Where would you go to fight cyber criminals? See the new thriller Phished! brought to you by the leading makers of antivirus and antispyware software. For More Information

The countdown begins to iDay, and PodTech’s AppleVoices goes to the Palo Alto Apple Store to check the iPhone hysteria on the street.

Join Eric Vidal, advertising and new media leader at WebEx, as he interviews people on the leading edge of marketing and advertising in this era of social media. In this first podcast of a two part series, Eric talks with [See the full post…]

A brush fire broke out practically on PodTech’s doorstep, burning more than 100 acres around “the dish” in Palo Alto, Calif. If you like watching a coordinated firefighting effort from close-range, this video is worth a look. Video by Rocky [See the full post…]

The Hibernauts is starting to get some good attention from the press. They say that they are influenced by bands like Pixies, Flaming Lips, Velvet Underground, The Kinks, The Turtles, Doves, Grandaddy, The Zombies, The Beatles, Rolling Stones with Brian [See the full post…]

Here’s an interview with Troy Clarke, president, GM North America after a tour of the HRL Laboratories in Malibu and a delicious lunch. Joining me was Jody Devere of AskPatty.com and John Grafman of LAcar.com. As the interview had to [See the full post…]

Mark Farley and Clair Farley were born identical male twins. Six months ago, Clair changed her gender. Their story is told in a lovely, heartfelt documentary film, Red Without Blue. The film showed at Frameline 31, the LGBT Film Festival, [See the full post…]

Chris Yeh, CEO of USTREAM, tells Marketing Voices’ Jennifer Jones how marketers can reach new audiences with live video. Deeper branding occurs with the ability to interact with live TV for a greater level of engagement. Here, Yeh exclusively announces [See the full post…]

PayScale is a service where you can compare salaries with other people in your industry. Here, Joe Giordano, founder and chairman of Payscale, talks to me about the service, what he’s learned, and shows me the latest iteration.

At HRL Laboratories last week, GM President North America Troy Clarke spoke to a group of journalists and bloggers about the Volt, GM’s hybrid plans and the upcoming Vue, among other topics.

Just how far have hard drives come since the first hard drive was introduced in 1956? How much storage do we need for our digital lifestyles? And how are new high-capacity storage drives helping Seagate gain market share in the [See the full post…]

Botnets, phishing scams, password-stealing trojans — they’re all part of an increasingly professionalized world of online crime that’s costing Americans billions every year. Oliver Friedrichs, director of emerging technologies at Symantec Security Response, tells Mercury News software reporter Ryan Blitstein [See the full post…]

Here, John McCrea, vice president of marketing at Plaxo, gives me a tour of its just-released platform. Quite useful, it brings contacts into and out of a bunch of different applications and services like Microsoft’s Outlook, Google’s GMail, among others.

Plaxo‘s founder, Todd Masonis, chief platform architect, Joseph Smarr, and VP of marketing, John McCrea tell me how Plaxo has changed from a contact manager for Outlook to a Web service that lets you back up and share your contacts [See the full post…]

Intel@Research Day is a science fair with some unbelievable demos — unbelievable on one hand because some seem to defy physics and on the other hand because the topics under consideration are clearly anthropological. In this podcast, Intel CTO Justin [See the full post…]

With today’s virtual environment, virtualization can bring clear advantages in how you manage your IT. In this podcast, join BearingPoint technologists Nicolas Boaknin and Laurent Mandorla to explore the virtualization buzz – what it’s all about and why it’s at [See the full post…]

Are you tired of boring PowerPoint presentations with standard effects and boring blue backgrounds? Here, Don Brittain, founder and CEO of Instant Effects, shows us his tool and talks about the state of the art in presentations.

Don Brittain, founder and CEO of Instant Effects, demonstrates how to use it to make your presentations much better than anyone else’s.

Michael Ondaatje is best known for his novel, The English Patient. He has a new book out called Divisadero. I spoke with him on the San Francisco street that gives the book its name, where he told me why it [See the full post…]

Guillaume Cohen, founder and CEO of Veodia, demonstrates live video Webcasting with Veodia. Pros? Professional quality and instant archiving.

Guillaume Cohen, founder and CEO, and Sylvain Rebaud, vice president of engineering at Veodia speak with me about videocasting and Veodia’s part in that market.

Formula One racing is the most technology intensive form of racing with a long history of innovations driven by microprocessor technology. Shortly after Intel invented the first commercial processor in 1971 called the 4004, engineers at Goodyear tire were using [See the full post…]

Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, is a professor of radiology and bioengineering, director of the Molecular Imaging Program and head of the nuclear medicine division at Stanford University. He shares his vision of the future based on molecular imaging. This podcast is [See the full post…]

Left Arm are from Edwardsville, Ill., and they play rock ‘n’ roll influenced by The Heartbreakers, AC/DC, The Sonics, The Stooges, The Shadows of Knight, MC5, The Animals, Zeke, Motorhead, Fatal Flying Guilloteens, The Oblivians, Bantam Rooster among others. This [See the full post…]

In Burlington, Vermont, 20 percent of the real-world residents have joined a new online service called Front Porch Forum. Here, you meet Michael Wood-Lewis, co-founder, and we talk about why he started the service and why it’s been so successful [See the full post…]