Sports and technology were on display at ESPN’s stage at CES 2007 in Las Vegas. In recent years, the self-proclaimed “Worldwide Leader in Sports” has implemented podcasts, blogs and interactive video on its popular website and in video games created by game developer EA Sports. PodTech’s Rio Pesino spoke ...

This fourth in the series of podcasts from WebEx features a conversation with Bill Appleton, chief technical officer and founder of Dream Factory. His background as a developer gives him unique insights into the world of on-demand software, and he shares those insights in this discussion.

Jefferson Graham is a technology reporter for USA Today. Along with Ed Baig, Jeff co-produces a weekly video podcast called Talking Tech. That program is one of the most popular podcasts on iTunes. Graham speaks with Inside Digital Media about his podcast and the tech industry.

Lee Gibbons talks about how Podango plays in the space by offering a content distribution platform. He shares his vision on where the future of content delivery is going, and he predicts a future where all content, not just the “hits,” will be able to find an audience ...

IBM’s mainframe team recently did an experiment on YouTube with branded entertainment. IBM podcasting really hit the mark with the developerworks group. The group goes into detail about their corporate blogging and podcasting guidelines.

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 ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES, September 22, (PodTech News) — This week, The Walt Disney Company saw $1 million in revenue from 125,000 sales of digital movies oniTunes, proving — at least for now — that consumers will pay to download and watch digital content. That’s good news for the crowd of entrants in the video download arena, which seems to be growing every day. The latest is BitTorrent, the peer-assisted content delivery system, which is launching its own movie download website sometime in the fourth quarter.

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO, September 9, 2006 (PodTech News) — Anyone who calls his company Pioneers of the Inevitable has got to be either deluded or a visionary. Rob Lord is clearly the latter. He’s worked on projects and started companies, including Winamp, that have been acquired by AOL and Yahoo. In a loft he calls the “songbird nest” in San Francisco’s Mission district, the serial digital media entrepreneur is quietly incubating his latest, and potentially greatest, project. Songbird aims to play not just media, but the entire media web. PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau talked with Rob at the Atlas Cafe to find out more.

LOS ANGELES, September 6, 2006 (PodTech News) — For the second time in as many weeks, SpiralFrog, the new ad-supported online music service debuting in beta in December, announced an agreement with a major music label. This time, it’s with British-owned EMI Group, PLC. The free-to-consumer service differs significantly from the pay-per-download service championed by iTunes by being entirely funded from advertising, with ad revenues shared among the labels. Just last week, SpiralFrog and Universal Music Group entered into a similar agreement. Lance Ford is SpiralFrog’s chief sales and marketing officer. He spoke with PodTech’s Matt Kelly.

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.