IN3: INTERNET DEVICES & APPLIANCES FORUM, Spring INTERNET WORLD 99

Conference Update

Spring INTERNET WORLD is a broad horizontal conference with 50 days-worth of programming from Monday through Friday. Even if you could sprint from one end of the massive LA Convention Center to the other at a good clip, you were bound to miss something. Below are summaries of links to presentations on the Internet Devices and Appliances Forum.

Please take a look at the notes from other topics we covered -- the Asian Internet and Web Music. Notes on Internet Financial Services and the Future of the Net -- will be posted later this week.

Read the Press Clips for Spring INTERNET WORLD 99.

INTERNET DEVICES
AND APPLIANCES FORUM

Moderated by Jack Powers, Director, IN3.ORG, and Conference Chairman, Internet World

Thursday, April 15

10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Opening Remarks

Deepak Mulchadani, Director of Internet Appliances for Wind River Systems, opened with a "look how far we've come" example: The 1976 TWEED- Text Wizard Electronic Editing Device. This word processor in a suitcase was positioned as "portable" and location independent, a tool to interact with content, specifically designed for journalists in the field. It gave a distilled view of information, but was still useful. While there has been a revolution in portable devices, the characteristics of the devices remain the same: they are designed with the user in mind and utilize customized content and relevant applications.

10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
The Appliance Market
Thomas Miller of Cyber Dialogue described the salient features and driving forces of the consumer Internet appliance market. There are currently 61.5 million Internet users in the United States. Of the non-users, 50% are interested in learning more, but this percentage will drop as time goes on. We are nearing market saturation with college graduates. Thus something has to change to reach more users. The market has to come downscale and this is where appliances fit in.

Thomas Miller, Vice President, Internet Strategies Group, Cyber Dialogue, Inc.
Click for slides in Acrobat format [396K].

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
The Devices and Appliances Landscape
IP connectivity is pervading the consumer, enterprise, and industrial environments. Jack offered the big picture and provided market and technology segmentations that described the key players, discussed the killer app and analyzed the opportunities for immersive IP.

Jack Powers, Director, IN3.ORG
Click for slides in PowerPoint [39K] or Acrobat format.[33K].

2:45 PM - 4:00PM
Internet Appliance Showcase
From IP-enabled cell phones and personal digital assistants to Web TV and Internet audio to commercial and industrial applications, see the wide range of new products and new applications opportunities in action.

Friday, April 16

10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Opening Remarks: The Promising Reality of Wireless Internet

Hans Davidsson stated that the increased needs of the mobile worker will be the driving force of the wireless market. The mobile worker will require wireless access to the corporate intranet, crucial information for day-to-day business. The wireless data market will then be adopted by the consumer for lifestyle/convenience reasons. In 1999 there will be 10 million wireless users, 20 million in 2000, and 30 million in 2001.

Hans Davidsson, Vice President, Ericsson Wireless Internet, Americas Region

10:45 AM - 12:30 AM
Home Networking 101
Representatives from the Home Phoneline Networking Alliance, Tut Systems, Intel, and Epigram, painted a landscape for home networking. One of the key points discussed was which solution- wireless, power, or telephone, would be most prominent. Some felt telephone wires would be the main solution, being cheap, and "4 times better and easier than wireless". Others however, thought that wireless would be more prominent in Europe and Asia. IBM thought that powerlines would be used for control automation.

Moderator: Cyrus Namazi, Chairman, Home Phoneline Networking Alliance
Panelists: Craig Stouffer, Vice President, Marketing, Tut Systems
Tom Calvert, Marketing Manager, Home Networking Operation, Intel
Mary Walker,General Manager, Home Networking, IBM Corporation

1:45 PM - 3:15 PM
Distributed Computing Architectures

The Internet coupled with the ubiquity of computing devices leads us to N-tier architectures encompassing presentation, business objects, and persistent data. In this session, you'll see an overview of how the Web, Java, components, and application servers will be deployed, and compare the leading visions of distributed computing.
Dave Orchard, Technical Architect, IBM Vancouver Developmental Center

3:15 - 4:15 PM
Advanced Set-top Box Design: Interactive Data Services for Digital Television
The first three years of digital deployment focused exclusively on just video delivery through set-top boxes to display on existing TV sets. Now, set-top boxes are evolving to accommodate data delivery and services to homes, handle extensive multimedia, and support high definition broadcast transmissions. Learn about the issues involved in display on existing TV's and the key architectural requirements for HDTV.
Mark O'Brien, Director, Business/Market Development, TeraLogic, Inc.

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