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1 |
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Mobile and wireless - not just voice and entertainment |
| Author: |
Dr Georg Serentschy |
| Title: |
CEO |
| Organisation: |
RTR-GmbH the Austrian Broadcasting and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, Telecommunications Division |
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240KB |
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Georg Serentschy is the CEO of RTR-GmbH, the Austrian Broadcasting and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, Telecommunications Division. Previously, Mr Serentschy was Managing Director of Arthur D. Little’s operations in Austria and Central Eastern Europe. His main fields of activity in top-management consulting were marketing issues, strategy development and finance for fixed and mobile operators as well as Internet service providers. His professional experience of more than 25 years brought him to various industries, such as satellite communications, research in the energy sector and software development. Before starting his industrial career, Mr Serentschy worked as a nuclear physicist in basic research.
Georg Serentschy graduated from the University of Vienna, Austria, and holds a PhD degree in nuclear physics and mathematics. |
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| The telecommunications industry is witnessing a fundamental transformation in the way people use the Internet. The shift from fixed to mobile telephony has already had a great impact throughout Europe, and mobile broadband promises a new revolution in the region’s development. Austria is among those European countries where the use of this technology has made the most impressive advances. There are many opportunities arising from mobile broadband that we must seize so our new knowledge-based societies can benefit and grow. |
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Article no.: |
2 |
| Topic: |
Mobile communications in Bulgaria |
| Author: |
Dr Plamen Vatchkov |
| Title: |
Chairman |
| Organisation: |
State Agency for Information Technology and Communications Bulgaria |
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182KB |
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Dr Plamen Vatchkov is the Chairman of Bulgaria’s State Agency for Information Technology and Communications. He chairs the National Radio Frequency Council and the Interdepartmental Commission for Space Research and is an Associate Professor in Technical Sciences.
Dr Vatchkov has served in a wide variety of executive and academic posts including: Network construction Manager of Cabletel; Director of Information Technology, Overgas Holding; Managing Director of Bulvar Electronics, Ltd; Deputy Director of the Institute for Technical Cybernetics and Robotics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; General Director of Micro Processor Systems corporation; and as an Assistant Professor at the Technical University in Moscow.
Dr Vatchkov is currently a member of the Academic Council of the International University, the Balkan Academy of Sciences, the Federation of the Scientific and Technical Unions in Bulgaria and the Union of Scientists in Bulgaria. Dr Vatchkov is a former member of the Scientific Council of the Institute for Technical Cybernetics and Robotics. He was awarded the 2007 prize of the Bulgarian Association of Information Technologies for overall personal contribution to the development of the information technologies in Bulgaria.
Dr Plamen Vatchkov earned his MSc in Industrial Electronics and PhD in Technical Sciences at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute.
Dr Vatchkov has specialisations in Microprocessor Devices, Management and Quality Management. |
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| Mobile operators in Bulgaria rely on well-developed 3G networks (GSM / GPRS / EDGE / UMTS / HSDPA) to provide access to 100 per cent of the population and almost full coverage of the country’s territory. The constantly growing demand for multimedia content, and to handle business applications for field workers, is forcing mobile operators to constantly upgrade their high-speed broadband Internet access. Bulgaria’s broadband access initiative joins governmental institutions, private business and non-governmental organizations to develop the country’s broadband access networks. |
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Article no.: |
3 |
| Topic: |
Spectrum management for a competitive wireless Europe |
| Author: |
Marianne Treschow |
| Title: |
Director General |
| Organisation: |
Swedish Post and Telecom Agency (PTS) |
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346KB |
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Marianne Treschow is the Director General of the Swedish Post and Telecom Agency (PTS). Dr Treschow also served as the President of Sweden’s Radio Spectrum Policy Group. Prior to this appointment, she was Director of the Spectrum Department at PTS. Dr Treschow was previously, a Director of the Swedish National Space Board dealing specifically with science and earth observation and was a Director of the Swedish Research Council.
Dr Treschow is a Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.
