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  • MVNO in a Box: Interview with Han Beukers, Senior Account Manager at COMSYS

    Comsys and I-New where together at the Mobile World Congress in their stand which represented a box, a reflection of the new product they have launched, a complete MVNO in a Box solution. The solution contains everything that a company needs to start its own MVNO or MVNE.

    It is a unique solution, highly flexible and designed according to the new Telco 2.0 definition. They are targeting operators or carriers and currently practically cover the whole world, Comsys through their European offices and I-New through their Africa, Middle East and Asia expansion.

  • WellDoc: Healthcare and Technology

    VIDEO INTERVIEW. WellDoc was a pleasant surprise at the Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona, they are a US based Health Technology company that have developed mobile phone support for chronic diseases.

    They started in the area of diabetes and have developed expertise in other diseases, what they offer is a mobile phone interactive log that contains the patients medical history and a medical information that the patient updates regularly. The system contains tips on health care and coaches the patient on how best to proceed.

    For example if a diabetic decides to have a late breakfast, they can input their current sugar level into the phone, who in turn has a history of the patient in its system and can indicate which would be the best meal to have, 15 minutes latter it will remind the patient to have another check on blood sugar level.

    They have just finished a clinical trial at the University of Maryland, results will be published in summer 2010, and they are currently talking with various countries in order to adapt their technology to local needs.

  • MWC 2010: Interview with Gil Regev of Fring

    Smartphone.Biz-News.com had a chat with Gil Regev, Marketing Communications Manager for Fring.

    Gil gave us a live demonstration connecting from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona with the Fring Headquarters, the application works on all smartphones and is currently growing by half a million users every month.

    Since the video calling has been so successful they announced that they will be expanding it to 9.2 and 9.3 Symbian platforms. This year they will look to increase their deals with industry partners and work on making Fring even better and more exciting for users.

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  • Where Sport Meets Technology: Interview with Mette Lykke, Founder of Endomondo

    At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona we bumped on to a young Danish company filled with energy and sportive spirits, Endomondo has developed a sports tracking application.

    The application works on phones with GPS and tracks your speed and distance covered in 20 different sports, from running and skiing, to hiking and cycling.

    It works on Symbian, Windows Mobile, Andriod and iPhone platforms and currently has 70,000 users mainly in the US, UK and Denmark.

    Mette Lykke one of the Co-Founders of Endomondo told us that they aim to have half a million users by the end of 2010, let the race begin!

  • MWC 2010: Interview with Gareth Mee of Myphonehas

    Your shopping experience goes social; this is the objective of this young company myphonehas a content and application store that has connected the world of retail with the world of social networks.

    Users can now share the items that they like or buy with their friends through social networks; it is a powerful recommendation tool which makes your shopping experience double the fun.

    We spoke with Gareth Mee at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, watch the interview to get a feel for how this young company may revolutionize your shopping experience.


  • 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