Katie Gerrigan’s documentary film, Feeling Fuelish?, highlights her trip from L.A. to Chicago, via Route 66, in a Toyota Prius. I spoke with her at Hybridfestin Madison, Wisc.

Western Canada is very rich in heavy oils. These thick oils that have the consistency of molasses or even peanut butter are rather tricky to produce in an environmentally friendly manner. However, with our strong dependency in the next several [See the full post…]

Almost overshadowed by the reaction to Apple’s iPhone price cuts and its new iPods was the news that Apple and Starbucks reached a deal where anyone will be able to use iTunes at Starbucks without having to pay Wifi fees. [See the full post…]

Ken Burns was at the Telluride Film Festival last weekend, where I spoke with him on the street, before he came to San Francisco for a special screening of his new series, The War, this weekend at the Letterman Digital [See the full post…]

Vice President of Symantec Recovery & Security Don Kleinschnitz discusses data loss and database security, as well as provides an overview of the 3.0 version of Symantec Database Security. For more information, visit www.symantec.com.

We had our first live show last week (“Live-Fi Saint Louis“), and it went really well. We’ll probably do it again. This is a performance from that show where we spent an hour with Jonathan Baer.

Rex Briggs, CEO and founder of Marketing Evolution, tells Jennifer Jones zhow marketers can find the true fans of their brand, which is what hypertargeting is all about. Briggs tells Marketing Voices how to use natural language and technology to [See the full post…]

Will the use of online apps change the way people work? That’s a question discussed by a panel at theOffice 2.0 conference, moderated by Om Malik from GigaOm: Steven Aldrich, VP of strategy & innovation, Intuit; Denis Browne, senior VP, [See the full post…]

On Wednesday, September 5, Steve Jobs announced several new iPods and made the stunning announcement that he was lowering the price of the 8GB iPhone from $599 to $399. This may be good news for potential iPhone buyers but it [See the full post…]

This is a killer app for your cell phone or iPhone. Why? Getting video onto your cell phone is often impossible. Many sites use Flash only, and don’t provide a format that will work on your cell phone. Well, VTap [See the full post…]

The Help is a politically charged (yet fun) punk rock band. I think the singer Jason Toon kinda looks like Cory Doctorow. Enjoy!

While at Hybridfest in Madison, Wisc., I had the chance to speak with Wisconsin Public Power, a regional power company serving 49 customer-owned electric utilities. WPPI is very involved in clean, renewable energy, converting a hybrid Prius to a PHEV, [See the full post…]

Greg Malacane, senior business analyst for Alchemy Solutions Group, provides an overview of how Symantec Endpoint Security played a role in helping a federal government agency secure its infrastructure.

There are quite few challenges for online newspapers, ranging from the reality of multiple authors and the usual workflow issues to creating editorial process. Christina Wodke, of Public Square, discusses some of the challenges facing digital newspapers (find out what [See the full post…]

Seagate‘s a hard drive company, right? So we wondered if they have anything to say about Flash-based memories? You know, memory that doesn’t require a hard drive? Turns out they do. Here’s Seagate’s CEO, Bill Watkins, along with Mike Wingert, [See the full post…]

Disclaimer: Seagate is the sole sponsor of the ScobleShow. We greatly appreciate them and once in a while we meet with them to find out what they are up to. This is one of those times. Here you meet Marc [See the full post…]

In this podcast, Marc Jourlait, Seagate‘s VP of Global Marketing, talks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson about hybrid hard drives, a combination of Flash and hard drives with new features like faster startup time, increased battery life for laptops, and more. [See the full post…]

HP’s Phil McKinney is bullish on the company’s latest innovation for the desktop PC market, the HP Blackbird 002. McKinney is VP and CTO of HP’s personal systems group and general manager of the company’s gaming business unit. Why gaming, [See the full post…]

The inventors of Sun Microsystems’ ZFS, Jeff Bonwick, distinguished engineer and storage CTO, and Bill Moore, hardware/software architect, tell me what was behind coming up with ZFS. It’s a file system. That sounds boring, right? But it’s not, since this [See the full post…]

This is the second of three podcasts focusing on the practical side of Sales 2.0. In this interview, Jeff Weinberger, in charge of marketing for sales solutions at WebEx, talks with Stu Schmidt, VP of Solutions at WebEx. Stu has [See the full post…]

We’re not running out of oil, but we may be running out of the oil in easy-to-reach places. That’s because oil doesn’t sit in a big pool just below the surface — it’s always been hard to reach, but the [See the full post…]

TD Banknorth needed to boost its level of data protection, so it turned to Symantec. Hear about how NetBackup has been in use for five years and has easily kept up with 130 percent annual growth in data volume, avoiding [See the full post…]

Full Spectrum Solar is a local, independent leader in solar energy installations in Madison, Wisc. The brainchild of brothers Burke and Marc O’Neal, Full Spectrum has installed over one hundred solar energy systems, including the largest grid-connected battery-backup and residential [See the full post…]

Here are more Facebook application tips from the recent Facebook Developer Garage in Palo Alto, Calif. Learn from successful developers and also Facebook representatives tell you what you need to know.

RockYou is one of the largest social media application developers around. Millions of people use their apps on MySpace and Facebook. Here, we meet Jia Shen, CTO and co-founder of RockYou, where we talk about RockYou’s plans. Yes, mostly we [See the full post…]