Mobilize, “the next generation mobile conference” presented by the GigaOM team, takes place today in San Francisco. Selected coverage follows below from this morning’s speakers.

Hyperconnectivity, Wideband and Innovation
Om Malik spoke with John Roese, chief technology officer of Nortel Networks on the issues of developing high capability networks. The saturation of the Western European market (112 percent mobile users), including Italy (147 percent) makes an overwhelming argument about the importance of system robustness. The US trails sadly behind other countries in terms of the quality of the 3G network and market consistancy.

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Indian company Infosys is bringing an internet-like experience to brick-and-mortar shopping. The IT and consulting firm launched ShoppingTrip 360, a“360-degree view of the shopping trip,” on July 31st.

Infosys hopes to make retail shopping as smart as internet shopping. Measuring “how” shoppers buy, as opposed to merely “what” they buy.

“ShoppingTrip360 leverages a network of wireless sensor-based applications within the store that allows people (shoppers), places (retailers) and products (CPG companies) to collaborate in real-time by creating an information ecosystem,” explains Girish A Ramachandra, head of innovations practice, retail, CPG and logistics for Infosys.

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Didier Lomdard, CEO and Chairman of France Telecom-Orange Group, just released the english edition of his new book, entitled “The Second Life of Networks”, along with co-author Georges Nahon and Gabriel Sidhom. Dominique and I were at the release of the book. Didier Lombard flew directly from Paris to hold his book signing in San Francisco (pictures), “the anchor for technological innovation in Silicon Valley.”

The Book Explains How Upcoming Technologies Will Bring New and Exceptional Opportunities for Human and Social Progress But Calls For Specific Changes and Reforms.

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We work with you as collaborative partners to help you navigate throughout the transformation process. With the help of our experts you company is arming itself with strategies, tactics, and technologies to support and realize its ambitious plans! We will be part of the project and help you use of the Internet as an efficient communication and recruitment tool.

L’Atelier North America is part of an advisors committee that reports directly to BNP Paribas’ executive committee dealing with online presence and Internet strategy. Subsidiaries of the BNP Paribas Group such as Cortal Consors and Cetelem have been working closely with Atelier NA to improve their innovation process and brush up their Internet strategy.

Other Fortune 500 clients are relying on Atelier’s input to widespread innovation within their strategic committees or among employees.

Example for the BNP Paribas Group:

Objective…

• The objective for BNP Paribas is to define and implement an accurate online strategy that both reinforces the brand, helps acquire new customers and retain existing ones.
• Find out what customers are expecting from a financial institution on the Internet
• Understand where BNP Paribas stands as far as On-line presence/online banking compared to other financial institutions
• Identify the best practices that will lead BNP Paribas to a coherent and efficient Internet strategy

Opportunity…

• BNP Paribas is now following a very ambitious plan that will lead the Banking Group to attract new customers with a younger and more dynamic brand.
• BNP Paribas is aiming at providing itself with the strategies, tactics and technologies that it will need to achieve its ambitious plans, especially by revamping its brand and using the Internet as a communication customer acquisition and retention tool.
• Strengthen BNP Paribas’ online banking to increase customers’ loyalty
• Use the Internet as a brand support channel and building up a strong online presence
• Create efficient online advertising campaigns

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Today firms are especially faced with rapid changing technology and innovation management activities, and therefore, with changing technology intelligence needs as well. During the last few years, web technology and strategies have become one of the most important factors for companies. Atelier’s team are here to assist you navigate through technology changes, new customer expectations and emerging communication channels. The Internet must be considered as the extension of a brand and a tool that directly contributes to attracting new customers and reinforcing existing customers’ loyalty, Atelier’s focus on emerging innovations and their significance will be delivered to you through newsletters, meetings and specific studies.

