Thumbplay brings a bunch of great games to your mobile device. James Finn, executive vice president for Thumbplay.com, talks with me during the CTIA Showstoppers event last week.

Top fashion designer decked out each room of Esquire Magazine’s “Esquire North” with flavor and style while the latest entertainment and lifestyle computer gear connects everything together and to the Internet thanks to Intel technology, including Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad.

Gaming PC with quad core Intel processors. Wireless ...

Paul Otellini looked back on 40 years of innovation at Intel, outlined the company’s three main capabilities (silicon technology, Intel architecture, and market creation), and gave his vision for the future. “Today’s innovations are the basis of future technology,” Otellini said.

Intel has brought out new technology every two years ...

Susie Wee has a great job — she’s the director of the HP Labs Mobile and Media Systems Lab, which means she works on gaming and entertainment systems. I spoke with Ms. Wee in San Francisco, at an HP Gaming event at which the company showed off several of its ...

In this podcast, Bob Holleran, chief operating officer for Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, talks about Hitachi GST’s recent consolidations, new products, and the challenges ahead, as the hard drive market adapts to new mobile and home entertainment demands.

This podcast is sponsored by Hitachi Global Storage Technologies.

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 ...

Kevin Keling, Marketing Strategy Manager for Ford, talks about Ford’s embrace of audio technology and its hope that downloads will drive buyers to it’s showrooms. The company has partnered with Microsoft to offer Sync, a voice-activated in-car communications and entertainment system for mobile phones and ...

Suzuki created the Flix concept vehicle, based on the all-new 2007 XL7, as the ultimate mobile movie experience for film and entertainment enthusiasts. Once parked, the Flix’s clamshell roof can be opened, revealing a maximum-size moonroof that serves as a 40-inch movie screen. Additionally, the front roof panel ...

Fourteen years ago, in the early days of the Internet, it may have been hard to imagine shopping for a car, ordering food, or making other important consumer decisions all online. Organic saw an opportunity, though, and that’s when it began to work with some forward-thinking companies that saw the ...

Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Intel CEO Paul Otellini took the stage in San Francisco Monday to announce a new alliance. Listen here for the audio of the entire presentation and the Q&A session.

Transcript:
Guest: Jonathan Schwartz - Sun
Guest: Paul Otellini - Intel

Jonathan Schwartz - Sun

Online movie rentals are turning out to be a big business in India. This may not be that surprising, considering the sheer volume of movies produced in India each year, but it still represents a lot of money, and a lot of potential for growth.

All that potential is what ...

Media- and entertainment-related funding appears to be the trend with angel investors. Recently, MadHouse Media, a movie rental start-up, received their first round of investment from angel investors. The investors included the Band of Angels, Mumbai Angels and some private investors.

Dr. Kumar Shiralagi joined NEA IndoUS Fund which ...

“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 ...

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.

SAN FRANCISCO, January 6, 2007 (PodTech News) — The 2007 Consumer Electronics Show begins tomorrow night with a keynote by Microsoft Founder and Chairman Bill Gates. Catherine Girardeau takes a look at the CES schedule to see what the next week — and the next year — might ...

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.

Who will bid and acquire Hutch Essar? That’s the big question in the telecom and mobile service sector in India. Hutch Essar is a joint venture partnership between Hong Kong’s Whampoa Hutchison and the Essar Group of India. Whampoa Hutchison owns 67 percent of the stake and the Essar Group ...

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).

Venture funding is picking up its pace in India. Quattro BPO Solutions received $100 million in funding from Olympus Capital.

Venture Capital firm Matrix Partners made its first investment in India.

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.

During Thursday’s CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment show in Los Angeles, Virgin Mobile USA’s CEO Daniel Schulman participated in a keynote roundtable on social networking and the mobile community. His comments about the company’s views on social responsibility and its own programs caught the attention of PodTech’s Matt Kelly, ...

Video game developer Hudson, well known for its Bomberman series, showed off some of its new games at CTIA Wireless 2006 in Los Angeles. John Greiner is president of Hudson. He spoke with PodTech’s Rio Pesino about the rapid growth of mobile games, their gaming/ringtone partnership with hip-hop ...

Day 2 of the CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment trade show in Los Angeles began with a mobile entertainment roundtable featuring three executives from the industries seeking to monetize the thrid screen — Hollywood, gaming and wireless providers. The panelists included Michael Lynton, chairman and CEO of Sony ...