October 2004

25 Oct 16 Applications Submitted in the First RFP on Wireless and Mobile Applications for The Cyberport 3G Community Project

20 – 21 Oct 16 Members Companies and HKWDC Participated into 1st Huawei SP/CP/ISP Collaboration Forum in ShenZhen

19 Oct Overwhelming Response in New Approach of Thematic Seminar Targeting Retail Industry

September 2004

11- 12, 25 – 26 Sept HKWDC Promotes the Awareness and Usage of Wireless and Mobile Development in the “IT Roving Show 2004” Organized by HKCS and OGCIO of HKSAR (3rd Round at 11- 12 Sept 04, 4th Round at 25 – 26 Sept 04)

August 2004

3 Aug Full House in Thematic Seminar - Integrate the Enterprise with Mobile & Wireless Applications

31 Jul ¡V 1Aug HKWDC Promotes the Awareness and Usage of Wireless and Mobile Development in the ¡§IT Roving Show 2004¡¨ Organized by HKCS and OGCIO of HKSAR (1st Round in 31 Jul ¡V 1 Aug 04)

June 2004

30 Jun Overwhelming Response to June’s Thematic Seminar “2004 Vendor Updates on Wireless and Mobile Technology and Development Tools”

29 – 30 Jun HKWDC Supporting in m-Government Symposium at HKCEC

3 - 4 Jun Overwhelming Response and Participation of HKWDC Members in the Professional VAS Training in ShenZhen

May 2004

19 May   Successful Sharing Experience on "Mobile Security Management" Thematic Seminar

Apr 2004

30 Apr Successful Sharing Experience on “Location Based Services” Thematic Seminar

14-17 Apr 2004 HKWDC and 14 Member Companies Participated in International ICT Expo 2004 to Promote Wireless and Mobile Applications

Mar 2004

25 - 26 Mar 2004 Experience and Knowledge Sharing with Telecom Delegates from Mainland China

25 Mar 2004 Overwhelming Response on “TELECOMS INFOTECHNOLOGY FORUM” at Mandarin Oriental Hotel

20 Mar 2004 New Wireless and Mobile Applications Displayed in Showcase Area of Centre

18 Mar 2004 Achievements on RFID Conference Jointly Organized by HKPC and HKWDC

Feb 2004

27 Feb 2004 Thematic Seminar on “Exploring Wireless Business Opportunity with the Government”

2-22 Feb 2004 Radio Promotion of Hong Kong Wireless Development Centre on Commercial Radio Supported by ITSD

4 – 20 Feb 2004 Visit by Government ITMUs

19 Feb 2004 Media Visit to HKWDC

Jan 2004

19 Jan 2004 KSAR and Canada ICT Collaboration, MOU Signing Ceremony cum
Seminar on Best Practices in Commercialization of Wireless and Digital Content Technologies

Dec 2003

15 Dec 2003 Opening Ceremony of Hong Kong Wireless Development Centre

16 Applications Submitted in the First RFP on Wireless and Mobile Applications for The Cyberport 3G Community Project

RFP for mobile application implemented in Cyberport 3G Project has been released to wireless and mobile developers on 15 Oct 2004 and a briefing session with over 30 interested companies have been conducted in Cyberport for detail explanation on project. Tender will be closed at 25 Oct 2004. WTIA got the overwhelming response with 16 applications in the requested areas of “3G Mobile Carpark”, “Cyberport 3G Portal” and “Cyberport 3G LED” at closing date. The evaluation team will release the awarded companies in early Nov 2004.

