ScreencastsOnline.com is a popular site to learn new things on the Macintosh. Everyday Don fires up his Mac and teaches you to do something cool. Learn more about what’s behind this interesting business (yes, business, he quit his day job [See the full post…]

The Nintendo Wii has been proving to be physically demanding for many users. Soreness and pain are two of the system’s reported side effects. The official response so far: get in shape — then you won’t be sore. Also, a [See the full post…]

Understanding what consumers are doing with new media is instrumental. Speaking together at the Dow Jones VentureWire Consumer Technology Ventures Conference, Larry Gerbrandt tells PodTech’s Jennifer Jones about iPod research that will move the needle for executives assessing podcasts.

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Microsoft’s iPod competitor, Zune, will be released on November 14. Matt Jubelirer is product manager for the Zune project. We spoke with him to get an in-depth look at Zune.

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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…]

I captured the demo of ZING the new device that records music off of Sirius network and the Internet. Here is Tim Bucher, CEO, showing off his new product.

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Part 2 of 2 of Apple’s announcement of new iPods, games, movies, and the upcoming iTV.

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Steve Jobs delivered a special announcement at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco this morning. Major points:

– New iPods.

– iPod games can be purchased from iTMS.

– Movies are available from iTMS.

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Mobile device companies are lining up for their take on mobile music players. PodTech’s Michael Johnson reports on some of the contenders. [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, August 29, 2006 (PodTech News) — Apple announced this afternoon that Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Google, was elected to Apple’s board of directors. In a statement, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said that Schmidt was tapped in [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…]

BOSTON, August 25, 2006 (PodTech News) — Government representatives from Denmark, Norway and Sweden are meeting this week to discuss possible legal action against Apple. Consumer advocates say that Apple’s iTunes music store is unnecessarily restrictive, in that music and [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, August 24, 2006 (PodTech News) — Apple Computer Inc. today recalled 1.8 million lithium-ion laptop computer batteries built by Sony. The announcement came just 10 days after PC-maker Dell Inc.’s recall of over 4 million Sony-made notebook computer [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, August 7, 2006 (PodTech News) – Apple Computer’s CEO Steve Jobs ended his keynote speech at last year’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with the statement, “The soul of a Mac is its operating system, and we’re not [See the full post…]

Steve Jobs continues the countdown of ten Leopard features in part three of his keynote address from the Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) at San Francisco’s Moscone West. Enhancements to iChat elicited the biggest buzz from the crowd of 4,000 [See the full post…]

At the Apple 2006 World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple CEO Steve Jobs went over the new features of “[tagLeopard”, the next evolution of the OS X operating system for the Macintosh.

1. Full native support for 64-bit apps – [See the full post…]

San Francisco, August 7, 2006 (PodTech News) Apple Computer Chairman and CEO Steve Jobs kicked off the World Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) at Moscone West in San Francisco before a packed convention hall expecting major announcements regarding the company’s line [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, August 7, 2006 (PodTech News) — Rumors swirled around the web about just what Steve Jobs would, and wouldn’t, be announcing during this morning’s keynote address at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) at San Francisco’s Moscone West. [See the full post…]

On Monday, August 7, PodTech.net will be reporting from the Apple World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Podcasting and photostreams will start at 10:00am PT. Coverage will include the keynote by Steve Jobs.

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The legendary Steve Wozniak participated in the final session at this year’s AlwaysOn Innovation Summit in Palo Alto, CA. The Woz shared his wisdom with the audience, touching on topics including the creation of Apple DOS, open-source and the Apple [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, July 24, 2006 (PodTech News)–“I doubt that we’re going to see any gaming functionality, at least in the first device. They were pretty clear with me that they weren’t going in that direction,” said analyst Michael Gartenberg of [See the full post…]

Steve Jobs, former Atari employee? Atari co-founder Al Alcorn tells PodTech’s Rio Pesino about Jobs’ role with Atari, his involvement in some of the historic meetings with the Apple CEO and how the video game manufacturer rejected Jobs’ concept of [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, July 6, 2006 (PodTech News) — Microsoft is planning to release a digital music and video player to rival the iPod this holiday season, Bloomberg News reported yesterday. Microsoft has partnered with third-party hardware manufacturers to create digital [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, July 7, 2006 (PodTech News) — Apple today introduced a new $899 configuration of the 17-inch iMac targeted toward educators and students in the digital classroom. Apple is showcasing the 17-inch iMac at the National Educational Computing Conference [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK (June 14, 2006) PodTech News — National Semiconductor announced Monday it’s just given every one of its 8,500 employees a 30GB video iPod. But employees won’t just be catching up on soaps or rocking out at work. Jeff [See the full post…]