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3GSM Preview: On With The Show
News With around 40,000 attendees expected, this year's 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona is set to be the biggest in the show's history. Keynote speakers will include Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer, who will doubtless be pushing his...
[February 10, 2006, 16:30]
3GSM Preview: On With The Show
Talkback I love this time of year! First CES, then 3GSM, CeBIT next month. Nothing like a super-sized trade show to get the gadget juices flowing through the long winter months. This is a good preview of what's coming at 3GSM.
[February 10, 2006, 19:29]
3GSM World Congress: Day One Roundup
News The 3GSM World Congress began in Barcelona on Monday with Microsoft making an early bid for the limelight with its new PlayReady DRM system. PlayReady aims to make digital rights management (DRM) more attractive to users, by allowing them to easily...
[February 12, 2007, 16:38]
3GSM 2007 Preview: The IP Invasion
News Next week, 12-15 February, will see the global mobile industry descend upon the Catalan city of Barcelona for what will be the largest 3GSM conference yet. With as many as 60,000 people expected to attend, and around 1,000 companies exhibiting...
[February 9, 2007, 11:22]
Microsoft Dominates First Day Of 3GSM
News The 3GSM World Congress kicked off in Barcelona on Monday with a swathe of announcements and product launches across the mobile space. Microsoft, which has been striving for several years to replicate its dominance on the desktop in the mobile...
[February 14, 2006, 12:10]
Microsoft Makes Waves At 3GSM
News As the world's mobile phone industry gathered for the annual 3GSM shindig, Microsoft's latest deals dominated conversations on the show floor and in the bars and hotels of Cannes. Even before 3GSM had kicked off, Microsoft was making headlines with...
[February 16, 2005, 14:35]
RIP 3GSM
Blog That uberfest of all things mobile, 3GSM (held annually in both Barcelona and Macau) is officially a thing of the past. What? cry tech-lovers and hacks alike across the globe.but fear not. Rising like a phoenix from 3GSM's ashes are.the Mobile...
[June 13, 2007, 10:15]
Convergence Is King At 3GSM
News Convergence has been one of the hottest buzzwords in the mobile industry for several years. This week, the 3GSM World Congress saw compelling evidence that once-rival technologies can work together, and that the world is moving fast towards an all...
[February 16, 2006, 10:10]
Rupert Goodwins' 3GSM Barcelona Diary
Blog Sunday 12/02/2006 It's 3GSM time, and a flock of British journalists are taking to the skies. I join the migration courtesy of O2, which has hired an entire hotel - if you will, an O-tel [No, I won't, if you don't mind.
[February 17, 2006, 16:50]
Rupert Goodwins' 3GSM Barcelona Diary
Blog First impression of 3GSM itself is that it's huge and nobody knows where anything is. In the company of silicon.com's Jo Best, I am directed by an attendant to registration in a far-distant hall. There, we find that press registration is in fact...
[February 17, 2006, 16:50]
Rupert Goodwins' 3GSM Barcelona Diary
Blog Tuesday 14/02/2006 There's far too much going on to fit into one diary. In swift succession, I learn that the Adult Content area is a pale shadow of previous years - "Last time, there were dwarfs with silver platters of fruit on their heads!
[February 17, 2006, 16:50]
Rupert Goodwins' 3GSM Barcelona Diary
Blog Tuesday 14/02/2006. Night. At 3GSM, every night is party night - but Tuesday is the biggest of the lot. By now, the many UK trade hacks have formed into an ad-hoc team capable of draining the best-stocked bar dry in minutes and we set out to...
[February 17, 2006, 16:50]
That Was The 3GSM That Was
Blog Well, here I am sitting waiting for my plane back to London. My lasting impression of 3GSM (aside from Barcelona's unseasonably warm weather), has been that there was no big announcement, no killer handset that made everyone slip in their drool.
[February 15, 2007, 10:07]
Photos: Mobile Mania At 3GSM
News 3GSM tends to focus on the more traditional cellular technologies, but this year WiMax has been making quite a buzz. We're finally seeing handsets, data cards and all the other necessary bits and pieces.
[February 16, 2007, 13:46]
Rupert Goodwins' 3GSM Barcelona Diary
Talkback Yeah, I sympathise with you. I had a similar occurance with a shortcode which informed me I had over 3000 dollars in an account for answering correct questions. Next thing my operator said that I had reached the call limit, despite the credits...
[February 27, 2006, 8:04]
Thrills And Spills At 3GSM
News NEWS: Orange planning SPV successor The network operator is to launch the 'SPVx', aimed at consumers and gamers, next month G gets closer to EDGE Although 3G networks are beginning to spring up in Europe, reports indicate that some networks will...
[February 21, 2003, 17:08]
3GSM World Congress: Day Two Roundup
News 3GSM was in full swing on Tuesday as BT strengthened its hand in the mobile space. Two new smartphone deals with HP and HTC could help the telco regain the dominant position it lost when it sold its Cellnet division earlier this decade.
[February 13, 2007, 16:17]
Note To Exhibitors At 3GSM/MWC
Blog No, not a please-leave-me-alone note like analyst Dean Bubley has recently posted (although if your company does not have any relevance to business tech, then do please leave me alone) but rather this:
[January 25, 2008, 13:34]
Linux Paves Way For Cheaper Smartphones
News Several leading mobile technology players have cooperated on a project to explore Linux's potential as the major software component in future smartphones. At the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, Infineon Technologies, Samsung and embedded Linux...
[February 15, 2005, 16:30]
3G Becomes Reality In Cannes
White Papers Renewed industry optimism in Cannes during the 3GSM World Congress 2004 was underlined by a live UMTS network deployment by Orange and Nortel Networks. The deployment of this network was a result of close collaboration between Orange and Nortel...
[October 11, 2005, 0:00]
