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I attended ScrumDay 2012, organized by the French Scrum User Group (French only), together with Cornel Fatulescu, Director of the Pentalog Institute. Despite the participation fee, I guess about 500 people took part in the conferences.
Personally, I have chosen the following conferences:
Scrum for business teams
The presentation was a feedback on the experience gained while implementing Scrum within a Marketing team whose members traditionally do not deal directly with the concepts of timebox and products as such. In any case, the conclusions reached before method deployment were similar to what we came across when dealing with IT projects: lack of understanding and communication, working in a permanent state of emergency and little priority management.
I firmly believe in Agile methods both for production teams and for business activities (beside IT), as agility is, above all, organization and a state of mind. I think the approach based on taking into account the Marketing team’s backlog as product-objective was interesting. In the end, there is more clarity and a higher ability to meet needs.
Building and managing the release plan for a big project
Not everyone applies the implementation of a release plan within a Scrum project. However, it is essential at project start-up and further on, to provide an overview of the project. The product owner together with his clients work on defining the release plan based on an global assessment. This is the starting point of this shared overview for the Scrum team. For the client, it is the ability to establish project status against this overview.
Of course, a release plan genuinely adds value to major projects, where the overview is indispensable.
In the Agile manager’s shoes
Within a Scrum project, the roles of the product owner, Scrum master, developers and other testers are very clear. However, a manager’s role is not included in the scope of this framework. The presentation consisted of a survey of good practices for the managers when they are in charge of Scrum teams.
The following observations have been made: if Scrum changes certain practices, some activities remain unchanged. The manager is mainly present to implement the change: migration towards the Scrum methodology. He must maintain contact with all the members of his team. If there are too many, this can be one of the sources of the problem. Even if the Scrum Master protects his team, the manager’s role is to protect the different teams within logistics management, for example.
The manager’s role has shifted in the context of these changing behaviors, but he must also adapt his management techniques to the practices and state of mind of these Agile methods. He will be helped even more if his hierarchy is able to adapt as well.
15 days to draft the release plan for your project with serious games
The implementation of a Release plan is no easy task. The product owner must be able to establish a vision shared by all his clients. Favoritism, cliques, communication problems and so on, are not making things easier, and the simple fact of hearing “I know the needs and my business” reduces the capacities for change.
The use of serious Game enables us to take people out of this closed environment. Serious games tend to bring people at the same level and organize understanding without worrying too much about the business.
This period of 15 days for drafting the release plan is short, but it is important, as it allows the managers/decision makers to focus on clearly defining their needs. The product owner is highly involved in this process, but one must take into account the fact that the facilitator and his reporter are capital for the success of this kind of operations.
Scrum at the borders of social psychology
This session was very informative. The approach aimed at presenting the social practices within the company and within projects and agile projects with a view to showing the mechanisms for a better benefit from it. The demonstration primarily focused on commitment, a fundamental behavior within a Scrum team.
The demonstration has not been summarized here in a few words, but I advise you to watch this session.
Leadership of talents – Rhythm and performance, derived from Scrum practices and Olympic sports
The closing keynote may seem a bit far from the theme, but when we are trying to reach the maximum performance of our production teams, it is easy to see similarities with the performance expected from high level athletes. Do we allow for recovery and relaxation concepts? Most of the time, we have to ensure, assume first. Here and there, we come across forced operations, but they come at a price. This was the presentation approach of Ralph Hippolyte, Philippe Houssin, Patrice Petit, Xavier Warzee. Beside this approach, the participants have referred to social behaviors identifiable by the physical behavior by means of several demos at the end.
I advise you to watch this session.
I don’t know if it is still possible to (re)view the sessions, like last year, but, if this is the case, I’ll provide the link in an update of this article.
The last two sessions (less directly related to Scrum) have interested me the most. When we debriefed, Cornel shared my opinion. It is obvious that, when seeking performance and social relations, we cannot settle for a simple application of good practices. Social behavior is a practice to integrate in the organization.
In what concerns quality, both the participants’ qualities and those concerning the organization of the event, I am positive that I will attend ScrumDay 2013 too.
