Microsoft’s Ken Pawlak on HSPA or Mobile Broadband PCs Part-2
By kamla bhatt • Nov 22nd, 2007Category: Business & Tech, Featured, Ideas, Internet & Telecom, USA
Where is the market for the yet to be released HSPA or mobile broadband PCs that GSM and Microsoft are promoting?
In Part-2 of our conversation Ken Pawlak of the Unlimited Potential Group of Microsoft talks about where those markets are. Unsurprisingly the Asia Pacific region and specifically, India provide a huge potential market for mobile broadband PCs. Do you need 3G networks to connect to your mobile broadband laptop? Tune in to find out what Ken has to say.
Kamla Bhatt is the host and producer of an Internet Radio show where listeners can find stories about the new and emerging India and the global Indian community. As a pioneer of 'internet radio' format in India Kamla started her first show News about India, followed by TalkNewsIndia in 2005. In 2006 she premiered her new show: The Kamla Bhatt Show: Life, People and Ideas. 
[...] The other buzz word that I have heard as a constant refrain is emerging markets. This is almost a mantra among mobile folks that includes major companies and entrepreneurs. How can India be a hub for emerging markets? At the GSM Asian Mobile Conference in Macau earlier this month a central point of discussion was: how do you tap into and do business in emerging markets? David Ko of Yahoo talks about their mobile strategy in Asia and India is a big part of it. Ken Pawlak of Microsoft talks about the yet-to-be-released Mobile Broadband laptops and India is a big part of it. Or, Shantanu Narayen, CEO of Adobe shares his thoughts about how they want to tap into the mobile opportunities in India. [...]