Fred Kanter is part genius, part visionary and part eccentric. He’s the kind of guy who makes you believe he could move mountains by his belief in the power of his ideas and the sheer strength of will to bring [See the full post…]

Pinebox Serenade hails from Denton, Texas. This performance at Off Broadway was their first appearance in St. Louis. They play a dark, deep country-blues-rock style that can haunt you for days.

Ely Greenfield, Flex architect, David Wadhwani, vice president of Flex Product Line, and Mike Chambers, senior product manager, developer relations, walk to the whiteboard and give us a look at Adobe Flash’s architecture and give further details about what is [See the full post…]

Ely Greenfield, Flex architect, David Wadhwani, vice president of Flex Product Line, sit down with me for a little announcement: Adobe is taking Flex open source. Here Ely and David explain what moving Flex to Open Source means for developers.

Yet another concept from Kia, the Soul, a crossover sport utility vehicle. During the New York International Auto Show, Alex Fedorak once again provides the introduction to this design produced by Kia’s California and Korean design studios.

St. Louis holds it’s own in the history of the Alt Country movement. Alt Country, also known as Alternative Country is basically a hybrid of traditional country and punk and/or rock and roll. Uncle Tupelo, for instance, was one of [See the full post…]

For most of us, connecting technology systems is a bit outside our normal capacity. That’s why there are home automation dealers and integrators who can connect separate technologies in the home into a single automated system. Like other tech specialists, [See the full post…]

Hear more on the concept of Business Technology and how HP helps customers focus on business outcomes.

Beijing as a backdrop was more than symbolic for IDF in 2007. Intel does more than manufacture in China. The company does some heavy research and it plans to do more around mobility and Tera-scale chips. Although Intel has held [See the full post…]

In this first part of the eighth Photowalking show I’ve done with Thomas Hawk 25 photo geeks met one March morning to shoot with a massive 600mm F4.0 lens. Thomas Hawk showed off some prints he made with his new [See the full post…]

Krishna Vedati, CEO, and Srinivas Mandyam, CTO of Plusmo, show me how their mobile portal lets you get a variety of services delivered right to your phone.

Krishna Vedati, CEO, and Srinivas Mandyam, CTO of Plusmo tell me all about their mobile phone portal where you can get live sports scores and more.

Mike Mankowski, vice president and senior analyst for Tier 1 Research, believes SAAS is the future for companies who want to implement more efficient, cost effective software solutions. Defining what SAAS is and what the future trends are, Mankowski talks [See the full post…]

As an avid antique and classic car buff, I was thrilled to meet with Bruce Benson, chief operating officer of the LeMay Museum, during the New York International Auto Show. At the show, the museum had on display several cars, [See the full post…]

Shelly Heiden, executive vice president for Plateau Systems, a leading provider of software for developing, managing, rewarding and optimizing organizational skills and talent, chats with PodTech’s Jennifer Jones about the many benefits of software as a service. At a recent [See the full post…]

After 18 years designing and managing next-generation telecomm networks at AT&T, Frucall‘s CEO Dr. Behzad Nadji is allowing the modern shopper to wage a price war with the all-powerful cell phone. With the Frucall service, when shoppers see a product [See the full post…]

JP Maeder is head of ZEVCAT, an acronym for Zero Emission Vehicle Compressed Air Technology. His company in Northern California is set up to be a distributor of the Air Car, a concept vehicle designed to run only on compressed [See the full post…]

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, talks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson about the storage “backbone” and Hitachi GST’s new drives for enterprise storage.

BearingPoint, one of the world’s largest management consultinga firms, is implementing social media programs that are working well. Paul Dunay, their director of global marketing discusses just what challenges BearingPoint faced and how and what they decided to implement at [See the full post…]

In this week’s ConnectCast, Rocky Mountain Voices‘ Cydni Tetro and Connect Magazine Executive Editor Colin Kelly discuss the top stories of the week from a Rocky Mountain perspective. The conversation includes a look at the Utah companies that made the [See the full post…]

To open Day 2 of the Intel Developer’s Forum (IDF) in Beijing, David (Dadi) Perlmutter, Intel’s Senior VP and GM, Mobility Group, described the latest trends in mobile computing. Perlmutter said that personal computing is increasingly going mobile, noting that [See the full post…]

I have a conversation with Brad Meador, VP of operations, for ClearContext, which helps you prioritize and triage your email. Great for people who have thousands of things in their inbox and are losing track of their most important emails. [See the full post…]

Michael Ranerei, CEO of MeeVee, shows off how to use MeeVee to search for your favorite TV shows and watch them right on the Web.

MeeVee is a new video search portal where you can find your favorite TV shows on the Web. Search for “Lost,” for instance, and MeeVee will take you right there. Here we meet and talk with Michael Ranerei, CEO, Shampa [See the full post…]

Here Konstantin Guericke, CEO of Jaxtr, talks with me about his new service, named Jaxtr, which lets you integrate your phone into a variety of services like MySpace or your blog through a widget.