Summary of Location Based Technologies and Services Workshop
[June 19, 2008, Crown Plaza Hotel, San Francisco International Airport] 
Alan J. Weissberger
IEEE ComSoc- SCV Secretary and Program Chair
Backgrounder:  
Yankee Group tele-briefing report on Location Based Services and Technologies:
http://viodi.com/2008/06/13/location-based-services-and-technologies/

Speaker Remarks
1. Dave Reid, Director of Business Development, SiRF Technology Inc. http://sirf.com/
 
The world is on the go (which implies that mobile telecom [...]

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[Author's Note:  Thank you very much to David Irwin, Director of the Communications Law Institute at The Catholic University of America, for his review and suggestions for this article]
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Thanks to Jari Aho for pointing out an excellent article/interview with Viodi View friend, Frank Bulk of Premier Communications, an independent telco in Iowa. Bulk provides a thoughtful and insightful analysis of the challenges of IPTV, especially as it relates to independent telcos.  He discusses the current state of the IPTV market, including missed promises, as [...]

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WSJ:  Cisco Changes Tack In Takeover Game
 
Cisco is now buying companies and giving them much more autonomy.  For example, Cisco bought email security start-up IronPort, but let it operate as a stand-alone unit, with its own managers, brand name, engineers and salespeople.
 
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Abstract:
 
We have previously opined that the highly touted 700 MHz auction was a win for the U.S. government (almost $20B was raised) and Google (open access rules for C block w/o spending a dime).  Yet it was a big loss for public safety. 
 
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Martin Taylor, Vice President of Product Management and Technology for MetaSwitch, gave an excellent overview of XML and its ascent as the standard for machine-to-machine interface in the telephony world. XML allows for a mash-up of applications, such as the obligatory caller ID on television. Combining XML data with Asynchronous JavaScript is AJAX, which allows updating of [...]

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Ben Foster, VP of Sales and Marketing for Twin Valley Telephone, an early adopter of franchised [...]

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