Most startups don’t pan out. According to findings from Wilfrid Laurier University entrepreneurship professor Dr. Benson Honig, the ones that do succeed tend to have a few key characteristics in common, but you might be surprised to learn what they are. According to Honig, there isn’t much correlation between ...

In his CES 2007 Keynote, Motorola’s CEO Ed Zander unveiled what’s new for the mobile communications company, with new phone models, new partnerships, and new services for the digital home, as well as the mobile consumer.

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John van Bronkhorst, Seagate’s executive director for branded solutions reveals the new features in the Free Agent new generation hard drives. This is a Seagate podcast.

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At the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Seagate’s Senior Director of Marketing, Diana Cartwright, explains that Seagate is managing two well known brands: their own and Maxtor. Each, she says, serves in a very different and important capacity when it comes to managing personal data storage and ...

Rob Pait, Seagate’s marketing manager for global consumer hard disc drive took a break at the PodTech Bloghaus during the start of the International CES to talk about the new line of small form factor drives unveiled by Seagate at the show in Las Vegas. This is a Seagate podcast.

Tim Bajarin, principal analyst with Creative Strategies, a Silicon Valley tech analysis firm, says look no further than your digital home to see what will be hot in technology this year. Today on PodTech News, we’ll get an inside look at how analysts predict technology trends, and hear ...

Acrobat 8 Professional has new forms capabilities. Forms may not be new, but they are now much easier to deal with. The feature lets the Acrobat do the work of finding common fields and formatting them to save the user time. In this demo from Adobe, take a walk through the new tool and see how simple creating form fields in pdfs can be.

SAN FRANCISCO, December 20, 2006 (PodTech News) — Researchers have been working with an series of images to reveal what might be some of the oldest matter in the universe. Meanwhile, closer to home, Sony has settled in the case against embedding dangerous software on protected CDs, the VCR passes ...

DNA has this to say about Picsquare: “Banking on the sentiments of Indians who hold family albums very dear, two techies, both graduates from IIT Bombay, have launched Picsquare, a website that will print and deliver digital photos posted on it anywhere in the country.”

This Bangalore-based startup is ...

The Home Depot discusses standardizing on the EMC Documentum content management platform. In this podcast, you’ll learn what criteria The Home Depot used when choosing EMC Documentum as their Enterprise Content Management platform. In this episode, you will hear Lee Dallas, systems architect at The Home Depot, discuss his experience ...

Mark Cuban, chaiman and president of HDNet, gave his thoughts on the YouTube/Google deal during his keynote address at the 2006 CEA Industry Forum in San Francisco. The owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks also gave talked about the future of High Definition Television and where he sees the ...

Anand Chandrasekher is senior vice president and general manager of Intel Corporation’s Ultra Mobile Group. He spoke with PodTech’s Michael Johnson at Digital Life 2006 in New York City about updates in VIIV home entertainment platforms, and the shrinking computer.

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Last Monday, Veer Bothra (seen here on the left) asked me to join in the monthly mixer he organises, called Mobile Monday. It’s loosely tied in with an eponymous event held around the world, an opportunity for mobile platform stakeholders to meet and talk about change … and more of the same.

Veer wanted me to talk about podcasting, not the nuts and bolts, but where it’s at and its relevance to the radio paradigm. That’s a juicy opportunity, I thought to myself, and so found myself making the difficult journey to North Mumbai (needs planning and a sort of instinctive feel for which combination of segments and modes of transport make it the least painful overall).