Mobile Communications Applications
Getting New Business Ideas Off the Ground
Siemens Mobile Acceleration GmbH (smac) supports start-up companies involved in developing innovative applications for mobile communications networks. These companies not only receive financial assistance; they also gain access to Siemens' expertise and serviceranging from a global research and sales network to management consulting and the provision of office space. smac has office locations in Oberhaching near Munich, Germany, as well as in Stockholm, Paris, Beijing and Shanghai, with other countries soon to be added to the list. The companies supported by Siemens Mobile Acceleration GmbH include:
- scaraboo GmbH develops betting, quiz and agility games for cell phones. The special feature of these games is that the odds are updated dynamically. In the future, a customer with a video-enabled cell phone will be able to watch a soccer game, a Formula 1 race or a horse race, for example, and then place bets right up to the last minute before the finish.
While John and Rebecca are talking, they both automatically receive the other's phone homepage on their cell phones
- Siemens Mobile Travel Solutions GmbH has developed the TravelAngel platform, which makes it possible for company employees to manage their own business trips. TravelAngel "watches" over travellers en route and automatically notifies them via cell phone about traffic jams, weather, flight delays, hotels, possibilities for changing reservations and much, much more.
- The PhonePages of Sweden AB has presented a technology that automatically loads the caller's "cell phone homepage" onto the recipient subscriber's cell phone. The page can contain information such as the caller's address and a photograph. With this system, a customer could, for example, call up a restaurant and check out the menuwhile the restaurant would receive the caller's homepage, including his or her electronic business card.