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Posted: 03/20/09 by Chris Parandian
Robert Scoble recently blogged about his take-aways from SXSW 2009. South by Southwest Interactive is a yearly "festival" for tech enthusiasts and bloggers to network, share best practices, and discuss what is hot in the interactive sector. In Scoble's opinion, it was all about SMS and location this year.
Some folks are probably wondering why I'm covering this news or what's the big deal about these perspectives from Austin. Well, two years ago, a little micro-blogging service called Twitter essentially took off after the festival. I was covering a telecom conference shortly after SXSW and all the buzz was about Twitter. Accordingly, I joined the service back then. Fast forward to today and almost everyone's on it and it is the social network with the most impressive acceleration in growth.
With that in mind, I see huge growth opportunities in the mobile space as we move from navigation to awareness. In some cases, some mobile applications are incorporating location into their products. For instance, when I live stream with Qik, I have the immediate option to opt-in my location for other Qik users to know where I am and Google maps has now synced in Latitute. Scoble mentioned Foursquare being the hot product at SXSW but I haven't had the opportunity to demo it. Specifically, Foursquare is an application "that helps you keep up with your friends, but exposes you to new things and challenges you to explore cities in different ways."
In any case, I look forward to exploring more apps and products in this space. I believe that Scoble's insights from Austin are on the mark and this sector is going to get really hot.
Posted: 03/17/09 by Chris Parandian
It is hard to believe but another CTIA show is around the corner. As always, I'm excited to attend this year's show and demo the latest in mobile technology in Las Vegas.
Besides the great keynotes that are slated during the week, I wanted to call your attention to the Federal Communications Bar Association's Seminar "Spectrum Dynamics in the 21st Century: The Link Between Sound Spectrum Policy and America's Place in the Global Economy" on Tuesday, March 31. The seminar runs from Noon to 5:30pm and really has a number of telecom policy rockstars delving into everything spectrum.
As you know, we are very excited about all of the apps and ways you can share your life with your family and friends via mobile. Some of these applications require not only stronger networks but the capacity to deliver the experience that consumers want when utilizing such a service (for instance, live streaming via wireless). Accordingly, future spectrum policy is going to be extremely vital and the government must make sure that adequate spectrum is in the pipeline for service providers to be able to handle adoption of these unique applications that are here and on the horizon.
With that in mind, here's one panel at the seminar that looks to address and discuss the demand for more spectrum:
Panel IV: Satisfying Demand: Sources for More Spectrum and Processes for Obtaining
4:15 pm – 5:20 pm
This panel will discuss likely sources for more commercial mobile
spectrum in the United States, the types of formal and informal
processes that can help identify and then make such spectrum available
for commercial use, lessons learned from the AWS clearing process and
other issues that must be considered to expedite the process and avoid
another 12 year gap in spectrum allocation.
Moderators:
Tricia Paoletta, Esq., Partner, Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis LLP
Carolyn Brandon, Esq., Vice President Policy, CTIA-The Wireless Association®
Panelists:
Julius Knapp, Office of Engineering and Technology, Federal Communications Commission (Invited)
Larry Irving, President, Irving Information Group
Dale Hatfield, Adjunct Professor, Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder
David Taylor, CEO, Capitol Solutions
Michael Calabrese, Director, Wireless Futures Program, New America Foundation
Ambassador Janice Obuchowski, Founder, Freedom Technologies
Look forward to seeing you in Vegas and stayed tuned for some more 411 about the show!
Posted: 10/09/08 by Mobile Future Team
On Tuesday, October 14th, Mobile Future will be hosting a forum on "How Mobile Technologies are Changing Elections." The forum is a hosted luncheon open to the public and you can rsvp by registering at www.mobilefuture.org/elections.
"How Mobile Technologies are Changing Elections"
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
12:00 PM
National Press Club
529 14th St NW, 13th Floor
Washington, DC
One of the leading pollsters in the U.S., Peter Hart, Chairman of Peter D. Hart Research Associates, will give an update on the 2008 landscape and discuss how analysts collecting data for the 2008 elections are factoring in consumers who rely solely on their wireless phones.
The forum also includes a panel discussion moderated by Mobile Future Chairman Jonathan Spalter with representatives from some of the leading organizations and companies using these technologies today.
Panelists include:
Jed Alpert, CEO of Mobile Commons
Michelle Mayorga, Rock the Vote, Mobile Programs
Casey O'Shea, DCCC National Field Director
Katie Harbath, Former Deputy eCampaign Director, Giuliani for President
We hope to see you there!
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