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 ...

“Every brand is a distribution channel,” says Kevin Townsend. It’s been a long time since digital media meant special effects. Townsend was at Industrial Light and Magic when it produced Jurassic Park. Now, his company, Science + Fiction, is helping to translate the impact of digital ...

Shan Appajodu of RingCube Technologies talks about MojoPac - his company’s cool new technology that has been variously described as “a computer in your pocket” or “pour your PC into your pocket.”

Recently, MojoPac won the DemoGod award in San Diego, where they first unveiled their product.

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Forrester Analyst Josh Bernoff speaks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson at the Forrester Consumer Forum Conference 2006 in Chicago. He discusses the future of online video and the caveats for broadcast networks that now want to have a share of the web video pie.

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Microsoft hears another complaint about anti-competitive practices — this time from Google. Sony’s Playstation 3 is under pressure from less expensive competition. Copyrighted material online is being pulled from MySpace and YouTube, marking important transitions for both peer-to-peer sites. TV-produced comedy shows may not be available on those sites, but ...

This week, from PodTech News, a closer look at Internet addiction — what is it, how widespread is it, does it really exist? Gaming is behind a lot of what people are calling online addiction, so we’ll take a look at just how much some of us are apparently willing to pay to get our fix. Also, a look at some of the FBI’s shiny new data collection systems, and the troubling questions those systems raise. And with Election Day fast approaching, we check in with the people who brought us George W. Bush and John F. Kerry singing “This Land Is Your Land,” back in 2004. JibJab is still around, and we wanted to know what they’re up to these days.

Symantec i3 speeds up the critical applications that drive Quixtar’s online business. Now application developers and DBAs can quickly find–and fix–performance bottlenecks to keep product moving to Quixtar’s network of Independent Business Operators.

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In today’s news, how Americans use their phones, how the British use theirs, the future of in-car navigation devices, sluggish growth in online banking and a Starbucks on every block.

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You might have heard of Elizabeth Edwards. Her husband ran for president of the United States last time around. She’s not just a famous person, she’s also the geek of the family and helps run their blogs. She has been involved with building and participating in online communities ...

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!

LOS ANGELES, September 27, 2006 (PodTech News) — Control Room, formerly Network Live and MSN, Microsoft’s web portal, yesterday announced a multi-year content agreement to distribute live concert performances online. The deal gives Control Room, producer of last year’s Live 8, several global distribution platforms, including the nearly 465 million monthly MSN visitors

LOS ANGELES, September 26, (PodTech News) — The gloves are off for LimeWire in its dealings with the major record companies. The company on Monday filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, charging 13 record companies with anti-competitive behavior. The suit follows a a claim against LimeWire by the same 13 record companies, accusing the developer of piracy and demanding damages totaling nearly half a billion dollars. PodTech’s Matt Kelly spoke with Joe Fleischer of BigChampagne, an online media measuring and research firm, about the peer-to-peer landscape.

Sun Microsystems Senior Director of Data Protection and Archive Product Management David Kenyon and Vice President of Storage Marketing and Business Operations Nigel Dessau talk about the New York City event where the company announced new developments in encryption and security, as well as virtual tape.

LOS ANGELES, September 21, 2006 (PodTech News) — A group of hackers, human rights workers, lawyers and artists today launched a new web browser to protect computer users from hostile governments who would seek to identify them. Called “Torpark,” the program changes the unique numbers used by websites to identify individual computers online every few minutes. It was created by Hactivismo, a consortium that evolved from the Texas-based hacker organization “Cult of the Dead Cow.”

SANTA CLARA, Calif., September 20, 2006 (PodTech News) — Intel has chosen to help develop the the IT infrastructure of the Amazon — not the online seller but a portion of the actual river. The initiative is a part of Intel’s World Ahead Program, which the company established in May and pledged more than $1 billion over the next 5 years, to bring Internet coverage to various regions around the world. This week Intel Chairman Craig Barrett will promote wireless broadband PC access in Parantins, a remote Brazilian city of about 100,000 on the Amazon River. He says the company’s aim is to introduce components of a comprehensive strategy that includes hardware and wireless capability.

Sun continues to achieve innovation excellence as demonstrated by its SunFire X4500 Server that combines a powerful four-way x64 server with up 24 TB of storage. PodTech’s Michael Johnson sits down with Sun’s Hanxi Chen and discovers there are countless ways to utilize this latest server technology. Listen to how ...

About Kiruba Shankar:
Kiruba Shankar is Associate Director at Sulekha.com, one of the biggest online portals for Indians worldwide. Blogstreet.com and BusinessWorld magazine rank him as one of India’s leading and most influential bloggers for the Kiruba Shankar blog, though he thinks the results are skewed.

LOS ANGELES, September 6, 2006 (PodTech News) — For the second time in as many weeks, SpiralFrog, the new ad-supported online music service debuting in beta in December, announced an agreement with a major music label. This time, it’s with British-owned EMI Group, PLC. The free-to-consumer service differs significantly from the pay-per-download service championed by iTunes by being entirely funded from advertising, with ad revenues shared among the labels. Just last week, SpiralFrog and Universal Music Group entered into a similar agreement. Lance Ford is SpiralFrog’s chief sales and marketing officer. He spoke with PodTech’s Matt Kelly.

BOSTON, September 1, 2006 (PodTech News) — Recent headlines claim that Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, is broken. Critics point out that Wikipedia articles are often fraught with inaccuracies or bias. Vandals sometimes deface entries. Now, the administrators of the German Wikipedia page think they have a way to make a better online encyclopedia. PodTech’s Clark Boyd speaks with Wiki-watcher David Weinberger.

MENLO PARK, August 28, 2006 (PodTech News) — With the 2006 NFL season set to kickoff September 7, fantasy football geeks are doing their research, hoping to draft the perfect fantasy team and lead their virtual team to victory. PodTech’s Rio Pesino spoke with Fantasy Sports Trade Association President Jeff Thomas about the current state of fantasy sports and his top fantasy football picks for this year.

LOS ANGELES, August 24, 2006, (PodTech News) — Sony Pictures Entertainment announced a $65 million deal Wednesday to acquire Grouper Networks Inc., putting the media company in play in the viral media space. The acquisition brings together one of the largest movie studios (and its many divisions) and a Web ...

LOS ANGELES, August 21, 2006 (PodTech News) — Horror and comedy mixed to narrowly edge out the competition and come out at the top of the box office over the weekend. “Snakes on a Plane” the suspense-thriller from New Line Cinema, stars Samuel L. Jackson in an over-the-top “so bad ...

LOS ANGELES, August 18, 2006(PodTech News) — On Thursday, August 17, 2006, iMesh subsidiary MusicLab LLC announced the launch of their new peer-to-peer application (P2P), BearShare 6.0. What does it mean for the company and how will it impact the industry? Online media measurement company BigChampagne.com CEO Eric Garland spoke ...

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 ...

Jim Steyer, Founder/CEO of Common Sense Media, talks to California police officer Steve DeWarns about the danger kids and teens face online from predators. DeWarns, a nationally recognized expert on Internet safety, has run sting operations to catch online predators for several years.

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