In June, I participated in Digital Capital Week – ten days of sessions around digital media, social media, video games, the digital divide, and other varied and sundry topics.
One session dealt with broadband connectivity within Washington DC, an interesting and relevant topic in our nation’s capital. The panel consisted of someone from the CTO’s office of [...]
2010 kicked off to a great start with a presence by many ng Connect members at Consumer Electronics Show in January, Mobile World Congress in February, and a very successful CTIA Wireless 2010 in April.
With the warmer weather and a buzz in the air, it felt like spring had finally arrived at CTIA Wireless 2010 [...]
This year at Mobile World Congress, Alcatel-Lucent was all about demonstrating how we are “Transforming the Mobile Experience”. The Internet is going mobile, and Alcatel-Lucent is driving the transition to high-bandwidth, all-IP mobile broadband networks with its industry-leading end-to-end LTE solutions, already selected for 40 LTE customer trials around the world.
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 [...]