Tag: Mobile World Congress

  • Barcelona will have to wait for MWC 2021

    Barcelona will have to wait for MWC 2021

    Yesterday, the GSMA announced that it is postponing the Mobile World Congress to the end of June.

  • Barcelona won’t have large technology shows this year

    Barcelona won’t have large technology shows this year

    Don’t delude yourself. The likelihood that we attend tech conferences this year in the same format as before are slim to none.

  • Who has responsibility when AI is running the show?

    Who has responsibility when AI is running the show?

    Paula Boddington, Oxford University researcher and author of “Towards a code of ethics for artificial intelligence,” guides us through some of the complex ethical issues raised by AI’s increasing presence in our lives, its impact on our value system, and why we need to think hard about what could go wrong before adopting it wholesale. […]

  • Europe Will Lag Behind in 5G Adoption

    Despite the efforts of the European Commission, and the EU sponsored 5G Public Private Partnership (5GPPP), the initial large rollout of 5G networks will not happen in the old continent, but in markets such as China and the US, then in several Asian countries such as Japan and South Korea, and then finally in Europe. Visitors […]

  • Tips for MWC attendees

    Tips for MWC attendees

    It is that time of the year again. The Mobile World Congress (MWC), the biggest technology exhibition and conference in the world, starts in Barcelona tomorrow. This weekend thousands of delegates, exhibitors, press, security and service personnel, are arriving in the Catalan capital city for the event. Some of the main activities have already started. Today, […]

  • Virtual Reality Market To Grow When Hardware & Content Cost Less

    What will the tipping point be for mass adoption of virtual and augmented reality? This year’s Mobile World Congress has some clues. The potential growth of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) won’t be realized until there is more content available. People are not jumping to buy VR headsets and, despite the efforts of some […]

  • Barcelona Ready for Mobile World Congress

    How does a city handle the world’s biggest technology conference? Barcelona will answer that question this coming week when it hosts the Mobile World Congress (MWC) again. It starts Monday and promises to be the largest mobile conference and trade show of its kind ever held. MWC 2016 After renewing the contract with the GSMA […]

  • Barcelona wins five more years of MWC despite new mayor wobble

    Barcelona wins five more years of MWC despite new mayor wobble

    There’s nothing like continuity. Today, the GSMA announced that the Mobile World Congress — the world’s largest gathering of all things mobile — had extended its contract with Barcelona until 2023. It’s a measure of the city’s success in organizing a smoothly-run event attracting increasingly bigger crowds over the past 10 years that the GSMA should sign a new […]