At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona we met with Eurotek, and Italian company that manufactures mobile phone cases and accessories.
They presented their new Dolce Vita branded products, an iPhone case with an integrated battery which you can use to recharge your iPhone when your battery runs out.
It is presently available in Italy, Spain, France, Switzerland and Germany, and in no time will open new markets in Easter Europe.
At the Mobile World Congress we spoke with Sisco Sapena, CEO of Lleida.net, a Catalonia-based SMS operator. It has agreements with more than 1.000 carriers worldwide and has developed an international communication network via SMS reaching 200 countries.
They make possible bidirectional communication between internet enabled pc and mobile phones and have developed, among other services, Virtual Handset, Certified SMS, SMS Contract and Webchecker.
They say the company executes more than one million of daily transactions and their developments are translated into 12 languages including Russian, Chinese and Arabic.
At the Mobile World Congress we met with Alesandro Marcenaro, Co-Founder & Sales Director at Mobyt, a company that claims to be a key player in the European market of mobile messaging services (sms/mms) and two-way messaging applications.
They offer a wide range of products and services providing technologies, know-how, proprietary software platforms using SMPP, HTTP, HTTPS and FTP protocols, web and API applications interfaceable with customer systems. The company was created in 2002 and currently services more than 14.000 companies.
Smart cards manufacturer and information processing company, Hobim, was present at 2010 Mobile World Congress. They produce any kind of simcard for GSM industry, scratch cards for pre-paid services and chip-embedded cards for PSTN telecom operators.
They are also developing services and loliality applications for GSM, telecommunication and banking industry – all optimized for specific market requirements.
Smartphone.Biz-news.com spoke to Tolga Kişlal, Marketing Manager at Hobim who gave us short introduction to the company and told us a bit more about the products they were presenting at the show.
At the Mobile World Congress we talked to Denis Pagnac, Senior VP of Marketing & Sales at Mobiclip. They build branded mobile TV application for smartphones including Symbian phones, Windows phones and iPhone.
Their Mobile Video Distribution Service deployed for the TV channel FRANCE 24 Live has been chosen as a finalist in the Best Mobile TV and Video Service category of the 2010 GSMA Global Mobile Awards.
France 24 Live is a free mobile TV service accessible on a wide range of mobile devices worldwide. The application supports all wireless and mobile networks (Edge, 3G, CDMA, WiFi) enabling users to watch international news in 3 languages and stay tuned anytime.
Using Mobiclip technology, France 24 was the first TV channel to broadcast live TV and podcasts on the Apple iPhone, in addition to other phone platforms. France 24 Live has over one million users in 150 countries and has been downloaded on more than 200 phone models.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.