Year: 2010

MobileMonday, a simple concept that has eventually turned into a large networking platform for all things mobile, celebrates its 10 year birthday this week in Helsinki and Tallinn. According to MobileMonday Estonia, close to 500 people attended the three day summit. There are now 108 chapters around the world helping people network around mobile issues. The 108 chapters cover 37 countries and all continents of the world – figures and references that anyone could call a phenomenon. Mobile phone use is a lot greater than internet use and in many cases it has been referred to as the greatest innovation …

Microsoft Corp. said its forthcoming Windows Phone 7 platform will be integrated with its Xbox console. “The idea is not to make a mobile version of Halo, as such, the idea is to extend gaming to mobile,” Vesa-Matti Paananen, a Microsoft business development executive based in Finland, said at a Mobile Monday event in Tallinn, Estonia. Game records could be synchronized in the cloud so that players might be required to accomplish certain tasks on the phone before they could get to the next level on the console, he said. The company’s “three-screen approach” currently means mobile, personal computer and …

Mr Alex Nyika, a Ugandan software developer based in Kenya, on Monday scooped the top prize at one of Europe’s most prestigious mobile communication innovation awards. Mr Nyika, the chief executive Xrystalgenius , a Nairobi-based mobile startup, won the Base of the Pyramid award at the 2010 Mobile Monday Peer Awards that took place in Helsinki, Finland. Five finalists including United States-based Super Technologies, which emerged runner up in the category competed for the award. The award recognises young and outstanding mobile companies that are making a difference in mobile health, education, payments, employment trade and entertainment. Software developers from …

mig33, the world’s largest mobile-first community, today rolled out a powerful new distribution program that gives top VAS (mobile content) and handset manufacturers access to its thriving virtual economy — and its associated revenue — and introduced the program’s first key partners at the MobileMonday Summit 2010 in Finland. The program is the latest in a series of moves that have pushed mig33 to the forefront of mobile Social Entertainment Services and created an exploding virtual economy that has seen nearly 30 million virtual goods purchased in 2010 alone. Among mig33’s first new distribution partners are PT Numedia Global, a …

Last night CScout attended Mobile Monday Brooklyn, a monthly meet-up for mobile industry professionals. This month’s theme was New York-based apps, and six companies were invited to demo their products. Location-based services were (not surprisingly) very popular, such as UpNext’s 3D maps and Roadify’s new app, which connects people with real-time commuting information. Community-building apps also dominated, like SuperGlued’s community built around concert-going, and Venmo, which allows friends to exchange money through text. Via: CScout