On April 4th I attended the spring edition of the Wireless forums, a mix of business meetings and conferences organized by the Wireless magazine at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Milan. I followed most of the presentations of the section Mobile Force & Office Forum since automating a mobile workforce is a matter tied to one of my software projects. On the whole, the presentations were very interesting and the moderator, Paolo Conti, was a pretty brilliant guy, but the public was not certainly as numerous as the one attending the Wlan Business Forum, a parallel series of conferences focused on Broadband, Wi-Fi and Wi-Max technologies.
In particular I found interesting the Psion Teklogix Mobile Show, actually one hour of live show with funny performances by the Psion Teklogix’s technical staff showing the latest barcode and RFID technologies while tracking a shipment from the order to the delivery destination. The scenography they set up was pretty mobile I’d say!
Also interesting was the interview with Funambol’s CEO, in which he spoke about the company’s history and how they found the necessary financial support in the US and of course he talked about their SyncML opensource software.
In the exhibition area I had the pleasure to talk to the kind staff of Softwork since I’m currently exploring RFID technology applied to mobile devices.
Also I had the chance to get my hands on the new Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone at the Dangaard’s booth, the Qtek 8500, alias HTC Star Trek… very, very nice design!