Smartphones becoming prime platform for app makers
The smartphone is increasingly becoming the platform of choice for a wide variety of application providers
The smartphone is increasingly becoming the platform of choice for a wide variety of application providers. At the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona all the unveiled tools - a webconferencing application and two social networks, respectively - for the growing number of smartphones coming from several vendors.
The rush to develop smartphone applications started with Apple Inc.'s iPhone, which can now run a variety of applications such as the MySpace social network and Cisco's WebEx Meeting Center webconferencing application.
MySpace and Cisco widely extended the list of smartphones their applications will support. Cisco's webconferencing application will run on several BlackBerry devices, several Nokia devices and the Samsung Blackjack II starting in April. MySpace announced that its social network will soon support the coming Palm Pre smartphone and the Nokia Services 60 Web runtime environment.
For its part, Yahoo announced the new Yahoo Mobile service, a social network that's designed to provide "a highly personalized mobile starting point to the Internet." The new offering runs on the iPhone as well as wireless devices made by Nokia, Research In Motion Ltd., Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Motorola Inc.
The Mobile Money for the Unbanked initiative relies on the predominance of mobile phones in areas of the world where a wired infrastructure is unavailable. The largely untapped consumer banking market in these areas could reach $5 billion in size in three years.
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