This is probably Microsoft’s biggest CES ever with Windows Vista shipping in a few days and Bill Gates met with bloggers from Engadget, Gizmodo, Kotaku, PodTech.net, and Joystiq for a wide-ranging interview about everything from Bill’s speeding tickets to software [See the full post…]

Rob Pait, Seagate’s marketing manager for global consumer hard disc drive took a break at the PodTech Bloghaus during the start of the International CES to talk about the new line of small form factor drives unveiled by Seagate at [See the full post…]

It’s a novel concept — pay only for the time you use a car. That’s the business model of Flexcar, whose motto is to revolutionize transportation across America, one neighborhood at a time. I spoke with company representative Walter King, [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, January 6, 2007 (PodTech News) — The 2007 Consumer Electronics Show begins tomorrow night with a keynote by Microsoft Founder and Chairman Bill Gates. Catherine Girardeau takes a look at the CES schedule to see what the next [See the full post…]

Om Malik runs the GigaOm series of properties (some of our favorite blogs) and we sit down and have a nice chat about what he’s working on now and look back at 2006.

Ali Partovi, CEO of iLike.com, shows me his new service, which helps you find new music (it’s really cool!)

Meet Ali Partovi, CEO of iLike.com, which is an innovative new service that helps you find new music.

Intel is one of many companies attending CES 2007 in Las Vegas next week. PodTech Founder and CEO John Furrier visited with Intel’s Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, Sean Maloney to explore top tech-lifestyle trends for 2007 and the impact [See the full post…]

JoAnn Armenta is the Southern California coordinator for Clean Cities Coalition, a program administered by The Partnership. Its mission is to advance the nation’s economic, environmental, and energy security by supporting local decisions to adopt practices that contribute to the [See the full post…]

Larry Knight impressed me because of his spirit. His home had been destroyed in one of the poorer parts of New Orleans (Ninth Ward), but he was taking it all in stride – rebuilding his home. Gave me great optimism [See the full post…]

Meet the team behind Me.dium, an innovative new service coming soon, that will let you watch where your friends are surfing on the Internet. Robert Rich and Kimbal Musk, founders, tell you what’s behind their new service.

Me.dium.com is a lot of fun. You can watch your friends surf the Web and they can watch you. Here Kimbal Musk, Me.dium’s CEO, gives us a good runthrough.

One of the things I was studying is how the Edwards campaign would use bloggers. Here, John Edwards meets a variety of bloggers and videobloggers in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. You’ll see Steve Garfield and Chuck Olsen, videobloggers, in the background [See the full post…]

Alfred Thompson and Don Dodge, who blog for Microsoft, meet up with me at the John Edwards’ campaign stop in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and we talk a little bit about social media and how that’ll intersect with politics. New Hampshire [See the full post…]

Meet some of the Iowan bloggers, sit in on a meeting they had with John Edwards. Toward the end I left in a bunch of “b-roll” video of stuff behind the scenes, waiting for him to get off of the [See the full post…]

It’s become old hat to suggest that the world of media is changing faster than the old media companies, and that the computer and tech world — long accustomed to turning sharp corners quickly — has the advantage of momentum [See the full post…]

Los Angeles-based Left Coast Conversions is the brainchild of Gadget, the company’s chief tech dude, who started the endeavor because of his passion for a cleaner, more self-reliant world. His company’s motto: “converting the world, one EV at a time.” [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, January 4, 2007 (PodTech News) — As MacWorld approaches, it’s time to take stock of the rumors that have been building up. There are a few worth noting, though some Apple-watchers are impressed with the company’s improved ability [See the full post…]

Sanaz Ahari, program manager in charge of Microsoft’s Live.com home page, gives us a good demo of the things you’re able to do with Live.com, which is a host page for gadgets that’ll bring you news, games and lots of [See the full post…]

Maryam interviews Sanaz Ahari about what it’s like to work as a program manager on Microsoft’s Live.com team. She is responsible for the Live.com home page, which is pretty big shoes for anyone to fill.

While at the Alternative Car & Transportation Expo, I had a chance to talk to Bryon Bliss of Phoenix Motor Cars. Their new SUT is a zero-emission, all-electric sport utility truck, powered by Altairnano NanoSafe (TM) battery technology. It has [See the full post…]

Last week, I was invited to ride on Senator John Edwards’s plane as he visited four states (Louisiana, Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada) following his announcement that he is running for President in the 2008 election. Here I sat down [See the full post…]

While I was recording John Edwards in one of his many, many “exclusive” interviews last week, following his announcement that he’s running for President, I ran into some technical difficulties with the camera (battery life!). Luckily, I did have an [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, January 3, 2007 (PodTech News) — The finalized merger of BellSouth and AT&T included an unprecedented agreement with serious implications for network neutrality. Also, security issues set the year off to a jittery start, with a short-lived malware [See the full post…]

Paul Davis Restoration restores homes after disasters. Their new Tallahassee branch uses an “instant office” IT infrastructure made resilient, available, and secure with Symantec solutions. It’s designed for small businesses that want to focus on customers rather than infrastructure details. [See the full post…]