Marianne Treschow holds a Doctor Degree in Chemistry from Stockholm University. |
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| The European Commission wants to establish more liberal spectrum policy and provide better wireless services for consumers. This requires cooperation between spectrum and market regulators, further liberalisation of spectrum management, a harmonised approach to the digital dividend and a pro-active approach when new technologies arise to evaluate them and take prompt action to promote their usage. There is a need today to study how to open up the use of whitespace frequencies in Europe rather than to sit and wait. |
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Article no.: |
4 |
| Topic: |
Mobile Internet: a way of life |
| Author: |
Gordon G. Graylish |
| Title: |
Vice President, Sales and Marketing Group, Deputy General Manager, Europe, Middle East and Africa |
| Organisation: |
Intel Corporation |
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326KB |
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| About author: |
Gordon Graylish is Vice President of Intel Europe, Middle East and Africa and Deputy General Manager for the region. Mr Graylish’s expertise includes the areas of technological development, the disruptive impact of technology and the affect these have on corporate strategies and society. Mr Graylish joined Intel’s Canadian operation in 1982 and held a variety of sales and marketing positions there until transferred to Intel’s headquarters in Santa Clara. There he held a number of marketing management roles within Intel’s geography marketing organization and then in its business marketing unit.
Mr Graylish later became director of Intel Architecture marketing for EMEA based in the United Kingdom. He was later responsible for Intel’s communications business, handling the sales and marketing of communications silicon products and solutions to wireless handset, network infrastructure and embedded computing customers. Mr Graylish subsequently directed Intel’s marketing and technical resources in EMEA before moving to his current role.
Prior to Intel, Mr Graylish held a number of positions in systems sales and marketing for Burroughs and IBM.
Gordon Graylish has a bachelor’s degree in Eastern European history from the University of Toronto. |
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| Mobile computing is part of our lives. The pervasive nature of the Internet has enhanced recent developments including social networking, user-generated content and location-based services. People now carry this Internet experience with them in their pockets. In addition to notebook PCs, a range of new, ultra-portable devices, including smartphones, pocket-sized Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), and netbooks provide mobility in a range of packages that delivering powerful performance in increasingly smaller packages, the era of mobile personal computing has truly arrived. |
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Article no.: |
5 |
| Topic: |
Preparing for a wireless world |
| Author: |
Alexandros Stergios Manos |
| Title: |
CEO |
| Organisation: |
Intracom Telecom |
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261KB |
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| About author: |
Mr.Alexandros Stergios Manos is the CEO of Intracom Telecom. Over the years, he has served in a number of executive positions within the group including as Executive Director of the Telecommunications Systems Sector, as General Manager of the Corporate Marketing and International Operations Service Unit, and as CEO of CONKLIN CORPORATION, an INTRACOM subsidiary in Atlanta, GA, U.S.
Mr. Manos holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and a BA in Business Economics from Brown University and a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. |
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| Wireless broadband and multimedia services are driving important changes in the telecom market. High-speed wireless broadband, especially LTE and WiMAX, and the growing penetration of highly portable data-centric devices - notebooks, PDAs, smartphones, etc. - means that Internet applications usually available at the home or office will become available everywhere and become personal services. To prepare for this changing environment, service providers face the challenge of building an IP-based infrastructure with greatly improved backhaul to deal with the new demands. |
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Article no.: |
6 |
| Topic: |
Mobile broadband Internet with femtocells |
| Author: |
Chris Gilbert |
| Title: |
CEO |
| Organisation: |
Ubiquisys |
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1680KB |
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| About author: |
Chris Gilbert is the CEO of Ubiquisys. Prior to Ubiquisys, Mr Gilbert served as the CEO of IPWireless, a Red Herring Top 100 Private Company, an AlwaysOn ‘ Innovator’; IPWireless also won Network Magazine’s Wireless Product of the Year award. Previously Mr Gilbert had held senior roles with Motorola where he managed the company’s cellular infrastructure business in some 60 EMEA countries.
