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Mobility Awards

 

Call for Nominations Announced

Deadline extended to February 6, 2012

Winners of the 2012 Mobility Awards will be announced at the Mobility Awards banquet, held Wednesday, May 9th, during CTIA Wireless 2012 in New Orleans, LA.

Contact Dr. Purdy at gerry.purdy@mobiletrax.com if you are interested in speaking or sponsoring the Mobility Awards banquet.

For a full list of the 2011 Mobility Award Winners click here 
  

 
Inside Mobile is written by J. Gerry Purdy, Ph.D., Principal Analyst with MobileTrax and is published each Wednesday.

 




 

Dr. Purdy writes a weekly column via eWeek, a leading online & digital publisher with millions of readers. Some of these columns are distributed via Inside Mobile with approval from eWeek.

 

“Stop SOPA, PIPA Madness:
Ways to Sensibly Protect Copyrights”

By J. Gerry Purdy on 2/1/2012


I have written three books.  I still get royalty checks from my publishers.  I open the envelope typically every six months to find money that rewards me for my original work.  It’s like someone is printing money and sending it to me.  Although my royalty checks are printed from a rather small printing press, there is great satisfaction in creating intellectual property and, through that skill, receiving compensation for it.

What if one of my books suddenly appeared on some rogue web site?  “Hey, wait a minute, you can’t do that!  You’ve stolen my property!”  Or, what if someone in, say, China republished my book to look exactly like mine and made it available for much less than my book?

These are some of the issues behind the House of Representative’s Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the U.S. Senate’s version of the same issues called Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA).

Those opposing these bills in congress are not suggesting that we should support piracy or steal intellectual property.  Rather, they see that the way in which these bills went about protecting intellectual property and preventing piracy could end up becoming one big censorship engine that might have far reaching negative implications to society.


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"Re-ordering the Universe"

By Tom Wheeler on 1/1/2012
 

2011 certainly went out with a bang!  The discovery of the “God Particle” and a challenge to Einstein’s Theory could re-order quantum physics.  But, if you want to talk about really re-organizing the universe, consider the December announcement of an unprecedented consortium between Verizon and the major cable operators.

The heretofore unidentified “God Particle” (formally the Higgs boson) turned from theory to reality in December at the Large Hadron Collider.  By smashing protons together the collider simulated the universe a hairsbreadth before the Big Bang.  Lo and behold, the test appears to have identified the force that gives shape and substance to everything we know.

Einstein’s Theory fell apart twice (or at least appeared to).  Once in September and again in November:  extremely low mass particles called neutrinos appear to have broken the cosmic speed limit by moving in excess of the speed of light between the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland and a receptor 730 km away in Italy. What if E doesn’t equal MC²?

But those developments only hold the potential to re-order quantum physics (!).  At the same time, the basic assumptions of science were being challenged, Verizon and the cable MSOs began to transform the physics of program content and delivery.

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