Google blows the doors off. Cingular blows the doors off. A former game executive blows the doors off someone else’s Ferrari.

In today’s news, CEA analysts’ very rosy predictions for the holiday shopping season, Microsoft opens Vista’s core to software competitors, online video continues to swoon after the recent Google/YouTube deal — including a new deal between CBS and Yahoo — [See the full post…]

With big iron machines it’s all about keeping costs down. As Moore’s Law is challenged by the physical constraints of designing nano-sized devices, it might be aided by more efficient software. However, software isn’t cheap. Intel Fellows David Kuck and [See the full post…]

In today’s news, continued fallout and speculation from the Google/YouTube deal, Palm is taking its Treo to the next level (and giving it a marketing blitz, too), Bully hits the courtroom in Florida, and Americans need to pick up the [See the full post…]

Intel says its Ultra Mobile PC is designed to give users full PC capability in places where a laptop is too big or clunky. How about in a car? A project with Volkswagen looks fairly promising. It would provide three [See the full post…]

In the news today, stock-option issues strike at two more Silicon Valley companies, Nokia is planning to make wireless connectivity even more mobile with phones using new WiMAX technology, Eudora is heading for an Open Source future, Google stays in [See the full post…]

In today’s news, the Adam Sandler comedy, “Click,” is released for Sony’s Blu-Ray. Also, IBM is bringing some pressure to competitors Sun and Intel, with a processor chip in the offing that may improve speed and lower temperatures.

In today’s news, Google finally pulled the trigger, ending much public speculation over whether or not it would purchase the video-sharing phenomenon YouTube for more than $1 billion. YouTube also announced agreements that might shore-up some of its copyright-related vulnerabilities.

Surveys on the economy, a completely unsubstiated rumor that gained some traction online today, a pretty hefty incentive to get cracking on your map of the human genome, and a bigger moon. You asked for it, you got it. (Moon [See the full post…]

SANTA CLARA, California, October 5, 2006 (PodTech News) — Conventional wisdom says the mobile industry is set to explode with content offerings. After all, the billions of handsets in the world dwarfs the market penetration of the iPod. “In reality [See the full post…]

The Hewlett-Packard investigation moves into the courthouse, Google gives geeks the ability to search code and announces a plan to aid literacy programs worldwide, Starbucks and iTunes ink a deal to share some space, George Lucas drops a few hints [See the full post…]

Among the less sexy but more important stories we’re covering like the HP boardroom leak, a mea culpa from Apple CEO Steve Jobs, and the inevitable comment that — if the RIAA can scare the crap out of universities for [See the full post…]

In the news today, a record-setting showing for the Dow Jones, some sordid details from the Hewlett-Packard investigation, a new gadget from Nokia, an update from the Blu-ray v. HD DVD front, Nintendo’s raised expectations for the fourth quarter, and [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, October 2, 2006 (PodTech News) — In the news today, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based antivirus and computer security company McAfee speaks out against Microsoft and its long-anticipated and forthcoming Vista operating system, the federal government eases its grip [See the full post…]

Intel says its new quad core technology — the result of a four-year development cycle — will be one of the major themes of its upcoming Intel Developer Forum, next week at San Francisco’s Moscone Center West. PodTech’s Jason Lopez [See the full post…]

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 [See the full post…]

SANTA CLARA, CA, September 19, 2006 (PodTech News) — Intel says its new experimental semiconductors could be the breakthrough the chip industry has been looking for — the one that will allow chips to keep pace with Moore’s Law. They’ll [See the full post…]

Venture capitalist Andy Kessler says silicon is going to do to the health care industry what it has done to portable devices and the Internet. Where will it start? With diagnostics, according to Kessler, who delivered the lunch keynote at [See the full post…]

Patients desire improved treatments, voters call for safety, biomed startups want drug approval to continue in business and big pharma is after big profits. The Food and Drug Administration must grapple with these issues, which are only getting more complex. [See the full post…]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it is a constant balancing act to determine how much risk to consumers is acceptable in the drug approval process. No risk would result in few drugs coming to market. Some risk allows [See the full post…]

Audio and video content is coming to mobile phones — although a new L.A. Times/Bloomberg Poll that Dennis Haarsager points to in his Technology360 blog suggests that the always-on generation isn’t so enthusiastic about getting audio and video content on [See the full post…]

At Sundance Intel’s Joe English spoke with John Furrier about the company’s WiMax strategy and the roadmap for a new powerful wireless user experience.