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

Year: 2012

Global

Mobile Monday Fourth Annual Mobile Africa Research Report

The 4th Mobile Africa report [.PDF] produced by MobileMonday, released at the annual Innovation Africa Digital Summit, addresses the growing strength of mobile innovation practices in Africa. also see: 2011.pdf – 2010.pdf – 2009.pdf Overview: The focus of the Mobile Africa report this time is on the overall innovation ecosystem, which includes a range of stakeholders: industry, entrepreneurs, government, academia, civil society, donors and multilateral organisations. The report also addresses the crucial role of innovator networks and incubators. The material is drawn from interviews with over two dozen digital media experts as well as extensive research from news and market …

Vancouver

MoMo Vancouver – April 16th – Mobile Web Best Practices

Meet John Boxall, co-founder of Mobify. Are you looking to increase your revenue and ROI from customers on mobile devices? Gartner estimates that social and mobile presence will generate 50 per cent of Web sales by 2015. John will share his success from developing mobile web e-commerce best practices for marque customers such as Starbucks, Threadless and Siemens. Mobify produces a positive ROI for its customers in less than 100 days. Speaker: John Boxall John Boxall, Igor Faletski & Peter McLachlan founded Mobify in 2007 with a vision to extend the web to mobile devices. Mobify now powers more than …

Kiev

MoMo Kiev – April 23rd – Mobile Payments and Profits

April 23 at the conference hall “Arena City” will be the fourth meeting of the club’s Mobile Monday.The main question event, “How else can you earn in a saturated market of Ukrainian mobile communications?” Opens with reports on topics such as non-standard additional services for pre-paid subscribers receive timely and accurate information about the client, mobile payments and electronic money. Will open the meeting, Yuri Korzh – Director of Corporate Management and Control of GlobalMani. Yuri tells about the key features and differences between electronic and mobile payments, market trends and opportunities of e-money in the context of mobile payments. …

Islamabad

MoMo Islamabad – April 2nd – Report: 3G in Pakistan

Mobile Monday event was held on 2nd April, 2012 at CIIT Islamabad campus as per schedule. Around 50 Students and Faculty members from Electrical Engineering and Mathematics department attended the event. Mr. Syed Yasir Imtiaz from CAST department shared his ideas about the importance of 3G technology and its need in Pakistan’s telecom market. He emphasised that after the 3G licensing, there will be more business opportunities in the Telecom sector. Mr. Muhammad Hassan Khan from Computer Science department gave a presentation about Mobile application development and also discussed about the achievements and activities of Comsats Mobile Application Development (CMad) …

Athens

MoMo Athens – April 25th – What’s up in Mobile Health?

We have an update on our upcoming Mobile Monday event that’s taking place on Wednesday 25 April, from 18:00 p.m. to 22:00 p.m. (yes, we’re aware of the irony of a Mobile Monday event taking place on Wednesday!). Thanks to the support by Idryma Eugenidou, we’ll be able to hold the event there – you can subscribe here.   The theme of the event is mobile health – an up-and-coming sector in the mobile industry. Aside from our speakers, we’re also organising a crowd-funded competition for mobile health apps. We’ll have a few, short presentations from the competition finalists and …

Philadelphia

MoMo Philadelphia – April 23rd – Demo Night

Our Headline Event Sponsors: This event always sells out!  Register now by clicking HERE. Mobile Monday’s Demo Night is your opportunity to see what’s new in mobile technologies coming out of this region. Many past presenters have gone on to great things, so this is your chance to see what’s new and interesting in mobile and help pick the winner of Demo Night. This year we are happy to announce a new partnership with Philly Tech Weekand Switch Philly where the winner of Demo Night will eligible to present in one of their demo slots. Keynote address by Philip Moyer, Managing Director …

Jakarta

MoMo Jakarta Slides & ReCap from March M2M Event

I think the presenters in the event provided a good balance of opinion. Part of them are upbeat about the opportunity in M2M, while there’s also the realist part… Audience are a bit of a split as well. That’s my quick take on the event. The slides can be found here, as usual: https://sites.google.com/site/idmomoslides2012/ Rustam Effendie, from Ericsson Indonesia, opened the session with a nice video, and share Ericsson view on the potential of M2M. M2M should be viewed as not a mere technology, or even ecosystem only, but as a change potential in the society enabled by technology. (By the …

Sofia

MoMo Sofia – April 9th – Windows Phone in Bulgaria

MobileMonday Sofia is back with a new exciting event on the 9th of April 2012. This time we will enjoy the hospitality of ‘Culture Beat’ club (entrance at the dark side of NDK). The main focus of the 10th MoMo Sofia will be Windows Phone, debut of new Nokia WP devices in Bulgaria and WP market for Bulgaria. Attendance is FREE, but please RSVP on the Facebook Event page. Feel free to spread the news and talk about MoMo to your friends, colleagues and all your network. Date: Monday, Apr 9, 2012 Time: 18:30pm Location: Culture Beat Here is the …

The Mob Rulz

Mobile Monday Global Events for Week of April 2nd – 2012

That’s right folks, in case you missed it yesterday, our boyz in Brisbane spilled the newz that MoMo global team in Finland have accepted an offer from Microsoft so we’re switching gears to Windows Wednesday! Safe to say we’re all a bit shocked but getting back to normal here now since it’s no longer.. April 1st. More inline with reality, we’re very pleased welcome the latest addition of the family MoMo Addis Ababa and see 17 events on our radar around the world tonight.. Smile.. it’s Monday.. 😎

Brussels

MoMo Brussels – 16 April – Mobility and Transport

The term Mobility has triggered for long ambiguity between mobile phones and human beings’ movements. Through cars, public transport, planes, bikes or by feet. In a world in increasingly fast transformation, we would like to have a look at the junction of these meanings. Transportation enablers are increasingly using smartphones for improving the experience of their users. New screens are emerging on glass, mirrors, inside cars and anywhere relevant. Big Data, the Cloud and Ubiquitous Computing allow users to remain connected at all time, in every place… but also cities to be more smart and to improve human beings’ mobility. …