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…]

LOS ANGELES, September 18, 2006 (PodTech News) — Only days after Microsoft announced that its Zune media player will be released in time for the holidays, Seattle-based RealNetworks unveiled plans to partner with SanDisk on a new portable music player [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 “support candidates [See the full post…]

Advertisers are using the Internet to place up-to-date ads in video games. “Dynamic Advertising” is designed to implement fresh, new ads in games. Justin Townsend, CEO of in-game ad firm IGA Worldwide, spoke with PodTech’s Rio Pesino about dynamic ads [See the full post…]

Monday saw the official announcement of Adobe Acrobat 8. Rick Brown is director of product management for Adobe’s knowledge worker business unit. He spoke with PodTech’s Robert Scoble about the future of Adobe Acrobat and some of the key features [See the full post…]

Watch Video | Download Video Adobe Acrobat is the product software giant Microsoft would love to kill. But Adobe is hoping to pull ahead – way ahead – in the competition with Microsoft for office worker tools with Acrobat 8. [See the full post…]

Part 2 of 2 of Apple’s announcement of new iPods, games, movies, and the upcoming iTV. Listen to part 1 of 2 Photos on Flickr

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…]

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. – [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…]

BOSTON, September 8, 2006 (PodTech News) — After the 9/11 attacks, there was talk of a cyber Pearl Harbor, in which trained terrorist groups would use computers and the Internet to attack critical infrastructure in the United States. Five years [See the full post…]

LOS ANGELES, September 8, 2006 (PodTech News) — Amazon officially entered the movie download space with Thursday night’s unveiling of Unbox. The new service offers television shows, films and other videos for download from more than 30 studios and TV [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…]

LOS ANGELES, September 7, 2006 (PodTech News) — In a sure sign of things to come, television and movie studios are starting to create original short-form programming for broadband and wireless devices. Warner Brothers Television Group just announced the creation [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…]

LOS ANGELES, September 6, 2006 (PodTech News) — For the second time in as many weeks, SpiralFrog, the new ad-supported online music service debuting in beta in December, announced an agreement with a major music label. This time, it’s with [See the full post…]

The release of Sony’s next-gen gaming console, Playstation 3, has been pushed back to March 2007 in Europe, Russia, the Middle East, Africa and Australasia. The PS3 was previously scheduled to launch worldwide in November. PodTech’s Rio Pesino talked with [See the full post…]

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

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…]

Research analyst firm Wedbush Morgan Securities released a report predicting modest growth in video game sales. The company also raised its expectations for the Nintendo Wii and downgraded its prediction for the Sony Playstation 3 and Playstation Portable. WMS’s Michael [See the full post…]

LOS ANGELES, September 5, 2006 (PodTech News) — It’s estimated that 80 percent of all U.S. households own a DVD player, and while DVD sales are expected to grow more than 3 percent this year, it’s a far cry from [See the full post…]

LOS ANGELES, September 1, 2006 (PodTech News) — It wasn’t all that long ago that consumers were given the choice between two competing formats for watching video at home. Sony’s Betamax, despite its persistent reputation as a superior product, ultimately [See the full post…]

Engineers at Rutgers University have come together to create a modified Xbox to help stroke patients through their rehabilitation. The Rutgers Virtual Rehabilitation System consists of a modded Xbox and Essential Reality’s P5 gaming glove. Kira Morrow is an undergraduate [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 sharing web [See the full post…]