Durng EVS 23, the Electric Vehicle Symposium, I spoke with Pitt Moos, Product Manager for the smart ev, a prototype and research electric vehicle being developed by http://www.daimler.com/ Daimler. Currently 100 of them are being built and delivered to consumers in London, England as part of a four ...

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) ...

Right now, a bunch of hackers are huddled over their laptops in a downtown hotel in Bangalore. This 24-hour Open Hack Day marathon session is organized by Yahoo India R&D. Similar Open Hack Days were organized in Sunnyvale, Calif. and London. Bangalore is the third city. I ...

An international freestyle cypher uniting emcees from London (Stig), Paris ( Warlock), Berlin (Jago) and New York (Big Zoo and Vice Verses). Behind the scenes footage from my radio show, The Underground Railroad, on WBAI 99.5 FM in New York.

Niles is a town in the Bay Area that is dedicated to its Silent Film History. Charlie Chaplin had a formative year there where he created his character, The Tramp. And when you think about his impoverished background growing up in London, it’s amazing to imagine him ...

Kallol Borah is the founder and CEO of Aumega Networks, a software infrastructure company with a presence in India, UK and Japan. Aumega Networks licenses software development kits for software-as-a-service computing (SaaS) — especially peer-to-peer software services.

The company’s technology enables implementation of application services that are network and ...

Sam Sethi is a London-based technology entrepreneur and consultant. Sam recently launched BlogNation, a worldwide network of blogs focusing on Web 2.0, mobile and enterprise startup space in 22 countries around the world (except the United States).

Sam was known in the blogosphere for the good coverage he did at ...

Nicole Wong, Google’s deputy general counsel in charge of compliance, is the point person for growing criticism of Google’s privacy practices. More than two dozen European privacy regulators have launched an inquiry into Google’s data protection practices. In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission is probing Google’s pending $3.1 ...

Aashish Kalra of Trikona Capital is a key player in the development and investment of infrastructure and real estate in India. Trikona Capital is one of the few key players in building new roads, townships, hospitals and other infrastructure-related projects in India. For instance they are one of ...

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 ...

When you hear “fuel cells” you may, first and foremost, think about hydrogen fuel cells for vehicle transport. But fuel cells are not at all limited to hydrogen, and are attractive energy suppliers for industrial and domestic usage. Professor Nigel Branson is a fuel cell expert and entrepeneur at Imperial ...

Intel was showing off the power of its Quad-Core processors at the 2007 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Some of the biggest PC games were playable at Intel’s booth, including Crysis, Hellgate: London and Company of Heroes. PodTech’s Rio Pesino and Intel’s Randy Stude discuss ...

User-generated content is the big trend for this year, and in India, Cellcast is taking a lead on this by introducing the first user-generated technology platform in India, called Sumo.tv.

Users now have a chance to have their video content shown on Indian TV channels through Sumo.tv. We caught ...

Cleantech Venture Network is a group of venture capitalists dedicated to finding investments in “clean” technologies. PodTech’s Rio Pesino spoke with Cleantech Co-Founder Nick Parker about the organization’s vision in New York.

The Cleantech Forum XII is right around the corner, February 19-22, in San Francisco. The San Francisco ...

Tata has finally acquired Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus to become the the world’s fifth-largest steel company. In another M&A news, the Hutch Essar deal is now pegged in the neighborhood of $20 billion by the media. Hutch Essar is India’s fourth-largest mobile operator.

Last week, NEA IndoUS Fund was

At the International CES in Las Vegas, Randy Stude, of Intel’s gaming strategy department, talks about the processor demands of new computer games. He demos Bill Roper’s highly-anticipated online action RPG Hellgate: London, the first original PC title from developer Flagship Studios. This is an Intel podcast.

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“Content is King and distribution is God,” says Rajesh Sawhney, president of Reliance Entertainment.

The company, part of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani group of companies, has a large and comprehensive plan to expand its footprint in the media and entertainment space in India. Rajesh is focused on building ...

The Indus Entrepreneurs, better known by its acronym TiE, has become a central force in nurturing and helping entrepreneurs around the world. Founded in 1992 in Silicon Valley, the organization now has over 40 chapters in various parts of the world.

For the first time a three day Pan ...

Maryam sits down with Sarah Blow. She’s a programmer with a phone company in London and hated that she didn’t see many girl geeks at parties. Worse, she was accused of being a marketer, which rubbed her the wrong way. Funny, when she said she wasn’t a marketer, Hugh ...

Are you an entrepreneur thinking about going for venture capital? Well, Philip Baddeley works with startups in Cambridge, England, and helps entrepreneurs know what to expect and prepare their pitches. I found him interesting to talk with, and he gave me lots of good information on how to approach ...

What happens when we get a bunch of geeks get together on a Friday afternoon in London? The “Pissed as Newts” tour! Here’s a small part of the tour (we visited five pubs). You get to watch Hugh Macleod draw one of his famous little drawings on the backs of ...

Sam Sethi is one of the most connected geeks in London (he used to run TechCrunch UK) and we sat down with him and a few of his friends for a fun breakfast. We talk about the five things geeks want for Christmas. What do you want for Christmas? ...

The venture investment scene in India appears to show no signs of slowing down. In the past few days, a number of investment deals were inked and signed.

Leading the pack is Travel Guru, a travel portal, received $15 million from Sequoia Capital and Battery Ventures. Next in the ...

Iqbal Gandham has been involved with internet startups since before the days of Yahoo and Hotmail, when the coolest thing to do with a webpage was to make the text blink.

Initially based in the UK, Iqbal setup several ISPs, and then found his calling in India, where he went to ...