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Mr. Jon Adams

Director, Business Development, FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.

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Council Member Biography

Jon Adams runs Business Development for the short-range wireless unit at Freescale Semiconductor Inc. He specializes in wireless, including IEEE 802.15.4, RF4CE, ZigBee, Wi-Fi, WiMax, Bluetooth, Ultra Wideband, NFC/RFID and Cellular technologies. He is experienced in systems engineering, circuit-level implementation, regulatory policy, and market strategy in the handheld, mobile connectivity, multimedia, industrial, residential control and monitoring markets. He represents Freescale within the Continua Health Alliance and is marketing chair and technical vice-chair for the ZigBee Health Care group. He is knowledgeable in the cellular, embedded control and network infrastructure markets. He is on the Board of Directors of the IEEE Industry Standards and Technology Organization, the Arizona Telecommunications and Information Council and the Arizona Repeater Association. Mr. Adams has recently been a voting member of various IEEE802 groups and is a past Vice-Chair of the ZigBee Alliance. (This is me - Update Profile)


Employment History

2008 - Unspecified
Director, Business Development, FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.
2004 - 2008
Director- Wireless Technology and Strategy, FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.
2000 - 2004
Director, Systems Engineering, Motorola
1990 - 1998
Seawinds SES/NSCAT Project Manager and Cognizant E, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
1983 - 1990
Cognizant Engineer, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory
1983 - 2000
Project Manager 2, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Netbooks Promise a Sea Change in the PC Industry

August 28, 2009

Acer Q2 results show risks of cheap netbooks | www.reuters.com

The age of high-powered, application-generic desktop and notebook PCs is giving way to smaller, lighter, more targeted netbooks that satisfy most consumers' needs.

Alphabet Soup: The ABCs of LED Backlighting for Consumer LCD TVs and Monitors

June 15, 2009

What’s an LED TV? | gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com

While LED (light emitting diode) technology is used in a number of ways in displays, the overwhelmingly common use is in backlighting of consumer LCD displays. LED backlighting provides a more power-efficient method for providing the backlight illumination that is needed to see the image created by LCD displays. LED backlighting is more power-efficient (environmentally greener), has the ability to improve dramatically the perceived performance of LCD displays, is less likely to fail catastrophically unlike traditional cold-cathode fluorescent (CCFL) backlighting, and has the added green benefit of reducing the amount of hazardous materials that are used in manufacture.

Verizon Stupid? No - Apple Smart.

July 25, 2007

Was Verizon Really Wrong To Pass On The iPhone? | telecom.seekingalpha.com

Verizon's decision to pass on the iPhone is a pragmatic battlefield decision and delaying tactic, hoping that Apple's impact on the cellular industry's walled garden concept will be minimal.   AT&T's assent to hosting the iPhone and Apple will bring valuable short-term growth, but in the longer term can further undermine the walled garden, jeopardizing the industry's ability to force consumers to accept their proprietary value-added services.   Unless someone with similar clout and consumer understanding gets into this game, Apple's ability to change the world may be limited.    

AT&T Adds Prepay Data and Messaging - So What?

June 15, 2007

AT&T Rolls Out GoPhone Pay As You Go Feature Packages | www.att.com

Why did it take AT&T so long? Billing should not be rocket science. The demand for prepay voice is well proven, SMS has been a winner for a long time; data is the biggest unknown, but MMS (photo and media) messaging could be a driver to push data volumes, but the price seems high.

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