July 14, 2011
Keynotes Announced for 4GWE, M2M Evolution, Super WiFi Summit Conferences
By TMCnet News
Norwalk, CT, July 14 , 2011 — TMC (News - Alert) and Crossfire Media today announced two joint keynote addresses for the attendees of the 4G Wireless Evolution, M2M Evolution, and Super WiFi Summit conferences on September 14th at the Austin Convention Center. Each conference is collocated in Austin with TMC’s popular ITEXPO, the leading conference and trade show covering communications and technology.
Cameron Coursey, Associate VP of Product Development forAT&T (News 
- Alert) will deliver a keynote address at 9:00 AM on September 14th discussing “Managing the Device, Network and Applications (DNA).” Immediately following this session, Strobe Corporation’s CEO, Charles Jolley will discuss “Why HTML5 Trumps Device Operating Systems.”
- Alert) will deliver a keynote address at 9:00 AM on September 14th discussing “Managing the Device, Network and Applications (DNA).” Immediately following this session, Strobe Corporation’s CEO, Charles Jolley will discuss “Why HTML5 Trumps Device Operating Systems.” “The collocated events at ITEXPO (News - Alert) provide dozens of sessions that focus on a variety of content areas and at the same time, there’s enough overlap between events to help attendees expand their educational experience,” said Rich Tehrani, CEO and Conference Chairman for TMC. “We invite everyone joining us in Austin to attend joint sessions like these, because they also provide great networking opportunities amongst our broad attendee base.”
4G Wireless Evolution discusses the best ways to enable the mobile enterprise and leverage the mobile Internet. The M2M Evolution conference showcases B2B applications in the transportation industry and examines the intersection of technology, regulatory issues, end user applications, and the ROI associated with M2M technology. And The Super WiFi Summit identifies the new opportunities that the unlicensed white space spectrum (known as Super WiFi (News - Alert)) is creating for consumers, enterprises, service providers and device manufacturers.
- Alert)) is creating for consumers, enterprises, service providers and device manufacturers.- Cameron Coursey’s keynote will discuss the lifecycle of today’s latest devices, and identify the development and implementation requirements for tomorrow’s networks.
- Charles Jolley’s keynote will examine the impact that HTML5 will have on operating systems and APIs, and how it will help shift the emphasis from the device to the user experience.
By: 4g-wirelessevolution
Digital Chocolate Launches Millionaire Boss on Facebook
Digital Chocolate, a leader in cross-platform social games, today announced the launch of Millionaire Boss™ on Facebook, a fun and competitive experience managing a startup and growing it to become a successful company. The game is currently recruiting entrepreneurial players who have the skills and fortitude to hire and fire, wheel and deal as the CEO of their own company.
"Starting a company is a common dream for many people and a game is a great way to play that out," said Marc Metis, President of Digital Chocolate. "Millionaire Boss challenges players to see what kind of business they can grow from scratch."
Millionaire Boss puts players in position to give the evil corp LootCo. a run for its money by working to become a powerful competing CEO. Players setup and name their company, hire Facebook (News - Alert) friends as employees, use strategy to combine the right types of employees with different skills and levels of experience, and focus them on the right work to build the business. Challenging corporate missions await in Millionaire Boss, including striving to grow the company's market share, increasing shareholder value, managing corporate reputation, and expanding the headquarters. Players have the opportunity to customize their virtual CEO and design a cool office space to set the tone and motivate employees with everything from foosball tables and fully-stocked snack rooms to aquariums. Players compete with friends to see who can turn their hot new startup into the next big thing.
Created specifically to take full advantage of the social features on the platform, players can gift items and share coins with friends, and visit friends' offices to help their chances for success. Digital Chocolate will be implementing a seady wave of enhancements and new content to Millionaire Boss in the coming weeks.
By: 4g-wirelessevolution
Verizon’s CEO Ivan Seidenberg now says there’s plenty of spectrum after all. He thinks the FCC should butt out and let big business manage spectrum.
Money talks. It can make a persuasive case for some legislators and regulators.
Mike Dano in Fierce Wireless created a chart (below) that breaks down the projected “4G” coverage of AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile in the US by the end of the year.
- Verizon Wireless: Verizon expects to cover 100 million people with LTE before 2010 is out but currently has zero. They hope to have blanket 4G coverage by the end of 2013.
- AT&T: Currently offers HSPA speeds of 3.6 Mbps down nationwide, but beganupgrading software at its cellular towers this past January for a 7.2 Mbps rollout this year. Unfortunately the backhaul network is lagging. The majority of AT&T towers still use 4-6, T-1 lines, so all users must share the 6-9 Mbps available to the tower. AT&T says it will begin a 4G rollout with LTE in 2011, which should boost speeds to the 5-12 Mbps range. Widespread availability is not expected until 2014.
- Sprint: Sprint has partnered with Clearwire’s WiMAX (instead of LTE) to use 4G. Itcurrently covers 43 million potential customers and aims to boost that number to 120 million before the end of 2010.
- T-Mobile: T-Mobile, the smallest major carrier, now has more than 75 million people covered by their HSPA+ network and all of T-Mobile’s coverage area —around 185 million — will see it by end of year.
- Clearwire: Clear offers WiMAX in some three dozen cities, and expects to cover 120 million people, including most major cities by year’s end. The company recently left open the slim possibility of transitioning to LTE from WiMAX technology at some point in the future.
