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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.

  • 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

  • MWC 2010: Interview with David Golding of CelleBrite

    CelleBrite was present at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, they had on show their star product the UME-36. David Golding, Director of International Sales told us all about the device which provides an amazing service to mobile users.

    Basically through this device you can transfer the data from your old mobile into your new mobile with no stress for loss of information and on top of that you can also do a back up of your mobile data into a USB Stick. Data such as contacts, messages or any sort of information you can imagine. There are currently 85,000 units diploid mostly to mobile operators and retail chains.

  • Mobile Speech Recognition: Interview with Oddmund Braaten of SVOX

    At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona we met with Oddmund Braaten, Head of Marketing & Business Development for SVOX. They are a speech technology company that specializes in computerized speech and voice recognition.

    They currently work in the car industry through the integration of voice into navigation devices and are now ready to conquer de mobile market. They are the voice behind Android and we are sure to see them in some more devices during this year.

    Their vision is that in the future we will be able to communicate with our mobile phone like if it were a human being.

    Watch the vide interview that also contains a demonstration of their technology to get a feel of what we can expect from this company in the near future.


  • Simplify how you charge: Interview with George McGhee, Director at Powermat

    Powermat had an impressive stand at the Mobile World Congress, it was their first time at the show and they definitely had something worth showing off about. George McGhee, Director at Powermat took us through this revolutionary wireless charger.

    The systems works with two parts, one being the mat – which is a wireless mat that transfers energy – and the other being the receiver – in the case of mobile devices it is directly embedded into the battery.

    This system works on all mobile brands and has been launched in the US and Canadian markets in October 2009, followed by the UK and Italian markets. The company has sold more than 800,000 units and is now ready to enter the French, German, Spanish and Benelux markets aiming to cover the global market by 2011.

    Watch this video interview to get a feel for how their technology works and how it could become one of the star products of 2010.


  • MWC 2010: Interview with Gauthier Chastan, Marketing Manager at Stantum

    Stantum has been the pioneering company in multi-touch technology since 2002, and in 2005 was the first company to market commercial products using a truly reliable multi-touch user interface.

    We didn’t miss the opportunity to try their 4,3” and 12” demonstration units, which have been showcased by the Stantum team at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

    Gauthier Chastan, Marketing Communication Manager at Stantum gave us a live demonstration of the company’s mobile embedded digital-resistive touchscreen that supports up to ten touch at the same time, has finger pressure recognition and works not only with fingers but also with styluses or any other input device.