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Philippe Kahn CEO at Fullpower Technologies, Inc. www.fullpower.com San Francisco Bay Area
Currently: CEO at Fullpower Technologies , Converging Wireless and Life-Sciences Companies: Fullpower Technologies; LightSurf Technologies, Inc.; Starfish Software, Inc.; Borland [BORL] Primary Industry: Telecommunications, Biotech, Life-Sciences, Software
Summary Successful repeat entrepreneur founded four leadership companies: Fullpower Technologies, Inc. ( www.fullpower.com ), LightSurf the worldwide leader in MMS solutions and services (Successfully acquired by Verisign for $300+M), Starfish Technologies, Inc. (successfully acquired by Motorola for $250+M) and Borland (NASDAQ: BORL).
Specialties Technology innovator and visionary in the fields of telecommunications, Life-Sciences, Biotech, Sensors, Monitors, Devices and high tech.
Experience
CEO Fullpower Technologies Telecommunications Industry 2003 – Present Fullpower is converging Wireless and Life-Sciences, building breakthrough, innovative solutions.
CEO LightSurf Technologies, Inc. Telecommunications Industry 1998 – December 2004 (6 years) LightSurf is the worldwide leader for MMS solutions and services, successfully acquired by Verisign for $300+M. Notably Philippe built LightSurf on retained earnings, without need to raise venture capital.
CEO Starfish Software, Inc. Telecommunications Industry 1994 – 1998 (4 years) Starfish pioneered the integration of wireless and wireline devices. The company's founding vision was: "Global synchronization and integration of wireless and wireline devices". Motorola successfully acquired Starfish for $250+M in 1998. Notably Philippe built Starfish on retained earnings, without need to raise venture capital.
CEO Borland (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; BORL) Computer Software Industry 1982 – 1994 (12 years) Founder and CEO of Borland. Built the company from startup to $500M/year run-rate and 3500+ employees. Notably Philippe built Borland on retained earnings, without need to raise venture capital.
Education
ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Swiss Polytechnic Institute), University of Nice, France Masters, Mathematics
Zurich Music Conservatory, Switzerland Musicology and classical flute
Awards Philippe Kahn has received numerous awards including his induction into the industry hall of fame, recognition by BYTE Magazine as one of the Top 20 Most Important People in the history of the computer industry, selection for Upside Magazine's Elite 100 list, as well as being the recipient of numerous awards for innovation and technical excellence.
Computer History Museum computerhistory.org September 2003 Philippe was honored for 3 decades of innovation. http://www.lightsurf.com/news/releases/pr_092303.html
International Imaging Industry Association i3a.org February 2002 Leadership of the Year Award
Additional Notes Philippe Kahn is author of dozens of patents and associated with core innovations such as:
The first non-kit personal computer The Micral was the earliest commercial, non-kit personal computer based on a micro-processor, the Intel 8008. Thi Truong developed the computer and Philippe Kahn the software. Truong, founder and president of the French company R2E, created the Micral as a replacement for minicomputers in situations that didn't require high performance. Selling for $1,750, the Micral never penetrated the U.S. market. In 1979, Truong sold Micral to Bull. http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/timeline.php?timeline_year=1973
Fundamentals of device synchronization http://www.syncml.org
Camera-Phones http://www.lightsurf.com/ The vision for the first camera-phone was formed in June 1997. Motorola worked with Philippe to build the first camera-phone. LightSurf designed, developed, and managed the service infrastructure and did the reference design for the hardware. This became a secret internal Motorola project. Sadly, later in 2001 Motorola cancelled the project which would have given them at least an 18 month lead on the industry. Mistakes happen!
