Two big events in the San Francisco Bay Area kept the tech industry abuzz this week. PodTech has reports from the Web 2.0 Summit and the Dow Jones Consumer Electronics conference. Also, a look at a new way high-tech criminals [See the full post…]

Microsoft has been accused of playing catch-up with Apple’s iPod for years. After its deal with Universal Music Group this week, Microsoft may be ahead of the mp3 curve for the first time. But in a good way? Also, a [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, November 8, 2006 (PodTech News) — Vint Cerf, vice president and chief internet evangelist for Google and one of the “founding fathers” of the modern-day Internet, says a free and open network is crucial to the Internet’s continuing [See the full post…]

Microsoft’s Trojan Horse news, Verizon’s plan to bring YouTube to mobile phones, Google looks to the airwaves in its new media move, and more tech news from PodTech News. Click here for transcript.

The markets are back up, with several big corporate buyouts bolstering confidence on the day before Election Day. Google made the papers today, as it prepared to roll out auctioned-off ad space in some of the most prestigious newspapers in [See the full post…]

Now in the final stretch leading up to Tuesday and Election Day, has our voting process improved much, six years after the Florida recounts? We take a closer look at electronic voting machines. Also, MIT’s new research initiative on the [See the full post…]

The future of phones could be television, Microsoft plans a party in New York City, a Spanish judge jumps into the Digital Rights Management fray, the end of seafood as we know it, and news about mice. It’s PodTech News. [See the full post…]

Lower-than-expected consumer confidence rattles the markets, Sony’s in even more trouble than it was in yesterday — this time it’s the Feds, Microsoft gets open source religion and Apple releases a new iPod shuffle, just in time for the holidays. [See the full post…]

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 [See the full post…]

Some 1,500 delegates from across the globe are meeting in Athens, Greece for the inaugural Internet Governance Forum, or IGF. Everything from Icann to cyber-security to phishing attacks will be up for discussion in the week long forum. Amnesty International’s [See the full post…]

Microsoft hears another complaint about anti-competitive practices — this time from Google. Sony’s Playstation 3 is under pressure from less expensive competition. Copyrighted material online is being pulled from MySpace and YouTube, marking important transitions for both peer-to-peer sites. TV-produced [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, October 30, 2006 (PodTech News) — Sun Microsystems announced this morning it’s released Netbeans 5.5, the latest version of its Integrated Development Environment. Netbeans 5.5 is a platform for developing applications using Sun’s Java programming language. The Santa [See the full post…]

Update 8/13/2020: For more help and more information regarding Internet Addition, see: decisiondata.org/news/internet-addiction-disorder This week, from PodTech News, a closer look at Internet addiction — what is it, how widespread is it, does it really exist? Gaming is behind a [See the full post…]

When you think of blogs perhaps you think of BoingBoing or 43 Folders. The conventional wisdom is to get lots of readers and then try make it a money-play: sell advertising. But the real transformation of communication on the web [See the full post…]

Bill O’Reilly throws grenades at political blogs. McAfee throws stones at Microsoft, Microsoft throws them back. YouTube removes more than 30,000 files that infringe on the copyrights of a number of Japanese broadcasts. Sony revises shipping estimates for the PS3. [See the full post…]

BOSTON, MA, October 20, 2006 (PodTech News) – The Huichol Indians in Mexico have few options when it comes affordable, reliable lighting. Now, a Boston architect is at the forefront of a team of designers that wants to create lighting [See the full post…]

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

LOS ANGELES, October 17, 2006, (PodTech News) — Following in the footsteps of musicians, movies and members of the 18-34 demographic, politicians are now turning to social networking sites like MySpacel and Facebook to spread the word about their campaigns [See the full post…]

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…]

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…]

In the video game world, there is this idea that games are just for boys. That’s not the case in today’s gaming realm. Recent reports have revealed that 20-percent of “hardcore” gamers are women and that two-thirds of roughly 117 [See the full post…]

PodTech Founder and CEO John Furrier stopped in to talk with the folks at Google while he was at Office 2.0. The topic for Google today: their release of Google Docs & Spreadsheets. A company spokesman was on-hand for a [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.

LOS ANGELES, October 10, 2006, (PodTech News) – Last month, Apple unveiled its long-awaited movie download store and within a week sold 125,000 downloads, generating $1 million in revenue for the House of Mouse. Yet despite the success, only 75 [See the full post…]