Business models in mobile navigation for operators

Am 5.März findet im Rahmen der CeBIT 2010 der Navigation Day, veranstaltet von thewherebusiness.com statt, eine Konferenz zum Thema „Strategien zur erfolgreichen Vermarktung von Connected Services und Geo-Informationen“.

Photo diary from Mobile World Congress

I had my trusty camera with me at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week - so I thought I’d share some of my favourite pics with you from the week. I was there from Sunday evening straight through to Friday, and this might give you a flavour of what a week at the biggest mobile event in the world is like!

MWC: mobile media, voice and operators at Showstoppers

It’s the Sunday night before Mobile World Congress… which means I got to head to Showstoppers and meet some cool people. Showstoppers is a pre-MWC event where bloggers and journalists get to meet with some of the companies who will be exhibiting over the week to come.

Mobile World Congress in Soft Focus

Welcome to the first in our “Soft Focus @MWC” series. This is a series of short insights into life at MWC - the ups, downs and intricacies of attending the biggest mobile event in the world.

Information and communication at CeBIT Hannover

Hi out there!

I am going to attend this year’s CeBIT in Hannover. If you want to share an interesting story or ground-breaking news about your Venture with me please contact me at stephanie@gomonews.net

One week until MWC - come to the best Blender there is!

There’s only one cure for the massive stress caused by attending Mobile World Congress - and that’s to come to the GoMo News Blender. Come meet us and our beautiful sponsors, Smaato and Diffusion PR, at the most casual, relaxed networking drinks you’ll see all week long. Over 400 industry figures are already signed up!

M-Days provides a platform for mobile start-ups and applications

The MobileMonday “DemoNight@M-days” event was hosted by M-Days and MobileMonday Munich on last week, on Thursday, January 28th. It provided a platform for 7 (out of 23) selected companies to present their apps and/or business models in a 5 minute “elevator pitch” presentation. The winner was determined by applause!

M-Days bieten Bühne für Start-Ups und Applikationen

MobileMonday DemoNight@M-days

Bei der MobileMonday DemoNight@M-days, einer gemeinsamen Veranstaltung der M-Days und von MobileMonday München am Donnerstag, den 28.1., hatten die Vertreter von 7 vom Veranstalter (aus 23 eingereichten Bewerbungen) vorausgewählten Unternehmen Gelegenheit, ihre Applikationen bzw. Geschäftsmodelle in 6-Minuten Live-Präsentationen auf der Messe-Bühne vorzustellen. Der Sieger wurde dabei vom Publikum durch die Intensität des Applaus gekürt.

Want free tickets to Blackberry App Developer Day? Mobile application developers apply within

At Mobile World Congress this year, RIM will be holding a day specially dedicated to mobile application developers. BlackBerry App Planet day will be held on Tuesday the 16th of February in Barcelona, at the biggest mobile conference in the world. Attended by delegates and speakers from the worlds biggest networks, advertisers, brands, developers, manufacturers, service providers and more, it’s the hottest conference in the world. And the lovely people at hotwire PR have given GoMo News tickets to give away to 10 lucky mobile app developers…

Mobile is just as important as PC to Microsoft

Oded Ran, head of Mobile Services for Microsoft UK, explained to GoMo News the main drives for Microsoft when it comes to mobile services. We sat down for a GoMo 1-t0-1 at the Heroes of the Mobile Screen conference in London earlier this week, and discussed different operating platforms, the importance of the mobile consumer, and how Microsoft is attempting to make Windows Mobile a more attractive prospect for developers.

Mobile search from Rummble pulls geo info from Twitter

Local mobile search application Rummble launched for Windows Mobile devices earlier this week. I interviewed Alex Housley, VP of Business for Rummble, at the Heroes of the Mobile Screen conference in London on Monday. In this GoMo 1-to-1 we got a live demo of the service, and Alex told us about the close work Rummble has been doing with Twitter to pull geo data and relevant tweets out of the Twitter stream.

Blackberry wants closer relationship with app developers

I got the chance to talk to Mike Kirkup from RIM at the Heroes of the Mobile Screen conference in London on Monday. As the Director of Developer Relations, he’s pretty much responsible for making sure developers want to create applications for Blackberry. During this GoMo 1-to-1, we spoke about consumer and enterprise apps, upcoming Blackberry app conferences and the plans RIM has to make developers lives easier.

GoMo 1-to-1: Phonesheet mobile app for the extremely busy

This is a great example of an application that is interfacing with the real world in an original way. Phonesheet is a niche service that has been finding a lot of customers - the basic idea of the service is to become a replacement in those places that still use pen and paper to keep track of phone messages. CEO and Founder Jan Zandz gave a demonstration of the service.

GoMo 1-to-1: let the public test your application with uTest

I was very impressed with uTest, I must admit. CEO and Co-Founder Doron Reuveni introduced me to the service. It’s an application testing platform, that uses real phones in the field to do their testing. Called “wild testing”, this platform now has over 21,000 testers in its network across the world.

GoMo 1-to-1: Roambi goes Pro for mobile enterprise

Quinton Alsbury, President and Co-Founder of Mellmo, gave me a cool demo of Mellmos latest product at Under The Radar. Using a giant, touch-enabled iPhone (check it out!) he took me through the newest version of Roambi. The application, which is designed to make files and documents easy to view on a smartphone screen, has now been updated as a server-hosted enterprise application.

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