CTIA Wireless and Top Honours for a Montreal Company

By bassem Apr 6th 2008 in Mobile

CTIA Wireless 2008, a global marketplace targeting the wireless industry, with 1,200 exhibitors and 40,000 attendees in Las Vegas, just ended on April 3. There was a keynote lineup of executives from Sprint Nextel, Verizon Wireless, Microsoft and Virgin Group like Sir Richard Branson in addition to US senators like John Edwards. Amongst the handset revelations there was the iphone inspired Samsung Instinct and RIM’s Curve 8330 with GPS.

A Montreal based company called Copernic Mobile won first prize in the CTIA Wireless 2008 E-Tech Awards. The E-Tech (Emerging Technologies) Awards program gives industry recognition and acknowledges the best wireless products and services in several categories, including Enterprise Solutions. A panel of industry analysts, media and technology experts reviewed nearly three hundred submissions from established and emerging companies and judged product entries based on innovation, creativity and vision. Marc Ferland, Copernic’s President and CEO accepted the prize in person for best Enterprise Solutions.

In other news, a significant report finding by Report Buyer showed that wireless data is driving growth in U.S. Telecommunications Industry. It indicates that by late 2007, data service revenues accounted for approximately 18% of total wireless service revenues, up from 4 % in 2004. The majority of wireless data revenues were being generated by non-messaging applications like music downloads, mobile TV, video blogs and internet-accessed entertainment services.

Finally, a statement by WSJ’s Walt Mossberg ( an insider to Apple pre-released products ) predicts that Apple’s iphone 2.0 version with 3G Capabilities will be released in 60 days! Should we wait or go for the current one ?

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Simon Rain April 07, 2008

I’m waiting for the 3G version too.
Any idea which provider will have it or why it’s not available in Canada yet ?

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