Size matters — especially when you put it in the context of an urban area with traffic congestion and parking capacity. That’s the thinking behind Spokane, Wash.-based Commuter Cars Corp. The company has unvelied an ultra-narrow, high performance zero-emissions vehicle, [See the full post…]

Hu Yoshida, CTO of Hitachi Data Systems, invited Jeremiah Owyang (web-strategist.com) to capture an historic lunch with Jack Harker, one of the innovators of Data Storage, accompanied by his son John Harker. Claus Mikkelsen and Eric Tibbard also join in. [See the full post…]

Sony unveiled its new “Home” service for the Playstation 3 at the Game Developers Conference this week. The 3D online avatar-based world will allow PS3 users to chat, share content, shop and join games online. PodTech’s Rio Pesino spoke with [See the full post…]

At RSA 2007 in San Francisco, network security podcaster Martin McKeay headed a series of discussions about the new tools available to consumers, and how far we’ve come. Joining McKeay are Dan Mathews and Brae Legg of Verizon Business.

In the race to bring to market the first scalable PHEV, it all comes down to developing the best battery that delivers the furthest range, longest life and lowest cost. And one company may have it figured out. Altairnano, a [See the full post…]

Here Brian Walsh, founder of Castfire, gives us a good demo of how new media businesses can manage their video and audio content and make better use of it with Castfire’s mediacasting platform.

Are you a new-style media business (like PodTech)? If you are, you’re probably trying to manage tons of video and audio content. We sit down with Brian Walsh, founder of Castfire, to talk about how his system helps media (er, [See the full post…]

David Weinberger is co-author of Cluetrain Manifesto. In this podcast, Weinberger discusses the ways in which business will work in the newly connected marketplace. Speaking at the New Communications Forum in Las Vegas, Weinberger believes that a generational shift has [See the full post…]

Last weekend, the “Witness to War: Documentary Perspectives World War II to Iraq” was programmed by the inestimable and reliable Tom Luddy. He has had a long and varied career in the business that has, in part, resulted in him [See the full post…]

At RSA 2007 in San Francisco, network security podcaster Martin McKeay headed a series of discussions examining the latest communication tools like Skype, IM, and ICQ and enterprise security. McKeay talks with Cindy Bellefeuille, Security Solutions, Verizon Business; Rich Mogul, [See the full post…]

The Firecracker Press is a small boutique design shop in St. Louis, unique because they also print their own work on antique letter presses. Eric Woods, the proprietor, gave me a tour. Much of the design is done using modern [See the full post…]

This Symantec podcast provides a summary of the February 2007 IT Risk Management Report, available for download at: www.symantec.com/riskreport. More information at: Symantec.com

One of the new technologies that has me very excited is the promise of V2G, or Vehicle to Grid, technology, where PHEV’s plug into the electric grid to help handle periods of peak energy demand. In this second of a [See the full post…]

Here we continue the tour of the Stanford Linear Accelerator by Bebo White. Follow photographer Thomas Hawk as he captures some great images of this wonderful building (the longest in the U.S.).

Bebo White, one of the authors of the first U.S. Web site at the Stanford Linear Accelerator, takes us on a tour of the longest building in the United States (maybe the world) with photographer Thomas Hawk and blogging guru [See the full post…]

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Smart lighting makes that “old” light switch cool again. It also saves you money as you conserve power. Ed Ryan and Scott Moulton at Control4 talk about how little, everyday tasks can become conveniences with Smart Lighting. With Control4 “scenes,” [See the full post…]

In the first in a two-part series, I examine the emerging “Vehicle to Grid,” or V2G technology, where Plug-in Electric Vehicles use their excess battery power to recharge the electrical grid during periods of peak demand. Several energy utilities are [See the full post…]

Email and collaboration services were a frustration for Northwestern University‘s student government. The assembly brought the problem to the administration a year ago, specifically recommending Google Apps as a potential solution. The school, now partnering with Google to address the [See the full post…]

Dealing with photos, particularly off of your cell phone, is often a pain. Backing them up, getting them onto your PC, and doing other things isn’t easy. Sharpcast does all that and more, and here, Gibu Thomas, CEO of Sharpcast, [See the full post…]

Here I talk with Sharpcast CEO Gibu Thomas, who tells me about his new business aimed at making it easier to synchronize files across multiple devices.

Mentor Associates Founder Jack Carroll speaks with Dennis Wood about sales organizations in startups. He addresses questions such as: What is missing in most startup sales organizations? What to look for when hiring a sales executive? What are the most [See the full post…]

A Symantec Security Response podcast featuring the top blog postings from Symantec Security Response engineers in Janaury 2007. This podcast features blog summaries from Amado Hidalgo, Eric Chien, Dave Cole, Elia Florio, Greg Ahmad & Han Lau. More information at: [See the full post…]

Pokey LaFarge is a young-up-and-coming musician who plays the Ragtime Blues. I got to sit down with him to talk and he explained what the Ragtime Blues was. Pokey hails from Louisville, K.Y. and was in St. Louis recently to [See the full post…]

SF Bay Pediatrics has been using Google Apps since last December for the kind of non-sensitive communications that keeps a clinic running smoothly. Related Stories: GoogleApps