The World Mobile Congress 2009 wrapped up in Barcelona this week. Despite the relatively low expectations given the world economic recession, GSMA 2009 set the tone for an exciting year in mobile developments. Israeli start ups: Despite a terrible location in the basement, Israeli start ups had a s...

It’s no big secret that industry awards are often nothing more than a sham with awards earmarked here and there so that each company can walk away with another excuse for a bad press release. Some of the awards given out this past Tuesday at the Global Mobile Awards in Barcelona however, are m...

Big international trade shows produce a lot of hype, bluster and, when the timing is right, some fairly surprising experiences.  Over the past 10 years that I’ve attended these shows I have seen tremendous progress in device design, throughput capacity, application creativity, the “emergence�...

It’s about damn time. The GSM Association, promoter of the most ubiquitous communications standard in the world, is pushing GSM operators and manufacturers to adopt a universal phone charger by 2012. Even better this new standard relies on microUSB, reports Gearfuse, conceivably allowing suppo...

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MNOs across Europe are teaming up in the battle against child pornography being disributed via the mobile internet. The GSMA is launching the (not particularly snappily-named) "Mobile Alliance against Child Sexual Abuse Content" - which is made up of most of the major OpCo groups. The grou...

Samsung is almost comically proud of its new do-it-all G810 cellphone. The Korean company bills it as an "Almighty Multmedia Computer" on the show stand signs (pictured below). Inside the this successor to the G800 you'll find added WiFi (802.11b/g), GPS, a 5MP camera, YouTube client, TV out (for us...

Motorola has launched a range of new phones at GSMA in Barcelona. Most notable are the ROKR E8 (right) and the MOTO Z10. The E8 is a music phone with a slide out keypad and features Moto's take on the touch-screen gold rush going on right now, called ModeShift. The keypad is also a display and diffe...

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The GSMA Conference in Barcelona opened for business today and, despite not being in attendance, Cupertino's finest have left an Apple shaped hole in everything. Most apparent at the show, the biggest mobile conference in the western world, is that nobody is doing touch screens properly. Sure, Apple...