Network Neutrality: Why Net Firms Like Google Care
Menlo Park, CA, June 8, 2006 (PodTech News) — Google’s co-founder and President Sergey Brin was in Washington Tuesday to push for stronger provisions on “network neutrality.” Internet companies like...
View ArticleStanford Economist On Google’s China Dilemma
MENLO PARK, June 10, 2006 (PodTech News) — Google co-founder Sergey Brin told reporters in Washington last week that Google “compromised principles” by complying with Chinese government censorship...
View ArticleSun Microsystems Supports Stanford Center for Ecological Studies
PALO ALTO, June 20, 2006 (Podtech News) — Dave Douglas has recently been appointed as the VP of Eco-Responsibility at Sun Microsystems. He says that the educational research in green technologies not...
View ArticleYouTube CEO Hurley Says More Ads Are Coming
MENLO PARK, July 26, 2006 (PodTech News) –”It’s going to be advertising,” said YouTube CEO Chad Hurley said, when asked how he was going to make his company profitable, though he stressed any...
View ArticleCharles River introduces the first Entrepreneur Idol Contest
“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...
View ArticleReturn Capital on the Capital
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...
View ArticleExtinguish coal fires and reduce carbon emissions considerably
You may not be aware that coalfires, both natural and man-made, generate large amounts of carbon dioxide. In China alone, the estimated amount equals that of the U.S. transportation sector! Meet Taku...
View ArticleDoes corporate backing taint universities’ energy resource studies?
Meet Professor Pam Matson, dean of the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford University and renowned scientist. Pam is super-excited about the opportunities that ever-increasing levels of private and...
View ArticleSilicon Valley Watcher: Al Saracevic
Al Saracevic is the deputy business editor at the San Francisco Chronicle. I caught up Mr. Saracevic at a recent conference on innovation journalism at Stanford university. In this segment, he is on a...
View ArticleCarbon sequestration: Can we bury just the harmful carbon dioxide?
In this first in a series of discussons on carbon sequestration, we meet Marc Hesse, an aspiring graduate student at Stanford, who studies the physical processes that govern the movement of carbon...
View ArticleSay Hello to Y2E2
Meet Y2E2, Stanford University‘s new green Environment and Energy building, in the making. In this podcast we interview Jeffrey R Koseff, director of Woods Institute for the Environment. He tells us...
View ArticleTony Perkins – AlwaysOn
Tony Perkins is the head honcho of AlwaysOn which, among other things, runs an annual conference for high-tech companies, venture capitalists and other tech insiders. Larry Magid caught up with him...
View ArticleFocus on Nuclear Energy: Part I
I know: nuclear energy has long had a bad name in the US. I believe, however, that it is an essential part of our future energy portfolio. Nuclear energy is clean, its generation is efficient, its...
View ArticleA short tour of Stanford’s Computer Science building
David Orenstein, Communications and PR Manager, and Ian Hsu, director of Internet Media Outreach at Stanford University, greet me and show me around the “Gates building,” aka the Computer Science...
View ArticleTrends in human/computer interaction from Stanford University prof
Scott Klemmer is an assistant professor in the computer science department at Stanford University. We spend an hour talking about a variety of topics. Modern software development trends that Scott is...
View ArticleNuclear Energy with Prof. Burton Richter: Part IV
Part four of our interview with nuclear energy expert, Stanford University Professor Emeritus and 1976 Nobel Prize Winner Burton Richter.
View ArticleIs the VC Industry in Trouble?
VC are investing more money than ever before. But is it a good time to investment? There is a dearth of good exit strategies. The IPO market is still moribund and there are fewer large companies that...
View ArticleNuclear Energy with Prof. Burton Richter, Part V
Burton Richter is professor emeritus at Stanford University, a 1976 Nobel Prize winner and an expert on nuclear energy. This is the last in our five-part series with Richter.
View ArticleDay 11: Roz videoblogging on Pacific’s rough seas
It’s Day 11, and Roz Savage is dealing with 40 knot Pacific winds on her rowing journey across the Pacific, singing the theme song to Hawaii Five-O. More videos from the Roz Savage Voyage: - Roz’s...
View ArticleBuilding robotic cars at Stanford University
Mike Montemerlo is the artificial intelligence guy on Stanford University’s DARPA challenge team. Basically, they are building a robotic car that’ll be able to negotiate a course without humans being...
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