Chris Gilbert earned a BSC in Physics from Bristol University in the UK. |
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| Femtocells, small cellular access points in the home, deliver low cost, faster, high quality 3G mobile coverage in the home. 3G mobile broadband adoption has suffered because of poor indoor reception and high prices. When users come home, the mobile phone automatically switches from the macro network to the femtocell, which routes all voice and data traffic via the home broadband connection. This brings users better service and lower cost and helps operators by reducing traffic on the mobile network. |
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Article no.: |
7 |
| Topic: |
Fixed mobile convergence for business |
| Author: |
Andy Evans |
| Title: |
CTO |
| Organisation: |
Cable & Wireless |
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733KB |
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| About author: |
Andy Evans is the CTO of Cable & Wireless; he joined Cable &Wireless Europe, Asia & US as CTO responsible for Network Infrastructure and Strategy, Service Platforms, Information Technology, Security and Hosting. Mr Evans served previously as Marconi’s Chief Technology and Information Officer. Prior to Marconi Mr Evans served in a variety of executive posts including at FLAG Telecom as Chief Technical Officer and as Vice President of Marketing and Strategy; as Head of Strategy & Partnerships at Netscalibur, a pan-European business Internet service provider; and at McKinsey & Company as a Senior European Telecommunications specialist. He began his career in telecommunications at British Telecom where, as a Senior System Design team leader, he developed one of the world’s first real-time network management systems.
Andy Evans received a 1st Class Honours degree in Engineering & Electrical Sciences from Cambridge University and an MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, with High Distinction. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering & Technology. |
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| Fixed Mobile Convergence, FMC, traditionally uses WiFi with expensive dual mode handsets to connect to the fixed network. WiFi-based FMC uses so much power batteries only last 30 minutes and, when built around a PBX, are vulnerable to single point failures. GSM-based FMC, however, uses existing GSM handsets, so you only change the SIM card. It uses licensed spectrum and can offer businesses that install picocells on their premises better quality, great cost savings and a host of other benefits. |
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Article no.: |
8 |
| Topic: |
Mobilising LTE |
| Author: |
Andre Doll |
| Title: |
CTO |
| Organisation: |
Radio Frequency Systems (RFS) |
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313KB |
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| About author: |
Andre Doll is the CTO of Radio Frequency Systems (RFS); he is responsible for the company’s research and development, plus project management resources, worldwide. Mr Doll previously worked at HP in California and with France’s Alcatel, where he worked on emerging laser technology and the TAT-8 transatlantic marine phone cable. At Velec, in France, Mr Doll managed engineering and developed some of the industry’s first GSM repeaters. Mr Doll received the Bell Labs 2008 team Award for development of TV MSL (DVB-SH) - Mobile television via satellite.
Andre Doll has an MSc from the University of California at Berkeley. |
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| The need and demand for mobile broadband has grown considerably. Smartphones and PCs designed for mobile data services, such as iPhones and netbooks, are in great demand by consumers and businesses alike. The ability to offer innovative business, entertainment and convenience service to users on the move is expected to attract many new users and drive operator revenue streams. Mobile operators look towards implementing new Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks to deliver the higher speeds and greater spectrum efficiency needed. |
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Article no.: |
9 |
| Topic: |
LTE ready backhaul |
| Author: |
Aviv Ronai |
| Title: |
Chief Marketing Officer |
| Organisation: |
Ceragon Networks |
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219KB |
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| About author: |
Aviv Ronai is the Chief Marketing Officer of Ceragon Networks; he has over 15 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to joining Ceragon, Mr Ronai held several senior marketing positions at ECI Telecom, most recently as Vice President of Marketing and Communications. Prior to joining ECI Telecom, Mr Ronai served in the Israeli Air Force as a telecommunication officer and held several project management positions.
Aviv Ronai holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Tel-Aviv University. |
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| Commercial LTE deployments will begin during 2010. As LTE access is deployed, it will be important to prepare the backhaul networks to support high-speed/high bandwidth transmission between cell sites and the operator’s core network. LTE-ready backhaul means high capacity, low latency and support for an all-IP architecture. Of the three backhaul technology options operators can choose from, wireless point-to-point microwave can deliver the best cost-performance, with faster ROI driving forward the proliferation of advanced mobile services in the LTE era. |
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Article no.: |
10 |
| Topic: |
Thriving with roaming |
| Author: |
Allan Chan |
| Title: |
Executive Vice President |
| Organisation: |
Mobility Services Tata Communications |
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371KB |
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| About author: |
Allan Chan is the Executive Vice President, Mobility Services for Tata Communications, part of the Tata Group. Prior to his current role, Mr Chan served as the Vice President, Business Development, Mergers & Acquisitions for Teleglobe and, earlier, as Vice President of Global Traffic Operations and Customer Service. Before joining Teleglobe, Mr Chan was Director International Wholesale at Bell Canada. During his tenure with the company, Mr Chan held various positions within Bell Canada’s finance and corporate development organizations. In the past he also worked with Ontario Hydro and Dofasco.
