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Recap of Mobile Browser event

July 9th, 2008 by Mobile Monday Team · No Comments

Thanks to everyone who attended last week’s event at Orange.  It was a sold out event, our apologies to everyone on the waiting list.

Check out the video (this was not taken from a cell phone camera, so better quality than usual):

Video

Video link and some pictures.
You can also read about the event on xconomy

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Browsers — Driving the Web, or Driven by the Web? – Monday June 30th 7pm

June 4th, 2008 by Mobile Monday Team · 4 Comments

Free Registration (required): Click Here

Over the next five years, shipments of advanced mobile browsers will grow from 76 Million to 700 Million per year (ABI). Will mobile-specific websites proliferate, or will browsers and transcoding catch up? Will web aps and widgets replace native aps? How will users navigate – by voice, touch or typing? Ed Mitukiewicz, Research Director at Orange Labs Boston USA, will moderate a panel of industry leaders and experts on mobile browser technologies from Orange, vlingo, Mozilla, Nokia, Opera and Google to address these and other questions. A reception with food and drinks will follow, sponsored by vlingo.

Panelists:

  • Keith Waters is currently a Director of Research at Orange Labs Boston USA and is an Orange senior expert specializing in mobile services. Keith has over fifteen years of experience in research labs creating industrial prototypes. He currently holds eight patents in the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and User Interfaces. He has been involved with the World Wide Web Consortium, on behalf of Orange for several years as the lead on Delivery Content Client Interfaces (DCCI), as well as assisting in the definition of the Mobile Web Initiative. Keith’s interests involve novel mobile HCI applications.
  • Mike Phillips is Co-Founder and CTO of vlingo, which has recently voice-enabled the Yahoo! oneSearchTM application and are working on developing other voice-enabled applications. Mike founded SpeechWorks in 1994, a company acquired by ScanSoft (now Nuance), where he served as CTO. In 2005, Mike left ScanSoft to spend a year as a visiting scientist at MIT before starting vlingo in the summer of 2006.
  • Brad Lassey of Mozilla is working with the team building Mobile Firefox (code named Fennec). He is formally of the MIT Media Lab and France Telecom R&D.
  • Franklin Davis works in Business Development at Nokia, seeking internet companies and technologies that will extend and enhance Nokia’s market-leading S60 smart phone platform, with a focus on web technologies. Earlier in his career at Thinking Machines Corporation he built text search and database applications for the Connection Machine massively parallel supercomputer.
  • Charles McCathieNevile is the Chief Standards Officer at Opera. He has been at Opera just over 3 years in this role, and before this he was employed as a staff member of W3C, initially at MIT and then at INRIA/ERCIM in France. He is currently chair of the W3C WebAPI group, and involved personally in a number of W3C working groups and specifications.
  • David Carson is technical lead for the Android Browser application at Google, which utilizes the open source WebKit rendering engine. Before Android, he worked for almost 7 years on mobile browsers at Nokia, implementing mobile browsers engines that support WML, XHTML-MP, HTML & CSS and then the S60 port of WebKit.
  • Moderator:

  • Ed Mitukiewicz, Research Director at Orange Labs Boston, has over 25 years of consulting, software and telecommunications industry experience. Since 2005 Ed has represented Orange/France Telecom Group in the W3C Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) - he is a member of the MWI Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group and until April’08 was co-chair of the MWI Steering Council.
  • Free Registration (required): Click Here

    When: June 30th at 7pm

    Where:
    Orange Labs Boston USA
    175 Second St.
    Cambridge, MA 02142
    Map

    Reception After the Panel:
    Dante, Royal Sonesta Hotel
    Drinks and Appetizers Sponsored by vlingo

    Parking:
    At the time of the event, open metered street parking is available on 2nd Street and along Rogers Street.

    Walking Directions:
    From Red Line Kendall Square (10 min):
    Walk through the plaza facing the Bank of America branch and cross Broadway. Continue up 3rd Street passing 1 Broadway on your right (you will pass Zigo Café). At Binney Street, make a right. At the next intersection, make a left on 2nd Street. Orange Labs Boston is just past the intersection with Rogers on the left side.

