Posted on 24 February 2014 by Muriel Charriere
Last year we noticed that Mobile World Congress announcements were being made before the official start of the conference. And it appears that it’s no different this year either. Let’s start with Facebook’s acquisition of popular mass messenger Whatsapp for $19bn. Despite all the hype around the price paid for the app, it’s notable that […]
Posted on 17 February 2014 by Marta Bordonada
It was all the rage at CES earlier this year, from connected cars to Google Glasses and Pebbles, wearable technology is taking the world by storm. Naturally, many are wondering how much of a focus it will be at next week’s Mobile World Congress where the titans and emerging start-ups of the mobile and telecoms […]
Posted on by Marta Bordonada
If there’s one thing that attendees of next week’s Mobile World Congress can be sure of, it’s that the event will attract more than its fair share of noise on Twitter. Throw tens of thousands of mobile enthusiasts into a handful of gigantic exhibition halls together and it’s inevitable that, between them, they’ll produce enough […]
Posted on 21 January 2014 by Marta Bordonada
You may have seen the headlines last week proclaiming the ‘death of SMS’ and positioning SMS as ‘old-fashioned text messages’. Well, we all know that ‘bad news sells’, so let’s look at the good news around this. Based on global predictions from Deloitte, communications aren’t dropping – quite the opposite. In fact, instant messaging is […]
Posted on 05 March 2013 by Marta Bordonada
The biggest mobile phone conference in the world 2013 has drawn to a close. For those who were following our blog closely, you’ll have seen we were running a friendly competition to see which blogger’s Q&A could garner the most views. The questions these influential industry enthusiasts put to our experts ranged from NFC and […]
Posted on 27 February 2013 by Marta Bordonada
If ever there was a soundbite to make an audience of telecoms folk sit up and take notice it was this: between now and 2050, three quarters of new mobile customers will come from emerging markets. This was the prediction outlined by Manoj Kohli of Bharti Airtel in his keynote address to MWC delegates in […]