16 Members Companies and HKWDC Participated into 1 st Huawei SP/CP/ISP Collaboration Forum in ShenZhen

31 industry representatives from 16 member companies and HKWDC have participated into 2-day collaboration forum and discussion panels with over 50 Chinese companies in SP, CP and ISP nature in Huawei Technologies Company Limited at 20 – 21 Oct 04. This is the first business matching activity jointly organized by Huawei Technologies and HKWDC to breakthrough the communication gap between SP/CP/ISP of Hong Kong and China . Through the arrangement of HKWDC, local wireless and mobile developers have a communication platform to p romote interactive exchange and cooperation among companies. It has also fostered the partnership between local SP/CP/ISP and Huawei. In the business perspective, there is a great potential on business deals for HK developers since Huawei released the details of planned projects in the coming year of 2005. 4 out of 16 local companies have presented their solutions to senior management of Huawei and SP/CP/ISP in China .

Overwhelming Response in New Approach of Thematic Seminar Targeting Retail Industry

Over 70 attendants, half of them are end-users from Retail Industry had shown up in Thematic Seminar at 19 Oct 04 held by HKWDC, HKPC and RTIA. The seminar highlighted how mobile technologies and applications specialized for merchants to re-engineer their marketing strategy; promote their products and services to target customers. Beside the presentations from solution providers such as Lobo Limited and AsiaPay (Hong Kong) Limited, we are honored to invite chairman of Hong Kong Retail Technology Industry Association and CEO of Cheong Hing Store Limited as representatives from Retail Industry to share their experiences on adopting wireless and mobile technologies in their environment.

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HKWDC Promotes the Awareness and Usage of Wireless and Mobile Development in the “IT Roving Show 2004” Organized by HKCS and OGCIO of HKSAR (3rd Round at 11- 12 Sept 04, 4th Round at 25 – 26 Sept 04)

HKWDC and its members (Brightex Technology Limited, Lobo Limited, CityCom Technology Limited) had been invited by OGCIO of HKSAR to participate in the “IT Roving Show 2004” taken place at Public Estate. The 3rd and 4th round had been exhibited successfully in 11 – 12 and 25 – 26 Sept 04 at Tin Shui Wai and Tze Wan Shan respectively)
More than 1000 guests circulated in the booths of HKWDC to visualize the means and benefits by adoption of the latest wireless technologies and services in their daily live. The booth of HKWDC had demonstrations on mobile email, messaging and mobile multi-media monitoring system as well as interactive games special designed for mass market to attract uncountable audiences.


3 Aug Full House in Thematic Seminar - Integrate the Enterprise with Mobile & Wireless Applications

Over 60 attendants had shown up in Thematic Seminar on 3 Aug 04 held by HKWDC and HKPC. The seminar highlighted how companies and industries could utilize wireless technologies, especially on the areas of ¡§Mobile Email¡¨, ¡§Mobile Messaging¡¨ and ¡§Mobile Workforce¡¨ to drive down costs, increase revenue and improve customer satisfaction. The integration methodology of wireless and mobile into existing IT platform had also been discussed in seminar.

Organizer : Hong Kong Wireless Development Centre (HKWDC)

Co-organizer : Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC)

Date & Time : 3 Aug 2004, 2:15 pm ¡V 5:30 pm

Venue : 1/F., HKPC Building

Speakers:

Emerging Technologies and Business Opportunities for Mobile Workforce Management - Mr Wilton Fok, Manager, E-Business Technology Institute (ETI), The University of Hong Kong

Achieve Business Process Efficiency Gain Through Mobile Office, Workflow Management & Mobile Workforce Management Solutions of iContact ¡V Mobile Suite TM & iContact ¡V Business Process Suite TM ¡V Ms Amanda Lim, General Manager, Winet Limited

Business and Productivity Growth with Sophisticated Mobile Email - BlackBerry ¡V Mr Dolphin Ip, Product Development Manager, Hong Kong CSL Limited

Business Generation in Innovative eMobile WorkForce Management ¡V Mr Dennis WK Leung, President, CSL Cosmos Solutions Limited

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HKWDC Promotes the Awareness and Usage of Wireless and Mobile Development in the ¡§IT Roving Show 2004¡¨ Organized by HKCS and OGCIO of HKSAR (1st Round in 31 Jul ¡V 1 Aug 04)

HKWDC and its members (Brightex Technology Limited, Lobo Limited, CityCom Technology Limited) had been invited by OGCIO of HKSAR to participate in the ¡§IT Roving Show 2004¡¨ taken place at Residential Plaza . The 1st round had been exhibited successfully in 31 Jul ¡V 1 Aug at Yau Tong, Lei Yue Mun Plaza .

