The functionality of the new Apple iPhone, which comes in 4 gig ($499) and 8 gig ($599) models, appears to be far superior to the regular iPod. Trouble is, it doesn’t store enough music for people who keep large collections at their fingertips. The iPhone may turn out to be ...

Apple CEO Steve Jobs delivered one of his most dazzling MacWorld keynotes as he unveiled Apple’s new iPhone. The device uses a patented touch screen system called multi-touch. Cisco, which owns the iPhone name, says it expects to close a deal with Apple on some sort of trademark royalty for ...

Microsoft’s Zune came out of the Christmas season with less than 3 percent of the MP3 player market share. Its overall sales rank on Amazon - a recent check showed the various 30 GB Zune models fluctuating between #77 and #512 in Electronics - has put ...

In the flurry of Apple iPhone rumours, we take a moment to talk with two long time Mac watchers about the possibility and philosophy of the “iPhone” (not the new Cisco device, but the long-rumored and name-unknown phone that may be coming soon from the company that brought us the ...

ScreencastsOnline.com is a popular site to learn new things on the Macintosh. Everyday Don fires up his Mac and teaches you to do something cool. Learn more about what’s behind this interesting business (yes, business, he quit his day job to do this full time).

“Diane,” (not her real name), is a middle-aged, college-educated consumer who bought her first Mac about a year ago. Before that, she was a PC-user. Her main reason for switching was to avoid viruses and malware. She bought her second Mac, a laptop, this Christmas. Diane speaks with Inside Digital ...

Meet “Tim”, a PC user for 25 years, who recently switched from Windows to Apple’s OS X with the purchase of a MacBook Pro 15″ with 2GB of RAM.

Tim was attracted to the new iLife features on the Mac, which he feels makes all the personal stuff a breeze, such ...

The Nintendo Wii has been proving to be physically demanding for many users. Soreness and pain are two of the system’s reported side effects. The official response so far: get in shape — then you won’t be sore. Also, a few rumors about Apple — one, involving the long-anticipated tablet ...

Understanding what consumers are doing with new media is instrumental. Speaking together at the Dow Jones VentureWire Consumer Technology Ventures Conference, Larry Gerbrandt tells PodTech’s Jennifer Jones about iPod research that will move the needle for executives assessing podcasts.

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Microsoft’s iPod competitor, Zune, will be released on November 14. Matt Jubelirer is product manager for the Zune project. We spoke with him to get an in-depth look at Zune.

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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 complicity in illegal file sharing — You-Tube’s cease-and-desist letter from ...

I captured the demo of ZING the new device that records music off of Sirius network and the Internet. Here is Tim Bucher, CEO, showing off his new product.

Zing stole the show with a kick ass demo.

Part 2 of 2 of Apple’s announcement of new iPods, games, movies, and the upcoming iTV.

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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.
- iTunes 7.0 includes new interface and CoverFlow (browsing by ...

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, August 29, 2006 (PodTech News) — Apple announced this afternoon that Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Google, was elected to Apple’s board of directors. In a statement, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said that Schmidt was tapped in part because of Google’s focus on innovation, a quality that he says Apple shares. PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau reports.

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 looks like the story. But the real story is, as more and more functionality is crammed into a single device, why isn’t the industry giving consumers batteries that not only don’t overheat, but can power all the functions on all the devices we’re buying, and being sold?

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 videos purchased through iTunes are only playable on the company’s iPod player. At issue is Apple’s Digital Rights Management, or DRM, which ties iTunes files to the iPod. Scandinavian countries want Apple to loosen its DRM. Apple says its products are, for consumers, the best way to get and enjoy digital music.

PodTech’s Clark Boyd speaks with Torgeir Waterhouse, of the Norwegian Consumer Council, and Peter Brown, Executive Director of the Boston-based Free Software Foundation.

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 batteries because they could burst into flames. Sony’s statement on ...

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 standing still.” Jobs’ keynote speech at Apple Worldwide Developers Conference ...

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 software developers. Those enhancements include a slideshow feature within ...

At the Apple 2006 World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple CEO Steve Jobs went over the new features of “[tagLeopard[/tag]”, the next evolution of the OS X operating system for the Macintosh.

1. Full native support for 64-bit apps – 64-bit UNIX 64-bit Carbon and Cocoa, while still ...

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 of computers, software and the iPod. The proceedings began with ...

SAN FRANCISCO, August 7, 2006 (PodTech News) — Rumors swirled around the web about just what Steve Jobs would, and wouldn’t, be announcing during this morning’s keynote address at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) at San Francisco’s Moscone West. PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau asked people as they were waiting to ...

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.

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Word on the web is that “Apple is readying a dizzying ...