At the Qualcomm Innovation conference in Istanbul on Wednesday, chief executive Paul Jacobs outlined a vision of the connected future focused on proximity-based peer to peer networking.
A new report from analysts Ovum indicates that, despite the capacity of e-prescription technology to fundamentally change the healthcare systems of Europe and America, vendors of the software need to “up their game and improve the design of their systems”.
Telstra has announced a £500m+ (AU$800m) investment in cloud computing over the next five years to support what it says is a growing demand from Australian organisations for cloud services. The telco is rumoured to have invested AU$200m in cloud to date and this latest announcement will kick-off the construction of a new data centre, the modernisation of existing facilities, increased automation of utility computing services and the expansion of the telco’s range of enterprise applications, among other things. Construction of a new data centre in Melbourne is already underway.
- GSMA Mobile World Congress
Barcelona Spain — Feb 27, 2012 - Cable Congress 2012
The Square, Brussels — Mar 7, 2012 - 6th Annual Mobile VAS Asia 2012
Prince Hotel & Residence Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — Mar 14, 2012

Healthcare is arguably the most complex vertical sector in the world. It has also been one of the slowest to invest in It. Mobile operators are well positioned to help the health sector to modernise, cut costs and improve efficiencies and, in doing so, establish themselves at the centre of an industry that is only going to carry on growing.

Telecommunication providers and mobile phone handset manufacturers need the medtech industry to penetrate the mobile health (m-health) market, it was agreed at the Mobile Healthcare Industry Summit 2010, whcih took place in London recently. Medtech is definitely where the opportunities for lie, the delegates concurred, but the question is, where should one deploy the mhealth applications, and how to make a decent profit out of it.





