Blog - Tag: GSMA

You might have heard us talking recently about Rich Communications Suite / joyn and hopefully you’re as excited as we are about this innovative technology! And the fantastic news is that our friends at GSMA are running the joyn Innovation Challenge which is an initiative to encourage innovation based on joyn. Here’s what the GSMA have to say about the challenge,

The challenge will stimulate mobile and web app developers and technology innovators to build on the core capabilities of joyn (Contact management, Chat and File Share) and explore ideas for new and attractive services.

Developers are invited to ...

The GSMA Smarter App Challenge, launched at Mobile World Congress 2012, encourages developers to create mobile applications that are more user and network friendly. The Smarter App Challenge as a vehicle to drive readership and acceptance of the new GSMA Developer Guidelines aimed at optimizing battery life and reducing judicious use of mobile network resources. Backed by mobile operators including Vodafone, Bharti Airtel, KT Corporation, NTT DOCOMO, Orange, Rogers Communications, Telecom Italia, TeliaSonera, Verizon Wireless and VimpelCom, this initiative is open to all GSMA members to support.

The Challenge Grand Prize is $10,000 and the overall winner will be ...

The GSMA today announced the first in a series of activities designed to help users and operators manage the growing traffic and signalling demands generated by smartphones and mobile applications. The GSMA has created a developer’s guide which will help application developers ensure their applications are more user- and network-friendly. Along with this guide, the GSMA is launching the “Smarter Apps Challenge” competition to drive the development of efficient mobile applications.

The guidelines consist of a set of recommendations for application developers that will enable improvements across a number of areas including application connectivity, power consumption, network reliability and ...

The GSMA (the organization that represents mobile network operators worldwide, including Vodafone) recently published a summary of research that it commissioned on user perspectives on mobile privacy. The aim of the research was to improve our knowledge of the public’s perceptions of mobile privacy and the extent to which privacy concerns may inhibit the uptake of mobile services and applications, including new offerings such as location-based services. The project’s methodology involved face-to-face and telephone interviews and a large-scale online survey, including people in the UK, Singapore, and Spain. In total, over 4,000 people participated. The study’s ...

All the headlines recently show that mobile network and smartphone privacy are a very hot topic (for a taste, see this latest furore over Apple’s collection of location data). Increased attention from regulators, advocates, the press and our customers is creating the perfect storm for privacy in the mobile ecosystem. To help stay on top of it all, our industry association GSMA has been working over the last year (with Vodafone’s strong support) to create a mobile privacy framework: the Mobile Privacy Initiative.

What’s happening in mobile privacy?

As part of the MPI, GSMA has released Privacy ...

On 17 February 2011, Mobile World Congress, Barcelona / London, the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) announced the election of Lee Epting, Content Services Director, Vodafone Group, as the MEF EMEA Chair after being voted onto the MEF EMEA Board at this week's annual meeting in Barcelona. Epting will lead a newly elected team of MEF EMEA board representatives from mobile network operators as well as mobile content and advertising ecosystems - MTN, Qtel, Dolby, Buongiorno and InMobi - driving the organisation forward in supporting its members across the region.

Dolby's Head of Mobile Content Solutions, Jonathan Jowitt, and Qtel's Director ...

The GSMA mWomen Program announces the launch of the mWomen BOP (Base of the Pyramid) App Challenge, sponsored by Vodafone.

This exciting challenge aims to leverage the significant demand for innovative App design and provide original and fresh customised App solutions targeted at the specific needs of women in developing countries.

This global challenge is two tiered: Tier 1 will be an App for a low-­-end device or feature phone and Tier 2 will be an App for Smart Phones.

The winners will be announced at the 2011 GSMA Mobile World Congress, the mobile industry’s premier event, hosted ...