MENLO PARK, August 25, 2006 (PodTech News) — In the wake of laptop computer battery fires and explosions,Dell, Inc. and Apple Computer both announced recalls of over 6 million lithium-ion laptop computer batteries over the last two weeks. That’s what [See the full post…]

BOSTON, August 25, 2006 (PodTech News) — Government representatives from Denmark, Norway and Sweden are meeting this week to discuss possible legal action against Apple. Consumer advocates say that Apple’s iTunes music store is unnecessarily restrictive, in that music and [See the full post…]

I have spent more than two decades in technology marketing and have always been a big believer in candor and transparency with the “market”. As a General Manager at Regis McKenna in the 1980s and then later as a Marketing [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, August 24, 2006 (PodTech News) — Apple Computer Inc. today recalled 1.8 million lithium-ion laptop computer batteries built by Sony. The announcement came just 10 days after PC-maker Dell Inc.’s recall of over 4 million Sony-made notebook computer [See the full post…]

Four hundred members of the Linden Lab’s MMORPG Second Life got together for a community conference in San Francisco. With badges bearing their avatar names, participants flew in from as far away as Italy, Germany and Japan to hear panels [See the full post…]

LOS ANGELES, August 24, 2006, (PodTech News) — Sony Pictures Entertainment announced a $65 million deal Wednesday to acquire Grouper Networks Inc., putting the media company in play in the viral media space. The acquisition brings together one of the [See the full post…]

IMS is often presented as the “Holy Grail” of network architectures that will enable carriers to choose best of breed components from multiple vendors. In reality, vendors and service providers must jointly invest significant effort to achieve interoperability based on [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, August 23, 2006 (PodTech News) – Friendster Inc. announced Monday that it has received $10 million in new funding. The money will support a renewed effort to refocus on its original mission to be a “real-world” social network. [See the full post…]

Watch Video | Download Video “There are some really weird, creative companies that are succeeding now in Web 2.0.” With Web 2.0’s recent explosion of creativity, Halley Suitt, prominent blogger, CEO and publisher of Top 10 Sources observes that how [See the full post…]

Change is coming fast for health care investors, executives and entrepreneurs. Public investors have rejected companies built on once-surefire models. Big Pharma, after years of nibbling, is acquiring private drug companies to boost internal pipelines. IT may finally be making [See the full post…]

LOS ANGELES, August 22, 2006, (PodTech News) — The online video sharing site YouTube sees dollar signs in Paris Hilton, launching it’s first brand channel featuring the hotel heiress. The new advertising revenue model will try to integrate advertiser brand [See the full post…]

A Symantec Security Response Podcast focusing on the top security measures a consumer should take when setting up a new personal computer. Additionally, this podcast outlines the critical steps new personal computer owners need to take to protect their valuable [See the full post…]

LOS ANGELES, August 21, 2006 (PodTech News) — Horror and comedy mixed to narrowly edge out the competition and come out at the top of the box office over the weekend. “Snakes on a Plane” the suspense-thriller from New Line [See the full post…]

We’re kicking off a new interview series here at PodTech News, Web 2.0 Voices, and we’d love your ideas. Which companies are on your list of the Web 2.0 firms to watch? Who are the people behind the hot new [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, August 21, 2006 (PodTech News) — Digg.com‘s Founder and Chief Architect, Kevin Rose, is having a good time. His “social news” website, Digg.com received about $3 million in funding last year from the Omidyar Network, Netscape co-founder Marc [See the full post…]

Canonical COO Jane Silber speaks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson about collaborations between enterprise and open source software. Silber says the cooperative model is the inevitable wave of the future.

There are over 4 million Linux-based mobile phones in China. Linux phones are quietly making their way to the U.S., and at LinuxWorld 2006 in San Francisco, PodTech’s Michael Johnson speaks with Karsten Homann of TrollTech, and Jim Cook of [See the full post…]

Debbie Weil, Author of a newly published book called The Corporate Blogging Book discusses with host, Jennifer Jones how blogs are used for marketing to develop greater thought leadership, stronger community building and better customer relations. Debbie is a well [See the full post…]

Robert Thomas, CEO of Infoblox, a rapidly growing enterprise infrastructure player, sat down with PodTech founder John Furrier to discuss trends in DNS and infrastructure. “When you think about DNS, it’s boring stuff,” says Thomas. “But if you think about [See the full post…]

Venture capitalist Theresia Ranzetta Gouw sat down with PodTech founder John Furrier to talk about online trends. “I only use e-mail to talk to old people.” That’s what Ranzetta Gouw’s 15-year-old nephew told the partner at $450 million venture capital [See the full post…]

The Consumer Electronics Association predicts that video games will bring in more than $12 billion dollars this year. In this podcast, CEA’s Sean Wargo talks with PodTech’s Rio Pesino about the growth of the industry, the impact next-gen consoles will [See the full post…]

LOS ANGELES, August 18, 2006(PodTech News) — On Thursday, August 17, 2006, iMesh subsidiary MusicLab LLC announced the launch of their new peer-to-peer application (P2P), BearShare 6.0. What does it mean for the company and how will it impact the [See the full post…]

In this keynote speech from LinuxWorld & Expo 2006 in San Francisco, Xensource CEO Peter Levine, says though only 6 percent of new servers feature virtualization, its influence in the future of data center management is inevitable. Additional LinuxWorld 2006 [See the full post…]

With traffic to his podcast site growing week by week, Tom Raftery is hosting an increasingly important forum for conversations with various thought leaders. His site, PodLeaders, deals with tech issues at home in Cork, Ireland, as well as around [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, August 18, 2006 (PodTech News) – “The radios worked in New Orleans until the power went out,” said Ellen Kirk, vice president of marketing for Tropos Networks, in an interview Wednesday with PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau. That test bodes [See the full post…]