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  • Winner of the Biz-News.com "Product of the Year Award 2009” Announced

    Our polls for the Biz-News.com “Product of the Year Award 2009” closed on the 15th of February. The winner is a result of the amount of votes they were awarded by readers, all readers where invited to vote for their favourite products or service in the Smartphone, HDTV, Storage and VoIP categories.

    This is the second year that Biz-News.com runs this Award, prized with a company profile and interview with our Editor.

    In 2008 the winners were MyGlobalTalk by i2Telecom and IPsmarx in the VoIP category, Restore Point by Tadasoft in the Storage category and AmAze in the Smartphone category.

    This year the participation has been amazing and we want to thank readers for their support and interest in this Award. Without your participation it would not have been possible to announce this year’s reader’s choice awards.

    Without further delay we will below list the absolute winners for 2009.

    Winners for the Biz-News.com “Product of the Year Award 2009”

    Smartphone Category
    Privus Mobile

    HDTV Category
    HD-PVR by Hauppauge Computer Works

    VoIP Category
    IPsmarx SIP Based Calling Card Platform by IPsmarx Technology

    Storage Category
    Compellent Storage Center by Compellent

    It is also worth mentioning other strong candidates like Fonolo and Free Switch for the VoIP Category, and Data Robotics, Pivot3, Starwind Software and Xiotech for the Storage Category.

    We congratulate our winners and thank our readers for expressing their opinion and voting for their favourites.

  • Winner of the Biz-News.com "Product of the Year Award 2009” Announced

    Our polls for the Biz-News.com “Product of the Year Award 2009” closed on the 15th of February. The winner is a result of the amount of votes they were awarded by readers, all readers where invited to vote for their favourite products or service in the Smartphone, HDTV, Storage and VoIP categories.

    This is the second year that Biz-News.com runs this Award, prized with a company profile and interview with our Editor.

    In 2008 the winners were MyGlobalTalk by i2Telecom and IPsmarx in the VoIP category, Restore Point by Tadasoft in the Storage category and AmAze in the Smartphone category.

    This year the participation has been amazing and we want to thank readers for their support and interest in this Award. Without your participation it would not have been possible to announce this year’s reader’s choice awards.

    Without further delay we will below list the absolute winners for 2009.

    Winners for the Biz-News.com "Product of the Year Award 2009”

    Smartphone Category
    Privus Mobile

    HDTV Category
    HD-PVR by Hauppauge Computer Works

    VoIP Category
    IPsmarx SIP Based Calling Card Platform by IPsmarx Technology

    Storage Category
    Compellent Storage Center by Compellent

    It is also worth mentioning other strong candidates like Fonolo and Free Switch for the VoIP Category, and Data Robotics, Pivot3, Starwind Software and Xiotech for the Storage Category.

    We congratulate our winners and thank our readers for expressing their opinion and voting for their favourites.

  • Nokia Announces Skype for Symbian

    Skype and Nokia today jointly announced the release of Skype for Symbian, a Skype client for Nokia smartphones based on the Symbian platform.

    Skype for Symbian will allow Nokia smartphone users worldwide to use Skype on the move, over either a WiFi or mobile data connection (GPRS, EDGE, 3G).

    The application will run on any Nokia smartphone using Symbian ^1, the latest version of the Symbian platform. Skype said it will soon introduce this client to Symbian mobile devices from other manufacturers, including Sony Ericsson.

    "Skype, the king of Internet communications, running on Symbian, the world’s dominant smartphone platform, makes for an explosive combination," said Larry Berkin, Head of Global Alliances and GM USA, Symbian Foundation.

    "With Symbian’s global reach, Skype is that much closer to becoming the ubiquitous real-time communications platform for hundreds of millions of Symbian-based mobile users."

    According to Informa Telecoms and Media more than 200 million users of Symbian-powered devices now have Skype at their fingertips.

    Jo Harlow, Senior Vice President for Smartphones, Nokia, said, “We’re seeing around 1.5 million downloads a day on Ovi Store now and believe that the Skype client for Nokia smartphones will have wide appeal to Symbian users."

    Check out special Skype page for the full list of compatible handsets.

  • Skype Goes Symbian

    Skype and Nokia today jointly announced the release of Skype for Symbian, a Skype client for Nokia smartphones based on the Symbian platform.

    Skype for Symbian will allow Nokia smartphone users worldwide to use Skype on the move, over either a WiFi or mobile data connection (GPRS, EDGE, 3G).