More than 500 residents in Yau Tong district had visited the booths of HKWDC, HP, Microsoft, HKCS etc. to visualize the benefits and means to adopt the latest wireless technologies and services in their daily live. The booth of HKWDC had demonstrations on mobile email, messaging and mobile multi-media monitoring system as well as interactive games special designed for mass market to attract uncountable audiences.

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Overwhelming Response to June’s Thematic Seminar “2004 Vendor Updates on Wireless and Mobile Technology and Development Tools”

June’s Thematic Seminar was successfully organized by HKWDC and HKPC on 30 Jun 2004 . Major IT vendors presented the latest technologies, development platform and plug-in modules for the needs of wireless and mobile applications development. We were honored to have the following speakers:

• Ms. Do-Young Im, Principal Technical Account Manager, BEA System Limited, “BEA's Mobile Services Delivery Platform”
• Mr. Victor Hui, Senior System Consultant, Sun Microsystems of California Limited, “Extending Your Enterprise Application into the Wireless”
• Ms Kitty Ng, Channel Marketing Manager, Metrowerks Hong Kong Limited, “CodeWarrior Development Tools for Symbian OS”
• Mr Thomas So, Business Development Director, Asia Pacific, Sybase Hong Kong Limited, “Development Platform for the Mobile & Wireless Solutions”

The event focused on upcoming technology and application opportunities as well as the most futuristic technology of on the market today and tomorrow. The goal was to unite the wide variety of industries employing wireless data solutions by encouraging the exchange of ideas, partnerships, and collaboration. To participate in this value-added, interactive business event providing significant insight on the most provocative policy issues facing in the Wireless and other related industries today. Also gave an excellent opportunity to learn what technologies and partnerships are necessary to create compelling consumer and business user solutions.

Nearly 50 attendants such as CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, VPs, Directors of IT, Network Managers, IT Managers, Application Developers and all IT professional participator in vertical industries participated in discussion with live demonstration provided.

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Presentation:

BEA System Limited, “BEA's Mobile Services Delivery Platform”

Sun Microsystems of California Limited, “Extending Your Enterprise Application into the Wireless”

Metrowerks Hong Kong Limited, “CodeWarrior Development Tools for Symbian OS”

HKWDC Supporting in m-Government Symposium at HKCEC

HKWDC promoted its objectives, roles and facilities to various government bureaux and departments in jointly organizing the m-Government Symposium at HKCEC on 29 – 30 Jun. 20 vendors and wireless developers exhibited their core applications to government audiences to illustrate how to adopt wireless and mobile technologies in daily operation and increasing customer services. More than 300 attended the Symposium.

Mr. Alan Wong of HKSAR and Mr. Stephen Lai of HKWDC delivered the welcome and opening speeches. Besides, our Technical Director, Mr. KW Au gave a presentation on the topic of “User Perspectives of Wireless and Mobile Technologies”.

Presentation:

“User Perspectives of Wireless and Mobile Technologies” Mr KW Au, Technology Director of Hong Kong Wireless Development Centre

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Overwhelming Response and Participation of HKWDC Members in the Professional VAS Training in ShenZhen

Around 60 attendants from China Mobile, China Unicom, Services Providers (SP) and VAS Developers in difference provinces of Mainland China grouped together for the 2 nd Telecom VAS Professional Training in ShenZhen on 3-4 June 2004. HKWDC was a co-organizer of this training course. Amongst the participants include 6 representatives from 3 HKWDC member companies, namely iNFOiSLIVE, Lobo and Swiftpath. They all found this training course rewarding to them.

