Fresh off the press .....

The App planet is a new comer to MWC 2010 but became the buzz of the show, highlighting the new focus on software and applications that we have been discussing in our previous posts from MWC 2010.

It brought a refreshing change to the “image” of mobile technology, which for several years now has been about communication networks and multimedia technology. App Planet brings in new creativity and the core idea of connecting people. In the App planet, “John”-s mobile device is much more than a phone!

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Posted by EK at 05:59 AM | Permalink

It is common industry knowledge by now that smart phones are typically causing an order of magnitude more data traffic on cellular networks, thus straining network capacity and the quality of user experience (QoE).

SNRLabs' focus on QoE based connectivity and mobility in multi-radio devices has this additional advantage from the point of view of operators, which is, "smartly" moving traffic from cellular to WiFi (or femto cells). At MWC 2010, it was interesting to see the same problem addressed via infrastructure based and operators driven solution by technology power house Qualcomm and FMC experts Kineto Wireless.

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Posted by CS at 02:28 AM | Permalink

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Posted by SSG at 06:07 AM | Permalink

“Convergence of mobile world and internet finally happening” is an interesting perspective that CS talks about. The last time I remember a similar buzz was 1996, as the internet was gaining ground. “The network is the computer” slogan saw the rise of SUN and the same year Oracle introduced the concept of the Network computer - a “under $500 computer” that end users could eventually use for communication, entertainment and surf the web. The question was “what is the killer App” for the internet. Fourteen years later the “Network computers” of today are the Mobile internet devices - from Apple’s iPhone, iPad to everybody and his dog’s Android device. Mobile devices are ready to get, and are getting ‘embedded’.

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Posted by BGS at 05:21 AM | Permalink

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