Frank Buytendijk is vice president for corporate strategy at Hyperion. In this second podcast in the series examining the changing demands on the CIO, Frank discusses the dilemma of controlling cost and maintaining an organization’s ability to grow. Although a dilemma like this can seem intractable, Frank says ...

Media- and entertainment-related funding appears to be the trend with angel investors. Recently, MadHouse Media, a movie rental start-up, received their first round of investment from angel investors. The investors included the Band of Angels, Mumbai Angels and some private investors.

Dr. Kumar Shiralagi joined NEA IndoUS Fund which ...

At the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Seagate’s Senior Director of Marketing, Diana Cartwright, explains that Seagate is managing two well known brands: their own and Maxtor. Each, she says, serves in a very different and important capacity when it comes to managing personal data storage and ...

It doesn’t park itself, it’s park assist. That was the message from Bob Allen, dealer education manager for Lexus. I spoke with him recently about the new Advanced Parking Guidance System, or APGS, available on the 2007 LS460. For those who are parallel parking “challenged,” the feature is certain ...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 19, 2006 (PodTech News) — Google and NASA are working together to bring the virtual astronaut experience to a computer near you. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are working together to improve primary and secondary ...

Megan Cunningham, founder of Magnet Media — and one of the official Vloggies judges — talks with PodTech’s John Furrier at the after-party. Magnet Media is an educational media company serving the entertainment industry. It produces two series of interactive educational products: Zoom In Online and The Digital Media ...

Jon Hall, president of Linux International, is a passionate spokesman for the open source community and ideal. In this two-part interview, he speaks at length on the progress and challenges for open source, and on the need to recapture a purer vision of education.

Over a 30-plus-year career, Hall has been ...

Jon Hall, president of Linux International, is a passionate spokesman for the open source community and ideal. In this two-part interview, he speaks at length on the progress and challenges for open source, and on the need to recapture a purer vision of education.

Over a 30-plus-year career, Hall has been ...

We’re really happy to post the official list of The Vloggies winners announced on Saturday night. Many congratulations to Alive in Baghdad, which won six awards including Favorite Vlog, Favorite Group Blog, Favorite Political Vlog, and Favorite Interview Vlog. Alive in Baghdad also won the People’s Choice Award for ...

Steve Ballmer, spoke at the UTC Hall of Fame, where Dr. Jim Kajiya of Microsoft Research was an inductee. Steve spoke about what the technology world will look like over the next ten years, how Microsoft keeps their competitive edge and the philosophy that drives them to ...

Olivier Garbe, founder and CEO of Winnov, demonstrates its new CBox 3, which lets you build educational experiences on the Web. Really unique video camera and room recording system.

Driving in Karachi is an exercise in confusion, damped-out road rage and sheer fun. The roads are mostly quite wide, but the combination of a large variety of vehicles and quaint driving styles makes for what the ancient Chinese legendarily called an “interesting life.”

This is a sneak audio preview of what surely will be on Robert Scoble’s upcoming video show on PodTech. Scoble gets up close and personal with SAP’s Shai Agassi at SAP TechEd 2006 in Las Vegas.

Shai Agassi addresses the value of SDN and announced Business Process Expert Community and its place in the construction of coherent business software models. Part 2 of 2.

Critics, enthusiasts, and followers of social media have often pointed out social media’s lower barriers to entry compared to traditional media—it is precisely these lower barriers to entry that have made social media tools a compelling vehicle for educational technology.

In a recent post, Richard MacManus of Read/Write Web ...

Enabling organizations from broad retail to the extermination industry, Helius provides an open IP video broadcasting application platform for simple, secure, and reliable delivery of content ranging from globally delivered training materials for Orkin to digital sign-age in the form of context-sensitive advertisements at point-of-purchase. Nathan Hatch, senior vice president ...

MENLO PARK, July 7, 2006 (PodTech News) — Apple today introduced a new $899 configuration of the 17-inch iMac targeted toward educators and students in the digital classroom. Apple is showcasing the 17-inch iMac at the National Educational Computing Conference in San Diego this week. Analysts are saying this move ...

Film Independent, the Los Angeles Film Festival organizer, threw a “Porch Party” at the Armand Hammer Museum in Westwood, Los Angeles. PodTech’s Michael Johnson spoke with some of the revelers as well as Film Independent’s Educational Director Maria Bozzi, and FI’s Filmmaker Labs Manager, Josh Welsh.

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