Topic: Mobile and Wireless
Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics, and Vodafone established the LiMo Foundation to develop the Foundation Platform, a Linux-based, software platform for open mobile communication devices. In this podcast, LiMo Foundation's Morgan Gillis describes the work the foundation is doing, what sort of mobile devices will result, and what makes this effort different from previous mobile Linux initiatives.
Glen Hiemstra and Gerd Leonhard talk about the important megatrends that are shaping the future of media. They discuss a number of topics, including user generated content and media, globalization, access versus ownership, copyright versus usage right, the digital natives, the net generation and the aging of the baby boomers, the growth in wireless broadband and mobility, convergence, the decline of the hit culture, the rise of the ubiquity paradigm and much more.
Mobile phone shipment volumes are so huge that Microsoft and Apple aspire to capture only a fraction of the total market. Carriers and handset makers haven't made interoperability of mobile devices' address books or calendars a high priority. Funambol is a company and an open source community dedicated to making further mobile device interoperability progress. Will it be enough to overcome the walled gardens of the mobile device industry? Will the era of the iPhone bring further progress?
There is no such thing as a mobile Internet -- there is just the same Internet for everyone -- no matter how you access it. Nokia has worked to bring proven internet business models to the pockets of the world. Tero Ojanpera, the company's CTO, reviews how the technology is in place to increase the penetration of the internet business from the PC scale (millions) to mobile scale (billions).
Ben Galbraith returns as co-host of Technometria and it gives Phil and Scott the chance to chat with him about recent travels and projects. Scott discusses his disappointing trip to the CTIA Wireless Conference. The group also discusses the iPhone and other current issues related to mobile devices. They also talk about Ben's recent work converting a COBOL application to a modern Java GUI, methods being developed to measure productivity, as well as issues with Python.
Bruce Sterling suggested the creation of a new type of technological device, called "spime", that through pervasive RFID communications and GPS navigation can track its history and interact with the world. OpenSpime, a project of WideTag Inc., enables individuals and corporations to better understand their environment, through the use of a series of GPS-enabled sensors. Co-founders David Orban and Roberto Ostinelli join Phil and Scott to discuss the concepts and technologies.
Why is voice over IP telephony such a challenge to develop? At the 2006 Emerging Telephony Conference, Stuart Chesire, Benjamin Kowarsch, Matthew Gast and Philip Zimmermann discuss various aspects of VOIP over wired and wireless networks. Learn about automatic configuration through Zeroconf, why voice is so hard to implement well on 802.11 networks, and VOIP encryption ideas from the creator of PGP.
According to Norman Lewis, it will take France Telecom another 30 years to see a complete return on their 3G investments. With enormous debt, legacy infrastructure, and complex revenue models at stake, it's no wonder that big telcos are having trouble adapting new Internet-enabled voice applications. Dr. Lewis describes the issue from the telco perspective and offers some guidance on how innovators and telcos will come together in the next few years.
Early January is a busy period in technology with events such as Macworld and the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). As the Director of Operations for OC Tanner, Kelly Phillipps must stay abreast of new products and software upgrades. He joins Phil, Matt, and Scott in a discussion of what's new or upcoming in the IT world. They talk about the new iPhone from Apple, Linux as a desktop alternative, and how an enterprise decides whether to upgrade an operating system, particularly the newly released Microsoft Windows Vista.
What relevance do activists have to emerging technology? At the 2006 Emerging Telephony Conference, speakers from Inveneo, MIT Media Lab, and Odeo talk describe their use of emerging telephony in mobile and remote environments. Learn how open source telephony works in difficult conditions to help overcome traditional social barriers and connect people and communities.
