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All posts tagged "MWC 2012"

Posts tagged "MWC 2012"

  • Memeburn’s MWC 2012 wrap up

    By on 2 March, 2012

    If you don't care much for geo-social, NFC enabled, HTML5, mcommerce-ready, open API, LTE, quad core devices you may have not enjoyed it as much as this cloud-based, always on, roaming, multi-tasking, networker. Either way the 2012 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona was a blast. With the final day now over here are a few things that caught our attention: There are thousands of exhibitors but only a handful of megastands: the mobile world players whose moves signal the direction for so many other companies. The Android, Samsung and Nokia displays are the most consistently populated while the BlackBerry stand, despite...

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  • Ford: Car and telecoms industries must cooperate to avoid ‘global gridlock’

    By on 28 February, 2012

    Bill Ford Jr., the executive chairman of the Ford Motor Company used his keynote address at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last night to lobby for a stronger cooperation between mobile tech companies and the auto industry to avoid "global gridlock." Given numerous predictions that we will see global car ownership go from about one-billion to four-billion by 2050, Ford believes that unless these cars get smarter and become an integrated...