In the mid 1990s, three on-ramps led us on to the information superhighway: AOL, Prodigy and CompuServe. For a monthly fee, users were served up a customized version of the Web offered by one of these network providers. They took a walled garden approach, offering applications only through their services and limiting e-mails within their … Continue reading “Wireless 2.0: Vicious to Virtuous?”
Author: Dave Grannan
Dave Grannan is the president and CEO of Vlingo (www.vlingo.com), which lets people control their mobile phones with the power of voice. Prior to Vlingo, Dave was a general manager with Nokia, where he led the company’s entry into the mobile email market. He started his career in the U.S. Marine Corps where he led a unit responsible for the deployment of spread spectrum wireless position location systems in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm in Kuwait and Iraq. He holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.