The training was designed for representatives from the Mainland Chinese Government, operators, educational institutes and VAS providers to share experience on VAS development in Mainland China and Hong Kong . It was also an immeasurable opportunity for business matching across the border.

The following honorable speakers on different topics have been invited for the training course:

• 增值業務市場與價值鏈分析 --- 唐守廉 , 北京郵電大學經濟管理學院副院長 、教授 、博士生導師 , 資訊產業部通信科學技術委員會諮詢專家 – 中國電信國家法之演變 、增值業務之最高定義及與價值鏈之關係
• 香港增值業務營銷運作 --- 楊品賢 , 香港數碼通電訊有限公司副總經理及 葉偉光 , 和記環球電訊中國業務及規管事務部總經理 – 香港增值業務之發展策略、服務種類與思路
• 行業增值業務運營 --- 程明光 , 中企網絡通信技術有限公司戰略發展副總裁 – 資訊化應用結構、演變過程及應用實例分析
• 移動互聯網增值 --- 謝峰 , 卓望科技集團公司首席執行官 - 移動數據及增值業務之管理

The course was followed by a visit to Huawei Technologies Company Limited ( 華為技術有限公司 ). The representatives from Huawei introduced their latest WCDMA technology, core products and related services. Moreover, HKWDC members were invited to share experience and foster partnerships in the business matching dinner with mobile and wireless industry players from Mainland China .

Full set of training materials in hardcopies are now available at Centre for the reference by HKWDC members. Interested parties please feel free to come and read them at our centre.

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Successful Sharing Experience on " Mobile Security Management " Thematic Seminar

The 3 rd Thematic Seminar on Mobile Security Management was held on 19 May 2004 successfully. Nearly 100 attendants were updated of various types of mobile security technologies and applications available in market for different industries.

We had the honor to invite representatives from the Bank of East Asia, SmarTone, Issentic Technology and MobileTech to share their views on mobile security and mobile commerce in the presentation and the panel discussion that followed.

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Thematic Seminar on “Location Based Services” Jointly Organized by HKWDC and HKPC

The 2nd Thematic Seminar on “Location Based Services” had been organized on 30 Apr 2004 successfully. Nearly 100 attendants had been refreshed in various types of location based technology and applications available in market. Moreover, QUALCOMM had presented the potential, trend and applications of Location Based Technology in the China market. Several companies are interested in further discussion in GPS projects with HKWDC and technology partners

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Presentations:

• Dr Karl R P H Leung, HKIVE (Tsing Yi) – An Accurate Low Cost Mobile Location Estimation System (MLES)
• Richwap Company Limited – Mobile Field Force Solutions Using LBS
• Mr Ricky Siu, Senior Manager, New Technologies – Comparison of Location Tracking Technology
• QualComm – QualComm gpsOne Positioning System and its Applications in China Market
  

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HKWDC and 14 Member Companies Participated in International ICT Expo 2004 to Promote Wireless and Mobile Applications

Hong Kong Wireless Development Centre (HKWDC) and 14 member companies

• AsiaPay (HK) Limited
• AT Group Limited
• CSL Cosmos Solutions Limited
• Cytrix Technologies Limited
• Fortune Time Technology Limited
• Halo Systems Limited
• Issentic Technologies Limited
• Kingsmith AirData Limited
• Lobo Limited
• Mobile Gamer Limited
• Objective Solutions Limited
• Synergy Technologies (Asia) Limited
• Telewide Enterprises Limited
• Unitech Networks Limited

had participated in the “Telecom Services, Mobile & Wireless Technologies” zone with other exhibitors to demonstrate and disseminate the latest local wireless and mobile applications in the areas of

• mobile games and entertainment contents
• wireless enterprises applications
• wireless security applications
  

Besides demonstration, visitors had grasped the up-to-date information on market and technology in wireless pavilion. It was a golden chance to foster partnership and expand the business network in local and overseas markets since a pool of potential buyers had attended ICT Expo 2004.

