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3G Weblog Launch

23rd September, 2004

Europe : UMTSforum.net - the leading, Spanish speaking gateway for UMTS and 3G technology - announces the nationwide launch of the first MobLog (a Weblog that can be updated using mobile devices). UMTSforum.net is based in and managed from Vilassar de Mar, Barcelona.

The solution is aimed at the professional sector, large gateways and content providers, who need to obtain up-to-minute information via mobile devices. The application allows users to maintain and edit their Weblog using a GPRS or UTMS enabled mobile device, as well as through web-based platforms.

A Weblog (also known as a Blog) is a place where articles or pieces of news are presented in chronological order. It is designed in a way that if it were a newspaper, each article (post) would be shown with its date of publication. In this way the author and the readers can follow the contents in a chronological order. Weblogs are a worldwide phenomenon and they have been adopted as a standard form of communication on the web. Weblogs can be read as newspapers, magazines, discussion forums, diaries, etc.

According to Laureà Folch, Director of UMTSforum.net "the growth in the number of Weblogs has been exponential, to the point where today we do not know the precise number of Weblogs out there." They have played key roles in such important events as the war in Iraq, or the (Spanish) general election. Their success is based on the fact that they are easy to use and that you do not need technical knowledge to be able to maintain one.

The service is aimed at large companies with employees that move around a lot, manufacturers of mobile or electronic devices, telecommunications operators, as well as large gateways.

"It is a media revolution - the service allows users to send information in real time. Can you imagine a reporter sending in news (text and images) from wherever and whenever the events take place? With this service every person with a mobile phone becomes a potential source of information. The media revolution has arrived. Newspapers can make use of the service through their intranets, or even through their own gateways on the Internet," as Laureà Folch points out. She gives further examples, "it will no longer be the case that engineering experts need to travel from their workshops to the office to give their reports. As soon as they have completed them, they will be able to send them, from where they are.

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