See also blog des Méthodes et Technologies IT. (French only)
See also the series of articles ScrumDay 2011. (French only)
It is when we lose a big customer that I realize how much our policy makes sense. Indeed, we have just been informed that one of our biggest customers is leaving us, although they have been highly satisfied with our services for the past 4 years. Their decision is due to their internal policy approach. This blog cannot only be about conveying good news. That’s what happens sometimes with international giants. This is a 7 figure per year customer, representative for our success in the past 5 years. This is a hard blow, which may affect the growth forecast for 2012, as well as the margin. However, it is exactly in such moments that I feel the most the incredible strength of what we have built. Our margin policy, for instance, will be able without doubt to bear this shock. Not only the group will remain stable, but it will continue to attract envy in this respect. I am not at all worried on this issue.
Although this project involved a team consisting of 32 people, I want to make a particular point about the company that we created and its capacity to cope with this king of challenges. The 2-figure margin policy that we have for years now makes it possible, thus having a social use. Therefore, you rest assured that with more than 20 new clients per year, Pentalog will not let its excellent employees to leave the company for this reason. No other company in Eastern Europe has known such a rhythm of organic growth during the past 5 years. Therefore, maybe we will have to reconsider our growth for 2012 for less, between 9 and 15%, but not more. In February alone and without taking in account any new contract with clients, we notified growth by 15 people of our existing teams. We have already identified new projects for 12 persons from the affected team. Besides, we are waiting, for another center, for a huge opportunity which is about to reach its final phase of analysis. For that matter, our bench time is historically low.
Nobody should worry as our IT outsourcing company has all the financial strength it needs to cope with this sort of challenges. What I ask all of you is the minimum of time and patience that we need in order to identify a project which best corresponds to their skills.
Welcome to the IT offshore press review. Is it time to quit Facebook?
- Time to quit Facebook; it doesn’t Like you any more (March 23, 2012, IT World)
- Why IT Professionals Aren’t Monogamous (March 24, 2012, Techcrunch)
- Department for Work and Pensions outsources IT for universal credit welfare to India (March 26, 2012, Computer Weekly)
- What businesses should learn from Web 2.0 (March 23, 2012, Computer Weekly)
- Google awarded patent for weather-based ads (March 23, 2012, Computer Weekly)
- DIY culture: should non-IT employees be compensated for building apps? (March 22, 2012, ZDNet)
- Companies reach out to APAC audience with virtual events (March 26, 2012, ZDNet Asia)
- CIOs fear business leaders see cloud as way to circumvent IT (March 23, 2012, Computing)
- Budget 2012: Reaction from the IT industry (March 21, 2012, Computing)
- Texas Ousts IBM, Takes New IT Outsourcing Tack (March 23, 2012, CIO)
- Offshoring Shrinks Number of IT Jobs, Study Says (March 21, 2012, CIO)
- Wall Street: Cloud Boom Could Be Bigger Than Dot-com (March 25, 2012, Service Angle)
- Österreich: Cloud wälzt IT-Markt um (March 22, 2012, Future Zone)
- Outsourcing auch nach Afrika (March 21, 2012, Automotive IT)
When our catalog was freely downloadable, we observed, outside the direct marketing campaigns, an amount of downloads per month that reached as many as 700. During campaigns, we even exceeded this figure sometimes during one day.
Our last campaign, which has just started, offers to download our new catalog from a space of the type “Private sales” on which the user has to create an account. The trend after the first delivery to 1,000 recipients shows us that the number of download requests on this campaign (total number of our contacts) should reach 200. When we know that an average Pentalog client brings more than €300,000 sales figure per year, we consider that it is worth the effort.
In the following months, we will propose them to discover in preview, in order to reduce the sourcing time, the CVs of Pentalog’s best new employees and even to preselect the best candidates. We will propose them to download contracts, templates of project-quality plans… (See also the interface presentation video – in French only).
If you decide to download our catalog (in French only), you will receive it within 3 working hours. I also invite you to discover the presentation video of Sophie Lelarge (in French only).
Mobility, Cloud computing, IT Budgets and IT Hiring. These are just a few of the subjects in today’s IT Offshore press review! Come and join us on Facebook!
