FeedHenry Receives Award at CTIA's Emerging Technology Award for Outstanding Innovation in Mobile Applications & Widgets

CTIA announced the winners of their Emerging Technology Awards at the CTIA show floor yesterday, Thursday April 2nd. From amongst hundreds of entries to the awards, FeedHenry came in third place for their IMS widget content and service platform. Earlier, the company was shortlisted as one of the final entries in the Mobile Applications & Widgets category for Mobile Marketing and Mobile Advertising. In receiving this award, FeedHenry is recognized for its outstanding innovation in the global telecom’s market.

FeedHenry's widget service platform helps telco's deliver complex IMS services such as voice, presence and location, and also interactive advertising to customers in a way that is easily downloaded and customized for distribution across mobile, desktop, TV or locations such as Facebook or iGoogle. The company offers a new way for companies to advertise with an interactive advertising model that reaches from the Web to mobile, desktop and through to social and viral distribution.

Congratulations to FeedHenry!

At CTIA, FeedHenry is showcasing its technology at the Oracle Booth, Central Hall, C3, Booth #6010.

An Unique Opportunity to Test and Trial Wireless Services Using Ireland’s Radio Spectrum

Ireland has relative abundance of uncongested radio spectrum and Ireland’s Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) is making this spectrum available for testing and trialing innovative new systems and services. Wireless communications’ manufacturers, operators and researchers can now test or trial products in a live field environment under real-world conditions using Ireland radio spectrum instead of in a laboratory environment.

Having this valuable resource available is important for wireless and mobile manufacturers who want to the test and trial new mobile equipment to make sure it works under true market conditions. Application service providers who want to trial a new wireless service such as mobile TV or other services before taking the decision to deploy them commercially and R&D companies who wish to test and trial wireless ideas and products at pre-market stages will find this resource invaluable in perfecting services and products before they are launched live to the market.


For more information about ComReg’s testing and trialing opportunity visit:
http://www.comreg.ie/about_us/test_and_trial_licensing_regime.696.923.spotlight.html

or go to Enterprise Ireland’s CTIA press centre: http://www.ctiaireland.com/media-center.htm

Thursday Night Networking Reception

On Thursday, April 2 please join Enterprise Ireland at the “Best Connected- Networking Reception” which will be held “Nine Fine Irishmen” Bar in the New York, New York Hotel.

Just hop on the CTIA bus from the Convention Center to the New York- New York Hotel, for the short ride across town for the networking event that begins at 5.30 pm.

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Enterprise Ireland’s Wireless Advisory Group Attending CTIA Talks about the Challenges and Opportunities for the Year Ahead.

In the lead up to CTIA, the Wireless Advisory Group, from Enterprise Ireland’s Global Panel of Advisors talked to us about what they predict for market in the year ahead.

Stuart Bishop, Quantum Business Consulting, Inc. sees that the trend for rich media will dominate 2009 with wired, wireless media and entertainment going 100% rich media. He commented: “No longer are we looking at legacy static pictures or textual content. On-demand streamed video and audio will replace this. Core to on-demand streaming will be the removal of digital rights management, due to the inherent nature of streamed content never being locally stored. End users will use any mobile device with a browser to get the rich content, no large media storage cards will be required. 3/4G networks allow a higher bandwidth across the mobile spectrum - now the applications are starting to leverage it, and offer the consumer a true media model for their mobile devices.”

Tim Danford, Storm Ventures predicts that 2009 will be an incredibly difficult year for the entire ecosystem because large companies will dramatically cut budgets and small companies will have an incredibly hard time finding revenue. But, in the face of this he sees a bright side. He says, “ Despite the downturn, now is the time to invest in early stage innovation, many later startups will run out of money and not be viable when the market turns. When the large companies sort through their balance sheets and begin to see opportunity, they will need to acquire to expand into new markets or increase their market share.

The bright spot in the ecosystem will be the uptake of smartphones. We should look to the ripple effect this will have on network traffic, applications, content and advertising. The next battleground will be the collision of smartphones and netbooks in developed and developing economies. Device, OS, application, content and service innovation will meet robust demand for the next two years and beyond. On these more intelligent, highly networked and open devices new winners and losers will be defined.

On a personal note, I’m interested in exploring innovative ideas that will enable the next one billion consumers to experience the Internet; their experience with the Internet will likely only be through a wireless device. I’m enamored with the Kindle model, a highly capable connected device, with the complexities and expense of wireless networking ‘buried’ in the cost of the device and the content.

The future of LTE looks bright, but I believe at least a decade away before we see wide spread deployment, so we’ll all have to live with 3G for a while. On the leading edge of the curve, I continue to think about the uses of millimeter wave technologies beyond point-to-point high capacity links.”

