Mobile World Congress Day 3 – Latest News

Were running off to more meetings now, but before we go, a brief round-up of some more of todays news from Mobile World Congress

Mobile communications and commerce enabler Netsize has launched the Netsize Guide 2010. The comprehensive annual almanac combines analysis of key developments that top the mobile industry agenda in 2010 with a wealth of statistical data on the global mobile services and content markets.
The Netsize Guide 2010, aptly titled Mobile Renaissance, examines the role of mobile as the catalyst for change and improvement in society, enabling innovation across all industry sectors and countries.
Exclusive interviews with 28 industry senior executives at leading companies and organizations including Havas, Marks & Spencer, the Mobile Marketing Association, Nokia, Paypal and Sony provide unique perspectives on these themes and reveal how players across the mobile ecosystem are preparing to meet the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities ahead.
The Netsize Guide 2010 also includes the results of Mobile Trends Survey 2010. Netsize asked over 1,000 mobile professionals and practitioners from 67 countries for their views on five key themes, including the advance of mobile applications stores, mobile social networking, customer-brand relationships through mobile, progress towards global mobile commerce and the increasing importance of mobile across a range of business verticals.
The Guide also presents detailed data on the wireless telecommunications sector in 41 countries, covering revenues, market shares and value added service offerings for messaging and billing of 194 mobile network operators.
The launch of the Netsize Guide 2010 also introduces its online companion, www.mobile-renaissance.com. This is a blog that featurse further interviews, findings and market data updates throughout the year. The Guide is available from the Netsize website and Netsize Guide partners globally 
 
DeviceAnywhere, together with Certified, which provides testing and certification for mobile applications in Latin  America and Vivo, the largest mobile phone service provider in Latin America with over 50 million customers, have jointly announced the launch of the Vivo Virtual Developer Lab (VDL), providing remote access to over 30 physical mobile devices from anywhere in the world.
Available to all members of the Vivo developer community, the Vivo VDL will ensure that the recently announced Vivo downloads store is populated with content that meets the highest standards of usability and reliability.
Built on DeviceAnywheres Direct-to-Device technology, the VDL will enable developers to remotely interact with local handsets including the iPhone 3G, Blackberry 9000 and Nokia N95, as if they were in their hands- Developers are able to press buttons, rotate the handset, listen to ringtones and sounds, play videos, access the internet and view LCD displays with pixel-by-pixel representations for accurate image and text matching that display exactly what the consumer would view.

Aylus Networks has unveiled  the latest version of its media switching & RCS family of products, including VideoShare, which streams live video from one mobile handset to the other; MediaCast, which streams live video and audio from a mobile phone to a portal which can be viewed from a web browser on a PC or mobile phoneScreenShare, which enables mobile users to share a phone screen at the push of a single button; ImageShare, which enables mobile users to share a high resolution imag; and ClipShare, which enables mobile users to share a video clip while continuing a voice conversation.  The clip can be recorded on the handset or downloaded from the Internet and shared with the called party. The video clip is streamed in real time, and both parties can view the clip on their respective handsets. 
 
Vopium is making its Global Mobile VoIP and Messaging Service available to partners as a white-label solution. The company says it expects to announce the first white-label partner shortly.
Vopium provides users with, easy and instant high-quality international mobile communication from any mobile handset or web-browser. Having launched the new Instant Messaging service, both on the web and across all major mobile operating systems, Vopium is convinced that the company now offers the most seamless and coherent mobile B2C VoIP and Messaging Service available in the market.
In parallel, Vopium has developed a proprietary IT and VoIP platform to support multiple service providers. The Vopium service has been running on this platform for the last 6 months, and is now ready to be opened up to partners, allowing other providers to benefit from the cutting-edge technology.
The white label solution is available across all 600+ handsets and OS currently supported by Vopium, incl. Apple iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Java, Symbian and Windows Mobile and also includes a rebranded web interface.