Mobile Monday is bringing the best of CES directly to you. Nokia – winner of the Best Smartphone of CES with its Lumia 900 – sponsors this month’s event. Come get exclusive hands-on time with Nokia’s newest Window’s Phone devices. Hear plans for the US market and Nokia’snew focus on apps anddevelopers, including seeding thousands of devices to developers, access to tools, support and training.

“We want developer’s to unleash their creative force and build an experience – not just an app – to bring smartphones to life for brands and consumers,” said Chanse Arrington, Nokia’s Head of Developer Marketing – North America

RSVP Here: http://momodallas.eventbrite.com/

February 6th 6PM
McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood Restaurant @ Northpark
307 Northpark Center
Dallas, TX 75225

Join Mobile Monday for candid conversation with Nokia executives and their strategy for developers, WP7, & the US market. Demos of Lumia 900 and other devices. Giveaways, open bar and appetizers.

The irreversible shift towards ‘anytime, anywhere’ connectivity means that the first – and maybe the only – opportunity you have to connect with your customers is via their mobile device. Recent research has shown that you have just six seconds to provide an engaging mobile experience – if you fail to deliver on this expectation, 71% of your visitors will simply give up and go somewhere else. And remember, your fiercest competitors, the disruptive ‘ankle biters’ and the social networking grapevine are all just a click away.

In this session, Richard Stone will discuss the critical customer experience elements that should be part of every company’s mobility strategy, and will share the best practices that we have developed in helping thousands of companies around the world to successfully manage their customer’s mobile experience.

About the speaker:
Richard Stone is Senior Solution Marketing Manager at Compuware, responsible for Mobile and Cloud-based Application Performance Management solutions.

Prior to joining Compuware, Richard has held senior marketing and product management positions at Hewlett Packard, Compaq, plus a number of other US and European IT companies. His domain expertise includes mobile computing, wireless data, cloud computing, application performance management, security, compliance, and high-availability solutions for all market segments (SMB, Enterprise, and key verticals such as Finance, Government, Healthcare, and Retail.

RSVP here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2163695672

Nokia and Microsoft are sponsoring this event to promote their partnership and show off the type of apps you can build on Windows Phone platform. Even if you have an app for another platform but WP7 is in the plans.. feel free to sign up to demo. This is mobile “show and tell” night. Sign up to demo your mobile app!

Catering provided, make sure to RSVP = http://momodfw.eventbrite.com

When: Monday, August 22, 2011 from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Where: Maggianos @ Northpark Center
Northpark 8687 N Central Expy Suite 205, Dallas, TX

This is part of a 7 city tour with Mobile Monday America sponsored by Nokia and Microsoft.

Thanks to event sponsors Big in Japan and Architel for hosting.

RSVP via Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=156328704408042&ref=mf

Chris Koeing of Microsoft presents Windows Phone 7:
Join Microsoft Developer Evangelist Chris Koenig for a detailed look into Microsoft’s latest offering in the mobile space – Windows Phone 7. Based on Silverlight and XNA, Windows Phone 7 provides a very rich and powerful development platform. In this session we’ll explore the Windows Phone 7 architecture, development patterns, design and development tools, and more. We’ll walk through some sample code as well as building a sample Windows Phone 7 application from scratch. You’ll leave this session with a solid understanding of what Windows Phone 7 is all about, and what it takes to build killer applications today!

Information on the presenter and useful links:
Chris Koenig
Sr. Developer Evangelist
US – DPE Central Region Audience
http://chriskoenig.net/
http://developer.windowsphone.com/
http://silverlight.net/

Time: Monday, November 1st :: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Location: Big in Japan, Inc. / Architel Headquarters
Campbell Centre. 8350 N. Central Expressway, Suite 250, Dallas

Join Forum Nokia at the InfoMart(Big in Japan office) Monday, February at 7PM for an update on Nokia developer offerings and business and distribution opportunities. We’ll be providing an overview of the Nokia web developer experience, including web runtime and Flash, Qt for S60 and Maemo and more. Local mobile developer luminary Kirk Ballou of Flash Widgets LLC will be co-hosting, and showing demos of some of the applications he’s developed for Nokia devices. We’ll also provide an update on the Ovi Store and the Open Screen Project Fund. Food and refreshments will be provided.

Sponsors:
Architel: http://www.architel.com (Hosting)
Forum Nokia: http://forum.nokia.com
Flash Widgets: http://flash-widgets.com

This is a combined Mobile Monday Dallas / Adobe Mobile User Group event.

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RSVP on our Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=287502096051&ref=mf

When:
August 3rd @ 7PM

Where:
Big in Japan Headquarters at Infomart off i-35
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Overview:
The mobile application marketplace is dominated by Apple’s App Store, but is the App Store the best model for corporations to distribute their mobile applications? Join Genuitec co-founder and vice president of product development, Wayne Parrott, and senior Eclipse developer, Greg Amerson, as they discuss the long term drawbacks of the App Store model and highlight the benefits of the Internet as the App Store of tomorrow. The discussion will further focus on tips and techniques for creating mobile Web applications using HTML 5, CSS3, and JavaScript with WebKit technology. This presentation is for both desktop and mobile developers as well as executives interested in learning how and why the Internet is the lowest barrier to entry for enterprise-class mobile applications.

Agenda:
1. Introduction by VP of product development, Wayne Parrot, and senior Eclipse developer, Greg Amerson, to Genuitec history and why Genuitec entered the mobile space

2. Mobile big picture
- Smartphone advancements (hardware, network performance, geolocation, cloud computing)
- App Store (+/-)
- Mobile Web usage stats (iPhone)
- Architectural models (native, Web, hybrid)

3. OSS Impact, Eclipse Foundation
- Eclipse Blinki & Pulsar
- Other OSS initiatives

4. Mobile app strategy
- General industry-wide approach
- Finding a different strategy to stand out, examples
- Mobile web as pragmatic and capable, low risk/low cost entry point

5. HTML5 Movement

6. Mobile Web/HTML5 demo
- Getting started in mobile Web
- Demo HTML5 capabilities and key example sites

7. Q&A

Date: Monday, March 2, 2009
Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: Big in Japan Headquarters (InfoMart)
Street: 1950 Stemmons Freeway, Suite 2022
City/Town: Dallas, TX
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Experiences working with Android
by Alexandar Muse

The story behind Shop Savvy
by Rylan Barnes

Backgrounds:
Alexander Muse
co-founded Big in Japan. Alexander is a serial entrepreneur with more than a decade of startup experience. He served as CEO of Architel, a provider of outsourced information technology services. Previously, he was founder and CEO of LayerOne, a ventured backed telecommunications infrastructure company he started in the late 1990’s.

Rylan Barnes
co-founded Big in Japan and is the lead developer of ShopSavvy, winner of Google’s Android Challenge (ADC I). Rylan started his career at HP. Since then he has worked as a consultant for Software Architects and as a software developer for Veritix.

Big in Japan created Shop Savvy. The app that runs on the G1 snaps a picture of a barcode and finds the best prices around your area for that item. Brilliant.
http://www.biggu.com/

They won the nomination from our DFW group and have now been selected in the global top 20 for Mobile Peer Awards held annually by Mobile Monday Global: http://www.mobilepeerawards.com

So it looks like a trip to Barcelona is in their near future, Good luck guys!

Kirk

I just received information released by Strategy Analytics courtesy of Mark Doherty (Adobe) with recent numbers on Flash Lite saturation rates:
Link to Stats
It is impressive Flash has continually doubled in most markets and continues to. This time last year they were reporting around 400million devices.

Kirk