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With iOS and Android, smart phones have entered the Mobile Internet era. It is obvious to find that today’s leading smart phone platforms are not from traditional phone makers. After Apple redefined smart phone, Internet companies have been following closely this trend. Google is the first and most successful player to provide an Open OS for all phone makers to use and compete with Apple. Amazon is also grabbing people’s attention recently with its possible Amazon or Kindle Phone. This movement is more complex in China. Being a huge market with the world’s largest Internet companies besides US, China may …

China is without doubt one of the world’s major centers for Entrepreneurship in Internet and Mobile Internet fields. And it is worth looking at other areas in the world where entrepreneurship is also a hot topic. In South-East Asia, with the fast development of economy, we have observed quick rise of Internet / Mobile Internet entrepreneurship in countries including Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, etc. Startups there benefit from rapid market growth, tax advantages, and global collaboration. For this 50th edition of Mobile Monday Beijing, we have invited entrepreneurs from both Thailand and China, to showcase their activities, and share …

The whole publishing industry has been strongly affected by smart devices and new content distribution channels with them. More and more people are turning to smart devices as their major means of reading and getting information. Books count as a major app category in Apple AppStore; and the iPhone/iPad Newsstand opened a door for “new age” publishers and traditional media to compete directly on the same stage. Yet we are still at the very beginning of a new age of publishing. Smart devices open a whole world of new possibilities to improve people’s reading experience. And we are far away …

The GSMA Mobile World Congress 2012 is attracting attention from all over the world while it talks about “redefining Mobile”. It’s really a big party of the entire mobile industry, a major show of new products and services. The announcements of Nokia 41Megapixel 808 Pureview, HTC One series, Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1, and so on, make already a long list of the newest gadgets on this event. But we might wonder more, besides all these new products and hardware moves, what MWC is showing the world about services trends on the Mobile Internet. What do these new devices mean for …

Asia is now becoming a major source of innovation of Internet & Mobile Internet. In each sub-domain there are one or several giants competing with their Silicon Valley counterparts, and making remarkable results. Regionally Alibaba has beaten eBay in B2B and B2C services; Mixi, DeNA, GREE, Cyworld are dominating the SNS and gaming industry in Japan and Korea. The Chinese search engine giant Baidu, SNS and IM leader Tencent are dominating the Chinese market. Being top 5 Internet Companies worldwide, these two companies and expanding aggressively in an international scale. Now with the trend moving from Internet to Mobile Internet, …

Phoenix DONG WatchDataWatchData’s Sim card – NFC convergent solution has a wide range of application in the Chinese market. As the expert of services at WatchData, Phoenix will share with us what they have learned through numerous collaborations in the industry. Hao ZHANGOrange Labs BeijingOrange has built up a comprehensive service bundle around the NFC technology in Nice, France, with its famous trial service Cityzi. Peng RENChina MobileChina Mobile regards NFC as a strategic move in their mobile payment positioning. The CM Research Institute in Beijing is in charge of the research of relevant technologies and services. Lionel BARABANFAMOCOFamoco has …

We’ve been talking about Location Based Service for quite a while. Since FourSquare made location check-in popular in 2009, LBS has attracted lots of attention in the mobile industry. Third party LBS providers develop game based location services to obtain more user engagement. Retailers also start to apply this technology to attract more customers. TopShop, the British fashion retailer targeting on young generation, recently works with SCVNGR, a location based gaming developer, to promote their goods when the new semester starts in September. Anyone within 500 meters distance to the retailer’s shops can play games on SCVNGR’s platform. Winners will …

Mobile Monday Beijing has the pleasure to present a special event of panel discussion on Mobile Application and Social Game. We are pleased to invite you to this special edition of MoMo where we will interact with some of the world’s best industry analysts, developers, advertisers and venture capitalists and discuss the pivotal changes and infinite possibilities in mobile application and social gaming space. Inside Network is the industry’s leading research and media organization dedicated to providing original market research, critical analysis, data services and news on the Facebook platform, social gaming, and mobile applications ecosystems. Based in Palo Alto, …

Since its initial by WHATWG (Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group) in 2004, HTML5 has been well-known among web developers for years. However, it became the topic of mainstream media years later in 2010, after Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs stated his opinion that with the development of HTML5, Adobe Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content. As a language for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web, HTML5’s core aims have been to improve the language with support for the latest multimedia while keeping it easily readable by humans and …

怎样才能创新，如何避免墨守陈规？ “开放创新日-广州站”活动用“开放创新”的视野，带领开发者体验移动互联网最前沿的创意，和跨界专家分享来自相关领域的灵感，经验和成果.为开发者提供新的创新视角，从另外一个角度看待移动互联网产业的发展。开放创新日也为开发者提供零距离接触全球两大运营商，众多投资人以及软件商店的开放平台，展示其最新的产品及服务。同时还可以聆听产业链上的各方势力探讨如何面对移动互联网的创新，机遇及挑战。 此次活动包括了“专家演讲”，“主题演讲”，“圆桌讨论”，“产品介绍展示”和“产品演示”等几个环节。在这些环节中，开发者将体验前沿的创新理念，分享应用创新和推广的经验，了解到中国移动mobile market 和Orange App Shop最新的动态和信息。