Most of the headlines in the newspapers are around the middle class people in the cities. Urban life. All the malls and socialites. Surely it’s the hottest market at this moment. But let’s turn to the other part of Indonesia. We know that around 55% Indonesia’s population still live in rural area. And though middle class is said [...]

I think the presenters in the event provided a good balance of opinion. Part of them are upbeat about the opportunity in M2M, while there’s also the realist part… Audience are a bit of a split as well. That’s my quick take on the event. The slides can be found here, as usual:  https://sites.google.com/site/idmomoslides2012/ Rustam Effendie, from Ericsson Indonesia, [...]

As you know, we’re closing to pass the 6-billion-mobile-subscribers-on-earth mark (5.9 billion and counting). A very remarkable feast and left us sometimes wondering, what else to be connected… Pundits, analysts, and futurists believe, however, that there are still more room to grow. The phrase   “50 billion connected devices by 2020″ – is one of the famous forecast by [...]

Guys, apology that I haven’t been able to post the recap… crazy busy. Nevertheless, here’s the link to the slides: https://sites.google.com/site/idmomoslides2012/ And Frost & Sullivan team has already put their slide on SlideShare as well:  

Enjoy and see you next month! [...]

Dear MobileMonday Friends, Welcome to the next MobileMonday event, co-hosted with Telkomsel and themed “ Mobile Commerce in Digital Lifestyle: Opportunities and Challenges for 2012 ” This is a very hot and interesting topic. As noted by Tomi Ahonen (Pearls #3 – Mobile Money, 2011), mobile application in commerce space has gone from a long way from a simple SMS alert [...]

Dear MobileMonday friends, “Apps” – in the era of smart phones, apps have played a very important role, and an important monetization means for telco, platform provider, and developers. We are also living in the time of major shifts that helps in app developers: 1) there are more ways to monetize in apps – not just one-time fee [...]

Hi MobileMonday! One of the most overlooked opportunity is mobility applications in the enterprise. According to IDC (IDC Blackbook March 2011 Ed.), enterprise IT spending in Indonesia is worth $2.89 billion in 2011, about the same size as consumer IT spending. About 28% of that spending goes to software and services, including mobility applications… and about 36% goes [...]

A very quick recap on the event today… it’s 1 AM, so apology if I made any typo… A quick note before everything else though… last night’s event marked the anniversary of RIM’s sponsorship for MobileMonday Indonesia. Thank you, once again for our platinum sponsor. Now, back to the event. We had 6 speakers for the Buka Puasa. Surely [...]

Buka Bersama MobileMonday Indonesia will feature a topic dear to every developers and mobile enthusiasts: mobile apps… Hot-hot-hot space to be, complex and competitive as it can be. One analyst estimated that by 2012 the global mobile app market could worth $17.5bio with no less than 50bio downloads (Sizing App the Global Mobile App Market, [...]

Mobile video traffic will exceed 50 percent for the first time in 2011. Mobile video traffic was 49.8 percent of total mobile data traffic at the end of 2010, and will account for 52.8 percent of traffic by the end of 2011. By the end of 2015 it will account for 66% of traffic – more [...]

Hi MobileMonday friends, Let’s meet up in the upcoming MobileMonday Networking Event, co-host and sponsored by IDS/ideosource. We’ll take a (re)look at the mobile advertising/marketing landscape in Indonesia… featuring the following speakers: Andi S. Budiman (founder of IDS International Design School and partner of Ideosource) “Monetize Indonesian Mobile & Internet through Community and Consumers” Tri Meyliana Sadewi (BuzzCity [...]

Good evening everyone! Second serving of MobileMonday for May? Yes! Join us and network with your peers on the next Monday, the 30th May 2011… listen to great presentations on another hot topic of the industry: Payment and Commerce, Mobile Perspective . We’ve heard a little while back from DailySocial about e-commerce usage – and it’s a [...]

It’s never enough to talk about Social Media. Always a hot issue in Indonesia. Always a dynamic area and ever growing. All statistics show that usage of SocMed is one (and the most important) growth driver in Indonesian mobile Internet. But the question remains on how to monetize… how to reap the benefit of this [...]

This April… we will try something different… Let’s hear the story from the “other” side – the web industry . There’s definitely a lot of things happening in the online business in Indonesia. It’s a vibrant, innovative, and dynamic community. In a lot of opportunities, the path of online and mobile will cross. And already crosses: online [...]

Happy New Year 2011 Mobile Monday Folks! may the year of 2011 will be more prosperous to us all and wish for Indonesia Mobile Industry to advance further. Speaking of Prosperous 2011, some of our Friends have already started their successful business since 2010 (or even before), Indosat managed to drive Mobile Broadaband adoption Indonesia-Wide, RIM with its Blackberry that [...]

It’s end of the year… so time for some crystal balling. Traditionally, it’s the time to predict what will happen in 2011. We have a lot of writers covering global and regional level. But very few from Indonesia, covering our very vibrant and exciting market. If you blog, or write, please create a post about your [...]

Yes, MobileMonday Folks, you read it right! Blackberry Developer Conference will be held at BALI, INDONESIA on 13-14 January 2011. The BlackBerry Developer Conference Asia is now the largest all-development conference outside of North America. If you heard about BlackBerry DEVCON in San Francisco last year but weren’t able to attend, this is your chance to [...]

For you developers and Android developers… There’s another exciting event that you can ride as a path to monetization (and fame!). Here’s the announcement and contacts details from their Indonesian office: – begin — ERICSSON APPLICATION AWARDS 2011 Welcome to join! Ericsson envisions a future world of 50 billion connected devices impacting the way we [...]

It really felt great to see the familiar and new faces on the crowd last night. Also it was good to celebrate with more than 170 attendees that share the same passion for innovation and collaboration. That’s the core ideas of this MobileMonday – 10 years of driving mobile innovation worldwide … and 3 years in [...]