Paul Jacobs began his talk by expressing great optimism about the health and robustness of the US cellphone business
He pointed out that US cell phone users consume four times the cell phone minutes of European users.
He brought up some of the past debates between technologies that have come up in recent years, e.g. is Wi-Fi [...]
I am attending Henry Blodget ’s “Startup 09″ conference in lower Manhattan today. Business Insider has done a great job of orchestrating the debut of a first-rate, high level technology industry business conference.
Thanks to Henry Blodget (CEO of Business Insider, Julie Hansen (COO) and the rest of the team at Alley Insider for inviting me [...]
In this Networld+Interop trade show interview I visit with Ryan Woodings, founder and ‘Chief Geek’ at MetaGeek of Boise, Idaho. MetaGeek is an impressively bootstrapped wireless instrumentation startup founded by former Cypress Semiconductor employees in Boise Idaho. They have created a product line of innovative, impressive, low-cost, portable “micro spectrum analyzers” for use [...]
Nortel will discontinue its mobile WiMAX business and end its joint agreement with Alvarion. The agreement, announced in June 2008, outlined the integration of Alvarion’s advanced radio access network technology with Nortel’s core network solutions, backhaul solutions, and global services. It also covered the resale by Nortel of the Alvarion platform of WiMAX access products.
Nortel [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Around 700 attended the Churchill Club’s annual debate for 2008, centered around where Tech Trends are going.
Here is an excellent summation, summing up the ground covered in the discussion, written by Eric Savitz of Barron’s and here are the panelist’s slides
Speakers:
Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson [...]
In-Stat was gracious enough to invite and admit myself and about 100 other interested parties to a half-day seminar put on by three of their top analysts. Some key nuggets from this event (still) pending.