It was honour having Mr John Tsang, Secretary of CITB, HKSAR with government officials in VIP tour to visit “Telecom Services, Mobile & Wireless Technologies” zone. It has noticeable that the Government has paid great attention on HKWDC and the development of the wireless industry.

In meanwhile, ITSD and HKWDC representatives had escorted more than 10 media visiting the booths of our member companies. The media showed a great interest on their mobile applications and many of our members had been interviewed instantly to gain a media exposure.

Mr Stephen Lai, the centre director of HKWDC had been invited to deliver a speech in Thematic Seminar - “Wireless Enterprises – Making it Real for Business Efficiency” in the morning on 15 April 2004. His topic was “Tapping on Wireless for Business Efficiency and Competitiveness – Hong Kong Case Studies” to share the experiences and address the impacts on adoption of wireless technology and applications in Hong Kong companies.

It was star-stubbed in pavilion and all visitors had a great enjoyment in the tour and refreshment on knowledge and news in wireless and mobile technologies and applications

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#Advertisement in “Fair Daily” distributed in ICT Expo 2004
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Mr Stephen Lai, Centre Director of HKWDC – Wireless and Mobile Solutions for Hot Industries: Finance, Tourism and Logistics

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and a tour visit by 100 guests to HKWDC in the afternoon, 6 out of 13 newly recruited HKWDC members displayed their latest wireless applications in areas of :

• Mobile Workforce Management
• Automatic Speech Recognition
• Mobile Email and Messaging Platform Management
• Mobile Multi-Media Monitoring
• Mobile Security Management

Honourable speakers including representatives from government, operators and regional alliances had been invited to deliver key messages, including the following:

• Mr Ted Matsumoto, President of Qualcomm, Japan
• Mr Bruce Hicks, Group Managing Director, Sunday
• Mr Mike Robey, Chief Operating Officer, HKCSL
• Ms Helena Lee, Director of Services Planning, Hutchison
• Mr Horden Wiltshire, Chief Executive Officer, M-Net, Adelaide
• Mr MH Au, Director General, OFTA
• Mr Alan Wong, Director of Information Technology Services

and more …

#Program rundown
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Mr John Rutherford, Invest HK – “Hong Kong Advantage”
Mr M H Au, OFTA – “ Hong Kong’s Telecoms Advantages”
Mr Alan Wong, ITSD – Wireless / Mobile Technology and Services in Hong Kong
Mr Stephen Lai – Roles of Hong Kong Wireless Development Centre, HKWDC in supporting the regional wireless & mobile applications development opportunities

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#Evaluation Report
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New Wireless and Mobile Applications Displayed in Showcase Area of Centre

Recognizing the promotional value of our Centre, more developers have submitted new wireless and mobile applications to be displayed in our kiosks, to promote their products and services to local and overseas visitors. New applications include:

• Mobile Intelligent Home
• Open-platform for Mobile, Multimedia and Internet
• Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Technology Application
• Integrated Multi-platform Mobile Email

We welcome all of you to take a visit and it’s a great opportunity to foster the partnership with industry players and explore more potential customers through frequent visits.



Achievements on RFID Conference Jointly Organized by HKPC and HKWDC

Apart from the RFID Conference held on 18 Mar 2004, HKWDC has signed a MOU with IBM to set up a trial RFID platform in our Development Suites. We are discussing the testing model and system requirements to provide the best stimulation environment for our members to develop, integrate and test newly developed RFID applications. We will update the progress to all of you very soon. Interested parties, you can contact Mr. Michael Chan for further collaboration.



