Mark Lucovsky runs the Ajax Search service at Google and sits down for both an in-depth interview about what he’s been working on, but then pulls out some cool demos of ways you can add search to your blog that’ll [See the full post…]

Green Car Journal‘s 2nd Annual Green Car of the Year was awarded to the Toyota Camry Hybrid at the L.A. Auto Show. Voted on by a panel of judges including Carroll Shelby, Carl Pope, Francis Beinecke, Jean-Michel Cousteau [See the full post…]

The design studios of seven automakers competed in a Design Challenge at the L.A. Auto Show. The competition combined wood, alloys, glass, rubber and other materials to create 100 percent recyclable roadsters of the future. The eco-friendly vehicles were [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, December 15, 2006 (PodTech News) — Al Gore addressed the American Geophysical Union here Wednesday, on the same day as several recently-published studies on climate change were also in the news. Gore’s comments to the scientific gathering focused [See the full post…]

Services like Gmail hit the market after their developers reengineered the solution to “work” the way the consumer expects the service to work today. Josh Coates, CEO of Berkeley Data Systems, describes his approach to creating Mozy.com, [See the full post…]

Home and small business surveillance systems are usually associated with lots of wiring, expensive installations, complicated network settings, and long-term contracts. Andrew Hartsfield, CEO of WiLife, tells Brad Baldwin that today it’s possible to add a high-quality surveillance [See the full post…]

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger promoted alternative fuel vehicles with a speech at the 100th annual Los Angeles Auto Show. Flanked by alternative fuel cars and the automakers that produced them, the governor touted California as the leader in environmental protection [See the full post…]

IT departments’ work is increasing in complexity at the same time those departments are becoming more vital to every aspect of an organization’s operations. In this first in a series of podcasts, Sarah Meyer, solution director for service availability at [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, December 14, 2006 (PodTech News) — Samsung’s plan to introduce its OneDRAM fusion memory in 2007 could mean much speedier smartphones. The company announced the device this week, amid the year-end predictions from analysts and enthusiasts for everything [See the full post…]

We sit down with StumbleUpon‘s chief architect, Garrett Camp, and David Feller, VP of marketing, and talk about the success Stumbleupon has seen (about 1.5 million users in just a few months) as well as get a look at [See the full post…]

Ever have half an hour to just waste and wondered what cool stuff is there on the Internet? Well, StumbleUpon is the answer. They have 1.5 million people who are adding sites and rating them. It makes for a fun [See the full post…]

Julie Beamer, GM‘s director of fuel cell commercialization, expands on GM’s Project Driveway, the company’s comprehensive testing of its fourth-generation fuel cell system, Chevrolet Equinox. Speaking with PodTech’s Matt Kelly at the L.A. Auto Show, she also discussed [See the full post…]

A large percentage of the world’s email is sent using the Sendmail protocol, which just celebrated its 25th anniversary, so I sat down with Eric Allman, founder of Sendmail, to talk about what’s happened in the 25-year history of [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, December 13, 2006 (PodTech News) — BlackBerry v. BlackJack – a new lawsuit says Samsung is playing games with names. Also, security patches from Microsoft, a security breach at UCLA, increased Internet controls in China, a long-term threat [See the full post…]

“You don’t have to go broke to go green,” said Jill Lajdziak, general manager of Saturn. I spoke with her after GM Chairman Rick Wagoner delivered the L.A. Auto Show keynote, announcing the company’s plans for a diverse portfolio [See the full post…]

Design and technology were the themes as Troy Clarke, president of GM North America unveiled some of GM’s 2008 lineup during the L.A. Auto Show, including the company’s first mid-size hybrid vehicle, the Saturn Aura Green Line, as well [See the full post…]

“The technical hurdles are real but we believe they are surmountable.” During his keynote address at the L.A. Auto Show, General Motors Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner announced that the company has begun work on a Saturn Vue plug-in [See the full post…]

NETGEAR makes a lot of the world’s WiFi devices, among other consumer electronics gadgets. Since it’s getting close to CES time, we thought we’d come over and meet up with Patrick Lo, CEO of NETGEAR.

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SAN FRANCISCO, December 12, 2006 (PodTech News) — In the news today, Nintendo’s Wii surprises the world with its first lawsuit — it’s not an injury! In Vienna, Mozart’s works have been brought into the digital age, and they’re now [See the full post…]

In this second in the series of podcasts from WebEx, we hear from Brian Curry, vice president of business services at AOL. He talks about how instant messaging has made it’s way into the workplace, and how it [See the full post…]

Becky Robertson is The Road Warrior, a stay-at-home mom in Georgia until she decided to get into real estate. To do so, she went high tech, and created an office for herself in her BMW 740. Becky is featured in [See the full post…]

Given the Marketing Voices community requests, metrics for consumer-generated media and listening centered marketing are the core of my conversation with CMO of Nielsen Buzzmetrics, Peter Blackshaw. Metrics is the key challenge for all PodTech client companies, and especially for [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, December 9, 2006 (PodTech News) — Recent headlines suggest that it’s getting harder and harder for citizens in Iran to visit Web sites like the open-source online encyclopedia Wikipedia and even the online home of The New York [See the full post…]

At the inaugural (Charles River Ventures) CRV Entrepreneur Idol, presented at Stanford Graduate School of Business, George Zachary of CRV presents to Stanford MBA students about today’s state of early stage venture capital, the rise of consumer Internet businesses, and [See the full post…]

“We want people to understand how we hear things. In these days of media fragmentation, email and voicemail, people mostly pay attention to the first 30 seconds of what they hear.” That’s what George Zachary of CRV says about the [See the full post…]