Sunday, February 13, 2011

Fair Fairs

Or CES or CeBIT. The appointment with the highest concentration of tech executives is not in Las Vegas or Hannover. Is in Barcelona on Monday and Thursday this week, although some, such as Nokia, have already anticipated your visit today. Participate in the Mobile World Congress, the global mobile phone fair.

With the relationship of the top executives of the telephone industry and Internet technology could make two teams of eleven categories and eleven Messis Ronaldo. Are the highest person in charge of Vodafone, China Mobile, Telefonica, Google, Yahoo, Qualcomm, Intel, Microsoft, NTT DoCoMo, France Telecom, ATT, RIM, Nokia, Cisco, HTC ...

Only these 15 bill in two years the same as Spain .. But the fair also has space for emerging businesses, those born under the vast umbrella of Web 2.0. Sites like Twitter, Rovio (Angry Bird), Foursquare, dysthymic GetJart, Layar or Grameenphone ... Mobile telephony is unstoppable in the first world, especially in developing countries.

Rates have long ceased to be moving a brake on the emerging countries, will soon cease to speak also on the price of smart phones (smartphones). And there are very expensive and cheap. Neither those nor these are obstacles to arrive and spread in developing countries. For the first time in history, last quarter sold more smartphones in the world (100.9 million) to computers, regardless of frontiers.

The India-China figures mask the slowdown in sales in the developed world, but the gains will be mostly smartphones. There are now 24% of the total, but soon will be half of the worldwide fleet. Internet, broadband, smart phones and applications have formed a perfect ecosystem around these four themes revolve discussions during these four days.

The world is connected to the Internet through mobile devices and so, from there to do business: advertising, browsers, operating systems, media and cinema do not understand (they have no future) range of mobile devices. What to be on the Internet has been insufficient. The 2001 edition of the MWC shows the importance of the Internet, but on the phone.

It is not the only event of its kind, but the gray mass gathering more per square meter, so that its organizers have opened a competition (as an Olympic bids) to house from 2013. Barcelona has entered the final, near Paris, Munich and Milan. The final decision in June.

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