Features
Next generation messaging - Care of the community
Contextual messaging, id management, personal profile, call it what you will, could it be that messaging will be become an embedded service within other applications, rather than merely a standalone application in its own right?
Interview - Messaging in context
Mobile Europe: Keith Gibson, CEO, Colibria (pictured). At February's Mobile World Congress there seemed to be a general view amongst the instant messaging providers that mobile instant messaging is too limiting a term to describe the functionality that
Mobile World Congress - Reding can't steal the show
60,000 people, hundreds of exhibiting companies, heads of government and film stars. They were all in Barcelona for Valentine's day in February. And so were we. So what happened, and what did we learn? Here is our review
OS - When more is more
With the LiMo Foundation and the Open Handset Alliance forging ahead with Linux, and Motorola signing up new Windows Mobile licencees, as well as acquiring Danger, the battle for control of mobilephone OS is far from over, says Keith Dyer
Network sharing - Learning to share
Orange and Vodafone have done it, 3 and T-Mobile have done it. Even educated tier two operators will soon be doing it. Although cost saving is the attraction, network sharing brings its own challenges - forcing engineers to
Applications Development - Making sense out of fragmentation
The landscape for mobile application development has changed enormously. The entry of Web 2.0 companies means instead of consolidation, operators are now facing increasing fragmentation. The challenge for operators is how to manage this diversity from their own
Billing strategies - Going online for mutual benefits
Dominic Smith looks at the impact of online billing, both on consumers and on operators, and at how billing presentation can actually increase ARPU
PREDICTIONS AND FORECASTS: Making the news in 2008
What stories will be hitting your screens and desks across 2008? If we knew that, then we wouldn’t be merely publishing the best wireless industry title in Europe, we’d be rich beyond our wildest dreams. But we can guess at the areas the news will come from, and ask a few of those involved to make their own guesses.