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John Roese Has a Big Fan
By Mark Evans | August 7, 2008
Om Malik, one of the blogosphere’s most influential voices within the tech sector, has some nice words to say about Nortel CTO John Roese, who will be doing a fireside chat at GigaOm’s Mobilize 08 conference next month in San Francisco.
“John Roese, chief technology officer of Nortel Networks, is one of my favorite technologists; he can marry the promise of technology with hard-nosed business pragmatism like no one else. When we met up two years ago, he and I talked about both “wideband” and “hyperconnectivity,” two themes that have become pervasive in my coverage over the past few months.
Our conversation was unusual in that we didn’t talk about hardware, the gear that his company sells. Instead, we focused almost entirely on the “applications” and “innovation” of pervasive wireless broadband, the underpinnings of hyperconnectivity. We are beginning to see some of that play out already, with strong growth in the sales of iPhone applications at Apple’s iTunes App store, for example.”
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