Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, talked about innovation at his company and throughout the industry. Comparing how much change has taken place over the last ten years, he gave his opinion on the next ten years…"a computer that will see; a computer that will listen; a computer that will understand." And, he believes "some of the most profound change will ...

AMD CEO Hector Ruiz says "IT (information technology) has proven that it has a brain, now it is time to prove that it has a heart." Speaking at the World Congress on Information Technology conference in Austin, he explained his initiative called 50-by-15, which aims to expand Internet access to 50 percent of the world’s population by 2015, compared with ...

Peter Neve, President of FieldWorker Products, Ltd. in Toronto, has developed a tool set for mobile work processes that may have some application potential for the ACS. According to him,  FieldWorker Enterprise is the easiest, quickest to deploy and most cost effective solution for mobile data collection. The product offering is designed/customized to suit an organization’s needs. My first question ...

An interesting thing I picked up from the Innovation and Exchange portion of the conference was from the President and CEO of TM NET, Michael Lai of Malaysia, who described why Asia/Malaysia, then Europe, and finally the US will approach ubiquitous communications (including IPTV) in that order. Basically, Asia is ready now. They have 50% of the world’s mobile subscriber ...