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Ahmedabad, India & Helsinki, Finland September 27, 2010 – MobileMonday celebrates 10 years of collaboration, community, and innovation with the new chapter launch in Ahmedabad, India. With Ahmedabad becoming its 107th chapter, MobileMonday is now active in all continents. The Ahmedabad mobile community will join the worldwide group of mobile movers and shakers under the direction of Ashok Karania from InfoStretch with support of Rajnikant Joshi and Gargi Das. The Indian Telecom Sector is growing at a scorching pace, with mobile carriers paying USD 15 billion for 3G spectrum. Bharti Airtel took over African operations of Zain while Tata Docomo …

MobileMonday, a simple concept that has eventually turned into a large networking platform for all things mobile, celebrates its 10 year birthday this week in Helsinki and Tallinn. According to MobileMonday Estonia, close to 500 people attended the three day summit. There are now 108 chapters around the world helping people network around mobile issues. The 108 chapters cover 37 countries and all continents of the world – figures and references that anyone could call a phenomenon. Mobile phone use is a lot greater than internet use and in many cases it has been referred to as the greatest innovation …

Microsoft Corp. said its forthcoming Windows Phone 7 platform will be integrated with its Xbox console. “The idea is not to make a mobile version of Halo, as such, the idea is to extend gaming to mobile,” Vesa-Matti Paananen, a Microsoft business development executive based in Finland, said at a Mobile Monday event in Tallinn, Estonia. Game records could be synchronized in the cloud so that players might be required to accomplish certain tasks on the phone before they could get to the next level on the console, he said. The company’s “three-screen approach” currently means mobile, personal computer and …

Mr Alex Nyika, a Ugandan software developer based in Kenya, on Monday scooped the top prize at one of Europe’s most prestigious mobile communication innovation awards. Mr Nyika, the chief executive Xrystalgenius , a Nairobi-based mobile startup, won the Base of the Pyramid award at the 2010 Mobile Monday Peer Awards that took place in Helsinki, Finland. Five finalists including United States-based Super Technologies, which emerged runner up in the category competed for the award. The award recognises young and outstanding mobile companies that are making a difference in mobile health, education, payments, employment trade and entertainment. Software developers from …

mig33, the world’s largest mobile-first community, today rolled out a powerful new distribution program that gives top VAS (mobile content) and handset manufacturers access to its thriving virtual economy — and its associated revenue — and introduced the program’s first key partners at the MobileMonday Summit 2010 in Finland. The program is the latest in a series of moves that have pushed mig33 to the forefront of mobile Social Entertainment Services and created an exploding virtual economy that has seen nearly 30 million virtual goods purchased in 2010 alone. Among mig33’s first new distribution partners are PT Numedia Global, a …

Last night CScout attended Mobile Monday Brooklyn, a monthly meet-up for mobile industry professionals. This month’s theme was New York-based apps, and six companies were invited to demo their products. Location-based services were (not surprisingly) very popular, such as UpNext’s 3D maps and Roadify’s new app, which connects people with real-time commuting information. Community-building apps also dominated, like SuperGlued’s community built around concert-going, and Venmo, which allows friends to exchange money through text. Via: CScout

The Mobile Monday Peer Awards at the ten year MoMo Summit in Helsinki, Finland, was certainly an impressive showcase of innovation, passion and mobile creativity but in true mobile irony, it was a ring that won the evening. That ‘ring’ in question, however, was a physical finger ring pioneered by the Israeli mobile startup Ringbow, which has invented a completely new way for users to interact with their mobile touchscreen by adding another physical dimension to the experience. Watch the video below to see how it works. Ringbow’s Co-Founder Efrat Barit – or “mistress of the rings” as she was …

Meet Revence Kalibwani, a 25 year-old ‘self-made’ software developer. The computer whiz kid is set to represent Uganda at the 2010 Mobile Monday Peer Awards in Helsinki, Finland on September 25. The prestigious mobile communication awards recognise outstanding mobile software developers from around the world annually. The awards are an initiative of Mobile Monday global, the international association for mobile professionals, and visionaries. Mr Kalibwani was nominated for the Peer Awards two weeks ago after outshining eight other software developers including; certified information technology expert from Uganda Telecom and information technology (IT) students from Makerere University. Interestingly, he has neither …

Mobile Monday Mid-Atlantic has named Chuck Sacco president and announced the topic of its first meeting of its 2010-11 season, which will be held Monday night. Sacco is the vice president of client strategy at Bryn Mawr-based Movitas LLC, which he joined when it acquired a company he co-founded, PhindMe LLC, late last year. Sacco joined the board of directors of Mobile Monday Mid-Atlantic last year as the organization’s head of sponsorship. He replaces J.P. Finnell, a co-founder of Mobile Monday Mid-Atlantic, who will continue to serve on its board. Mobile Monday Mid-Atlantic is the area chapter of a global …

Chicagoland mobile industry professionals and enthusiasts will convene in downtown Evanston, IL on Monday, September 20th for the next Mobile Monday Chicago event. The meeting – which will take place at the Hotel Orrington – will focus on designing for the iPad. “We’re thrilled to have one of the most creative, talented and entrepreneurial designers in Chicago – Pek Pongpaet – to come share his secrets,” noted Anthony Hand, events chair for Mobile Monday. Designing exceptional user experiences for mobile devices is a lot harder than it sounds. Come hear Pek Pongpaet talk about his most recent project, Biz Quotes. …