Will Fixed-Mobile Convergence, Mobile Advertising, And Mobile Video Change Wireless In 2008?Will Fixed-Mobile Convergence, Mobile Advertising, And Mobile Video Change Wireless In 2008?

Welcome another edition of Take 5, my regular feature where I ask an industry insider five questions about their company and the mobile business market as a whole. For this issue I sat down with Neeraj Choubey, Vice President with venture capital firm Venrock. Our topic today: Top trends in mobility.Over The Air (OTA): Hello Neeraj, thank you for joining me today. First, could you tell us a little about your background and the fund you're working on for Venrock.

Neeraj Choubey (NC): Venrock raised its fifth fund earlier this year in the amount of $600 million. A substantial portion of that will be targeted at entrepreneurs in the mobile sector - from core technologies like chips to content and applications. In terms of my role - I'm an electrical engineer by training and focus on digital media and wireless investments at Venrock. Earlier in my career, I built mobile search for Yahoo and worked in the CDMA infrastructure division at Motorola. I studied electrical engineering in undergrad at Cornell University and went to business school at MIT. OTA: What, your opinion, are the top 3 trends in the mobile space?

NC: 1. Fixed mobile convergence and the trend of users wanting to have one device that works both home and in the enterprise for both voice and data.