SAN JOSE, August 14, 2006 (PodTech News) – Microsoft to gamers: DIY! The company kicked off its two-day Gamefest in Seattle today by announcing the release of XNA Game Studio Express. The video game developer’s toolkit will allow consumers to [See the full post…]

SAN JOSE, August 9, 2006 (PodTech News) – Google CEO Eric Schmidt talked with the press about search, network neutrality, the recent AOL search term privacy debacle, and more at the Search Engine Strategies conference at San Jose’s McEnery Convention [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, August 8, 2006 (Podtech News) — Sprint Nextel today announced plans to develop and deploy a nationwide wireless broadband mobile network using WiMAX. Sprint said it will work with Intel on mobile WiMAX-enabled chipsets and with Motorola and [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…]

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. Subscribe now on iTunes Word on [See the full post…]

SUNNYVALE, August 4, 2006 (PodTech News) – Yahoo, Inc. jumped on the corporate blogging bandwagon Wednesday with the launch of an official mouthpiece called Yodel Anecdotal. The title of the blog’s first post, “Yet Another Self-Serving Corporate Blog!” pokes fun [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, August 3, 2006 (PodTech News) — IBM Corporation, or “Big Blue”, is the world’s largest information services company. It’s also one of the oldest. Since the 1920s, International Business Machines has grown a reputation as a reliable, solid, [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, August 02, 2006 (PodTech News) – Time Warner Inc. announced today that its AOL division’s email and other webservices will be made available for free to broadband users. The move is a bid to attract more viewers and [See the full post…]

NEW YORK, August 1, 2006 (PodTech News) — In a press conference in New York this morning, IBM, the world’s largest technology services company, announced five new business servers based on a new version of the Opteron microprocessor from Advanced [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, July 31, 2006 (PodTech News) — In the market for a computer, but don’t need the latest, fastest, and newest? You may be able to find some bargains, thanks to Intel’s release last Thursday of a new generation [See the full post…]

SAN JOSE, July 31, 2006 (PodTech News) – More than 700 people attended BlogHer 2006, the second annual conference of women bloggers, held this past weekend in San Jose. According to a recent study published by the Pew Internet and [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, July 28, 2006 (PodTech News) – AMD announced this week it’s acquiring Canadian graphics firm ATI for $5.4 billion. PodTech News talked with semiconductor analyst Shane Rau of IDC at Intel’s Core 2 Duo press event yesterday about [See the full post…]

SANTA CLARA, July 27, 2006 (PodTech News) – Intel Corporation showed off its new Core 2 Duo processors today at a press event at the company’s Santa Clara headquarters. The Core 2 Duo processors will power desktop and laptop PCs [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, July 26, 2006 (PodTech News) –“It’s going to be advertising,” said YouTube CEO Chad Hurley said, when asked how he was going to make his company profitable, though he stressed any additional ads on YouTube will not disrupt [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, July 25, 2006 (PodTech News) — We’re having a heat wave here in Silicon Valley, and the heat is also on in the world of silicon chip-making. Number-two chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices put the pedal to rival Intel’s [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…]

SAN FRANCISCO, July 21, 2006 (PodTech News) – PodTech News wraps the week with two stories of new Web 2.0 services. Yahoo and Motorola said late Wednesday that Motorola will embed Yahoo “Go for Mobile” services on tens of millions [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, July 20, 2006 (PodTech News) – Google CEO Eric Schmidt announced the company’s second-quarter earnings results in a webcast today. “Google really is committed to providing the best end-user search experience worldwide, and that’s not just on PCs, [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, July 20, 2006 (PodTech News) – “People don’t believe us when we say this, but we really care about net neutrality not for Google as a company, but for all the small Internet companies out there. We remember [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, July 19, 2006 (PodTech News) – “Internet advertising is exploding,” said Peter Sealey, founder and CEO of The Sausalito Group, Inc. “It was $12.5 billion last year. I personally think it will surpass $20 billion this year. And [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, July 18, 2006 (PodTech News) – Net neutrality supporters have pounced on Senator Ted Stevens’ (R-Alaska) less-than-tech-savvy description of the Internet as a “series of tubes” and “not a big truck” in a speech.The senator’s words were fodder [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, July 17, 2006 (PodTech News) –Irina Slutsky and Eddie Codel from Geek Entertainment Television have been “acq-hired” by PodTech.net. “It takes a lot of work to make fluff,” Slutsky said at her first PodTech staff meeting. PodTech News [See the full post…]