Mobile World Congress 2009

On 11.27.08, In Mobile, By AJ

Mobile World Congress 2009

Dates: 16-19 February, 2009
Venue: Fira Montjuïc, Barcelona.
The GSMA Mobile World Congress is the world’s largest exhibition for the mobile industry and a congress featuring prominent Chief Executives representing mobile operators, vendors and content owners from across the world. The event was previously known as the 3GSM World Congress, and is still often referred to as 3GSM.

The Mobile World Congress in 2009 will take place at Fira Montjuïc, Barcelona from 16-19 February, 2009. Until 2006, it was held in Cannes.

The 2009 Mobile World Congress is expected to attract approximately 60,000 attendees.

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On 11.21.08, In Mobile, By AJ

Mobile World Congress 2009 (erstwhile 3GSM World Congress)

Dates: 16-19 February, 2009
Venue: Fira Montjuïc, Barcelona.
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On 11.21.08, In Mobile, By AJ

Mobile World Congress 2009 (erstwhile 3GSM World Congress)

Dates: 16-19 February, 2009
Venue: Fira Montjuïc, Barcelona.

The GSMA Mobile World Congress is the world’s largest exhibition for the mobile industry and a congress featuring prominent Chief Executives representing mobile operators, vendors and content owners from across the world. The event was previously known as the 3GSM World Congress, and is still often referred to as 3GSM.

The Mobile World Congress in 2009 will take place at Fira Montjuïc, Barcelona from 16-19 February, 2009. Until 2006, it was held in Cannes.

The 2009 Mobile World Congress is expected to attract approximately 60,000 attendees.

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On 11.21.08, In Mobile, By AJ

Mobile World Congress 2009 (erstwhile 3GSM World Congress)

Dates: 16-19 February, 2009
Venue: Fira Montjuïc, Barcelona.
The GSMA Mobile World Congress is the world’s largest exhibition for the mobile industry and a congress featuring prominent Chief Executives representing mobile operators, vendors and content own
Mobile world Congress, Mobile World Congress 2009, 3GSM, 3GSM World Congress, 3GSM 2009, GSMAers from across the world. The event was previously known as the 3GSM World Congress, and is still often referred to as 3GSM.

The Mobile World Congress in 2009 will take place at Fira Montjuïc, Barcelona from 16-19 February, 2009. Until 2006, it was held in Cannes.

The 2009 Mobile World Congress is expected to attract approximately 60,000 attendees.

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On 11.21.08, In Mobile, By AJ

Mobile World Congress 2009 (erstwhile 3GSM World Congress)
Dates: : 16-19 February, 2009
Venue: Fira Montjuïc, Barcelona.  

The GSMA Mobile World Congress is the world’s largest exhibition for the mobile industry and a congress featuring prominent Chief Executives representing mobile operators, vendors and content owners from across the world. The event was previously known as the 3GSM World Congress, and is still often referred to as 3GSM.

The Mobile World Congress in 2009 will take place at the same location as 2008, i.e Fira de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, in February. Until 2006, when it moved to Barcelona, it took place in Cannes.

The 2009 Mobile World Congress is expected to attract approximately 60,000 attendees.

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Google and Dell tipped to reveal iPhone rival plans (USA)

On 02.01.08, In Mobile, By Editor

Speculation is mounting that Google is plotting the launch of a mobile phone in partnership with computer giant Dell.

Senior industry sources claim the two companies will reveal their plans at next month’s 3GSM telecoms conference in Barcelona, al-though Google insiders deny an announcement is due in the near future.

But the rumours will once again throw the spotlight on Google’s mobile strategy, which has been the subject of much conjecture over the last year.

There had been widespread talk of Google launching its own handset, known as the “Gphone”, to go up against Apple’s iPhone, which launched in November last year.

But the world’s largest search engine surprised the industry by announcing an operating system for mobile phones called Android. The software makes it easier for developers to create mobile applications that run on many different handsets.

Android, which will be available this year, will bring all of Google’s online services to mobile users.

At present, mobile phones use a variety of operating systems to access the internet, including systems from Microsoft and London-based Symbian.

Marketing Week revealed last year that Dell was also planning a move into mobile phones after poaching Motorola executive Ron Garriques to run its new global consumer group (MW March 1, 2007).

Dell already produces personal digital assistants (PDAs) and strategy analytics director Neil Mawston says: “It makes sense for Dell to have a high-profile entry back into the market because its last effort with PDAs pretty much flopped.”