Example for a European Brokerage Company:

• Build up its technological monitoring in preparation for new usages or business opportunities
• Spot innovations that will lead to differentiate strongly from its competitors
• Have a better knowledge and understanding of internet users and of their behavior - especially when it gets to finance. The scope will be the US market but will gather data from Asia and Europe thanks to atelier’s network
• Have at its disposal a consultancy unit, who can help coordinating a project or wag innovative ideas based on its knowledge of innovation and corporate jobs. This will be done with strong support and involvement of the company’s internet dedicated team
• Tighten the bond between potential partners and headquarters, with a constant presence on the spot that will help boost up and secure the projects
• Share with the company various departments -sales force, engineers, product marketing planners- innovative products and services on-going in the valley
• Help develop innovation within the corporation’s employees: organize short innovation-oriented business trips in the silicon valley, aiming at creating or developing new corporate products or services inspired by what is underway in the silicon valley

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At Atelier North America we have been helping our clients to connect with the most innovative companies, disruptive thinking organizations and leaders. A 5-day trip in the heart of Silicon Valley will help you see, feel, and understand how innovation and change can improve brand’s performance along the purchase cycle from simple awareness to trial to loyalty.

Example for a European Retail Bank:

• build up its technological monitoring in preparation for new usages or business opportunities
• spot innovations that will lead to differentiate strongly from its competitors
• have a better knowledge and understanding of Internet users and of their behavior - especially when it gets to finance. The scope will be the US market but will gather data from Asia and France thanks to Atelier’s network
• start relationships with potential partners, with a constant presence on the spot that will help boost up and secure the projects
• meet and share with Bank of the West Executives ideas and good practices
• meet with top notch consulting firms to brain storm and work on the operational sides of the project

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Thirty years of expertise in emerging information and communication technologies

L’Atelier was designed to bring innovative ideas and business-changing opportunities to industries within the banking sector from the moment it was created in 1978 at Compagnie Bancaire (a precursor to BNP Paribas).

Soon after L’Atelier’s creation, the banking Group let its customers and partners benefit from its activities. L’Atelier’s focus on emerging innovations and their significance was shared to companies and individuals. L’Atelier therefore became a place where people meet and exchange ideas while providing further insight into the implication of emerging technologies. The result ultimately translates into how ideas relate to innovation and can be applied to companies profitably.

Currently, L’Atelier continues to track developments and identify new opportunities. We are the place where companies involved in innovational projects from every business sector meet and pool their expertise.

A respected observer of developments in France, L’Atelier opened a San Francisco office in 2005 and one in Shanghai in 2007. Moving forward, L’Atelier is well positioned in the center of our changing world.

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Atelier’s Milestones
Atelier’s Network
About L’Atelier North America

1978: L’Atelier, an emerging technology future watch department, is established within Compagnie Bancaire as the banking group’s “inside evangelist.”

1983: L’Atelier introduces the first online financial service in France for the Group and its customers.

1987: L’Atelier becomes an “outside evangelist”, publishing Le Journal de l’Atelier , a new print newsletter on innovation and new technologies for professionals in such fields as finance, consulting, IT, commerce, marketing, and communications. From this point forward, it also conducts numerous information-gathering trips to the United States, Japan, and throughout Europe.

1993: L’Atelier establishes its own electronic bulletin board system, attracting over 10,000 users in this pre-IP era.

1994: L’Atelier launches its French web site www.atelier.fr , one of the very first in France.

1998: L’Atelier creates Canal Atelier, the first French-language video-streaming channel devoted to technology.

2004: L’Atelier begins broadcasting its weekly digital national radio show on new technologies. It is carried by business channel BFM.

2005: L’Atelier celebrates its 25th anniversary, and opens an office in San Francisco, California.

2006 : L’Atelier launches its English-language web site www.atelier-us.com , and develops activities focused on China and Asia (http://asie.atelier.fr/)

2007: L’atelier opens an office in Shanghai

2008: L’Atelier lunches its American weblog.

United States of America

L’Atelier North America is located in San Francisco since ‘05. Part of L’Atelier’s network (an international team of professionals with extensive experience and strategic vision headquartered in Paris with offices in San Francisco and Shanghai), L’Atelier North America specializes in helping Europe-based Companies to track down, analyze and then use information and innovation to effectively grab and retain users’ attention via the Internet.

The Internet plays the role of newspaper, TV, and radio for consumers today - combining a wide variety of information sources that people go to first as they seek to learn about new products and services.

