Sounds from the party & dinner after a great SDN Day at the Hofbrau Haus in Las Vegas. If you weren’t there, you’ll feel like you were. More photos from the Hofbrau Haus on Flickr

Japan-based mobile game developer Cell is bringing its popular flash-based mobile games to the United States. PodTech’s Rio Pesino spoke with Cell’s Wataru Anzai about flash-lite games, their popularity in Japan and what he says separates their games from the [See the full post…]

Mark Yolton, vice president of SDN, speaks at the introduction session of SDN Day at SAP TechEd 2006 in Las Vegas. Read more about the BPX Community launch (also here). Check out what Tim Marman has to say about SDN. [See the full post…]

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 [See the full post…]

Mark Finnern, the head honcho behind SDN, kicks off the introductory session of SDN Day at SAP TechEd 2006 in Las Vegas. More photos from TechEd on Flickr

Bala (Balamurugan Kalia) and Andre Labahn, from the emerging solutions division at SAP, were on hand at SAP TechEd to help introduce SAP’s new scripting tool. PodTech’s Michael Johnson got a chance to hear a little bit more about it [See the full post…]

Dagfinn Parnas explains the roots of SAP Facts, what Chuck Norris has to do with it, and the more serious side of SDN. The Netweaver developer spoke with PodTech’s Michael Johnson at TechEd, in Las Vegas. More photos from TechEd [See the full post…]

Web Dynpro developer Bertram Ganz and UI strategist Marco Ertel talk with PodTech’s Michael Johnson about Web Dynpro in Java. More photos from TechEd on Flickr

The cell chip is the heart, soul and brain of the Sony Playstation 3 game console. Cell is essentially a super-computer on a chip, and when PS3 comes out this fall, it’s going to take gaming to a whole new [See the full post…]

Cadence Design Systems, Inc., President and CEO Mike Fister kicked off the CDN Live Silicon Valley conference at San Jose’s McEnery Convention Center by unveiling Virtuoso, a new chip design platform, and Xtreme III, a hardware-assisted verification system used at [See the full post…]

Dave Halitsky, from Tennessee-based Infoworks, speaks about SDN, collaboration, and vertical possibilities. More images from TechEd on Flickr

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 [See the full post…]

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 [See the full post…]

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, [See the full post…]

Rich Heilman is an ABAP/J2EE software engineer/analyst for Yorktowne Cabinetry, based in Red Lion, Pennsylvania, and he tells PodTech’s Michael Johnson about his experience with SDN and working with SAP. Heilman was recognized on stage by Shai Agassi at Demo [See the full post…]

Andre Truong speaks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson about developing BPX and how it will begin to shift business processes development. Truong was recognized for his contribution on stage by Shai Agassi at Demo Jam during the SAP TechEd conference in [See the full post…]

Despite President Bush’s veto of the embryonic stem cell bill almost two months ago, many venture capitalists consider the stem cell market to be viable… though just not yet for some investors. When and why will a venture capitalist invest [See the full post…]

Bhanu Gupta spoke with PodTech’s Michael Johnson about her participation in SDN and how it helps her in her work at Molex, Inc., and what it offers for the community at large. Bhanu was recognized for her contributions on stage [See the full post…]

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 [See the full post…]

Jim Kahle, IBM Fellow with IBM Corporation, revealed some of the secret ingredients of innovating through collaboration during his keynote address at the Cadence Design Systems CDNLive Conference, Silicon Valley. Kahle was a key player in the creation of Cell [See the full post…]

Mike Fister, President and CEO of Cadence Design Systems, gave a keynote address to kick off CDNLive Silicon Valley on September 12th . “How do we help unlock that creative element and allow all of us as humans to continue [See the full post…]

Venture capitalist Andy Kessler says silicon is going to do to the health care industry what it has done to portable devices and the Internet. Where will it start? With diagnostics, according to Kessler, who delivered the lunch keynote at [See the full post…]

News Corporation President and Chief Operation Officer Peter Chernin opened the second day of CTIA Wireless 2006 in Los Angeles with this keynote address. In it, he discusses the evolution of mobile content so far, discusses News Corp.’s recent purchase [See the full post…]

Getting money for a Series B round in health care deals results in a “down round” at least 50 percent of the time. Ralph (Chris) Christoffersen, a general partner at Morgenthaler Ventures, tells PodTech’s Jennifer Jones how his firm helps [See the full post…]

Synergy and convergence were just two of the themes echoed today during the CTIA expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center as RealNetworks announced a deal to acquire WiderThan for $350 million, or $17.05 per share. The tender offer, which [See the full post…]