Topix, the world’s largest news community website, recently unveiled its new webpage that allows users to find, report and edit local news. Topix hopes its focus on local news will help fill a niche ignored by many traditional news outlets. [See the full post…]

Recently I was in Salt Lake City, Utah, and met with John Yoon, vice president of marketing at Control4, a firm that builds home automation systems. These systems do things like dim the lights when you turn on your home [See the full post…]

SNW Spotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World, in San Diego. In this wrapup edition of SNW Spotlight, the PodTech Team recalls the best moments from SNW, with highlights and selected clips from the podcast [See the full post…]

Rebecca South, president of Domes for the World, explains how her non-profit is using unique building technology to built very inexpensive and durable structures for third-world countries. But, we talk about how she got into the dome-building business (her dad [See the full post…]

Unveiled during the Geneva Auto Show, the Dodge Demon is a two-seat roadster concept car that I was able to get an introduction to at the New York International Auto Show. To me, this is a vehicle that DaimlerChrysler needs [See the full post…]

I felt the need to stretch out a bit artistically this week. So I made a music video … in Tower Grove Park.

Mike Blackwell, CEO of Share2Me, demonstrates how to use his service to send videos and other things to friends and family.

Share2Me lets you share videos and other things on the Internet with your friends through email. In this interview Michael Blackwell, CEO of Share2Me, shares his company’s approach to sharing with me.

At the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing, Eric Kim took stage to not only award the winner in the Intel Core 2 Challenge and announce that a new challenge would be issued to PC designers soon, he also shared the [See the full post…]

The day 1 keynotes at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing featured CTO Justin Rattner and Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president of the Digital Enterprise Group. They talked about new developments at the company. Rattner filled in some detail around [See the full post…]

SNW Spotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World in San Diego. In this edition of SNW Spotlight, exploring the subtleties of network architecture, and columnist and futurist Thornton May talks about the human brain, coral [See the full post…]

Here my editor, Rocky, picks out the best of the interview and demo that I did with Tod Sacerdoti, founder of Brightroll, where he discusses his advertising network’s approach to video advertising.

Tod Sacerdoti, founder and CEO of Brightroll — an advertising distribution network — shows off the latest advertising for video and Web 2.0 sites.

Web 2.0 and Internet video are forcing changes to how advertising is done. Here, Tod Sacerdoti, founder of Brightroll, discusses his firm’s philosphy and talks about what’s happening to advertising on the Web.

Chevron is the second largest integrated energy company in the United States. With over 54,000 employees, ranging from far-upstream field seismologists to service station personnel, Chevron is involved in every aspect of global energy development and delivery. Operating in 180 [See the full post…]

At the end of the Human Genome Project, researcher Niroshan Ramachandran, at the Harvard Institute of Proteomics, opened the door into a much bigger challenge: isolating and measuring the interactions between individual proteins inside DNA. This science, or Proteomics, holds [See the full post…]

SNW Spotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World, in San Diego. In this edition of SNW Spotlight, two shows for the price of one! Storage news coverage from the NAB conference in Las Vegas, and [See the full post…]

A five-door, five-passenger, high-speed lithium-ion-powered vehicle capable of traveling 150 miles at 85mph from the Miles Automotive Group will be available to the masses within 18-24 months — for less than $30k. If I were GM, Toyota, or any of [See the full post…]

At the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing, Intel’s Eric Kim handed out a $700,000 check to Park Il-whan, CEO of Korea-based Trigem Computer. Their living room ready black stereo-like PC won the Intel Core 2 Challenge. As soon as the [See the full post…]

SNW Spotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World, in San Diego. In this edition of SNW Spotlight, storage in China, and security on your hard drive. Four Chinese journalists opine about what needs to happen [See the full post…]

I had a chance to sit down and talk with Seagate’s CEO Bill Watkins about Seagate’s Q3 results. The San Jose Mercury News recently reported that Seagate has revised it’s estimates but Seagate continues to be the big fish in [See the full post…]

Politic 2.0 is a new Utah-based Web 2.0 tech startup that is mashing up wiki’s, blogs, blog search, live video streaming and in-person and in-the-field question, ranking and commenting tools. The system supports the popular town hall model but extends [See the full post…]

Richard Griffiths is the visionary behind Hybrid Technologies, a publicly traded company building electric vehicles powered by Lithium Ion. The company’s philosophy is to change the world by reinventing power. During the New York International Auto Show, Richard gave us [See the full post…]

SNW Spotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World, in San Diego. In this edition of SNW Spotlight, all things SAS. As Serial Attached SCSI makes great inroads into the market, the Storage Networking World conference [See the full post…]

SNW Spotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World. On today’s SNW Spotlight, we look behind the scenes of SNW with event sponsors Computer World and the Storage Networking Industry Association, and we chat with LSI’s [See the full post…]