• Mobile Web Wars Starts In Two Hours

    Erick Schonfeld

    Erick Schonfeld is a technology journalist and the executive producer of DEMO. He is also a partner at bMuse, a product incubator in New York City. Schonfeld is the former Editor in Chief of TechCrunch. At TechCrunch, he oversaw the editorial content of the site, helped to program the Disrupt conferences and CrunchUps, produced TCTV shows, and wrote daily... → Learn More

    Friday, July 25th, 2008

    If you want to know where the mobile Web is going, join us here at TechCrunch at 3PM PT for the live video stream of our Mobile Web Wars Roundtable The mobile Web is finally here and developers have to choose what platform they want to bet on. Do they go with Apple’s beautiful walled garden, wait for more open Android pastures to arrive, or do they hope that Nokia figures out how to update Symbian into something that can compete with the newer platforms?

    Right now, the iPhone has the momentum and the apps. Will Apple repeat the mistakes it made in the PC era and keep its platform so tightly controlled that it will leave an opening for a more open platform to become the Windows of the mobile world. And what platform has the chops to lay claim to that title? A lot of people are hoping that will be Android, despite a lack of phones and grumbling among developers that it is not ready yet. How long does Android have to get its act together?

    We have a great panel to help answer these questions (and ask better ones). You can watch it live here on TechCrunch and ask your own questions. Twitter them in to MobileWars.

    Here’s who will be there:

    David Rivas, Nokia, Vice President of Technology Management for S60 Software
    Walt Doyle, CEO Ulocate
    Tom Conrad, CTO Pandora
    Greg Yardley, CEO of Pinch Media CEO
    Bart Decrem, CEO of Tapulous
    David Hornik, partner, August Capital
    Jed Stremel, Director of Mobile at Facebook (replacing Joe Hewitt)
    Guy Ben-Artzi, Founder of Real Dice and CEO of Mytopia
    Jason Devitt, CEO of Skydeck
    Gannon Hall, CMO of Kyte
    Sam Altman, CEO of Loopt
    Marc Davis, chief scientists of Yahoo’s mobile group
    Omar Hamoui, CEO of AdMob
    Richard Wong, partner at Accel
    Andreas Weigend, people & data (former chief scientist, Amazon)
    Tatsuki Tomita, SVP of Consumer Product, Opera
    Mike Rowehl, chief architect, SkyFire
    Mary Ann Cotter, CEO, Cooking Capsules
    John Faith , GM and VP of Mobile for MySpace

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