Nokia + Microsoft joins forces to deliver a power-packed briefing on the latest  Windows Phone and Windows 8

Vaughan Knight-Partner Relations, Nokia Developer EcosystemTeam
Vaughan will be giving insight into Nokia with Windows Phone.  In addition, Vaughan will give an overview of the Windows Phone Marketplace and how and why you should be building applications for Windows Phone.

Michael Kordahi – Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Australia
Michael Kordahi is an Evangelist for Microsoft Australia. A tech guy at heart, he lives on the corner of geek and thinker, where often, he rolls his sleeves up and makes stuff. Michael will be unveiling Microsoft’s latest play in the tablet market.

City Hotel 347 Kent St Sydney, Australia
Monday, April 2, 2012 from 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM
The event is Free to attend, Please Register in Advance

Join us and get a chance to win a Nokia Lumia 800 on the night!

Interested in monetising your mobile assets?

The Google Australia publisher team will be sharing the latest Mobile monetisation  products for publishers and developers, as well as giving updates on Android and the mobile ad market.

Sign up early, we expect very strong demand for this event.

City Hotel 349 Kent Street
Sydney, Australia
Monday, March 19, from 7:00PM to 9:30PM
Doors open at 6.30pm for 7pm start

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Mobile Monday Sydney is (generally) held on the first Monday evening from February to December as a networking event for the Sydney mobile industry. Mobile Monday Sydney is organised by Shane Williamson, Oliver Weidlich and Gia Villondo.

Mobile Monday Sydney is a non for profit industry organisation and is part of Mobile Monday Australia. http://mobilemonday.com.au/

E-mail us to get in touch with project presentation requests, sponsorship offers and speaking engagements info@mobilemondaysydney.com

1. Education via Mobile & Tablet

2. VoIP via Mobile Phone

3. How to Make your Feature Phone Smarter using the Cloud…

City Hotel, 349 Kent Street
Sydney CBD, Australia
Monday, February 6, from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Please Register in Advance Here

1. Education via Mobile & Tablet with Tom Worthington
“New Ways of Learning to Work, With E-books and E-Learning”

by Tom Worthington FACS CP, Adjunct Lecturer, The Australian National University

The Prime Minister announced extra funding for vocational training this week. This opens up new business opportunities for innovative e-learning via smart phones and tablet computers. Tom Worthington discusses his award winning “ICT Sustainability” course and how he uses e-books and on-line discussion forms to deliver globally accredited education to students worldwide:

1. New Government Funding for vocational education
2. Learn to Fight Climate Change With Your Mobile
3. Delivering courses in mobile formats
4. Getting students to work together on-line

See also “Work-Integrated-Learning: With E-books and E-Learning”: http://www.tomw.net.au/technology/it/work_integrated_learning/

2. VoIP via Mobile Phone with Dan from VTalk

Sydney-based VTalk have had a hardware VoIP solutiion for Small to Medium businesses for a while, but they recently launched a mobile version of their VoIP client which will allow them to make their service easily to sell and for customers to set-up.  They will be talking about the business and design decisions that drove the mobile app, and other platforms in the future.

Dan Nolan is, like many people at small startups, not confined to a single job title or role – though his official title is Engineer. When he’s not hacking on projects at vtalk, or giving presentations he’s messing around on twitter as @dannolan.

3. How to Make a Feature Phone Smarter using the Cloud… with Mark from Binu

biNu has a fast growing user mobile internet user base with 3.1 million unique users with over 90% growth year since launch in January 2011. biNu is based in Sydney but most users are from the emerging markets of Asia, Africa, South America providing a smart phone experience on feature phones.

biNu uses the cloud to provide a virtual smartphone for phone users. By executing apps in the cloud, biNu eliminates the processing constraints of the phone to deliver functionality, performance and usability not otherwise possible giving mass-market feature phones a smartphone-like capability. biNu apps are not constrained by a mobile phone processor and the mobile phone appears to exceed its design constraints.

