MobileMonday Rio de Janeiro will hold its first event on 9 November 2009 at the ESPM Auditorium starting at 6:30 p.m. The meeting is free-of-charge. Pre-registration, however, is required due to limited space at the venue. Registration is now open.

MoMo TechTalks, a series of open, collaborative and informal networking for the Argentine mobile community, will launch its first event on 26 October 2009 at the Universidad Tecnologica National in Buenos Aires.

The first gathering will host Maximiliano Firtman, director at IT Master Professional Training and Forum Nokia Champion, and Bryan Tafel, CTO of Insomnia Business Solution. Mr. Firtman will present The Mobile Web and Multi-platform Widgets, and Mr. Tafel will discuss Mobile Development Challenges.

MoMo TechTalks will be coordinated by Mario Zorz and Fabio Caballero. The event is free-of-charge, pre-registration, however, is required because of limited space at the venue. Register by sending an email to rsvp@momobuenosaires.com or by calling +54 11 4961 6172, or +54 11 4962 1856.

On September 29, Marseilles IT cluster proposes a strategic partnership with Helsinki. As one of the fastest growing cities in southern Europe, Marseille is willing to enlarge its links towards Helsinki, the city which has become, after years of investments, the reference in Europe for their private and public innovative experiences.

In its desire to catch-up, Marseille is going to spend more than 7 billion euros in the next five years in infrastructures, equipments, transportation, and high-tech parks — impacting the growth of the local IT industry.

In a two hour conference, CEO’s of six of Provence’s leading companies, Gemalto, Inside Contactless, Avenir Telecom, ST Microelectronics, Tagsys, Mobile Distillery will discuss the advantages of this partnership, the ambition of Marseilles and the opportunities of this partnership for Finnish companies.

Based on this current business flow committed to Nokia, the common objective is to reinforce any Business and R&D opportunities between the two clusters.

Program

16.30

Welcoming

• Gabriel Rebourcet, Finnish Consul, Marseille
• Patrick Dalez, Forum Nokia

16.45–17.00

Key attractivity factors, the Hot Spots in IT

• Robert Maury, Director Provence Promotion
• Jean-Daniel Beurnier: Founder, Avenir Telecom and Member Club Top 20
• François Jalinot, Managing Director Euromediterranée

17.00–17.45

Testimonies from Marseille IT leaders: Round table with a Moderator

• Philippe Brun, Président, ST Microelectronics SAS, Aix en Provence
• Remy de Tonnac, CEO, Inside Contacless, Aix en Provence
• Jacques Seneca,Vice Président, Gemalto France
• Jean-Daniel Beurnier, Founder, Avenir Telecom, Marseille
• Alain Fanet, Président and CEO, Tagsys RFID, Marseille

17.45–18.15

R&D opportunities between Helsinki and Marseille

• Georges Falessi, CEO IT cluster Provence-French Riviera cluster
• Vincent Berge founder, PACA Mobile Center and coordinator Mobile Monday Marseille
• Michel Combe, Landwell Global, legal and tax advises

18.15–18.45

Pitch from Finnish Start-up

18.45

Buffet

What to do with position information?

Kalle Snellman, Idean: Where is the Finnish positioning market today?

Tuomo Kolehmainen, Foreca: Weather, one of the best on-demand contents for LBS

Petri Kiianlinna, LogiNets: RFID Mobile does not rely on human memory

Doors open 17:30, the program starts 18:00 Welcome!

It’s fascinating to watch laptops getting smaller and turning into “netbooks” while mobile phones are getting bigger to accommodate full keyboards and better Web browsing and application support. The pundits think these low-cost portable devices offer so many attractive features that they’ll soon displace smart phones. Intel CEO Paul Otellini even called Netbooks the “only bright spot of growth in the PC industry ”. As netbooks continue to spread and become a common option for entry-level users, road warriors, and users who primarily need just e-mail and the Web, netbooks are going to inevitably change the computing world. As a result, the limited local processing and limited local storage available on netbooks are likely to become catalysts for transferring more processing and storage to the data center, where companies such as Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are currently building up large reservoirs of computing resources.

