Category: Mobile World Congress 2012
02
Mar
#MWC12 5 very cool Japanese mobile technology companies
by Jason Lim live from Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona Japanese are known for their quirky creativity and advanced technology. When I visited the Japan Pavilion at MWC, I had the chance to see what bizarre mobile product ideas are coming out of the Land of the Rising Sun. Here are my 5 favourite: [...]
01
Mar
#MWC12 Cheap tablets – Quality doesn’t need to be compromised
by Leigh Geary, live from Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona The final day of Mobile World Congress here in Barcelona and, although the crowds are starting to thin out. It’s perhaps the best time to go to the very back of these great halls and seek out companies that have great products and ideas but [...]
01
Mar
a fine team of bloggers at #MWC12
By Yann Gourvennec, live from Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona The Mobile World Congress conference isn’t quite finished and we haven’t yet published all the posts but all I know is that the quality of the content produced (close to 70 posts overall) for the Orange Live Blog is really top notch. Just before [...]
01
Mar
Found! There is a QWERTY phone here #MWC12
by Leigh Geary, live from Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona Imagine your next phone. Perhaps you’ve already seen it during Mobile World Congress. Now, let me try to guess what that phone will have. First, I’m guessing it’ll have a touch screen. Second, I’m thinking it’ll have a high-resolution camera, probably 8 megapixels. It’s probably [...]
01
Mar
NEC to make a come back? #MWC12
by Leigh Geary, live from Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona This year there’s a number of manufacturers, old and new, trying to break into the mobile space. I think it’s been about 7 years since I last used an NEC phone, back when 3G was a new technology and 3G video calling was thought to [...]
01
Mar
mobile security takes a front row seat at #MWC12
by Frédéric Lardinois live from Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona Not too long ago, nobody really worried too much about mobile security. The worst thing that could really happen to your data on your phone, most people thought, was that you would lose the physical device and somebody could make calls or browse your [...]
01
Mar
for Qualcomm, making mobile browsing better starts at the chip level
by Frédéric Lardinois live from Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona When it comes to browser performance, we tend to talk a lot about what browser developers like Microsoft, Google and Mozilla can do to render web pages faster and make complex web apps like Gmail run smoother. Especially in the mobile world, though, there [...]
01
Mar
#MWC12: what is Orange’s vision for Africa and Tunisia?
by Mohamed Ali Souissi, live from Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona Orange does what it takes to respond to the specific needs of the local African market. We can mention for example the increasing development and marketing of telephones especially designed for Facebook, free Wikipedia referencing via USSD codes, the development of mobile applications geared [...]
01
Mar
Oracle keep it open #MWC12
by Glenn Le Santo live from Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona Oracle is one of the world’s old school technology businesses, formed long before the era of Facebook and Google. They come from a time when, along with companies like IBM, they ruled the roost. But just because they have been around a while [...]
01
Mar
Ubleam, when looks come to the rescue of tags
by Christos, live from Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona On the third day of MWC, we had the chance to meet the team behind Ubleam. This French venture looks like quite a gamble: to consign QR codes to oblivion in favor of ″bleams″, colored circular tags with a logo in the center that can be [...]



