February 20, 2013, Tablet Strategy Conference, Burlingame, CA—A conversational encounter between Michael Singer from TabTime, Adam Stein from SAP, and Saranya Babu from Dell covered the issues with BYOD. These solutions apply to all end points and operating systems. Stein noted that BYOD requires companies to see the issues and determine how to deal with…
February 14, 2013, EECS, University of California, Berkeley—The annual EECS status update focused on cloud and computer-based functions, and the need for optimization in all aspects of computing. The ASPIRE project (Algorithms and Specializers for Provably-optimal Implementations with Resiliency and Efficiency) is looking at extensions to their parallel computing work. Krste Asanovic is looking at…
January 8, 2013, Connections Summit, Las Vegas—A panel looked at the nature of smart TV and the possible future of entertainment. Brett Sappington, Director of Research, Parks Associates moderated the panel. Panelists included Kurt Hoppe, Director of Smart TV Innovation & Alliances at LG Electronics, Maitreyi Krishnaswamy, Director of FiOS TV Product Development at Verizon,…
November 29, 2012, WIMA NFC Conference, Millbrae, CA—a panel of ecosystem partners looked at the issues facing NFC as a consumer technology. Hans Reisgies from Sequent moderated the panel. Panel members were; Doug Kilgour from ISIS, Jeff Fonseca from NXP Semiconductor, Frank Maduri from RIM, Kaushik Seturaman from Microsoft, Ramesh Sharma from Inside Secure, and…
November 28, 2012, WIMA NFC Conference, Millbrae, CA—Marc Greenbaum from Verizon Wireless described the changing ecosystem and marketplaces for NFC functions. These applications are growing very fast and will provide exciting new capabilities that are evolving and changing roles of many institutions. The mobile industry is moving into the third age of mobility. The industry…
October 11, 2012, TV Next Conference, Santa Clara, CA—The role of apps in TV and entertainment is growing, causing changes in all areas of the industry. A panel comprised of Eric Anderson from Samsung, Brian Glicklich from Glenn Beck TV, Tom Morgan from Net2.TV, and Kun Gao from Crunchyroll considered the issues. Mark Donnigan from…
October 11, 2012, TV Next Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Rob Relick from CBS Interactive talked about the multi-screen space and how they are addressing it. In a constantly shifting marketplace, programmers need to experiment and invest in new platforms to address the changing consumer expectations. The entertainment industry has grown 82 percent between ’10 and ’12….
July 2012 – The folks at Always On held their Silicon Valley Innovation Summit to discuss trends and bring exposure to new technology in the valley. After an opening discussion on the Facebook IPO and the resulting valuation questions for technology products with large PE ratios entering the market, the trends and detail discussions moved…
May 21, 2012, Open Source Business Conference, San Francisco—Jeffery Hammond from Forrester Research tried to define a winning mobile application strategy for developers. The role of mobile apps is becoming more important due to the very high volume of mobile devices. Next generation mobile devices will be a part of a very large market. 850k…
February 27, 2012, Cloud Security Alliance Summit, San Francisco—A panel reviewed the next generation cloud security devices and services. Phillipe Courtot from Qualys moderated the panel whose members included Don Godfrey representing Zscaler, Matt Johansen from WhiteHat Security, David Lingenfelter from Fiberlink, and Patrick Harding from Ping Identity. What is the current level of comfort…