Those three companies will certainly be beneficiaries of this trend – especially in terms of their cloud storage initiatives – but so will many other companies that host Software-as-a-Service applications, hosted storage, and cloud computing services. Enterprises will also exploit this trend to gain efficiency and manageability improvements by being able to centralize more applications, and in some cases even migrating to more of a thin client architecture. Corporate users have often resisted this scenario because it took away some of the flexibility they were used to on their PCs. However with netbooks, this type of centralization would actually help speed up and simplify storage and applications for users on their netbooks, and so it’s much more likely to be accepted.

For 23rd MobileMonday Taipei Event, we will talk about one of the latest trends in mobile world, netbook, since more and more operators are offering free netbook to encourage their customers to sign up for 3G serives. Along with netbook, we will also discuss the development of cloud computing in today’s hi-tech market. And we will also demo a brand new operating system specially designed for netbooks, called Jolicloud. This OS provides a beautiful interface, an application directory and a set of social features that makes it easy and fun to use.

Event program:

Time: 7PM, Monday, August 3rd, 2009 Place: Mary’s Bistro 2nd. Floor, No.89, Sec 2 Ren-Ai Rd., Taipei City.

Check-in: 7 PM

Presentations & Discussion: 7:30 PM

Presentation from Netbooknews.com: – Netbook Overview and Cloud Computing – From smartphone and mobile computing to netbooks

Special presentation of Cloud Computing from a world famous cloud computing service provider

And live demo of Jolicloud, a brand new OS specially designed for Netbooks

Networking Time: 8:00 PM

Please go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=xPeXYyvI37vrleYJweIkvQ_3d_3d to sign up.

Please join the MobileMonday Shanghai community on Monday evening to discuss iPhone development activity in China! Share opinions and experience with iPhone apps, meet over drinks and make connections with company CEOs, analysts, investors and all of our MobileMonday friends. Cost: rmb100 - payable at the door (includes 2 drinks and canapes)

Featured Companies: iBokan Infiniti Ventures Reigndesign Trepantech Shouji.com

Proudly brought to you by MobileMonday Shanghai And sponsored by new MoMo Partner: X Media Lab, announcing XML Kunshan October 20-22nd 2009

The June event of MobileMonday Helsinki will have three interesting topics: “Behind The Screen; Nokia's success story” by the author Ari Hakkarainen. “The secrets of mobile data services” will be revealed by Janne Aalto, the ceo of QAim, a company that maps the mobile customer experience for the content service providers in any network and any device. “Love and hate - start-ups and operators” Panu Mustonen, the digital media services director at Elisa, will discuss the changing relationship of start-ups and operators. Welcome to Molly Malone’s Irish Bar Kaisaniemenkatu 1c at 17:30. The program starts at 18:00.

Monday June 8, 2009
International Telecommunication Union,Geneva

More than 3 billion people have access to basic mobile telephony, with 48% living close or below the poverty line. What are the applications that bring the best opportunities for economic and social development ?

Speakers
* Houlin Zhao - Vice Secretary General of the ITU.
* Lilia Perez-Chavolla, ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau.
* Ken Banks, founder kiwanja.net.
* Jean-Frédéric Wagen HES-SO, Fribourg
* Frank West, Medair.
* Francesco Pisano, Unosat
* Stéphane Koch , owner intelligentzia.net , President of ISOC Geneva.
* Rosa Delgado, Internet Society, SIG development

Microsoft plans to launch an App Store that lets Windows Mobile users find, purchase, and download programs directly from the phones. It’ll work much like the iPhone App Store and the upcoming BlackBerry App World. Microsoft will take a 30% cut on the sales of any paid applications. That’s the same fee that Apple charges, although Research in Motion keeps just 20%. Although Windows Marketplace will only works for Windows Mobile 6.5 and Windows Mobile 7, and it will be launched later this year.

