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January 22, 2009 11:00 PM PST


Akram Shaker is an Egyptian IT engineer working in Qatar developing networks and applications to help connect branches in 37 different countries. From this perspective he is understandably interested in mobility and wireless communications. “Mobility saves time, which can mean huge amounts of money in business. It needs more attention.” Akram is also interested in assembly and microchips programming and aspires to become a microchip programmer. Horseback riding is his favorite sport. Akram’s Mobile Desk Link idea won him the popular vote in the mobile mod challenge.
 
Zi Bin Cheah is currently residing in Stockholm, Sweden, working on a Masters Degree in "Internetworking" at the Royal Institute of Technology. When he’s not coding or studying, he’s playing squash, basketball or jogging. He’s a great proponent for the future of wireless. Zi Bin ponders whether "the trend is for all wired stuff to become unwired, and all wireless stuff to become wired again." As for mobile devices such as phones, he’s still wondering whether 3G will lead or follow WiMAX. His Mobile Mod idea that won him $200.
 
Bernard Lim is a full time MBA student at Multimedia University in beautiful Malaysia. He's a sports fan who enjoys soccer and listening to music. Current interests are in Web Technology Mashups and Networking. He's involved in many new things including mobility. He had a winning entry in the Mobile Mod Challenge.
 
João Charles Carvalho is a student of Information Systems at Strayer University. Originally from Brazil, João has been working on software for the Pocket PC and other wireless technologies. He works in .Net, Java and has recently started using C++ to create natives libraries. He enjoys getting creative with the UMPC and is working on new ideas for applications everyday. His idea won João $200!
 
Mardav Wala is a full-time Doctoral student currently enrolled in the Electrical & Computer Engineering program at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. His research interests include wireless networks, microwave circuits and Ultra-Wideband (UWB) systems. He enjoys C and assembly language programming and his current work involves FPGA implementation of UWB systems. His entry was in the Mobile Mod Challenge.
 
Christophe Leske is a french-german multimedia and application developer with a hinge for 3d, Lingo, Actionsript, Python, C# and C++. He recently developed the TDKXtra* a code extension for the multimedia creation tool, Adobe Director*. View a demo of the Xtra at www.director3d.de*. And check out his website, www.multimedial.de*
 
Toblo from the DigiPen Institute of Technology
The Toblo team, winners of the “Best Game on the Go” category at the Intel Game Demo Contest 2006, demonstrated creative uses for in-game battery/power state monitoring, by making adjustments to the game elements like particles depending on available battery power. See their work at http://toblo.csnation.net/about.html*.

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