Broadband access for the developing world was a key topic at the Third Global Knowledge Conference, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in December 2007. Attendees there called for action items to to bring underdeveloped nations - including populations sometimes referred to as “the next billion” - into the connected world. Broadband services are an important component in the United Nation’s Millenium Development Goals and have been identified as essential for social and economic development. Without broadband, PCs are useless. Without PCs, broadband is less needed. In this video podcast: broadband provider Alcatel-Lucent and chipmaker Intel forge a partnership at the GK3 Conference to help bring connectivity and PCs to the developing world.
ClearOne, a Salt Lake City-based company, holds a majority of the global market share in the professional audio conferencing systems category. It should come as no surprise that their conference phone products for the desktop and individuals wouldn’t include significant technology enhancements that set them apart from the “el’cheapo” ...
Check out how easy it is to make a conference call with Rondee. Here Andre Vanier, CEO, demonstrates his company’s service.
Rondee lets you do conference calls with a twist: it is easier to use than other conference services and it’s free. Here CEO, Andre Vanier, talks to me about the conference calling business and what Rondee’s doing.
Broadband connectivity is crucial for emerging communities and markets. Until recently, many governments turned a deaf ear to the calls for infrastructure in many of the world’s poorest cities and in rural areas where outreach was almost non-existent. But the urgency has been made clearer as communities, technology companies and ...
Asia has the largest and fastest growing mobile users in the world. Yahoo! mobile has a pretty significant presence in Asia. David Ko, Vice President and General Manager of Yahoo! Connected Life Asia talks about Yahoo’s strategy and plans in the Asian market. David is responsible for the deployment ...
“Penryn” is the name for the upcoming family of processors built on new technology that Intel co-Founder Gordon Moore called one of the biggest advances to transistors in 45 years, PodTech’s Jason Lopez talks with Richard Dracott, General Manager of the High Performance Computing Organization in the Digital Enterprise ...
While in Ottawa this week, I had the chance to chat with Teknision’s Gabor Vida and Tony MacDonell in an empty conference room at the Ottawa Sheraton. Teknision works primarily in Flash-based technologies — Flash, Flex, and AIR — and serves as a good example of the ...
Jeremiah Owyang is Forrester Research’s new senior analyst focused on Social Computing. He is leaving PodTech where he was community manager and spent a lot of time travelling and speaking at conferences evangelising social media. Previously to that he managed the community marketing program at Hitachi Data Systems where ...
Your Truman Show is bringing a new Widget, called Video Map, to the world that’ll work in Facebook and other Web hosts. This Widget lets you present your video stories in a new way: as a map. Here Matteo Fabiano, COO, talks about the new Widget that was presented ...
The San Jose Mercury News spent a day at the TechCrunch40 conference talking to companies and getting demos of new products. This interview, with Flock CEO Shawn Hardin, is one of several videos we’re publishing from the conference. Tech-watchers will remember two years ago when Flock was being ...
Umang Gupta is CEO of Keynote Systems. I caught up with Umang at the Pan IIT Global Conference in July and talked to him about entrepreneurship and what it takes to do startups and run your business.
Umang wrote Oracle’s first business plan and went on to co-found Gupta Technologies and ...
Futurebazaar.com is India’s latest big ticket shopping site that comes from the group which owns India’s largest retail chain.
FutureBazaar.com recently got infused with a funding of $25 million and is bound to give established etailers in India many sleepless nights.
Led by Kishore Biyani, the group owns ...
Skitch is a fun and interesting application that easily allows you to capture an image or screenshot and quickly annotate as well as share it. This is a well thought out application that is equally useful for Web designers and for the busy executive on a conference call. I ...
Shelly Heiden, executive vice president for Plateau Systems, a leading provider of software for developing, managing, rewarding and optimizing organizational skills and talent, chats with PodTech’s Jennifer Jones about the many benefits of software as a service. At a recent Silicon Valley conference called SAASCON, Heiden discussed their partnership ...
Matt Miller, VP of engineering at CounterStorm stopped to talk to me for a few minutes in the F5 booth at the RSA 2007 security conference in February. We talked about his company’s intrusion analysis product and their speciality in targeted threat detection. They’re using a technology called statistical ...
Tony Martindale is head of Connaught, a British car company developing a new high-performance hybrid sports coupe called the Type-D H GT. The Type-D H features the world’s first V10 hybrid power train, which aims to combine high performance and excellent fuel economy. We spoke at the Alternative ...
Email and collaboration services were a frustration for Northwestern University’s student government. The assembly brought the problem to the administration a year ago, specifically recommending Google Apps as a potential solution. The school, now partnering with Google to address the students’ needs, will offer e-mail, calendar and Google Talk, with mailboxes fifty times larger than their previous ones.
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Thousands of people in the videogame industry are expected to meet in San Francisco this week for the Game Developers Conference. The five-day event will feature keynote speeches, workshop sessions and panel discussions. Companies including Sony, Intel and Microsoft are attending this year’s show. PodTech’s Rio Pesino spoke with Conference Manager Jane Pinckard about the event and whether its trying to be the new E3, which used to be gaming’s biggest expo.
Venture capital investor Charles Beeler speaks with fellow-VC Steve Hall (his DEMO observations can be found here), from Vulcan Capital, at DEMO 2007 in January. Another positive mention for Zink, and agreement that lots of small steps are being taken in the direction of improving search technology. Hall also gets in a plug for one of his investments….
Taking a break from the bustle of RSA 2007, some of the best-known security bloggers got together at the Foreign Cinema, a French bistro and movie house in San Francisco, hosted by network security podcaster Martin McKeay. Check out the guest list, as we roam the crowd ...
At RSA 2007 in San Francisco, PodTech’s Michael Johnson spoke with Paul Brady, CEO, and Dimitri Vlachos, senior product manager at MAZU Networks, about Mazu’s visual network analysis and control applications.
Host: Michael Johnson – PodTech
Guest: Paul Brady - Mazu Networks
Guest: Dimitri Vlachos – Mazu Networks
Michael Johnson ...
In this keynote address at the Cleantech Venture Forum in New York, AIG Global Investment Group Chairman Win Neuger talks about the importance of Cleantech and clean technology.
Transcript:
Guest: Win J. Neuger - AIG Global Investment Group
Announcer
It is my honor and privilege to introduce to you Win Neuger of AIG ...
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. ...
What do a bunch of elite venture capital folks do after a long day at DEMO 07 in Palm Desert, Calif.? They pile into a cab to have a chat about the day’s highlights. Here, PodTech Founder and CEO John Furrier goes over the shows’ greatest hits with
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