The IPO season is underway in India. Media company Global Broadcast News, which operates CNN and other news channels, went IPO earlier this week. It listed on both the Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange.

Bangalore-based MindTree Consulting is going IPO on the Indian stock exchange. ...

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 ...

ShieldZone Founder Phillip Chipping and CEO Robert Pedersen speak with Brad Baldwin about the benefits of protected, “naked” gadgets. Industrial designers are working hard to create the sexiest and sleekest products. Why hide the design behind a bulky, unattractive case?

Chipping took a protective film developed to

Intel is one of many companies attending CES 2007 in Las Vegas next week. PodTech Founder and CEO John Furrier visited with Intel’s Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, Sean Maloney to explore top tech-lifestyle trends for 2007 and the impact of new innovations coming from the chipmaker.

Erik Schwartz is head of product for Foneshow, a Boston-based startup that makes it possible for podcasters to deliver their content directly to cell phones, circumventing the intermediate step of computer downloads. Schwartz discusses the advantages and disadvantages of this approach to podcast distribution. He also shares his views on ...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 14, 2006 (PodTech News) — Samsung’s plan to introduce its OneDRAM fusion memory in 2007 could mean much speedier smartphones. The company announced the device this week, amid the year-end predictions from analysts and enthusiasts for everything from cell phones to start-ups. We look to the ...

Linda Barrabee is a program manager in the consumer electronics research area of The Yankee Group. Her company specializes in industry research and forecasting. She joins Inside Digital Media to discuss the future of entertainment media on cell phones.

Click here for transcript.

That familiar term IPO is making a comeback in India. Info Edge India Pvt Ltd opened its Initial Public Offering for subscription from today through November 2, 2006. Info Edge owns properties like Naukri.com, a job search portal; JeevanSaathi.com, a matchmaking portal and 99acres.com, a real estate ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 30, 2006 (PodTech News) — Zero to 60 in 3.9 seconds, at a fuel cost of less than a penny per mile. Sound too good to be true? It gets better — the dream car we’re talking about is a zero-emissions sports car that runs on ...

Zaw Thet, CEO at 4Info, is doing some remarkable things for cell phones. Yeah, you can use 4Info to search from your phone, but 4Info is so much more. Their advertising can be seen on the front page of the sports section in USA Today so this isn’t a ...

Ryan Block is managing editor of Engadget.com and he invited me over to get a tour of his San Francisco “crib.” We see, and talk about, dozens of gadgets from cameras to cell phones to HDTVs.

In today’s news, continued fallout and speculation from the Google/YouTube deal, Palm is taking its Treo to the next level (and giving it a marketing blitz, too), Bully hits the courtroom in Florida, and Americans need to pick up the pace if it wants to beat Europe at the adoption ...

PixSense launched its new, wide range of installables for cellphones at DEMO/fall in San Diego on Monday September 25, 2006.

I met with Adnan Agboatwala, who captains the development of this remarkable new application and service as managing director of PixSense development operations in Pakistan. He’s also co-founder of PixSense worldwide.

Kolachi is one of the traditional names for the port city of Karachi, in Pakistan’s coastal southern province of Sindh. The city too is a peculiarly South Asian blend of old and new, crowded marketplaces competing for space with massive concrete office blocks housing an overwhelmingly large part of Pakistan’s business — well over one third of the economy comes out of this bustling city of 12 million. It also has a vibrant arts and culture scene.

Will mobile games ever be at the same level as portable gaming devices such as the Nintendo DS or Playstation Portable (PSP)? At CTIA Wireless 2006, PodTech’s Rio Pesino asked Martha Ng, Business Development Manager of mobile game maker Funmobile, if cell phones will eventually make portable handhelds ...

MENLO PARK, September 5, 2006 (PodTech News) — An announcement today that Apple will be holding an invitation-only press event in San Francisco on September 12th is providing plenty of grist for the rumor mill, with the fringes dreaming of iPod-phones, and the mainstream predicting full-length movie downloads (and an upgraded iPod to play them on). PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau spoke with Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group to sort through some of the grist from the mill.

Audio and video content is coming to mobile phones — although a new L.A. Times/Bloomberg Poll that Dennis Haarsager points to in his Technology360 blog suggests that the always-on generation isn’t so enthusiastic about getting audio and video content on their handsets. Certainly, as the pollsters ...

What about mobile podcasting? That is podcasts on cell phones? I get this question all the time. I’m not bullish about it in the short term but it is obvious that it will happen. The question is when? Today Alltel announced that they are offering ...

Why can’t you buy any cell phone and easily use it with most any carrier? Don’t blame Motorola. Chairman and CEO Ed Zander doesn’t blame the carriers either, even though they dictate which phones their customers will use. In this podcast, Zander argues (civilly with Gartner analysts Nick Jones and ...

After her keynote at CTIA Wireless 2006, BET CEO Debra Lee joined PodTech’s Jason Lopez on the exhibit floor of the trade show to talk about content on cell phones, technology, and digital rights.

Click here for Debra Lee’s Bio.
Click here to see more photos from the keynote.

Las Vegas, NV, April 6, 2006 (PodTech News) – PayPal says it figures to be the leader in cell phone services when it comes to retail financial transactions. The phone as a point of sale purchasing device is becoming reality in Japan led in part by NTT DoCoMo and ...

Las Vegas, NV, April 6, 2006 (PodTech News) – The convergence of entertainment and cell phones has been predicted for so long that the notion it has arrived seems trite. But the technology infrastructure to wed mobile telephony with IP networks has arrived and the last piece to the puzzle ...

Las Vegas, NV, April 6, 2006 (PodTech News) – The Chairman and CEO of BET Networks, Debra Lee, says her firm takes on partnerships when the opportunities arise. But mobile telephony is more than a typical opportunity. BET recently formed a partnership with Motricity to manage the delivery of BET ...

Internet-enabled handsets have a lot of promise to transform the mobile web experience with video and music. But companies like NTT DoCoMo envision the phone as a wallet, among other things. The CEO of the company, Matsura Nakamura announced at CTIA Wireless 2006 that NTT ...

GroveSite was founded on the knowledge that existing collaboration tools lacked the flexibility, affordability, and responsiveness needed to meet the emerging needs of organizations. With the advent of cell phones, laptops, and widely-available internet access, working teams were becoming more dispersed. Organizations were increasingly looking to form partnerships and strategic ...