Over 100 apps run in the biNu virtual smartphone all accessible by virtually any mobile phone. Apps include social media (Facebook and Twitter), search (Google & Bing), reference, books, email, text, news, weather, religion, entertainment and sport. biNu runs on most Java enabled feature phones as well Android devices. All that is required is a data connection. As you could imagine the most popular services are those that enable the users to communicate with others. Whether that is via SMS, Chat, Email, Facebook, Twitter or biNu beats.

1st Prize
AUD$8,000

The CrowdVoice
The CrowdVoice is a BlackBerry app where users deliberately share interesting posts, texts, images,links to rescue bored people on the road.
Developer: Jonni Ganni

2nd Prize
AUD$4,000

The Weather Channel
The BBM social integration for The Weather Channel is that the user profiles box will show the user’s latest weather information for their BBM contacts.
Developer: Paul Haenel

3rd Prize
BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet & Torch SmartPhone

Manly Ferry
Integrates with the BBM Social platform which gives the following new features, share time table information exclusive with BBM contacts, start conversation from with in the Manly Ferry app, change your status of you profile to be busy or available, update your personal message on launch of the application, drive viral downloads from within BBM
Developer: Paul Haenel

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 It is time to unwind and celebrate another big year for Mobile Monday Sydney.

We hope you can join us for our annual Christmas Party and it is going to be a fun packed evening with live entertainment, food, your favourite beverage & some amazing door prizes to give away on the night.

Our theme for the evening is,

“Taking Your Business To The UK”

Hear how you can work with UK Trade & Invesment to launch your company into Europe, by establishing a business in the UK.

Michael Stone of Amethon Solutions will also share with us their experience of moving an Australian business over to the UK.

The 2011 Mobile Monday Sydney Christmas Party
Monday 12th December
Sponsored by BlackBerry & UKTI

:: Doors open at 6.30pm for 7pm start
:: Kent Street Living Room, Level 1, The City Hotel (www.cityhotel.com.au)
:: Entry on King Street near Kent Street intersection

Mobile Monday Sydney is held on the first monday evening from February to December as a networking event for the Sydney mobile industry. Mobile Monday Sydney is organised by Shane Williamson, Oliver Weidlich and Gia Villondo.

Mobile Monday Sydney is a non for profit industry organisation and is part of Mobile Monday Australia.

E-mail us to get in touch with project presentation requests, sponsorship offers and speaking engagements.

shane@mobilemondaysydney.com

Imagine this, you’re a guy who gets dragged to every shopping expedition by your partner whether you like it or not. Christmas is the most dreaded holiday because not only do you have to manoeuvre the crowds, you’re also expected to do the heavy lifting: the shopping bags, gift boxes, wine bottles, etc. Now what if there’s a mobile app that can convert you from a Shopping Slave to The Navigator?

You’re a woman on a mission to find the best holiday buy you can find. There’s so much to buy but so little time! What if there’s an app on your mobile that can tell you how far away you are from the shop that contains the item you desire?

Join us this Monday as Natasha Rawlings and David Jones (not the retail store), demonstrates StreetHawk – a Platform for hyper-local retail promotions. StreetHawk is a smartphone app that ALERTS shoppers of products they seek, on the streets around them, and the locations they frequently shop.

Christmas is the time of the year when your organisational skills are tested and stretched to the hilt. Amidst all the revelry, preparing a feast for the entire family can be most daunting. With 101 things to remember, imagine what a catastrophe it would be if you serve your best turkey ever and yet forgot to get the gravy…. you ruined Christmas!

How Woolworths is helping customers save time and money using mobile.

Has Fakira, Program Manager for Innovations of Woolworthswill walk us through the Woolworths app for iPhone and Android and how it has transformed the lives (and memories!) of grocery shoppers Australia-wide. Now, you will never forget to buy those olives ever again!

