Marketing organizations are realizing the benefits of social media. Business Wire, traditionally viewed as the distributor of news to the mainstream press, is jumping into the social media world with products and services that expand a marketer’s reach into the new media realm. Like traditional journalists, bloggers can leverage ...

At their recent launch in New York City, HP Total Care took the spotlight, announcing a program designed to ease IT challenges for the full lifecycle of an HP purchase. HP Total Care’s aim is to provide before, during and after- purchase support, making it easier for companies ...

Ken Salchow, F5 Network’s manager of Core Technical Marketing, explores the IP Multimedia Subsystem, or IMS. Salchow explains that IMS is set to become the framework that Internet Service Providers will use to deliver new, highly customizable services, by seperating the access network from the service network. IMS will ...

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 ...

To the average Web surfer, SplashCast is an embedded multimedia slideshow viewer. To a publisher, SplashCast is a distribution platform for pushing out audio, video, photos, PowerPoint, PDF documents and RSS feeds to blogs and other websites. At the recent Podcast Hotel, I caught up with Alex Williams, ...

Founder of Swedish company Kapsel Multimedia, Wilhelm Lagerkranz, wanted a small, quiet computer he could use as a home media center. He looked around the marketplace and didn’t find what he wanted, so he decided to make it himself. Lagerkranz and his design team drew hundreds of sketches, trying to ...

NETGEAR has announced its new Digital Entertainer HD. It’s the next step in bridging the barrier between your television and the digital media on your computer. Listen to this conversation with Jamison Ching of NETGEAR, as he outlines all the cool features of this wireless device, which allows you to use your TV to watch movies in high-def, listen to music, stream Internet content, and more.

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. ...

NETGEAR made a big splash at CES with its line of products, including wireless networking, HD multimedia, and Skype phones. PodTech’s Paul Lancour spoke with Doug Hagan, director of Americas marketing for NETGEAR, about his impressions of CES this year.

While recently in Austria, Eddie Codel caught up with Mija Lorbek and Borut Kumperščak of Cyberpipe, an organization based in Slovenia whose goal is to stimulate media literacy and the development of an information society in Slovenia. Mija and Borut take us on a tour of several Cyperpipe projects including ...

Dr. Jon Peddie is the Founder of Jon Peddie Research, a market research firm specializing in multimedia and computer graphics. He believes that by 2010, Hollywood studios will begin to replace human actors with lifelike representations, using computer graphics. Peddie spoke with Phil Leigh about the future of computer graphics. ...

On this NVIDIA podcast, Scott Vouri, NVIDIA’s general manager of multimedia, explains the what and why of graphics processing units and how having a high quality GPU will help take advantage of Windows Vista’s 3D graphic environment. Vouri spoke at Digital Life 2006 in New York City.

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.”

Last Monday, Veer Bothra (seen here on the left) asked me to join in the monthly mixer he organises, called Mobile Monday. It’s loosely tied in with an eponymous event held around the world, an opportunity for mobile platform stakeholders to meet and talk about change … and more of the same.

Veer wanted me to talk about podcasting, not the nuts and bolts, but where it’s at and its relevance to the radio paradigm. That’s a juicy opportunity, I thought to myself, and so found myself making the difficult journey to North Mumbai (needs planning and a sort of instinctive feel for which combination of segments and modes of transport make it the least painful overall).

Create your own multimedia scrapbook online with Scrapblog. Here CEO Carlos Garcia gives you a good tour. Don’t miss the book that he made with Scrapblog!

At the ARM Developers conference in Santa Clara, California, PodTech’s Michael Johnson caught up with Marc Gayer, a researcher in Real Time Multimedia Systems at Fraunhofer IIS, the German company that invented the MP3. He explains the next evolution of MP3 audio: Surround, Binaural, and Multichannel for hand held ...

LOS ANGELES, September 27, (PodTech News) — Wallop Technologies on Tuesday announced its own social networking site to compete against such heavyweights as MySpace, Friendster and others. Devoid of advertising, the new site debuted at DEMOfall 2006 in San Diego hyping a Flash-based multimedia experience to sepearate itself from the rest of the crowd. The company is relying on

Intel announced the Intel Core Processor Challenge to award up to $1 million in prizes to the PC or CE manufacturers that designs the smallest, most stylish, multimedia optimized PCs based on Intel Viiv technology with Intel Core 2 Duo processors. The challenge is intended to speed up the availability of more stylish and smaller consumer PCs that have the performance and power efficiency thanks to Intel core 2 Duo processors,

Well everyone, welcome to a new PodTech.net! It’s been a hectic few months, could you tell? We’ve been building out a platform to support video. Robert Scoble joined our team. We’ve been reorganizing our content. We hired a bunch of new people, including reporters in LA, Boston, amazing ...

SANTA CLARA, July 27, 2006 (PodTech News) – Intel Corporation showed off its new Core 2 Duo processors today at a press event at the company’s Santa Clara headquarters. The Core 2 Duo processors will power desktop and laptop PCs and workstations for both consumer and business uses. “This ...

PodTech.net sits down with Joe McGarvey, Senior Analyst at Current Analysis, and John Lazar, MetaSwitch CEO, to discuss why service providers are migrating their networks to IMS-based architectures including IP/Ethernet, VoIP, IPTV and converged multimedia services.

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SANTA CLARA, June 6, 2006 (Podtech News) – Video is currently the fastest-growing segment of the online market, in terms of popularity with consumers, according to Hitwise and other Internet research firms. Recent upstart YouTube is gobbling up market share, and its Internet video competitors are scrambling to catch up. ...

At DEMO 2006 Jason Lopez spoke with Satjiv Chahil, Senior Vice President of Global Marketing for HP’s Personal Systems Group about HP’s multimedia laptops and on where HP is going with wireless home and mobile entertainment technology.

For more information on Hewlett Packard’s Pavilion click here.

Intel is expected to give details about its new Viiv platform when its CEO, Paul Otellini, gives a keynote speech today at the 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show being held in Las Vegas. PodTech News’ Jason Lopez had a few minutes with the head of the ...