Tech Talks Central

George Markatatos, CEO of Regate, a spinoff company that specialises in outdoor enterprise mobility, talks about solutions their company offers and dives into use cases that help companies make the most out of their mobile workforce. Interviewed by Tina Miteko for Tech Talks Central.

We talk with Fotis Paraskevopoulos, cofounder of Peekintoo, a service that allows you to upload short video moments, anonymously, just because you felt it was worth mentioning or responding to a demand. With presence in over 50 countries and plenty of hype generated during #mwc14 he joins us to talk about their service, their plans and possible funding opportunities. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.

Evi Varsou of ATC talks about their new venture, News Asset, a media newscasting platform. Their product is an end to end solution for media organisations, including aggregation, editorial workflow, asset management, cross publishing and distribution. Evi talks about the vast changes in traditional media, information aggregation, trends and analysis of mass incoming data and how their product provides solutions. Interviewed by George Voulgaris for Tech Talks Central.

Dominique Hazael-Massieux, lead of all things mobile at W3C, explains the work the organisation does with keeping most web technologies available to all under royalty free schemes. He talks about HTML5 and how the time for its standardization has finally come; the inevitable fragmentation periods; cross-platforms and more. Interviewed by George Voulgaris for Tech Talks Central.

We chat with Daniel Marischka, CEO of Flatout Technologies about the connected home, and ways for people to save energy and feel more secure by giving owners the ability to control their homes from anywhere, at anytime. Interviewed by Tina Miteko of Tech Talks Central.

Andreas Constantinou, Director & Founder of VisionMobile, gives an in depth analysis of some of the key trends in the connected industries and the announcements of the Mobile World Congress 2014: Big data, APIs, IoT/the connected everything, the Nokia Android (X) phone and why a Microsoft company would be moving in this direction. Is an Android phone, a calculated Microsoft strategy? Interviewed by George Voulgaris for Tech Talks Central.

The two co-founders of Contests4Causes, Nick Tsoniotis and Alexandros Binopoulos talk about their presence at Mobile World Congress 2014 and how they plan to get their application known to the world. They explain that Contest4Causes is a platform combining people who like participating in contests and those who want to help good causes; a twist to the Κickstarter model in microfinancing for a social need. Interviewed by Yannis Rizopoulos for TechTalksCentral.

Handy Games is going beyond mobile, getting their games on other devices, bigger screens, to users in their living room. Chris Kassulke talks about Nokia, Tizen, mobile trends and whether he believes second screen experience will catch up. Of course, as a renowned game developer we couldn’t miss asking him about Flappy Bird. Interviewed by George Voulgaris for Tech Talks Central.

George Saslis, Solution Designer of Cytech, the b2b software solutions company for the mobile sector, explains why SMS is not dead but on the contrary is the one communication medium that connects everyone. He goes on to identify other enterprise solutions that are showcased at MWC14 and predicts the future for NFC, iBeacons, mobile app development and more. Interviewed by Yannis Rizopoulos for Tech Talks Central.

Jonathan Nightingale, VP of Firefox, talks about its new Firefox OS phones and why they’re focusing on emerging markets and the next 2 billion smartphone users/clients of low end devices; the deal with Spreadtrum and how he sees Nokia and the rest of the competition, the price pressure downwards, the platform wars and who will win, finally. Interviewed by George Voulgaris for Tech Talks Central.