PALO ALTO, September 22, 2006 (PodTech News) — Hewlett-Packard held a press briefing this afternoon at HP headquarters in Palo Alto at which they refused to answer any questions from the press. HP President and CEO Mark Hurd spoke, as [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, September 22, 2006 (PodTech News) — Hewlett-Packard held a press briefing this afternoon at which they refused to answer any questions. HP CEO and President Mark Hurd, along with Mike Holston, a representative of Morgan Lewis, the law [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, September 21, 2006 (PodTech News) — HP said this afternoon that its President and CEO Mark Hurd has volunteered to appear at the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, September 20, 2006 (PodTech News) — Yahoo, Inc. executives warned investors at a conference yesterday that advertising growth seems to be slowing in some categories. There was a broad selloff of tech stocks on the news, and Yahoo’s [See the full post…]

Sun Microsystems President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz touted the new open-source version of Sun’s Solaris 10 OS at a Sun product launch event in New York City September 13th. Schwartz gave a keynote address that outlined the reasons behind Sun’s [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, September 18, 2006 (PodTech News) — Google filed paperwork Thursday to register a new political action committee, Google NetPac, with the Federal Election Commission. Alan Davidson, Google’s Washington policy counsel, said the political action committee will [See the full post…]

Cadence Design Systems, Inc., President and CEO Mike Fister kicked off the CDN Live Silicon Valley conference at San Jose’s McEnery Convention Center by unveiling Virtuoso, a new chip design platform, and Xtreme III, a hardware-assisted verification [See the full post…]

Jim Kahle, IBM Fellow with IBM Corporation, revealed some of the secret ingredients of innovating through collaboration during his keynote address at the Cadence Design Systems CDNLive Conference, Silicon Valley. Kahle was a key player in the creation of Cell [See the full post…]

Mike Fister, President and CEO of Cadence Design Systems, gave a keynote address to kick off CDNLive Silicon Valley on September 12th . “How do we help unlock that creative element and allow all of us as humans to continue [See the full post…]

SAN JOSE, September 12, 2006 (PodTech News) — Hewlett-Packard said today Board Chair Patricia Dunn will step down from her post in January, to be replaced by CEO Mark Hurd. The move was prompted by a scandal involving an investigation [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, September 11, 2006 (PodTech News) – Gartner, Inc. Vice President Martin Reynolds said he thinks Hewlett-Packard Board Chair Patricia Dunn did the right thing to investigate leaks of proprietary HP information to the news media, and that he [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, September 9, 2006 (PodTech News) — Anyone who calls his company Pioneers of the Inevitable has got to be either deluded or a visionary. Rob Lord is clearly the latter. He’s worked on projects and started companies, including [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, September 7, 2006 (PodTech News) — Intel Corporation director Will Swope said today that his company’s new vPro technology package will make life for IT managers a whole lot easier. Swope, who directs Intel’s digital enterprise management division, [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, September 6, 2006 (PodTech News) — AOL and the Associated Press this week released a survey on online video usage. The survey, conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs, polled about 3000 adults, almost half of whom were online video [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, September 5, 2006 (PodTech News) — An announcement today that Apple will be holding an invitation-only press event in San Francisco on September 12th is providing plenty of grist for the rumor mill, with the fringes dreaming of [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, September 1, 2006 (PodTech News) — Joshua Schachter is the director of engineering in the social search group at Yahoo. He’s also the founder of del.icio.us, a social bookmarking, social software web service for storing and [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, August 30, 2006 (PodTech News) — Yahoo Inc. announced Tuesday it’s added Windows-based mobile phones to the list of phones that offer the Yahoo Go for Mobile suite, which includes e-mail, calendar, news, and photo albums. Internet companies [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, August 28, 2006 (PodTech News) — Google announced last night it’s inviting beta-testers to try out its package of Web-based productivity apps, “Google Apps for Your Domain.” The suite, which is not yet complete, includes Gmail, Google Talk, [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, August 28, 2006 (PodTech News) — Google today announced a partnership with eBay that makes Google the exclusive provider of text-based advertising for eBay’s international sites. While a similar contract for eBay’s domestic sites went to Yahoo Inc. [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, August 25, 2006 (PodTech News) — In the wake of laptop computer battery fires and explosions,Dell, Inc. and Apple Computer both announced recalls of over 6 million lithium-ion laptop computer batteries over the last two weeks. [See the full post…]

We’re kicking off a new interview series here at PodTech News, Web 2.0 Voices, and we’d love your ideas. Which companies are on your list of the Web 2.0 firms to watch? Who are the people behind the hot new [See the full post…]