In order to better identify and understand the specific challenges related to IT and communication technology development, L’Atelier North America will help you with tailor made business trip in the Silicon Valley and dedicated technological Intelligence and strategic studies.

L’Atelier North America is part of an advisors committee that reports directly to BNP Paribas’ executive committee dealing with online presence and Internet strategy. Subsidiaries of the BNP Paribas Group such as Cortal Consors and Cetelem have been working closely with Atelier NA to improve their innovation process and brush up their Internet strategy.

Read more about L’Atelier North America

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France

L’Atelier BNP Paribas est depuis 1978 le centre de veille technologique du groupe bancaire BNP Paribas.
Il dispose en cela d’une expertise de longue date sur les technologies émergentes et les grandes tendances de marché liées à l’usage des technologies de l’information.

Depuis 2006, ce dispositif de veille et d’analyse s’appuie sur une présence dans les grands centres régionaux d’innovation : Europe (siège à Paris), Silicon Valley (San Francisco) et Asie (bureaux à Shanghai).

L’Atelier est à la fois un forum de rencontres pour les acteurs du marché (plus de 100 événements organisés par an) et un média à vocation pédagogique destiné aux entreprises et au grand public (publication quotidienne d’articles sur le Web, émission de radio avec BFM, collaborations éditoriales avec la Presse magazine et la télévision).

L’Atelier intervient également à titre de conseil, pour BNP Paribas ou sur commande externe, dans la mise en place de projets innovants.

Plus d’informations sur L’Atelier : www.atelier.fr
Plus d’informations sur BNP Paribas : www.bnpparibas.com

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Europe

The BNP Paribas Technology Intelligence Center known as “L’Atelier BNP Paribas” was founded in 1978 to provide a place where companies from all business sectors can meet and pool their best practices in new projects and real-world deployments of IT and communication emerging technologies.

L’Atelier BNP Paribas provides local companies and IT professionals with a “knowledge-hub” in order to better identify and understand the specific challenges related to IT and communication technology development.

L’Atelier publishes market surveys to assist in the decision-making process based on real-world data collection and analysis.

Our international presence includes:
- Europe (headquarters in Paris) www.atelier.fr
- North America (office in San Francisco) www.atelier-us.com
- Asia (office in Shanghai) http://asie.atelier.fr

L’Atelier is a subsidiary of BNP Paribas, one of the largest international banking networks.

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L’Atelier BNP Paribas公司简介

L’Atelier BNP Paribas于1978年成立, 作为法国巴黎银行科技信息监测中心, 在高新科技及资讯科技应用的全球市场趋势方面拥有丰富的专业知识与了解。

继2006年开始，这个科技信息监测分析中心在大型的革新地带积极拓展国际网络 :
- 欧洲 (巴黎总部) http://www.atelier.fr
- 北美洲(旧金山办事处) http://www.atelier-us.com
- 亚洲(上海办事处) http://asie.atelier.fr

除了应对法国巴黎银行集团内部的科技需要与创新挑战，L’Atelier BNP Paribas还将协助集团外部客户，为他们分析及了解资讯科技与通讯科技发展所面对的挑战，提供崭新和有用的方案。

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Back in March, Hewlett-Packard announced a reorganization of the its labs and their 600 researchers. We caught up with Prith Banerjee (picture right), director of HP Labs, on a recent visit to the Bristol Lab.

Recruited from academia where he spent 25 years, most recently as head of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Prith Banerjee looks completely at ease in the shoes of a man who has been tasked with steering the R&D effort for one of the largest technology companies in the world.

“We are about to go through a revolution whose order of magnitude will be bigger than the disruption of the web,” he told European press and analysts during small, informal talks held at the Bristol Lab. “We have to sharpen our focus away from the past 150 smaller projects and into twenty to thirty bigger bets. Then we can put HP’s large resources behind those projects.”

The objective of the collaborative effort will be to bring technologies to market faster. “The approach of the past made sense in the past. It is not possible in today’s world when we need to bring innovation to our customers quickly.”

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