At Hybridfest in Madison, Wisc., I finally got the chance to ride in the Kurrent, the LSV from American Electric. A NEV with top speeds of 25 mph, the Kurrent costs .02 cents per mile to operate and [See the full post…]

Imagine a world in which our houses coexist with the environment, filtering and harvesting rainwater and grey water. And imagine if these houses were mind-blowing and beautiful.

Meet architects Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott who have created this – a [See the full post…]

Symantec Group Product Manager Lee Weiner provides an overview of data loss prevention and how companies can work to keep valuable information within their organizations. For more information, visit the Enterprise Security section at:

www.symantec.com [See the full post…]

Dr. Elliot Soloway has taught some interesting people in his classroom at the University of Michigan. How about Larry Page, co-founder of Google? Among others. He’s been named “Teacher of the Year,” but that’s not why I talked with him. [See the full post…]

I love this interview with Scott Elrod, manager of the hardware systems group at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC, for short). PARC, under the creative and enthusiastic leadership of Elrod, has ventured into the clean technology area. Recently, PARC [See the full post…]

Don’t let your computer come to this.

For more videos and more information, visit: Symantec’s Safety Town. [See the full post…]

Tools are tools, whether you’re using a bow and arrow, a GPS unit, or a search engine. Google is bringing together all the technology tools at hand to help non-profit organizations tell their stories in the vivid, 3-D language of [See the full post…]

Last week, we talked with Nick DeMonner, Lisa Hansen and Mike Minardi about the cookbook they’ve written that is aimed at start-ups. This week, we learn about their San Jose start-up, called BzzyBee. It’s an online collaborative writing tool [See the full post…]

Jeremiah Owyang speaks with Mary Alice Colvin, senior marketing consultant and Kendrick Efta, founder and practice manager of Allyis, at the Internet Strategy Forum Summit in Portland in July 2007.

Social networking is important to many corporations, but adoption [See the full post…]

Lynn Hershman Leeson has twenty-six venues to show her film, Strange Culture all over the world. She’s also nearly finished editing a documentary she’s been working on for forty years, called Women + Art = Revolution. There are trailers [See the full post…]

I ran into Anurag Nigam, CEO and co-founder of IncSync recently, and got a quick demo of their 411Sync service. It’s a really easy and quick way to move any kind of information onto your cell phone without requiring any [See the full post…]

Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is today’s simplest marketing and publishing tool allowing content to get distributed fast and efficiently.

Robyn Tippins, Yahoo’s community manager for MyBlogLog tells Jennifer Jones just how to make RSS work best.

Putting it on [See the full post…]

Roz Savage launched her boat, The Brocade August 12th at 7:00 a.m. from Point Saint George, located in the town of Crescent City, Calif. (on the Oregon border). Roz’s launch was postponed nearly a month due to unfavorable weather conditions. [See the full post…]

Burton Richter is professor emeritus at Stanford University, a 1976 Nobel Prize winner and an expert on nuclear energy. This is the last in our five-part series with Richter. [See the full post…]

Mark Vickroid makes his own guitars from cigar boxes. Some of them have little amps built in. I first came across him playing in the street when I was shooting the RFT St. Louis Music Showcase in June. His guitars [See the full post…]

You might know Marc Canter as the founder of Macromedia but that’s his past. You probably don’t know what he’s thinking about now as head of Broadband Mechanics, which makes social networks. We talk about that and a whole lot [See the full post…]

Charles Coonradt is the author of the book The Game of Work. Coonradt had an epiphany one day when he watched how engaged and excited people were when playing basketball on a work break. His thought was why couldn’t [See the full post…]

Join BearingPoint manager and technologist Zahra Rahemtulla, as she presents a case for use cases and their role as an effective vehicle to map out activities an IT organization should put in place for a proactive approach to service delivery. [See the full post…]

One of the founders of Plug In America, Paul Scott, was on hand at the West Coast launch of the Vectrix, the new zero-emissions vehiclez, (ZEV). I had the opportunity to talk with him about the new scooter, [See the full post…]

VC are investing more money than ever before. But is it a good time to investment? There is a dearth of good exit strategies. The IPO market is still moribund and there are fewer large companies that are interested in [See the full post…]

Andrew Fanara, Team Leader for the Energy Star Products Group with the EPA, discusses how Energy Star impacts computing platforms from both a client and a data center perspective.

Related stories:

Intel, IntelMooresLaw [See the full post…]

Part four of our interview with nuclear energy expert, Stanford University Professor Emeritus and 1976 Nobel Prize Winner Burton Richter. [See the full post…]

Doba offers a Web-based product sourcing platform connecting eCommerce retailers with wholesale suppliers who drop ship products. Retailers can see inventory and integrate a complete photo and product description database into their own web sites or even eBay.

Jeremy Hanks [See the full post…]

Robert Scoble interviews IBM’s patent lawyer David Kappos about software patent reform and open source patents.

Also: Parts 1 and 2 of Aron Pruiett’s report on a panel discussion about the the future of the Internet in 20 years. [See the full post…]

Tom Foremski talks with David Thompson, CEO of Genius, an on demand software company with a unique technology that enables sales people to track leads. Genius also announces its first conference, Sales 2.0, in San Francisco at the end [See the full post…]