{"id":3876,"date":"2011-02-14T09:08:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T08:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3876-mobile-world-congress-kicks-off-in-barcelona.html"},"modified":"2011-02-14T09:08:18","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T08:08:18","slug":"mobile-world-congress-kicks-off-in-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3876-mobile-world-congress-kicks-off-in-barcelona.html","title":{"rendered":"Mobile World Congress kicks off in Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona \u2013 and if you need any convincing about the power shift towards mobile in the industry, simply being here may be sufficient. Spread over 8 vast halls, it is huge, with 1361 exhibitors according to the latest available figures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/image17.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/image_thumb17.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The size of the event makes it impossible to cover it all. My focus is on the developer story. I have started preparing a chart of mobile development tools platforms, which is proving to be a slippery task, but will post this soon for feedback and improvement.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I attended the Nokia press event and will post separately on this soon. It is a fascinating story, whatever the outcome, and I doubt any of the other news this week will be as significant. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona \u2013 and if you need any convincing about the power shift towards mobile in the industry, simply being here may be sufficient. Spread over 8 vast halls, it is huge, with 1361 exhibitors according to the latest available figures. The size of the event makes it impossible to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3876-mobile-world-congress-kicks-off-in-barcelona.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mobile World Congress kicks off in Barcelona<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,59,80],"tags":[599,600,642],"class_list":["post-3876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-nokia","category-software-development","tag-mobile","tag-mobile-world-congress","tag-nokia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}