   

 

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International Mobile Gaming Awards Looks for Its Winners

On 07.09.07, In Mobile, By Editor

This year’s edition of the International Mobile Gaming Awards is preparing for the festivities of granting the winning title to the most creative game concept that will subscribe.

This is one of the most important competitions in the domain and has also considerable importance in the evolution of the winner’s career. The prize is also worthy of mention, as a total of USD 40,000 will be granted in five categories.
Contestants can win the following titles:
o Excellence in Connectivity (multi platform, social networking)
o Excellence in 3D
o Excellence in Game Play
o Best licensed IP-based game
o Best Casual Game (Typically developed in Flash or Java).

Winners of this competition get a real good start in their mobile game developing career. They receive a lot of attention from the press, players and, most important, from companies that now take their ideas more seriously. This means more potential projects for development and a great deal of more self confidence.

Maarten Noyons, founder and Managing Director commented that every year brings pleasant surprises for the jury. For them, it looks like the registered applications develop at the same time with technology.

He said that “In 2006 many exciting new connected games and multiplatform games entered the competition, we saw games that were using all the features of mobile phones including microphone, camera, motion sensors and connectivity. We reviewed location based games and 3D games with stunning high quality graphics, and simple, addictive 2D games developed with Flash. This year we are expecting to see innovations and improvements in all these areas”.

Entries are accepted on a tight time limit, before 6PM on 24 September 2007. Some of the concepts will be selected and announced by the end of October. From that point on, they will have until the 28th of January 2008 to develop their ides into a demo version. The final winners will be announced on the 13th of February 2008, in a ceremony at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona.

 

   

 

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BT’s mobility strategy

On 05.18.07, In Mobile, By Editor

Numerous advertisements on station walls and in the press promote Fusion handsets — dual-mode devices designed to switch between the normal cellular network and Wi-Fi connections — for the home and for business. Although the initial Fusion devices were unattractive by current standards, newer models being introduced offer a more compelling mix of form and function.

The company is also the driving force behind the Wireless Cities initiative, which will see twelve urban centres across the UK turned into “hotzones”, a widening of BT’s existing Openzone Wi-Fi hotspot network.

It is also no secret that BT is pushing hard for spectrum to be made available for the long-distance wireless technology WiMax when Ofcom launches auctions later this year. At the recent 3GSM conference, some sources even suggested that BT regretted having pulled out of the mobile game by selling off BT Cellnet, now known as O2, and was in effect trying to roll out a new mobile network using unlicensed wireless spectrum instead of GSM or 3G.

Last week, ZDNet UK spoke with BT’s head of mobility, Steve Andrews, to discuss these and other issues.

Q: BT has been increasingly busy in the mobile sector. What is your strategy?
A: The mobility strategy is focused on three core segments of the market: consumer, BT Business [for SMEs], and the corporate enterprise market. Our strategy is founded on building from a customer’s requirement of always being connected. What we’re aiming to do for our customers is allow them access to applications — services such as video and, of course, voice — in the office or out and about. What we want is that customers can always be in touch with whatever they want to do with a device.

To achieve that, we are wirelessly enabling, wherever possible, BT’s fixed network. That means wirelessly enabling at particular places where customers are likely to have intensive communications.

Q:And this is where Fusion comes in…?
The first part of our strategy has been a hub strategy for the house. We now have almost a million hubs installed in people’s homes and offices, about 800k of which are consumer hubs. That means people can connect now to BT’s broadband network wirelessly with a whole raft of devices.

We also extended our Openzone offer for applications and services to consumers, so you can take whatever you like doing at home out and about to thousands of locations. We are now extending our strategy to Wireless Cities.

The consumer offer is absolutely focused, given that we’ve got the infrastructure, to applications and services that are attractive to customers to use. We spent a lot of time working on making mobile phones broadband-centric with Fusion. There will this year be over a hundred Wi-Fi-enabled phones.

Q:How many models will BT make available?
At the moment we are working through our ranging of how many BT will have — we are planning that now. The second thing is that you will start to see an increased focus on the applications, such as linking BT Vision and other services into our mobility platform.

In the enterprise area, we’re doing a lot of work with Microsoft to allow Microsoft applications to be used out and about — email and VoIP-type services, IM and field force automation applications. We have a product that we’ve developed with Microsoft [the HTC Excalibur, or S620] — we’re the first to integrate [SIP-enabled] VoIP into that.

We will also extend hosted email, which we already offer, to the mobility proposition. So push email for the Microsoft phone will come out with that phone, as will Windows Mobile 6.