Has Fakira leads the Sell Innovation Program at Woolworths Ltd and is responsible for technology innovations for retail operations. He has over 20 years experience in the retail technology arena both in Australia and the UK. Has started his career as a software developer and has progressed to technology management roles. In his more recent positions he has bridged the gap between business and technology teams to identify and deliver initiatives that drive business value. One highlight was the introduction and rollout of self-serve checkouts into Woolworths Supermarkets which are now used by over 40% of Woolworths’ customers. More recently, Has’ team has delivered the new Woolworths App for iPhone and Android, which has attracted an overwhelming response from customers with over 1.1m downloads to date.

City Hotel, 347 Kent St, Sydney
Monday, November 7, 2011 from 7:00 to 9:30pm
The event is Free to attend, Please Register in Advance

After Monday’s session, I can almost hear Santa Claus going: Mo! Mo! Mo!

Mobile Monday Sydney Christmas Party

Monday 12th December – Sponsored by BlackBerry & UKTI

Our annual Christmas festivities will have a distinct international flavour this year as we bring you an evening of live entertainment, drinks, food & we have some great prizes to give away on the night as well. Hope You can join us!

Mobile Monday Sydney – October, 10th 2011 – NFC, SMH iPad UX & AMPLI Top 10

NFC

Near Field Communication is being touted as the next big thing; from mobile payments to extra levels on your mobile game. Tapit NFC is the pioneering leader in Australia and other parts of Asia, in utilizing near field communication (NFC) technologies to market a company’s brand with just a simple tap of a customer’s mobile phone.  Jamie Conyngham (CEO & Co-Founder of Tapit) will be talking about NFC, how it could revolutionise mobile content and engagement and some key insights into the usage/uptake.

SMH iPad User Experience

Vijay Balachandran (Head of UX, Fairfax Digital) will share the process they followed for determining the user experience positioning – how and why the experience must differ from print, websites, competitors websites and news aggregators. He’ll also reflect on how their audience research was conducted, the user experience objectives that were set and outline some the the key challenges from a business, user experience and ongoing production point of view.

AMPLI Top 10

After the recent launch of the Australian Mobile Phone Lifestyle Index we’ll cover off the top ten findings on how Australians use their mobile phone including insights on; app downloads, tablet purchasing, and mobile banking.

:: Doors open at 6.30pm for 7pm start
:: Kent Street Living Room, Level 1, The City Hotel (www.cityhotel.com.au)
:: Entry on King Street near Kent Street intersection
Mobile Monday Sydney is held on the first monday evening from February to December as a networking event for the Sydney mobile industry. Mobile Monday Sydney is organised by Shane Williamson, Oliver Weidlich and Gia Villondo.

Mobile Monday Sydney is a non for profit industry organisation and is part of Mobile Monday Australia. E-mail us to get in touch with presentation requests, sponsorship offers and speaking engagements.

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Join us for drinks and nibbles as we set course through the un-chartered waters of location based services in mobile, as we are guided by our adventurous presenters who have been there, done that and got the t-shirt to prove what is possible with mobile & mapping.

Agenda: The NAVTEQ Network for Developers (NN4D)

www.NN4D.com

Presenter: Kirk Mitchell – Vice President, Oceania Sales

NAVTEQ is the leading global provider of location content in the form of maps, traffic and places data that enables navigation, location-based services and mobile advertising around the world. NAVTEQ’s advanced visual content, LocationPoint™ Advertising platform and NAVTEQ Traffic™ portfolio are among the premier products customers and developers can use to differentiate their location offerings.

The NAVTEQ Network for Developers (NN4D) empowers application developers with the knowledge and resources needed to create the hottest, most differentiated location-based products. Access technical resources, support and business development services to build and market location apps for web, mobile, automotive, GIS and enterprise markets worldwide. Join NN4D for free at www.NN4D.com.

