San Francisco’s Department of the Environment is leading the initiative to fully redesign Treasure Island, a 400-acre human-made island in the San Francisco Bay. Originally built for The World’s Fair in 1939, it’s been used as a movie studio, a naval base and now for residential housing. By ...

Keith Johnston is managing director for GoinGreen, UK distributors of the G-Wiz, an electric vehicle designed in California and manufactured in India by the Indo-Reva Electric Car Company. GoinGreen’s mission is to minimize the effects of climate change by encouraging carbon-neutral motoring. That mission has made London one ...

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. To commemorate Topix’s revamped site, PodTech’s Rio Pesino ...

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 the disk drive waters.

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REVA was India’s first electric vehicle — it’s already been on the road for more than five years. We recently caught up with Chetan Maini, deputy chairman and CTO of Reva Electric Car Company.

Chetan built his first solar electric car in 1990, while he was a student ...

Professor Maheshwari is the vice chancellor of BITS Pilani, one of the most prestigious educational instituitions in India. He has held various top-level positions at the instituition over the past 35 years. He has published four books and over 80 research papers in the ares of semiconductor electronics and ...

Market data services in today’s global financial services institutions can prove to be an ever- escalating issue that can have a severe bottom-line impact. If market data services are not carefully planned for and service levels drop, it can cost a financial services firm dearly.

In this podcast, Farid Moussavi, managing ...

The best company cultures that work for social media are just like people who embrace conversations and two-way interactions — they are open, trusting and talkative. Jennifer McClure, executive director of the Society for New Communications Research talks to Marketing Voices host Jennifer Jones about corporations like IBM that ...

Rob Csonger, vice president of corporate marketing at NVIDIA, talks about the upcoming visual emphasis of Microsoft Vista and the prevalence of graphics processor units with 3D user interfaces in games, operating systems and personal electronics.

Gear Live CEO Andru Edwards doesn’t just believe that tech trade magazines will move from the print medium to an entirely-online presence — he’s seeing it happen already. His magazine has more than 500,000 unique viwers each month, and along with some of its competing publications, it’s rapidly ...

A star-studded cast joined Walt Disney President and CEO Robert Iger on stage to tout new media during his keynote address at CES 2007 in Las Vegas. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer, “Lost” stars Matthew Fox and Evangeline Lilly and ESPN’s Mike Tirico joined Iger, who unveiled a revamped Disney.com Web site ...

Preflighting — now you can test (and pass or fail) a pdf based on your own selected criteria. And you can fix it easily, too. The functionality in Adobe Acrobat 8 will help with compatability across the variety of Adobe Acrobat Reader versions floating around, and will help to make dealing with pdfs even easier.

Another round of big investment was announced this week, but this time it was not an IT company. REVA, India’s first electric car received $20 million in investment. Draper Fisher Jurveston and Global Environment Fund led this round of funding.

CISCO’s CEO John Chambers took a two-day whistle stop ...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 5, 2006 (PodTech News) — Search competition may be heating up with Ask.com’s revamped services. Other search firms have pumped some ad revenue into the newspaper industry. How are newspapers reacting? They may be starting to look a lot more local — and a lot more virtual ...

TiE Delhi’s annual conference, TiEcon 2006, was held on the 26th-28th October. The conference theme was ‘Entrepreneurship: The DNA of Growth’ and the event was a meeting ground for entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, investors, industry leaders etc. Besides the main conference sessions, the agenda also included networking sessions, interest specific ...

Steve Koenig, senior manager, industry analysis, CEA, and Joseph Bates, director of research, CEA, led the final panel discussion of the day on October 17th: Five Burning Questions in the CE Industry. The panel combined quick audience surveys with videotaped consumer surveys, then analyzed the survey findings in terms of current CEA research. Tune in to this PodTech.net podcast to find out the answers to these burning questions:

Dave Sifry the founder of Technorati the authority of the blogosphere released his ussual “State of the Blogosphere”. Great work by Dave and his team in getting these stats out. The conversation will continue no doubt on the TechMeme

Dave says “Today, the blogosphere is doubling ...