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AlwaysOn panel: The Open Mobile Competition Begins PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, July 23, 2008

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AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford Tech Startup Entrepreneurship
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

 
AlwaysOn panel Location Based Services: Who will make the most money? PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, July 23, 2008

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AlwaysOn Location Based Services panel Summit at Stanford Tech Startup Entrepreneurship
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?

 
Steve publishes inaugural article in the new SharePoint Magazine PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, July 16, 2008

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.  

 

3G iPhone SharePoint challenge screen

 
Microsoft announces availability of Hosted Messaging and Collaboration (HMC) PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, June 18, 2008

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Microsoft booth at NXTcomm 08
What a difference a day makes!  Tuesday June 17 the NXTcomm showfloor opened with an estimated crowd of 35-40,000 attendees working the floor and attending conference sessions.   One of my more interesting visits of the day was an extended discussion with the folks from Redmond, who are cutting a high profile at this mostly telecom show. 

 
SharePoint from my iPhone! - now here is a killer app for mobile computing PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, June 11, 2008

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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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