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Philippe Kahn

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

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Summary Successful technologisst, scientist, inventor (dozens of patents found on the patent server), 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 $320+M, then became part of Nokia) and Borland (NASDAQ: BORL) now part of Micro Focus.

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Specialties Technology innovator and visionary in the fields of telecommunications, Life-Sciences, Biotech, Sensors, Monitors, Devices and high tech.

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Experience

CEO Fullpower Technologies Telecommunications Industry 2003 – Present Fullpower is converging Wireless and Life-Sciences, building breakthrough, innovative solutions. MotionX is the leading navigation solution on the iPhone.

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.

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Education

ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Swiss Polytechnic Institute), University of Nice, France Masters, Mathematics

Zurich Music Conservatory, Switzerland Musicology and classical flute

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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

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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)

>> It looks like a bunch more have been awarded since. Maybe not worth mentioning? >>Just checked the US Patent server and there are new patents. They seem technical. HuskyMoon (talk) 12:04, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

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I think that this is a good start for Kahn's Bio. However, this is the only person that was a challege to Bill Gates and was Gates' obession for a long time. You have to remember that Kahn is the first person to give away source code for software, remove copy-protection and pave the world to open source in many ways. Gates apparently hated him for that. That's what is not coming out from this Bio. Someone needs to write that piece.

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