WIP Welcomes the WCA (Wireless Communications Alliance) of San Jose to the Partnership!

Founded in 1993, the WCA is a Silicon Valley-based, nonprofit corporation dedicated to the mutual benefit of Northern California companies and organizations involved in wireless communication technologies. WCA addresses over 2000 individuals and 350+ companies and organizations. The goals of the WCA are to promote education, networking, and exchange of non-proprietary information; increase awareness of Northern California's vast wireless capabilities; and assist a broad spectrum of companies, including start- ups.

The WCA organizes monthly meetings with presentations on a wide spectrum of topics including the technical and marketing aspects of wireless products and services, regulatory issues, wireless standards and investor-driven wireless market analysis.

Find out more at: www.wca.org
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CAMBRIDGE WIRELESS features ANTENOVA
Antenova, is a leading developer and supplier of high performance antennas and RF antenna modules for mobile handsets, portable devices and laptop computers.. more

MX ALLIANCE of Scotland features EXMOS
Exmos, develops mobile application software, including text messaging and secure mobile data access systems. Their flagship product is the Communitext Portal, allowing companies to mobile- enable their products and services. more

TORINO WIRELESS (Turin, Italy) features the European Mobility Forum ? ICT Solutions For Sustainable Mobility in Turin, April 11 and 12. more

WINBC features IN MOTION TECHNOLOGY
In Motion Technology, provides cognitive wireless systems enabling public safety organizations to communicate life-critical information while in motion. more

WSA features CERIUM NETWORKS
Cerium Networks provides a full range of voice, data and video solutions with professional services that focus on delivering value to our customers. more

WCA features NOVARUM
Novarum, provides strategic consulting and analysis for the wireless broadband industry. Our focus is on Wi-Fi, WiMAX and 3G cellular data. We also selectively cover UWB, Bluetooth and other wireless technologies. more

WIP partners with wireless organizations and associations around the world - see them featured on the Partner Page of the website. Every month we feature the associations, their events or activities and their members online and in the newsletter. Ask your organization to partner with WIP today!

Every month, WIP chooses a theme - a technology, vertical market or a combination of both. WIP members who reflect that theme are featured, (based on key words they have chosen for their WIPConnector profile).

The April Member theme is: Medical Solutions.
Thanks to Clay Braziller for sharing insight into this market for us.

There is no need to explain to this audience about the effect wireless devices have had on our lives. However I would bet that not many people have an understanding of how the technology is completely changing the medical industry. For instance, there are implantable pacemakers that have built in GSM (www.middleeasthealthmag.com/jan2005/ article1.htm). Prior to this your doctor would base the tuning of the pacemaker on historical data or no data at all. Now the tuning is based on data sent by the pacemaker. This alone will save the medical system millions of dollars in the reduction of emergency hospital visits. Today the Cardiac Rhythm Market (CRM) market is worth over $8 billion and is expected to grow by 20% each year.

In the implantable world a pacemaker is considered mundane. A little more on the edge is a recent announcement by EaglePicher Medical Power of a new battery that is the size of a grain of rice (www.mtbeurope.info/news/2007/703017.htm). It powers a cardiac monitoring device so small it can be inserted in an artery and will, for 10-15 years, broadcast the condition of a person?s heart. Of course the challenge of imbedding an antenna with the power controls and the logics in a package that is the size match stick has enormous challenges (www.devicelink.com/mem/archive/05/04/004.h tml).

Wireless is not only saving heart attack victims it is also eliminating the errors caused by giving someone the wrong blood (www.intel.co m/it/pdf/rfid3.pdf). Not surprisingly the ability to achieve such brilliant results is completely transforming how hospitals handle everything from x- rays to patient tracking. This is also a multi billion dollar industry as institutions race to digitalize their networks and operations.

As we move forward we will begin to hear more about the Personal Area Network (PAN) which is being used for disposable medical devices. Or how blue tooth is being built into implantables. The best way to get involved is to monitor the industry publications and get a feeling for who is developing product in your space then contact the company directly. There are two good journals to watch for industry news and to track innovation in wireless implantable medical devices: Medical News Today or for information on the use of wireless in hospitals visit Canadian Healthcare Technology.

Clay Braziller - Is a marketing and sales executive in the medical device industry. He may be reached at clay@braziller.com and wirelessly at 604- 961-6360.

