Near Field Communication On The Verge Of Realizing Its Potential (Part 3)

By guest author Nalini Kumar Muppala NFC: Hardware Vendor Strategies The Nokia Factor In spite of the recent turmoil in handset vendor market, Nokia is still the dominant player. After the company announced its intention to add NFC to all its smartphones in 2011, other players have had to ramp up their NFC plans even

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Steven Smith, President And CEO, Gcommerce Inc. (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What is the response from the industry? There are a large number of players on the AAIA board; what is their response to architecture such as yours, and what is their interest in getting on board?

Near Field Communication On The Verge Of Realizing Its Potential (Part 2)

By guest author Nalini Kumar Muppala NFC Turf War There are two parts to NFC. The mobile aspect of NFC communication (antenna, modulation-demodulation etc.) are handled by the NFC chipset, just as in any other connectivity technology. Security element (SE) manages the security aspects. The architecture of a mobile phone allows different implementations of SE:

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Ira Weiss, Hyde Park Angels (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: If entrepreneurs go through your website, there’s still a fee, right? Ira: Yes. People are not so happy about angel groups that charge fees, but we do charge $45 for people to submit. It’s primarily because we were getting so many random submissions without it. One

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Elizabeth Marchi, Frontier Angel Fund (Part 5)

By guest author Irina Patterson Liz: You know, one of the things that happens in a bad economy is if a company is doing fairly well, sometimes the entrepreneurs don’t want to exit. Because they’re comfortable. They get their salary, they’re making money, the company’s doing OK . . . so it’s a little harder

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Near Field Communication On The Verge Of Realizing Its Potential (Part 1)

By guest author Nalini Kumar Muppala Wallets and key chains appear to be next on the list for convergence as the smartphone juggernaut rolls on. Near field communication (NFC) is the technology that promises to enable this. The promise and allure of NFC in phones are to not just make the wallet leaner and the

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Elizabeth Marchi, Frontier Angel Fund (Part 4)

By guest author Irina Patterson Irina: Do you have any sector preference? Liz: No, we just want to invest in companies that we can exit and make money in. We just don’t have the luxury. Now, I will tell you, we don’t invest in things we know absolutely nothing about. We don’t invest in real

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Ira Weiss, Hyde Park Angels (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Can you be more specific about the process how your students work with local businesses? Ira: What I mean is that there are local startup companies that recruit our MBA students to work with them on their businesses. The local startup companies want to be part

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