This year's show in Barcelona looks to be bigger than ever, with more than 70,000 visitors expected this week. That means some lines for the coffee stands too.
Click on the picture below for some images of the first day at MWC:
Waiting for the Face
The line for Mark Zuckerberg's keynote 60 minutes before it started.
DanJones, User Rank: Blogger 2/26/2014 | 7:59:04 AM
Re: so why is it in Barcelona? Yeah its the hotels and transport not the technology. Same reason big US conferences end up in Chicago and Las Vegas rather than Silicon Valley.
sfisher836, User Rank: Light Beer 2/25/2014 | 11:11:09 PM
so why is it in Barcelona? Is it simply a place where they happen to have big hotels and convention centers? I hadn't really heard of Spain being a hotbed of mobile development. I mean, why Barcelona and not Germany?
mendyk, User Rank: Light Sabre 2/25/2014 | 4:46:38 PM
heat treatment Re slide 2: "Was that a squirrel I just hit?" "No, looks more like a dog on the heat sensor map. Or maybe a large cat." "I hope it was a stray."
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MWC14: Day 1 – Bustlin' Barcelona 
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