- Expanded IT trade pact would bring huge benefits, study says (March 15, 2012, Computer World)
- IBM moves UK drivers’ private data offshore to datacentre in India (March 19, 2012, Computer Weekly)
- IT managers take on more responsibilities with increased job security (March 15, 2012, Computer Weekly)
- Yahoo to sue Facebook in patent dispute (March 13, 2012, Computer Weekly)
- The 100 Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors Of 2012 (March 15, 2012, CRN)
- Sunday rant: social business? I’m still not buying it (March 18, 2012, ZDNet)
- IT Priorities: 2012 budgets solid; Mobility, price haggling rule (March 19, 2012, ZDNet)
- Budget 2012 disappoints Indian IT (March 19, 2012, ZDNet Asia)
- Is Mobile Virtualization Ready for Your Business? (March 15, 2012, CIO)
- 9 IT Outsourcing RFP Response Red Flags (March 15, 2012, CIO)
- Why is IT Hiring so Hard? (March 15, 2012, CIO)
- Outsourcing für globales Wachstum (March 15, 2012, IT Director)
- Prognosen zum IT-Markt 2012: Paradox: Sparen und mehr verdienen (March 13, 2012, CFO World)
In these election times, in France as well as in the USA, this is a popular word. Easy to use and definitely catchy, it reconciles the extreme left, the extreme right, the extreme center and the elderly. It works almost on its own! There is a risk involved, meaning the potential for a lot of foolish economic decisions, but in general politicians and journalists tend not to care about it.
For example, we systematically forget to say that, when an Indian company orders 127 Airbus planes (which will bring 10 billion to the South-West of France and Northern Germany), this happens because there are more and more Indians who can fly due to earning higher incomes. Of course we want to sell these Airbus planes to them! But it would be even better if the Indians could stop producing goods and services they trade on the global market. The ultimate thing would be that they buy these things from us with British and American help!
Unfortunately, this is not a caricatured vision. This type of demagoguery is very fashionable even within governing political parties. Why are the people always presumed to be stupid, ignorant and racist? They can understand very well that if France loses parts of the market all over the world it is because it hasn’t been innovative or competitive enough. It is up to every single one of us to solve this issue and it’s not by crying wolf that we are going to grow stronger in the end.
Pentalog has also been given this label in the press whereas we have never transferred any position, either from our company or from our clients’, to Eastern Europe or elsewhere. Moreover, the Orleans site exports software engineering services to about ten countries (I wonder if there are any other companies who do this in Orleans?). The Group as a whole, owned almost 100% by Pentalog France, generates 50% of its revenue on the export market. In fact, our local French teams specialize in large IT projects (wherever the client may be) and are involved in a co-production with Eastern Europe or Asia. In the end, not only are no positions relocated, but we also contribute to our foreign trade and generate profit on a broader basis… largely imposed in France. Thus, in 2011, whereas 5% of our staff are based in France, 40% of our global profit will be taxed in the country this year.
And then there is taxation… 57% of the French are in favor of a 75% tax rate for top earners, exceeding an income of €1 million. Even though I am unfortunately very far from that  ; I know that this kind of approach doesn’t make any sense, except for making top earners flee the country, if the fruits of their work enabled them to reach this level of income. Why hasn’t Mr Hollande proposed 90%? Or maybe 75% of the French are in favor of a 57% tax rate for €1 million incomes?! Who knows? These speculations are not only haphazard in their efficiency, but also populist in their intention.
Be cautious as there are many of us, contributors to international trade as well as to the French budget, who become victims of these Manichean visions which weigh terribly on the existing relationship between the French entrepreneur and its territory. The system’s cash cows, successful companies on the international market and their managers, are more likely to be expatriated from their headquarters as, by the nature of their activities, they are already ready to do so. I must point out here that I am not talking about us. However, it is true that recent conversations made me think that, due to stigmatization, many companies intend to leave the country.
Gartner announces that less than 30% of large organisations will block social media access by 2014. Is your outsourcer agile enough? Could new breed of Indian IT suppliers sneak under the radar again? These are just a few of the subjects of the IT offshore press review. Enjoy your reading !
- Outsourcing IT Services (March 12, 2012, ITO News)
- Gartner – Fewer Than 30 Per Cent of Large Organisations Will Block Social Media by 2014 (March 12, 2012, CFO News)
- Is your outsourcer agile enough? (March 12, 2012, Computer World)
- French team brings down IE9 at Pwn2Own hacking contest (March 9, 2012, Computer World)
- Open source status rising, Nvidia joins Linux Foundation (March 11, 2012, Computer Weekly)
- Could new breed of Indian IT suppliers sneak under the radar again (March 8, 2012, Computer Weekly)
- How to download your Facebook account (March 9, 2012, ZDNet)
- The Essential Strategy Guide on the Consumerization of IT (March 6, 2012, CIO)
- IT Innovation “More Important Than Cost Cutting” (March 7, 2012, CIO)
- Anti-Offshoring Bill Scores 77 U.S. House Co-Sponsors (March 7, 2012, CIO)
- Lessons Learned: Outsourcing Managed Network Services (March 9, 2012, CIO)
- Schweizer Firmen und ihr Verhältnis zur Client-Virtualisierung (March 9, 2012, Inside IT)
- Was bringt ECM aus der Cloud? (March 7, 2012, Computer Woche)
A lot of fun and interesting subjects in this IT offshore press review. Enjoy!