Thematic Seminar on “Exploring Wireless Business Opportunity with the Government”

In 2004, we assisted our members to explore business opportunities in Government sector as well as familiar on the mechanism to access procurement information of HKSAR and the direction of IT planning of HKSAR in Year 2004. Hong Kong Wireless Development Centre (HKWDC) held a thematic seminar with ITSD of HKSAR on 27 Feb 2004 at ITSC Technology Centre at Cyberport.
Nearly 100 audiences from IT and wireless professionals had attended the seminar. The audiences had presented their opinions on existing mechanism and raised out many enquiries to government IT direction.

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Presentation:

• Mr Frankie Fong – Yearly Plan on Promotion of Wireless and Mobile Technology Adoption by the Government
• Mr Michael Chan – Introduction of HKWDC and Yearly Promotion and Awareness Programs

Radio Promotion of Hong Kong Wireless Development Centre on Commercial Radio Supported by ITSD

To echo the support of Government on Hong Kong Wireless Development Centre to promote the awareness, development and usage of wireless technology and applications to enterprises as well as public, HKWDC will broadcast its objectives, facilities and services, members benefits and centre activities in the airtime of “IT” sponsored by ITSD in Commercial Radio. It also presents the latest direction of HKWDC. The 1 min message will be released from 2 Feb to 28 Feb three times per day. The theme will be refreshed weekly to guide the audiences step by step on HKWDC and its benefits. HKWDC will also have on-going programs delivered to industry players, corporate end-users and general public by different means.

Please stay tuned with the HKWDC radio broadcast.

Week 1 (2 – 8 Feb, 2004) – Introduction of HKWDC
Week 2 (9 – 15 Feb, 2004) – Development Suites Facilities in HKWDC
Week 3 (16 – 22 Feb, 2004) – Visit to HKWDC Showcase Pavilion



Visit by Government ITMUs

HKWDC and its members had been invited by ITSD of HKSAR to demonstrate the latest mobile applications to corresponding government departments in align with its direction to conduct feasibility study and sourcing market solutions on adoption of wireless and mobile technology in government sector. 7 selected members illustrated their strengths through demonstration in areas of:

• Messaging Solution such as SMS, MMS, email, fax and multi-media interaction
• Location-based Solution
• Security Solution

Several of them had been requested for further discussion on specific requirements by several departments. We believe that projects will be evaluated and implemented very soon.



Print Media Visit to HKWDC

As a facilitator to promote and increase the exposure of local wireless and mobile applications, ITSD and HKWDC arranged a media visit with interview opportunities to HKWDC and the wireless and mobile applications of our members. The media presented a strong interest on direction, objectives as well as facilities provided in HKWDC including mobile network connectivity platform, the latest handheld devices for application development, testing, trial run and deployment and display kiosks for promotion of applications. Mr Stephen Lai, our centre director illustrated the roadmap, benefits and facilities provided in HKWDC.

Apart from this, HKWDC members had been invited to demonstrate their applications and interviewed on its usage of facilities as well as comments and expectation on HKWDC.

#Media Articles – HKET (25 Feb 2004)

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HKSAR and Canada ICT Collaboration, MOU Signing Ceremony cum Seminar on Best Practices in Commercialization of Wireless and Digital Content Technologies

Remarks By:

• Mr John C Tsang JO, Secretary for CITB, HKSAR
• The Honourabel Ralph Klein, Premier of the Province of Alberta, Canada
• Mr Anthony Burger, Consul General of Canada in Hong Kong
  

Address By:

• Dr Michael Leung, Vice President, Development, TRLabs
• Mr Duncan Lau, Chairman, Hong Kong Wireless Technology Industry Association (WTIA)
• Mr Nicholas Yang, CEO of Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited
  

The event is composed of MOU signing and two seminar talks by Mr Stephen Lai, Director of HKWDC and Dr Michael Leung, Vice President, Development of TRLabs respectively. 100 audiences approach the feast from government officials, digital media and wireless developers as well as Cyberport management and WTIA members. To know more on TRLabs, please visit http://www.trlabs.ca

Mr Duncan Lau, Chairman of the Hong Kong Wireless Technology Industry Association (WTIA) added: “Hong Kong Wireless Development Centre (HKWDC) - a regional wireless development hub, mandate to attract investment and talent in the region, is honoured to spot TRLabs/NEWT as a major partner to achieve its mission not only in aligning with information technology and communications directions of the Hong Kong but also the immediate benefits with the industries,” stated in event.

