Recently, NPD Group reported that Apple’s iTunes store moved into the number two spot in 2007 for music retail sales in the U.S. (Wal-Mart remained at number one.) Selling music has been tough — ever since the RIAA took on Napster and Grokster, less downloaded music is being ...

AtTask’s VP of Sales, Abraham Knell, shows off the @task Project and Portfolio Management solution. The application has a simple UI that is easy to learn and use. Tabs and drop-down menus in headers give the web-based offering a rich, desktop client-like experience without the ...

OpenMoko is an interesting project that is an open linux-based mobile communications platform. Primarily an open source operating system and applicatiion environment, when combined with a hardware device by FIC, it quickly feels like an open threat to the Apple iPhone. While at Linuxworld, I spoke ...

While much has been written about Apple’s iPhone, this interview provides a review by a professional market research analyst. Avi Greengrat specializes in the mobile telephone market for Current Analysis. He previously worked for Jupiter Research and, prior to that, Intel.

Ultimately, consumers want to enjoy Internet video on their televisions as well as their computers, but most don’t want to string new wires through their homes. Apple TV answers this problem by using Wi-Fi. The Power Line networking, using the electrical wires already in your home, however, may ...

Remember the “teleputer”? That’s the device that George Gilder predicted years ago. Now that we’ve had a look at Apple’s forthcoming iPhone, it looks like Gilder’s vision may come true. What will the combination of an iPhone and the planned Apple TV mean for consumers? Find out, with ...

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?

PodTech.net has been producing podcasts in real time to get out the summaries of the Steve Jobs keynote and the rest of the Apple WWDC speechs and announcements. Also in the audience are our friends from Engaget - they have some great photos from the audience.

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BMW Sauber F1 Team driver Jacques Villeneuve talks about the need for balancing great driving skills with the latest technology in order to make it to the winner’s circle. Intel’s dual core computer technology processes real-time data sent by the BMW Sauber F1 race car, allowing the pit crew ...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 26, 2006 (Podtech News) — Nike and Apple have teamed up to give other athletic shoe companies a tuneful run for their money. The companies earlier this week jointly announced the Nike+iPod Sport Kit, a running shoe with a sensor that transmits information to your iPod Nano ...

Apple goes Windows. PodTech’s traffic logs show that the dominant user client of iTunes is by Windows users. This move makes total sense especially since the Intel Inside move Apple made.

PodTech.net has more Window’s iTunes users than Mac. Great move to sell more MacBooks. ...