Mobile Office

Cyrus Peikari

Cyrus Peikari is currently the Chief Technical Officer of Airscanner Corporation, a leading mobile security software company.

[Publish Date: October 07, 2009]

Summer of Flash Episode 4 - Mark Anders - InsideRIA

By Garth Braithwaite

Mark Anders, Senior Principal Scientist at Adobe, joins us to discuss upcoming versions of Flash Player for mobile devices, the Open Screen Project, Ashton Kutcher's appearance at Adobe's offices, and Adobe's magical rings of power.

[Publish Date: August 04, 2009]

Speaker: Umang Gupta: Velocity 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, June 22 - 24, ...

Umang Gupta has served since 1997 as chairman and chief executive officer of Keynote Systems (NASDAQ: KEYN), the global leader in test and measurement solutions that improve mobile communications and online business performance. A well-known technology visionary and Silicon Valley entrepreneur, Umang began his career in 1973 with IBM. Umang joined Oracle Corporation in 1981 where he wrote the first business plan for the company, and served as Vice President and General Manager of the Microcomputer Products Division through 1984. He left Oracle to become Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Gupta Corporation, which he took public in 1993 (NASDAQ: GPTA). Gupta Corporation was responsible for ushering in the era of enterprise client/server computing by introducing many seminal innovations, including the world's first client/server relational database system for PC networks in 1988. Umang has also been an active investor and advisor to a number of Silicon Valley start-up...

[Publish Date: June 22, 2009]

Waze: Make Your Own Maps in Realtime - O'Reilly Radar

By Brady Forrest

Waze (blog) is using mobile phones as sensors to collect data. The Israeli-based start-up (though now with offices in SF) is relying on users to create its maps, to report realtime traffic and to teach it how to route from place A to place B. Along their drives the user gobbles points for every action. Use the app and gain recognition within the Waze community. The company is doing all of this through its free turn-by-turn navigation apps (sorry, iPhone and Android only for now).

[Publish Date: August 14, 2009]

Speaker: Manoj Ramnani: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2009 - Co-produced by ...

DubMeNow is Manoj's brainchild and as CEO of the company his focus is to drive the strategic vision and direction, build the executive team and establish strategic partnerships. Manoj is an entrepreneur with more than 10 years of experience starting and growing firms in the Information Technology arena. His experience spans IT and management in the healthcare, eLearning and federal consulting verticals as well as development of enterprise mobile applications. Prior to DubMeNow, Manoj founded Astegic Inc, an information technology firm specializing in providing commercial and government solutions. Manoj built Astegic into a multi-million dollar organization with offices around the world. He has over 10 years of experience in the IT industry and has management experience in the healthcare, eLearning, Federal IT consulting and Enterprise Mobile application verticals. He has successfully managed many organizations such as MRInfosys, Astute, Acutus, NoesisMD and Astegic in various...

[Publish Date: March 31, 2009]

Speaker: Mary McDowell: Web 2.0 Summit 2009 - Co-produced by TechWeb & ...

Starting January 1, 2008, Mary T. McDowell is Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer leading the newly established Corporate Development Office. Mary is responsible for optimizing Nokia's strategic capabilities and growth potential and managing key operational functions. In the capacity of enabling Nokia’s future, she oversees Corporate Strategy, Nokia Research Center, Corporate Business Development, and Solutions Portfolio Management. She also oversees Forum Nokia and Developer Community, Nokia IT, and Compatibility and Industry Collaboration, which are focused on managing operational elements of the integrated company. Mary is also a member of the Nokia Group Executive Board, a position held since 2004. She is a frequent public speaker on topics including mobile and Internet industry convergence, open ecosystems, strategy leadership, and consumer centricity.

[Publish Date: October 20, 2009]

Speaker: Shantanu Narayen: Web 2.0 Summit 2009 - Co-produced by TechWeb & ...

Shantanu Narayen is president and chief executive officer of Adobe, one of the world’s largest and most diversified software companies. Narayen’s leadership, technology insight and operational expertise have strengthened Adobe’s culture of innovation, expanded the company into new markets, and extended its product portfolio and global reach. In 2005, Narayen co-led the $3.4 billion acquisition of Macromedia, expanding Adobe’s software platform and solutions, and strengthening the company’s presence in key markets ranging from enterprises and vertical industries to mobile devices and multimedia publishing.

[Publish Date: October 20, 2009]

Microsoft Office 2008 ID 502 Installation Issue - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

By Todd Ogasawara

I installed Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac over the weekend and ran into a couple of issues. Even though I was aware of the ID 502 installation issue, I was still surprised by what I saw (though I shouldn't have been). I'm still debating whether to sync my Windows Mobile smartphone with Entourage 2008. Mark/Space provided some interesting information about Missing Sync for Windows Mobile.

[Publish Date: January 30, 2008]

Speaker: Peter Goodall: OSCON 2008 - O'Reilly Conferences, July 21 - 25, ...

Pete Goodall is a ten-year veteran of the technology industry, and has spent the last seven years working in Linux software. For the last four years Pete has worked exclusively with Linux Desktop technologies, and now brings that experience to the mobile Linux space. Pete is based in Canonical's London office and his primary responsibilities are product definition and market research for the OEM Services group.

[Publish Date: July 21, 2008]

Speaker: Paolo Tosolini: Web 2.0 Expo New York 2008 - Co-produced by ...

Paolo Tosolini is a New Media Business Manager at Microsoft responsible for a new internal corporate intiative called Academy Mobile (description - video). Funded by the Microsoft Enterprise & Partner Group, Academy Mobile is a social media platform available to all Microsoft employees to share knowledge and best practices using podcasts. Prior to this role, Paolo worked in several other groups at Microsoft, including MSN and Office, where he managed the Office 2007 partner early adoption program that resulted in more than 500 partner solutions developed at launch. Paolo is also co-author with his wife Francesca of a blog, podcast and e-Book called Italy From The Inside, where they share travel and cultural tips about Italy using new media.

[Publish Date: September 16, 2008]

Speaker: Amit Kapur: Graphing Social Patterns West 2008 - O'Reilly ...

Amit Kapur is the Chief Operating Officer of MySpace. He manages global business operations for MySpace including business development and strategic partnerships across the website, Developer Platform, and MySpace Mobile.

[Publish Date: March 03, 2008]