FCC veto of LightSquared’s plans for massive wireless network may have also put the brakes on widespread 4G deployment.

The issue of America’s crumbling infrastructure isn’t just about bridges, highways, and railroads. It’s also about the overburdened cellular networks that power our wireless broadband and have become an indispensable part of our lives and our economy.

“Everyone wants an aggressive broadband rollout and they want it quickly, but demand has accelerated to the point that innovative solutions are going to hit roadblocks like interference,” says Michael Voellinger, a vice president at the Telwares telecommunications consultancy. “We’re still dealing with an antiquated spectrum strategy, and the risk is there for some serious time and money to be wasted — which appears to be the case for LightSquared.”

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How do you expand the power and cooling capacity for an 80-year-old building with historic landmark status and limited roof space, located in the middle of a noise-sensitive neighborhood in the middle of New York City? All those challenges come together at one of the most familiar addresses in the telecom industry –60 Hudson Street.

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Heins already faces a number of significant challenges. Rim continues to struggle against rivals, especially in the US market. Product launches have been flawed, and the roadmap forward is unclear. Heins himself is seen as a fresh set of hands to run the business, but is not widely viewed as the visionary leader that RIM needs to reset the bar for a failing brand.

If Heins is to capitalize on the opportunity, and for RIM to have a genuine chance at regaining momentum, his first step will be to stabilize initiatives already underway and prevent any short term missteps. It will also be critical that Heins quickly brings serious management and creative talent to the table – quelling some of the fire sale rumors and giving shareholders confidence in a long term strategy.

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“Yahoo is the biggest turnaround challenge in the Valley. Investors want them to sell. Talent is leaving out the back door to hot start ups. Innovation appears to be lacking. Valley opinion of Yahoo has never been more negative.

Right now, Yahoo badly needs two key things: positive leadership for a team that’s been badly beaten down, and critical analysis to build a cohesive strategy that the company, investors and customers can rally around.”

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Licensing and revenue sharing details about open source webOS are yet to be announced, but look for HP to be especially flexible on both fronts. Read more here from the BBC.

Big Thinking on a Visionary Future

There is little doubt Moore’s Law is in full effect and influencing today’s business landscape. Revenues are shifting from traditional to social and self-service business models, brand influence is determined less by advertising and more by mass social sentiment, and entirely new ecosystems that drive competitive advantage are fueling non-traditional business partnerships. Given these emerging market traits, the CIO Global Forum will host a panel that includes a futurist, an economist, and a sociologist to hash through the key technological, scientific, political, cultural issues that will influence what the future looks like – from their respective point of view.

Bearing the Burden of Cyber Warfare

The bad guys are coming. They are well funded, sophisticated, relentless and targeting your infrastructure and employees to garner critical information and disrupt business continuity. They are also now empowered with additional channels of opportunity for attacks, via social and mobile platforms. CIOs are increasingly being called upon to identify points of vulnerability, invest precious budget dollars to protect critical systems, and to produce the strategies and expertise to mitigate cyber risks to the organization. This discussion will explore how CIOs are dealing with these requirements and ultimately creating a long-term cyber security strategy.

Hedging Your Bets on the Mobile Enterprise

In today’s marketplace, real mobile innovation isn’t coming from the network service providers. It’s coming from the likes of Apple, Google, Motorola, Facebook, Amazon, Samsung, and HTC. It’s driven by thousands of developers who are fueling new use cases and applications. Most important it is supported by enterprise developers – media and entertainment, energy and healthcare companies extending their products to the mobile edge. All of this innovation is ultimately being implemented by an employee and customer base that has shown their hunger, and unstoppable desire, for mobile capabilities. This discussion topic will explore how CIOs are vetting mobile platforms and form factors in defining their next-generation application, product and service delivery approach to mobile computing.

The Hidden Benefits and Pitfalls of Consumerization

The relentless drumbeat can be heard from meeting rooms, conference calls, blogs, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook around the world. Top-notch employees, empowered business units and rock star candidates are growing impatient with standard issue devices and capabilities that many enterprises still deploy. CIOs are faced with a profound dilemma: satisfy the demand for device, platform and application flexibility while mitigating the financial, operational, technical and security risks that emerge. The CIO Global Forum will present a discussion that focuses on the real-world examples of how CIOs are making the shift including business case development, properly addressing financials and existing assets, ongoing support, security, and business continuity.

Innovators and Disrupters

The marketplace is flooded with small, nimble and innovative companies that are creating the potential for significant disruption to existing ecosystems – through services, technologies and alternate business models. Making its inaugural appearance at the CIO Global Forum in 2012, this panel discussion will host three exciting startups that will discuss their approach to move the needle on innovation, and their thoughts on what will change the landscape of business opportunity.

A Recipe for Disaster, or Competitive Advantage?

Cloud computing, mobility and big data are all hot topics on the agenda of almost every enterprise CIO. As stand alone initiatives, they are significant game changers and have measurable implications to enterprise architecture and business processes. Some CIOs are taking their next-gen IT strategy a step further, and are leveraging all three to create a broader IT and business roadmap to the future. This CIO Global Forum panel discussion will identify the points of overlap, best approaches, lessons learned and value gained in dovetailing cloud, mobility, and big data into one cohesive strategy.

Loch Ness, Unicorns and Open Source

Linux may have set the standard for open source adoption, but other solutions are expanding the scope and impact of open source across enterprise architectures globally. From cloud interoperability to content management and CRM, open source is proving a viable threat to commercialized offerings. In this CIO Global Forum discussion hear from leaders on both sides of the adoption curve, and learn about the impacts to planning, innovation, speed to market and long-term strategy.

On Our Terms: CXO Perspectives on the CIO and Technology in the Enterprise

Mixed messages abound regarding the future of the CIO role. Some are reporting it will transform into an advisory position, some claim it will simply go away, and yet others claim there will be no change at all. In this panel discussion, attendees will hear perspectives from c-suite peers in marketing, finance, and operations about how technology leadership is changing today, and how it will take shape in the future.

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose,” Mr. Jobs said in a commencement speech at Stanford University in June 2005, almost a year after he was diagnosed with cancer.”

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“This time, the mania got nuclear, if such a metaphor can exist. And during the iPhone 4S reveal, I could hear my fellow journalists — and the not-journalist bloggers — mutter in our various electronic forums that the event was a letdown, boring even. Well, we let down our audiences, and ourselves, way before Apple did. Apple may have bought into the hypefest, but we ultimately created: bloggers, journalists, and readers (who create the demand, like drug addicts).”

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