Dusseldorf

We thank our sponsors! without their help this event would not have been possible! Dear Mobile Enthusiasts & MoMo Followers! Come and get together with us to celebrate the 5th anniversary of MobileMonday in Germany! It is already 5 years since we started with MobileMonday in Duesseldorf and over time spread our activity to Munich, Berlin, Hamburg and Frankfurt. In all of these cities we have run almost 100 events including successful formats like our annual National Summit, the Kudos Award and the unique m2d2 – MobileMonday Developer Day. We have over 4.400 followers and created the largest Mobile Force in …

We know that mobile payments are redefining commerce, but will our phones soon replace our wallets? PayPal seems to think so. The payments giant boldly predicts that the wallet will be dead by 2015. PayPal isn’t the only one getting into the game though. Google recently launched Google Wallet, the search giant’s mobile payment system, and Visa recently made a strategic investment in Square, the mobile payments platform now worth more than $1.4 billion. We decided to look deeper into mobile payment trends and created this event that tracks what experts and analysts believe will happen to mobile commerce in the next four years, …

Mobile Internet usage has finally broken into the mainstream mass-market. And that is also and especially true for mobile social media, networks and platforms: 200 Million out of 600 Million Facebook-members use their social network on the go. And more than 50% of the German mobile Internet audience use one or more social apps on their handsets. Increasing numbers of social apps on the Web make more sense when you use them on the road. What is true for Foursquare and Qype is also true for the better part of Twitter: You have more to talk about on the road …

There has been a recent buzz on NFC All major smartphone manufacturers are demonstrating their interst to ship their NFC enabled devices to the market. However, what is the value that this brings to the mobile customers? What are the applications that will take benefit of NFC? Is there any business in NFC and which of the players will attract it? These are but a few questions that people might have. For certain, the forthcoming MobileMonday in DUSSELDORF will have interesting presentations and discussions on this matter. As usual, we will convene in the natural home of MobileMonday DUSSELDORF, which is at Grey, …

I’ve gathered some ideas I’d like to share with you about what we’ll see this year and at the Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona coming up in February.

We are reaching the sweet spot as VCs say when the penetration of a new technologies reaches 20%. Consumers start to really want and enjoy mobile data! With a great selection of user friendly smart phone, affordable data plans (no more bill shocks, at least within the EU) and…

Dear MobileMonday friends & followers, The year ends and we will have our final MoMo in Düsseldorf for 2010 on November 15th: Wireless Health – Keep the doctor away! Opportunities in the global mobile healthcare market are estimated to be worth around € 40 bn in 2010 (McKinsey & Company), prompting operators and other giants out of the wireless industry to step up their initiatives in this emerging sector. A large proportion of the over four billion people using mobile phones today struggle to gain access to good quality and affordable healthcare, both in emerging markets and more developed societies. …

Dear Mobile Movers & Shakers, Welcome back from the summer break! On September 6th we have a special topic dedicated to the VC market in the Mobile Sector. So if you are in the starting phase of your business you should pay special attention:-) Venture capital funding took a nosedive in 2009 but is set to come back, especially in the Internet and Mobile sector, as entrepreneurs look for business opportunities in cloud computing, social networking and mobile technologies. The collapse of credit markets after the failure of banks like Lehman Brothers in 2008 forced business to stop making capital …

Imagine a situation where the world around us is intelligent. There are sensors and actuators everywhere, which communicate with each other and with servers for proper management and operation of the machines. The stoplights regulate the flow of vehicles automatically, feed by traffic information received from sensors installed everywhere. The vending machines are automatically sending requests for replenishment when needed. The elderly people are under constant observation of doctors who are updated regularly with the condition status. The cars are be intelligent enough to prevent collisions with other cars and city infrastructure. Welcome to the world of M2M. Welcome to …

It is high season for mobile applications: The number of application stores are growing and so is the number of downloaded apps. With the appearance of the iPhone Store and the Android Market not only the technology has changed the way mobile functionality is technically delivered to the end user – a complete new mobile ecosystem has been successfully established based on this approach. Where does this leave the mobile web? Are mobile enabled websites an endangered species? Is the browser an outdated and/or less useful delivery platform? Do you have to develop mobile apps, if you want to earn …