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 ...

Pandora is one of my favorite Internet services. It lets you build a customized radio station by starting with the names of your favorite bands and songs. It then brings you more music that’s similar to that. Here Pandora’s CTO, Tom Conrad, talks about the service, demos its new ...

Rich media experience on mobile phones is the next new wave unfolding around the world. Users are increasingly using their mobile phones for audio and video content, and Vantrix may be a key player in this space. Vantrix enables rich media experience including live video and streaming on mobile ...

After 18 years designing and managing next-generation telecomm networks at AT&T, Frucall’s CEO Dr. Behzad Nadji is allowing the modern shopper to wage a price war with the all-powerful cell phone. With the Frucall service, when shoppers see a product and want to see if they’re getting the best ...

Topping this week’s round-up is the investments received by Telisma and Komli.

Silicon Valley-based Telisma received $50 million in funding. The investors include NewPath Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, CMEA Ventures, JAFCO Asia and other strategic investors.

Komli received its first round of funding from DFJ and Helion Ventures. However, Komli did ...

In this week’s ConnectCast, Rocky Mountain Voices‘ Cydni Tetro and Connect Magazine Executive Editor Colin Kelly discuss the top stories of the week from a Rocky Mountain perspective. The conversation includes a look at the Utah companies that made the Forbes 1000 company list, including Huntsman Chemical ...

Sunil Maheshwari and Lekh Joshi are co-founders of Mango Technologies, a Bangalore- based mobile start-up. Both are first-time entrepreneurs who have 20 years of experience between them working for various mobile companies in India.

Sunil and Lekh are bullish about the growth opportunities for mobile companies in India, and believe ...

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 ...

Asif Ali is the CTO of Mobile-Worx, a mobility solutions company. Mobile-Worx is trying to replicate the success of Google’s Adsense program in the mobile space, where content is monetized via advertising.

Asif talks in detail about ZestAdz, an online platform that will allow companies to advertise their products ...

Rocky picked the coolest stuff off of Part 1 of the Microsoft Research TechFest Tour, so if you only have 12 minutes, you can see our favorite stuff from the tour (part 1 of the full tour is about an hour long, so we’ve edited it down into three ...

Kevin Schofield invited me up to see Microsoft Research’s TechFest. We get to see a TON of cool stuff (some of the coolest research ever). Kevin is the guy responsible for moving technology from Research into the product teams, so he seems to know everyone working on Research and ...

Entrepreneur Pankaj Jain is bootstrapping his mobile start-up, Taxila Lab, and is on the verge of releasing his product soon. Though Taxila Lab is still in stealth mode, Pankaj agreed to talk to us about his company and its new product in broad terms - it has something to do ...

Mobile technology isn’t just cool; it’s essential for today’s small business. Our experts separate the hype from the hard truth when it comes to getting business done securely on the road. Join Anita Campbell, founder of Small Business Trends and small business thought-leader; Jeff Zbar, “The Chief Home Officer” and nationally-recognized expert in living the home-office lifestyle; and Pamela Baker, technology guru for Success Magazine, as they share their insights into making mobile technology pay off for you.

This podcast was commissioned by Success Magazine.

Today we meet with John Merrells, CEO of Embrace Mobile, at the Hatfactory in San Francisco. Merrells’ company provides market research surveys to mobile phones. He tells us a bit about how a simple idea on the face is actually quite complex in implementation. With hundreds of cellular ...

Gary Kim, managing editor of IT Business Wire, and Andy Randall, MetaSwitch’s vice president of marketing, chat with PodTech.net at the World Center Marriott in Orlando after a breakfast meeting sponsored by MetaSwitch. The breakfast panel focused on opportunities and challenges for the new competitive local exchange carriers, or ...

In an interview with PodTech.net at the World Center Marriott in Orlando, Florida, MetaSwitch’s Chris Mairs, CTO and senior vice president, business development, and Andy Randall, vice president, marketing, discuss the partnership between Cisco and MetaSwitch, the definition of service in next generation networks, and the challenges CLECs ...

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 ...

John Mayerhofer is co-founder and CEO of VoiceIndigo, a mobile marketing startup that leverages the distribution of rich media and micro-published content (including podcasts). VoiceIndigo developed a proprietary client that makes it easy to upload podcasts to mobile phones, and helps to monetize content. He speaks with PodVentureZone’s John Ince.

PodTech Founder and CEO John Furrier discussed Seagate’s second-quarter earnings with CEO Bill Watkins. In this podcast, Watkins talks about the company’s year-to-year revenue growth, the completion of the Maxtor merger, its new product line and expected profitability over the next two quarters.

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