Ever start to gaggle when driving behind a huge diesel truck spewing forth noxious exhaust fumes? Lincoln Evans Beauchamp, CEO of EWA Environmental Inc., decided to do something about it. His Palo Alto based startup has developed a green technology that reduces exhaust emissions of diesel trucks, one ...

Tim Berners-Lee, on Tuesday, visited HP Labs in Palo Alto where he talked with employees and the press about the trends he’s seen happen on the Web and where its future lies. He’s working with the Web Science Research Initiative and the University of Southampton in England on a ...

Silicon Valley is not known for paying much attention to its own history but things are changing. The Computer History Museum’s 2007 Fellow Awards was sold out as much of Silicon Valley’s aristocracy turned out for a $250 fund raising dinner that paid tribute to four top technologists: Morris ...

PALO ALTO, October 12, 2007 - Former Vice President Al Gore, who was named co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize earlier today, said at a brief press conference at the Alliance for Climate Protection he hopes the award will raise global consciousness about climate change. Gore shares ...

Sabena Puri is the founder and owner of Junnoon, a Palo Alto-based restaurant and is located in the same building as Facebook.

In Part 1 Sabena talks about how she extended her IT product management skills into running the restaurant, including giving equity to the team at Junnoon. Prior ...

Here are more Facebook application tips from the recent Facebook Developer Garage in Palo Alto, Calif. Learn from successful developers and also Facebook representatives tell you what you need to know.

I spent Saturday afternoon crammed into a room in Palo Alto with a couple of hundred people listening to presentations from young developers creating Facebook apps. The enthusiasm was great and there was a sense of being at the start of something big.

Also on TechOne: RedMonk’s Michael Coté interviews Zane ...

Josh Hallett and Alex Kim, from Solution Set, talk about building social media platforms within enterprises and the roadblocks that IT departments create. Lots of good advice on overcoming those obstacles. A Silicon Valley Watcher report from a meeting of the Third Thursday club held at ...

BarCamp Palo Alto is quickly becoming an annual Silicon Valley spectacle. Local startups open up their offices on the weekend to hundreds of fellow developers to showcase products and share skills. Aron Pruiett captured the hustle and bustle of event.

Also: Robert Scoble’s entertaining interview with Marc Canter, ...

We visit Scott Elrod (PARC) again to have a look at the new concentrated solar PV system designed at PARC with Solfocus, a start-up incubated at PARC. It’s a clever device that is designed to reduce the amount of silicon needed in PV systems per Watt produced.

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I love this interview with Scott Elrod, manager of the hardware systems group at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC, for short). PARC, under the creative and enthusiastic leadership of Elrod, has ventured into the clean technology area. Recently, PARC worked together with the start-up SolFocus on the development ...

The tech media and blogs buzzed recently over the launch of ooma, a Palo Alto start-up that’s promising free long distance calls for life. CEO Andrew Frame explains how ooma works (you need to buy a $400 box, first). And he answers questions about the cost of the box ...

Apple has invented the new PC, the new personal cellphone, an always-on connected computing device with a full browser. Developers will be using this platform to fuel the next disruptive cycle. In this episode we capture the developer conversations that seem to be everywhere, late at night in the streets ...

With the iPhone hitting the stores this past weekend, the post-PC on-demand era entered into warp speed - marked by an appropriately frenzied atmosphere in front of Apple’s Palo Alto store. Bill Atkinson, designer of the hypercard (and a member of the Apple Macintosh development team), was even amongst ...

At the final countdown, PodTech’s AppleVoices is at the Palo Alto Apple Store to witness the unveiling, or at least the door opening , on the iPhone and it’s public.

Jeremiah Owyang does his signature walkthrough through the Palo Alto Apple Store customers waiting patiently for the iPhone to go on sale in a few hours. Over 100 people showed up, camped out, in anticipation for this revolutionary communication device.

One more day to iDay, and on this podcast, PodTech’s AppleVoices returns to the Palo Alto Apple Store to cover iPhone mania. Finally, some folks like Robert Scoble and others line up for a piece of Apple pie.

Don’t want to wait in line for an Apple iPhone? One option is to pay someone to wait in those massive lines for you. In day two of our countdown of the iPhone’s release, PodTech’s Rio Pesino spoke with one person willing to give up his spot in ...

The countdown begins to iDay, and PodTech’s AppleVoices goes to the Palo Alto Apple Store to check the iPhone hysteria on the street.

A brush fire broke out practically on PodTech’s doorstep, burning more than 100 acres around “the dish” in Palo Alto, Calif. If you like watching a coordinated firefighting effort from close-range, this video is worth a look.

Video by Rocky Barbanica, PodTech Networks producer.

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

El Dorado Ventures General Partner Charles Beeler continues his man-on-the-street interviews at DEMO 07. Paul Holland was impressed with a few of the companies he saw at the conference, as well as with the spinach salad at a VC dinner. It wasn’t just the spinach, actually. It was the whole salad.

Timothy Chou, author and entrepreneur, is the latest guest in this series of discussions with thought leaders, presented by WebEx. Chou was the president of Oracle’s On-Demand business from 1999 to 2005, the author of the book The End of Software, and he remains an influential figure in ...

I spend almost an hour with Ross Mayfield, founder of SocialText, which is the first Wiki company. Ross is an interesting guy who’s been at the center of a bunch of trends, including Web 2.0, blogging, social media, and boom and bust cycles. We hear what SocialText is up ...