In this New York Times TechnoFile journalist Stephen C. Miller interviews Symantec Internet Safety Advocate, Marian Merritt on ways to keep your family safe on the Internet. More info at: www.symantec.com/familyresource

On June 1, Silicon Valley profiled itself as the future epicenter of solar power, energy efficiency and clean technologies at the Energy Summit 2007. Jacob and Desirae, two of my students at Stanford, attended to see with Silicon Valley’s leaders [See the full post…]

In this podcast, we interview Andrew Burton, Director of Product Management on Information Risk Management in today’s enterprise and the Symantec Information Foundation suite of products that helps organizations manage IT risk.

Join BearingPoint senior manager and technologist Ray Wilson as he explores why BI for IT is growing in demand. In this podcast, he discusses solutions and approaches for building a business intelligence layer to address regulatory requirements and to realize [See the full post…]

We walk around with Flickr-famous photographer (he’s also CEO of competitor Zooomr) Thomas Hawk at the second Maker Faire. If you’ve never been to a Maker Faire, this is a good chance to get a look at some of what [See the full post…]

GM’s Electrovan drove only once, but spawned the quest for hydrogen-powered vehicles that continues to this day. While at the GM Heritage Center in Sterling Heights, Mich., I got an introduction to the vehicle and its sister, the Electrovair.

Matthew Gertner, CTO of AllPeers, shows me how easy it is to share music and files with my friends using AllPeers.

Cedric Maloux, CEO of AllPeers, and Matthew Gertner, CTO talk with me about AllPeers and the burgeoning sharing market. AllPeers is a cool tool to send stuff to your friends.

Many of you may remember GM’s Parade of Progress, a traveling road show to bring science and technology exhibits to the people of America, contained in a series of Futurliners. The show began in 1936 and ended in 1956. For [See the full post…]

A former high-tech genius, Shiloh Anderson struggles against his addiction to technology. In an effort to free himself, he abandons all forms of technology introduced after 1971, the year the first mass-produced answering machine was available to the public. Friends, [See the full post…]

While at the GM Heritage Center in Sterling Heights Mich., the HC manager introduced me to two Cadillac concept cars that debuted during the Motorama period in the 1950’s, including the Cadillac Cyclone.

Kimberly D.C. Trapp is Industry Liaison Officer of Lehigh University’s Center of Optical Technologies with a charter to advance research and applications of optical and optoelectronic technologies. With close to 25 years of experience with Agere Systems, AT&T Bell Labs [See the full post…]

Alex Iskold, founder and CEO, shows me the AdaptiveBlue browser plugin at the Supernova conference. Pretty cool way to hook into a bunch of Web 2.0 services.

Alex Iskold, founder and CEO, and Andy Roth, chief quality officer of AdaptiveBlue, tell me about their browser plugin at the Supernova conference. Pretty cool way to hook into a bunch of Web 2.0 services.

Listen to Tom Petry from Collier County School district and learn how they streamlined the high cost of maintaining PC’s by using centralized remote administration. Learn more about HP server blades

Here, co-founder of Spock, Jay Bhatti, gives us a demo of how Spock makes searching for people more powerful, easier, and more fun.

Spock is a search engine that won’t compete with Google, except in one area: searching personal information about people. Want to find an old friend? Look up a job candidate’s background? Find a person’s blog or other social networking page? [See the full post…]

In this podcast, Steve Levine, manager of the WebEx Connect Developer Community, is in conversation with Rohit Deep, senior architect at WebEx. They talk about the origins of WebEx Connect, the design goals, and the features that make WebEx Connect [See the full post…]

I’ve been looking forward to this show for a while. I discovered this band several months ago and fell in love with their raw, bluesy, lo-fi sound. They’re a two-piece (piano/organ and drums) and their home base is in Louisville, [See the full post…]

David Doane, president and CEO of PresenceID, talks with Brad Baldwin about identity transparency and growing trend towards the virtual workplace. Doane proposes the possibility of ultimately decoupling not only users from the physical network environment, but also allowing all [See the full post…]

While at the GM Heritage Center in Sterling heights, Mich., HC manager Greg Wallace took me on a tour down Cadillac lane. So much chrome and wide wall tires, I was in car heaven!

Just a week after the debut of the iPhone, about 300 developers gathered at the Adobe offices in San Francisco this weekend for a three-day developers camp/hackathon. The goal was to hack together applications for the iPhone. Apple doesn’t allow [See the full post…]

In designer and entrepreneur Lotta Jansdotter’s world, sustainability is about using a product over and over again. She creates tote bags, table linens, ceramics, stationery, books and much more – all with funky and organic (yet simple) patterns. Her products [See the full post…]

In this podcast, Prasad Shroff, product line manager at NETGEAR, announces the company’s Storage Central Turbo, fast network storage for up to two SATA drives. It has high-peformance gigabit speed, easy-to-use expandable network storage, all at an affordable price.

Here’s a short version of just the highlights of the interview and demo I filmed with Jim Greer, co-founder of Kongregate, a hot new video game distributor.