MobiComp may or may not be a company that you have heard of before, but this company operating out of the country of Portugal might be the next step forward for the Microsoft Multitouch revolution.

MobiComp is a company that is not very originally named, since the company focuses primarily on mobile applications. At the current moment in time, the company has been around for less than a decade but has been able to develop three mobile applications that allow for enhanced functionality on the mobile level. The Portuguese company seems to have a talent for coming up with good mobile applications, which is perhaps the main reason as to why Microsoft went out of their way to acquire MobiComp.

While Microsoft will not say as much out loud, they are desperate when it comes to the mobile market. Their operating system was not worth anything to mobile users in terms of increased efficiency and with Apple’s release of products like the iPhone, it is quite clear that the mobile market was Apple’s re-entry into the computer game. Microsoft, through its own ineptitude, allowed the practically dead Apple Company back into the market and now they are reeling as Apple goes on the offensive and starts cutting into their sales.

Microsoft appears to be serious in their rhetoric about regaining some of the market. The acquisition of MobiComp appears to be a means to that end. The combination of Microsoft’s mobile Multitouch technology and the mobile applications of MobiComp suggest products in the future that might be in a position to challenge Apple for the mobile market.