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BYE BYE MUMU ... It has been said the nation is in the midst of another baby boom. A look around Palo Alto might just confirm the assertion. Filling a need for those experiencing the rapid body changes of pregnancy, Mom's the Word has just opened up at Town & Country Village, offering designer maternity fashions to the Midpeninsula. The collection at Mom's the Word is designed to help expectant mothers navigate maternity without having to hide their bodies under mumus. "You don't become a different person when you become pregnant," company CEO and Founder Sarah Pollak said. The 12-year-old company has other Bay Area locations in San Francisco and Walnut Creek.

WRAP SHEETS ... Eco-capitalists TerraCycle — best known for their eco-friendly "Worm Poop" fertilizer — have teamed up with energy-bar maker Clif Bar to establish energy-bar wrapper recycling locations across the country. The goal is to keep the wrappers out of landfills, but the campaign serves other purposes as well. For starters, TerraCycle donates 2 cents per wrapper to the charity of choice identified by the administrator of each collection location — Palo Alto has two. Second, the wrappers are eventually woven together to create fashion accessories. E-mail Palo Alto's volunteers Josh (theminimum@mac.com) or Pam at pmcleod@wholetravel.com to find out how you can participate.

DIGITAL CONFERENCE ROOM ... Teleconferences are nothing new, but a new HP deal with Marriott International announced last week could be changing the way people feel when they participate in one. Even though the technology for live video conferencing has been around for years, HP has been tweaking the look and feel of the virtual conference interface in its Halo Telepresence Rooms, which allow teams in up to four separate locations to talk to each other as if they were just across the table from them. The new alliance with Marriott will create public access points for such meetings around the world.

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FYI is a regular feature announcing news and events related to the Palo Alto business community. Send news to In Business editor Allen Clapp at aclapp@paweekly.com.