Philippe Kahn

Philippe Kahn’s First Camera Phone Set to Star in Best Buy Super Bowl Ad

Ina Fried in News on February 3 at 12:43 pm PT

The entrepreneur reminisces about his first camera phone picture as part of a Best Buy spot expected to be shown during Sunday’s big game.

Fullpower: The Full D7 Demo

Kara Swisher in D7 on June 11, 2009 at 11:15 am PT

Did we have demos of new products at the seventh D: All Things Digital conference? Oh, yes we did! First up, legendary entrepreneur Philippe Kahn’s new company, Fullpower, which has developed the MotionX Recognition Engine. The company is developing accelerometer-based hardware and software intended to do for motion and gesture what speech recognition did for speech.

D7 Video: Fullpower Demo

Beth Callaghan in D7 on May 27, 2009 at 9:22 am PT

Legendary entrepreneur Philippe Kahn’s new company Fullpower has developed the MotionX Recognition Engine, a technology that studies how the body moves as opposed to reacting to it. The company is developing accelerometer-based hardware and software intended to do for motion and gesture what speech recognition did for speech.

D7 Tech Demo: Fullpower

John Paczkowski in D7 on May 27, 2009 at 9:05 am PT

Philippe Kahn’s history of entrepreneurship is nearly as old as the PC itself. He developed software for the Micral N, one of the earliest commercial personal computers, back in 1973. As CEO of Borland Software, he touted himself the “barbarian” of the software industry and embraced that identity by holding one of the first press conferences for his company in a McDonald’s in Las Vegas during Comdex. Ousted from Borland in 1995, Kahn went on to found wireless synchronization outfit Starfish Software, which he sold to Motorola. He followed that up with LightSurf Technologies, a picture-messaging company acquired by Verisign in 2005. Today Philippe Kahn is at D7 as CEO of Fullpower, a company developing accelerometer-based hardware and software.