Richard Kinder is Vice President of Technology for Red Bend Software, where he leads the company's technology strategy. He has been involved in the software industry since the age of fourteen. Whilst in education he worked on everything from early 32-bit computer games to creating visualization software in Java. Upon leaving university in 1992 he joined Sun Microsystems where he moved from being a distributed systems expert to the fledgling JavaSoft Europe sales team. Other roles include being one of the first technology managers at Symbian responsible for parts of the early technology strategy of that organization. He holds a B.Sc (Hons) in Chemistry from Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine.
Google and Apple's publicized emergence onto the scene of the mobile industry is the latest consequence of the mobile phone becoming a best-selling device and a driver of growth in the telecom industry. All the big PC and Internet players want a piece of the pie, and IT industry pundit...
Feb. 15, 2008 04:15 PM EST Reads: 4,359
