While at the Alternative Car & Transportation Expo, I had the opportunity to eavesdrop on a conversation between former Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca and Dick Messer, director of the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, (a favorite place of mine [See the full post…]

The founder of Futuretext, a technology book publisher, is Ajit Jaokar and here he sits down with me to talk about the mobile Web. He wrote a book on that topic and is one of the world’s experts on mobile [See the full post…]

ScreencastsOnline.com is a popular site to learn new things on the Macintosh. Everyday Don fires up his Mac and teaches you to do something cool. Learn more about what’s behind this interesting business (yes, business, he quit his day job [See the full post…]

Amit Kothari, the founder of a Web 2.0 site that’ll bring you cool quotations, sits down with me for an interesting talk about developing such a service and trends in the Web industry.

SAN FRANCISCO, December 22, 2006 (PodTech News) — The Nintendo Wii has had a fairly successful rollout, even though it continues to be plagued by problems with the “Wiimote” controller. The problem is now taking the gamemaker to court. Another [See the full post…]

Disclaimer: Seagate sponsors my show, which I greatly appreciate — that sponsorship lets me continue bringing you all the other people and products you see here (no one else pays to be here). Here’s our second entry in a series [See the full post…]

At the Alternative Car & Transportation Expo in Santa Monica, Calif., alternative transportation vehicles using a variety of propulsion technologies were on display, including the ZX40 All Electric Vehicle, distributed in California by Miles Automotive Group. The vehicle is primarily [See the full post…]

Heather Champ is one of our favorite photographers. Not only is she the community contact at Flickr, but she’s the co-founder of JPG Magazine. Here Thomas Hawk and I follow her around as she shows off how she makes unique [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, December 21, 2006 (PodTech News) — The Federal Communications Commission took a step toward deregulation of video franchises. Good news for the telephone companies, and just in time for Christmas. Also, liquid lenses may finally be coming to [See the full post…]

Maryam sits down with Sarah Blow. She’s a programmer with a phone company in London and hated that she didn’t see many girl geeks at parties. Worse, she was accused of being a marketer, which rubbed her the wrong way. [See the full post…]

Are you an entrepreneur thinking about going for venture capital? Well, Philip Baddeley works with startups in Cambridge, England, and helps entrepreneurs know what to expect and prepare their pitches. I found him interesting to talk with, and he gave [See the full post…]

Ohio-based Myers Motors has developed an all-electric, three-wheeled, single occupant vehicle (SOV) capable of traveling speeds up to 70 mph for a distance of 30 miles and at a price under $25,000. The company’s mission is to transform transportation and [See the full post…]

Sherman Black, senior vice president and general manager, Enterprise Compute Business at Seagate, talks about market forces and technical challenges in designing smaller, cooler, high performance drives for enterprise data centers. Click here for transcript.

SAN FRANCISCO, December 20, 2006 (PodTech News) — Researchers have been working with an series of images to reveal what might be some of the oldest matter in the universe. Meanwhile, closer to home, Sony has settled in the case [See the full post…]

Ken Thompson studies how animals work together and applies that to finding ways for humans to work together better, too — he calls the methodology “BioTeaming.” I found his viewpoint to be different (he lives in Belfast, Ireland, so he [See the full post…]

Ken Thompson built a system for people to work together better based on his understanding of how animals work together better. Here he demos his system, which he calls the toolset for Bioteams. Click here for transcript.

What happens when we get a bunch of geeks get together on a Friday afternoon in London? The “Pissed as Newts” tour! Here’s a small part of the tour (we visited five pubs). You get to watch Hugh Macleod draw [See the full post…]

Sam Sethi is one of the most connected geeks in London (he used to run TechCrunch UK) and we sat down with him and a few of his friends for a fun breakfast. We talk about the five things geeks [See the full post…]

No gas, no noise. Zero emissions. Just plug it in and go. That’s the promise of ZAP (Zero Air Pollution) cars. These are 100 percent electric vehicles that can be charged at your home or office using a standard outlet. [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, December 19, 2006 (PodTech News) — Google and NASA are working together to bring the virtual astronaut experience to a computer near you. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are working [See the full post…]

With a body style designed by Lotus, the Tesla Roadster is capturing the attention of auto enthusiasts who want a sleek, stylish, environmentally-friendly sports car. At $100,000 these electric cars aren’t for everyone, but they are popular–their 2007 model sold [See the full post…]

Ashish Kashyap has over 12 years of experience spanning internet, television and radio businesses. He has created many innovative consumer applications, and also launched successful businesses from scratch. Prior to his appointment with MIH-Internet (India) as CEO, Ashish was the [See the full post…]

Sleek, sassy styling, high performance and a plush interior — those were just some of the descriptions Eco-Fueler‘s designer, John S. Green used to describe his company’s CNG vehicle during the L.A. Auto Show. The roadster can travel 0-60 mph [See the full post…]

In the third in a series of podcasts from WebEx, we speak with SugarCRM co-founder and CEO John Roberts. After a career working on proprietary customer relationship management systems, John developed some strong ideas about open source software. He’s putting [See the full post…]

Mickey Bly is General Motors‘s director of engineering for hybrid vehicles. He spoke with PodTech’s Matt Kelly at the L.A. Auto Show about company’s comittment to alternative fuel vehicles. He talked about the new Belt Alternator Starter hybrid system (BAS) [See the full post…]