During iHollywood Forum’s Hollywood Goes Green conference, Chris Paine, director of Who Killed the Electric Car joined Greg “Gadget” Abbott, founder of Electric Motors, Dave Barthmuss, GM’s Group Manager for Western Region Environment & Energy Communications and Dale Wiley, CEO and ...

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

Robert Ryan became a movie star working for Paramount Pictures and then RKO in the 1940s while Dana Andrews worked simultaneously for Samuel Goldwyn and Twentieth Century Fox. Their daughters, Lisa Ryan and Susan Andrews, talk about growing up with their famous fathers in ...

Movie and TV fan sites and entertainment blogs attract huge engaged audiences. Those are audiences that Hollywood and the entertainment industry are constantly trying to influence. The blogosphere wants access to their favorite entertainment creators and promotional materials. Blogger Reps is brand new company founded by Marjorie Kase, president ...

Freshtopia has gone Hollywood! Well, for one weekend anyway. The Freshtopia crew went to L.A. for the festival of online media known as Pixelodeon. We connected with old friends, had one of our episodes screened, heard some great lectures and had a pixel-tastic time! Big thanks to the awesome ...

This past weekend we checked out out the smart Fortwo, during the 2007 street smart road show at Urban Outfitters on Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood, Calif. Audience reaction to the event and the car was mostly positive, as consumers, myself included, couldn’t wait to get behind ...

This week on the Vloggies Show, Schlomo guest stars. Irina Slutsky goes to Hollywood to get an agent only to discover that Hollywood and Silicon Valley are still worlds apart. She also meets up with her friend John James for another cooking lesson that lands her in some ...

Internet self-publishing queen and Forbes Top 25 Web Celeb Violet Blue talks about her experience judging the Vloggies last year and her new partnership with Hollywood talent agency ICM.

At SXSW, Irina Slutsky speaks with the creators of Nontourage about their hit webisode series, “Almost There,” and their switch from working in traditional media (in Hollywood) to the online world of vlogging.

As the digital media come of age, it will be interesting to see whether the content creators or the Internet distributors will hold the greater power. Paul Vigna, of Dow Jones recently wrote an editorial for The Wall Street Journal, arguing that content will be king.

Eric Chin, partner at Bay Partners, takes time out from DEMO networking to talk with Charles Beeler. Chin and Bay Partners may not have had any investments on display this time, but at the Fall conference, they were the talk of the show, with Wallop, which has since ...

All set for the Academy Awards tonight and I get this Gmail package from an anonymous Hollywood friend. Seems some folks like Harrison Ford and Sandra Bullock thought it was about time to thank all the little people for all the real work that gets done making movies. But you ...

Dr. Jon Peddie is the Founder of Jon Peddie Research, a market research firm specializing in multimedia and computer graphics. He believes that by 2010, Hollywood studios will begin to replace human actors with lifelike representations, using computer graphics. Peddie spoke with Phil Leigh about the future of computer graphics. ...

Jerry Zucker, producer of Airplane, Ghost and The Naked Gun, spoke at the Vloggies, saying that he had no interest in videoblogging but adding that the Hollywood studios are a mess…. He was kidding, but he did say that online media is in its infancy, predicting that we’ll look back ...

Blip.TV co-founder Dina Kaplan explains the importance of the vlogging industry in the new media world, where a single vlogger in the middle of Minnesota is as important as a studio in Hollywood used to be. Now, she tells PodTech’s John Furrier, the Internet is a powerful tool of ...

Yay! We’re announcing the date for the Second Annual Vloggies - as a big heads up. The industry will evolve so much within one year, and once again, we will ask the community for their input in how most effectively to continue promoting vlog creators, producers, and their work - ...

The Vloggies first annual videoblog awards night made its debut in San Franscisco. The net paparazzi were out in force. PodTech, along with other videobloggers, has extensive coverage of the night. We will release that content shortly, but here is a short video showing the highlights.

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To many TV watchers and users of Internet-based media services, Hollywood is expected to call the shots on how video is delivered. After all, Napster, Grokster and others didn’t get very far with peer-to-peer networks. But analysts like Forrester’s Maribel Lopez say the profusion of devices and services in the ...

LOS ANGELES, October 31, 2006, (PodTech News) — As more and more content gets distributed over the Internet, P2P is finally getting a little respect. By distributing a broadcast’s bandwidth requirement over an entire network of participants rather than originating it from one central broadcast point, the file-sharing technology reduces ...

Stars and celebs turned-out recently for a hip housewarming party at Hollywood’s coolest new crib. The Esquire House 360° is a 17,000 square-foot Italian villa set among the stylish and exclusive mansions of Beverly Hills. This hip home is situated on three-acres of land with panoramic views of Southern California. Built and decorated with the latest materials and craftsmanship, the house seamlessly incorporates technology into each room, demonstrating how high fashion and high tech together are essential to the modern man.

LOS ANGELES, October 10, 2006, (PodTech News) - Last month, Apple unveiled its long-awaited movie download store and within a week sold 125,000 downloads, generating $1 million in revenue for the House of Mouse. Yet despite the success, only 75 Disney titles were available. Absent were movies from some of the largest Hollywood studios. Some insiders believe WalMart and other big retailers Hollywood cannot afford to alienate were to blame. But technology may also play a part in the slow adoption by studios

Venture funding is picking up its pace in India. Quattro BPO Solutions received $100 million in funding from Olympus Capital.

Venture Capital firm Matrix Partners made its first investment in India.

NBC recently released a series of six mini-games for mobile phones. Each is a “spin-off” from The Office, which airs on the network. Currently available on some carriers, the games will become more widely available on other carriers over the next few weeks.

Mumbai-based Indiagames Ltd. created the games for NBC. We spoke to Sean Malatesta, VP, Americas, about Indiagames and its strategy in the Americas.

Day 2 of the CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment trade show in Los Angeles began with a mobile entertainment roundtable featuring three executives from the industries seeking to monetize the thrid screen — Hollywood, gaming and wireless providers. The panelists included Michael Lynton, chairman and CEO of Sony ...