The Mobile World Congress put on by the GSM Association is where those in the cell phone business come together each year here in Barcelona. All the various players are here—buyers and sellers from carriers to basestation vendors, handset manufacturers, chip companies, software companies and anything in between. It is a real show, one of the largest in the world. Read more...

This year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona attracted more than 55,000 visitors, who gathered to discuss the future of the mobile phone industry.

Seven WiMAX service providers picked Bridgewater Systems' solutions for their WiMAX networks.

The MicroRead Chip from INSIDE Contactless won the GSM Association's (GSMA) Mobile Innovation Global Award for Most Innovative Device-Centric Technology.

AT4 wireless has upgraded its test system RIDER to include testing for Near Field Communications (NFC), a promising wireless technology.

Bridgewater Systems announced an Over-The-Air Provisioning (OTA) solution, which enables service providers to provision devices on WiMAX networks, at the Mobile World Congress.

The Mobile World Congress put on by the GSM Association is where those in the cell phone business come together each year here in Barcelona. All the various players are here—buyers and sellers from carriers to basestation vendors, handset manufacturers, chip companies, software companies and anything in between. It is a real show, one of the largest in the world.

Technology Editors check out the latest in mobile technology.

Infineon released its latest 65-nm low-cost platform family and two new members of its Mobile TV IC family, along with instant messaging and email for entry mobile phones, at the Mobile World Congress.

HP and Qualcomm are working together to incorporate Qualcomm’s "Gobi" global mobile Internet technology in some of HP's business notebooks to enable high-speed connectivity on both CDMA2000 EV-DO and UMTS HSPA networks, with a single wireless solution.

Comsys Communication and Signal Processing announced at the Mobile World Congress its roadmap for enhancing its line of 4G processors and solutions.

Axis Network Technology made the first public demonstration of Xilinx Digital Pre-Distortion (DPD) technology on an its Digital Radio platform at Mobile World Congress.

Toshiba Corp. and Reigncom (iRiver) announced at Mobile World Congress that the companies have licensed voice and audio software from SPIRIT.

At the Mobile World Congress Opera Software and MINI Spain will reveal each of their shrunken products to attendees. Opera will unveil its latest Web browser for mobile devices, the Opera Mini, which according to Opera, is the world’s smallest and fastest Web browser for handsets.

Smaato Inc. and Enough Software have joined forces to create advertisement-implementation solutions for mobile phones and other on-the-go devices. Smaato’s open mobile advertising platform (SOMA) can be integrated into any mobile app and is bundled into J2ME Polish, Enough’s JAVA development platform.

On Feb. 11, Enterpret Communications, Inc. announced the launch of the Enterpreter Mobile Translator. According to Enterpret, this unit will have the largest English-to-Spanish translation database out there for handsets.

Sandbridge Technologies, a fabless semiconductor company developing multi-mode baseband/multimedia processors for low-cost advanced mobile data devices, announced that it will showcase an LTE UE implementation based on its SB3000 series system-on-a-chip (SoC) platform during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

SIDSA has developed an open-loop stat multiplexing head end for high picture quality in DVB-H broadcasting, and will showcase its technology at at the Mobile World Congress meeting. Abertis will exhibit its DVB-H solutions as well.

Telmap will offer a free 30-day trial for its Navigator Special Edition with Lonely Planet. This technology uses moving 3D maps with advanced search capabilities. Telmap will be demonstrating how its navigation technology works at the Mobile World Congress.

On opening day of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Texas Instruments was among a handful of companies to demonstrate prototype devices for Google's Android mobile phone platform.

The PC86xx family of LTE (Long Term Evolution) basestation reference designs cover the full range of eNode Bs from femtocells to multi-sector macrocells. The design, under development jointly by picoChip and mimoOn, will be demonstrated at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Anyone interest in the evolving energy efficiency standards and regulations can expand their knowledge at an online database offered by the Power Sources Manufacturers Association (PSMA).

Clearwire Corp. selected Beceem Communications' latest chipset for mobile WiMAX devices for its mobile WiMAX trial in Portland, Oregon.

On2 Technologies announced at the Mobile World Congress that it's using ARM NEON technology to optimize the performance of some of its video software codecs.

Qualcomm announced a family of three new chipset solutions designed to power advanced mobile consumer devices at Mobile World Congress today.

Broadcom Corp. will support the three most popular open operating systems on its third-generation cellular design platform during a demo at the Mobile World Conference.

DLP Technology from Texas Instruments (TI) announced production availability of a DLP Pico chipset, which includes an imaging chip and a processor to enable a new class of handheld and mobile projection products, at the Mobile World Congress today.