Karl McCabe is Chief Technology Officer at Rococo Software, a Dublin-based wireless Java company. McCabe was formerly responsible for the development of the Java product line at IONA Technologies and he has worked in various technical roles at IONA and ICL. He has helped to build and deploy distributed systems for many Fortune 500 companies, and his current interest is in extending the reach of these systems out to mobile devices.
In the dense forest of emerging computing trends, technologies, and hyped
life-changing applications, there are two developments that stand taller than
the rest. In isolation, these two trends are having a huge impact on users -
both individuals and corporations. However, there is rich potential at the
intersection of these two developments for a significant step forward in the
way we use and implement computing devices and applications. These two trends
are the ubiquity of mobile personal computing devices and the emergence of
peer-to-peer computing architectures.
The proliferation of mobile computing devices hardly needs further
documentation here - we're all aware of the sheer volume of mobile phones,
PDAs, mobile pagers, and other assorted gadgetry that exists in the world. We
watched as each "must-have" feature queued up to gain user acceptance. Some
succeeded... (more)
Karl McCabe is Chief Technology Officer at Rococo Software, a Dublin-based wireless Java company. McCabe was formerly responsible for the development of the Java product line at IONA Technologies and he has worked in various technical roles at IONA and ICL. He has helped to build and deploy
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