Prior to the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), one news story getting a lot of traction was the conversion of a Saturn Hybrid into a Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) capable of 150 miles per gallon. So I was [See the full post…]

Join BearingPoint managing director Brian Hart to explore trading performance and risk management, and what has been learned from the recent credit crisis. The recent credit crisis has demonstrated to companies that there were certain capabilities they were lacking in [See the full post…]

During the North American International Auto Show, (NAIAS), I spoke with Clay Dean, global design director for Cadillac about the Provoq, the luxury SUV concept based on the Volt E-flex platform, unveiled at CES.

Another exciting discovery at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) was Ford’s EcoBoost platform and the unveiling of their Explorer America concept. Dan Kapp, Ford‘s Director of Powertrain Research, introduces me to this next-gen SUV and it’s performance enhancing [See the full post…]

On the floor of CES 2008 in Las Vegas, PodTech’s Michael Johnson speaks with Bruce Lidl, PR Manager, DivX, Inc. about DivX. In this podcast, we’ll found out about the oft-cited but little understood codec: what it is, and how [See the full post…]

Marketing Voices caught CNET‘s Rafe Needleman at the PodTech BlogHaus at CES in January. In a candid conversation, Needleman shares his thoughts on how he views “traditional” versus new media. Jones and Needleman discuss the frustration of journalists who wish [See the full post…]

The Consumer Electronics Show usually isn’t a big show for gamers, but this year’s event was expected to be different. CES dedicated more show floor space for its Gaming Showcase and there were even rumors that Microsoft’s Bill Gates would [See the full post…]

In an hour sit down with online journalists during the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), GM’s Chairman Rick Wagner answered questions on several topics from the joint partnership announcement the day before with Coskata, to Tata Motor’s Nano, recently [See the full post…]

Larry Hryb is one of Microsoft’s most famous bloggers. He works on the Xbox Live team and visited the CES BlogHaus to talk about what he’s seeing.

Andrew Eisner, head geek from Retrevo, the consumer electronics search engine, and Fred Davis, who helped start Wired Magazine, among other things, sit down for the second of two fun reports from the Consumer Electronics Show 2008 in Las Vegas.

One of the coolest things I saw at CES was SpaceTime.com, which brings us a 3D view of search and browsing. It is something you have to see to appreciate and Eddie Bakhash, CEO, gives us a great demo.

While at the BlogHaus at CES 2008 I had a little surprise: my first girlfriend from high school showed up. I hadn’t seen her since 1983. She’s now director of marketing at Plantronics, and we have a fun chat about [See the full post…]

During the North American International Auto Show, (NAIAS) one of the most important announcements I heard was made by GM Chairman Rick Wagoner, who announced a partnership with Coskata, a Warrensville, IL, biology-based ethanol producer. The company uses proprietary microorganisms [See the full post…]

If you haven’t heard of Doug Engelbart, you really should do some Google searches and get to know some of the things he’s invented. Let’s just start with the mouse. But here Doug Engelbart and Valerie Landau show off a [See the full post…]

HP might have started in a garage but lately they’ve moved their coolest stuff into a SmartHouse. We get a tour of the SmartHouse, which is really a place they can test out concepts and, also, demonstrate their latest products [See the full post…]

In his CES keynote, Intel CEO and President Paul Otellini introduced the concept of virtual Smash Mouth, and with a nod to the slew of Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) on view on the massive CES show floor, as well as [See the full post…]

We met Nitzan Shaer, COO of Mobivox, on the floor of the Consumer Electronics Show, where he showed us his service that can be used to make very low-cost calls (often free) around the world from your cell phone.

We sit down with Morgan Romine, aka Rhoulette, one of the leaders of an all-girl-gaming team named “FragDolls” with Fred Davis, one of the founders of Wired Magazine, among other things. We discover why none of the boys have been [See the full post…]

I aimed our cameras at HP‘s Director of Notebook Product Design, Stacy Wolff, while at CES 2008. We talk about HP’s latest design trends and its efforts to gain the upper hand in the computer design wars. (kje)HP, ces, bloghaus, [See the full post…]

We met up with Seagate‘s CEO, Bill Watkins, while hanging out in the CES BlogHaus that Seagate sponsored. Lots of fun and we get insights into what storage trends are coming at us in 2008.

Intel continues to develop smaller and smaller microprocessors, and to fit them into elegant platforms to run just about any kind of computer, from sophisticated server arrays to a brand-new class of ultra-portable devices, known as Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs). [See the full post…]

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 [See the full post…]

During the North American International Auto Show, (NAIAS) GM‘s Vice Chairman Bob Lutz joined a roundtable discussion with a group of online journalists including (but not limited to) Brian Dooley at HummerGuy.net, Lyle Dennis of GM-Volt.com, Joe LaMuraglia-Gaywheels.com, Vincent Nguyen [See the full post…]

Here Stephen DiFranco, VP of Sales and Marketing at AMD, gives us a tour around AMD’s booth and shows us several trends that one of the world’s largest semiconductor companies is seeing.

Andrew Eisner, head geek from Retrevo, the consumer electronics search engine, and Fred Davis, who helped start Wired Magazine, among other things, sit down for the first of two fun reports from the Consumer Electronics Show 2008(/kje) in Las Vegas.