Julie Beamer, GM‘s director of fuel cell commercialization, expands on GM’s Project Driveway, the company’s comprehensive testing of its fourth-generation fuel cell system, Chevrolet Equinox. Speaking with PodTech’s Matt Kelly at the L.A. Auto Show, she also discussed GM’s electrification [See the full post…]

A large percentage of the world’s email is sent using the Sendmail protocol, which just celebrated its 25th anniversary, so I sat down with Eric Allman, founder of Sendmail, to talk about what’s happened in the 25-year history of Sendmail. [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, December 13, 2006 (PodTech News) — BlackBerry v. BlackJack – a new lawsuit says Samsung is playing games with names. Also, security patches from Microsoft, a security breach at UCLA, increased Internet controls in China, a long-term threat [See the full post…]

“You don’t have to go broke to go green,” said Jill Lajdziak, general manager of Saturn. I spoke with her after GM Chairman Rick Wagoner delivered the L.A. Auto Show keynote, announcing the company’s plans for a diverse portfolio of [See the full post…]

Design and technology were the themes as Troy Clarke, president of GM North America unveiled some of GM’s 2008 lineup during the L.A. Auto Show, including the company’s first mid-size hybrid vehicle, the Saturn Aura Green Line, as well as [See the full post…]

“The technical hurdles are real but we believe they are surmountable.” During his keynote address at the L.A. Auto Show, General Motors Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner announced that the company has begun work on a Saturn Vue plug-in hybrid [See the full post…]

NETGEAR makes a lot of the world’s WiFi devices, among other consumer electronics gadgets. Since it’s getting close to CES time, we thought we’d come over and meet up with Patrick Lo, CEO of NETGEAR. Click here for transcript.

SAN FRANCISCO, December 12, 2006 (PodTech News) — In the news today, Nintendo’s Wii surprises the world with its first lawsuit — it’s not an injury! In Vienna, Mozart’s works have been brought into the digital age, and they’re now [See the full post…]

In this second in the series of podcasts from WebEx, we hear from Brian Curry, vice president of business services at AOL. He talks about how instant messaging has made it’s way into the workplace, and how it is becoming [See the full post…]

Becky Robertson is The Road Warrior, a stay-at-home mom in Georgia until she decided to get into real estate. To do so, she went high tech, and created an office for herself in her BMW 740. Becky is featured in [See the full post…]

Given the Marketing Voices community requests, metrics for consumer-generated media and listening centered marketing are the core of my conversation with CMO of Nielsen Buzzmetrics, Peter Blackshaw. Metrics is the key challenge for all PodTech client companies, and especially for [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, December 9, 2006 (PodTech News) — Recent headlines suggest that it’s getting harder and harder for citizens in Iran to visit Web sites like the open-source online encyclopedia Wikipedia and even the online home of The New York [See the full post…]

At the inaugural (Charles River Ventures) CRV Entrepreneur Idol, presented at Stanford Graduate School of Business, George Zachary of CRV presents to Stanford MBA students about today’s state of early stage venture capital, the rise of consumer Internet businesses, and [See the full post…]

“We want people to understand how we hear things. In these days of media fragmentation, email and voicemail, people mostly pay attention to the first 30 seconds of what they hear.” That’s what George Zachary of CRV says about the [See the full post…]

Watch the three winning pitches of the first ever CRV Entrepreneur Idol (coming to a grad school near you soon). Judges George, Bill Tai and Susan Wu of CRV, as well as Silicon Valley famed blogger and journalist, Matt Marshall [See the full post…]

Kevin Burton, founder of TailRank, gives us a demo of his memetracker which shows what the hottest conversations are in the blogosphere. Click here for transcript.

Kevin Burton is a talented developer who has worked on a variety of startups already including Rojo, and now TailRank which he started to be able to see what bloggers were talking about. Here I sit down with him for [See the full post…]

What will it take for CLECs (competitive local exchange carriers) to thrive in the coming decade? What business strategies are they adopting and do new technologies offer opportunities to compete – or destroy their ability to differentiate? And what regulatory [See the full post…]

Experience CES Las Vegas 2007 with PodTech.net at the Bellagio as we provide video and podcast coverage of keynotes, panel discussions, interviews and new gadget reviews. Investigate in-depth conversations with top industry executives and product managers covering new product unveilings [See the full post…]

Rohit Agarwal is the founder and CEO of techTribe Networks, a software company pioneering the use of social networking for innovation through ideas, networking and mentorship. techTribe’s goal is to enable Indian technology professionals in software and services to connect [See the full post…]

How do you get a big file from your computer to someone else’s computer? Pando Networks has a peer-to-peer way to do just that. Yaron Samid, Pando Networks’ founder, gives me a tour. Click here for transcript.

Apple is once again in Greenpeace’s cross-hairs — the environmental watchdog’s Green Electronics Guide put Apple at the bottom of the heap, while Nokia sits on top. Along those lines, a quick look at a conversation that’s bound to gain [See the full post…]

We go on a junket. Heck, it’s the only time we’ve been invited to go on a Lear Jet and on a tour of Washington Wineries and we take you along thanks to Greenpoint Technologies and Blog Business Summit’s “Grapes [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, December 6, 2006 (PodTech News) — MySpace.com has plans to move further into the wireless space. That — plus plans to move into China — may bolster the value of the site that News Corp. boss Rupert Murdoch [See the full post…]

Forrester analyst and vice president Lisa Pierce told a group of Qwest customers that the great unknown — whether IT decisions today will fit with technologies of tomorrow — is a fact of life. While the fear of making mistakes [See the full post…]