There are now possibilities in enterprise computing that have the potential to solve mainstream problems and become widely adopted. These “Emerging Compute Models” are creating a lot of buzz, but also a lot of confusion in the IT community. That’s why this video podcast focuses on Intel’s Emerging Compute ...

As video streaming, file sharing, database delivery and business continuity solutions drive bandwidth demand, industry experts are increasingly looking toward 100 Gbps network upgrades. In late 2007, Verizon successfully completed the industry’s first successful field trial proving that the existing network can be upgraded to carry 100 Gbps ...

In the second of a three-part series on the growing interest in alternative client compute models, Mike Ferron-Jones, manager of Intel’s Emerging Models Program, looks at client-based models, including OS and application streaming.

When small and medium-sized businesses or K-12s want to manage how their Internet bandwidth is being used, they turn to Cymphonix. On average, 50% of any Internet connection is used for browsing–some critical and necessary, and some not. The other 50% of any Internet connection is used for Internet ...

Darren Yee, Tech Marketing Engineer Intel Software Solutions Group, and I shot a video demo of TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress, a popular video encoder that was optimized for Quad-core and Intel Streaming SIMD Extensions 4 (Intel SSE4) instructions on the Penryn family of Intel processors at the Fall 2007 Intel Developer ...

In a big company like Intel, users get their software in a variety of ways - on their desktops, delivered over a network, or some combination of those. Catherine Spence, an enterprise architect with Intel IT Research and Technology Development, studies alternate and emerging compute models for enterprise operations. ...

The final stretch for CES revealed bleary eyes from late night parties, cheers for Scoble as he appeared on CNBC, and a rocking good time at BlogHaus. In this installment we get to see rapping about memory chips, amazing flat panel TVs , new technologies ...

This is a taste of my Saturday on the Podtech BlogHaus bus drive to Las Vegas. On board are A-List bloggers: Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Luic Le Meur, Marc Canter, Jeremy Toeman, Robert McLaws, plus Valerie Cunningham, Rocky, and many more.

It includes a demo of a Samsung ultramobile device ...

Mogulus is the most interesting of all the streaming services like Justin.tv, Ustream.tv, and Stickcam. Why? Because they built their system around a TV station metaphor. You know, multiple cameras. Switchers. Producers. Graphic overlays. Here Max Haot, CEO, shows off Mogulus and talks with us about how he used ...

Ustream.tv is one of a new set of networks that let you publish live streaming video on the Internet. Presidential candidate John Edwards, on Monday evening, used Ustream to talk with thousands of people after the CNN/YouTube debates. But today Ustream is shipping new features including a new chat ...

Kevin Lynch, SVP and Chief Software Architect at Adobe, introduces me to the Adobe Integrated Runtime bus that’s touring America now, bringing Adobe’s executives and evangelists to developers where, they are showing how to use AIR. In this video, you also meet Lee Brimelow, senior design technologist at Frog ...

Cory Ondrejka is a co-founder and chief technology officer of Linden Labs, the company behind Second Life. For those who don’t know Second life, it’s an insanely successful 3-D virtual world, completely built and designed by its nearly seven million residents.

As CTO, Cory Ondrejka leads the team developing ...

Rich media experience on mobile phones is the next new wave unfolding around the world. Users are increasingly using their mobile phones for audio and video content, and Vantrix may be a key player in this space. Vantrix enables rich media experience including live video and streaming on mobile ...

Politic 2.0 is a new Utah-based Web 2.0 tech startup that is mashing up wiki’s, blogs, blog search, live video streaming and in-person and in-the-field question, ranking and commenting tools. The system supports the popular town hall model but extends into the blogosphere, adding a richer and much broader ...

Sustainability can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. In business terms it can mean sink or swim in an ocean of sharks. MonkeyBrains is a local, independent ISP (Internet service provider) that started up at the height of the last boom and is a shining ...

PodTech.net’s Michael Johnson investigates the changing landscape of the home, thanks to Intel’s Core2Duo dual core processors, and the next generation of Core2Extreme and Core2Quad, featuring four compute engines on one chip, which is ramping up the possibilities of digital life from downloading and recording viral videos from YouTube ...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 29, 2006 (PodTech News) — Robert Scoble was invited by Senator John Edwards’s campaign team to join the Senator, his staff, other “social media” representatives and the more traditional press corps for the first few days of his presidential campaign. It’s been a marathon few days, chronicled ...

LOS ANGELES, October 31, 2006, (PodTech News) — As more and more content gets distributed over the Internet, P2P is finally getting a little respect. By distributing a broadcast’s bandwidth requirement over an entire network of participants rather than originating it from one central broadcast point, the file-sharing technology reduces ...

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).

Synergy and convergence were just two of the themes echoed today during the CTIA expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center as RealNetworks announced a deal to acquire WiderThan for $350 million, or $17.05 per share. The tender offer, which is expected to be completed during the first ...

MENLO PARK, August 29, 2006 (PodTech News) — AOL’s parent company Time Warner is betting that a library of more than 2.5 million audio tracks will entice users to fork over $9.95 per month for unlimited on-demand streaming and downloading of songs and videos. The move is another step in AOL’s transformation from an online access provider to a full service entertainment destination. PodTech News spoke with AOL MusicNow’s Amit Shafrir.

What about mobile podcasting? That is podcasts on cell phones? I get this question all the time. I’m not bullish about it in the short term but it is obvious that it will happen. The question is when? Today Alltel announced that they are offering ...

Use of new media like streaming web videos and cellphone “vodcasts” is growing rapidly — and not just among adults. Common Sense Media Founder and CEO Jim Steyer discusses how preschoolers are using new media and how parents can manage it effectively.

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May 24, 2006 — Google, Inc. announced this week it’s ready to launch video advertising on the web. The move positions Google to compete with television for advertising dollars. Google isn’t the first company to put video ads on the Internet, but the search giant’s approach has some unique aspects. For one thing, users are given control over whether to watch, or not. The video ads appear on the screen as static images, and it’s not until a consumer clicks on the image that the video starts playing. But what’s in it for advertisers? And how does this affect Google’s positioning in the Internet advertising marketplace? Podtech’s Catherine Girardeau called Andrew Frank, a media analyst with Gartner, in his New York office, to get his perspective.