Year: 2007

Mobile Monday, the leading international community uniting mobile industry professionals on 50 territories worldwide, announces the opening of the Moscow Chapter! The first conference supported by QArea (www.qarea.com) and Nokia (www.nokia.com) will be held in Moscow on October 22, 2007. The representatives of mobile industry of the European and CIS countries will gather for the first time in the Russian capital to start the tradition of regular Monday meetings.

Around 1000 participants witnessed one of the most large-scale and significant events in the world mobile industry held in Helsinki (Finland) and St. Petersburg (Russia) on September 10-12. Mobile music, mobile marketing and social media became the major topics for discussion at Mobile Monday Global Summit 2007. The participants had a chance to listen to the numerous speakers, visit seminars, press-conferences, hi-tech exhibitions as well as meet Mobile Monday local Chapter representatives.

Espoo, Finland – Nokia and Enpocket today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for Nokia to acquire Enpocket (www.enpocket.com). Enpocket is a global leader in mobile advertising; providing technology and services that allow brands to plan, create, execute, measure and optimize mobile advertising campaigns around the world. By acquiring Enpocket, Nokia will accelerate the scaling of its mobile advertising business, leveraging Enpocket’s platform and strong partnerships with advertisers, publishers and operators. In addition to key assets, through this transaction Nokia is gaining a team with strong expertise in global mobile advertising across disciplines.

A whole new class of ‘always-on’ Internet-connected products, collectively termed ‘Ultra-Mobile Devices’ (UMDs), will become popular over the next five years, according to a new report from ABI Research. By appealing to a wide range of buyers they will reach shipments of nearly 95 million units by 2012, and should prove extremely profitable for their makers.

Will Add Powerful Semantic Web Recommendation Engine to its MobileSearch.net™ Federated Search Management Platform

Mountain View, CA—September 5, 2007 – Mobile Content Networks Inc. (MCN), a leading global provider of mobile search solutions, today announced the acquisition of the assets of Caboodle Networks Inc., the pioneering developer of the world’s first multimedia, multi-service semantic recommendation platform. Terms of the agreement between the two privately held firms were not disclosed.

Bangkok, Thailand and Mountain View, CA—September 4, 2007—Mobile Content Networks (MCN) a leading global provider of mobile search and search management solutions, together with TrueMove, Thailand’s leading nationwide converged services operator announced the commercial launch of TrueLife Mobile Search powered by MCN’s MobileSearch.net search management platform.

Nokia Music Store, a part of the new Ovi portal by Nokia, was launched last week in London. The top brass of Nokia participated in the media happening around the new mobile content portal.

MobileMonday, the global community of over 70,000 mobile industry visionaries and developers, and the GSM Association, the global trade association for mobile phone operators, have entered into a strategic partnership to stimulate, accelerate and showcase innovation in the mobile sector.