Norman Lewis, chief strategy officer of Wireless Grids Corp., gave an interesting presentation at eComm where he showed how his company plans to liberate us from being locked into the prescribed uses of our tech gear as dictated by tech manufacturers or telecom operators.
He brought up familiar examples, like how cell phones are locked to carriers or how products from some vendors won’t work with the products of other vendors. This kind of shackle, Lewis said, runs directly counter to the current generation’s need to express itself freely.
So Syracuse, N.Y.-based Wireless Grids has created software to tie together devices of different manufacturers that run on different networks. It’s going to start testing that software in dorms at Syracuse University next week and will run the test for several months. Lewis, former head of research at French phone company Orange, disclosed that the company has a “memorandum of understanding” with Intel to work together. Read the rest of this entry »
