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  • MWC 2010: Jabra’s Stereo Headsets

    At the Mobile World Congress Jabra, headset giant, unveiled new mobile music product and showcased its extensive range of stylish Bluetooth headsets.

    We spoke with Steven Doan Schmidt, Sales Director for Northern Markets at GN Netcom (the owner of Jabra brand). He showed us recently announced Jabra Clipper headset that comes with amazing functionality and sleek Scandinavian design.

    This clip-on Bluetooth stereo music headset s ideal for music lovers – it connects to both a phone and music player completely wirelessly and guarantees that you will never miss a beat thanks to its ability to seamlessly switch between music and calls.

    Also on show were Jabra’s new feature-rich speakerphone, the Cruiser, the ultimate noise cancelling Jabra Extreme headset, and Jabra Stone.

  • MWC 2010: Interview with Eric Mariette of RFS

    Radio Frequency Systems designs, manufactures and supplies high quality antenna systems for wireless infrastructure, point-to-point microwave, radio and television broadcasting, HF and distributed communication systems.

    On the occasion of the 2010 Mobile World Congress they were highlighting their technology and market leadership in in-tunnel wireless coverage.

    Watch the interview with Eric Mariette, VP Global Marketing and Strategy at RFS to find out more about this arguably one of the world’s most challenging environments from a radio frequency perspective.

  • MWC 2010: 2D Barcode Reader in Action

    At the Mobile World Congress we spoke to Avi Marinstrauss, VP Global Sales at 3GVision, the company that is the global pioneer and leader in mobile barcode reading. Their star product i-nigma offers comprehensive 1D/2D mobile barcode solution incorporating a code-creation, campaign management and advanced metrics reporting platform.

    Since 2002, they have embedded over 100 million phones with their barcode reader for global tier-1 mobile operators (Telstra, France Telecom), mobile handset manufacturers (Nokia, Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson, and Motorola) and most Japanese vendors (Sharp, NEC, Kyocera, Toshiba).

    They say 3GVision is the de facto’ industry standard in Japan – the world’s first fully developed mobile barcode market.

  • MWC 2010: Interview with Guy Levit, CEO of TeleMessage

    At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona we interviewed Guy Levit, CEO of TeleMessage. They offered converged messaging products and services that send, receive, and manage SMS, MMS, voice, fax and e-mail and video messages from the internet, e-mail clients, fixed or mobile phones and APIs.

    They were presenting a wide range of their solutions:  PC to Mobile that sends video, picture, music, and text from the PC to mobile phones (it’s integrated in Outlook and web browsers), SMS to Voice that allows fixed line users, and less educated people to get SMS messages as calls, after the text is converted to speech as well as Messaging Gateway that provides a range of API’s and tools for integrating messaging in enterprise application.

  • MWC 2010: Interview with Paulo Glórias of WIT Software

    WIT Software is a software company that develops software products for mobile operators and the mobile internet. They are mainly specialized in the convergence of communications between the mobile, the PC and the internet.

    At Mobile World Congress we met with Paulo Glórias, Business Development & Marketing Manager at WIT who told us more about the WIT Communications Suite, a software solution that enables the convergence of telephony services with the PC, Internet, Game Consoles and IPTV.

    It allows the seamless use of voice and video calls for 3G phones, SMS/MMS, IM, contacts management and integration with social networks, across all those terminals.

    They were also introducing AskWiby, a platform of Intelligent Agents for Contact Centers that enables support and sales processes to be further automated through the web and internet channels.

  • MWC 2010: Connecting Voice Calls with Web Applications

    Ditech Networks, a company that delivers advanced voice processing services that drive service provider revenue and retention, was present at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

    Smartphone.Biz-News.com spoke to Karl Brown, Vice President of Marketing at Ditech, who told us more about the company’s PhoneTag, the automated and human assisted voice to text for voicemail, SMS and conference calls, and mStage media processor, which provides continuous, personal, two-way access to Web services.

    They were also presenting toktok Voice Web applications that leverage mStage capabilities to deliver applications such as spoken call waiting announcement and voice interface to social networks, and VQA, which delivers voice quality improvement to provide increased capacity and higher Minutes of Use.

  • MWC 2010: Interview with Alon Rotem of Electronics Line 3000

    At the Mobile World Congress we talked to Alon Rotem, Technical Support Engineer at Electronics Line 3000, a provider of advanced security and control solutions, with remote management applications, for the residential and SoHo markets.

    Their solutions enable telcos to expand their services and increase brand presence in customers’ lives, by incorporating into their offering services such as security monitoring, hazard detection, remote management of home appliances, video look-in and location based services.

    Users stay in control by receiving SMS and email alerts and sending SMS system commands as well as utilizing interactive remote management features through dedicated Web and WAP interfaces where providers can communicate marketing messages directly to customers.

  • iPad Available in US on April 3

    Apple today announced that iPad will be available in the US on Saturday, April 3, for Wi-Fi models and in late April for Wi-Fi + 3G models.

    Beginning a week from today, on March 12, US customers can pre-order both Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi + 3G models from Apple’s online store or reserve a Wi-Fi model to pick up on Saturday, April 3, at an Apple retail store.

    In addition, all models of iPad will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK in late April.

    Steve Jobs said, "We’re excited for customers to get their hands on this magical and revolutionary product and connect with their apps and content in a more intimate, intuitive and fun way than ever before.”

    Pricing
    • 16GB WiFi – $499
    • 32GB WiFi – $599
    • 64GB WiFi – $699
    • 16GB WiFi + 3G – $629
    • 32GB WiFi + 3G – $729
    • 64GB WiFi + 3G – $829

    International pricing will be announced in April. iPad will ship in additional countries later this year.

    Apple also said the iBooks app for iPad including Apple’s iBookstore will be available as a free download from the App Store in the US on April 3, with additional countries added later this year.

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  • Pomeranian Science and Technology Park at MWC 2010

    The Pomeranian Science and Technology Park based in Gdynia a Polish city in the north of the country, was present at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Their aim was to promote the innovation in their city and region, and present to the market two products that have been developed by two of the 80 companies that the Park holds.

    Marek Langowski, TME & TMV Managing Director for TeleMobile gave us a demonstration of how their product, an automatic tuning tool for filters on base stations, works.

    Do watch the video for a demonstration and an account of client reactions to this new technology.

  • MWC 2010: Interview with Jose Maria Horta of Knock

    Knock is a Spanish company that manufactures solutions for the infrastructure of telecommunications deployment. At the Mobile World Congress Jose Maria Horta, Commercial Director of Knock spoke to us about their latest solution the Tiger Series.

    It is an efficient solution for rapid deployment or RDS (rapid deployment site), with a minimum environmental impact. They are focused on carriers and partners that rely on carriers, 2010 looks bright for this company.