    The application will run on any Nokia smartphone using Symbian ^1, the latest version of the Symbian platform. Skype said it will soon introduce this client to Symbian mobile devices from other manufacturers, including Sony Ericsson.

    "Skype, the king of Internet communications, running on Symbian, the world’s dominant smartphone platform, makes for an explosive combination," said Larry Berkin, Head of Global Alliances and GM USA, Symbian Foundation.

    "With Symbian’s global reach, Skype is that much closer to becoming the ubiquitous real-time communications platform for hundreds of millions of Symbian-based mobile users."

    According to Informa Telecoms and Media more than 200 million users of Symbian-powered devices now have Skype at their fingertips.

    Jo Harlow, Senior Vice President for Smartphones, Nokia, said, “We’re seeing around 1.5 million downloads a day on Ovi Store now and believe that the Skype client for Nokia smartphones will have wide appeal to Symbian users."

    Check out special Skype page for the full list of compatible handsets.

  • MWC 2010: Interview with Miguel Silva, CCO of Rubberduck

    Smartphone.Biz-News.com spoke to Miguel Angel Silva, Chief Commercial Officer at Rubberduck that was one of the first companies in Europe to launch commercial off-deck mobile TV and mobile radio services.

    Headquartered in the city of Oslo, Norway, Rubberduck serves broadcasters and operators with hosted and managed Mobile TV solutions that can be implemented around the world by the company’s Global Partner Managers.

    In Barcelona, they were focused on showcasing their Android and iPhone Live TV apps, as they found the best mobile TV viewership works over applications that provide more for home-type of TV setup experience.

  • MWC 2010: Interview with Michael Sandager, CSO of Mobiletech

    Mobiletech was founded in 2005 by a team of telecommunication, banking and investment professionals. The entrepreneurs saw a need to create a platform to bring the worlds of content and mobile together in a way that would create great user experiences for people using mobile devices to view the Web.

    The company has grown to be a global provider of advanced mobile enabling software and services for major media companies, brands and corporations.

    At the Mobile World Congress we talked to Michael Buch Sandager, CSO Europe, who revealed that Mobiletech has been chosen by Voice of America as the technology supplier of the mobile solution to the famous international broadcaster.


  • MWC 2010: Interview with Jorge Branco, Account Manager at eLeader

    eLeader is a banking software developer for all smartphone platforms in the market.

    Jorge Branco, Account Manager, showed us their mobile banking solution that allows you to do practically everything with your bank account from your mobile phone; account information, transfers, credit card information, stock market ect.

    See the video for a demonstration of how this software works.

  • MWC 2010: Interview with Pete Cunningham, Senior Analyst at Canalys

    On the last day of the Mobile World Congress we met with Pete Cunningham, Senior Analyst at Canalys, he gave us a review on what his impressions had been at the congress.

    Watch the video to get his expert opinions on the devices and apps which impressed him most at the Congress.

    Interestingly he told us that the smartphone market expectations for 2010 and 2011 are very positive, the smartphone sector is expected to grow as it reaches the mass market and more products become readily available to a greater audience. A great industry to work in!

  • MWC 2010: Polystar Presents Test Solutions for Networks

    We spoke with Niklas Thorin, CEO of Polystar at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. They have a test system for networks that tests on various types of possible situations during network development and whilst they are live.

    All major manufacturers use their systems in their labs; Ericson, Nokia and Alcatel. This is a way for operators and vendors to know if their system can handle the pressure of peak calling, like for example voting for American Idol.

    Ola Barthelson then gave us a demonstration on another of Polystar’s services in this case aimed at telecom operators who daily need to check errors within the network.

    Polystar is expanding their product portfolio for 2010 and following new trends like 4G and other new technologies.


  • MWC 2010 : Interview with Peter Rosenbeck, CEO of IDENT Technology

    At the Mobile World Congress we met with Peter Rosenbeck a most charming man who promised to show us magic, he is the CEO of IDENT Technology which is an IP company that works in the field of gesture recognition.

    Peter gave us a complete demonstration on how their technology works, the mobile device recognises when you hand is grabbing the phone or when the device is near your ear in listening mode, this automatically switches on or off the screen display allowing for intelligent energy consumption.

    A most efficient idea which was finalist at the Mobile Innovation Grand Prix and we hope to see available in the market during the course of 2010.