In Part-2 of our conversation Senthil Sundaram, business head of MSN Mobile India explains how they plan to do reach out to their mobile customers. They plan to roll out their direct to consumer initiative and make MSN’s mobile portal to the users in a big way. At the ...

We continue our conversation with Krishna Prasad (KP), Executive Producer, MSN India about their content strategy, future plans and what kinds of content drives traffic to their site. MSN India is working on introducing new rich media content for their audience like video on demand. Expect to see more ...

MSN India is getting ready to unveil its video feature for its audience next week. I caught with Krishna Prasad, aka KP, executive producer at MSN India’s office in Bangalore to find out more about MSN India’s business and content strategy for India and its global Indian audience? Recently ...

Velu Shankar is head of content strategy at the India office of WorldSpace Satellite Radio, the 24-radio station. I recently caught up with Velu at his downtown Bangalore office to find out on how WorldSpace started its India operations, and the potential and future growth of radio in India. ...

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 ...

With millions using Internet talk services daily, more and more companies are finding a niche market making headset devices. ChatCable’s device converts your cell phone headset for use with Skype, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Chat, AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, and more. ChatCable President Paul Helmick gave PodTech a demo at ISPCON ...

LOS ANGELES, September 27, 2006 (PodTech News) — Control Room, formerly Network Live and MSN, Microsoft’s web portal, yesterday announced a multi-year content agreement to distribute live concert performances online. The deal gives Control Room, producer of last year’s Live 8, several global distribution platforms, including the nearly 465 million monthly MSN visitors

LOS ANGELES, September 19, 2006 (PodTech News) — Microsoft officially entered the video sharing space with the beta launch of Soapbox on MSN Video. Codenamed Warhol, Soapbox will be featured on the MSN Video site and be integrated in new Windows Live Spaces and Live Messenger software. With the announcement, the new video-sharing service goes head-to-head with the hip and popular YouTube website, which attracted 34 million monthly unique visitors and 1.2 billion page views in August. The question: how will MSN get its millions of users to use this video-sharing site? PodTech’s Matt Kelly spoke with Rob Bennett, general manager of entertainment and video services for MSN for comment, as well as Jupiter research analyst Joe Wilcox, who’s been covering Microsoft for several years.

MENLO PARK, September 11, 2006 (PodTech News) - Gartner, Inc. Vice President Martin Reynolds said he thinks Hewlett-Packard Board Chair Patricia Dunn did the right thing to investigate leaks of proprietary HP information to the news media, and that he doesn’t think she knew the private investigative firm she retained would use pretexting to conduct the investigation. (Pretexting is the practice of getting a company to turn over consumer records by pretending to be the consumer in question.) HP has said the practice was used to obtain the personal phone records of board members and nine reporters. HP’s board met yesterday, and is meeting again late today, in the wake of investigations into the practice by the offices of the California Attorney General and the U.S. District Attorney’s office, Northern California District. PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau interviewed Reynolds to get his take on the role of HP Chair Patricia Dunn, who ordered the investigation into the leaks.

Niall Kennedy was on the job for only three months. Hey how long can you sit around waiting to build a platfrom. Google is expanding and MSN seems to be cutting back according to Niall. Bummer the project sounded perfect for Niall and for MSN. ...

PodTech News (San Francisco, CA) - December 16, 2005: Google, Yahoo and MSN are jockeying for position. It’s a race that’s only in the very beginning. Broadband usage isn’t even at a level that gives a clear picture of what kinds of revenue drivers the Internet giants will ...

PodTech News (December 11, 2006): The media skies are probably clearing a bit for Yahoo as Google’s and Microsoft’s every move are not dominating the headlines as much these days. Comscore Networks says in October Yahoo and its web properties had a solid lead (124 million unique visitors) ...