There is a plethora of mobile industry players exhibiting, speaking and attending next week's Mobile World Congress (MWC, formerly 3GSM) in Barcelona. News announcements and technical sessions are likely to be fast and furious with a danger of missing something if you bother to take the time to blink.
IT PRO will be attending the congress to bring you the news as it happens, but to whet your appetite and ensure you don't miss anything, we contacted those making an appearance and asked them for a sneak peek into what we can expect. This is the first of a three-part series - come back Thursday for part two.
We asked: "Without giving away too many secrets, what can people expect from you at the forthcoming Mobile World Congress (formerly 3GSM) and why should business and IT decision makers be interested?"
Here's what they had to say:
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He added: "By providing a seamless and integrated user experience across mobile phones, TVs and PCs - and other access points - companies will have the opportunity to bring these devices to life and encourage long-term customer loyalty."
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Broadcast Mobile Convergence Forum (bmcoforum)
"bmcoforum and its members will demonstrate content, services, platforms, devices and technology that enable service providers to offer mobile TV services in 2008. The demonstrations include complete hybrid mobile TV solutions of platforms and devices combining various technologies as 3G, DVB-H, DVB-SH to be used in the upcoming commercial implementations."
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"As such, dotMobi has been working on a definitive source of device information that will help big companies build better mobile content at a lower cost while small businesses will be able to build mobile sites equal to those of the largest, most sophisticated companies. Everyone wins as better mobile web applications are deployed, and consumers get strong content, which will encourage more mobile data use. dotMobi will be announcing the full details at Mobile World Congress."
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Innovision Research and Technology
"Innovision's chief executive David Wollen and business development director Marc Borrett will be at the show to talk to visitors and media about the predicted growth in NFC (ABI has released figures to say 419 million chipsets will ship in 2012) and the many uses of the technology, from cashless payments and ticketing, to smart posters and peer to peer communication."
Check back tomorrow for the second part of the preview.
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