intel vPro Expert Center Community Manager, Intel) and Mike Walsh (chief executive officer, Leverage Software) during the ...

The HP Personal Systems Group recently unveiled its 2008 product line at a celebrity-studded event at Skylight Studios, in Manhattan (and yes, that’s “personal” as in, The Computer is Personal Again). In addition to HP’s new iPAQ handheld communications devices, its MediaSmart PC and MediaSmart Server, and a ...

“Corporate Websites are losing a bit of relevance,” says Bob Duffy, Intel’s online community strategist. “Open Port is Intel’s first public online community targeted at the IT tech enthusiast audience; it’s a central destination for Social Media.”

Because of the Web every company is suddenly a media outlet. Intel says it ...

A brush fire broke out practically on PodTech’s doorstep, burning more than 100 acres around “the dish” in Palo Alto, Calif. If you like watching a coordinated firefighting effort from close-range, this video is worth a look.

Video by Rocky Barbanica, PodTech Networks producer.

Feeling zesty? Wondering how we kept our diet fresh while on the road?

Not content to dine on burgers and ding-dongs, Tanja has created delicious cookies that are ready to travel and pack a nutritional punch! These cookies powered her and the team through their trip to Pixelodeon, when the cravings for road food hit. With healthy ingredients like oats, flax, organic citrus zest and the goodness of almonds, here is an energy-rich treat you can feel good about. Cranberry-Citrus Power Cookies!

We’ve had bees on the brain! Freshtopia.net dove into the sad tale of Colony Collapse Disorder, or “CCD,” and its grim implications, to emerge on the other side with some words of wisdom on how to show our busy little sisters some love, and a sweet recipe to cheer us ...

Tired of chasing the Good Humor truck? Gotta get that ice cream monkey off your back? Here’s an ice cream with all the things we love: creaminess, beautiful flavors, and sweet surrender, without the things that don’t necessarily love us back, like dairy and white sugar!

I stopped by the San Francisco offices of Underdog Pictures to have lunch with Nic Hill, director of Truth In Numbers, a new documentary in production on the Wikipedia phenomenon. Nic shares his inspiration for creating this documentary and recounts some of the experiences he and his ...

Lisa Stone, co-founder of BlogHer, knows tons about how to build a social media network. She’s launched many blog networks and interactive programming for national brands, including Hearst and Rodale magazines. Talking with Jennifer Jones at the New Communications Forum in Las Vegas, Stone tells Jones all about BlogHer ...

Dean Haglund has always been a geek, even before it was cool. So maybe it was art, imitating life, when for 9 years he played ‘Langly’ on the X-Files. Today, in addition to being an actor, he’s also an inventor and entreprenuer, developing the Chill Pak for ...

What would you store if you could afford one terabyte — that’s 1,000 gigabytes — of hard disk space? In this podcast, Doug Pickford, director of product and market strategy for enterprise products with Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, talks with PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau about Hitachi GST’s industry milestone, the ...

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.

Commissioned by Intel.

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Intel Tera-Scale Research (80-Core animation available on this site)

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. ...

vSpring v100 member Phil Windley speaks with Dennis Wood about identity management and the emergence of reputation-driven business. He discusses his interest in identity management and reputation systems and the foundational roles these systems play in both the enterprise software and Internet applications spaces. Windley sees the identity ...

On a recent trip to Los Angeles, we had the chance to visit one of the most green places in the city, TreePeople. TreePeople is a non-profit organization that focuses on educating city dwellers on the dire importance of tree planting in urban areas. Our favorite thing about TreePeople ...

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 ...

In this short podcast I’d like to thank all of the people who have downloaded and listened to PodTech.net’s infoTalk and News programs. Since the beginning, over six months ago, we’ve posted over 250 podcasts. I’d also like to thank all the guests who have been on PodTech. ...

This is a podcast with CEO of Funambol and CEO of SoonR from the Under the Radar event in November.

Funambol (pronounced “foo-nahm-ball”) comes from the Latin words funis (rope) and ambulare (walking), meaning a tight-rope walker.

Being an open source company means walking on a rope, every day. We must always ...

I recently drove up Sand Hill Road to meet Mark Kvamme and Reid Hoffman at Sequoia’s office. We had a nice chat about this new world called Web 2.0

Mark and Reid are some of the smartest guys that I know. If your interested in Web 2.0 this is ...