Time is of the essence, time is money, time keeps on ticking. Whatever cliché you prefer, the point is: speed makes or breaks this industry. A survey of attendees at the Mobile Internet Forum asks what kind of speed is most important to them and why.
Faster is better (9:04 min, subtitled)New applications abound, but operators need an easy way to find them. The two sides met at the recent Mobile Internet Forum in Zurich and Telecom Report shows a small selection of them.
From a crowd of 200+ potential winners, the audience and a panel of judges had the difficult task of choosing which applications show the most promise on the market. Find out who won in four categories: gaming, enterprise, entertainment, and information.
As a manufacturer for heavy industry solutions ABB has found a new way of promoting its flatness control system for rolling mills that produce flat steel. The platform-independent solutions include an application developed for mobile phones that enables remote surveillance of the flatness control process.
Lavasphere, from Gavitec AG - mobile digit, is a solution that turns camera-equipped mobile phones into a universal code reader for linear barcodes and 2d codes, such as Data Matrix. Gavitec's innovative solution was a winner at the Ericsson Mobile Application Awards 2004.
Winning last year's Mobile Application Award for enterprise gave LocatioNet a major boost in exposure. It also helped it sign a deal with operator Telcel.