So, what should companies concentrate on? Tim says “the enterprise is going to have to figure out mobile, mobility, what that means to their business and most importantly where do they go from here?”

FeedHenry Recognized by CTIA's Emerging Technology Award for Outstanding Innovation in Mobile Applications & Widgets

CTIA has just released its shortlist of entries for the emerging Technology Award and congratulations are due to Feed Henry, the IMS widget content and service platform provider. The company has been listed as one of the final entries in the Mobile Applications & Widgets category for Mobile Marketing and Mobile Advertising. FeedHenry's widget service platform enables telco's deliver complex IMS services such as voice, presence and location services and also interactive advertising to customers in a way that is easily downloaded and customized for distribution across mobile, desktop, TV or locations such as Facebook or iGoogle. The company offers a new way for companies to advertise with an interactive advertising model that reaches from the Web to mobile, desktop and through to social and viral distribution. Congratulations to Feed Henry! To read more visit: http://www.feedhenry.com/press.

At CTIA, FeedHenry will showcase its technology at the Oracle Booth, Central Hall, C3, Booth #6010

Enterprise Ireland's Wireless Advisory Group attending CTIA Predicts the Hot Technologies for 2009

From Enterprise Ireland's Global Panel of Advisors, the Wireless Advisory Group attending CTIA give their views on what's hot for the telecom's market this year. The predictions bode well for Irish companies attending CTIA, who have many innovations and existing technologies for these markets.

Don O' Brien from Dontel Consulting predicts that in 2009, operators will focus on opportunities to grow new value-added services (VAS) revenues while reducing OPEX and service costs. He said; "new advertising services such search and display will launch with operators in North America. But I believe, that it will take time before the operators or the VAS partners will be able to monetize the service, create workable business models or realize any scale or scope."

Don also sees that forecasts for advertising revenues are very optimistic. "U.S. mobile advertising revenues for search and display will grow to $3.1 billion in 2013, from $160 million in 2008, this represents a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 81.2 percent, according to The Kelsey Group," he commented. "Similarly, Ovum, Yankee, Jupiter Research and eMarketer forecasts for US mobile advertising range from $1.3 to $4.7 billion by 2011. From my perspective, I expect that the revenues will take longer to materialize."

Seamus McAteer sees that the telecom market will be one of the healthiest sectors in 2009, but will still be impacted by the global economic downturn. Seamus commented: "Global mobile operators will continue to invest aggressively to capture growth in developing markets most notably Brazil, India and China. In the mature U.S. mobile market, prepaid and other contractless services will grow as cash strapped and credit challenged consumers trade down. Innovation in mobile services has now moved from the network to the client with the proliferation of handsets using open operating systems and built in GPS.

Added to this, a growing number of operators will decide to cede the role of media aggregator and rediscover the benefits of owning a quality dumb pipe. To succeed, companies will no longer seek to address billions of mobile subscribers and instead will position themselves to deliver compelling services to narrowly defined segments defined by factors such as handset technologies, operator or monthly spend."

Cast your vote for dotMobi and Arantech in CTIA's Emerging Technology Awards.

dotMobi and Arantech have both qualified for CTIA's 2009 Emerging Technology Awards. dotMobi has entered its Instant Mobilizer solution in the "Enterprise & Vertical - General Business Solution" category. Instant Mobilizer is an automated tool that takes any website and transforms it into an enhanced mobile site.

Arantech has entered its CustomerWorld solution also in the "Enterprise & Vertical - General Business Solution" category. CustomerWorld is a customer experience management solution that gives mobile operators the ability to proactively monitor and manage customers.

To find out more about these solutions and give them your wining vote, follow the links below and click on "Mark as favourite." The company with the most votes, from all the entries to CTIA's award, wins the "Best of Show" award at CTIA.

Click here to vote for dotMobi

Click here to vote for Arantech

US world leaders in mobile web browsing.

The US is becoming the country to watch for mobile devices and networks. Smartphone market penetration continues to grow, from 120m units in 2007 to a target if 190m in 2009. By 2013 sales of 400 m units are predicted. The U.S. now leads the world in mobile web browsing, accounting for 29 percent of global traffic, according to new data issued by mobile web solutions provider Bango.
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The Wall Street Journal visits the Ireland Stand at Mobile World Congress (MWC)

Walt Mossberg and Katie Boehret of the Wall Street Journal were at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week where they met Enterprise Ireland's David Smith for a live (and unexpected!) interview.

Click here to watch the interview.

Openet Speakers BBWF Unwired and Light Reading Live Event

Irish firmOpenetwill have representatives at BBWF Unwired and the Light Reading Live Event, with both events co-locating with this years CTIA show.

