That’s it from HiT Barcelona from me. As I said it’s a small event at this stage, but I can see it taking off in the coming years. Everyone loves Barcelona, and Mediterranean is a great place to get inspired for any innovation, meet new people and relax in the after hours. I’ll also post…
HiT Barcelona: Global Innovation Atlas unveiled
Today at HiT Barcelona conference, we’ve seen presentation of the global Innovation Atlas, an initiative of the World Alliance of Innovation (WAINOVA), coordinated by the International Association of Scientific Parks (IASP). It’s not exactly mobile-related news, but it’s interesting nonetheless. We’re talking about an online (web-based) software/service that shows the globe with around 700 spots…
HiT Barcelona in photos
To get a better perspective of the event, here are few photos of the hall I took. As you’re about to see, there’s no rush around like at the Mobile World Congress. The first floor is where exhibition is and where companies are showing off their offerings. There are also some companies at the second…
HiT Barcelona: GSMA receives top honors at 2009 Global Telecoms Business Innovation Awards
The GSMA received two awards at the third annual Global Telecoms Business Innovation Awards held last evening. The GSMA with Orange took the award for the “Mains Charging Innovation” for the Universal Charging Solution (UCS) initiative, while the GSMA PathFinder Service was the recipient of the Editor’s Award honouring innovation by an industry association. GSMA…
HiT Barcelona: Apisphere enables location-based services
Another interesting company I’ve seen is Apisphere. They are allowing their clients to add location twist to their applications and/or services. As an example, Apisphere’s Kristal Pollack mentioned SalesForce solution which allows users to receive relevant information on their mobile phones for the upcoming meeting based on their current location. Then there’s the case of…
HiT Barcelona: DeviceAnywhere offers mobile application and content certification
With the application stores in full bloom, DeviceAnywhere is showing its offering that aims to help mobile operators and other interested parties (handset makers?) better manage all mobile content that comes their way. With DeviceAnywhere Proof Center, application and other mobile content developers and creators can certify their work, ultimately ensuring end-user’s satisfaction — the…
HiT Barcelona: AcCells enables NFC-like payments with any mobile phone!
While we’re all waiting for (Near Field Communication) NFC-based payments to start taking off, other methods of mobile payments such as SMS are gaining traction. There are no doubts that NFC promises new opportunities for the whole ecosystem, it’s just that it takes more time than anyone thought for the wide adoption. Enter AcCells. This…
HiT Barcelona: popIn allows “searching on the spot”
popIn is a Japan-based company that provides users with the ability to contextually search the web based on the selected word/phrase in the web browser through a plug-in. At the same time, they also pitch website owners to allow their site visitors with the same functionality without any plugin, using nothing but a JavaScript. In…
HiT Barcelona: Scalado offers imaging solutions for mobiles
If you’ve been following IntoMobile closely, you’ll know that we covered Scalado for few times in the past. They pride themselves with imaging solutions that make mobile phones better handle large photos. When you have 5, 8 or 12 megapixel phones, the problem is how to show/render these large images on the screen with a…
HiT Barcelona: LLeida.net offers certified SMS service
Spain-based LLeida.net offers certified SMS services. I spoke with Sisco Sapena Soler about their offering and he said that sometime users (companies?) need to know that their SMS is 100% delivered. In that sense their service is created to tackle that problem. You can know that a fax or snail mail is received, but for…