At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona we met Peter Knudsen, CEO of BLIP Systems. The company offers solutions for Bluetooth Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Proximity Marketing and Location Based Services worldwide.
They do hot spots for iPhones and Android phones in indoor locations.
Watch the video interview to get a feel for how this innovative company does things.
Telogic is a premier solutions enabler for the telecommunications industry. They assist carriers and service providers in improving the efficiency of their networks, enhancing profitability and increasing customer satisfaction.
Watch our video interview with Nicolai Palmquist, Project Manager at the company to find out about what makes this company unique.
comScore, a firm that measures the digital world, released data from the comScore MobiLens service, reporting key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry during the three month period between October 2009 and January 2010.
The report found Motorola to be the top handset manufacturer overall with 22.9 percent market share, while RIM led among smartphone platforms with 43.0 percent market share.
OEM Market Share
In the 3 month average ending in January, 234 million Americans were mobile subscribers ages 13 and older, with device manufacturer Motorola ranking as the top OEM with 22.9 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers.
LG ranked second with 21.7 percent share, followed by Samsung (21.1 percent share), Nokia (9.1 percent share) and RIM (7.8 percent share).
Smartphone Platform Market Share
According to the report, 42.7 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones in an average month during the November to January period, up 18 percent from the August through October period.
RIM was the leading mobile smartphone platform in the U.S. with 43.0 percent share of U.S. smartphone subscribers, rising 1.7 percentage points versus three months earlier.
Apple ranked second with 25.1 percent share (up 0.3 percentage points), followed by Microsoft at 15.7 percent, Google at 7.1 percent (up 4.3 percentage points), and Palm at 5.7 percent. Google’s Android platform continues to see rapid gains in market share.
Mobile Content Usage
In an average month during the measured period, 63.5 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers used text messaging on their mobile device, up 1.5 percentage points versus three months prior.
Browsers were used by 28.6 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers (up 1.8 percentage points), while subscribers who played games made up 21.7 percent (up 0.4 percentage points).
Access of social networking sites or blogs experienced strong gains in the past three months, growing 3.3 percentage points to 17.1 percent of mobile subscribers, as the report shows.
We met with Jacob Andersen from AM3D at the Mobile World Congress. A Danish company that specializes on Audio Enhancement for mobile devices including navigation, phones and TV.
They have software based solutions and Jacob gave us a demonstration of a 3D audio engine, which is great for games.
They have also recently released a new plug-&-play audio enhancement for Android phones.
Motorola announced a global alliance with Microsoft to deploy Bing services on Motorola devices powered by Android.
This new offering, launching in China on smartphones in Q1, will provide consumers a choice when using search and map functions on their Android-based devices.
This collaboration will bring a pre-loaded Bing bookmark on the mobile browser and an enhanced search widget with Bing integration.
According to Motorola, by enabling users to customize their devices and select their own search provider, the company, with help from Microsoft, is expanding the capabilities and range of services currently offered in the marketplace and opening the doors for increased personalization.
According to Christy Wyatt, corporate vice president of software and services at Motorola Mobile Devices, “the consumer choice is one of the most critical components to ensuring a rich and seamless client experience".
He said the addition of Bing services to their Android-based smartphones in China is “another important step in empowering Motorola’s end-users."
"Mobile devices continue to be a critical place for customers to access location-based services such as local search and mapping," stated Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president of the Online Services Division at Microsoft.
Search and Maps capabilities through Microsoft will initially be available in China, starting in Q1 2010, through either pre-load or over-the-air updates for devices already in market.
AXTEL, a Mexican telecommunications company, today launches its voice over internet service "AXTEL Conmigo" in partnership with fring.
With fring, AXTEL Conmigo becomes the first Mexican telecommunication service enabling subscribers to receive fixed telephone line calls to mobile devices.
AXTEL customers with fring will receive their home phone calls as well as personal computer correspondence with social networks (such as Skype, facebook, GoogleTalk, Twitter and others) directly from their mobile devices.
fring also enables subscribers to share internet experiences including live chat, video calls, file transfer and more from mobile devices for free over Wi-Fi or 3G data packages.
Tomas Milmo Santos, AXTEL’s Chairman and CEO stated, "fring is a natural extension for AXTEL’s offering… Partnering with fring helps us realize our vision to enable AXTEL subscribers to seamlessly stay in touch with their friends wherever they are at home and on the go, in Mexico or around the world."
fring on AXTEL is supported on variety of smartphones including iPhone, iPod touch, Windows Mobile, Symbian and Android devices.
Teko Telekom is an Italian leading manufacturer of high-tech mobile coverage systems for in-building, metros, tunnels and outdoor applications, expressly designed for long-term reliable operations.
Gilberto Brizzi, Sales Engineer gave us a description of some of the products they had on show at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Global IP Solutions is a voice and video processing software, enabling the development of video solution for video and voice over IP.
They recently announced their new software available for android and iPhone platforms which will enable people to develop applications for video conferences.
John Hermansen, marketing Programs Manager gave us an introduction to the company at the Mobile World Congress.
We visited the Sybase 365 booth at the Mobile World Congress they are a division of Sybase, and are the messaging arm for the company. They deliver more than 1.4 billion message a day.
At the Congress they announced their mobile CRM applications and the AIMS test environment for operators among other things.
We also got a live demo on how their system helps banking services work on mobile phones.
We met with Darren Madonick from DeviceAnywhere at the Mobile World Congress; he gave us a full explanation on what the company does and also gave us a live demonstration.
He demonstrated how they can help testers and developers interact with mobile devices remotely or locally, write automated scripts and view results in an html format.
Watch the video to get a feeling for this innovative company.