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by Christos, live from Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona Microsoft is fighting to establish its new mobile OS and launched a highly original marketing campaign at the CES in Las Vegas. This initiative – #smokedbywindowsphone – involves offering 100 dollars to anyone who can show that their smartphone is quicker than a windows phone. This campaign [...]

by Anthony Plewes, live from Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona GPS navigation has transformed how we behave, but unfortunately the laws of physics mean that you simply can’t get satellite signals inside. This means that all devices will simply lose their GPS fix when you move inside a building, rendering them virtually useless. Many companies [...]

by Leigh Geary, live from Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona Check this out. A flying horse, right there in the middle of Mobile World Congress, looking down over the Fira. However, peer a little closer and you may notice something. It’s actually made from Huawei Ascend D phones. Hundreds of them, all attached to a [...]

by Raphaëlle Laubie, live from MWC2012 in Barcelona Ambarish Mitra has named his company Blippar inspired by the word Blipp: v. & n. blipp-ed, blipp-ing: the action of instantaneously converting anything in the real world into an interactive wow experience. Pursuing on what-will-shape-how-we-connect-with-each-other-in-the-next -10-years’ session, giving us insights of a-vision-of-2022, Ambarish Mitra offered us his pitch about Blippy’s [...]

by Frédéric Lardinois live from Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona Small cells and especially the femtocells that are currently used by mobile phone carriers to give their customers an option to fix bad reception in their homes. Slowly, though, it’s becoming clear that these devices, which basically put a little cell phone antenna and [...]

Yann Gourvennec reporting live from mobile world congress from Barcelona for Orange Live Immersion is a San Jose based company which was set up 18 years ago in order to develop force feedback controllers for joystick and other gaming equipment manufacturers such as Sony, Logitech etc. Immersion is now moving into mobile gaming and is [...]

by Christos, live from Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona Two weeks after officially ending its joint venture with Sony, Ericsson has mischievously announced a new “partnership” with Lego. I guarantee this isn’t Ericsson just wanting to launch a Legophone, it’s a targeted collaboration with an educational purpose. This experiment with Lego is out to stimulate visitors’ [...]

by Raphaëlle Laubie, live from MWC2012 in Barcelona Companies thriving for innovation during challenging economic times often results in breakthrough solutions that anticipate customers’ needs for the beauty of it! Innovation is changing paradigm, combining internal and external ideas into architectures, gleaning innovation in all ecosystems and partnerships, generating a wide range of additional value for new [...]

by Glenn Le Santo live from Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona Scalado is a Swedish firm that you’ve probably never heard of – despite them having a 12 year history, 110 employees and a claim that their tech has been shipped in around one billion mobile devices! However, if you use a mobile phone [...]

by Glenn Le Santo live from Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona Glenn Le Santo chats with Yann Gouvernnec from Orange about Nokia’s resurgence – live from their stand at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (vidéo en anglais) [En] Glenn Le Santo reporting live from MWC in… par liveorange

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