Centro de Retail Management

Centro de Retail Management por Xavier Bordanova

Un proyecto de Cenatic suscita el interés de los fabricantes de telefonía móvil

Los principales fabricantes de telefonía móvil como Nokia, Blackberry, Limo, Symbian Foundation y HTC-Android, están interesados por el Visor de ODF para dispositivos móviles que está mostrando el Centro Nacional de Referencia de Aplicación de las TIC basadas en software de fuentes abiertas (Cenatic) en el 'Mobile World Congress'.

Esta es una de las ferias "más importantes" del mundo sobre telefonía móvil, y que reunirá en Barcelona a "más de 50.000 personas" interesadas en el mundo de la movilidad y la comunicación.

Así lo explicó el Cenatic, cuya sede se encuentra en la localidad extremeña de Almendralejo, en una nota de prensa en la que añadió que el Visor de ODF se ha desarrollado conjuntamente con las empresas 'Semarket' y 'Ready People', y con el apoyo de uno de sus patronos, 'Sun Microsystem'.

Según detalló el centro el Visor de ODF es una aplicación libre para móviles basada en J2ME que, instalada en cualquier teléfono móvil que cuente con dicha tecnología Java, permitirá leer documentos de texto, hojas de cálculo y presentaciones realizados bajo estándares abiertos.

Igualmente, indicó, que el Conseller de Governació de la Generalitat de Catalunya, Jordi Ausás i Coll, así como los directores generales de infraestructuras de telecomunicaciones y sociedad de la información, "también se interesaron" por este software para uso en las administraciones públicas.

Además, Cenatic en colaboración con CatPL y la Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, llevarán a cabo en Barcelona los próximos días 5 y 6 de marzo, "sendos" cursos dirigidos a pymes y a desarrolladores, con la intención de que conozcan la aplicación, y puedan contribuir a "mejorar sus capacidades" y convertir esta aplicación libre en una "oportunidad de negocio si lo desean".

Estos cursos también podrían convertirse en un "punto de partida" para el desarrollo de una comunidad de desarrolladores y usuarios de aplicaciones móviles de código abierto.

Los cursos cuentan con la colaboración del Colegio Oficial de Ingeniería en Informática de Cataluña, la Asociación Catalana de Empresas por el Software Libre, y la Cátedra de Software Libre de la Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña. Estos cursos serán impartidos por Semarket en la sede de la Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña.

Fuente original: Europa Press @ http://www.hoy.es/20090219/mas-actualidad/tecnologia/proyecto-cenatic-suscita-interes-200902191729.html

Mobile World Congress 2009

Ready People has been invited by the Government of Catalonia to attend next Mobile World Congress, in the Innovation Zone.
Our company will be placed on the 7th Hall and our booth will be IZ22 (IZ22(7-0)). Use this official Interactive Map to search our placement by using the right side Exhibitor List.

Ready People is listed on the following categories: Content Management (Virtual Communities), Location Technologies and Services, Mobile 2.0, MObile Social Networking Equipment and Services, User-Generated Content.

The Congress

The GSMA Mobile World Congress (formerly 3GSM World Congress) combines the world's largest exhibition for the mobile industry with a stimulating and insightful congress that brings together prominent leaders and personalities from mobile operators and equipment vendors, as well as Internet and entertainment professionals.

The Mobile World Congress presents a myriad of opportunities for mobile professionals and innovators from operators, value-added service providers, and equipment and device manufacturers from around the world. The Mobile World Congress provides the ideal personal experience and environment for networking with a select circle of mobile professionals who can positively impact your business.
This year is expected to attract approximately 50,000 attendees, so don’t miss this unrivalled opportunity to conduct business, discuss the hottest trends in mobile communications, and help define the industry’s path to continued growth.

The Innovation Market Place

Turning ideas into reality is what innovation is all about -- even better when these innovations will shape the mobile industry. That’s why the GSM Association (GSMA) created the Mobile Innovation Market.
Bringing together the mobile industry’s top innovators, investors, operators and key suppliers from all over the world, the Market is designed to identify the industry’s top priorities for new products and services, elevate the best-in-class innovations that are building them, and facilitate dialogue with potential interested customers or investors.

W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking

W3C is organizing a Workshop hosted by Ready People and UPC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) on the Future of Social Networking, with a high level goal of bringing together the world experts on social networking design, management and operation in a neutral and objective environment where the social networking history to date can be examined and discussed, the risks and opportunities analyzed and the state of affairs accurately portrayed. Based on the facts and a consensus-based industry landscape, plans for the future can be made by the industry participants.This is a gathering of mobile network operators, architects, designers, managers, operators and philosophers of communities who understand and want to work to solve the issues facing the progress of social media and social networking with an emphasis on mobile platforms with and without PC accessible destinations.

Background

Social networks are increasingly going to appeal to people who are on the go. Whether using the mobile Web or handset applications, many "made-for-mobile" communities have a web presence available on PC; conversely on-line communities must offer their participants mobile access when the participant is without their PC and when social media is captured on the mobile device.

Social networking is a complex, large and rapidly expanding sector of the information economy. The impacts of emerging social networking tools will be far-reaching. For example, user-generated content is causing changes in the traditional content/media industry structure. In the future, community features could be an integral part of all digital (Web and other) experiences — from information/publishing to business and entertainment.

