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…]

Intel Senior Fellow Steve Palowski and other Intel fellows took questions from the audience attending the Shop Talk gathering at the Intel Developer Forum. Topics discussed in this “Best of Shop Talk” podcast include memory and quad-core technology.

Jim Lussier is a general partner at Norwest Venture Partners. The highly-regarded venture capital firm has invested in more than 300 companies, including Tivoli, Documentum, Peoplesoft and Collabnet. PodTech Founder and CEO John Furrier caught up with him at the [See the full post…]

Dave Trowbridge, director of marketing for Network Physics, on end users’ needs and NP’s solutions and approach to the sales channel.

Dwight Barker, vice president of product management for Network Physics, provides an outlook on industry trends and needs for accurate application performance management.

Dave Trowbridge, director of marketing for Network Physics, describes the latest version of NP’s NetSensory, an application performance management analysis tool.

In today’s news, Google finally pulled the trigger, ending much public speculation over whether or not it would purchase the video-sharing phenomenon YouTube for more than $1 billion. YouTube also announced agreements that might shore-up some of its copyright-related vulnerabilities.

LOS ANGELES, October 9, 2006, (PodTech News) — Google and video-sharing site YouTube announced a stock-for-stock transaction today valued at $1.65 billion. The deal, expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of this year, will combine YouTube with Google’s [See the full post…]

Adobe‘s Michael Folkers, senior product manager for Acrobat, sits down with John Moebes, director of construction for Crate and Barrel to discuss how Moebes has used Acrobat to combat a number of business challenges. PodTech’s own Michael Johnson moderates the [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, October 9, 2006 (PodTech News) — California just gave telephone companies what they wanted – a big piece of the video franchise pie. An assembly bill that Governor Schwarzenegger signed into law September 29th makes a fundamental change [See the full post…]

The wiki is coming to the enterprise and Atlassian has more than 15,000 enterprise users and is coming on strong. Here you’ll meet Mike Cannon-Brookes, CEO of Atlassian and Jonathan Nolan, director of developer relations and they talk about what [See the full post…]

David Chamberlain runs one of the more interesting socially responsible businesses we’ve ever heard of: one that’ll take you on an interesting vacation! Obviously aimed at affluent people who are looking for ways to experience an authentic cultural immersion, Exquisite [See the full post…]

Surveys on the economy, a completely unsubstiated rumor that gained some traction online today, a pretty hefty incentive to get cracking on your map of the human genome, and a bigger moon. You asked for it, you got it. (Moon [See the full post…]

Geoffrey Arone is the co-founder of Flock, which is a new browser that’s based on the same open-source engine that powers Firefox. Why do we need yet another browser? Geoffrey demonstrates that Flock integrates in services like Flickr photo sharing [See the full post…]

Josh Jaffe is the senior writer for THE DEAL magazine and the organizer of the Technology Summit for VCs, acquirers, and other investors. He spoke with Podtech’s Michael Johnson about analyzing market trends from an investor’s point of view.

Fox owns MySpace, and it’s watching how it’s being used. Mike Lang is executive vice president of business development and strategy at Fox Networks. He spoke with PodTech’s Michael Johnson at “THE DEAL” Technology Summit in Mountain View, Calif., about [See the full post…]

Jennifer Jones of PodTech and Cole Bader discuss how private companies which are seeking an exit need to market their company. Badar offers insights into the exit process. Packaging a company as a market leader by thinking small and owning [See the full post…]

SANTA CLARA, California, October 5, 2006 (PodTech News) — Conventional wisdom says the mobile industry is set to explode with content offerings. After all, the billions of handsets in the world dwarfs the market penetration of the iPod. “In reality [See the full post…]

BOSTON, October 6, 2006 (PodTech News) – Harvard Law School is experimenting this semester with a course taught partly in the real world and partly in the virtual 3D world Second Life. The class, called CyberOne: Law in the Court [See the full post…]

Joe Kraus, CEO of JotSpot, has seen Silicon Valley’s highs and lows (he was founder of one of the 1990s hottest companies: Excite at Home) and here he shares with us his insights about whether we’re going through a bubble, [See the full post…]

The Hewlett-Packard investigation moves into the courthouse, Google gives geeks the ability to search code and announces a plan to aid literacy programs worldwide, Starbucks and iTunes ink a deal to share some space, George Lucas drops a few hints [See the full post…]

Through its Remote Backup Services, with Veritas NetBackup PureDisk at their core, EDS is able to help many of its clients reduce remote storage by fourfold while lowering remote office backup costs by as much as 50%. More information at: [See the full post…]

At the ARM Developers conference in Santa Clara, California, PodTech’s Michael Johnson caught up with Marc Gayer, a researcher in Real Time Multimedia Systems at Fraunhofer IIS, the German company that invented the MP3. He explains the next evolution of [See the full post…]

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…]

developerWorks Web content editor Denise Ruterbories talks about two new developerWorks features: the Ajax resource center and the redesigned Web development zone. For more info see: IBM’s developerWorks.