MENLO PARK, CA , July 14, 2006 (PodTech News) — Reuters reported yesterday that U.S. digital entertainment company Gracenote said it obtained licenses to distribute song lyrics on the Web. PodTech News called Gracenote’s Senior VP of Sales and Marketing, [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, July 13, 2006 (PodTech News) – Instant message users on Yahoo’s Yahoo Messenger or Microsoft’s Windows Live can now chat with each other. Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft said yesterday they’ve started a limited public test to let their [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, July 12, 2006 (PodTech News) – Microsoft is holding a conference in Boston this week, the Worldwide Partner Conference 2006, for its over 7,000 vendor partners. David Wascha, Microsoft’s Director of Partner Marketing for Windows Client, spoke with [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, July 11, 2006 (PodTech News) — PodTech News reported yesterday on Freescale Semiconductor’s announcement that it’s shipping a new memory chip, the MRAM, or “magnetoresistive random access memory device.” This is being called a significant breakthrough in memory-chip [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, July 10, 2006 (PodTech News) — Freescale Semiconductor announced today it’s shipping a new memory chip product, the MRAM, or “magnetoresistive random access memory device.” The company says the device, which uses magnetic materials combined with silicon circuitry, [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, July 7, 2006 (PodTech News) — New tech words, including “technopreneur”, “to google”, and “mouse potato” have found their way into the pages of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition, to be published this fall. “Technology words have a [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 30, 2006 (PodTech News) — “We certainly want the (telecoms) to recover their investment,” said Art Brodsky, communications director of Washington D.C-based public advocacy group Public Knowledge. “The way to get the money is to let the [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, June 29, 2006 (PodTech News) — A ‘net neutrality’ amendment to a Telecom bill was rejected by the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee late Wednesday in a tie vote. Both sides of the net neutrality debate [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, June 28, 2006 (PodTech News) — Convergence of online video-sharing sites and traditional network TV is here. Online video site YouTube and NBC Universal announced a promotional partnership Tuesday, the day after Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Bros. announced [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, June 27, 2006 (PodTech News) — In a San Francisco news conference Monday, Intel announced it’s shipping a new chip, the Xeon processor 5100 “Woodcrest”, to power network servers. PodTech News talked with Boyd Davis, Intel’s General Manager [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, June 26, 2006 (PodTech News) — Microsoft unveiled what it calls a “unified communications product road map and partner ecosystem” at a press event in San Francisco today. “The announcement indicates Microsoft’s significant effort to move into a [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, June 23, 2006 (PodTech News) — Social news website Digg.com is expanding beyond the technology geek universe. The 18-month-old startup is adding four new content areas, including video, to its offerings, the company announced Thursday. Starting June 26th, [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, June 22, 2006 (PodTech News) – “If we want people and entrepreneurs and companies to invest the billions of dollars to get true broadband, then we cannot put restrictions on that in effect are price controls that give [See the full post…]

June 15, 2006 (Boston, Massachusetts) The final night of TechEd 2006 was celebrated in Boston’s Fenway Park with Train providing the entertainment, complete with a cover of Aerosmith’s “Dream On”. PodTech’s Michael Johnson talks to a few attendees about the [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, June 20, 2006 (Podtech News) — “Microsoft’s trying to fight a lot of battles on a lot of different fields, and that’s why it’s not always going to perform up to par… But …at the end of the [See the full post…]

PALO ALTO, June 20, 2006 (Podtech News) — Dave Douglas has recently been appointed as the VP of Eco-Responsibility at Sun Microsystems. He says that the educational research in green technologies not only benefits large companies like Sun, but can [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…]

MENLO PARK, June 10, 2006 (PodTech News) — Google co-founder Sergey Brin told reporters in Washington last week that Google “compromised principles” by complying with Chinese government censorship rules. Brin spoke on the heels of reports by the international media [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, June 12, 2006 (PodTech News) — “Unsanctioned corporate blogging is absolutely a tough call. And it happens in just about every organization,” said Allen Weiner, a media analyst and Research Vice President with Gartner, Inc. In an interview [See the full post…]

Robert Scoble says it wasn’t a defection. We all know the code words: “left to pursue other opportunities.” But in the truest sense of those words, Robert says he leaves Microsoft because his work there was done and he comes [See the full post…]

Menlo Park, CA, June 8, 2006 (PodTech News) — Google’s co-founder and President Sergey Brin was in Washington Tuesday to push for stronger provisions on “network neutrality.” Internet companies like Google fear that without network neutrality rules, the telecommunications and [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, June 6, 2006 (Podtech News) — Google, Inc. on Tuesday announced it’s releasing an online spreadsheet program, Google Spreadsheets. The move is being interpreted by some as another step in a systematic assault on Microsoft’s core market, office [See the full post…]

SANTA CLARA, June 6, 2006 (Podtech News) – Video is currently the fastest-growing segment of the online market, in terms of popularity with consumers, according to Hitwise and other Internet research firms. Recent upstart YouTube is gobbling up market share, [See the full post…]