ecco il seminario di Fabrizio Capobianco .... ciao v. ---- Department of Information and Communication Technology - University of Trento TITLE: Mobile Open Source: the Funambol model. US capital and Italian heart SPEAKER: Fabrizio Capobianco DATE: February 7, 2007 at 5:00:00 PM LOCATION: Room 20 - Faculty of Science - Povo ABSTRACT: Funambol is the largest open source project in mobile, now reaching one million downloads. Funambol is also a Silicon Valley company, voted among the top 100 private company in America by Red Herring. Founded by Italian enterpreneurs and backed by US Venture Capitalists, it maintains its R&D center in Italy. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Fabrizio Capobianco, a serial entrepreneur and veteran executive at Reuters and Tibco, founded the first Italian Web company, Internet Graffiti, in 1994. He also founded Stigma Online, developer of an information portal product with customers that included Kraft, Novartis, Italian Broadcasting Television and the Italian Stock Exchange. Capobianco has taught courses on wireless and mBusiness strategies at the University of Pavia in Italy, where he holds a Ph.D. in computer science with a focus on usability. Fabrizio was recognized in 2007 as a top "40 under 40" leader by American Venture Magazine and by the readers of Mobile Village for being a consumer email visionary. He writes a blog that was voted among the 20 best in the wireless industry by FierceWireless, available at http://www.fabcapo.com. http://dit.unitn.it/research/seminario?id=DIT-SMN-07-15-385