Today marks the beginning of SuperComm 2009, and the Mobile Future Team is excited to participate in this year's conference.
Every year, SuperComm brings together industry leaders in broadband equipment, converged networks and digital content. This year's show features industry leaders sharing their views on broadband expansion and innovation, along with hundreds of suppliers showcasing their products and services.
We are looking forward to seeing some of the exciting new innovations in wireless technology, and hearing panel discussions on the National Broadband Strategy and its impact on green broadband, digital content, service-oriented networks and social media.
We hope you can make it to the show, and that you'll visit the Mobile Future Booth (#3229) in the West Building of McCormick Place!
The medical world is always one to be on the cutting edge of
new technologies so it is no surprise that 64 percent of doctors nationwide are
using smartphones in their practice.
Over time, the emblematic pager will be a thing of the past-a distant
beep dating any medical drama TV show.
According to a recent Washington
Post article, mobile devices are quickly becoming pivotal instruments in
doctor-patient interactions. From
pulling up instructional diagrams to researching drug-to-drug interactions,
smartphone technology is arming doctors with vital information at their
fingertips. This means doctors can make
smart, informed decisions instantly, with the patient by their side. Thankfully, it also means they can show us
something to decipher often tedious medical-ese.
Jonathan Reiner, a cardiologist at George Washington
University, gives a
pretty amazing first person account of how the smartphone can make a difference
in a life and death situation:
One Saturday afternoon... Reiner was
having lunch at a deli when his BlackBerry began to beep. It was a patient's
EKG, sent to him by an emergency room physician. Reiner pulled up the graphic on his handheld
device and saw that the patient was on the brink of a severe heart attack. He rushed to the hospital to perform
surgery.
Real-time data can make all the difference when seconds
count. I'd like to see a pager do that!
Friends, foes, competitors, partners all together in one room all at once with one common denominator...wireless technology. But why are they all smiling?
October 13, 1983 at Soldier's Field in Chicago the first cellular call was made in the United States. The first network went live and while there was excitement in the air not a single engineer, executive or reporter could have imagined how that single call and new service would transform the way the world works, communicates and lives.
Fast forward 25 years to the day. It's October 13, 2008, and now there are 266 million wireless subscribers in the United States. It's amazing what the passage of a little more than two decades can do. This week, hundreds of us were in Chicago to celebrate the first cellular call 25 years ago and also for a celebratory kick off of the Wireless History Foundation (wirelesshistoryfoundation.org). The Wireless History Foundation is a virtual place to record the wonders of the technology, preserve and promote the history of wireless and to give recognition to the innovators and those that made the wireless communications revolution happen.
So they were all there that evening: the Titans of the industry, the Who's Who of Wireless, the Visionaries, the Pioneers of Wireless of Technology. But why are they all smiling? Silly question!
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