Microsoft Office is one of the most ubiquitous applications in the world. Dr. Nasser Barghoutian the CTO Document Science and Warren Wilbee a Microsoft Architect Evangelist sit down and discuss how to utilize Microsoft Office as a platform for developing world class applications using various integration ...

American Hi Definition and Sweetwater Digital of Van Nuys, CA, hosted the first annual Renewable L.A., a day long “consumption-lite” eco fest, celebrating renewable energy and transportation. The first annual solar open house and green holiday gift event put a spotlight on the largest solar installation in ...

We first met the Community Services Unlimited folks at the Just Us For Food Justice Bioneers day. They told us we should come check out their work in community gardening in South Central LA. How could we not? These folks are on the front lines of urban ...

As you might remember, we made a new worm bin after our original bin failed. This new one is doing great! The drainage holes in the bottom have helped keep it moist but not too wet, the shallow shape allows the worms to get to everything faster and ...

With Internet bandwidth demand doubling each year, broadcast media, IPTV, and new user-generated YouTube-style video are culprits exacerbating the problem. This is where and their new CodecSys offering can help reduce bandwidth for video applications by 50% or more, including High Definition (HD).

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About 18,000 people attended the inaugural Entertainment for All Expo video game event in Los Angeles, CA. Attendees were able to play hundreds of games at the event, including Metal Gear Solid 4, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, NFL Tour and Guitar Hero III: ...

This episode, I have something really special. It’s a performance from the Show-me Blowout by the 60’s garage rocker Craig Moore. Craig Moore was one of the original members of the 1960’s band Gonn from Keokuk, [tag]Iowa. Now I don’t really expect you to have heard of Gonn because ...

CRM is migrating from desktop applications to Software as a Service (Saas). COMPLETExRM is a new company based in Salt Lake City that offers a highly customizable CxRM foundation based on a SaaS platform. This allowed COMPLETExRM to create PlanPlus Online, a custom planning and enterprise-grade ...

During GM’s Electric Drive University in Newport Beach, Calif., I had the opportunity to get behind the wheel of the new Chevy Equinox fuel cell prototype vehicle for a ride and drive with Brad Beauchamp. He’s a driver relationship manager for GM’s Project Driveway, and is a ...

Davi Kutz is your ordinary Joe, living in North Hollywood, Calif. An avid outdoorsman, he’s also one lucky fellow. That’s because for the next three months, he’ll be one of 100 people in L.A., Washington, D.C. and New York City who will be driving a new Chevy Equinox

Malware delivered through links in email is working. Unfortunately, those organizations that don’t have a strategy to prevent this attack stand to suffer significant financial loss, and perhaps worse, their reputation.

Avinti provides a solution that processes email through a gateway on the edge of the network. Unlike other ...

This past weekend, Bangalore was the place to be if you were a hacker. More than 100 hackers from different parts of India participated in Yahoo’s open hackday session, held at the Taj Hotel in Bangalore. The 24-hour marathon session started late Friday evening (October 5th) ...

CyberMedia is South Asia’s largest specialty media company that was founded in 1982, when IT and tech industry was still in its infancy in India. Earlier this year I caught up CyberMedia’s chairperson Pradeep Gupta at the Pan-IIT Global Conference in Santa Clara, Calif. CyberMedia’s mix of publications includes ...

In part two of my interview with Chelsea Sexton, the unlikely star of Who Killed the Electric Car?, our conversation continues covering many topics from the EV1 to the Chevy Volt and everything in between.

Recently, I sat down with Chelsea Sexton, the unlikely star of Who Killed the Electric Car? Our conversation covered may topics from the EV1 to the Chevy Volt and everything in between. I like Chelsea - her unassuming attitude is refreshing. Plus, her convictions and extensive knowledge ...

I recently visited Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School at the Atomic Cowboy in St. Louis. This is one of the newest chapters of Dr. Sketchy’s anti-art School that started in Brooklyn. It’s a unique event thats part figure drawing class and part party, with performances and contests. Great ...

Proving the old adage that hot chicks sell cars, I had to catch the show at the Opel Agila stand during the Frankfurt Auto Show. These beautiful women all proved the point quite well… gorgeous babes get the attention of guys at these shows. In the case of ...

Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Thomas Anderson have made a new movie called There Will Be Blood, based on the Upton Sinclair novel, “Oil.” After seeing a special edition of Moby Dick, made by Arion Press, they called the San Francisco publisher of fine art ...

Ken Salchow, F5 Network’s manager of Core Technical Marketing, explores the IP Multimedia Subsystem, or IMS. Salchow explains that IMS is set to become the framework that Internet Service Providers will use to deliver new, highly customizable services, by seperating the access network from the service network. IMS will ...

During the Frankfurt Auto Show, GM Europe’s (or GME) presentation introduced the new Opel Flextreme, the new Opel Agila, the new Cadillac BLS wagon and more, which highlighted GM’s global strategy for reducing CO2 in the short term and new propulsion platforms in the long ...

Allan Arkush is an executive producer and director of the TV series, “Heroes”, which begins a new season on September 24th. The series is such a hit that it has engendered spin-offs. Arkush, who was trained by Roger Corman, doing promotional films, has come a long way ...

Ken Burns was at the Telluride Film Festival last weekend, where I spoke with him on the street, before he came to San Francisco for a special screening of his new series, The War, this weekend at the Letterman Digital Arts Center. “The War” airs on ...

Every since we interviewed John Sullivan, Campaigns Manager for The Free Software Foundation in Boston, our heads have been spinning with the possibilities that ‘Free as in Freedom’ Software holds. If you’re looking at this on the Web, you’ll see that our site is a pimped out Wordpress ...

This is a question and answer session with Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, that I conducted for a workshop on the Transparent Federal Budget project that took place in Austin, Texas last month. The Transparent Federal Budget project is a collaborative, open effort to bring greater ...

In this podcast, Marc Jourlait, Seagate’s VP of Global Marketing, talks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson about hybrid hard drives, a combination of Flash and hard drives with new features like faster startup time, increased battery life for laptops, and more. Jourlait says that currently, Windows Vista is the ...