The San Francisco International Film Society has a new director, Graham Leggat. He (and about 50 other people, he tells me) put on a spectacular opening night for the 50th Anniversary. It’s the oldest film festival in America and it’s [See the full post…]

It’s exciting to see young engineers excited about designing new green energy technologies. Meet one of them: Adam Kreek. Adam designed and built a (small scale!) biodiesel plant in the basement of my university building, which takes waste oils and [See the full post…]

Silicon Valley is buzzing, but not just because of software and hardware investments. The new boom is in green energy technologies. James Horn is an investment manager for Noventi, one of the many Venture Capitalist firms excited about the energy [See the full post…]

On your next visit to the dentist, you might notice a computer monitor to the side of that ergonomic chair. That’s because software designed to manage a dental practice from companies like Dentrix is being used not only to automate [See the full post…]

The President of the Web Marketing Association, Bill Rice believes that using social media on Website should be a “no brainer.” But in many industries like financial services, social media is tough to sell. In an interview at the AdTech [See the full post…]

GM‘s Creative Designer, Chris Webb, is a colorful character. His job is to find the hottest trends in color and to translate that to vehicles. His work is evident in the Chevy Beat, Groove and Trax, the three concept Global [See the full post…]

Here we continue our Photowalk around Half Moon Bay with a 600mm monster lens where we take photos of people looking at tide pools, stunt bikers jumping over rocks, and more surfers. All while meeting some of the 25 people [See the full post…]

You may like them or you may not, but nuclear power plants will no doubt be proposed as alternatives to coal-fired power plants. Yes, the nuclear waste problem is significant, but nuclear plants emit negligble amounts of green house gases, [See the full post…]

Beyond the help desk, there are a number of technologies that have been around for years, but today there are more and more intuitive tools that allow for better automation. Now the IT organization can turn the dial, depending on [See the full post…]

EquaTerra needed a better way to manage its geographically-dispersed IT assets. With WebEx System Management, EquaTerra’s one-person IT department gained full control over global asset management without hiring additional employees or relying on user intervention. WebEx System Management enabled the [See the full post…]

Fred Kanter is part genius, part visionary and part eccentric. He’s the kind of guy who makes you believe he could move mountains by his belief in the power of his ideas and the sheer strength of will to bring [See the full post…]

Pinebox Serenade hails from Denton, Texas. This performance at Off Broadway was their first appearance in St. Louis. They play a dark, deep country-blues-rock style that can haunt you for days.

Ely Greenfield, Flex architect, David Wadhwani, vice president of Flex Product Line, and Mike Chambers, senior product manager, developer relations, walk to the whiteboard and give us a look at Adobe Flash’s architecture and give further details about what is [See the full post…]

Ely Greenfield, Flex architect, David Wadhwani, vice president of Flex Product Line, sit down with me for a little announcement: Adobe is taking Flex open source. Here Ely and David explain what moving Flex to Open Source means for developers.

Yet another concept from Kia, the Soul, a crossover sport utility vehicle. During the New York International Auto Show, Alex Fedorak once again provides the introduction to this design produced by Kia’s California and Korean design studios.

St. Louis holds it’s own in the history of the Alt Country movement. Alt Country, also known as Alternative Country is basically a hybrid of traditional country and punk and/or rock and roll. Uncle Tupelo, for instance, was one of [See the full post…]

For most of us, connecting technology systems is a bit outside our normal capacity. That’s why there are home automation dealers and integrators who can connect separate technologies in the home into a single automated system. Like other tech specialists, [See the full post…]

Hear more on the concept of Business Technology and how HP helps customers focus on business outcomes.

Beijing as a backdrop was more than symbolic for IDF in 2007. Intel does more than manufacture in China. The company does some heavy research and it plans to do more around mobility and Tera-scale chips. Although Intel has held [See the full post…]

In this first part of the eighth Photowalking show I’ve done with Thomas Hawk 25 photo geeks met one March morning to shoot with a massive 600mm F4.0 lens. Thomas Hawk showed off some prints he made with his new [See the full post…]

Krishna Vedati, CEO, and Srinivas Mandyam, CTO of Plusmo, show me how their mobile portal lets you get a variety of services delivered right to your phone.

Krishna Vedati, CEO, and Srinivas Mandyam, CTO of Plusmo tell me all about their mobile phone portal where you can get live sports scores and more.

Mike Mankowski, vice president and senior analyst for Tier 1 Research, believes SAAS is the future for companies who want to implement more efficient, cost effective software solutions. Defining what SAAS is and what the future trends are, Mankowski talks [See the full post…]

As an avid antique and classic car buff, I was thrilled to meet with Bruce Benson, chief operating officer of the LeMay Museum, during the New York International Auto Show. At the show, the museum had on display several cars, [See the full post…]

Shelly Heiden, executive vice president for Plateau Systems, a leading provider of software for developing, managing, rewarding and optimizing organizational skills and talent, chats with PodTech’s Jennifer Jones about the many benefits of software as a service. At a recent [See the full post…]