What would your response be to this scenario: you’re watching television and you forget that it’s being distributed to you on the Internet. Who won? TV or the Web? James McQuivey covers television and media technologies for Forrester Research. He spoke with PodTech’s Jason Lopez about the current state of ...

PodTech’s Jason Lopez and Kevin Edwards roamed the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show floor where it seems Apple rules–in certain product categories–without even being there. In this 18 minute podcast Kevin and Jason check out a few of the many products made for iPods/iPhones and talk about Apple at CES ...

What is human computer interaction? Prof John Canny of UC Berkeley explains that human computer interaction is making computers (technology) available to people. Macintosh is an early example of this. According to John Steve Jobs of Apple was a key entrepreneur and agent in making this happen, but lot ...

A strikingly odd and obtuse conversation with Andrew Keen and Steve Gillmor. Steve rants on how the iPhone is changing the Universe and how Steve Jobs plans on bringing down the cell phone cartel. Keen makes plans on showing off his derriere if Hillary Clinton doesn’t win the upcoming presidential ...

Will the use of online apps change the way people work? That’s a question discussed by a panel at theOffice 2.0 conference, moderated by Om Malik from GigaOm: Steven Aldrich, VP of strategy & innovation, Intuit; Denis Browne, senior VP, SAP Labs; Danny Kolke, CEO of Etelos; Richard McAniff, corporate ...

On Wednesday, September 5, Steve Jobs announced several new iPods and made the stunning announcement that he was lowering the price of the 8GB iPhone from $599 to $399. This may be good news for potential iPhone buyers but it was a punch in the stomach for some early adopters ...

On Tuesday, August 7th, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced a new crop of iMacs as well as new versions of iLife and iWork software. Larry Magid shows the new Macs as well as his favorite iLife feature – the newest version of iMovie with its revolutionary “skimming” function that ...

Apple is finally getting its game on. The company is partnering up with video game giant Electronic Arts and id Software to bring gaming to the Mac platform. The deals were announced during Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ keynote at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, ...

Harry McCracken is the editor-in-chief of PC World. He recently resigned when his publisher asked him not to publish an article critical of Apple, fearing Steve Jobs’ reputation for holding long grudges and not wanting to risk the loss of Apple’s advertising dollars. Things are tough in the publishing ...

In the second part of the Apple WWDC 2007 Steve Jobs keynote, we get more demos of Leopard (OS X 10.5), including Core Animation, BootCamp, Time Machine and iChat, as well as showing Safari for Windows, and apps for the iPhone.

In part 1 of the Apple WWDC 2007 Steve Jobs Keynote, Electronic Arts and ID Software showed new games and a commitment to the Macintosh OS X platform.

Note: Due to technical issues, this podcast is not up to PodTech quality standards. Additional coverage from WWDC 2007 will ...

The Apple WWDC 2007 keynote with Steve Jobs is this Monday, June 11 at Moscone Center in San Francisco. Be sure to come to PodTech where, as like last year, you can start listening to the Apple WWDC Steve Jobs Keynote podcast before Steve Jobs finishes speaking. The ...

Apple’s iPhone has created quite a bit of hype in India since Steve Jobs unveiled it in January of this year. (India’s mobile phone market is growing by a few million subscribers every month.) I caught up with two techies — Thiyagarajan (Rajan) and Rajiv, who have their fingers on ...

On February 10th, Paul Kedrosky wrote an editorial for The Wall Street Journal in which he questioned Steve Jobs’ claims that DRM-free music distribution is in the best interests of the record labels. He feels that it is a big risk for the labels and that Apple should instead ...

Steve Jobs recently stirred up the music world by encouraging the record labels to sell music without DRM. To get an independent opinion on the concept, we talked with Mike Goodman, the manager of digital entertainment services at market research firm The Yankee Group.

Twelve b-i-l-l-i-o-n dollars in cash and more coming in with a billion in profit for the last quarter…. With these record earnings, what will Steve Jobs decide to do with all that crazy iPod money? Apple Voices’ Michael Klinger and Kevin Edwards discuss potential ways Apple could spend the ...

Yesterday I sat down with Sun Microsystems‘ CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, and Tim Marsland, Sun’s CTO in charge of Solaris, and had a wide-ranging discussion from his pitch to Steve Jobs as to why Apple should include the Java runtimes on the new iPhone to Schwartz’ surviving a train wreck ...

Apple CEO Steve Jobs suggested in his MacWorld 2007 keynote that the new iPhone can connect to the Internet via WiFi. Really? And Cingular is okay with that? A reading of the description on Apple’s Web site seems to confirm it. “iPhone is fully multi-tasking, so you can read a ...

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 ...

Peter Wilson and Steve Yegge give me a tour around Google’s Kirkland office. Fun tour, we even interview the chef.

LINK: http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/static.py?page=why-wa-ki.html

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 ...

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 ...

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.