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]]> http://gigaom.com/2008/09/18/signals-from-the-near-future-the-mobile-guru-panel/#comment-900285 Signals From the Near Future: The Mobile Guru Panel | Prosumer News Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:05:10 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=21664#comment-900285 [...] GigaOM Chetan: Let¡Çs talk about enterprise applications. What other applications do you see? Sprint: There are two thoughts on that. One thought is, clearly the early leader in introducing mobility into the enterprise was Nextel. It was open and had a feature set that was driving huge adoption by workers who were out and about and needed to have instant communications and a sense of location. Data was horrible. The second observation is how to move beyond that. What will change about the business once mobility sets in? It¡Çs the personal nature of the device. It¡Çs contextual. It¡Çs about knowing things about me that hasn¡Çt been knowable before. Once the enterprise has that information, how does that change the way we do jobs or how we compete for jobs? Marc, Yahoo: I think we¡Çve forgotten about scale. So when thinking about the design of what¡Çs next, it¡Çs important to think about infrastructure. So if you know where, when, who and what about billions of people in real time, whole new applications become possible. So next is designing these multimillion-node systems. Chetan: What will be available in the next five to 10 years? Marc, Yahoo: Distributed sensor networks. The problems of building systems that understand what you want you need sensors that know what they are and where they came from. So we will live in an animist universe where everything has its own IP address and can broadcast information about what they are. Fred, Motorola: Symbol is part of Motorola, so expanding that sensor network is on our agenda. We¡Çre expanding sensors to retail, biological sensors. You could point your phone at a rack of clothing and it will tell you if there¡Çs a medium in there. The technology generally exists and now we¡Çre building that out. John, Sprint: The future road map is 4G, but as we think through what the implications are it¡Çs easy to see the increased bandwidth, but the costs of building bandwidth into these devices fundamentally changes the way we build out the networks. In the same way microprocessors are built into everything we touch, in the future bandwidth will be built into everything we touch. Fred, Motorola: People find themselves the most interesting objects in the world so it seems we¡Çre going to most of the prototypes we have now are 3D in them right now. The app today that might have some legs is using an avatar as a trusted agent that knows a lot about you because it¡Çs with you all the time. It could be an ambient helper and when you come home it cold jump to your set-top box and follow you and help you at home. It¡Çs a little scary, but hopefully it could become a helpful, trusted agent. mobile tech SHARETHIS.addEntry( { title: “Signals From the Near Future: The Mobile Guru Panel”, url: “http://turquoise.tm.land.to/?p=244″ } ); [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2008/09/18/signals-from-the-near-future-the-mobile-guru-panel/#comment-900269 Our Live Coverage of Mobilize - GigaOM Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:22:03 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=21664#comment-900269 <p>[...] Signals from the Near Future: The Mobile Guru Panel [...]</p> [...] Signals from the Near Future: The Mobile Guru Panel [...]

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