Year: <span>2013</span>
Year: 2013

Year: 2013

The Mob Rulz

Mobile Monday Global Events for Week of July 29th – 2013

Ok Campers.. we’re coming to you Live from the Himalayas as MoMo Chapter #151 celebrates their debut event today.. Big Smiles to all the Young Innovators in Kathmandu: Swagatam!

We’re also thrilled to note here our team in Silicon Valley just rang the bell for Round Two of their Momentum Accelerator program, they opened applications for the fall semester with Sept. 3rd deadline.

Meanwhile, the line-up for Mobile Monday events running this week plus quick peek ahead for August 5th below as well. We trust everyone will have a Really Great time out there.. Cheers.. 😀

Detroit

MoMo Detroit – Aug. 12th – Augmented Reality

In a recent VentureBeat article a writer suggested that although Augmented Reality (AR) may seem like a futuristic concept, in actual fact it will become a realistic part of our daily lives in 2013. Given the focus that this use of mobile technologies is attracting, Mobile Monday Detroit thought the time was right to begin exploring AR and its implications. AR blurs the line between what’s real and what’s computer-generated by enhancing what we see, hear or feel. A more detailed explanation from those who work with the technology would be: Augmented reality (AR) is a live view of a …

Islamabad

MoMo Islamabad – Aug. 5th – Mobile Web vs. Native Apps

The Mobile Monday (MoMo) event has been scheduled on August 5th, 2013 at CIIT Islamabad Campus. The program will start at 3 PM. The theme for this MoMo meeting is “Mobile Web Apps Vs. Mobile Native Apps”. The issues that will be discussed in this event will be related to comparison of of Mobile Web and Native Apps, their advantages and disadvantages and the emergence of Hybrid Apps (Native Apps with Web Apps Inside). Faculty/Students from Academia and Experts from Industry are invited to attend this event. Post Event Update: http://mobilemonday.net.pk/momo-event-at-ciit-islamabad-august-5th-2013/ Mobile Monday event was held on 5th August 2013 …

The Mob Rulz

Mobile Monday Global Events for Week of July 22nd – 2013

WoW.. MoMo folks are gathering in 5 countries around the world, on every.single.day this week, with a great range of topics and speakers on offer! Hearty Congrats to the Momentum team on their debut accelerator class graduation and Full Props to the crew in Vietnam for running back-to-back gigs and impressive program lineup on-tap there as well.

Quick heads-up for the developers out there, in case you missed, Nokia announced their new Future Capture Contest with deadline to submit July 31st and ten winners headed to the hackathon in Sweden at the end of August. Maybe we’ll see you there.. 😎

Ann Arbor

MoMo Ann Arbor – Aug. 5th – Mobile Testing with Remote Services

Mark Shipley from DeviceAnywhere will provide an overview of how companies are utilizing remote device testing to perform cost-effective testing in the ever-increasing fragmentation of the mobile market. Presentation Learn how to leverage Keynote’s DeviceAnywhere mobile testing platform to test, measure, and monitor mobile application and websites across hundreds of real devices from anywhere in the world. Speakers Bio Mark is a 15 year software quality veteran starting his career in R&D with Lucent Technologies in delivery of the Software Verification and Validation application portfolio for Bell Labs. Moving to expand beyond his software testing focus he joined with the …

Tokyo

MoMo Tokyo – Aug. 5th – Beer Garden Festival

Yesss… it’s that time of year once again to get everyone together for some frosty pints and cool evening breezes on the roof top beer gardens = Frozen Nama For All.. 😎 We’ve reserved a huge space at the ‘Green Garden’ of Tokyu Shibuya Honten for this Come as you are and Pay as you go evening. Note: consider this an Open to All event. Please Register – as we need an estimated head count – look forward to mix & mingle with our Tokyo mobile community along with friends and family other groups! Date: Monday, 5th August 2013 Running …

Lagos

MoMo Lagos – July 29th – LBS Benefits to Nigerian Business

Location Based Services are starting to prove to be an essential part of our daily lives. From Turn-by-turn navigation services like Google Maps to crowd sourced Traffic applications like Waze (recently acquired by Google for 1.3bn dollars), Location based services have always helped people to get from one location to another giving them services such as Route Suggestion and Traffic Information to help them get to their destinations on time. Locally focused Traffic Monitoring Apps like traffix are coming up to provide crowd-sourced traffic data in Nigeria. Location based Services have evolved from the traditional navigational services model to the …

Adelaide

MoMo Adelaide – July 29th – The Entrepreneur Ecosystem

MEGA invites you to Mobile Monday – 29 July 2013 in Adelaide at The Seven Stars Hotel, Angas Street. Mobile Monday is an important part of a thriving ecosystem of support for entrepreneurs in Adelaide. Members of this community have come together to map the support programs that exist and this has generated a lot of interest from the entrepreneurship community and from other stakeholders, including education and government.  Adelaide City Council sponsored and pro-actively supported a Forum in June to explore the environment for startups and to identify ways in which this environment can be ‘turbocharged’. At this month’s …

The Mob Rulz

Mobile Monday Global Events for Week of July 8th – 2013

Finally.. folks around the Mo’world are headed for some hard earned R&R over the coming months, take good care out there, no doubt a few extra sleep cycles and some offline time are fully in order. We’ve posted the round-up of MoMo events below for the next couple of weeks, sorry to miss noting this Mega Startup Meetup in Stockholm, and see several more chapters are geared-up for later in the month as well.

A quick props for the Shanghai crew who hosted their 2nd Annual Startup Challenge at MAE and warm welcome to our latest addition in the family = Kathmandu, Nepal.. Big Smiles.. 😎

Silicon Valley

MoMo Silicon Valley – July 23rd – Momentum Demo Day

Mobile Monday invites you to the first class graduation of our accelerator program, Momentum! Join us at our Demo Day to learn more about these awesome startups. The Momentum Accelerator hosted 5 teams from around the world in San Francisco for 3 months to help them grow their business. When: Tuesday July 23rd 2pm-5pm Agenda: 2:00 pm Arrive2:30 pm Welcome address 2:45 pm Presentations by each of the startups4:00 pm Reception @ Aventine Where: SwissNex730 Montgomery StSan Francisco, CA 94111   First Class: Download 1-pagers from Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/tapiamg/momentum-class-of-spring-2013 Momentum class of spring 2013 from mario tapia Our first class includes: Fiverun brings …