    From Green Line Lechmere (10 min):
    Exiting the T-Station, continue walking along McGrath Highway. Stay to the left side and make a left on 2nd Street. Cross Cambridge Street and proceed 6 blocks. Orange Labs Boston will be on your right just past the intersection with Bent St.

    Sponsors:

    Orange vlingo

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    Great Mobile Ad Event at the Liberty Hotel

    May 6th, 2008 by Kate Imbach · 1 Comment

    Last night’s Mobile Marketing and Advertising Event at the beautiful Liberty Hotel was a blast. Our pictures are up on Flickr and a video of the event is up on Qik.

    You can stay up to date on all of our events and news by joining our Yahoo Group.

    And thanks once again to Charles River Ventures for their generous sponsorship of the event.

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    Mobile Marketing and Advertising (May 5th)

    April 16th, 2008 by Mobile Monday Team · 4 Comments

    Mobile advertising: Is it real?

    Registration is now open.

    According to the Wall Street Journal, mobile marketers spent $421 million in the US in 2006 (eMarketer). According to the Economist, the global number was $871 million in 2007 (Informa). Who is really spending that kind of money on mobile marketing? Does this mean that mainstream advertisers have embraced the mobile opportunity?

    Since Boston is a leader in the mobile advertising space, we are privileged to include some of the most experienced hands in the industry to tell it like it really is. Our lineup so far includes…

    Phuc Truong - Managing Director US, Mobile Marketing, Mobext (a division of Havas)
    Alan Rambam - Senior VP Fleishman-Hillard and founder NGT group
    Chad Stoller - Executive Director, Emerging Platforms, Organic, Inc.
    Eswar Priyadarshan - CTO, QuattroWireless
    Jeff Ostiguy - VP of Business Development, g8wave
    Kent Johnson - Director of Business Operations, ThirdScreen Media (a division of AOL)
    Scott Silk - CEO, Action Engine

    After the presentations, we’ll have a chance to socialize with fellow MobileMonday’ers over free food and drinks.

    Details…

    Date: Monday May 5th, 2008 at 7pm

    Location: The Liberty Hotel, near Charles MGH. If you haven’t set foot inside this landmark Boston building, it’s worth a look to see how they fit a luxury hotel into an 18th century prison. Here are some photos.
    Cost: Free. You can register here.

    Food: Free.

    Drinks: Yes - Free.

    Thanks to MITX for helping us pull together this event.

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    MoMo Boston CTIA Week Roundup

    April 7th, 2008 by Kate Imbach · No Comments

    Take a gander over the press from a few of Mobile Monday Boston’s Member Companies at CTIA last week. All of this news comes from Boston-area mobile organizations alone. Just a snapshot of one week’s worth of news, it gives a good sense of how active and diverse the Boston mobile community has become.

    Ads
    AT&T is now supporting mobile visual search from from Mobot. Users can take photos of print ads or products, send it to Mobot via MMS, and advertisers can return targeted digital media.

    JumpTap has signed with Fox Mobile and NBC. JumpTap will deliver targeted mobile ads and interactive experiences based on these networks’ popular brands.

    Nellymoser announced an upgrade to their mobile services platform with in-app ads, a multi-platform API, and rich widgets.

    Voice
    Vlingo landed $20m to power voice-enabled search on Yahoo! Mobile.

    Nuance Communications announced Voicemail to Text, which transcribes voicemail into text delivered via email or SMS.

    Location
    uLocate has partnered with NAVTEQ for map data on the WHERE platform and the Buddy Beacon application.

    Skyhook Wireless is powering location awareness in Trapster, a new mobile speed trap alert app.

    Apps & Services
    ANAM Mobile announced SMS Money Transfer which will allow anyone to transfer money to their friends and family via SMS.

    211-me has released a mobile application for digital business cards.

    Skycore has developed a tool that converts RSS to MSS, enabling the delivery of dynamic multimedia feeds (not just plain old text).

    Unique
    Sun is cozying up to Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux.

