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  • Mobile Spam Protection: Interview with Sharon Kiernan, CEO of Sentry

    Sharon Kiernan, CEO for SENTRY Wireless told us about their new anti spam software for mobile phones.

    It would seem that the wave of spam emails that has been inundating our email boxes for the past years is now moving into our mobile phones through messages. The wave has hit hard the Far East which is where this software will be available in March, and slowly but surely we will start seeing it available in others markets throughout the course of 2010.

    The software allows users to report spam to their mobile operator, who in turn will ensure they do not receive any more messages from that sender and will also help the operator build a profile on spam senders.

    This very useful software was a finalist for an award at the Mobile World Congress 2010 held in Barcelona.

  • Carrier VoIP Continues to Transform Mobile/Fixed Networks

    Synergy Research Group released their newest report „Carrier VoIP Q4 2009 and YE 2009 market shares” that shows that the worldwide market for Carrier VoIP totaled just over $10 billion for the full year 2009.

    Year over year, the market fell 18 percent; significantly less than drops measured in other Telecom and IT equipment markets.

    The biggest drivers for Carrier VoIP traditionally have been migrating aging TDM PSTN switches to VoIP platforms. In the last 24 months further growth has been added with Mobile Operators pursuing the Capex and OpEx advantages of IP as did the Wireline networks before it.

    According to Synergy, mobile deployments for Carrier VoIP have made a serious impact on market sizes and market players for the VoIP Media

    “Gateway market. Over the last 2 years the changes have been dramatic and change continues with GENBAND’s impending acquisition of Nortel’s CVAS group. The move by GENBAND will garner a market share position twice that of their nearest competitor,” say analysts.

    Synergy believes that IMS will have a strong impact on the Carrier VoIP market over the coming years. In 2009, it was clear that IMS made its mark as a highly viable and transformational service delivery platform for both fixed line and mobile carriers. One such marquee IMS example is AT&T’s U-Verse network where they have added over 1 Million IMS VoIP subscribers in the last 12 months.

    "Although IMS has been around for a number of years, it clearly showed its potential in 2009," said Jeremy Duke, Principal Analyst and Founder, Synergy Research Group.

    "Synergy believes 2010 will show more IMS market development with increased deployments and continued industry cooperation such as that seen with the One Voice Initiative."

    Another growing area being tracked by Synergy includes the GGSN/SGSN and PDN equipment markets. Synergy says that with Smart Phone usage increasing, a tidal wave of data and video traffic is building that will force mobile operators to make large investments to contend with the change in traffic.

    “We anticipate seeing more vendor activity here as vendors jockey to position themselves to take advantage of this network investment — as seen with Cisco acquiring Starent in late 2009,” says Synergy.

  • MWC 2010: Interview with Paulo Ramalheira of PT Inovação

    In a modern booth of PT Inovação at the Mobile World Congress we talked to Paulo Ramalheira, Sales, Marketing and Communications Director of this Portuguese company.

    Inovação is a technology company of Portugal Telecom Group with competences in all the different areas in telecommunications, but with focus on Intelligent Networks, Access Networks and VAS Platforms for fix and mobile operators.

    The firm is positioning itself amongst the top 5 largest global suppliers of Intelligent Network technologies. More than 100 million people worldwide use PT Inovação Intelligent Network technology to make their communications.

    Watch this video interview to find out what are Paulo’s thoughts on the current state of telecom market.

  • Widget on Demand: Interview with Thomas Landspurg, CTO of Webwag

    Webwag publishes mobile and web widget convergent solutions, helps users create a personalized home page with data feeds and web 2.0 services that are always accessible from any computer, mobile or navigation systems.

    At the Mobile World Congress we met with Thomas Landspurg, CTO and Co-Founder of Webwag, who gave us a short introduction to the company and talked about the innovative solutions they were presenting at the show.

    Webwag technologies are made available in white brand to its customers that include network operators, handset and connected devices manufacturers, service owners and media publishers.

