SAN FRANCISCO, December 16, 2006 (PodTech News) — Predicting extreme weather, like Hurricanes, has come a long way with the help of remote control devices. That same technology, or a version of it, has proven an unprecedented success through NASA’s Mars Rover project. Originally planned as a three-month project, several ...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 15, 2006 (PodTech News) — Al Gore addressed the American Geophysical Union here Wednesday, on the same day as several recently-published studies on climate change were also in the news. Gore’s comments to the scientific gathering focused on the challenges facing scientists when it comes to explaining ...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 9, 2006 (PodTech News) — Recent headlines suggest that it’s getting harder and harder for citizens in Iran to visit Web sites like the open-source online encyclopedia Wikipedia and even the online home of The New York Times. An academic partnership between several universities is working to ...

As Christmas shopping kicks off, the consumer tech world lurches into full gear — this is what months of speculation in the gaming console realm have all been leading up to. Rio Pesino continues his in-depth look at the consoles and their hype. With all the rumors over a possible ...

SAN FRANCISCO, November 21, 2006 (PodTech News) — Speculation kicked into high gear over the prospects of an Apple iPhone — again. Michael Johnson reports on why the rumors have so much traction this time. In news from Yahoo — after posting slightly improved search numbers in October and leaking ...

SAN FRANCISCO, November 18, 2006 (PodTech News) — This week saw the highly-anticipated launch of the new Sony Playstation 3. The first few buyers to get their hands on the new system waited for about 40 hours outside of the Sony store in San Francisco. Rio Pesino spoke with them ...

At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Barry Diller, chairman and CEO of IAC/InterActiveCorp, and chairman of Expedia Inc., and Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., chairman of the New York Times Company, hold forth on how the media landscape is changing in the Web 2.0 ...

SAN FRANCISCO, November 8, 2006 (PodTech News) — Vint Cerf, vice president and chief internet evangelist for Google and one of the “founding fathers” of the modern-day Internet, says a free and open network is crucial to the Internet’s continuing unimpeded development. PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau talked with Cerf at the ...

SANTA CLARA, October 31, 2006 (PodTech News) — Danielle Levitas is vice president of IDC’s consumer and broadband research. She spoke with PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau at the Women in Technology Summit about the results of a survey on women’s digital entertainment priorities, commissioned by Women in Technology International and conducted ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 30, 2006 (PodTech News) — Zero to 60 in 3.9 seconds, at a fuel cost of less than a penny per mile. Sound too good to be true? It gets better — the dream car we’re talking about is a zero-emissions sports car that runs on ...

SAN FRANCISCO, October 30, 2006 (PodTech News) — Sun Microsystems announced this morning it’s released Netbeans 5.5, the latest version of its Integrated Development Environment. Netbeans 5.5 is a platform for developing applications using Sun’s Java programming language. The Santa Clara company also said today it’s created a ...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made sure no one would miss his point that Microsoft has been, is now, and will continue to be dogged in everything it does. Even if, as Ballmer said, “we don’t always get it right on the first try.”

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was interviewed by two tough VPs from research firm Gartner, Inc. at Gartner’s Symposium and ITxpo at the Dolphin Hotel in Orlando Florida October 10th. In the so-called “Mastermind Interview”, Ballmer fielded questions that ranged from lessons learned from the long Vista delay to how ...

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 in the way video services can be offered to consumers. AB 2987 creates videofranchises on a statewide scale

SAN FRANCISCO, September 29, 2006 (PodTech News) - Digg Founders Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose have taken their underground, hacker-chic Internet television network, Revision3, out of the garage and into its first round of funding. They celebrated the formal launch of Revision3 September 26th at a club in San Francisco.

The history of portable computing in ten minutes or less: that’s what we tried to do in our interview with David “Dadi” Perlmutter, Senior VP and General Manager of Intel’s Mobility Group. Dadi is responsible for design, development and marketing Intel’s mobile computing products, including the Centrino. PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau ...

Tuesday night at The Mighty in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill district, Digg CEO Jay Adelson, Digg co-founder and Chief Architect, Kevin Rose, and a couple hundred friends, fans and coworkers celebrated the launch of Revision3, a new TV network for the web. Billed as an Internet media company for ...

SAN FRANCISCO, September 26, 2006 (PodTech News) — Intel’s CEO Paul Otellini said his company is committed to bringing out new silicon manufacturing processes and chips every two years. Essentially, according to Otellini, Intel will prove that Moore’s Law can continue well into the next decade. The opening keynote address ...

MENLO PARK, September 25, 2006 (PodTech News) — Two Hewlett-Packard executives, including senior counsel Kevin Hunsaker and global security manager Anthony Gentilucci, were issued subpoenas by The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee today to appear at this Thursday’s hearing on the Hewlett-Packard pretexting scandal. Ron DeLia, operator of Security Outsourcing Solutions Inc., in Boston, was also subpoenaed. PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau reports.

PALO ALTO, September 22, 2006 (PodTech News) — Hewlett-Packard held a press briefing this afternoon at HP headquarters in Palo Alto at which they refused to answer any questions from the press. HP President and CEO Mark Hurd spoke, as did Mike Holston, a representative of Morgan Lewis, the law firm that has been retained by HP in order to investigate HP’s leak investigation. The biggest announcements:

SAN FRANCISCO, September 21, 2006 (PodTech News) — HP said this afternoon that its President and CEO Mark Hurd has volunteered to appear at the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on Thursday, Sept. 28. PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau spoke with HP spokesman Ryan Donovan to get the details.

MENLO PARK, September 20, 2006 (PodTech News) — Yahoo, Inc. executives warned investors at a conference yesterday that advertising growth seems to be slowing in some categories. There was a broad selloff of tech stocks on the news, and Yahoo’s stock took a dive of over 10 percent. Yahoo’s CFO Susan Decker told investors at the Goldman Sachs conference that the slowdown in automotive and financial services advertising will likely lead the company to “deliver in bottom half of the range” of its third-quarter estimate. Andrew Frank, a research director at Gartner, Inc., told PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau he thinks the market overreacted.

Sun Microsystems President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz touted the new open-source version of Sun’s Solaris 10 OS at a Sun product launch event in New York City September 13th. Schwartz gave a keynote address that outlined the reasons behind Sun’s past two quarters of growth, (which are also Schwartz’s ...

MENLO PARK, September 18, 2006 (PodTech News) — Google filed paperwork Thursday to register a new political action committee, Google NetPac, with the Federal Election Commission. Alan Davidson, Google’s Washington policy counsel, said the political action committee will “support candidates who promote a free and open Internet for our users.” The company will also be reaching out to congressional Republicans, via former Republican senators Dan Coats of Indiana and Connie Mack of Florida, whom it’s hired as outside lobbyists. This is a far cry from Sergey Brin’s “sightseeing” trip to D.C. last June in which he stopped in, wearing jeans, to lobby for network neutrality. PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau spoke with Larry Gerston, a political science professor at San Jose State University and a frequent commentator on tech policy.

Cadence Design Systems, Inc., President and CEO Mike Fister kicked off the CDN Live Silicon Valley conference at San Jose’s McEnery Convention Center by unveiling Virtuoso, a new chip design platform, and Xtreme III, a hardware-assisted verification system used at the end of the chip ...