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The Wireless Internet: all the new ideas in California show
by Guy Kewney | posted on 20 April 2002
The new Wireless Ventures conference "highlights emerging, venture-backed companies that are developing a wide range of wireless technologies, services, and applications" --from advanced integrated circuits, smart antennas, and enterprise applications to wireless middleware, the carrier infrastructure, and mobile Internet devices and services.
This seminal show has all the names you've heard rumours about, and several which are completely new, people who haven't yet shown their heads in the marketing arena. It's in Burlingame, California from April 30 to May 1st, organised by Wireless Ventures.
Described as a "private equity conference" it looks to be unmissable as a beacon of what will be hitting the market next year.
The two day event features management presentations by CEOs of up to 100 startups, panel discussions of key issues facing the wireless services and technology companies, and keynote speeches by leading industry executives.
The list of presenting companies is fascinating. The following information is rather buried in the Wireless Ventures Web site - for my own purposes, I extracted the data, and thought it was worth providing a listing of several of them here:
Provides software infrastructure for personalization of mobile content.
Provides wireless broadband Internet services.
Provides wireless CDMA data modules for the OEM market.
Provides IP-based convergence systems for cellular networks.
Develops infrastructure equipment for wireless networks.
Develops a secure management platform for wireless LANs.
Provides wireless broadband Internet technology.
Develops multiservice, fixed broadband wireless aceess systems.
Designs wireless telecommunications systems based on proprietary adaptive antenna technology.
Delivers wireless LAN technology for scalable communications.
Develops IP-packet voice and data services for wireless networks.
Develops broadband wireless technology.
Develops semiconductor technology for the broadband wireless industry.
Develops management software for Bluetooth-enabled networks.
Provides a mobile processing server to Global 1000 companies.
Develops wireless data systems.
Develops fixed wireless IP-based mesh radio networks for corporate broadband connections and wireless mobile backhaul.
Provides wireless data-networking products for wireless carriers and network service providers.
Develops low-cost interface technology that enables ordinary electronic devices to perceive and react to nearby objects or individuals in real time.
Operating a wireless infrastructure company focused on maximizing the capacity of existing wireless infrastructure in urban areas.
Provides enterprise security management software for mobile devices.
Provides wireless network infrastructure.
Danger Develops and produces wireless online digital hardware, software, and services.
Ditrans is a fabless semiconductor company in southern California. "We are a private, venture-capital backed company with primary funding from U.S. Venture Partners (Menlo Park, California). Our passion is building high performance digital transceivers and working with major customers worldwide to integrate them into a variety of wireless communications devices. "
Operates a fabless semiconductor company.
Provides an enterprise application-messaging platform that enables the distribution of information to business partners and customers.
Provides mobile antennas for mobile-device manufacturers.
Provides wireless data technology.
Provides indoor-coverage technology for the wireless industry.
Supplies integrated semiconductor chips for wireless networking applications.
Provides data cards for wireless Internet access.
Provides technology for the delivery of broadband IP services over satellite, broadband, and local area networks.
Provides services that enable roaming on wireless data networks.
Operates a fabless semiconductor company that develops system-on-chip technologies.
Provides software for embedded wireless services. Formerly known as Terrace Mountain Systems.
Develops wireless communications technology. Formerly Gigabit Wireless.
Provides global, remote-access services to the Internet and corporate networks.
Provides high-speed wireless Internet access services to residential and small-business customers.
Provides technology for developing wireless devices and services.
Operates a wireless Internet services company.
Develops a chipset for wireless delivery of video, audio, and data.
Develops carrier-class mobile Internet infrastructure equipment.
Provides mobile communications technology.
Provides broadband wireless Internet services. Formerly called Burst Wireless.
Develops IP cores to address multiple cellular standards in one chipset.
Provides wireless infrastructure equipment.
Provides Java-acceleration technology for mobile wireless and embedded Internet appliances. Formerly JEDI Technologies.
Provides wireless connections to corporate data and applications.
Offers broadband wireless access to small and midsize businesses and residents in California.
Develops technology that allows ISPs to offer instant broadband service as well as service selection on demand.
Provides a network for digital-content transactions.
Provides mobile communications systems.
Manufactures an end-to-end fixed broadband wireless access system with integrated high-speed data and primary voice.
Provides wireless network infrastructure technology.
Operates a semiconductor company focused on wireless networking markets.
Develops technology that uses broacast television signals to provide positioning of mobile devices.
Provides network embedded systems technology.
Develops infrastructure that allows telecommunications carriers to deliver turnkey wireless data services to enterprises.
Provides broadband wireless access.
Develops data-enhanced voice applications for wireless operators.
Provides broadband fixed wireless systems to service providers and telecommunications companies.
Provides open source software for wireless networks.
Develops a platform for wireless network providers.
Provides a digital signal-processor platform for wireless communications.
Develops wireless Internet access technology.
Develops chipsets for ultra wideband wireless applications.
Provides Internet processors and protocol stacks that enable Internet connection.
Provides a development platform for wireless devices and applications.
Operates a wireless Web company.
Provides mobile communications services for wireless and wired networks.
Operates a Bluetooth wireless communications applications firm.
Makes wireless network equipment to help CDMA or GSM carriers with provisioning, billing, and performance in migration to 2.5G or 3G networks.
Provides short-range wireless network software and services.
Provides a wireless Internet service.
Provides applications and information services to wireless carriers and businesses.
Provides wireless technology.
Provides semiconductor products for the wireless distribution of digital audio and video.
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