Interestingly, the old Soviet KGB reconverted into an industrial information gathering organization, didn't miss a beat. Here is what they put on the web in 2000. So much for secrecy! http://news.hpc.ru/news/news2000_09_22.shtml#1043
A search of the US Patent Office database at http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html lists the following 22 patents with Philippe Kahn included amongst the inventor names (query term = IN/Kahn-Philippe$)
1 7,072,688 Enhanced companion digital organizer for a cellular phone device
2 6,825,876 Digital camera device with methodology for efficient color conversion
3 6,658,268 Enhanced companion digital organizer for a cellular phone device
4 6,647,370 System and methods for scheduling and tracking events across multiple time zones
5 D480,401 Interface for a display screen for an electronic device
6 6,505,055 Camel-back digital organizer and communication protocol for a cellular phone device
7 6,496,835 Methods for mapping data fields from one data set to another in a data processing environment
8 6,310,634 User interface methodology supporting light data entry for microprocessor device having limited user input
9 6,232,970 User interface methodology supporting light data entry for microprocessor device having limited user input
10 D441,763 Graphic user interface for an electronic device for a display screen
11 D440,585 Vertically-oriented digital camera body with top-centered shutter button
12 6,216,131 Methods for mapping data fields from one data set to another in a data processing environment
13 6,141,011 User interface methodology supporting light data entry for microprocessor device having limited user input
14 D428,399 Interface for a display screen for an electronic device
15 6,016,478 Scheduling system with methods for peer-to-peer scheduling of remote users
16 D412,323 Navigation interface for the display screen of an electronic device
17 5,845,257 System and methods for scheduling and tracking events across multiple time zones
18 5,832,473 Information management system with user data-based user interface
19 5,809,497 Databank system with methods for efficiently storing non uniforms data records
20 5,682,524 Databank system with methods for efficiently storing non-uniform data records
21 5,581,678 System and methods for automated graphing of spreadsheet information
22 5,461,708 Systems and methods for automated graphing of spreadsheet information
Chris Burrows 05:46, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
- I removed the patent claim (the claim of 150+ patents which anonymous keeps adding as well as the claim of 20 or so which anonymous keeps deleting) altogether until this is resolved. We shouldn't have a claim in the article which is contradicted by two reliable sources (Fullpower's bio page and the USPTO). Also, the {{fact}} template should be used for stuff which is merely unsourced, not believed to be incorrect. --Craig Stuntz 02:14, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
This weekend there was an interview with Kahn on NPR where he discuss the camera phone.. Very interesting.. Of course one finds many versions of history on the web. Everyone wants to claim they were the father of one of the most successful consumer devices. Having researched this thoroughly myself, the evidence overwhelmingly points to Kahn. http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/programs/2007/01/06/father_of_the_camera.html
The first Camera Phone?
A different version of events is here:
http://www.mobilityguru.com/2005/11/18/desperately_seeking_saburi/
"Internet sources, including Wikipedia, typically suggest that it was Sharp's J-SH04 that won the race for the first camera phone. Even if Sharp claims on its website that this was the first mobile phone with an "attached camera," it debuted months after the real first camera phone"
"In the end, it turned out that the first camera phone was the Kyocera Visual Phone VP-210, which was released in May of 1999 in Japan. Besides the fact that it was known to be the first video-capable cell phone, it also was the first functional camera phone for digital still photos. The device weighed in at a hefty 6 ounces, integrated a 2.0" TFT display capable of displaying 65K colors, could transmit video at two frames per second and had enough memory to store 20 still images. Back then, the VP-210 sold for 40,000 Yen or about $335."
Chris Burrows 06:44, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
75.208.162.173 12:57, 11 January 2007 (UTC)This seems to be incorrect as to the first commercial version. Let's also remember that camera-phones were described by Dick Tracy Comic Books and many science fiction writers. J-phone launched the first complete system in Japan that included Sha-Mai, which means "picture-mail" with the Sharp phone. There is reference of this at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-Phone J-phone and Kahn's company had a business relationship. Kahn spent time in Japan in 1997/98/99 evangilizing the design. J-phone saw the wisdom of the end-to-end solution. In the US Sprint launched a LightSurf-powered called PictureMail, a trademark licensed from LightSurf. In japanese Sha-Mail means Picture-Mail. There was a fairly close relationship there.
The Kyocera model was a classic video-phone for which there had been many before designed. Wireless or wireline. A pure peer to peer device as opposed to a device designed to instantly share media with the rest of the world. The quote from Saburi 'What if we were able to enjoy talking with the intended person watching his/her face on the display?' We were certain that such a device would make cell phone communications much more convenient and enjoyable." is very clear. The camera-phone is a complete end to end system with the handset that includes a camera and the server infrastructure for instantly sharing. That was what Sha-Mil did on the Kahn blueprint and the reason for its huge success. Incuding the now famous Saddam camera-phone clip taken secretely with a Nokia camera-phone and shared on the moment with the world.
[edit] Self Promotion?
Is this page purely about the self promotion of Philippe Kahn? Quite a few of the claims made on the main page have a reference - but that reference is just something like "Kahn", or "Kahn, interview" or his own web site. I don't see many external or third party references backing up any of his claims -- SteveCrook 02:34, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
I agree. I am a fan of Philippe Kahn's work, especially the time he spent at Borland, but this article does not seem very objective -- Wikiwilf 23:16, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
This is a horrible article. Mr Kahn's publicist working overtime here. Puh-lease, it makes me dislike the guy intensely and I've never even met him. This stuff lives on his personal Blog or Corporate BIO page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.6.43.59 (talk) 06:23, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
