Here's a brief look at the major announcements made at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, on Day Zero and Day one. Comviva - Mobile VAS company Comviva has launched Hola!, a standards based solution that enables development, testing, deployment, management, distribution and marketing of a wide range of client, SMS & USSD based mobile applications, for offering social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, email as well as web feeds on the mobile phones. The company claims that the solution will allow telcos to extend web services to all phones including mass market feature phones, monetize the service offering and generate usage patterns for cross selling, and will give more pricing options and service without the need for data connectivity. Press Release OnMobile - Mobile VAS provider OnMobile, has launched a suite of mobile services, namely, OnCall Video, OnCall Voice Presence, OnCloud Locker and OnCloud Secure that allow users to video conference, manage calls through voice presence, share and store data on the cloud and, backup and remote wipe secure data in addition to tracking the phone. Press Release Opera - Opera launched Opera Mobile for MIPS-based Android 4.0 tablets; Opera Mobile 12 for Android and Symbian with support for unlimited speed dials and WebGL on Android and a preview version of Opera Mini's next iteration which brings in social functions to feature phones through a new 'SmartPage' feature. It announced a revamped Opera Mobile Store with what it claims to be better distribution and monetization capabilities for developers. The company claimed that…
