Pretty good, no great shakes, and slightly too much emphasis on content.
Note, this will be paraphrased, and is unchecked.
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Ed Zander
Motorola
Seamless mobility – next big thing
next generation sets of products
1 million mobile subs a day
800 million handsets a year
180 million US subs
passed landlines in US and India
ringtones – 10% of all music industry revenue
RCKR
no 1 phone manufacturer is no 1 digital camera seller [heh]
218 billion text messages in china
10% of under 13s in US have cellphones
1 in 10 have dropped regular phones in US
Korea – limitless TV viewing for $14 a month on mobiles
micropayments via mobile
unlocking car doors
home monitoring systems
most ubiquitous gadget [gadget!]
Disruptors
everything = digits
broadband = air
inteligence = everywhere
gives seamless mobility
on cusp of convergence
early stages of the mobile Internet – will be more impactful that fixed Internet
has to go to Korea, Japan, Asia, Europe to see what’s happening – networks are so much more advanced
WiMax
connect the physical world with cyberworld
visiting everyone with content
seemlesss mobility:
living
driving
working
moving
trying to break down the walls between these
Razr dock for car, transfers contacts into the dashboard for calling
wifi with cellular for enterprise
the Internet follows you, not you follow it
internet is available to:
anyone
any time
any device
any where
always on
and
network agnostic
comms ... with content
disruptive technologies
cellular and 802 to Wi4 (next gen Wi-anything, mesh networks)
voice or video or internet access to converged services
wireline copper to wireline FTTX
narrowband/switched telephony to broadband/VoIP
PTT to everything pushed (push-to-everything) [dammit, i was saying that years ago :/]
cellphones to seemless mobility devices
shows EVDO RAZR
generating live video on it
shows 3G RAZR (already in Europe)
shows pink RAZR [fugly]
PEBL – camera, video content, music content
RCKR – uses it on the weekends for its music
100 songs, it’s a restriction, but Flash can have 1000 songs
OTA downloads of music – especially with 3G
sounds just as good as an MP3 player
phone for Asia – A1000?
2-3 million lines of software [is this a good thing?]
SLVR – candybar – most of the world likes them
[nice, it’s almost superflat]
gonna go from 11 to 8 millimeters thick
Q – next year a 3g version
thin again
shows a music video – FMV [pretty good!]
if you’re in a meeting, and bored, you can watch videos! [argh!]
(pulls battery as he can’t stop it)
now can aim that at Yahoo or AIM users – not just for business
clips of ESPN or Disney or news
service with clips of CNN, ESPN, CNBC on Motorolas, not announced yet
RAZRWIRE glasses – Oakley, sunglasses with headset – voice activated (call …)
MP3 quality sound
get it smaller adn turn it stereo
lots of social experimentation to do
lots happening in the home
conditional access STBs to home media gateways/media content
broadcast/cable TV to Internet TV
proprietary cellphone software to open robust services-oriented software platform (Java/linux)
lots of VC, and startups in China and India
*****
is there a crisis for engineering in the US?
a crisis of innovation
us was the source of technology innovation
it’s not about outsorcing – china is educating, VC, Startups
need to get back to basics
man on the moon drove engineering
there were no restrictions on visas
not pushing science and math at grad schools
national programmesin this around the world
why would you study engineering when China is graduation 250,000 a year?
i don’t buy that – used to be engineer, doctor, lawyer
we’re not exciting young people
has to be passion for work
have to be able to attract people from outside too
the greatest enemy in the US was the massive bureaurocracy – can technology help?
helping first responders
self-forming mesh networks
the politics are a hot potato we have to avoid
must be privy to lots of new technology, how do you decide what to back?
got to take risks
being big carries a lot of excess
have venture programs in the company
and an external venture company
see companies like DEC – aren’t here any more – have to reinvent
need global engineering
massive change in China, how do you deal with the government of China (mentions dissidents)?
there were problems with Russia (interviewer – they were corrupt)
India is very democratic
you can start companies and innovate but there are controls
you don’t see it day to day
problems with IP with engineers in China (4000 employees, 2000 engineers)
every country in Asia has a Minister for Technology with a 10-15 year programme, sam for education
isn’t this just bureauocracy?
control is one thing, sometimes hard to find help in government
VCs now investing in Europe and other countries
50% of business outside the US
India, China, SE Asia, Russia, Latin america (Brazil), Nigeria
aren’t these just poorer countries?
no, they have people at all levels, and the volumes are large
you start selling a broader product line as GDP rises
our market is the young people
what do you do to reduce your dependence on energy?
looking at the supply chain
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only licencee of Fairplay – MS is agressively selling their DRM tech. are we risking a monoculture?
licence both – DRM is influenced by customers (Verizon, Vodafone etc). have to be agnostic.
challenge with mobile internet – everyone want’s to be the monopoly – MS, Qualcomm, need to provide an open set of platofrms, OS models, DRM models
RCKR selling pretty well, despite mixed press – it’s not a nano!
we talk about convergence to one device, but in the future you’ll want several different devices, for going out, for work, need one phone number that follows you. need aggregation of music, video, content
problems in companies – mobiles becoming pervasive in workplaces
what technologies are in place for security for corporate users?
get requests to disable the camera – technology for in facilities to automatically disable
privacy and security are big challenges
what is the future for near field communications?
(Cap Gemini strategy officer)
already happening in certain places in the world
you’ll leave your wallet at home
early next year, a conected home product, can see the home on a mobile, and remote monitoring
are US business leaders able to influence other governments as a lever?
talk about CSR, take active responsibility
a manufacturer has a responsibility to returning to societies
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