    The company had a big announcement in Barcelona – they announced that they had become a developer of AFP’s LIVE SPORT NEWS app for the recently unveiled PUMA PHONE.

  • MWC 2010: Interview with Marco Monsurrò, General Manager at Coelmo

    At the Mobile World Congress we interviewed Marco Monsurrò, General Manager at Coelmo, an Italian company that manufactures generating sets since 1946(!) and supplies major European operators.

    In Barcelona Coelmo was presenting its special unit that is meant for the telecom industry and provides energy for GSM antennas.

    The generators are designed and manufactured in Italy according to the CE standards and can be certified according to the British Standards and UL norms

  • MWC 2010: Interview with David Golding of CelleBrite

    CelleBrite was present at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, they had on show their star product the UME-36. David Golding, Director of International Sales told us all about the device which provides an amazing service to mobile users.

    Basically through this device you can transfer the data from your old mobile into your new mobile with no stress for loss of information and on top of that you can also do a back up of your mobile data into a USB Stick. Data such as contacts, messages or any sort of information you can imagine. There are currently 85,000 units diploid mostly to mobile operators and retail chains.

  • Mobile Speech Recognition: Interview with Oddmund Braaten of SVOX

    At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona we met with Oddmund Braaten, Head of Marketing & Business Development for SVOX. They are a speech technology company that specializes in computerized speech and voice recognition.

    They currently work in the car industry through the integration of voice into navigation devices and are now ready to conquer de mobile market. They are the voice behind Android and we are sure to see them in some more devices during this year.

    Their vision is that in the future we will be able to communicate with our mobile phone like if it were a human being.

    Watch the vide interview that also contains a demonstration of their technology to get a feel of what we can expect from this company in the near future.


  • Simplify how you charge: Interview with George McGhee, Director at Powermat

    Powermat had an impressive stand at the Mobile World Congress, it was their first time at the show and they definitely had something worth showing off about. George McGhee, Director at Powermat took us through this revolutionary wireless charger.

    The systems works with two parts, one being the mat – which is a wireless mat that transfers energy – and the other being the receiver – in the case of mobile devices it is directly embedded into the battery.

    This system works on all mobile brands and has been launched in the US and Canadian markets in October 2009, followed by the UK and Italian markets. The company has sold more than 800,000 units and is now ready to enter the French, German, Spanish and Benelux markets aiming to cover the global market by 2011.

    Watch this video interview to get a feel for how their technology works and how it could become one of the star products of 2010.


  • MWC 2010: Interview with Gauthier Chastan, Marketing Manager at Stantum

    Stantum has been the pioneering company in multi-touch technology since 2002, and in 2005 was the first company to market commercial products using a truly reliable multi-touch user interface.

    We didn’t miss the opportunity to try their 4,3” and 12” demonstration units, which have been showcased by the Stantum team at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

    Gauthier Chastan, Marketing Communication Manager at Stantum gave us a live demonstration of the company’s mobile embedded digital-resistive touchscreen that supports up to ten touch at the same time, has finger pressure recognition and works not only with fingers but also with styluses or any other input device.


  • MWC 2010: Interview with Rodrigue Ullens, CEO of Voxbone

    In a cozy booth at Mobile World Congress we found Rod Ullens, Co-founder and CEO of Voxbone, a VoIP carrier providing a centralized access to local phone numbers and toll-free numbers around the world.

    Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, they run a VoIP backbone distributed around multiple POP’s with three aggregation superPOP’s in Belgium, New York and Hong Kong.

    The company provides local and toll-free numbers from 48 countries and more than 4,000 cities to carriers, ITSPs and call-centers worldwide. Calls are collected locally and forwarded over IP to the customer’s equipment. Ordering, provisioning and configuration are done in realtime using a web-portal or a free API. Local number portability is supported in 15 countries.

    Watch the interview with Rod to find out what are the competitive advantages of Voxbone’s innovative VoIP solutions.