Watched the Space Shuttle STS-125 launch this morning while working at Starbucks in Los Gatos, CA. AT&T Wi-Fi handles video streams very nicely! The video below provided courteousy of NASA (live coverage of the mission, and replays):
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Smart Grid expert Lloyd Nirenberg to post on Startup Trek
Startup Trek is pleased to announce that Dr. Lloyd Nirenberg, has agreed to contribute articles here as guest blogger. Lloyd will be publishing the “Smart Grid Technology Channel” on Startup Trek. He plans to explain all aspects of the “Smart Grid” technology initiatives to us, in plain English! Both from a technological, and a business perspective.
The Open Mobile Competition Begins
And they're off!
This panel, moderate by Adam Zawel from INmobile.org, examined the phenomena which started about 18 months ago, with Google’s announcement that it would participate in the 700MHz wireless auction. That being, the “open mobile” idea wherein in concept, wireless customers will be able to connect with device purchased via channels other than the carriers, will be able to connect to cellular networks and run “any application” via the internet (as they largely do in Japan, Korea and Europe now).
The panelists were: Anthony Lewis, VP Open Development, Verizon Wireless Rich Miner, VP Mobile, Google Matt Murphy, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Mark Rolston, Chief Creative Officer, Frog Design David Rivas, VP, Strategy & Business Dev, Software Platforms, Nokia
Location Based Services – Who will make the most money?
This panel, moderated by Rajeev Chang, Managing Director at Rutberg & Co, National Chair, Technology, Sonnenschein, examined the prospects for Tech M&A and IPO over the next two years.
The panelists were Sumit Agarwal, Senior Product Manager, Mobile, Google Mark Collins, VP Consumer Data, AT&T Wireless Cormac Conroy, VP of Engineering, QCT Modem Technology, QUALCOMM Bob Iannucci, CTO, Nokia Peter-Frans Pauwels, CTO, TomTom
Moderator (Chang): What is the biggest location based service?
Two Year Outlook for Tech M&A and IPO
This AlwaysOn panel, moderated by Victor Boyajian, National Chair, Technology, Sonnenschein, examined the prospects for Tech M&A and IPO over the next two years.
The panelists were: Lise Buyer, Principal, Class V Group Paul Deninger, Vice Chairman, Jefferies & Co Drew Guevara, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley Jamie Montgomery, CEO, Montgomery & Co
Boyajian: What do you think of the markets today? There was not a single tech IPO last quarter.
A Thousand Little Googles – Bridging the Eyeball Gap
This AlwaysOn discussion panel was moderated by Ted Want, a partner from Fenwick and West. Participating were:
Jeff Hirsch, Pres and CEO of Revenue Science; a behavioral targeting specialists working with online advertisers.
David Kidder, CEO of Clickable, which simplifies AdSense-style ad placement for online advertisers.
Jason Glickman, CEO or Tremor Media, one of the leading ad networks and pioneers in video-insert ads (their technology is called QDO).
Jayent Kadambi, CEO of YuMe; Broadband Video Ad Network for publishers; CPM-driven.
Amiad Solomon, CEO of Peer39, a semantic advertising firm. They deliver ad placements are based upon the meaning of the content pages in their content network.
Tech startup companies pitch LBS, MultiTouch, video, other promising technologies
Goldspot Media: Replacement as technology for broadcast television on mobile – maps to targeted demographics of subscribers on mobile phones.
inTouch: mobile ‘iBrowse’ platform brings quality browsing experience, content to 2G mobile phones.
iBeatYou: using star power to build a fun, interactive video social networking site.
Tech Entrepreneurship Summit at Stanford opens
{mosimage}Tony Perkins opened the 2008 Summit at Stanford 6pm 7/22/08 with remarks about the economy, politics, and entrepreneurial environment. KPMG presented their analysis of the AlwaysOn top 250 Companies, including information on tech M&A over the past few years.
Jack Dorsey from Twitter showed up to accept the award as selection as the #1 startup out of the AO 250. He shared some more details about the Berkeley Journalism student who was freed from a jail in Egypt by the Twitter community. There was a lot of twittering going on throughout the conference, as attendees posted to Twitter; and exchanged notes while watching the conference live webcast feed.
Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital is conducting a panel on “Big Media’s Comeback” featuring Albert Cheng EVP Digital Networks at ABC-Disney, John Edwards CEO of Move Networks, Thomas Lesinksi President of Paramount Digital Entertainment, Michael Montgomery President of Montgomery & Co, and Todd Teresi SVP Yahoo!. Tom Lesinksi is explaining how Hollywood’s 50-year old business model, being very lucrative, are difficult to disrupt.
Steve publishes inaugural article in the new SharePoint Magazine
This new SharePoint Magazine made it’s online debut this morning. The first issue includes an article just written by Steve, “Microsoft SharePoint from the iPhone: First Impressions”.
The article details how we’ve discovered that SharePoint workgroup productivity sites can be accessed from both 1st geneartion (2.5G) and 2nd generation (3G) iPhones, to accelerate the work of Startup teams. {mosimage}
Steve trades insights on mobile computing at NXTcomm 08
{mosimage}In a wide ranging one-hour debate kicked off by positioning speeches, Steve and fellow industry experts Jeff Orr, CEO and Founder of Orr Technology in Oregon (a noted WiMax.com and mobile broadband news author), and Jon Pelson, Chief of Convergence for British Telecom in London, UK, staked out their positions and debated the future of next generation mobile computing applications, along with the potential impact on the service providers and network architectures that will support them.