Each New Year is a new opportunity, and the innovative Consumer Electronics Show that takes place in early January showcases new technology that will not just shape the year, but sometimes many years ahead. Since launching the ng Connect Program last February, we wanted to show the world of consumer electronics the advantages LTE and [...]
The weather was unseasonably cold in Hong Kong but the booth demos were HOT, HOT, HOT!
Silvio Fernandez and I joined Zhenjun Zhu, the Alcatel-Lucent ng Connect Program leader for the Asia Pacific region, to support the Alcatel-Lucent presence at 2009 GSMA Mobile Asia Congress. This conference is the regionally specific version of the world [...]
On November 3, we showed publically — for the first time — the LTE Connected Car project. The ng Connect member companies involved in the project (Alcatel-Lucent, QNX Software Systems, Atlantic Records, Kabillion, chumby and Toyota Motor Sales USA) all came together to make this concept car a reality. It’s physically the largest Solution Concept [...]
There is a lot of thinking about how our enterprise communications work and how today’s technology can improve the traditional costs and productivity challenges. And there are a lot of inefficiencies in our traditional voice communications for a lot of traditionally good reasons—that aren’t so meaningful today.
Much of our professional communication has moved to text-based [...]
Today, mobile devices in the U.S. are often tied to mobile operators exclusively or for a defined period of time. In the future this might change and consumers might be able to pick their mobile operator and then buy and use any phone they want. In Asia and Europe, the mobile telecommunications industry has always [...]
For many years now gamers have been dreaming of ultimate gaming portability and availability, but what does that mean exactly? From my point of view as a gamer, portability means being able to play my games whenever I want without having to lower my expectations for the quality of the games I can play when [...]
What is the biggest challenge any operator faces as it looks at deploying a new service? System integration and testing. Why is this such an obstacle? Think of all the touch points involved: devices, network infrastructure, application servers, billing and operations support infrastructure. Not to mention the challenge in figuring out the appeal of the [...]
Singapore again played host to CommunicAsia this year, and ng Connect was there! Forgive me for not blogging sooner, but it took me a while to recuperate from the 32 hours of travel time and the 99.99% humidity. Kidding — it was awesome. We (by “we” I mean Alcatel-Lucent and HP) did a full court [...]
Most of us are very passionate about their music. Some are always at the cutting edge of finding new music, and some are comfortable to go back to the same artists that touched their souls; and they continue to be loyal to them.
3D Mobile Gaming Ahead Of Its Time
We are a true pioneer in 3D multiplayer mobile gaming and have been working on games like V-Rally 3D - featuring online ghost racing and first person shooter Robot Alliance in a massively multiplayer online gameplay (MMOG) experience - all the way back in 2005. Of course, we had [...]