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# Seminar Presentation

• Mr Stephen Lai, Director of HKWDC – “Roles of HKWDC in supporting of Wireless Applications and Technology Developers in Wireless Industry”
• Dr Michael Leung, Vice President, Development of TRLabs – “ Fostering Technology and Business Partnerships – A TRLabs Case Study”

Opening Ceremony of Hong Kong Wireless Development Centre

Date: 15 Dec 2003
Time: 10:30 am – 1:00 pm
Venue: Lobby 4, Cyberport 2
Organizer: Hong Kong Wireless Technology Industry Association (WTIA)

With the strongly support of HKSAR, organizations such as Innovation and Technology Commission, Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited and Hong Kong Productivity Council, and key industry players such as MNOs, MVNOs, handheld device manufacturers, hardware and software vendors, content providers, wireless applications developers and system integrators, we have a successful opening with on your contribution and participation on 15 Dec 2003 at Cyberport.

It is great to have Mr. John Tsang, Secretary for Commerce, Industry and Technology Bureau (CITB), Mr. John Strickland, Chairman, Board of Directors, Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited and Mr. Duncan Lau, Chairman, Hong Kong Wireless Technology Industry Association (WTIA) as our Officiating Guests to deliver speech in the ceremony.

There are more than 250 guests including government officials, industry players, academic institutions, IT companies and associations, Cyberport tenants and press media attend the Opening Ceremony at Cyberport. Beside the ceremony, 15 application developers and 17 sponsors display their products, applications and technology in opening ceremony which attack more attendants and generate business deal.

From its opening on 15 Dec 2003, Hong Kong Wireless Development Centre is in fully functional operation.

The 17 sponsor booths along IT Street include:

• Hutchison Telecommunications (Hong Kong) Limited
• Hong Kong CSL Limited
• SUNDAY o/b Mandarin Communications Limited
• SmarTone Mobile Communications Limited
• Palm Hong Kong Limited
• Alcatel China Limited
• Group Sense Limited
• Nokia (Hong Kong) Limited
• Hewlett-Packard Hong Kong Limited
• Sun Microsystems of California Limited
• Microsoft Hong Kong Limited
• Fuji Xerox (Hong Kong) Limited
• Sybase Inc.
• Computer Associates International Limited
• ESRI China (Hong Kong) Limited
• IBM China / Hong Kong Limited
• Oracle Systems Hong Kong Limited

• Lobo Limited
• Mobile Gamer Limited
• Sunrix Limited
• mBounce Limited
• Green Tomato Limited
• SAN Teamwork Limited

• Kingsmith Airdata Limited

• Synergy Pacific (Holdings) Limited
• Global Technology Integrator Limited

• CyberM Wireless Limited
• Cherrypicks
• InnoAge Hong Kong Limited
• ABC QuickSilver Limited
• Richwap Company Limited
• Mobile Location Positioning System

• Opening Ceremony of Hong Kong Wireless Development Centre Program Rundown

• Speech by Mr. John Strickland GBS JP
• Speech by Mr. Duncan Lau
  

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• Hong Kong Wireless Development Centre at the Cyberport Opens Today

• Ta Kung Pao at16 Dec 2003
• Apple Daily at16 Dec 2003
• HKET at16 Dec 2003
• HKEJ at15 Dec 2003
• PC Market at23 Dec 2003
• Hi-Tech Weekly at 23 Dec 2003