Stars and celebs turned-out recently for a hip housewarming party at Hollywood’s coolest new crib. The Esquire House 360° is a 17,000 square-foot Italian villa set among the stylish and exclusive mansions of Beverly Hills. This hip home is situated on three-acres of land with panoramic views of Southern California. Built and decorated with the latest materials and craftsmanship, the house seamlessly incorporates technology into each room, demonstrating how high fashion and high tech together are essential to the modern man.

It’s freezing cold in Dharamsala, India, in the mountain state of Himachal Pradesh. Clouds chase the sun away, and rain shatters the sky with numbing regularity. But something about this place has a special meaning to everyone who comes here. Once upon a time, it was for a metaphysical search, ...

Social networking sites are popping up everywhere, and India is no exception. MingleBox is a Bangalore-based startup that allows members to have personalized web pages that includes their interests, blogs and photos. We have an exclusive interview with Kavita ...

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).

In the news today, stock-option issues strike at two more Silicon Valley companies, Nokia is planning to make wireless connectivity even more mobile with phones using new WiMAX technology, Eudora is heading for an Open Source future, Google stays in the headlines with the launch of the next product in its office suite, hackers hit the UK and the FTC is using blogging to reach out to the rest of us.

LOS ANGELES, September 26, (PodTech News) — Santa Clara, Calif.-based Mercora, Inc. Monday released ‘M’ the first wireless, over-the-air mobile media software application for smart phones. The technology enables the user to access their computer’s digital music library from any location via their phone and listen to audiostreams from thousands of Internet radio channels. Avikk Ghose is Mercora’s director of business development. He spoke with PodTech’s Matt Kelly about the company’s plans, which include allowing users to stream songs from up to five other users. Telephia mobile content analyst Levi Shapiro also spoke with PodTech about the news.

Intel chairman Craig Barrett discusses the World Ahead Program which the company established in May 2006. Intel has pledged over $1 billion over the next five years, to bring internet coverage to various regions around the world. According to Barrett, all young people in the world should have access to ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., September 20, 2006 (PodTech News) — Intel has chosen to help develop the the IT infrastructure of the Amazon — not the online seller but a portion of the actual river. The initiative is a part of Intel’s World Ahead Program, which the company established in May and pledged more than $1 billion over the next 5 years, to bring Internet coverage to various regions around the world. This week Intel Chairman Craig Barrett will promote wireless broadband PC access in Parantins, a remote Brazilian city of about 100,000 on the Amazon River. He says the company’s aim is to introduce components of a comprehensive strategy that includes hardware and wireless capability.

Thursday saw the conclusion of this week’s CTIA show in Los Angeles — a show that was billed as “two personalities/one show” — featuring the intersection of enterprise and entertainment. During the week’s activity, some notable news was announced, including RealNetwork’s acqusition of WiderThan. Aside from that announcement ...

The CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment show began its final day at the Los Angeles Convention Center with a keynote address from Steve Largent, president and CEO of CTIA. Largent, in turn, introduced special guest Paris Hilton. After the discussion, PodTech’s Matt Kelly spoke with Largent, a former Congressman (R-OK) and NFL Hall of Fame receiver about the industry and its role in various causes.

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 ...

Brad Walters, CEO & president of Lindon, Utah-based MaxStream and winner of the 2006 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in the technology category of the Utah region talks during the Entrepreneur of the Year awards reception. Walters discusses his nomination and MaxStream–an Inc. 500 company– and the ...

“Wireless is really an all-encompassing concept,” said Jon Auerbach, former Wall Street Journal technology reporter and currently GP at highland Capital Partners. Auerbach was one of the panelists on the “Emerging Trends in Wireless” session at TiECON East 2006. Abhi Ingle, Cingular Wireless; Steve Nicolle, Tatara Systems; DP Venkatesh, mPortal; ...

Research@Intel Day: Intel’s Communications Technology Lab Director & GM, Alan Crouch talks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson about Intel’s research in connectivity technology for mobile and enterprise computing.

Dr. Sanjay Jha, president of QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies and executive VP of QUALCOMM, spoke about the convergence of computing and wireless in his Distinguished Speaker series address. In part 1 of this podcast, Jha says the coming revolution is that ubiquitous broadband connectivity will vastly extend the reach of the ...

Sanjay Jha, President of CDMA Technologies and Executive VP of QUALCOMM talks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson about the implementation of mobile technology in the developing world.

He says it’s possible that developing countries will have a complete wireless infrastructure before the rest of the world.

See also:
TiEcon.org

Tom Degnan, Infineon’s VP of the Wireless Communications Group for North America, shows PodTech’s Michael Johnson their latest RF technology and talks about varying needs and cultural differences for cell phone users throughout the world, and the influence those differences have on cell phone suppliers.

For more information:
www.infineon.com

Brian Chee, a long time veteran of the InteropNET team and a team lead for wireless, talks with PodTech’s Jason Lopez about assembling the network at Hot Stage, the technology behind it, its purpose, and its philosophy. Time: 13:34
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Brian Chee, a long time veteran of the InteropNET team and a team lead for wireless, talks with PodTech’s Jason Lopez about the beginnings of the Interoperability event, in the mid-eighties. Hot Stage happens a month before ...

Join Podtech’s Michael Johnson as he roams the floor of CTIA Wireless 2006 talking with Intel, AOL, Sony/Ericsson, LG Electronics, and the Irish company, Allato about some of the lastest ideas and applications for mobile phones.

After her keynote at CTIA Wireless 2006, BET CEO Debra Lee joined PodTech’s Jason Lopez on the exhibit floor of the trade show to talk about content on cell phones, technology, and digital rights.

Click here for Debra Lee’s Bio.
Click here to see more photos from the keynote.

Las Vegas, NV, April 6, 2006 (PodTech News) – The convergence of entertainment and cell phones has been predicted for so long that the notion it has arrived seems trite. But the technology infrastructure to wed mobile telephony with IP networks has arrived and the last piece to the puzzle ...