Casey Joins The deeda Team

We're really excited to announce that Casey's officially a part of the deeda Team. Along with sharing great advice on restoring our classic Mustangs, Casey also brings a lot of experience in the handset and technology sector. We couldn't ask for a better match for deeda Inc. Here's your chance to get to know him a little better:

Casey Hill

After receiving his engineering degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Casey joined Motorola in 1985 as a sales engineer in Atlanta, Georgia. He has held technical and management positions with Motorola in engineering, research, marketing, standards and product development. Casey has contributed to a broad range of Motorola business units in Georgia, Florida, Texas and Illinois, and he has led several start up ventures within Motorola, including a location based services business and a cellular handset applications business. He is currently Senior Director of IPR Strategy and Corporate Licensing in Motorola’s law department in Schaumburg, IL. Casey is a published author in technical journals and publications, and is the charter chair of the IEEE Atlanta Vehicular Technology society. He, as a representative of Motorola, earned the Licensing Executive Society Deal of the Year Award in 2005. He is a member of the Motorola Science Advisory Board, is an elected Dan Noble Fellow, Motorola’s highest technical honor, and currently holds 37 US patents.

Casey's Mustangs

From Left: 2000 GT, '65 Convertible, '68 California Special

Wireless Japan 2007

We just returned from our trip to Wireless Japan 2007, and to say we learned a lot about the Wireless Industry would be an understatement.

Here are some pics from the event as well as pics from the Japanese All Star Game that Sophia Groups' CEO, Yuuki Iida, was kind enough to take us to.


Sophia Groups is interested in bringing Menx to Japan, and we're interested in learning more about the Japanese market. Over the course of a week we were also able to meet with a few prominent VC firms including Ant Factory.

Incorporating social networking into our devices is one of the goals of the deeda Ecosystem. Mobile social networking shouldn't be something that's done through cellphone web browsers or even Java apps. The culture of the community and its features, services and applications should be custom built into a handset. The hardware platform of the cellphone should be used as an extension of what you can accomplish in your social network. One of the firms we met with likes our approach with our deeda community but wants us to build something specifically for Mixi, Japan's largest online social network.

At this time we want to focus on the US market before being fully committed to Asia, but it's nice to know we have friends in high places when the time comes to enter the Asian market.

SoftBank, Sharp, Toshiba, Willcom, and NTT DoCoMo are just a few of the companies we got to see and learn more about. We'll unveil our plans for how we intend to be successful in this notoriously closed and difficult to enter market when the time is right.

Casey At The Bat

I recently had the privilege of being introduced to Casey Hill through Art Paton at Motorola. Casey Hill has been with Motorola for over 22 years, and as fate would have it, Casey's not only agrees with the importance of our Ecosystem approach, but is also a rabid Mustang fan.

In fact, Casey has 3 Mustangs:

A '68 California Special, a '65 Convertible, and a 2000 GT!

We can't wait to talk more about Mustangs and Mobiles with Casey, and we promise to keep you in touch with our progress along the way.