ClearOne, a Salt Lake City-based company, holds a majority of the global market share in the professional audio conferencing systems category. It should come as no surprise that their conference phone products for the desktop and individuals wouldn’t include significant technology enhancements that set them apart from the “el’cheapo” ...

When Celio Corporation received a 2008 CES Innovations Award this past November, the news was out that Ceilo was up to something cool. Kirt Bailey, CEO of Celio Corporation — and former Intel Capital director involved with mobility markets, sat down with Brad Baldwin of

Prof. Tapan Parikh is a teacher, an innovator and a social entrepreneur, who currently teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. He was recently named as the Humanitarian of the Year by MIT’s Tech Review. While at graduate school in Seattle, Tapan took some time off and travelled ...

Meet Vishal Maheshwari, head of Yahoo! India mobile, who provides strategic direction to his company’s mobile business in India. India has one of the fastest mobile subscribers in the world. Every month millions of new mobile subscribers are added by various Indian telcos. In this interview Vishal talks about the ...

“We want to be on a billion phones,” says Ojas Rege, VP of Yahoo’s global mobile products. So, imagine the challenge that Ojas and his team have in order to achieve that goal. You need to have an entrpreneurial bent of mind to do make the internet fit your phone ...

How does Yahoo! access the power of the Internet on the mobile phone? They way a user uses Yahoo! on their desktop is vastly different from the way they use it on their mobile phones. Delivering a seamless, oneclick experience on the mobile phone is a key component of what ...

How do you make the GSM network relevant to millions of PC users around the world? Simple. Plug in a mobile broadband or High Speed Internet Access (HSPA) chip into the laptop and you are good to surf the internet. What is the target market for these mobile ...

Asia has the largest and fastest growing mobile users in the world. Yahoo! mobile has a pretty significant presence in Asia. David Ko, Vice President and General Manager of Yahoo! Connected Life Asia talks about Yahoo’s strategy and plans in the Asian market. David is responsible for the deployment ...

Cell phones are bringing a new kind of video to the world. You’ve seen them being filmed in museums or concerts: little videos done with cell phones. Zannel is working to make it easier to get those videos up to your friends. Here Adam Zbar, CEO, and Braxton Woodham, ...

Do you think Google is the best search engine for cell phones? Think again with Taptu’s Bob Last. He’s senior vice president of business development there and talks with me about search engines and how mobile phones aren’t well served by the major search engines from Yahoo, Google, or ...

One of the most unique social networks I’ve seen lately is the one from BluePulse. It’s for mobile phones only and is gaining a lot of fans. Last week I headed over to see what Ben Keighran, founder and CEO is up to and get a look at the ...

Are you building an Internet service and need to know how it’ll look on computers or mobile phones around the world? What the response times will be? How to make it better? Then you’ll need Keynote Systems. Here, Manny Gonzalez, Sr., director of mobile technologies, talks to me about ...

Migg33 is a mobile social networking company and a phone software developer. The comapny has found a way to enhance regular phones with extra smart features including ways to use VOIP for cheap international calls as co-founder Steven Goh explains to Larry Magid.

As more and more cellphones become Web enabled, Anurag Nigam and Manish Lachwani, co-founders of InSync Inc., believe there is a growing need for an Internet portal for mobile devices. Their San Francisco-based, self-funded startup, 411Synch enables anyone to access their favorites on the Web with one touch, keyword strokes. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...