A graduate of the University of Toronto, Mr Chan received a bachelor’s degree in engineering. He also obtained his Master’s Degree in business administration from McMaster University in addition to being a registered Professional Engineer. |
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| The recent European Union regulators’ caps on roaming charges within the EU was a setback for regional operators who depended upon revenues derived from high-priced voice and SMS roaming services. They need greatly increased roaming traffic to compensate for lower prices, but to do so they have to improve service and capture prepaid users. Operators are working to provide both prepaid and post-paid users with seamless, high-quality service and facilities virtually equal to the service and features they receive at home. |
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Article no.: |
11 |
| Topic: |
When 3G is faster than fixed line |
| Author: |
Michel Robert |
| Title: |
Managing Director |
| Organisation: |
Claranet UK |
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262KB |
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| About author: |
Michel Robert, the Managing Director of Claranet UK, his experience is in business development and marketing with particular expertise in the IT solutions sector. Before joining Claranet UK, Mr Robert was the Solution Director at Dimension Data, a global IT services and solution provider. Mr Robert has also worked in senior consulting and marketing positions for Forward in London (now part of WPP Group) and The Rouse Company, a North American property development company.
Michel Robert has a Bachelors of Arts Degree in International Studies from Kenyon College, USA. |
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| Obtaining immediate access to high speed communications when setting up a new business location is a challenge. Traditional technology can take a month or two to install, but an interim 3G mobile wireless solution takes only days. The 3G installation can later serve as a low cost backup or give field workers anywhere full access to corporate networks, data and applications. Since 3G Internet-based solutions must often interoperate with MPLS-based private networks, data encryption and other security measures are needed. |
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Article no.: |
12 |
| Topic: |
Advanced messaging hubs |
| Author: |
Tony Holcombe |
| Title: |
President and CEO |
| Organisation: |
Syniverse Technologies |
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302KB |
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Tony Holcombe is the President and CEO of Syniverse Technologies and a member of the company’s Board of Directors. Before joining Syniverse, Mr Holcombe served as President of Emdeon Corp and as President of Emdeon Business Services. Mr Holcombe has more than 20 years of executive-level experience in the transaction processing and technology services industry. He was CEO of Valutec Card Solutions and held various executive positions at Ceridian Corporation, including executive vice president of Ceridian Corporation, president of Ceridian Employer Employee Services and president of Comdata. Mr Holcombe currently serves on the board of directors and the executive committee for CTIA-The Wireless Association as well as the boards of TALX Corporation and The Wireless Foundation.
Tony Holcombe holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Georgia State University. |
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| Mobile instant messaging (MIM) will almost double - to 4.8 trillion messages - by 2012. Today, users of one service cannot always connect to users of another and applications such as mobile banking and mobile commerce are not yet wholly reliable. Lost messages of this sort can have serious repercussions when money transfers are not completed on time. New messaging hubs will give operators the ability to offer presence, together with seamless interworking between IM and other messaging types. |
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Article no.: |
13 |
| Topic: |
Predictions |
| Author: |
Timo Ahomäki |
| Title: |
Chief Scientist |
| Organisation: |
Airwide Solutions |
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267KB |
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| About author: |
| Timo Ahomäki is the Chief Scientist at Airwide Solutions. Prior to joining Airwide Solutions, he held several mobile value added service related executive roles at TeliaSonera, Finland’s largest operator. Before TeliaSonera, he worked at Nokia in product management for mobile data |
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| The growth of mobile messaging (MM) - driven mostly by ‘mobile youth’ and less developed regions - seems likely to continue at a healthy pace. Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) will lead the growth in China, but operators must increasingly personalise offerings to hold mature markets. Mobile advertising will boost operator revenues as will mobile broadband Internet access. The growth of mobile commerce will increase the need for security measures, and environmental issues will drive green initiatives such as handset reuse and recycling. |
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Article no.: |
14 |
| Topic: |
Location services - where it is, when you need it |
| Author: |
Nadeem Ahmad |
| Title: |
Director |
| Organisation: |
Global Technology and Wireless & Mobility Lead, Global NI Dimension Data |
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212KB |
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Nadeem Ahmad is Group Technology Director for Dimension Data responsible for determining the company’s global technology strategy and direction; he has been in the technology sector for fifteen years. Mr Ahmad’s experience includes technical leadership of multi-disciplinary teams for large system integration projects, building and leading technology solution delivery organisations in Europe, and fostering partnerships and strategic alliances in conjunction with solution strategy development and implementation.
