What would you store if you could afford one terabyte — that’s 1,000 gigabytes — of hard disk space? In this podcast, Doug Pickford, director of product and market strategy for enterprise products with Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, talks with PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau about Hitachi GST’s industry milestone, the ...

vSpring’s Dennis Wood speaks with ContentWatch President and CEO Jack Sunderlage, about his participation in some of Utah’s most important economic development initiatives, including the Utah Technology Council, the Utah Partnership for Education, The World Trade Center Utah, and Utah Science Technology and Research ...

PodTech CEO and Founder John Furrier spotted a real-life legend milling around at DEMO 07. Jean-Louis Gassée has played important roles at Hewlett-Packard and Apple Computer, he’s a blogger (you can test your French), and he confesses here that this is his first podcast, at least this ...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 2, 2006 (PodTech News) — “Clean, flat sheets of bronze.” That’s one way to describe one of your modern PC’s progenitors. Researchers at Hewlett-Packard are in the news this week for the interest they’ve taken in the Antikythera mechanism — arguably the world’s oldest computer. Also in ...

Paul O’Brien is manager of interactive marketing at Hewlett-Packard’s direct-to-home and consumer home office store. He talked with us about trends HP Direct has seen in online consumer behavior. We spoke at the CEA Industry Forum, a gathering of consumer electronics industry professionals, held at the Fairmont ...

“Understanding How Consumers Use the Internet to Research and Shop for Consumer Electronics” was the topic of a CEA forum panel October 17th at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco.

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 about some upcoming projects, and the very first copy of ...

In the news today, a record-setting showing for the Dow Jones, some sordid details from the Hewlett-Packard investigation, a new gadget from Nokia, an update from the Blu-ray v. HD DVD front, Nintendo’s raised expectations for the fourth quarter, and Space Yogurt.

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:

MENLO PARK, September 22, 2006 (PodTech News) — Hewlett-Packard held a press briefing this afternoon at which they refused to answer any questions. HP CEO and President Mark Hurd, along with Mike Holston, a representative of Morgan Lewis, the law firm HP has retained to investigate HP’s leak investigation, each spoke at the press event. The main points: Patricia Dunn has resigned from HP’s board, effective immediately. Mark Hurd will take over her job as board chairman immediately, instead of in January 2007.

SAN JOSE, September 12, 2006 (PodTech News) — Hewlett-Packard said today Board Chair Patricia Dunn will step down from her post in January, to be replaced by CEO Mark Hurd. The move was prompted by a scandal involving an investigation Dunn authorized into board leaks to the media. Investigators ...

MENLO PARK, September 11, 2006 (PodTech News) - Gartner, Inc. Vice President Martin Reynolds said he thinks Hewlett-Packard Board Chair Patricia Dunn did the right thing to investigate leaks of proprietary HP information to the news media, and that he doesn’t think she knew the private investigative firm she retained would use pretexting to conduct the investigation. (Pretexting is the practice of getting a company to turn over consumer records by pretending to be the consumer in question.) HP has said the practice was used to obtain the personal phone records of board members and nine reporters. HP’s board met yesterday, and is meeting again late today, in the wake of investigations into the practice by the offices of the California Attorney General and the U.S. District Attorney’s office, Northern California District. PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau interviewed Reynolds to get his take on the role of HP Chair Patricia Dunn, who ordered the investigation into the leaks.

Vyomesh Joshi, who heads up Hewlett-Packard’s Imaging and Printing Group (the company’s jewel) says HP’s development of printing technology is putting pressure on the rest of the industry. “In printing, we are the Microsoft, we are the Intel,” he exclaimed. “If you want to come, you’ll have to OEM from ...

Sun has come out swinging with a major update of its UltraSparc line of microprocessors. IBM says the chips are narrow in capability and lock users into Sun’s Solaris operating system. But Sun, ever the vigilant problem-solver techie, says the T1 chip is a very lucrative answer to real world ...