Year: <span>2012</span>
Year: 2012

Year: 2012

Global

Nokia Announces Code Warrior at MoMo Silicon Valley Event

Nokia is on the hunt for Windows Phone apps. The beleaguered phone maker today launched Code Warrior, a site where Windows Phone users and developers can propose ideas for apps and vote on them. Developers can then battle it out to create the best app for the challenge and earn the bounty that has been put on the app. “Just because you’re a developer, does not mean you are innovative,” Chanse Arrington, head of Nokia’s developer and content marketing for North America, said at the Mobile Monday Silicon Valley event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. “Sometimes …

Johannesburg

MoMo Joburg – May 7th – Changing the World through Innovation

Following on from our hugely succesful event earlier this year, we are holding our annual startup pitch event, you may remember our event last year that was massive and proved to everyone that mobile innovation is alive and kicking in Joburg. This year we are kicking it into overdrive and we have an awesome sponsor, Rorotika Technologies, who will help showcase some amazing mobile innovations with the theme “Changing the World through Innovation”. After the sponsor’s welcome and presentation, by Rorotika CEO, Frans Joubert, there will be an opportunity for a number of pre-selected mobile innovators to present their “elevator …

Helsinki

MoMo Helsinki – May 7th – From Ideas to Innovations

MobileMonday Helsinki is hosting the next event “From Ideas to Innovations” on May 7th Over the next years, Finland will need at least 200 000 new jobs and more small and mid-sized enterprises with global operations. In order to satisfy this need, a couple of critical questions need to be answered. First of all we need to understand where the successful ideas come from. From crowd-sourcing or from corporate needs? Second, we must find a way to evaluate ideas that have potential for sustainable products or services. And finally, it is essential to focus on how to nurture ideas into new success cases. Please Register in …

Ann Arbor

MoMo Ann Arbor – May 7th – Getting Started with App Marketing

Featured App: Flipfrog Anthony Montalbano will present Flipfrog, a web app that synchronizes with your Google Calendar, Eventbrite, Meetup, and Facebook accounts to simplify your life scattered across many services.  Unique to flipfrog is the forever scrolling timeline of your calendars.  Even though flipfrog is purely a webapp, we have a strong emphasis on mobile devices and touch screens. Anthony’s Bio: Anthony leads the API development for flipfrog.  His past spans from the development of Dominos.com to organizing WordCamp Detroit, a weekend event around WordPress.  Anthony is a strong advocate of open source, responsive web design, and web apps. Featured …

Belfast

MoMo Belfast – 30th April – Mobile Payments in Newry

Mobile payment solution providers have mushroomed in the past few years, while the receptivity for accepting mobile payments has increased. Based on a recent end-user survey by VDC Research, 37.1% of retailers claimed that they were either using or currently evaluating mobile payment/ POS solutions. While the interest for more consumer-oriented solutions such as LBS […]

The Mob Rulz

Mobile Monday Global Events for Week of April 16th – 2012

While not that (m)any would have noticed.. but it was the Happy Bots digital debut anniversary over this weekend, we unplugged for a few daze. Grinding back up to speed was bit of a struggle to pull all the stray bytes together for another cheeky round-up below, with 10 events running from Adelaide to Washington, and bonus social stats estimate for the love of MoMo.. Smile.. 😎

Melbourne

MoMo Melbourne – April 23rd – mHealth Healing In Your Hands

Join us on April 23rd from 6:00pm for a fabulous night of MoMo networking over drinks and finger food and a number of “2 for 1″ drink cards for people who bring a friend and arrive early … MoMoAPR EVENT: ”MOBILE HEALTH … Healing In Your Hands” LOCATION: The Order of Melbourne at Level 2, 401 Swanston St, Melbourne DATE: Monday 23rd April TIME: 6:00pm with a 6:30pm start for presentations followed by an open panel discussion. COST: FREE although Registration is REQUIRED on Eventbrite! … CLICK NOW TO REGISTER OUR MoMo SPEAKERS + PANELISTS INCLUDE: Scott Baguley, Industry Principal, Public …

Austin

MoMo Austin – April 30th – Nokia Lumia Tour

Mobile Monday is bringing the best of CES directly to you. Nokia – winner of the Best Smartphone of CES with its Lumia 900 – sponsors this month’s event. Come get exclusive hands-on time with Nokia’s newest Window’s Phone devices. Hear plans for the US market and Nokia’s focus on apps and developers, including seeding thousands of devices to developers, access to tools, support and training. “We want developers to unleash their creative force and build an experience  – not just an app –  to bring smartphones to life for brands and consumers,” says Chanse Arrington, Nokia’s Head of Developer Marketing – North America. …

Manchester

MoMo Manchester – April 30th – Living in a Multi-Platform World

Developing on multiple mobile platforms can be an arduous task. Discover and learn how other people are using various different tools to create cross platform solutions. Some of the questions we will be looking to answer: Which platform(s) should you develop for? What software tools are easy and which are difficult to use, and which give the best benefits? Should you be focusing on one platform, or many? What can platform owners do to make their platforms more attractive to developers? What is the % split of smartphones on the market ie: iPhone, Android, BlackBerry etc? Confirmed Speakers: Marmalade – …

Zurich

MoMo Switzerland – April 23rd – Mobile Commerce and Banking

Co-organized with MBA Alumni HEC Lausanne. Preliminary Agenda, April 23rd 2012 Venue: Auditorium CM5, EPFL, Lausanne NEW LOCATION! Time: registration from 18h, starts at 18h30, Aperitif & Networking from 20h Mobile Commerce and Banking Mobile commerce was born in 1997 when the first mobile-phone enabled Coca Cola vending machines (accepting payment via SMS text messages) were installed in the Helsinki area in Finland. In the same year, the first mobile-phone-based banking service was launched by Merita Bank of Finland, also using SMS. (It was only in 1998 when the first sales of digital content to mobile phones was made possible) …