Blog - Tag: mwc

Some of you may have picked up on the news from Mobile World Congress last week that we have entered into an agreement with Research In Motion (RIM) to provide operator billing for BlackBerry® App World(tm) later this year. With so many interesting announcements during the course of the show last week, we wanted to highlight this as it will no doubt be of interest to the community.

With 'Charge to Bill' for BlackBerry® App World™, consumers will have the flexibility of charging the cost of their app, or a payment within the app, directly to their bill. It ...

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 ...

Earlier today (Wednesday 16 Feb 2010) Vodafone congratulated the winners of the Vodafone-sponsored GSMA mWomen Base of the Pyramid Apps Challenge at the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2011. The competition is a key component of the GSMA mWomen Programme and has drawn high quality entries from developers across the world, seeking to provide original mobile solutions targeted at the specific needs of women in developing countries.

Vodafone's work with the GSMA mWomen Programme will help bring the socio-economic benefits of mobile to women in developing markets worldwide. The programme is a sizable public-private partnership between the global mobile industry ...

The team arrived and got stuck straight into day one of MWC 2011. The usual long line of late registrations meant things only really started hotting up (despite the rain, this shouldn't happen in Barcelona, right?) from lunchtime on the show floors of the Halls.

But for Vodafone developer the day kicked off with a live TV opportunity first thing that set the tone for the rest of the day with healthy debate from Hemant Madan, Head of Vodafone developer and fellow panelists from Flirtomatic and doubleTwist.

The afternoon moved into a WAC event session (http://dmnnewswire.digitalmedianet.com ...

We're gearing up for the biggest mobile show of the year next week, Mobile World Congress (MWC). The team will be out in Barcelona and our big focus this year is all around mobile in emerging markets. Emerging markets represent significant opportunities for developers. It's amazing what a difference mobile can make to rapidly change the lives of those in developing countries, amongst women in particular. We're really keen to encourage innovation amongst our community to help meet the demands of those in emerging markets. Through this programme we're aiming to halve the 300 million gender ...