Month: <span>March 2011</span>
Month: March 2011

Month: March 2011

Detroit

MoMo Detroit Mobile in Health Care

Mobile healthcare, also known as mHealth, is one of the fastest growing segments of the mobile technology industry.  What exactly is mHealth? It is healthcare enabled by the use of mobile phones and other wireless devices, and it is a technology that is transforming healthcare from a physician and hospital-centric system to one that endeavors to connect all the entities involved in the healthcare process (including patients) via mobile in order to achieve the collection of community and clinical health data, delivery of healthcare information to practitioners, researchers, and patients, real-time monitoring of patient vital signs, and direct provision of …

Amsterdam

Mobile Monday Amsterdam #20

The Music in Mobile Are you ready for MoMoAms #20: The Music in Mobile? In this email more information on the inspiring speakers. What to expect? Music demos, music tech, startups and industry disruptors. Read on for more information! In Short When: Monday, March 28th, 2011 What: The Music in Mobile Time: 15:00-19:00 (Speakers: 16:00; drinks till 21:00) Where: De Duif (Prinsengracht 756, Amsterdam | Map) RSVP: Available on Monday, March 14th, 12:00h via Meetup Speakers We have a broad line-up of world class speakers confirmed for our upcoming event. Check out the list of confirmed speakers: Steven Kruyswijk (@kruithoph) …

Kampala

Uganda WSA Contest Showcase Hive Colab Friday 25 March 3 PM

Note:    We were not getting the expected responses, though they have finally begun to come in, and since we have several developer events coming up, starting with the LUG event at Google on Monday with Bram Moolenaar http://linux.or.ug/node/1144 at which we should be able to speak about the WSA event, so we decided to move it to 25th March, which happens to be the deadline for submissions. The deadline for submission of projects for the WSA Contest is fast approaching.  I would therefore urge you to read through the Press Release below and submit a project for the contest, by writing …

Global

Key Leaders Discuss Freedom & Democracy at Mobile Monday Palestine

An impressive group of Sr. leaders from the ICT sector joined Mobile Monday Palestine in Ramallah on March 7th to discuss the critical role of mobile communications, via social platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Youtube, on freedom and democracy. Dr. Yahya Al-Salqan, founder of the local Mobile Monday chapter, moderated a panel discussion with the participation of Mr. Jari Tammisto, CEO of Mobile Monday Global, Dr. Mashhour Abu-Dakka, Minister of Telecommunication and Information Technology, Dr. Naser Al-Laham, Editor-in-Chief of Maan Agency, the most widely used Internet news portal in Palestine and Ammar Al-Aker, CEO of Paltel Group. Mr. Tammisto …

Amsterdam

Introducing Duncan Stutterheim

Duncan Stutterheim has made fame and fortune as the co-founder ID&T. What started out as a dance party in the Netherlands has grown to a global phenomenon in 21 countries. Duncan will share his vision on the role of music at the upcoming event. To get a better sense of who he is we asked […]

Amsterdam

Introducing Erwin Blom

Erwin Blom (@erwblo) is the co-founder of the Crowds and a very know face in the Dutch twitter scene. We wanted to learn more about Erwin so we asked him these 5 questions: 1) If you could go to study again, what study would you chose? Why? I am an old man, i’m from before […]

Global

HarperCollins talks e-book apps at MoMo London

The next wave of innovation in book apps may come from developers working directly with authors, says David Roth-Ey, group digital director and publisher at HarperCollins UK. “What we can do is really get developers working closely with our authors,” he said at the Mobile Monday London event. “What comes out is rising organically, rather than grafting a developer onto the end of a project once the content has been written.” Meanwhile, a more recent app for children’s book The Heart And The Bottle has also been successful, although Roth-Ey did not give figures for it. “It’s not his best-selling …