John Hofmeister, Shell Oil president, sees an important role for his company in supplying the world’s energy in the future. Petroleum (oil and gas) will remain, at least for the near to medium future, the most important energy resource. Shell [See the full post…]

Anthony Dina discusses who the leading adopters of BladeSystem, and why they’re ahead of the pack. Learn more about HP server blades

WebOffice is a suite of products from WebEx designed to deliver cost-effective collaboration solutions that make it easy for everyone to work together from anywhere in the world. In this podcast, Derek Peplau, senior product manager for WebOffice at WebEx, [See the full post…]

The podcast is the second of two parts in which Eric Vidal, advertising and new media leader at WebEx, talks with Chris Peterson, president and CEO of Chautauqua, a communications agency in San Francisco. Prior to founding Chautauqua Communications, Chris [See the full post…]

Daniel Graf, CEO and founder of Kyte.tv, shows us how you can build a new kind of online TV channel: one that plays on mobile phones, Facebook, and Web pages and includes chat and more. It’s very cool and worth [See the full post…]

Did you know that most movies that are produced in the world never get shown in a theater? Even award-winning movies at film festivals like Sundance often don’t get shown. Not to mention famous films from overseas. Well, Jaman gives [See the full post…]

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…]