On Wednesday, April 1, Apollo Guy, Openet's VP of Business and Market Development, is a panelist at the BBWF Unwired "Building Gateways for the Mobile Internet" session. Click here for more details.

Openet's Senior Product Manager, Gary Rieschick is a panelist at the Light Reading Live Event on Thursday, April 2. The panel will discuss the question "Do Mobile Network Operators Really Need Policy & DPI Tools?" Click here for more details.

AT&T Developer Program Fast Pitch for CTIA

This is an event for any Wireless company conducting business in the United States with a data or messaging application service.

The attached provides an overview of the AT&T DevCentral program and a link to the Fast-Pitch site.

If a company wants to participate they need to:

1) Follow the links below to register for the event and accept terms/conditions

2) Be prepared to show your application/service in a 5 minute Demo to a Judging Panel at CTIA.

The winner receives a nice award and the potential for a broader relationship with AT&T.

The deadline is March 10.

Click here for fast-Pitch submission site.

For further information on Enterprise Ireland's participation at CTIA visit our website- www.ctiaireland.com

Success Mobile World Congress paves way for CTIA

Attendance was down at GSMA Mobile World Congress(MWC) this year but it didn't stop the Irish companies that participated from getting the best from the show. Declan Collins, from Enterprise Ireland's Dublin office commented from the Ireland stand at MWC that he was pleasantly surprised with the positive response for the 19 participating companies. "There were fewer people attending the event than in previous years but, the key individuals who are responsible for making decisions on purchasing and so on, attended and the result is that our companies have been able to spend more time with the key people than, they would have in previous years. That's been very positive," he commented. Collins believes that Enterprise Ireland's participating companies are close to the number of key meetings they had last year and it may even be higher. In the past few years, Ireland has gained a reputation as a country for upcoming, innovative technology and that reputation gave Enterprise Ireland an edge at the show. "We had a reception on the stand on Tuesday evening and we were mobbed. It was incredible the number of people that came. We were complimented on the caliber of the companies and got some great publicity." We've been attending MWC for ten years now and the word is out that we have a reputation as a country with very very good mobile technology!" It all paves the way for a promising future for Irish telecoms companies and for CTIA in Las Vegas this April.

Irish company Movidia highlighted at MWC

Irish company Movidia has been featured in Reuters. The company,armed with $14 million of venture capital funding, has built a processor that allows users to do sophisticated video post-production on their phones, which it will soon release to phone makers for testing.

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Irish company Newbay recieves Mobile World Congress Accolade

NewBay, the leader in digital lifestyle solutions for operators, today announced that its LifeCache Social Networking solution has been named 'Best Technology' at the Global Mobile Awards, at Mobile World Congress 2009, in Barcelona, Spain.

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Mobile World Congress Report from Barcelona

The Mobile World Congress, the largest mobile-themed event in the world, kicked off on Monday. Mobile companies of all different shapes and sizes descend on Barcelona every year for the event, from which handset releases and strategy announcements inevitably emanate. So far, there have been a series of handset releases from big players like Samsung, which unveiled a model called Blue Earth, made from recycled plastic with a solar panel on the back for charging; Sony Ericsson, which launched a new Walkman phone, the W995, along with a 'concept phone' called Idou -- to be available in 2010 -- which boasts a 12 megapixel camera; and Nokia, which announced two new business handsets -- the E55 and the E75. Nokia claims the E55 is the world's thinnest smartphone. Elsewhere, Caribbean mobile operator Digicel unveiled a low-cost solar-powered mobile handset -- the Coral-200-Solar -- which it will launch in selected markets in June. Meanwhile, inspired by the success of Apple's AppStore, Nokia, China Mobile and Microsoft all announced online software stores at the Congress. Nokia said it would open an online store for software and media under its Ovi brand in nine countries in May, while Microsoft announced a revamped online store. China Mobile said it plans to launch a mobile market applications store within the year. In an announcement that amounts to something of a truce after years of fighting each other in the courts, Nokia and Qualcomm have outlined their plans to work together (yes, together) on a range of high-end phones. Nokia will use Qualcomm chips for the devices, which they expect to release in the middle of next year. The Congress also plays host to the prestigious Global Mobile Awards.

Irish mobile services firm NewBay was awarded the 'Best Technology' prize at the event, which took place on Tuesday night. The Irish firm's LifeCache Social Networking solution was lauded as "an impressive product" by the judges.

Irish firm DotMobi offers quickstart mobile website tool

The Irish firm dotMobi launched a new tool which gives small businesses the ability to instantly create mobile-ready sites.

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