Smartphones are now everybody’s darling and the number of users are growing continuously. This makes it an interesting market for device manufacturers and software vendors and all those companies are fighting in the battle for market shares. Some of the “old heroes” are standing with their backs on the wall and they are teasing the [...]

The BYOD movement is truly shaking up IT.  Now, more than ever, employees are bringing their own devices to work. Not only that, on average, employees carry more than two devices each. The proliferation of devices and the additional traffic are putting big demands on the corporate network, as well as increasing the risk of [...]

Mobile Payment has been all the rage since NFC (Near Field Communication) entered center-stage some 18 months ago at MWC 2011 in Barcelona. But now, since we are learning that people start to shop around, compare prices and and actually buy things with their mobile hand-sets this trend has become a vital necessity – for users [...]

At first we would like to thank our sponsor: For a long time, mobile email was the most dominant service delivering perceivable value to the enterprises: Professionals could take mobile device anywhere and have access to their business email and calender whenever and wherever it is needed. There is no doubt that the value of mobile email is [...]

When we started talking about “Cloud-Services” people thought of Corporate IT. But wait, think again: The more we got used to storing all our contacts and dates, pictures and files in the cloud to make all that accessible from where ever we might be the more we all started using cloud-services – from Google to iCloud, [...]

As e-commerce has come of age (it’ll be a 20 something this year) it’s little sibling m-commerce is still struggling to reach the critical mass needed for exponential growth. But wait: There’s commerce literally everywhere: You could be out in the streets and check Qype for a restaurant near you. Or you could be sitting on a [...]

PLEASE CONSIDER OUR NEW LOCATION – RIVERLOFT Time: February 6, 2012 from 6pm to 10pm Location: Dusseldorf Street: RIVERLOFT, Konkordiastrasse 20 Social networking has become an indispensable part of our digital life. Not a single day passes without an invitation to enter somebody else’s circles, “friends” or other networks: ‘Social’ has become a currency in the global [...]

We know that  mobile payments are redefining commerce , but will our phones soon replace our wallets? PayPal seems to think so . The payments giant boldly predicts that the wallet will be dead by 2015. PayPal isn’t the only one getting into the game though. Google recently launched  Google Wallet , the search giant’s mobile payment system, and Visa recently made [...]

Mobile Internet usage has finally broken into the mainstream mass-market. And that is also and especially true for mobile social media, networks and platforms: 200 Million out of 600 Million Facebook-members use their social network on the go. And more than 50% of the German mobile Internet audience use one or more social apps on [...]

Dear MoMo Followers, as announced: Our next MobileMonday will be on WEDNESDAY April 6th on the fascinating topic of the convergence of print, web and mobile. Or to say it with TechNewsWorld: What is the converged media road to success? With the introduction of advanced smartphones, e-readers and tablets, it’s hardly surprising that consumption of online [...]

There has been a recent buzz on NFC All major smartphone manufacturers are demonstrating their interst to ship their NFC enabled devices to the market. However, what is the value that this brings to the mobile customers? What are the applications that will take benefit of NFC? Is there any business in NFC and which of [...]

I’ve gathered some ideas I’d like to share with you about what we’ll see this year and at the Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona coming up in February. We are reaching the sweet spot as VCs say when the penetration of a new technologies reaches 20% . Consumers start to really want and enjoy mobile data! With a great [...]

Dear MobileMonday friends & followers, The year ends and we will have our final MoMo in Düsseldorf for 2010 on November 15th: Wireless Health – Keep the doctor away! Opportunities in the global mobile healthcare market are estimated to be worth around € 40 bn in 2010 (McKinsey & Company), prompting operators and other giants [...]

eLearning is already a multi-billion dollar market across different industries and stands for the access to tutorial information at any place and anytime, as long the user has an internet connection. As mobile devices and applications evolve, access to the web becomes ubiquious and mobile elearning shall benefit from the much larger distribution platform plus much [...]

This year I was the sole representative of MobileMonday Germany at the Global Summit and I really enjoyed it. Read on and you will see why On Monday afternoon MoMo Helsinki started off with a MobileMonday Peer Awards night. In 2 categories companies presented. Xrystalgenius with iChecki from Kenya won in the category “Bottom of the Pyramid” [...]

Dear Mobile Movers & Shakers, Welcome back from the summer break! On September 6th we have a special topic dedicated to the VC market in the Mobile Sector. So if you are in the starting phase of your business you should pay special attention:-) Venture capital funding took a nosedive in 2009 but is set [...]

Imagine a situation where the world around us is intelligent. There are sensors and actuators everywhere, which communicate with each other and with servers for proper management and operation of the machines. The stoplights regulate the flow of vehicles automatically, feed by traffic information received from sensors installed everywhere. The vending machines are automatically sending [...]

It is high season for mobile applications: The number of application stores are growing and so is the number of downloaded apps. With the appearance of the iPhone Store and the Android Market not only the technology has changed the way mobile functionality is technically delivered to the end user – a complete new mobile [...]

Event just before next day’s m2d2 on TUESDAY, meet mobilists during a cool topic on the eve before! PLEASE read details about m2d2 here There has bee a lot of hype around Mobile Augmented Reality, lately. But MoMO is going to show you, why augmented or information enriched visuals of your vicinity will be the [...]