Anne Ascensio is the executive director of advanced design at General Motors. She’s responsible for the advanced design studios in Warren, Mich., Los Angeles and Birmingham, England. She provides a unique outlook on developing concept vehicles and plotting new directions [See the full post…]

Jeremiah Owyang interviews Matt Toll, director of segment marketing at Factiva, now a Dow Jones company, at Frost and Sullivan’s 2007 Sales and Marketing conference in Phoenix, Ariz.

Cleantech Venture Network is a group of venture capitalists dedicated to finding investments in “clean” technologies. PodTech’s Rio Pesino spoke with Cleantech Co-Founder Nick Parker about the organization’s vision in New York. The Cleantech Forum XII is right around the [See the full post…]

The Mazda Ryuga certainly had my attention at the North American International Auto Show. It’s the second of four concept cars that Mazda plans to unveil during the 2007 auto show season. The car’s rich color, sleek shape and salon-like [See the full post…]

Popular in Eurpope and Asia, the Smart Car is finally coming to America. Unfortunately, not until 2008. This cute, two-seater is affordably priced, starting at under $13k, so it benefits our wallets, and the planet, with the company’s exploration of [See the full post…]

The 1968-1969 Chevy Camaro is a classic, and for many, the ultimate expression of the ‘American Muscle Car.’ Taking its design cues from that legendary collectible, the new 2009 Camaro is one heck of a dream machine. Masculine and menacing, [See the full post…]

Imagine never having to fill up again with gasoline. That’s the promise of the new Chevy Volt, an electric car concept created by General Motors, which debuted at the North American International Auto Show. The flex fuel hybrid car is [See the full post…]

High-Volt-age is more like it. This concept car has everything — an attention to styling, a variable eco-friendly propulsion platform, StabiliTrak and room for four. I want one! Only a concept at this time, how long will it be before [See the full post…]

“Quiet vehicles with little to no emissions that look cool.” Those are the words of Honda‘s Chris Martin. I spoke with him at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit about the release of Honda’s latest hydrogen hybrid concept, [See the full post…]

Seagate was showing off — at the recent Consumer Electronics Show — when it spotlighted innovative Scion to demonstrate the kinds of entertainment and navigational systems that’ll soon be arriving in cars. Join Rob Pait, Seagate’s marketing manager for global [See the full post…]

Jordan Greenhall, CEO and co-founder of DivX, sits down with me at the Consumer Electronics Show. If you haven’t seen the latest from DivX, you should. Its new Stage6 video system brings dramatically better quality than, say, YouTube. Here Greenhall [See the full post…]

Here we meet with David Burks who is the senior manager of consumer electronics marketing at Seagate and get a look at what Seagate is doing for home entertainment. Love that media storage farm!

This unique concept, showcased in a Saab 9-3 Convertible, combines fossil-free bioethanol fuel (E100) with electric-only propulsion, using the advanced, two-mode hybrid system that Saab’s parent company, General Motors Corp., is co-developing with DaimlerChrysler and BMW Group. The Saab BioPower [See the full post…]

It seems pretty apparent after several days at the North American International Auto Show, that GM is serious about building cars that consumers will want. The re-emphasis on design is evident in the new Chevy Malibu, unveiled at the show. [See the full post…]

Check out this mash-up montage of audio from the NETGEAR booth at CES 2007. Click here for transcript.

John Aguilar, PodTech’s senior director of sales and operations, temporarily picks up a microphone in order to chat with Phil Wolff, managing editor of Skype Journal, about the impact Skype is making on the way people communicate around the world. [See the full post…]

The World Series of Video Gamers, sponsored by Intel, was a smash hit at CES. Gaming is one of the fastest growing areas in the entertainment industry, and thanks to Intel’s Core2Duo processors and the next generation of Core2Extreme and [See the full post…]

One of my favorite concept cars at the North American International Auto Show was the Saab Aero X. Its gull wing doors, turbine wheels and aerodynamic design is an homage to Saab’s airplane heritage. I had the opportunity to speak [See the full post…]

At the International CES in Las Vegas, Jim Hollingsworth, senior vice president of marketing for Gracenote, talks about the music database company and its new applications for cars, mobile phones, lyrics search and more. Transcript: Host: Michael Johnson – PodTech [See the full post…]

While I wasn’t around for the 1953 FJ Holden, Australia’s legendary automobile that compares in status to the 1957 Chevy in the U.S., I can appreciate its design. Speaking with Richard Ferlazzo, chief designer of GM Holden Ltd, I got [See the full post…]

Here, on the final day of the Retrevo Gang from the Seagate booth at the Consumer Electronics Show, Vipin Jain, Retrevo’s CEO, and Andrew Eisner, Retrevo’s biggest gadget freak get together to wrap up what they saw on the show [See the full post…]

For those of us who attend auto shows with any regularity, there’s a familiarity to the love/hate relationship we have with concept vehicles. They steal our hearts, promise us a brighter future, show us that anything is possible. Of course, [See the full post…]

Sports and technology were on display at ESPN’s stage at CES 2007 in Las Vegas. In recent years, the self-proclaimed “Worldwide Leader in Sports” has implemented podcasts, blogs and interactive video on its popular website and in video games created [See the full post…]

I had the opportunity to speak with Saturn‘s Jill Lajdziak at December’s Los Angeles Auto Show and she was expressive about the past year for Saturn and the renewal of the brand. During the North American International Auto Show in [See the full post…]

Video game developer 2K Sports unveiled a playable Xbox 360 version of its latest major league baseball game, MLB 2K7, at CES 2007. In this podcast, PodTech’s Rio Pesino talks to 2K Sports Marketing Coordinator Alex Hayden about improvements made [See the full post…]