- Mobile World Congress 2012 roundup: All you need to know from Barcelona (March 2, 2012, Computer world)
- Facebook woos businesses with redesigned business pages, Timeline (February 29, 2012, Computer world)
- Science-and-engineering workforce has stalled in U.S., report says (March 2, 2012, Computer world)
- RSA 2012: IT security experts urge enterprises to ban smartphone BYOD schemes (March 2, 2012, Computer weekly)
- Europe plans high-performance ’science cloud’ (March 2, 2012, ZDNet)
- Zynga’s play platform a big test for its cloud computing prowess (March 2, 2012, ZDNet)
- How Cloud Computing Is Forcing IT Evolution (February 29, 2012, CIO)
- IT Outsourcing Buyers Still Don’t Care About Sustainability (March 2, 2012, CIO)
- How the Cloud Cuts VC Dependencies and Democratizes Entrepreneurship (February 29, 2012, CIO)
The conference continued on the vision of 2022 (see my previous post here) by presenting several companies and their innovative solutions. Paul Lee (Deloitte), the chairman of this conference, has asked us for a vote in order to see which of these innovative solutions epitomizes the future:
- EarSmart: enables an object to hear (even in an extreme sound environment). They believe that, in 2022, the voice will be more useful than at the present day. In order to achieve that, the sound quality and voice capture must be improved not only for mobile devices but also for vocal translators and even for social networks. Companies such as Skype, HD voice, Apple (with Siri) and FaceBook set technology trends through (because of) their users. For this purpose, the communication networks, LTE/4G/WiFi/G, must provide better quality of service (I am not sure I understood it correctly: was Google serious in what concerns Google TiSP ???). EarSmart technology enables us to differentiate voices in an extremely noisy environment. More than 60 mobile devices use this technology at present. Technology demonstration: the manager of EarSmart showed us a movie with an employee entering a crowded restaurant. All we could hear was a deafening background noise. Then, he asks a technician to connect a device to the audio outlet of the computer and to plug the audio cable to this device. We watch the same movie again, but this time we can hear the employee who was filming while presenting the EarSmart technology. It was impressive.  Only a faint background noise could be heard.
- Expert Maker: the manager of this company pointed out that there is a total overload (in what concerns data and Apps) and this situation is not going to improve in the future. The Apps enable us to verticalize and narrow data fields (to sort or display), but this will not solve anything. Time is also a problem: another verticalization by Apps. Expert Maker thinks that non-structured data is a way of solving this issue. Therefore, they propose a concept built upon an information flow filtered based on user preferences (either by parametering, or by learning the system concerning data and Apps use). The sources are not only RSS but also Apps (such as YouTube, Yellow Pages, FB, etc.) which propose “several things”. Each info can be classified, prioritized, rejected and transferred. Thus, it is a non-structured data analysis, presented as a social network news thread. The demonstration was quick, as the project focused essentially on the processing part; therefore there were few visual aspects.
- Fiksu: this company has developed a platform for centralizing the collection and dissemination of Apps. Its aim is to enable ‘your’ application to reach the final user. There are so many Apps (and there will be millions more in the following years) that it is difficult to make one’s App stand out from the rest (the noise). Fiksu seeks to simplify this through its platform in order for it to become the only bridge between the final users and the stores: only one place to load an application on the stores, only one place where the users can find the App.
- Blippar: augmented reality. Blippar has coined a new word, “Blipping”, which means turning something real into something virtual. They use a cellphone camera to capture images of an object tagged as Blipper, which enables to add interactive content to the image. It functions on any type of surface and object. For the demonstration, the manager of Blippar has taken out his smartphone and several objects among which a music CD, on which additional contents were screened (song lyrics, the schedule of the band’s future tour, photos of the band, etc.), and a cereal bar on which a game was screened (a quiz as well as the advertizing spots).
