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Bob Iannucci, Nokia’s chief technology officer, is betting that the mobile-phone industry will soon make the same sharp turn that the mainframe, minicomputer, and PC industries took in past years: Platforms will become standardized, manufacturers will stop making incompatible hardware, and the value of software and services will soar. His job, as he sees it, is to help Nokia position itself to lead in this next phase of mobile communications.

Micronova’s Open Innovation Seminar took a detailed look at the collaborative approach of open innovation as a new way of doing research between companies, universities and research institutions, based on the mutual sharing of knowledge. As an example, Nokia started last year open innovation research collaboration with several universities, among others TKK in Finland. However, theory being easier than practice, the program was designed to examine how open innovation works in the real world of organizational, legal and cultural barriers.

Samsung solidified its position as number two handset maker behind Nokia in the first quarter of this year, with Motorola turning in another grim set of results. Nokia talked about openness and a whole new approach to handsets, while Motorola saw sales at its handset unit crash by a massive 39% year-on-year. Nokia's CTO Bob Iannucci was setting out the Finnish giant's strategy at The Mobile Future conference, sponsored by the universities of Carnegie Mellon and Berkeley. This was

Mobile phones have come a long way from Motorola's $5,000 "Brick." From reading menus to mapping your route to monitoring your health, today's tiny wonders are morphing into the ultimate lifestyle accessory. Today's mobile is not your father's telephone. As it becomes a network gateway device, it is morphing into a computer with telephony features, just as the desktop PC became a window on the world when we connected to the Internet. "We are entering a golden age of mobility,

If it's wireless, it's trendy. There's grand talk throughout the tech world about a wave of new networks and wireless innovation that will provide better Internet access, deliver streaming video and foster an array of consumer-friendly features. Although it's too early to be sure which companies or networks will be most successful, the optimists dominate the skeptics. As constantly proclaimed by industry experts at "The Mobile Future" conference in Santa Clara last week, the wireless industry is

Apple's iPhone is rightly credited as a breakthrough mobile device, but experts in mobile technology say the industry is only starting to innovate. "We're just getting starting even with three and a half billion mobile phones" already out there, said Bob Iannucci, chief technology officer and senior vice president at Nokia, during a keynote address at the Mobile Future conference here. Iannucci was one of many notable speakers at the one-day conference, sponsored in part by Carnegie Mellon's

Nokia's chief technology officer Bob Iannucci claimed at the Silicon Valley conference SOFCON that just as the IBM 360, the Digital VAX and the IBM PC delivered standard platforms in the past, the mobile world will do the same soon. Mr. Iannucci believes that the unifying platform will be built from the net down instead of a single manufacturer and that special interest will be focused on GPS, accelerometers and other technologies give handhelds and understanding of where you are

Nokia is on the side of openness in the mobile industry -- in fact, history says it's inevitable, according to, Bob Iannucci, chief technology officer of Nokia Corp. Speaking as the lunch keynote at The Mobile Future, a day-long conference sponsored by Carnegie Mellon and the University of California at Berkeley, Iannucci laid out his thoughts on how his industry has to change in order to spur the next generation of mobile demand. Openness seems paramount,

Is the mobile era, a repeat of the mainframe, the minicomputer and the PC revolutions? Very much so, says Nokia CTO, Bob Iannucci, who gave today's luncheon keynote at SOFCON 2008. For the head of Nokia's Silicon Valley Research Center, the three last high-tech revolutions followed exactly the same pattern, with 4 distinct phases: the build-up of costly and incompatible hardware; a consolidation phase with the advent of a "standard" platform;