Written on
June 16, 2008 by
Steve
Steve Bell at Nxtcom 08 Monday June 16 2008
I arrived a day early at the NXTcomm 2008 show , formerly known as Supercomm and now merged or operated in concert with several other telecom and wireless shows – including Infocomm, Broadband Wireless World, and Light Readings’ Wireless Conference – making it the largest telecom show held in the United States.
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NXTComm was moved from Chicago to Vegas this year, to take advantage of Vegas larger convention facilities and to attract silicon valley types like myself.
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Written on
June 12, 2008 by
Steve
Full-blown (not "/m", DOS-style) Sharepoint running on the iPhone
I will be debating what kind of software applications are likely to be driving the mobile computing market with some colleagues from the industry next week in Las Vegas at the NxtCom 08 conference. While I was attending a different conference this week in Silicon Valley, i accidentally discovered a killer mobile productivity app: running SharePoint sites from my iPhone.
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Written on
June 4, 2008 by
Steve
Steve Bell wil speak as part of a debate 1PM Thu June 19 in the Las Vegas Convention Center at the Broadband Wireless World / NxTComm 08 conference, co-sponsored by Light Reading, on the topic “New Data Applications in the Wireless Network”. He’ll be addressing which classes of mobile computing applications are likely to be the most heavily used and successful in next-generation computing devices from (amongst others) Palm, Research in Motion, Apple’s now-open iPhone platform, and of course Google’s “Android” open mobile OS. The panel will debate which applications are likely to drive growth, and the bandwidth demands they are likely to place upon network operators.
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Written on
May 14, 2008 by
Steve
All of the high volume consumer electronics markets & technology are on display at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. This year, confirmed attendance was on record to match the second peak attendance day.
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Written on
April 29, 2008 by
Steve
We were in Las Vegas last week for the Interop Telecommunications and Software trade show. We’ll be posting a photo report and commentary, later in the week of May 26 as our content moves over from the old site.
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Steve visits with a Polycom product manager while being beamed via video conference from the show floor at the Mandalay Bay conference center, to New York City Tuesday morning April 29 2008.
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Written on
March 18, 2008 by
Steve
{mosimage}The topic was timely: the status and future of WiMax, and many of the leading players were represented on the panel, which was skillfully moderated by Seamus McAteer. Seamus came equipped to take on the panel and skewer the hype; but he came away a bit empty-handed.
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Written on
January 29, 2008 by
Steve
I attended what turned out to be an excellent WiMax panel discussion held at the Technosium 2008 conference today at the Santa Clara Convention Center.
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Written on
January 7, 2008 by
Steve
{mosimage}I was in Las Vegas recently checking out developments in volume consumer electronics markets & technology at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Confirmed attendance on the second (peak attendance) day, reportedly gleaned from airport data, hotel room occupancy levels, and the show-provided stats, was 148,000.
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