Industry News
Buys the remaining 52 percent Nokia to acquire all of Symbian
24 Jun 2008 today announced it has launched a cash offer to acquire all of the shares of Symbian Limited that Nokia does not already own, at a price of EUR 3.647 per share. The net cash outlay from Nokia to purchase the approximately 52% of Symbian Limited shares it does not already own will be approximately EUR 264 million.
Asia-Pacific winners announced at CommunicAsia 2008 Joikusoft wins a Navteq award
22 Jun 2008 Joikusoft has won the Grand Prize at Navteq’s annual location-based developers’ program. The win was announced during an awards ceremony at CommunicAsia 2008.
Joikusoft received a prize package valued at USD 275,000, including USD 50,000 in cash and USD 225,000 in Navteq data licences.
The last EarthLink deployment MobileMonday organizer saves Philly Wi-Fi
22 Jun 2008 Philadelphia's Wi-Fi network this week received a last-minute reprieve from a local investor group, which has taken over the operation of the struggling municipal wireless network.
Support for audio, video, picture and text posts CellSpin launches mobile blogging service for Twitter and Pownce
15 Jun 2008 Jan Jose, California-based CellSpin announced June 11 its support for sending ‘tweets’ in all four media types (audio, video, pictures and text) to the popular micro-blogging sites Twitter and Pownce.
Users can post multimedia tweets using the CellSpin mobile application, now available on 300+ mobile phones worldwide, or by using the CellSpin website.
Insight into mobile campaign effectiveness Telia SurfPort user remember mobile ads better
15 Jun 2008 JumpTap - a mobile search and advertising solutions provider – announced results at the The New York Mobile Marketing Forum, from a new study commissioned from Research and Analysis of Media (RAM), on the effectiveness of mobile advertising.
The research conclusively revealed the increased effectiveness of mobile advertising with regards to brand recognition, recall and purchase rates.
Headlines
- New protection for Windows Mobile devices 15 Jun 2008
- Apple unveils 3G iPhone 10 Jun 2008
- WiMAX players join a common patent pool 10 Jun 2008
- Telstra opens direct data tunnel 10 Jun 2008
- MobileMonday in headlines in Kuala Lumpur 02 Jun 2008
- Nokia to accelerate 2D graphics and MP3 music 01 Jun 2008
- Blyk launches as “One Stop Shop” for advertisers 01 Jun 2008
- Xtract secures EUR 3.5 million to support fast growth 01 Jun 2008
- Nokia expands network security portfolio 01 Jun 2008
- Navigation and fleet services leading the European LBS 01 Jun 2008
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Global Monday
Watch Barcelona's Peer Awards
11 Feb 2008 MobileMonday Peer Awards — Live
MobileMonday's video channel on Floobs
24 Jan 2008 MobileMonday's video channel on Floobs.
Development blog
Chapter user listings
17 Jun 2007 Chapters have now pages where their organizers and members are listed and that are linked to user profile pages.
See for example Helsinki chapter's page.
Global Summit 2007
Global Summit video recap
17 Nov 2007 Watch highlights of the 2007 Global Summit (05:42).
Global Summit 2007 will be biggest to date
06 Sep 2007 With bags packed and e-tickets booked, delegates are leaving their home cities and converging on Helsinki, the venue for this year's MobileMonday Global Summit. Over 1,500 delegates are expected this year. Not bad for a growth story, considering that "MoMo" regulars met at Molly Malone's Pub in Helsinki during its early years.
Wireless-Watch
- Vote to nominate Flex SDK as Best Tool or Utility for Developers 10 Jun 2008
- Lessons on Communities Dominate from US Presidential Election season so far 9 Jun 2008
- Proporta Aluminum-Leather case for the Palm Centro - the review 9 Jun 2008
- Next Big Wireless: LTE? 9 Jun 2008
- MobileAccess partners with Enersus to deploy seamless multi-wireless services 9 Jun 2008
- iPhone version of Flirtomatic launched .. 9 Jun 2008
- 3.65GHz WiMAX Rolls Out 9 Jun 2008
- iPhone - The Saga Continues 9 Jun 2008
- RoboHelp Packager for Adobe AIR 9 Jun 2008
- being quoted 9 Jun 2008
Community
Mobile site launches: a new start?
Brussels 16 Jun 2008 Different ‘traditional media’ have started launching their mobile versions:1/ http://m.standaard.be/ launched by company Mobileweb, is the specific mobile site of Flemish newspaper de Standaard 2/ iMobile site VT4 Blue talk marketing agency has launched a mobile version of TV station VT4 . The service includes latest news, tv guides, ringtones, horoscope, weather, SMS games, …
June 2nd Wrap-Up
London 6 Jun 2008 Thanks to Helen Keegan for chairing a really engrossing panel session, and thanks of course to our panelists, Stephen Pinches from the Financial Times, Matthew Postgate from the BBC, Robert Thurner from Incetivated and Marek Pawlowski from PMN.Monday's events has been blogged by James Cooper and Ben Matthews - thanks for both of these great write-ups!Thanks to all who attended and made it such a great event and to our host for the evening, Wireless Foundry!
Earlier Happenings
- Boston Browsers — Driving the Web, or Driven by the Web? – Monday June 30th 7pm 4 Jun 2008
- Sydney June 08 WiMAX event Wrapup 4 Jun 2008
- New York June 16th: Realtime & Mobile Social Networking 4 Jun 2008
Bloghive
FMC, With A Cheap Piece Of Gear From Target and Without the Operator
MobHappy 16 Jun 2008 Despite the hype, fixed-mobile convergence hasn’t made huge inroads in the market, for a variety of reasons. But when I was at my local Target store yesterday, I noticed these:
It’s a little unit from GE that you plug your standard home phone into, and connect to your mobile via Bluetooth, turning your mobile connection into
Dear AP: You Don’t Get To Make The Rules
MobHappy 16 Jun 2008 I don’t really like to blog about copyright and whatnot much as I think it gets pretty tedious. That said, this stuff the Associated Press is trying to pull is a bit much. Last week it got pissed off that a site called the Drudge Retort was posting links to AP stories with a cut-and-pasted
Music to the Ears
MobHappy 16 Jun 2008 New Media Age carries a story about a survey that found that 63% of young people (14 - 24 year olds) ‘fessed up to downloading music illegally. Apart from almost certainly proving that the other 37% are lying, it does demonstrate pretty well that the music industry’s problems are ongoing and will almost certainly get worse.
Carnival of the Mobilists #128
Carnival of the Mobilists 16 Jun 2008 Holland soccer fan host Mark Hooft sets up the tents with this week’s best mobile blogging among colorful carnival images from The World’s Greatest Game!
Nokia WidSets SDK and APIdocs
Biskero.org 16 Jun 2008 Forum Nokia published some content for the WidSets platform:
WidSets SDK WidSets APIdocs
Bloghive Contributors
The full list contributors and links to their sites can be found on the Bloghive page.
Chapters
- Upcoming
- Adelaide 1 Oct 2007
- Caracas 17 Sep 2007
- Croatia
- Hamburg 9 Jun 2008
- Philadelphia 1 Oct 2007
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