Kirk Mitchell is the Vice President of Oceania Sales with NAVTEQ – the leading global provider of digital map, traffic and location data for in-vehicle, portable, wireless and enterprise solutions. A veteran in the industry with over 20 years mapping and navigation experience, Kirk joined NAVTEQ in 2005 and has taken the Australian business from strength to strength over the last 5 years.Prior to joining NAVTEQ, Kirk served as the General Manager, Asia Pacific for Webraska Mobile Technologies, the first company to publish maps on a mobile handset. He has also represented Tele Atlas in Europe.
Case Study: Location based developer platform & building mobile apps on them

Jeppesen & Soul Solutions

Presenters: Paul Davies, Client Manager, Jeppesen & Bronwen Zande, Director, SoulSolutions

Jeppesen Journey Planner is a hosted web service providing public transport journey planning through an API. It is currently supporting journey planning for over 30 regions around the world (including Sydney). The presentation will focus onhow the API can add value for mapping applications.

Soul Solutions has recently built  an application using the Jeppesen API called TransHub. The app isfor the Windows Mobile phone. Bronwen from SoulSolutions will share some of the experiences in creating the app and provide a demonstration.

Case Study: Building a location based mobile app

Roamz
http://www.roamz.com/

Jonathan Barouch – CEO

Roamz is a location-based application that helps you find out interesting things happening at places around you. With so much noise on the social webRoamz guides you to the serendipitous moments that the locals find out about.Roamz is like having your best friend in your pocket showing you places andactivities that you are actually interested in. The more you use Roamz the smarter it gets, so no matter where you are you’ll always be a local.

Jonathan Barouch is an established entrepreneur, founding one ofAustralia’s first online businesses, Fastflowers.com.au in 1999. Jonathan has been a finalist in the Australia Post Small Business Awards as well as being a semi-finalistfor Young Australian of the Year in 2003. In 2010, he successfully exited Fastflowers.com.au when it was acquired by Jack Singleton’s 1300 Flowers. Jonathan founded Roamz in January 2011 and raised funding for the ventureshortly thereafter from Australian publicly listed company Salmat (ASX:SLM).

Navigating Copyright and Privacy with mapping on mobile

Marque lawyers
http://www.marquelawyers.com.au/

Presenters: Nathan Mattock – Partner & Enjel Phoon – Partner
Nathan will explore copyright issues, including the ownership and use of images used in location services (e.g. Google Maps’ Street View) and whether or not you can stop someone from taking and using an image of you.  Enjel will discuss the impact of privacy laws on location services; for example, does location information get caught by the Privacy Act?  What’s the best way of getting consent: opting in or opting out?

Mobile Monday Sydney is held on the first monday evening from February to December as a networking event for the Sydney mobile industry. Mobile Monday Sydney is organised by Shane Williamson, Oliver Weidlich and Gia Villondo.

Mobile Monday Sydney is a non for profit industry organisation and is part of Mobile Monday Australia. E-mail Us to get in touch with presentation requests, sponsorship offers and speaking engagements.

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You’re riding home from work after a very hectic day.  While the bus/train lulls you to a state of semi-consciousness, you’re zapped and jolted to sudden alertness – you just had a light bulb moment!  An idea, nay, a cutting-edge idea for a mobile app starts to germinate in your head.  By the time you step inside your door, you’ve built the functionalities in your mind and already doing user testing in your head. You can see the graphics in your mind’s eye.  You can mentally see the download counter and have started counting how much $$$ will land in your bank account.

Hang on! Let’s back track….how much ARE you getting for this app?  How much are you charging? Must it really be a paid app?  if you don’t charge for it, where do you then find the revenue from this entire exercise?  Hmmmmm…..

When it comes to commercializing mobile apps, how mobile is the price of apps?

Mark Dando, Director for Mobile Market Development at Fairfax Digital will come down from the ski slopes to discuss this on Monday.

So now you have this golden idea for a mobile app.  You created, developed, tested, poked and stretched your app until it’s the shape and form you want it to be (not that it’s tangible, mind you).  You publish it and wait.  “Build it and they will come!” – you thought (in reference to Field of Dreams the movie, of course).  So you waited and waited and waited…..but in the digital space where you’re one of tens of thousands of apps – in the AppStore, AppWorld, AppBrain, Android Market, etc., etc. - how do you get your app its 15 minutes of fame?  How do you get heard in this vast mobile jungle?

