Year: 2009

MobileMonday German National Summit will take place for the third time on November 30th, 2009. The event will culminate on the second event of the Kudos Award Ceremony. The summit will focus on “Our Mobile Future”. The speakers will discuss following topics: What do consumers want from smart phones? What will Augmented Reality bring to the people? How will media itself develop in the years to come? The speakers will be: Lars-Christian Weisswange, HTC Europe: “User, App & Market Trends” Nick Sohnemann, TrendONE: “Mobile Augmented Reality” Gerhard Leonhard, Media Futurist & Author: “Media 2.0: Mobile, Social, Open…Free?” The speaker panel …

By Shaun Thanki Last night MoMo launched its 84th chapter in Karlskrona, Sweden. Karlskrona is a very small Swedish town but home to the world class telecom cluster TelecomCity – a regional and global “hot spot” within the IT and telecom industry. It was here were Europolitan was founded, one of the first and subsequently largest mobile operators and an important contributor to the development of the Swedish mobile market. Today the TelecomCity network consists of a number of leading companies. Ericsson and Telenor, among others, as well as a variety of innovative product and service companies. In total the …

Nokia follows its last week’s research and development (R&D) reduction announcement by announcing job cuts in Japan. Nokia says that it is setting its operations to be in line with its focused portfolio of future products. In Japan this m means that 220 employees will lose their jobs. Last week Nokia announced plans to reduce some of its R&D activities in Finland and Denmark by cutting 320 jobs. Nokia says that it will continue its sourcing activities in Japan. “Japanese manufacturers are important partners who play a critical role in Nokia’s global supply-chain strategy and with whom Nokia continues to …

New devices from RIM are generating an increasing percentage of the total number of requests for the platform, according to the October 2009 AdMob Mobile Metrics Report. The recently launched RIM devices that are gaining traction are the Tour and new versions of the Curve (8900 and 8520). The older 8100 Pearl series has seen its share of RIM traffic steadily decrease from 28 percent in April to 16 percent in October. However, the 8300 Curve series has maintained approximately 44 percent share over the last six months. The Android Operating System is a relative newcomer, having turned one year …