One of the big problems with dual-mode handsets has been battery life, particularly when running power-hungry applications. Has this now improved?
The battery life is not bad but needs improving. We’re still doing more work to improve it. For the launch, we will achieve the threshold of using it for a day, charging it at night-time. We also have extended battery packs in trial at the moment.

We have various segments of the market that we’re pursuing with mobility. We will have field force automation applications.

   
 

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WiMax gathers steam

On 05.18.07, In Mobile, By Editor

Mobile operators have barely rolled out their new third-generation wireless networks, and they’re already talking about the fourth generation. As next-generation cellular technologies — including those of the Long Term Evolution (LTE) project, whose mission is to guide the evolution of GSM cellular networks — have trouble getting off the ground, the industry has been turning its attention toward the WiMax packet-based technology.

“If the 3GSM show is any indication, then I think we will be hearing a lot about WiMax at CTIA,” said Mohammad Shakouri, vice president of marketing for the WiMax Forum, referring to the 3GSM World Congress trade show held in February in Barcelona. “The technology is getting close to commercialisation, and there has been a lot of buzz the past several months.”

WiMax, which is similar to another packet-based wireless technology, Wi-Fi, already has the foundation for a strong ecosystem thanks to support from handset and infrastructure makers including Motorola, Samsung and Nokia, as well as from chipmaker Intel.

These companies are all expected to have WiMax products in the market sometime this year, and some will be shown off at CTIA. Samsung, for example, is expected to have on hand some of its already-announced WiMax-ready gear, including a handset, ultra-mobile PC and a new USB dongle that offers wireless broadband for laptops.

The WiMax Forum, the industry group that promotes the technology, has almost completed the necessary certification requirements for new products, another major step that could help push deployment. According to Shakouri, products using the 2.3GHz spectrum, which is used primarily in South Korea, will be certified by mid-year. Products using the 3.5GHz will be certified in the third quarter, and products using the 2.5GHz spectrum, which is used mostly in the US, will have certification available by the end of the year.

WiMax, whose transmission distances range from a few hundred feet in densely populated areas to more than a mile in suburban areas, can support peak data speeds of 20 megabits per second, although average-user data rates fall between 2Mbps and 8Mbps. Data rates for the next-stage 3G cellular service — sometimes called 3.5G — are about 3Mbps.

1.Asian markets lead the way
Momentum among carriers is already building. In Japan more WiMax-compatible spectrum will be allocated by the government later this year. Korea Telecom in South Korea is already committed to launching its WiMax service this year. There are also plans to launch WiMax services in India, Malaysia and Pakistan, as well as in parts of Eastern Europe, Shakouri said. And the government in Taiwan is spending $1bn (£510m) to encourage the manufacture and development of 2.5GHz WiMax products and applications.

In the US, Sprint, the number-three carrier, has already said it plans to spend $3bn in the next two years to build a WiMax network, which is expected to be able to provide service to 100 million people by the end of 2008. Sprint is using its existing 2.5GHz spectrum, half of which it acquired from its merger with Nextel, to deliver the new service.

On Monday, Sprint announced several new cities that will be part of the WiMax network, It also named which of its named infrastructure partners would be developing which markets. Motorola will be developing Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City and Minneapolis, and Grand Rapids, Mich. Samsung will develop Baltimore, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Providence, R.I. And Nokia will develop Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, Seattle and Portland, Oregon.

Sprint had previously announced that Chicago and Baltimore/Washington DC would be the first two markets to get the service, by the end of 2007. And Nokia had also previously named it would develop four markets, in Texas, for deployment in early 2008: Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth and San Antonio. 

Currently, the only other operator in the US using WiMax is a start-up called Clearwire, which was founded by mobile-industry billionaire Craig McCaw. Today it delivers WiMax broadband services to fixed locations, but eventually the company will offer mobile service as well. Clearwire, which raised $900m in venture backing this summer, went public earlier this month.

   
 

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Morten Hjerde’s Critical Look at the Mobile Games Industry

On 05.12.07, In Mobile, By Editor

While browsing around on Google, I found this intersting post which holds the vision of Morten Hjerde on the mobile games industry and explains why he stopped working in it.

I met Morten once in Cannes at 3GSM. I remember he had a great word puzzle mobile game and though I was working for an aggregator/developer (Overloaded), we never managed to really launch the game. Now, years later, Morten expresses his feelings toward the industry and the problems he faced. a lot of small- and mid-sized developers can probable relate to a lot of the subjects that are touched. The company he worked for was called Ememess and is now part of Zapdance.

   

 

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