At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona we met with Sudip Nandy, CEO of Aricent. They are a global innovation, technology and services company focused exclusively on communications.
The company is a strategic supplier to the world’s leading application, infrastructure and service providers. They give strategic advice and get involved with their customers solutions.
The MWC was a success for them we hope that this positivity continues until the end of the year.
BuzzCity a Singapore based company that works globally and were present at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. They specialize on mobile advertising, delivering ads to mobile phones as they surf the internet.
They work with thousands of partners globally and are looking forward to an increase in demand from advertisers, a fruitful business for 2010.
BioAccez was present at the Mobile World Congress with their 3G surveillance cameras; they have developed a very simple hardware that revolutionizes the use we have given surveillance cameras to date.
The cameras have a SIM card inserted; the user can call the camera with their mobile and see in real time what the camera is focusing on. An excellent hardware to use at companies or at home, also of great use to install for medical purposes as doctors can call to check on their home patients in real time.
A new model has come out which is adapted to US frequency, 2010 will be a year of expansion all over the world for this company.
At the Mobile World Congress we spoke to Mouli Raman, Co-Founder & CTO of OnMobile, who gave us a short introduction to this interesting Indian company. Kiran Anandampillai then showed us OnMobile’s latest creation – the Squeeze device that "squeezes fresh music” from internet into the mobile phone. In other words, it enables consumers from countries with low internet penetration to download music through the retailers without being connected to internet.
OnMobile is white labeled Data and Value Added Services [VAS] company for mobile, landline and media service providers. They target mobile subscribers who focus on leveraging the convergence between wireless and wireline telecommunication services, media, internet, mobile marketing and content.
They develop services, such as; Voice Portals, Ring Back Tones, Music Search, Mobile Search, Social Address Book, Phone Back up.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!