No gas, no noise. Zero emissions. Just plug it in and go. That’s the promise of ZAP (Zero Air Pollution) cars. These are 100 percent electric vehicles that can be charged at your home or office using a standard outlet. [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, December 19, 2006 (PodTech News) — Google and NASA are working together to bring the virtual astronaut experience to a computer near you. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are working [See the full post…]

With a body style designed by Lotus, the Tesla Roadster is capturing the attention of auto enthusiasts who want a sleek, stylish, environmentally-friendly sports car. At $100,000 these electric cars aren’t for everyone, but they are popular–their 2007 model sold [See the full post…]

Ashish Kashyap has over 12 years of experience spanning internet, television and radio businesses. He has created many innovative consumer applications, and also launched successful businesses from scratch. Prior to his appointment with MIH-Internet (India) as CEO, Ashish was the [See the full post…]

Sleek, sassy styling, high performance and a plush interior — those were just some of the descriptions Eco-Fueler‘s designer, John S. Green used to describe his company’s CNG vehicle during the L.A. Auto Show. The roadster can travel 0-60 mph [See the full post…]

In the third in a series of podcasts from WebEx, we speak with SugarCRM co-founder and CEO John Roberts. After a career working on proprietary customer relationship management systems, John developed some strong ideas about open source software. He’s putting [See the full post…]

Mickey Bly is General Motors‘s director of engineering for hybrid vehicles. He spoke with PodTech’s Matt Kelly at the L.A. Auto Show about company’s comittment to alternative fuel vehicles. He talked about the new Belt Alternator Starter hybrid system (BAS) [See the full post…]

So you realize your IT Department needs to upgrade its service availability plan. Where do you start? In this second podcast from Sarah Meyer, solution director for service availability at CA, we find out that there is a method to [See the full post…]

You can’t buy attention. And if you want to be big, you first must think small. Those are some of the beliefs held by marketing guru Seth Godin. He helped to illuminate and define the power of the individual in [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, December 16, 2006 (PodTech News) — Predicting extreme weather, like Hurricanes, has come a long way with the help of remote control devices. That same technology, or a version of it, has proven an unprecedented success through NASA’s [See the full post…]

Legendary designer Fabrizio Giugiaro unveiled his Giugiaro Mustang concept vehicle at the L.A. Auto Show. He spoke with PodTech’s Matt Kelly about the dramatic styling he incorporated in the car. One remarkable feature was the dramatic one-piece glass unit that [See the full post…]

Rob Pait, Seagate’s marketing manager for global consumer hard disc drives, talks about the latest generation of Seagate hard drives for mobile and personal applications. This is a Seagate Podcast. Additional images Click here for transcript.

A Symantec Security Response podcast featuring a roundup of the top weblog postings from Symantec Security Response engineers in October. This podcast features a summary of weblogs from Jonathan Omansky, Orla Cox, Candid Wueest and Josh Harriman. More information at: [See the full post…]

Shashi Seth runs Google Co-op, which is a set of services that let you build your own custom search engine and add that to your blog or site. What’s cool about that? Well, you could add a search box to [See the full post…]

Mark Lucovsky runs the Ajax Search service at Google and sits down for both an in-depth interview about what he’s been working on, but then pulls out some cool demos of ways you can add search to your blog that’ll [See the full post…]

Green Car Journal‘s 2nd Annual Green Car of the Year was awarded to the Toyota Camry Hybrid at the L.A. Auto Show. Voted on by a panel of judges including Carroll Shelby, Carl Pope, Francis Beinecke, Jean-Michel Cousteau and others, [See the full post…]

The design studios of seven automakers competed in a Design Challenge at the L.A. Auto Show. The competition combined wood, alloys, glass, rubber and other materials to create 100 percent recyclable roadsters of the future. The eco-friendly vehicles were designed [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, December 15, 2006 (PodTech News) — Al Gore addressed the American Geophysical Union here Wednesday, on the same day as several recently-published studies on climate change were also in the news. Gore’s comments to the scientific gathering focused [See the full post…]

Services like Gmail hit the market after their developers reengineered the solution to “work” the way the consumer expects the service to work today. Josh Coates, CEO of Berkeley Data Systems, describes his approach to creating Mozy.com, an automatic, secure [See the full post…]

Home and small business surveillance systems are usually associated with lots of wiring, expensive installations, complicated network settings, and long-term contracts. Andrew Hartsfield, CEO of WiLife, tells Brad Baldwin that today it’s possible to add a high-quality surveillance system yourself [See the full post…]

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger promoted alternative fuel vehicles with a speech at the 100th annual Los Angeles Auto Show. Flanked by alternative fuel cars and the automakers that produced them, the governor touted California as the leader in environmental protection [See the full post…]

IT departments’ work is increasing in complexity at the same time those departments are becoming more vital to every aspect of an organization’s operations. In this first in a series of podcasts, Sarah Meyer, solution director for service availability at [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, December 14, 2006 (PodTech News) — Samsung’s plan to introduce its OneDRAM fusion memory in 2007 could mean much speedier smartphones. The company announced the device this week, amid the year-end predictions from analysts and enthusiasts for everything [See the full post…]

We sit down with StumbleUpon‘s chief architect, Garrett Camp, and David Feller, VP of marketing, and talk about the success Stumbleupon has seen (about 1.5 million users in just a few months) as well as get a look at the [See the full post…]

Ever have half an hour to just waste and wondered what cool stuff is there on the Internet? Well, StumbleUpon is the answer. They have 1.5 million people who are adding sites and rating them. It makes for a fun [See the full post…]