Quick interview with Dimitri Sirota, VP Marketing & Alliances of Layer 7 about their API management portal and future strategy. Discussion about how mobile is changing the needs of communication companies across the globe. While enterprise customers and service providers have very different wants and needs, they both share a desire for a secure way to…
Executives from Juniper Networks and ZTE discussed last week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona the way in which networks are evolving in the face of changing customer demands, highlighting approaches operators can take to support growth in new services while offsetting flatness in legacy businesses. Speaking in this morning’s keynote, Kevin Johnson, CEO…
The CEOs of Nokia, HTC and Foursquare debated what the future holds for Windows Phone at the MWC Congress today, with all expressing support for the platform – to differing degrees. “What we’re seeing is a very, very steady growth and adoption,” said Stephen Elop, Nokia’s CEO, who shocked the mobile industry a year ago…
Operators will be able to expand into new areas as connected devices become increasingly central to people’s lives – but they need to be agile in order to exploit these opportunities, warns Telefonica Digital director of global partners and devices, Steve Alder. Alder, who spoke in the ‘Consumer Devices: Riding the Next Wave of Smart…
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop this morning provided insight into where the company is focusing its efforts based around local awareness, location services and monetising the ecosystem. Speaking during Wednesday’s keynote session, Elop said attention on apps with global appeal would be driven by emerging markets to become more locally focused. Location services based upon horizontal…
Hans Vestberg, CEO of number one infrastructure vendor Ericsson, used his Mobile World Live keynote tonight to outline the importance of technology in enabling the “networked society.” In a presentation which was rich with visual concepts of a connected future, Vestberg described progress in the industry in recent years as “mind boggling.” The executive noted that there…
Paul Otellini, chief executive of Intel, the world’s largest semiconductor company, chose Mobile World Congress to announce a string of new partnerships for the Medfield platform, aimed at the mobile device market. In addition to Orange, which unveiled Europe’s first Intel-powered smartphone on Monday using the Atom Z2460 chip, Otellini announced deals with Visa and…
China Mobile has unveiled plans that will see TD-LTE widely deployed across the country. The company said that over 20,000 TD-LTE base stations will be in operation by the end of this year, growing to 200,000 by 2013. China Mobile president, Li Yu, said TD-LTE had now moved into a new phase after trials in…
Nokia this morning announced a broad refresh to its device portfolio, with Stephen Elop, its CEO, stating that one year on from its strategy refresh, it is “very clear that we have changed the clock speed of Nokia.” In its smartphone portfolio, the company confirmed wider availability of its Lumia 900 device, which was announced…
Ford Motor Company’s executive chairman Bill Ford has called on the mobile industry to help develop smarter transport systems for the future. In a special keynote address at MWC tonight, Ford – the great-grandson of legendary founder Henry Ford – outlined the need to develop intelligent vehicles and transport systems and the role that the…