Paul Jacob 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 [...]
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Paul Jacobs, Qualcomm CEO addresses AlwaysOn 2009 conference
Henry Blodget’s “Startup 09″ entrepreneurship conference debuts at NYU
I am attending Henry’s “Startup 09″ conference in lower Manhattan today, and the first thing I’d like to report is that Alley Insider has done a fantastic 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 [...]
Steve takes a look at MegaGeek’s Wi-Fi and Cellular Spectrum Analyzers
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 Ends Joint Agreement with Alvarion for Mobile WiMAX
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 [...]
The Open Mobile Competition Begins
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 to debate next-generation Mobile Computing Apps at NxTComm 08 in Las Vegas
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 [...]
Churchill Club Annual “Top Tech Trends” Debate Wed May 14
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
Vinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Ventures
Josh Kopelman, Managing Partner, [...]
In-Stat holds wireless briefing in Santa Clara
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.