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Some Finns have for years lamented the lost leadership of Finnish mobile development. Now MobileMonday is rubbing salt into the wounds by bringing Estonians to Helsinki strut their mobile stuff. MobileMonday December event on December 14th extends active discussion as of why Finland has lost the leadership in mobile development (not everyone agrees) by asking: Why and how Estonia became the true mobile development lab in Europe? The program includes overviews, stories, and cases from Finnish-Estonian Fromdistance Ltd, Ericsson, MobileMonday Estonia, Nutiteq, Fortumo and Positium LBS. Doors at Molly Malone’s Irish Pub open at 17:30 with Glögi, light buffet, and …

MobileMonday Helsinki14 December 2009 at 15:30–19:00Molly Malone’s Irish Bar, Kaisaniemenkatu 1 C Extending to the active discussion as of why Finland has lost the leadership in mobile development (or has it?), MobileMonday invites Estonian mobile developers to share their views. Overviews, stories, and cases from Finnish-Estonian Fromdistance Ltd, Ericsson, MobileMonday Estonia, Nutiteq, Fortumo, Positium LBS. Join us in this lively MoMo Helsinki year ending event. Doors open at 17:30 with glögi, a light buffet, and drinks provided by Enterprise Estonia. 18:00 Welcome by MoMo MC 18:10 Mobile market overview — Priit Salumaa, MobileMonday Estonia 18:30 Ericsson experiences in Estonia — …

The Western European mobile phone market rose for the first time in the last 15 months. During the third quarter of 2009 (3Q09) the Western European market grew 5% year-on-year, according to IDC’s European Mobile Phone Tracker. Handset shipments totaled 46.8 million units, representing sequential growth of 11%, which shows that consumer demand is picking up and operators are not so reluctant to stock up for the Christmas season. “The mobile phone market is showing strong signs of improvement since the onset of the economic crisis,” says Francisco Jeronimo, European mobile devices research manager with IDC. “The quarter’s growth was …

Mobile infrastructure market revenues declined 10 percent in the third quarter of this year to USD 9 billion, due in large part to fewer 3G deployments in China during the quarter, Dell’Oro Group reports. The Dell’Oro report indicates that the vast majority of 3G deployments in China were completed in the first half of 2009, which resulted in WCDMA and CDMA base station shipments in the third quarter experiencing double-digit declines over the record-setting second quarter of this year. “The lack of 3G spending by China Unicom and China Telecom in the third quarter had two major consequences on the …

Shanghai police in Changning District is tackling mobile phone scams by offering rewards of 200 yuan (EUR 20.00) to bank clerks and security guards who prevent remittances being sent. This a part of campaign aimed at eliminating crime during World Expo. “The most effective way to prevent phone swindles is to stop the remittance from the victims at the bank and enhance awareness,” said He Minzhong, deputy director of Bank of Shanghai, Changning Branch according to Shanghai Daily online edition. The district police has uncovered 226 cases where people had been swindled out of a total 10 million yuan (EUR …

The total value of the global mobile marketing and advertising market will grow from one billion euro in 2008 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 43 percent to EUR 8.7 billion in 2014. This will then correspond to 11.7 percent of the total digital advertising market, predicts analyst firm Berg Insight. At the same time the digital convergence blurs the differences between devices. The definition used by Berg Insight says that mobile advertising is digital media exposed on a mobile handset screen. The report predicts that the mobile media will become a natural part of the marketing media …

MobileMonday German National Summit will take place for the third time on November 30th, 2009. The event will culminate on the second event of the Kudos Award Ceremony. The summit will focus on “Our Mobile Future”. The speakers will discuss following topics: What do consumers want from smart phones? What will Augmented Reality bring to the people? How will media itself develop in the years to come? The speakers will be: Lars-Christian Weisswange, HTC Europe: “User, App & Market Trends” Nick Sohnemann, TrendONE: “Mobile Augmented Reality” Gerhard Leonhard, Media Futurist & Author: “Media 2.0: Mobile, Social, Open…Free?” The speaker panel …

By Shaun Thanki Last night MoMo launched its 84th chapter in Karlskrona, Sweden. Karlskrona is a very small Swedish town but home to the world class telecom cluster TelecomCity – a regional and global “hot spot” within the IT and telecom industry. It was here were Europolitan was founded, one of the first and subsequently largest mobile operators and an important contributor to the development of the Swedish mobile market. Today the TelecomCity network consists of a number of leading companies. Ericsson and Telenor, among others, as well as a variety of innovative product and service companies. In total the …

Nokia follows its last week’s research and development (R&D) reduction announcement by announcing job cuts in Japan. Nokia says that it is setting its operations to be in line with its focused portfolio of future products. In Japan this m means that 220 employees will lose their jobs. Last week Nokia announced plans to reduce some of its R&D activities in Finland and Denmark by cutting 320 jobs. Nokia says that it will continue its sourcing activities in Japan. “Japanese manufacturers are important partners who play a critical role in Nokia’s global supply-chain strategy and with whom Nokia continues to …

New devices from RIM are generating an increasing percentage of the total number of requests for the platform, according to the October 2009 AdMob Mobile Metrics Report. The recently launched RIM devices that are gaining traction are the Tour and new versions of the Curve (8900 and 8520). The older 8100 Pearl series has seen its share of RIM traffic steadily decrease from 28 percent in April to 16 percent in October. However, the 8300 Curve series has maintained approximately 44 percent share over the last six months. The Android Operating System is a relative newcomer, having turned one year …