I spent the day at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel for Digital Hollywood, a four-day conference jampacked with panels and discussions covering everything from digital media content and advertising, to mobile content. One panel that piqued my interest: a discussion of mobile commerce and content with Michael Ball, account lead, Interpublic Emerging Media Lab; Peter Cannistra, VP-strategic partnerships for WiMax, Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel; David Shim, Sybase 365 VP-product management and strategy; Larry Berkin, senior director, Access Systems; Brian Johnson, executive chairman, mBlox; and Lee Hancock, CEO, founder, go2. (Rob Adler is CEO of go2.)
Afterwards, I caught up with Cannistra to ask him about Sprint’s upcoming plans. Unfortunately, this was just before the news broke on the Sprint-Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) deal and, needless to say, he didn’t mention it. He talked up his excitement for Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) Android platform, emphasizing that “[Sprint] embraces openness” and that “Android has a tremendous amount of upside to really get away from the closed experience and open up the power of the internet to mobile devices.” I decided to try my luck and ask about the possibility of selling off Nextel, and, you guessed it — “no comment, but it’s a dynamic industry,” he replied.
Some excerpts from the session after the jump…
— iPhone changing the mobile landscape: There was a general consensus that the iPhone will revolutionize the way people browse the mobile web (if it hasn
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