Imagine this technology applied to a street or an entire store and yourself wearing a pair of glasses incorporating a screen and a camera connected to your mobile device (or replacing the mobile device altogether): I can’t wait. 
Blippar won the audience’s votes and mine, even if I think it is a pity that Expert Maker’s concept hasn’t been really understood by the audience (it is a concept without an application to show). In my view, Blippar’s votes are mainly due to the fact that the demonstration was visual and interactive. Thus, Blippar won AT&T’s support in the form of a contract with WAC, which is going to help them to integrate their solution within an AT&T network.
The third day of the conference was chaired by Paul Lee, one of Deloitte’s R&D managers.
The conference speakers were:
- John Donovan, from AT&T
- Erik Kruse, Ericsson’s R&D manager
John got the ball rolling for AT&T’s future in mobility. Nothing new compared to yesterday’s presentation (see my previous post here). Two major points on which John particularly insisted come to my mind:
- Networking of intelligence: AT&T manages a huge amount of Data (Big Data), including personal data as well as anonymous data. AT&T wants to interconnect the cloud with services (such as health services for instance) to provide new generation mobile services (a doctor can provide remote assistance).
- Security is among the main concerns of AT&T. The user must be allowed to choose whether or not to share certain data with particular people or Apps. In order to achieve this, they have created 130 API via the WAC program for 14 use categories. With transactions amounting to 4.5B in 2011, and a 10B forecast for 2012, it is all the more important for AT&T to help (and even to control) the developers concerning the possible future network uses in their Apps.
- HTML5: AT&T pushes forward the use of HTML5.
John presented two Apps examples: a man enters his car and it checks whether all the elements he tagged are in the car, preventing the driver from leaving for work without his laptop. A mobile device can be used to manage the access key (via NFC/RFID) to enter a place (a hotel room, for example).
In a nutshell, for AT&T, the world of tomorrow is an entirely connected world, where all the objects help the user in everyday life.
Erik takes over and presents Ericsson’s vision for 2022. Since 1999, Ericsson has known that new communication means must be invented. He insists on the number 3 and introduces 3 people who embody the announced changes:
- Kayranga Moses, a Rwandan who lives in a village far from large cities and their infrastructures, who has connected his village in order to “bring” medical services there.
- Irina from Russia, who uses social networks to find lost children in Moscow.
- His own son, 10 years old, Alexander (Swedish) who knows no communication limit regardless of the equipment used (it seems that his father takes a lot of prototypes home).
After that, Erik presented a telepresence robot which enables sick children to attend classes if they cannot leave home.
As far as Erik is concerned, Broadband, mobility and cloud are key technologies for the future (the number 3 again), they are the cornerstones of change. The web is the new worldwide marketplace. Erik summed up with the following: “Networks are everything (physical but also people)”, “Speed is everything”, and “Innovation is everything”.
Once again, it is a vision of an ultra-connected world, even for the most remote regions. A colleague of mine has pointed out lately that only a small percentage of the world’s population is currently connected. We still have a considerable way to go until everybody could reap its benefits. Mobile telephony is one of the first means to achieve that, but the gap will continue to widen.
As for myself, beyond connected devices, I think we must continue to advocate for simplified usage and a revolution in data and application management: as their number has grown exponentially over time, we are going to reach saturation. Just as business intelligence has enabled us to aggregate data and redistribute it to decision makers at the right time, I think operating systems must turn around to provide services (instead of applications).
The conference continued with a presentation of several solutions provided by young companies which epitomize the future. I invite you to read more on this topic in my next post.
This conference was animated by Tim Green from Mobile Entertainment. The speakers were:
- Jon Summers, SVP, App & SVC Services, AT&T
- Scott Jenson, Creative Director, Frog
- Peter Broekroelofs, CTO & Co-Founder, Service2Media
- Safdar Mustafa, Head of Mobile Media, Al Jazeera
- Hoojong Kim, SVP, Global Technology Research Institute, SK Telecom
It was Jon Summer from AT&T who started the debates. For him, change must come from the complexity of tools, platforms, languages, protocols, as well as from data sources that the developers have to manage. All this must be simplified. AT&T has opened its network through a programme (WAC) for developing Cloud, with the aim of providing API/platforms to help developers, and to improve the collaboration with other telecommunication operators. This opening is surrounded by HTML5, by the support to developers, by a dedicated portal and by ‘On boarding’, which has not been developed, therefore I don’t really know what he meant by that. This change has begun in 2008 and continues up to this date.
