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The Career Path of a palmOne Executive

By Ken Wirt | PalmOne: PDAs as Convergent Devices Lecture 1 of 16

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Lecture Description

Ken Wirt, senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing at palmOne, graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in the psychology of kinetic media - the evolution of how one media, such as television, turns into another, like computers.  He worked for a couple small companies before attending business school at Stanford.  He then got into computers at Atari, handheld devices at Apple, and online music at a startup called Riffage.com.  Following this, he came to Palm Inc., which is now palmOne.

Course Index

  1. The Career Path of a palmOne Executive
  2. The Convergence of Technology
  3. Examples of When Convergence Works and When it Does Not
  4. Historical Example of Convergence - Steam Powered Factory.
  5. Distributed Computing Became an Appliance
  6. From Revolution to Evolution
  7. From Convergence to Appliance
  8. The Future of Appliances
  9. Future of PDAs as Convergent Devices
  10. Growth Prospects for PDAs and for PalmOne
  11. How PalmOne Evaluates What Customers Want
  12. International Markets
  13. Convergence of PDAs with Automobiles
  14. Is PalmOne Focusing on Business or Personal Segments?
  15. PalmOne and Palm Source
  16. How Do You Compete Against More Established Competitors?
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