Preflighting — now you can test (and pass or fail) a pdf based on your own selected criteria. And you can fix it easily, too. The functionality in Adobe Acrobat 8 will help with compatability across the variety of Adobe [See the full post…]

“Green tech is the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century,” says CalCars.org‘s Felix Kramer. I spoke with Kramer at the Alternative Car & Transportation Expo in Santa Monica, Calif., about the promise of PHEVs and “plugging in,” the non-partisan [See the full post…]

IMSafer helps protect children from online predators through a unique community-based system. It doesn’t play “Net Nanny” but rather warns you when your kids are doing something that could play into a predator’s hands. Hear about this unique system from [See the full post…]

In the tech world, if you’re selling something, it’s okay to talk about, but it’s far better to give a demo. A social media campaign launch is one way to bring in the tech angle. But giving a demo is [See the full post…]

Solar Electrical Systems is providing ways of getting us off the power grid and helping us become energy independent through residential, municipal, agricultural and commercial solar power systems. While at the Alternative Car & Transportation Expo in Santa Monica, Calif., [See the full post…]

Maxthon takes browsing to new levels. Here, Maxthon founding partner and senior vice president Netanel Jacobsson gives a demo of what makes Maxthon a browser you should consider using.

If you read Lockergnome, Chris Pirillo’s excellent set of newsletters for computer enthusiasts, you know that his favorite browser is Maxthon. Here we meet Maxthon founding partner and senior vice president Netanel Jacobsson, and we find out more about the [See the full post…]

Edwards Campaign – Scoble’s watching news happen, meaning he’s actually watching Washington Post National Political Correspondent Dan Balz type up the news that his paper readers will see tomorrow morning. Only, tomorrow morning is a long way off for Dan, [See the full post…]

In the flurry of Apple iPhone rumours, we take a moment to talk with two long time Mac watchers about the possibility and philosophy of the “iPhone” (not the new Cisco device, but the long-rumored and name-unknown phone that may [See the full post…]

People go to New Orleans to make memories that will last. So it turns out that’s at least one thing Robert and Maryam have in common with Senator Edwards. It isn’t surprising that Edwards would choose the city to kick [See the full post…]

People are justifiably curious who’s paying for Robert’s trip — journalists are usually free to write critically, at least in part, because they aren’t also being fed by the candidate they’re covering. It’s no different this time, as Robert pointed [See the full post…]

The Online Information conference is more than 30 years old. It is one of the top Library Science conferences in the world and we caught up with three speakers who are some serious Computer Science geeks. Dr. Hazel Hall, senior [See the full post…]

The Universal Electric Vehicle Corporation unveiled its Electrum Spyder during the Alternative Car & Transportation Expo in Santa Monica, Calif. The company combines design and engineering to develop high quality, innovative, zero-emission, all electric transportation for consumers and municipalities that [See the full post…]

AdBasix is a new company that helps companies — especially small ones that aren’t very Web-savvy — learn how to use Web advertising. Here, two founders of AdBasix show off how their service will let businesses track their advertising using [See the full post…]

Acrobat 8 Professional has new forms capabilities. Forms may not be new, but they are now much easier to deal with. The feature lets the Acrobat do the work of finding common fields and formatting them to save the user [See the full post…]

Have you subscribed to A Welsh View? We have, and Robert Gale, who writes that blog, finds the weirdest and funniest stuff. Recently I had a chance to walk around his hometown of Newport, Wales with him and I think [See the full post…]

Enlightened mobility is the mission statement of the ZENN Car, an electric car from Feel Good Cars of Toronto. ZENN stands for Zero Emissions No Noise. It’s a Low Speed Vehicle, but the company is in partnership with EEStor, Inc, [See the full post…]

Part II of our EMC interview with Elsevier focuses on the business drivers for their use of content management. Paul Leland talks about walking the halls, asking people across the business how they currently find and manage content; and how [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, December 27, 2006 (PodTech News) — The past year saw significant changes in the world of video gaming. In recent months, both Sony and Nintendo released new consoles (the Playstation 3 and the Wii), while earlier on, Microsoft’s [See the full post…]

A broad look at some of the features in the new Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional and the Creative Suite Premium 2.3 upgrade, which includes Acrobat 8 Professional.

Another in a series of interviews with Seagate‘s executives as it prepares for the big CES show in Las Vegas, January 8-10. Here you meet James Druckrey, senior vice president and general manager of Seagate’s branded solutions. Here he hints [See the full post…]

$70,000 might be a little much to pay for a new car for the average consumer, but with AC Propulsion’s modification to a non-emission electrical vehicle, the Toyota XB may be worth it to the environment. The company modifies the [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 26, 2006 (PodTech News) — 2007 Predictions — everybody’s doing it, and analysts do it for a living. Rob Enderle, founder and principal analyst with San Jose-based The Enderle Group, looks into his crystal ball to see [See the full post…]

If you’re a Content Management Architect or just want to hear a Content Management Architect talk about their planning and deployments of EMC Documentum across multiple applications, listen to this interview with Geoffrey McCaleb. McCaleb talks about what went well [See the full post…]

Plug-In Partners is a national, grass-roots initiative to demonstrate to automakers that a market for flexible-fuel, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) exists today. The mission of the organization’s national campaign is to garner support in the form of online petitions [See the full post…]