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The second annual Mobile Health Forum event will take place Monday night at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Part of the Mobile Monday Mid-Atlantic series, the event will explore challenges faced by health-care providers and patients, and the role of mobile technologies in addressing them. Founded in 2007, Mobile Monday Mid-Atlantic is the local chapter of a nonprofit global community of wireless industry professionals. “Mobile technology is helping to address the health-care needs of a changing population and is an essential enabler of remote preventative care,” said Robert Jarrin, senior director of government affairs for Qualcomm Inc. and a …

So finally we can reveal the mystery sponsor for the launch event of Mobile Monday Joburg Tech! *drum roll* – The mystery sponsor will be Google Umbono, they will be launching their new fund/incubator at the very first Mobile Monday Joburg Tech… wohooooo, awesome! More details on Umbono here – http://www.google.co.za/intl/en/umbono/index.html So all you start-ups, techies, entrepreneurs and others make sure you attend this event and if you would like a 5 minute “elevator pitch” slot to tell everyone about your awesome start-up and perhaps impress the inconspicuous VC’s that could be hiding in the audience then let us know …

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 …

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 …

Helping Indore get on the mainstream global mobile advancements map, MobileMonday, Finland and Indore-based eMorphis signed an agreement to set up the MobileMonday Indore chapter during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. MobileMonday (MoMo) is an open community platform of mobile industry visionaries, developers and influential individuals fostering brand neutral cooperation and cross-border P2P business opportunities through live networking events to demo products, share ideas and discuss trends from both local and global markets. India is one of the key players in developing the mobile ecosystem and has a huge investment in mobile application development for global consumption. With the …

Mad props to Suni Vaidya for building up dcMOMO (the DC chapter of the international Mobile Monday organization).  She’s recently brought Oren Levine from Nokia, Hans Horn from Millennial Media and Kate Kingberger from CTIA on as board members. The event last night was around Digital Media and Mobile Content. Here’s the event description, and a video of the event is below: Moderator: Jeff Tennery, SVP, Publisher Services, Millennial Media Panelists: Demian Perry, National Public Radio (NPR) Katie Juhl, National Geographic Jamey Jeff, Discovery Channel Jeff led a discussion with the panel about strategies for the mobilization of digital media and content; how …

A Research in Motion spokesperson was caught on video (uploaded by Mobile Monday Rio) saying that RIM “will also support Android apps when we release the Dalvik engine on top of QNX.” Dalvik is a virtual machine that’s an integral part of the Android OS, and is open source. Earlier this year, Myriad Group announced its Alien Dalvik software, which “enables Android applications to operate on non-Android devices.” So the idea of Android apps running on a BlackBerry Playbook (or any non-Android tablet) aren’t that farfetched. Though this news seemingly came straight from the horses’ mouth, when we spoke to …

On the 21st of February 2011 I was at the *iHub_ for Mobile Monday with Microsoft. I know there are some guys who were not able to make it there and so I decided to do a small write up covering what happened. I arrived at the *iHub_ a bit late so I missed the introductory remarks made by John Wesonga who is part of the Mobile Monday Kenya team. He invited Jessica the *iHub manager to the floor. Jessica talked briefly about the *iHub and then introduced mLab and the mLab team which is comprised of John and Bernard …

Last night at Mobile Monday’s demo event at the Park Plaza Hotel, seven area mobile companies presented to a room full of enthusiasts. The event was sponsored by Charles River Ventures, a venture capital firm with offices on both coasts and which focuses on making investments in the mobile space. With regard to Boston as a hotbed for startup activity, the Charles River partner shared, “When it comes to mobile, the jury is in. We have created companies that stay, and have thousands of people that contribute to the 3 ingredients successful startups needs: top entrepreneurs, a tech-savvy workforce, and …

Hola! – it’s soon that time once again where the mobile world players gather for an iconic week in Barcelona.. which of course that means thousands of MoMo’istas will be there for the chaos!

We have merged several lists below – thanks to Alex, Eric and Lisa – of functions and suggest members join the MWC Group with Dedicated Forum to arrange contacts & share plans. We look forward to see you all at Fira and on Las Ramblas.. 😎

**As noted within this recent news, we are planning a joint event organized together with Etisalat. Meanwhile, no doubt there will be plenty of action again this year @App Planet in Hall 7 – Details Here. Otherwise, suggest folks read this post by Carlo at WIP for $$ tips on getting local SIM in Barca!