MobileMonday Global

^{Innovating marketing creates national fandom} The secret of Indonesian Nokia Communicator mania revealed

30 Jun 2009 at 19:38 GMT There are two countries where Nokia’s Communicator phones have been very successful. One, of course, is Finland. The other one – Indonesia. The founder of MobileMonday Indonesia, Andy Zain, was able to reveal the secret behind the Communicator mania there.

MobileMonday founders bring world markets to Singapore start ups

25 Jun 2009 at 09:50 GMT Singaporean start ups were provided a wide and colourful view into the world’s mobile markets by MobileMonday founders in Suntec City on Saturday, June 20.

The powerful Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (iDA) used the opportunity provided by the CommunicAsia Summit and invited MobileMonday activists from Finland, India, Japan, Norway, Denmark, Indonesia, Vietnam, South-Africa and Australia to talk about their respective mobile markets.

Even IT security professionals can’t be bothered with passwords

25 Jun 2009 at 07:29 GMT IT Security professionals admit that they are suffering from password fatigue when it comes to using their mobile devices, which leaves their data exposed to personal and corporate identity theft if these devices were to fall into the wrong hands. That’s according to a survey released today by endpoint data protection specialists CREDANT Technologies, who conducted the “mobile usage survey” amongst 227 IT professionals with the majority drawn from companies that employ more than 1000 people.

^{Strong Linux development for pocket devices} Intel and Nokia team up for future mobile broadband

23 Jun 2009 at 17:27 GMT Intel Corporation and Nokia today announced a long-term relationship to develop a new class of Intel Architecture-based mobile computing device and chipset architectures which will combine the performance of powerful computers with high-bandwidth mobile broadband communications and ubiquitous Internet connectivity.

LG hops on the app store train

16 Jun 2009 at 20:18 GMT At the press conference , at CommunicAsia in Singapore, LG revealed new mobile phone models and its new app store. The new products such as the LG Arena, the updated LG Viewty Smart GC900 and the LG Joy GM730 all use the new S-Class user interface.

The Joy GM730 is LG’s first phone to use the Windows Mobile 6.1 platform in conjunction with its S-Class user interface as the main skin. According to LG this combination brings a new level of user interactivity to the user.

Yahoo! Mobile available across more than 400 devices

16 Jun 2009 at 19:46 GMT Yahoo! Mobile is now available in 17 countries across Europe, Asia and the Americas, including today’s expansion into Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Australia, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Spain and Italy.

Yahoo! today announced at CommunicAsia 2009 that the new Yahoo! Mobile experience is now available in nine additional countries and 100 more devices worldwide.

^{Content services market stagnates at EUR 69 million} Over one million Finns use mobile internet

11 Jun 2009 at 03:23 GMT The overall mobile internet usage in Finland has exploded during the past couple of years. In 2008, over one million Finns accessed internet with their mobile phones.

The growth has been driven by many simultaneous developments, including upgrading the mobile device base with newer models, the improved mobile networks and the increas¬ing amount of mobile-dedicated internet sites. Yet this has not migrated into growth in the mobile content market revenue.

^{Map your own Wi-Fi environment} 10 000 downloaded Ekahau free survey tool

05 Jun 2009 at 14:28 GMT Ekahau Inc., a provider of Wi-Fi-based location systems, makes a claim to the most popular Wi-Fi site survey mapping tools on the market today. The company recently announced that its Ekahau HeatMapper – a free-of-charge Wi-Fi mapping and analysis tool – has been downloaded by more than 10,000 users in the first two months of availability.

^{Joint venture to manage end-to-end carrier ethernet solution portfolio} Juniper Networks and Nokia Siemens create a carrier ethernet company

05 Jun 2009 at 03:31 GMT Juniper Networks, Inc., and Nokia Siemens Networks, Wednesday announced that the two companies plan to form a joint venture to address the Carrier Ethernet Transport market.

Headquartered in the Netherlands, the joint venture will be dedicated to managing and executing the Carrier Ethernet portfolio roadmap, and extends the previously announced partnership enhancement designed to deliver to service provider customers a fully interoperable Carrier Ethernet solution for mobile backhaul, business services and residential broadband networks.

^{Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific ICT Awards} Nokia Siemens wins OSS vendor of the year award

05 Jun 2009 at 03:21 GMT Nokia Siemens Networks has won the Frost & Sullivan Telecom OSS Vendor of the Year award in recognition of its strong growth and performance across Asia Pacific during 2008.