Bryan Stockwell from Mobile Commerce on the importance of mobile search

Bryan Stockwell from Mobile Commerce tells us why mobile search is so important to driving mobile content uptake with mainstream consumers.

Listen to the podcast here.

Gabriel from MyStrands on the importance of knowing your consumer

Gabriel Aldamiz-echevarria from MyStrands explained the concept behind his company's offering and talked us through PartyStrands - a party companion for your mobile phone. I got to try out the PartyStrands experience myself at Swedish Beers later on that evening.

Listen to the interview here.

JumpTap talk mobile search

JumpTap's Eric McCabe joined us for an interview and gave us a background of JumpTap's white-label mobile search offering as well as his thoughts on the future evolution of the mobile search market.

Here more at the end of this link.

What's the future for image recognition on mobiles? Mark Wright shares his thoughts

Image recognition offers some exciting possibilities for future mobile services. Mark Wright, Research Director at Mobile Acuity tells us about their company's image recognition technology and his vision for the cameraphone in the future.

Listen to the interview here.

Rani Wellingstein of Celltick on making the idle screen less idle

Celltick is a UK-based company which aims to make the idle screen less idle, working to help consumers discover new mobile content and for marketers to connect with consumers. Rani Wellingstein came by to give us an overview on their company and some interesting info as to how Celltick is being used as a tsunami alert system in Asia.

Hear more by clicking this link.

Peter de Jong on mobile vs console games development

Peter de Jong from Codeglue stopped by for a quick interview on his latest projects including a move away from mobile to console games.

The interview is posted here.

DAEM's Ignacio Mondine on how image recognition can change how consumers access content

Everyone knows that consumers don't like entering URLs on their phones to access content. One of the more elegant solutions to this problem is to use the cameraphone and image recognition as a mobile hyperlink. Ignacio Mondine from DAEM introduces us to their system for providing a more enjoyable consumer mobile internet experience.

Find out more here.

Alvin Wang Graylin gives us some mobile search insights from Asia

Mobile search is a hot topic at the moment and I interviewed a few different mobile search companies while at 3GSM. Based in Shanghai, mInfo is a natural language mobile search engine which is big in China. CEO Alvin Wang Graylin was at 3GSM and gave me his insights on the mobile search industry including how SMS will play a big part in mobile search in China for the foreseeable future.

The podcast is available here.

Not your granddad's Beeb: How is the BBC going into new media?

BBC new media researchers Jennifer Thomson and Jo Bellingham talk to Savka and Josh Dhaliwal about the new directions being taken by the world's oldest broadcasting corporation: QR codes, mobile TV and mobile search are all on the cards in this great discussion.

Get the scoop here

Aditon's Margaret Gold takes us through idle screen discovery

Aditon is the new kid on the mobile content discovery block and Margaret Gold came to talk us through the Aditon service and give her views on what's holding back consumer uptake of mobile content.

Listen to the podcast here.

Interview with Matt Hooper from Colibria about mobile IM (instant messaging)

Wednesday morning at 3GSM, Savka had a chat with Matt Hooper of Colibria, who gave some interesting insights into the world of mobile messaging, and particularly mobile instant messaging. How does IM stack up against SMS in terms of messaging, how is the market for IM changing and why is IM becoming increasingly popular with older age groups?

Find out here!

Interview with Tal Dagan, Comverse

Savka and Josh Dhaliwal caught up with mobile avatars expert Tal Dagan from Comverse on Tuesday morning (February 13). Tal gave us some interesting insights into the latest incarnation of mobile personalization: mobile avatars. Avatars are sure to be popular with the youth market and Tal predicts we'll soon see a move towards branded mobile avatars and ad-vatars (advertising incorporated into avatars).

Check it out here

Hajo Janse on the latest developments in NFC

Hajo Janse, Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategic Planning at Smartmachine Technologies stopped by for a quick interview on NFC. Hajo gave me his honest views on what's happening in the industry at the moment including some interesting opinions on the importance of security for NFC.

Listen to the interview here.

BeepMarketing's Helen Keegan gives her impressions of 3GSM

Helen Keegan the mobile marketer, blogger and organiser of Swedish Beers stopped by the Wireless World Forum stand to give us her impressions of this year's 3GSM conference.

You can hear the podcast at the end of this link.

Roger Wood of Amobee on Mobile Marketing

It was a balmy Tuesday morning in Barcelona during 3GSM, and Nick Wright and Savka Andic kicked off the day with this fantastic podcast with Roger Wood from mobile marketing company Amobee. The discussion centered on the prospects for consumer-generated content on mobile and consumer-generated mobile advertising before moving onto an analysis of branding's profound role in contemporary society and the "elongation" of the youth market into older demographics.

Have a listen here for this very cool podcast

Don Cameron of Mobiqa on mobile ticketing

Mobiqa is a Scottish company I've had my eye on for a while, especially since they launched mobile ticketing on a train line I frequently use. At 3GSM I caught up with Don Cameron, Sales & Marketing Director of Mobiqa to find out what the company has been up to recently. Hear more by clicking here.

Shinya Yokota of NTT DoCoMo talks about handsets and services in Japan

At 3GSM I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to talk to Shinya Yokota from NTT DoCoMo's international PR team. Shinya gave me some interesting info on the latest handsets and services coming onto the Japanese market and talked about how Japanese consumers are using their mobiles

To listen to extracts from the interview, click here.