When it comes to commercializing mobile apps, how do you become commercial?

TigerSpike’s Client Services Director, Tamzin Taylor, will razzle-dazzle us with secrets of successful mobile marketers.

You’ve finally launched your mobile app – bravo!  Traffic has started to trickle in slowly but surely.  Inevitably, you find yourself with a database of mobile numbers, and maybe even additional data that will allow you to do customer profiling or market segmentation.  The question now is: what can you LEGALLY do with these? Can you send a broadbast to up-sell (was there an opt-in there somewhere?  But they bought it so that was inferred consent, right??)  Can you send them special offers (is it still spam even if I offer them something for free?).  Can I even release the latest version with subliminal advertising (will I be accused of indirectly “selling” my database to 3rd party advertisers?)

When it comes to commercializing mobile apps, what is legally apt?

Patrick Fair, Partner and Owner of Baker & McKenzie will sagaciously shed some light on these legal conundrums.

:: Doors open at 6.30pm for 7pm start – Register Here
:: Kent Street Living Room, Level 1, The City Hotel www.cityhotel.com.au
:: Entry on King Street near Kent Street intersection

Mobile Monday Sydney is held on the first monday evening from February to December as a networking event for the Sydney mobile industry. Mobile Monday Sydney is organised by Shane Williamson, Oliver Weidlich and Gia Villondo.

Mobile Monday Sydney is a non for profit industry organisation and is part of Mobile Monday Australia. E-mail Us with project presentation requests, sponsorship offers and speaking engagements.

The State of (Mobile) Web Development Report

We’re honoured to have John Allsopp (of Web Directions fame) come to Mobile Monday Sydney to tell us about the findings of this survey which focusses on mobile web & application development related aspects gathered from over 1,300 professional web develops and designers earlier this year.

Mobile Developer Blitz

We’ve invited three mobile developers to come and do 3 minute spots on what they’re doing and their experiences.

1. GoCatch – Their innovative Taxi App

2. Atlassian – Getting developer info (bugs, crash reports, stats etc) from mobile apps

3. Jeppesen – A public transport journey planner API that supplies journey plans for Australian locations.  Need it for your mobile app?

We’ve got two more spots if you’re a local mobile developer and are interested in telling Mobile Monday Sydney more about your project. Just email oliver.weidlich@mobilemondaysydney.com

Sponsored by

The BlackBerry Developer’s Challenge 2011!

The BlackBerry Developer Challenge 2011 will consist of a series of competitions. The first competition is focused on Adobe® Flash® and Adobe® AIR® applications. The challenge will also recognize winners in their respective regions, giving developers the opportunity to stand out from one another with local content and language support.

http://us.blackberry.com/developers/dev_challenge.jsp

Nominations for the Mobile Awards can be made from today until the 30 of July through the website www.mobileawards.com.au.
Nominations are expected from mobile content creators, application developers, as well as brands and businesses that have commissioned mobile content or applications. “The Mobile Awards will showcase the maturity of the Australian mobile industry. Apps, smartphones and tablets have become mainstream, even my 80 year old mother has asked me about apps. Prior awards have focused on the marketing or development, the Mobile Awards focus on the breadth of the mobile market. A nomination in the Mobile Awards is a good way for a business to gain recognition for a new app in a crowded market. ” Mark Bergin, Awards Director

The Best Mobile Application as selected by the chairman of the judging committee will win a cash prize of $5,000 in the 2011 Mobile Awards.

:: Doors open at 6.30pm for 7pm start
:: Kent Street Living Room, Level 1, The City Hotel (www.cityhotel.com.au)
:: Entry on King Street corner Kent Street.

Mobile Monday Sydney is held on the first monday evening from February to December as a networking event for the Sydney mobile industry. Mobile Monday Sydney is organised by Shane Williamson, Oliver Weidlich and Gia Villondo as part of the global Mobile Monday community.
E-mail us to get in touch with project presentation requests, sponsorship offers and speaking engagements.