Nadeem Ahmad studied engineering and computer science at university |
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| Wireless networks and RFID (radio frequency identification) tags can help businesses pinpoint the locations of all their moveable assets. Wireless location services improve workflow by providing information about the exact location of all mobile assets, including employees. Location services can track the parts needed to keep an assembly line moving, find where urgently needed medical equipment or specialised personnel are in a hospital to immediately re-deploy them, and reduce the need to over-order equipment and supplies to guarantee their availability. |
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Article no.: |
15 |
| Topic: |
IPTV - intelligent content delivery |
| Author: |
Ervin Leibovici |
| Title: |
CEO |
| Organisation: |
BitBand |
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236KB |
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Ervin Leibovici is the CEO of BitBand a provider of Content Delivery Network solutions for IPTV. Prior to joining BitBand, Mr Leibovici served as the Regional Manager of SGI for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. Before that, Mr Leibovici held managing director positions at the Israeli subsidiaries of SGI and Cray Research, the supercomputer company.
Ervin Leibovici earned a B.Sc degree in Computer Science from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Rekanati Business School at the University of Tel-Aviv. |
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The success of IPTV providers, and its ability to compete effectively with other TV providers, depends largely upon the quality of experience it offers consumers, the cost-effectiveness of its infrastructure and the flexibility to offer differentiated, personalised, services. Comprehensive content delivery networks (CDN) will help meet these challenges, as will architectures that provide flexible scaling of content storage and streaming capacity. Video Admission Control helps operators tightly plan and control network resources and offer advanced differentiated services with guaranteed QoE.
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Article no.: |
16 |
| Topic: |
Presence evolves social networking |
| Author: |
Frank Schuil |
| Title: |
Founder and CEO |
| Organisation: |
In Real Life (IRL) |
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317KB |
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Frank Schuil is the Founder and CEO of In Real Life (IRL) in Amsterdam. Mr Schuil’s background is in media and entertainment management. Mr Schuil is also the co-founder of the Verbeterdebuurt Foundation, a Dutch not-for-profit foundation that brings the concept of Fix My Street to the Netherlands. Mr Schuil is also a frequent speaker on the topics of social communities, user-generated content for mobile social networking and presence-based social networking at European Web 2.0 and emerging tech conferences such as the European Venture Summit in Dusseldorf, Mobile Web Conference Europe in London and Mobile User Generated Content Conference in Amsterdam.
Frank Schuil has a Bachelors degree in Business Administration, International Media & Entertainment Management from NHTV International Higher Education, Breda. |
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| The social networking phenomenon is rapidly gaining adherents. New facilities such as location and presence - determining the exact location of the participants (location) and indicating when they are line (presence) - bring a new dimension and a new sense of reality and community to the social network. With the migration of social networking from the computer to mobile devices, presence-based social networking lets you know which of your contacts and interests is close by, wherever you may be. |
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Article no.: |
17 |
| Topic: |
Mobile phones - bridging the divide between text and speech |
| Author: |
Paul Ayres |
| Title: |
CEO |
| Organisation: |
Textic Limited |
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236KB |
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Paul Ayres is the CEO of Textic Limited; he has worked in the technology sector for the past twenty years, specialising in start-up operations. Mr Ayres’ background is in sales and marketing. Prior to Textic, Mr Ayres served as President and CEO of Authoriszor Inc, an Internet security vendor. In addition Mr Ayres ran dyslexia-focused start up, BrightStar, in the UK.
Previously, Mr Ayres worked to establish Real Networks in Europe and earlier as General Manager and Managing Director of Netscape Communications in Northern Europe. |
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| New technologies are emerging that efficiently, accurately and naturally convert speech messages into text and vice versa. Mobile phones will soon playback and SMS as voice or a voice message as text and messages in one language will be retrievable in another. These features will allow safe voice playback of email while in a car, silent messages while in a meeting and facilitate access for those with speech, sight and hearing disabilities and illiterate populations - including small children. |
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