Powercast’s chief inventor and CEO John Shearer is pitching manufacturers on a wireless vision: a world where gadgets and devices are powered and charged without all the hassle of wires. The Powercast Wireless Power Platform includes a Power Caster and a Power Harvester. The Power Harvesters ...

Intel CEO Paul Otellini presents the keynote speech at the 2007 Utah Technology Council’s Hall of Fame Award dinner.

Otellini presents on the evolution of the transistor, and how the transistor and Moore’s law has become the basis of all tech innovation. He speaks ...

Why is it that when raw-food health gurus go on national television, talking about all the wonderful soups, rich entrees, and magical desserts you can have on a raw food diet, so often they end up handing over to the excited and anticipating host a glass full of green glop? ...

In the lobby of the Microsoft TechEd IT Forum in Barcelona I got the chance to catch up with Jeffrey Snover, Architect, Management Services Division. Jeffery gives us an overview of PowerShell and then we talk about Microsoft and other’s use of PowerShell since it’s release a year ago. ...

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In this podcast Darren Thomas, vice president and general manager of enterprise storage at Dell and Claude Lorenson, senior manager in the storage solution division at Microsoft, talk iSCSI and virtualization. Also hear about a data integrity initiative ...

Keynotes from two Intel executives — David (Dadi) Perlmutter and Anand Chandrasekher — kicked off Day 2 at Intel’s Fall IDF in San Francisco. First up, Dadi Perlmutter, Intel senior vice president and general manager of the Mobility Group. He covered the latest trends in mobile computing, touching on ...

Paul Otellini looked back on 40 years of innovation at Intel, outlined the company’s three main capabilities (silicon technology, Intel architecture, and market creation), and gave his vision for the future. “Today’s innovations are the basis of future technology,” Otellini said.

Intel has brought out new technology every two years ...

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 ...

Gopal Srinivasan belongs to Chennai-based TVS family, which runs the TVS groups of companies. TVS has led to the growth of Chennai as the automotive capital of India, and today Chennai is known as Detroit of India.

I caught up with Gopal in Manhattan, to find out about the ...

Yogen Dalal is the managing director at Mayfield Fund, in Silicon Valley. I caught up with Yogen at the Pan IIT Global meet, where we talked about IIT, Mayfield’s India strategy and entrepreneurship.

In the interview, Yogen answers some tough questions, like what to do if your venture fails, ...

In the second part of our conversation with Nishith Desai, we talk about venture capital and the various mechanisms and structures through which capital comes into India. What are the challenges of bringing capital into India? What are the various pass-through mechanisms that are available? Nishith set up one ...

In this Symantec podcast, Sr. Director of Endpoint Security Product Marketing, Kevin Murray provides an overview of the Endpoint Security general session for the Symantec Vision 2007 Conference. Visit www.symantec.com/vision for more information or to register.

In this podcast, VP of Product Mgmt. in the Storage and Server Management Group, Mark Lohmeyer provides an overview of the Storage Management Technology Track for the Symantec Vision 2007 Conference. Visit for more information or to register.

Cisco’s VP of Mobility Solutions, Alan Cohen, and Zeus Kerravala, senior VP for Enterprise Research with Yankee Group, talked about Cisco’s vision for the Unified Wireless Network, and about the mobility landscape, with PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau, at Interop Las Vegas 2007. Cohen discussed some of Cisco’s mobility solutions in the ...

In this podcast, Sr. Director of Product Mgmt. for NetBackup at Symantec, Matt Kixmoeller, give a preview of his session on the NetBackup family of products for the Symantec Vision 2007 conference. For more information visit:
www.symantec.com/vision

In this podcast, VP of Recovery, Access, Provisioning and Security at Symantec Corporation, Don Kleinschnitz provides an overview of the Windows Protection track the Symantec Vision 2007 Conference. For more information, visit:
www.symantec.com/vision

Business Technology is HP’s strategy for the enterprise. Olivier Helleboid, VP Adaptive Infrastructure at HP, talks about how customers have benefited from HP’s Adaptive Infrastructure approach. Learn how a company can use its information technology infrastructure as a strategic asset.

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In this podcast, Sr. VP of the Storage Foundation Group, Rob Soderbery, gives a preview of his session on the Storage Foundation family of products for the Symantec Vision 2007 conference. For information on the conference, visit:
www.symantec.com/vision

At the GM Concept & Performance Drive event at California’s Willow Spring’s International Raceway, I had the opportunity to strap myself in next to John Heinricy, noted race car driver and director of high-performance vehicle operations for General Motors’ Performance Division, for a couple of laps around ...

During the Alternative Fuels & Vehicle Expo in Anaheim, we rode along with Richard Kasper, president and CEO of GEM, a division of DaimlerChrysler, in the e6 Low Speed Electric Vehicle. Sold through Dodge, Chrysler and Jeep dealerships, LSV’s or Neighborhood Electric Vehicles, are street legal, ...

As an avid antique and classic car buff, I was thrilled to meet with Bruce Benson, chief operating officer of the LeMay Museum, during the New York International Auto Show. At the show, the museum had on display several cars, including a 1913 vintage buggy, a beautiful Hudson ...

Dominating this week’s round-up are investment and merger and acquisition news.

Topping the investment this week is SKS Microfinance that received $11.5 million in investments. The investment round was led by Sequoia Capital. Other investors include Unitus Equity Fund, Vinod Khosla, Ravi Reddy, Odyssey Capital, SIDBI.

Mumbai-based Games2win received $5 million ...

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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