Roxio, the company known for it’s CD and DVD burning software, has introduced a home video transcoding product called Crunch. I recently caught up with Vito Salvaggio, VP of product management for Roxio’s Mac products division, at the House of Shields in San Francisco. Vito shows how me ...

SAN FRANCISCO, January 4, 2007 (PodTech News) — As MacWorld approaches, it’s time to take stock of the rumors that have been building up. There are a few worth noting, though some Apple-watchers are impressed with the company’s improved ability to keep the lid on announcements until they want ...

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Monday saw the official announcement of Adobe Acrobat 8. Rick Brown is director of product management for Adobe’s knowledge worker business unit. He spoke with PodTech’s Robert Scoble about the future of Adobe Acrobat and some of the key features of ...

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Adobe Acrobat is the product software giant Microsoft would love to kill. But Adobe is hoping to pull ahead – way ahead – in the competition with Microsoft for office worker tools with Acrobat 8. Here you get a good demo ...

Steve Jobs delivered a special announcement at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco this morning. Major points:
- New iPods.
- iPod games can be purchased from iTMS.
- Movies are available from iTMS.
- iTunes 7.0 includes new interface and CoverFlow (browsing by ...

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“There are some really weird, creative companies that are succeeding now in Web 2.0.” With Web 2.0’s recent explosion of creativity, Halley Suitt, prominent blogger, CEO and publisher of Top 10 Sources observes that how companies manage ...

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Mike Fridgen of briefly introduces the airline fare prediction site to the audience at Gnomedex, and provides interesting statistics and anecdotes on how Farecast benefited from the blogging and social media community. Fridgen discusses how Techcrunch, Digg, ...

Joerg Student of IDEO designed the Ha-Ori Shelter as a Master’s thesis for his degree from the Royal College of Art in London. The Ha-Ori shelter is the centerpiece of the exhibition, “IDEO Prototypes the Future,” at the Palo Alto Art Center through September 10th. Student tells PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau ...

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Dot connectors Kabir Shahani and Mohit Srivasta officially launch Bluedot, a social discovery-inspired service that allows people to share digital information and interesting web content globally. Bluedot attempts to find a balance between social sites that are loaded with information ...

“There are different concepts here, which are created by the designers in order to illustrate the opportunities of a new material,” said IDEO Co-Founder Bill Moggridge. He took PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau on a walk through the exhibition “IDEO Prototypes the Future” during the opening reception at the Palo Alto Art ...

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At Gnomedex, blogging, RSS, and podcasting pioneer looks back on the past and ahead to the future, given the evolution of Internet, computing, and the new economics of decentralization. In a world shifting towards user-driven ideation, Winer envisions creativity as ...

“This notion of designing ecosystems of things which interact with each other is a lot of what we’re doing today,” said Tim Brown, IDEO‘s CEO and President. Brown walked PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau through the exhibition, “IDEO Prototypes the Future,” during the June 21st opening event at the Palo Alto Art ...

BMW Sauber F1 Team driver Jacques Villeneuve talks about the need for balancing great driving skills with the latest technology in order to make it to the winner’s circle. Intel’s dual core computer technology processes real-time data sent by the BMW Sauber F1 race car, allowing the pit crew ...