I've got a pretty hectic schedule in Barcelona, but I'll try and put a few posts up as I go along. First thing to notice is that the mobile-related advertising around the airport and city is still nowhere near the levels of a few years ago - the recession is obviously still hitting corporate marketing budgets quite hard. This is also reflected by the absence of some "big names" in terms ...

Interesting time for Telefonica to try and stick the boot into Google about net neutrality, a few days before Eric Schmidt gives a keynote at the 3GSM conference in Barcelona. Apparently, Telefonica is "considering charging" Google for the bandwidth it apparently uses "for free". I'd pay very good money to be a fly on the wall during a meeting of the two companies. I wonder how much Google sh...

One of the major trends I'm seeing at the moment is that of mobile network offload - typically "dumping" traffic onto WiFi or other networks to avoid congestion from mobile broadband. I'm expecting it to be a huge feature of this year's MWC / 3GSM in Barcelona. But at first sight the offload trend seems to be a confusing mish-mash of technologies and techniques, all designed to redu...

OK, it's the time of the year when I get bombarded by emails and phone calls from a million people inviting me to briefings and similar events in Barcelona for 3GSM (I still hate the term MWC). In order to maximise the value of both my time and yours, I thought I'd give some pointers: - Priority goes to meetings with mobile operator execs, strategists and the like, particularly to talk a...

I can smell a kick, poor webmaster of the UK's Our Social Media website has released the full specification of the recently rumoured Sony Ericsson Kurara before its official release that is supposed to be in few weeks at the upcoming GSMA Mobile World Congress (formerly 3GSM World Congress) in Barcelona. Leak is definitely not according to Sony Ericsson plans and all press materials are alrea...

South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics has unveiled the specifications list of its GW525 handset. The entire list is now available on the LG Mobile Developer Network and shows some rather appealing features for this device, which is reportedly aimed at the markets in South America and North America.“The GW525 is a quad-band 3GSM slide phone that offers push social networking updates ...

Joakim from Mobispine sent me an interesting announcement - he’s now a CEO of the company! I first met him at Mobile World Congress in 2006 (at that time it was still called 3GSM), when he was responsible for marketing and public relations at Mobispine. Three years later, he’s a CEO! Kudos to the new

3GSM World Congress 2007, Barcelona, Spain/Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announced a new mobile internet video experience which enables enhanced internet video consumption by bringing YouTube videos into the hands of Nokia Nseries multimedia computer owners. YouTube videos are accessible with Nokia Web Browser with Mini Map through the new

3GSM World Congress 2007 Barcelona, Spain/Espoo, Finland/Munich, Germany - At the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Nokia and Siemens are joining forces under the banner of the future Nokia Siemens Networks to present numerous innovative live demonstrations that show how operators and other service providers can bring fixed, mobile or converged networks to life for

3GSM World Congress 2007, Barcelona, Spain - Nokia and Vodafone announced a significant milestone in their collaboration on the development of S60 software on Symbian OS(TM), with the release of the first Vodafone specific software package to all S60 licensees. The S60 platform and the Vodafone specific software offer an integrated reference implementation that enables Vodafone