It seems that because of the success of iPhone and its app store, everyone is trying to doing the same thing, could this marketplace be the answer for Windows to gain more market share in the smartphone operating systems? As for developers, what are their thoughts about this new change? This month’s MobileMonday Taipei, we invite some MVP (most valued professional) of windows mobile application development to share with us their experiences in developing windows mobile application and what they think about this change.

Congratulations to the following MobileMonday Singapore Peer Awards 2009 Finalists

Early Stage Startups:-

1) Next Gen LBS - Human Network Labs 2) GenTalk - Intregen 3) Mobile Cloud Service - LMobility 4) Location Based Social Networking - myWobile 5) OrSiSo - Aureliant 6) Driving Mobile Intelligence - Smoov Technologies 7) WaveSecure - tenCube 8) Targeted Advertising - InCent Media

Emerging Stage Startups:-

1) Celcius V5 - Mobile Distillery 2) Mobile GeoCast - Nano Equipment 3) Stickkey - Fast Innovations Asia 4) Mobile Commerce Solution - Venture Manufacturing

Jury: - Nokia - Kenny Mathers, Head Forum Nokia (APAC) - Yahoo! - Matthias Kunze, MD & GM - MMA - Rohit Dadwal, MD Asia-Pacific - MEF - Joerg Krahnert, MEF Asia - Microsoft - Chris Chandler, Head of Mobile, Online Services Division - RIM - Gregory Wade, Regional Vice-President - CocoaHeads Singapore - Eric Dunivant, Founder

For more details and registration to attend the awards ceremony, kindly visit www.mobilemonday.sg now!

There’s much more to the camera in a mobile phone than only a device for taking photos. The value of the camera phone above and beyond a digital camera is the result of integration of the camera with other mobile handset hardware and software, and services.

In this meeting we will be describing and discussing the many applications, native and which may be added to the camera phone by the user, that enrich images, extract information from the user’s environment and add to the utility and fun of mobile platforms.

Format: presentations will be followed with interactive demonstrations during our casual, informal networking and refreshments.

Speakers o Christine Perey, PEREY Research & Consulting: mobile augmented reality applications o Juha K. Laurila, Nokia Research Center, Lausanne: pervasive computing o Herbert Bay, Kooaba: merging mobile and fixed Internet with Visual Search o Daniel Wagner, Technical University of Graz: reliable tracking of natural features in video o Roger Fischer, Kaywa: quick response (QR) codes technology and applications o Mindaugas Stonys, Connvision: making money with smart camera applications

After the long wait, in December 2008, iPhone finally officially launched in Taiwan and in just one month, iPhone takes up 2.2% handset market share in Taiwan, becomes the sixth most popular handset in Taiwan, based on the report of Digitimes. And with the popularity of iPhone, iPhone apps become a new income source for developers, also a brand new way for companies to promote their business, products and services. But it’s no secret that iPhone app developers are less than happy with the App Store. The criteria for approval of iPhone apps is arcane and approval can take anywhere from a couple of days to months. And then there is how to price your app right, how to promote your app… it is a lot of work and seems never ends. Is it killing the creativity for app developers? Or it opens a new door for developers?

For this month’s MobileMonday Taipei, we have invited some iPhone app developers to share with us their experience in developing application for iPhone, showcase their creativity and how they feel about the app store “Black Box”. Also we invite some mobile content providers to share their thoughts how they foresee this market is going to be.

J. Wayne Gudbranson will talk about North-American mobile market situation. He is President & CEO of Branham Group Inc., an independent global industry analyst and strategic marketing consulting firm focused on ICT.

Other speakers include:

Pekka Pärnänen, director, finNode Innovation Center.

Artturi Tarjanne, general partner, Nexit Ventures.

Andrè Chaker, Veikkaus, will be the master of ceremonies.

Find out with our selected speakers who will share their insider knowledge with you. Don’t miss this event, which remain free of charge thanks to Invest NI sponsorship.