Here is a listing of WIP members with Medical Solutions:

Real Time Engineering - Customer self- care. more

Argyll Telecom - Argyll Telecom is a systems integrator and service provider recognised as the UK market leader with solutions applied to the monitoring of personal wellbeing, Health & Safety and the management of mobile human resources. more

Wireless 2000 - Wireless 2000 is emerging as a world leader in medical, Search & Rescue and security applications of UWB technology.. more

CareConnect - Integration of telemedicine into everyday health care delivery. more

VaaSah - An innovator in the field of intelligent healthcare solutions for patients at home. more

Techneos - The "Powered by Techneos" program enables organizations to build sophisticated survey research solutions based on the Entryware software platform (Health Care) more

Mobile Reach Media Inc. - EchoAlert is a patent-pending platform, geared primarily towards the biosciences industry, which has been designed to allow pharmaceutical companies to remotely monitor patient activities in order to ensure that they are complying with certain activities more

For more information on these companies and others visit:
the WIPConnector Directory.

Upcoming Themes:
May - Usability
June - Broadband

WIP attendees receive 20 % discount. Please mention WIP when you register.

Meet Latin American & US Carriers, Music Labels and Aggregators
in Latin Mobile and Digital Music Summit.

April 23 and 24, 2007 - Miami
The conference for the mobile and digital music business in Latin America and the US Hispanics communities .

Meet Latin American & US Carriers, Music Label and Aggregators in Latin Mobile and Digital Music Summit Join Vivo, TIM, Cingular Wireless, Movistar Chile, Brasil Telecom, OI, MTV Latin America, Sony BMG, Warner and many other US & Latin American operators and companies in the only conference addressing the business issues related to the mobile & digital music industry in the Americas.

For more information visit www.latinmobile.frecuenciaevents.com/ or call us at +1-305-567-2492.

Issues which will be addressed:
- Music fans are streaming videos and paying to download them in their phones and other digital devices in Europe and USA. What is the case in Latin America?
- US Hispanic music market, opportunities and how to reach it .
- Record companies are trying to find revenues in digital music to compensate for the fall in the sales of CD. What mobile marketing opportunities in music are being deployed in Latin America?
- Will mobile music converge in the wireless phone or diverge into different devices?
- The importance of hardware vendors to offer operators and consumers with devices that are technological advanced yet at an affordable price for Latin America challenged economies.
- Legal issues concerning digital music and use of DRM.
- In Latin America, the second largest category in mobile data will continue to be ringtones, though by 2010 they will generate just 15% of the revenue obtained from SMS.

Orange Partner Camp, Cape Canaveral, 16-18 April 2007.
Places for the event, as always, are limited, and this will be the only opportunity to attend an Orange Partner Camp in 2007!

Take one small step to Orange Partner Camp, Cape Canaveral and make one big step for your business!

If you're a:
- business or consumer downloadable applications provider
- service enabler or platform provider
- converged service or solution provider
- service publisher
- service aggregator
- systems integrators or ISV

If you're interested in finding out exactly how you can work with Orange in the new converged marketplace, take a look at the website: www.orangepartnercamp.com to find out more and register.

Yet again, Orange has kept the price low, at $595 for three days and two nights, together with food and entertainment. Orange Partner Camp is not an opportunity for Orange to make money ... as an Operator, they need your help to provide their customers with innovative products and services, that's why the cost to you is so low.

If you'd like to get some valuable eye-time with key decision-makers from Orange and the France Telecom Group you will be able to present your product, service or company by participating in the Speed Dating, Orange Innovation Contest and 1-2- 1s.

Joining Orange will be their sponsors; ACCESS (platinum), Nokia, Symbian, UIQ (gold), Microsoft Windows, Navteq, Sun Microsystems and Sybase (silver), all in informal and relaxed atmosphere.

WIP is keeping on top of the industry for you, so we thought we'd share this month's WIPCloud with you to give you a taste of the key words being searched in the WIPConnector Directory. You can login as a GUEST anytime for fast access to partners, investors and customers. PS Did you know we licensed a social networking tool, turning a typical flat directory into something something dynamic and really functional!

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THE TOP THREE SIGNIFICANT WORD SEARCH IN THE WIPCONNECTOR:
- Video
- Wifi
- Consumer

WHO IS READING ABOUT WIP PARTNERS AND MEMBER COMPANIES:
- Senior executives in over 25 countries such as China, Korea, Thailand, Russia, Germany, India, Scotland, Canada to name a few.
- Carriers such as Orange, Cingular, Verizon, British Telecom, O2, Bell, Telus
- Investors in Silicon Valley, Europe and more
- Big players in the wireless and mobile value chain such as Access, Navteq, Sybase, Nokia, Ericsson, RIM, Motorola, Symbian, UIQ

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