Nicole Wong, Google’s deputy general counsel in charge of compliance, is the point person for growing criticism of Google’s privacy practices. More than two dozen European privacy regulators have launched an inquiry into Google’s data protection practices. In the United [See the full post…]

Apple is finally getting its game on. The company is partnering up with video game giant Electronic Arts and id Software to bring gaming to the Mac platform. The deals were announced during Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ keynote at the [See the full post…]

Harry McCracken is the editor-in-chief of PC World. He recently resigned when his publisher asked him not to publish an article critical of Apple, fearing Steve Jobs’ reputation for holding long grudges and not wanting to risk the loss of [See the full post…]

Join BearingPoint technologist Takashi Yoshizaki as he takes us through the evolution of VOIP. What started as simply carrying voice traffic over a data network is now a widely accepted technology and a valued strategic initiative that improves workforce efficiencies. [See the full post…]

Sonos is a unique addition to your home entertainment system. It lets you play digital music anywhere in your house. Here, John McFarland, CEO, gives us a good runthrough of what Sonos is.

Want a free online alternative to Microsoft Office? Don’t think it’s good enough? ThinkFree‘s offerings might surprise you. Here, Jonathan Crow, director of marketing for ThinkFree, shows of its latest offerings.

Jonathan Crow, director of marketing for ThinkFree, speaks with me about how our office work is changing and how ThinkFree’s online office plays into that.

Mike Wahlstrom is co-team leader for the University of Waterloo Alternative Fuels Team in Challenge X. The only Canadian team participating in the competition, the Waterloo team used hydrogen as its fuel source.

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”.

The Design Automation Conference was held in San Diego recently, and Cadence hosted a very cool event at the San Diego Automotive Museum one evening. Surrounded by classic cars from all eras, logic designers enjoyed great food and drink, caught [See the full post…]

Where do you turn on manageability in a network? Try at the chip level. Intel’s Pro technologies—CentrinoPro and vPro are changing the way IT shops manage large fleets of computers. Administrators now have the ability to see what’s happening to [See the full post…]

Rob Reger is enjoying the thirteenth anniversary of his character “Emily the Strange.” Reger went to the graduate program at the San Francisco Art Institute, where he says he learned to push a project beyond its apparent limits. He has [See the full post…]

Footnote.com has the largest collection of digital images from original source documents on the Web. Through a partnership with the U.S. Government’s National Archives and Records Administration, Footnote is digitizing a vast collection of original documents that have been inaccessible [See the full post…]

With regards to global climate change, your computer and anyone’s computer — anywhere in the world — are more likely to be part of the problem than part of the solution. At a press event held at Google’s Mountain View [See the full post…]

Dr. Andy Frank is faculty advisor to the Challenge X team, from UC Davis. While at the GM Proving Grounds for some of the event, I had the opportunity to speak with him about the event and the vehicle his [See the full post…]

Sexerati is a look at the future of smart sex. I sit down with Melissa Gira, the founder and editor Sexerati, who gives me a peek into what this future might look like. Sexerati is a blog, a video podcast [See the full post…]

Al Saracevic is the deputy business editor at the San Francisco Chronicle. I caught up Mr. Saracevic at a recent conference on innovation journalism at Stanford university. In this segment, he is on a panel and talks about the Silicon [See the full post…]

Christopher Witt, co-team leader for Mississippi State’s Challenge X team, discusses his school’s victory this year.

Ok, I have another clip from the Southside Rock ‘n’ Roll Rave. This time, it’s a band called Bunnygrunt. They have a great power pop sound that’s pretty catchy. I also include here a clip of their performance with Bob [See the full post…]

Learn how blade servers can help solve the challenges of power and cooling and space contraints.

Erik Straser leads the cleantech investment of Mohr Davidow Ventures. It’s his job to seek out promising start-ups in solar energy, biofuels, energy storage, industrial biotech and clean coal.

Not sure what Information Architecture is? Learn how to use this important role and skill within a modern Web strategy, from business messaging, search and social media. Chris is the editor of popular IA webzine, Boxes and Arrows, and is [See the full post…]

To be an entrepreneur takes a special kind of person — often, the kind who is driven by a particular vision, even if the path to fulfilling that vision lacks definition. Max Samuels, career coach and TV-personality, speaks with PodTech’s [See the full post…]

In Challenge X, the U.S. Department of Energy has partnered with GM for a three-year competition, giving engineering schools an opportunity to participate in hands-on research and development with leading-edge automotive propulsion, fuels, materials, and emissions-control technologies. Seventeen teams were [See the full post…]

Here Rocky Barbanica, my amazing editor, picks the highlights of the interview and demo I did with Mixercast‘s CEO, Jennifer Cooper.