Scott Jenson from Frog then spoke about Apps and about the debate that opposes native development to web development. For him, a hybrid one is the solution with 3 possibilities:
- App Glut: we need a store, a product and a website.
- size and cost reduction: he calls it “Zombie applications apocalypse”, given the number of applications arriving in the store, many won’t have any chance to stand out and will become “zombies”.
- Leverage other applications: having the possibility to interact with various equipment as for instance connecting a bottle in order to find our the number of times it has been used, the validity date of its contents.
For him, Apps have not seen their revolution yet (according to the Kuhn cycle): from the mainframe to the tablet/mobile. There is thus a high opportunity to create a solution that concentrates all these new devices. The mobile will/must provide apps/services to be used when necessary at the right moment according to the place.
I completely agree with him .
Then, Peter Broekroelofs from Service2media talked about the solution that they implemented for their customer Aljazeera: the cross device is a good opportunity to reduce costs. For this, Apps must be designed only once, then they must be deployed on various platforms and maintained. Peter has then listed a certain number of facts:
- Developing on native takes a lot more time. Thus, there is an increase of the life cycle of the product.
- The user experience is different depending on the platform (iOS, Android…) and also according to the equipment (Apple, HTC, Sony…).
- There is also the problem related to security: the final user trusts the security of his smartphone, thus it must be preserved.
- There is also the integration of the mobile in the IS (cloud, server, accessories) via wifi/3G.
- Last, but not the least: one must administer the array of languages of the users (French, English, Chinese…).
Safdar Mustafa followed on to make a debriefing in his capacity of client (Aljazeera). He insisted on 2 points: the issue of multiplatforms and the diversity of sources and medias generating info, for example the tweet of the photo of plane crash that was taken over by everybody. The mobile revolution in information is very important in the media world. Aljazeera adds as many functionalities as possible by listening to users (obtaining this feedback is not always simple considering the small number of tools offered by guest platforms). Concerning language, Safdar quoted a concrete example: Windows 7 does not support Arabic (input/output) which is a unacceptable for an OS used worldwide. In Safdar’s opinion, the IT world must determine the increase of the number of media, the development of Apps and platforms, and in particular benchmark and remain attentive to the users’ feedback.
Hoojong Kim from SK Planet showed interest on the ecosystem around Apps. The presence of the mobile in Korea is on huge expansion with 27% penetration per year. SK Telecom has thus created a spinoff, SK Planet, to manage the mobile development platforms. With 12 million consumers, 26 million pages viewed each month and 619 million downloads (including documents and Apps), SK Telecom (like AT&T) must cope with the burst of usage of its network. According to a survey carried out by SK Planet, Android is ahead of iPhone and the mobile sites. Also according to this study, Android is more consuming in terms of network than iOS. Still in search of a platform allowing to integrate all devices, Hoojong confirms that HTML5 seems to be one of the best solutions.
After all these presentations, the speakers have debated on the never-ending topic “HTML5 or native development?” without unfolding a real answer.
A question addressed by a Russian person has fascinated the speakers: this person stated that 80% of the market is taken by Apple and asked the speakers when and how the other platforms will succeed in changing the odds? For Frog, one of the main problems come from the economic model using advertising. As long as it lasts, it will be though to challenge Apple. For Hoojong Kim, there is a need of more collaboration between the operator and the platform editors, especially around HTML5, which will allow to separate Apple and the platforms. For Aljazeera, we must remember the case of Nokia or even Microsoft: users adopt very quickly new standards as far as they see a new added value. Making available an Android App is, for him, a bet on the future. Like the day before (see my previous post), he militates for HTML5 to be able to access the functionalities of the equipment. For Service2Media, Apps are increasingly designed as “free of charge” and in order to make a difference, one must innovate and succeed in making oneself known.
Another question: Will the operators make the developers pay for the bandwidth and the battery consumption that their apps use? AT&T works on a tool allowing developers to find out this consumption in order to reduce it. Good initiative !
The conference ended on that note. As for me, I discovered later on that there already exists a solution that allows Apps in HTML5 to access the functionalities of devices: appMobi{!}.
Second day in MWC: it is still as exciting as expected!
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