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In this podcast, David Miner, Sr.Director of Worldwide Financial Services Industry Solutions, provides a preview of the Financial Services Industry Executive Summit that will take place at the Symantec Vision 2008 conference. Visit vision.symantec.com/fin_vision for more information on the summit or www.symantec.com/vision.

Tags: David Miner, Worldwide Financial Services Industry Solutions, Symantec Vision, Symantec

Several new games were unveiled at the Xbox Spring Showcase in San Francisco. Gears of War II, Fable 2, Too Human and Ninja Gaiden II were just a few of the games on display. The Reboot’s Rio Pesino was at the showcase to give you an inside look into the event.

Tags: Xbox, Gears of War II, Fable 2, Too Human, Ninja Gaiden II, The Reboot, Rio Pesino

This podcast is a virtual roundtable on the topic of e-Discovery, in which representatives from various law firms specializing in e-discovery matters come together to discuss the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) Project. For more information, visit www.symantec.com/ev

Tags: e-Discovery, Electronic Discovery Reference Model

Join BearingPoint senior manager Larry Taylor as he explores the importance of managing reputational risk. Reputational risk is a term that is typically used to identify the result of something that changes the perspective of a company. A prime example is the recent credit crisis. Even companies that were not directly affected by it, but had “credit” in their business description, were quickly identified as a threat. Many vendors stopped their association with them and clients ran to competitors for guidance. Now more than ever, it’s extremely important to safeguard a company’s reputation. The reputation is currently serving as the sole source of economic value of a firm.

In a situation where the reputation being portrayed is incorrect, a company must have the ability to quickly respond to such criticism, prior to any real damage being done. The key to preventing such a travesty is to understand the sources of your risk and determine what the potential impacts would be. There are also many ways to determine how a company is currently perceived, such as its stock price, customer acquisition and customer patterns. These are clear indications of your favorability and a clear indicator if changes need to be made.

Key executives need to know how their company is being displayed in the marketplace and how they are being evaluated through a stakeholder prism. Many times, a company is not aware of its perception in the marketplace until it’s too late. With all the new technology available, it’s easier than ever to monitor your company’s reputation. It’s the responsibility of the executives to have a clear message relayed to their employees so that everyone assembles under one culture. It is only then that people will band together to ensure the company’s perception remains positive and “outs” anyone who strays from what has been clearly outlined as the company’s standards.

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Pandora is one of my favorite Internet services. It lets you build a customized radio station by starting with the names of your favorite bands and songs. It then brings you more music that’s similar to that. Here Pandora’s CTO, Tom Conrad, talks about the service, demos its new mobile service, and discusses new legislation under discussion that is designed to help keep Internet radio alive. For those who don’t know, Tom explains how the music industry is threatening to decimate Internet Radio providers by charging new, much higher, fees than regular radio has to pay to broadcast music. We have an interesting discussion about that while walking around San Francisco on a Saturday afternoon.

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In this podcast, The Register’s Tim Phillips speaks with Intel’s Shesha Krishnapura about developers’ adoption of multi-core technology. Krishnapura sees that, while multi-core processors have been around for awhile, now is an especially exciting time for multi-threaded software, given the uptake in industry and the increasingly urgent need for the software that will help to realize the higher performance potential of multi-core. Intel is leading the effort to adopt with key software packages and developer tools that make it easier to write multi-threaded code.

To find out what Intel is doing for the community, check out the community site, “Threading for Multi-Core Developer Community.” There, Intel and the community share tools and expertise with featured articles, threading analysis tools, industry benchmarks, training, and access to Intel developers and experts, for training and best practices information.

Krishnapura is a principal engineer in the Intel Platform and Design Capability Engineering group, driving the internal engineering of High Performance Computing solutions optimized for Tapeout and Design Computing. As an architect of Intel Architecture migration program for Electronic Design Automation, Shesha is responsible for enabling IA-based optimization and adoption in EDA market by enabling application vendors and strategically influencing world-wide semiconductor customers for best-in-class design compute solutions.

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Dean Haglund is a comedian, actor, and inventor. You might have seen him on the X-Files or other shows. He comes into PodTech to talk about his invention which keeps your laptop cool while you’re using it in your lap.

Tags: Dean Haglund, inventor, X-Files, laptop

When Intel released Intel vPro technology into the marketplace in 2006, the press asked us what the “v” in Intel vPro technology meant. Now that the technology has been in the marketplace for almost two years, we thought that the best answer to the question, “What does the “v” in Intel vPro technology mean to you?” would come from Intel customers, as well as from some of the technical experts from Intel and our partners who deal with our customers on an almost daily basis. Listen to the video to hear their answers.

Tags: Intel, vPro

Intel’s Craig Barrett says that private companies can’t go it alone when trying to make a difference in developing markets, and neither can governments. In a visit to Malaysia, the chairman of the chip giant stopped off at Penang, where the company has committed itself to help local schools. Barrett, a former professor at Stanford University, is a big believer in education, especially in developing teachers. Barrett also appeared at the 16th World Congress on Information Technology where he delivered a keynote reaffirming his belief that real change can happen when governments and private industry team up.

In this video podcast PodTech producer Jason Lopez captured Barrett’s visits in Penang and in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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The current uptake in high performance computing means mostly good things, but it also comes with a few built-in challenges. The paradox of this particular progress is this: when you scale hardware, you oftentimes scale power consumption, right along with it. That’s where Intel’s Shesha Krishnapura has some good news to share, in this podcast speaking with The Register’s Tim Phillips. Says Krishnapura, “In the past, that power relationship has existed. But with Intel’s core microarchitecture platform, the power holds constant while performance climbs.”

Intel is working to improve the performance-per-watt characteristics of HPC systems. The effort is important, as Xeon-based servers dominate the Top 500 supercomputers list and the clusters used by businesses for their most demanding jobs.

Fist of all, Intel’s throughput-per-rack measurement helps illustrate the point when Intel 45nm-based quad-core processors run at similar power levels as dual-core processors, while offering twice the number of processing cores per server. Add Intel’s switch to higher density memory like 4GB memory modules instead of 2GB modules — the 4GB run at similar power envelope — and it’s clear where Intel is holding a fairly stable power envelope and still seen what Krishnapura calls, “a substantial performance increase, year after year.”

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