During the North American International Auto Show, (NAIAS) one of the most important announcements I heard was made by GM Chairman Rick Wagoner, who announced a partnership with Coskata, a Warrensville, IL, biology-based ethanol producer. The company uses proprietary microorganisms and patented bioreactor designs ...

Why have we not heard of MSN Mobile India? MSN mobile has been doing business in India for over four years now. I turned to MSN Mobile’s Senthil Sundaram to find out more about MSN Mobile in India. Senthil is the business head of MSN Mobile India. One of ...

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 ...

Finishing up the interview series at Microsoft TechEd IT Forum in Barcelona, I talk with Eric Berg (Director of Product Management, System Center) about the System Center product lines. While we focus on only Operations Manager, Configuration Manager, and Virtual Machine Manager, we go into detail on each. We start ...

A Word of Warning: This is a graphic video. If you do not eat meat and think killing animals to do so is bad, you should not watch this video.

We live at The San Mateo Eco-Village, where we know our neighbors, garden together and learn how to live more ...

In this video clip I quiz Rodrigues, who works for a tour and travel company in Bangalore, on how he uses his cell phone. We start with the missed call phenomena to SMS and ringtones.

Never heard of missed calls?  In India missed calls and SMS are the preferred means ...

Traffic Jams are a curse to city life. Finally, a startup has found a solution to overcome some of the problems.

When I was in Bangalore recently, a city notorious for its atrocious traffic jams, I was pleasantly surprised to see a sign at a traffic signal which told me ...

In the second part of our conversation with Nishith Desai, we talk about venture capital and the various mechanisms and structures through which capital comes into India. What are the challenges of bringing capital into India? What are the various pass-through mechanisms that are available? Nishith set up one ...

Criticisms are being made by bloggers on Guy Kawasaki’s newest venture, Truemors. Kawasaki candidly addresses these challenges in this latest post on Marketing Voices. Kawasaki launched Truemors on approximately a $12,000 budget. Jones also prods Kawasaki to talk about how he is handling the negative fallout from his previous ...

Ajay Adiseshann is the founder and managing director of PayMate. He helped set up the company in May 2006. As managing director of PayMate, he is responsible for day-to-day operations, marketing, business development and overall strategy.

PayMate is the first-of-its-kind mobile payment service in India, which helps customers buy things ...

After 18 years designing and managing next-generation telecomm networks at AT&T, Frucall’s CEO Dr. Behzad Nadji is allowing the modern shopper to wage a price war with the all-powerful cell phone. With the Frucall service, when shoppers see a product and want to see if they’re getting the best ...

India has the fast growing mobile market in the world, and Bangalore is the hotbed of mobile innovations and start-ups. Mobile search is the new hot word in India, and Ziva Software wants to be a significant player in this area.

The one-year-old mobile search company is located in an ...

Intel Researcher Nina Taft says she was inspired by a newspaper article on how diversity in nature helps organisms thwart the threat of viruses. Her application of principles of biodiversity and her investigation into personalizing security, user by user, could reduce attacks in enterprise networks. Jason Lopez recorded this podcast.

Asif Ali is the CTO of Mobile-Worx, a mobility solutions company. Mobile-Worx is trying to replicate the success of Google’s Adsense program in the mobile space, where content is monetized via advertising.

Asif talks in detail about ZestAdz, an online platform that will allow companies to advertise their products ...

Kevin Schofield invited me up to see Microsoft Research’s TechFest. We get to see a TON of cool stuff (some of the coolest research ever). Kevin is the guy responsible for moving technology from Research into the product teams, so he seems to know everyone working on Research and ...

Eighty-eight colleges and universities. Two-and-a-half million downstream users. Paul Schopis is associate director of OARnet, based at The Ohio State University, and as such he oversees an expansive network for users with a wide range of needs. In this podcast Paul discusses the challenges he faces in building and maintaining such a network, shares some knowledge learned in his ten years at OARnet, and explains the fish problem.

This Juniper Networks podcast is part of the Juniper Networks Master of IT program.

What would you store if you could afford one terabyte — that’s 1,000 gigabytes — of hard disk space? In this podcast, Doug Pickford, director of product and market strategy for enterprise products with Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, talks with PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau about Hitachi GST’s industry milestone, the ...

Over the last year, Yahoo’s India R&D center has moved to doing true product development says Chief Product Officer Pete Deemer. There are about 25 product managers who work on different products and services. Pete points out that this shift means that today the product development process in ...

Vijay Shekhar Sharma is the managing director of One97, a mobile value-added services company. One97 has many firsts to its credit, including India’s first short code sms service, 3030.

Vijay talks about how they started, the various offerings of One97, impact of 3G and the overall VAS market in ...

In this first of two podcasts we talk with Susan Andersen, director of product marketing for voice management solutions at CA. As more organizations migrate to IP telephony and Voice Over IP, they need to manage the convergence of voice and data on their network. Susan tells us ...

In this Thought Leaders podcast brought to you by SAVVIS, Nicholas Carr, acclaimed business technology writer and strategist, discusses the end of corporate computing brought on by the move from assets to shared resources. He also comments on the next generation of IT - the Utility Model - and ...

Mobile value-added services company OnMobile is reported to have raised $35 million in a new round of funding. According to The Economic Times “OnMobile Systems seems to have closed a fresh round of funding - around $35m - from a group of investors, including Goldman Sachs.”

LOS ANGELES, August 31, 2006 (PodTech News) — It seems a day doesn’t go by without another cyber attack from hackers, spammers, phishers or those seeking to steal your identity. But are we under attack more than ever before? PodTech’s Matt Kelly put that and other questions to Lauren Weinstein, co-founder of People for Internet Responsibility.

MENLO PARK, August 30, 2006 (PodTech News) — Yahoo Inc. announced Tuesday it’s added Windows-based mobile phones to the list of phones that offer the Yahoo Go for Mobile suite, which includes e-mail, calendar, news, and photo albums. Internet companies are scrambling to give consumers the ability to stay connected to the functions they depend on when they’re tethered to their desks — even when they’re on the go. To do this, the companies are looking for partnerships with wireless carriers and mobile device manufacturers. PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau visited Yahoo’s Sunnyvale campus to talk Yahoo Go with David Riemer, vice president of marketing for Connected Life at Yahoo.