The digital divide issue is being addressed in some pretty innovative ways by startups in India. In this video clip you will meet Babaji, who works as a security guard for Read-Inc Technologies. He has access to a laptop and has learnt how to use Microsoft applications like Excel, and ...

During the BMC Analyst Summit in Sonoma, James Governor talks with BMC Software’s Kia Behnia about the role and benefits of strong community in the mobile device and IT management worlds. James and Kia first talk about hacking phones, esp. his HTC Hermes. They then move on to ...

The mobile phone is the link in the movement from a networked society to a more connected one. What does this mean for mobile marketers? Jennifer Jones spoke with Chad Stoller, executive director of Organic, a digital marketing agency, to gain his perspective on current opportunities.

Bangalore-based startup Babajob is a social networking site with a few interesting wrinkles. I recently met with Sean Blagsvedt, co-founder of Babalife in Bangalore, to find out about Babajob. A few weeks ago the company released its first private beta version of their service.

A kind of LinkedIn for villages ...

Russell Morgan, chief operating officer of GroupieTunes, explains how the company uses cell phones to reach out to customers and increase the awareness for customers. Their “Mobile Community Network Enabler” platform allows, for instance, music fans to get messages and alerts from favorite groups anytime and anywhere.

There are many different mobile phones out there and almost all of them support some sort of interesting media capabilites. Rather than spending a couple bucks downloading a ringtone or wallpaper image from your cellular provider, you can use ToneThis to do it for free and with your own ...

ZenZui has a new “zoomable” UI for mobile phones that’s quite unique and fun to use. Come along as John SanGiovanni, co-founder and VP of products and services at ZenZui, tells me about his company’s plans and shows me how to use ZenZui to get around your mobile phone ...

Bangalore is fast-emerging as a hub for wireless and mobile value added servicess startup companies. I recently caught up with Raji Poddar of Sedna Wireless to find out how and why he started his company. Doing startups in India provides some interesting challenges. Recruiting the right kind of person to ...

OpenMoko is an interesting project that is an open linux-based mobile communications platform. Primarily an open source operating system and applicatiion environment, when combined with a hardware device by FIC, it quickly feels like an open threat to the Apple iPhone. While at Linuxworld, I spoke ...

Motorola is aggressively adopting mobile linux as the key operating system for its cell phones. It is launching its first North American cell phone with Linux, the new Razr V8. Tom Foremski talks with Christy Wyatt, VP Ecosystem and Market Development at Motorola about the move to Linux and if ...

Tom Foremski speaks with Diedier Diaz, SVP for Product Strategy Management at Access Systems Americas. “Access is one of the largest companies you’ve never heard about,” says Mr. Diaz. Its specialty is in creating applications for cell phones. It also acquired Palmsource, and now has the Palm OS and ...

Andrew Keen, the author of “The Cult of the Amateur” debates his ideas that the Internet is killing culture and the media with Steve Gillmor, Keith Teare, Nicholas Carr, moderated by Dan Farber. Part 1.

Larry Magid takes a look at T-Mobile’s innovative WiFi phone service.

Aron Pruiett looks at the ...

Will mobile phones be the future for cash payment? Will mobile payment usher in a cashless society? Are services like Western Union threatened by mobile payment? These are all the questions that Aditya answers in this podcast. Aditya Menon is Chief Information and Technology Officer of Obopay India. ...

Is it a cell phone or a VOIP phone? It’s both. T-Mobile has a new phone that lets you talk via their regular mobile network or connect to a WiFi hotspot at home or on the go. Larry Magid takes it out for a spin.

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 ...

A handheld cube that lets you browse your Flickr photos. A headset that uses brainwaves to control how fast a bicyclist pedals. And Megaphone, a game that lets users play against each in public spaces with their mobile phones. Those were some of the concepts on display at the ...

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 ...

Andrew MacFarlane, CEO of Buzzwire, dropped by to discuss Buzzwire’s new service, opening Monday, that will let you watch or listen to a number of video and audio shows — all from your cell phone.

TalkPlus lets you use your mobile phone to make local calls to any city — and have people in any city make a local call to you — no matter where you are.

Here, Plazes.com’s founder, Felix Petersen, demonstrates what Plazes lets you do with your mobile phone, and how you might use it to improve your life.

Coté speaks with Dave “KirinDave” Fayram about a week of iPhone use. As Dave is a developer (at PowerSet) and an Apple fanboy, in addition to talking about the pure user experience, he gives us a developers’ perspective and wish-list. We talk about using the maps features, Dave’s ...

TinyTube is a very small startup founded by Allen Day, who tells me how TinyTube is bringing massive amounts of video to your tiny mobile screen. His service transcodes and proxies video content from several of your favortite video-hosting sights. Allen gives me a demo of how easy it ...

Daniel Graf, CEO and founder of Kyte.tv, shows us how you can build a new kind of online TV channel: one that plays on mobile phones, Facebook, and Web pages and includes chat and more. It’s very cool and worth checking out to get a sense of where the ...

Mvelopes is a Web-based budgeting application that integrates banking and credit card services it an easy-to-use service. Based on the tried and tested visual envelope budget method, Mvelopes helps you manage your finances and track where all your money is going. Mvelopes works with common Web browsers so it’s ...

Sometimes the best ideas aren’t new — they just get reintroduced in new packaging. In2M’s Mvelopes offering is a good example of this. Mvelopes is a digital version of the old put-your-paycheck-into-multiple-envelopes budgeting methodology. David Neddo, vice president of marketing at In2M, talks about how Mvelopes has leveraged ...