Mark Newhall, C0-founder IdealWave and INMobile.org moderated a panel at AlwaysOn 2009, examining the health and viability of mobile computing applications, advertising, and marketing. The panelists were:
He pointed out that US cell phone users consume four times the cell phone minutes of European users.
Gurley then invited his panel out “OnDemand Video has arrived, who profits?”:
…signaling a bold move on Redmond that will likely reverberate within big tech for many years to come. The new operating system is to become available in beta form later this year, with broad availability during 2010.
Microsoft has been very vocally and publically working to get into Google’s core business – search and advertising – over the past few years. It looks like Google isn’t going to be held back from getting into Microsoft’s core business as well. This is a good thing for everyone, as it’s bound to stimulate competition and innovation. And it should become very interesting as it plays out; as this is definitely a “clash of the Titans”!
It will take Google many years to budge Microsoft’s operating system market share. But how many of those analysts have USED Google’s Chrome Browser, which will become the basis of this new personal computing operating system?
Chrome and Bing – a hot browser and search engine, respectively – are worth keeping your eye on.
I have owned this phone for 16 hours now, and have logged less than 45 minutes using the phone. But already, i can tell you this phone is a sensation, and will become a significant factor in the Smartphone business – especially at Palm, Sprint, Apple, Research and Motion, and AT&T.
Palm's new Pre Smartphone
Only in Silicon Valley
Had an interesting June 6th. After camping out at the Sprint store and being one of only 41 people (out of over 100 in line) to get a Pre, I went to Orchard Valley Coffee in Campbell, and sat on a bench outdoors to sip on a cup of coffee.
In this Networld+Interop interview we visit with Jim Kruger and get a demo of Polycom’s latest incarnation of it’s start of the art video telephones, the VVX 1500C, targeted at mid-market firms (100-500 employees) and the enterprise market.
Networld + Interop Polycom interview
Huge IXIA Ethernet test at N+I
In the never-ending battle between instrumentation companies to push the envelope of test capacity, IXIA seems to be setting the pole position for high-density, wire-speed 10Gbps Ethernet testing. In this impressive display of testing horsepower, Dean Lee leads us through the details of the firm’s 2.7 Trillion bit per second, 160 port 10 Gbps Ethernet test.
I spent Tuesday May 19 at the Mandalay Bay Conference Center in Las Vegas, attending the 4th annual “rise-from-the-ashes Networld + Interop (N+I) trade show. I’m happy to report that after three somewhat false start years of getting this great annual computer networking industry tradition “rebooted”, N+I is now truly “back”.
A new era of mobility seems to be arriving, with the success of CradlePoint’s versatile family of “WiPipe” (TM) 3G-uplinked Wi-Fi routers. The photo at right shows me using a CradlePoint CTR-500 3G+Wi-Fi router in my car.
To make a long story short, I was driving into San Francisco on a beautiful, sunny Saturday morning when suddenly traffic snarled and backed up on the freeway — as tens of thousands of SF Giant fans streamed into SF for the third game against the New York Mets.
So… I took the nearest exit in defiance of my Garmin GPS’s directives, knowing that it’s powered up my onboard pair of 120VAC onboard power inverters.
The CradlePoint doesn’t require AC power, since it is shipped with a cigar-lighter style (12V automotive style) 3G-uplinked CradlePoint Wi-Fi router, and proceeded to work online for an hour or two, until well after the traffic cleared. Remeber that old saying: “Whereever you go, there you are”? Well, that day is ARRIVING, with 3G. If Clearwire + Sprint’s “CLEAR” WiMax service, or maybe Verizon + AT&T’s LTE 4G services arrive to improve things — great. But in the meantime, that day is HERE.
I have also been using CradlePoint devices to connect to my Vidtel video phone (it has a hard-wired Ethernet port) to make Video phone (Video-enabled SIP/H.264) calls from the car. In it’s standard configuration, the Vidtel picture is pre-configured with an exchange, number, and area code; registered on the server, and defaulted to stream H.264 (MPEG4 audio+video) at about 300kbps compressed (200kbps video + 100kbps audio). The video can be backed off to about 70kbps.
For my 3G uplink, I’m paying $30 extra to go from 5GB capped to unlimited ($100 vs $70) 3G plan from Sprint, the only carrier to offer an “all you can eat” 3G data plan (thanks, Dan Hesse!). The problem is (e.g.) using a Vidtel videophone for only 10 minutes a day could put you up against all three carrier’s 5GB limit.
I’m definitely rooting for Dan Hesse and Craig McGaw to have a $100B IPO to fund “the new Clearwire”, and build out the first nationwide 4G application. That could happen, if the market holds up, as IPO’s have started to “slowly” happen again. Clearwire and Sprint are rolling out WiMax in Boise, Portland, Las Vegas, Baltimore, etc – so it’s starting to happen.
I can see that the future technology roadmap for the USA, once we have both Metro and Rural areas area bathed not only in 3G Wireless Broadband, but in WiMax Microwaves providing last-mile access to a new era of faster broadband, for applications like this one, and much better – per Dan Hesse and Craig McGaw. But politics, money, lobbying, and sheer momentum is preventing the USA from modernizing it’s broadand infrastructure. Technology will in the end, prevail – but it may take many more years than it should have. And in this sort of thing, timing is everything.
As John McQuillan once said (~1997) at his NGN (next generation networks) onference, the internet represents, potentially, the “death of distance”. And here, in 2007, is one very good example of that profound phenomena.