Companies providing services for social media and social networking, or adding social networking features to existing services, must anticipate and begin working to resolve barriers to industry growth and stability. W3C believes there needs to be a time and place where the various actors of this industry can gather and discuss the challenges they'll need to face together to allow for healthy market expansion in the future. See our analysis of why now is the right time for this workshop.

Workshop URI
http://www.w3.org/2008/09/msnws/
Agenda URI (15-16 January 2009, Barcelona)
http://www.w3.org/2008/09/msnws/agenda.html
Venue URI
http://www.w3.org/2008/09/msnws/venue.html
Papers URI
http://www.w3.org/2008/09/msnws/papers/

To reach the campus:

• Underground (Metro), green line (number 3), stop: "Palau Reial"
• bus 54, 33 or 213
• Taxi: street Dulcet, 3 (Barcelona, Spain, in googlemaps), by street Sor Eulalia d'Anzizu

There will be arrows from the street to the right entrance to the building and the conference room.

Should you have any problem, please contact the host of our workshop, Marcel Medina Juventeny at <m.medina@readypeople.com> or at +34 664 209 208 (mobile phone).

BDigital Global Congress: la web 3.0 semántica

"Toca cambio de dígito y no por antojo del paso del tiempo o porque al 2.0 le siga de forma correlativa el 3.0: hay evidencias de que se está construyendo una nueva forma de entender y consumir Internet. Durante más de una hora, Steve Bratt, CEO del consorcio internacional que produce estándares para la World Wide Web (W3C) y mano derecha de Tim Berners-Lee, creador de la web, ha intentado explicar la web que viene. Aquella que es inteligente, que entiende y relaciona lo que el usuario busca -semántica-, aquella que se puede transportar en la palma de la mano porque es móvil, aquella que es capaz de programar el horno de casa minutos antes de llegar... en definitiva la Web 3.0."

Fuente y extensión del Artículo: sociedaddelainformacion.telefonica.es 
Presentación, audio y vídeo de la ponencia original en diferido: www.bdigitalglobalcongress.net
La introducción del moderador, Pablo Priesca (Director de CTIC), es en Español mientras que la ponencia es en inglés, con aproximadamente una hora de duración.
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Nokia cuts industry forecasts a second time

05 desembre 2008
The world's biggest handset vendor shook the market on Thursday, with news that the industry might be in worse shape than first thought.

Finnish gadget manufacturer Nokia lowered its fourth quarter forecasts for device industry volumes for the second time in a month, and reiterated its expectations that number will also be down in 2009.

At the company's capital markets day in New York, Nokia president and CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, warned that the mobile device market slowdown has continued more rapidly than previously expected.

Nokia now estimates that fourth quarter 2008 industry mobile device volumes will be lower than the previous estimate of approximately 330 million units, which would result in full year 2008 industry mobile device volumes below the earlier estimate of 1.24 billion units.

The company also said it is unable to confirm expectations that its handset market share will remain at 38 per cent as it was in the third quarter.

In 2009, operator and retail distribution channels are expected to go through a period of destocking, resulting in lower sales volumes by manufacturers than purchase volumes by consumers during the first half of next year.

Nokia expects 2009 industry mobile device volumes to decline 5 per cent or more from 2008 levels. Moreover, the four billion mobile subscriptions mark is now expected to be reached in the first quarter 2009, rather than the end of 2008.

With handset volumes on the decline, Nokia will increase its focus on sevices, particularly the areas of music, maps, media, messaging and gaming. Nokia is targets services and software net sales of Eur2bn or more in 2011, and expects to have 300 million unique services users by 2012.

In the infrastructure space, Nokia Siemens Networks said it continues to expect the mobile infrastructure, fixed infrastructure and related services market to be flat in euro terms in 2008, compared to 2007. The networks unit is still on track to achieve substantially all of the Eur2bn of targeted annual cost synergies by the end of 2008.

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China's Roadmap

Matt Ablott @ MobileAsiaCongress Daily Day2

China has been the focus of the world’s mobile attention this year as it radically reorganised its telecoms market over the summer. But with the various mergers now close to being finalised, few would argue that the world’s largest mobile market now seems more dynamic, competitive and innovative than ever before. This was evident at yesterday’s opening keynote session, which saw the heads of China’s two largest mobile operators – China Mobile and China Unicom – both spell out their respective visions for the road ahead.
In the near-term, this future means 3G. Following a series of trials the commercial rollout of 3G in China is now imminent. Regardless of whether 3G services are based onWCDMA, CDMA2000 or China’s own TD-SCDMA technology, their success will depend on getting the fundamentalmarket dynamics right: a wide choice of compatible handsets at various price points, effective data pricing and,most importantly, the ability to deliver a smooth end-user experience.
Migrating subscribers to these new networks will take time, but China’s mobile operators are already making progress. The world’s largest handset vendor Nokia, for example, is due to unveil today a new dual-mode handset that will allow GSM subscribers to access China Mobile’s TD-SCDMA networks. Meanwhile, it finally looks like Apple’s iconic iPhone 3G will be arriving soon. If the explosion in data usage seen by other iPhone operators around the world is replicated in China, then the device – and others like it – could revolutionise how Chinese subscribers use their mobile phones.