One of the biggest actresses of MGM’s Golden Age, also lived a quiet life as an inventor. During World War II, Hedy Lamarr invented a form of wireless communication that led to Bluetooth, GPS and more.
http://www.npr.org/2011/11/27/142664182/most-beautiful-woman-by-day-inventor-by-night
Glenn Lurie, President, Emerging Devices Organization, AT&T Alan Rambam, President, Mobile Behavior Arun Bhikshesvaran, Senior Vice President of Multimedia and Infrastructure Solutions, Ericsson Ali Diab, Vice President of Product Management, AdMob Peter Hoddie, CEO, Kinoma Tim Attinger, Global Head of Product Development, Visa Inc. Jon Fortt, Senior Writer, Fortune - Moderator
With adoption of wireless handsets approaching 90 percent in the United States, companies are looking for new, innovative ways to connect people and their devices. What will this technology look like and what will it mean for consumers and businesses in terms of devices, network capabilities and integration? Industry experts will discuss the benefits and challenges facing companies as customers and businesses demand more content of higher quality and speed wherever they are and on any device.
Ashifi Gogo, a Schweitzer Fellow at Dartmouth College, discusses mobile communications in the developing world - system architectures that provide levels of security analogous to well-known standards for internet transactions, and innovations in use of mobile networks for public services.
Webvisions 2008 Going Fast on the Slow Mobile Web Speaker: Jason Grigsby
…somebody (probably a somebody in the “developing” world) will become the three billionth mobile phone subscriber. Good for the providers, of course - but the effects of the network on human social organization are far more profound.