    Tatara last week made a series of announcements around their efforts in the femtocell space. Deals with both NETGEAR and AirWalk signal their progress towards affordable and easily converged femotcell services.

    Awards
    AlwaysOn named MoMo member companies JumpTap, Mobicious, MocoSpace, Quattro Wireless, uLocate, and Vlingo among the Northeast Top 100 Private Companies.

    Please let us know what’s missing in the comments. And to join us as a Member Company and be included in posts like this, send us an email at info / at / momoboston.com.

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    iPhone SDK Party Recap

    March 25th, 2008 by Mobile Monday Team · 3 Comments

    Mobile Monday Boston had a blast last night at the Apple Store. We learned a thing or two about the iPhone SDK and open source from Jonathan Zdziarski, and Boston-area mobile companies and developers demoed their iPhone apps.

    Read more about Mobile Monday, the current mobile community in Boston, and the iPhone over at Xconomy and the Onda.

    And check out photos from the event in the momboston Flickr group.

    You can check some videos from the event here and here (audio not perfect!)

    The Mobile Monday Boston team

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    Mobile Monday Boston meeting March 24th - iPhone SDK Party at the Apple Store

    February 21st, 2008 by Mobile Monday Team · 8 Comments

    Please join Mobile Monday Boston on Monday, March 24th at the Apple Store in the Cambridge side Galleria for the iPhone SDK Party.
    Registration is now open!

    Event Details:

    If you are interested in demoing your iPhone app at the event, please contact us at info @ momoboston . com today.

    When: Monday, March 24th at 7:00PM, RSVP
    Cost: Free! Thanks to sponsors Skyhook Wireless, Bain Capital Ventures, and uLocate Communications.

    Main event: Apple Store
    Cambridgeside Galleria (Lechmere stop on the Green Line)
    100 Cambridgeside Pl, Cambridge

    After-party: Dante, in the Royal Sonesta across the street from Cambridgeside
    5 Cambridge Pkwy
    Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge

    View from Dante (taken by Kate's iPhone)
    The Mobile Monday Boston Team

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    Mobile Camp Boston on March 15th at MIT

    February 20th, 2008 by Mobile Monday Team · No Comments

    There are less than 25 days until MobileCampBoston - register now

    What: MobileCampBoston
    When: Saturday, March 15, 2008, 9AM-5PM. Registration will start at 8:30 AM
    Where: MIT
    Building E51 (Tang Center)
    70 Memorial Drive
    Cambridge, MA 02139-4307

    Time is running out for you to register for MobileCampBoston, the event where area developers, companies, marketers and pundits will meet, discuss, and share ideas on all things mobile. We limited to around 100 participants, so sign up now!

    MobileCampBoston is an un-conference. Unlike a conventional conference where discussions and panels are arranged beforehand, MobileCampBoston lets everyone decide what will be discussed that day. You can expect to see discussions around:

    • Mobile User Interface
    • Location based solutions
    • Mobile web design
    • SMS integration with your web application
    • … and so much more.

    For more information and updates, go to the MobileCampBoston website. To register, just use the registration page

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    Great meeting at Nokia Research Center

    February 5th, 2008 by Mobile Monday Team · 1 Comment

    We had a great meeting at Nokia Research Center. We wanted to thanks Nokia and all the speakers for the great presentations and also we wanted to thank to all the attendees. If you attend the meeting and you took pictures please posted them on the Flick group.

    We are planning next meeting for March, so stay tuned for more information in the coming weeks.

    Also we want to congratulate SnapMyLife to be one of the finalist for the Mobile Monday Peer Award taking place next Monday February 11th at Mobile World Congress.

    One last information, March 15th there will be the Mobile Boot Camp, more information here on the site for registration and location.

    The Mobile Monday Boston team

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    Mobile Monday Boston: Nokia Research Center research projects - SOLD OUT!!

    January 29th, 2008 by Mobile Monday Team · 3 Comments

    Mobile Monday Boston next event will be held at Nokia Research Center (NRC) Cambridge on February 4th at 7PM.

    The meeting is SOLD OUT !!!

    • Who: anyone interested in Mobile technologies
    • When: February 4th at 7PM
    • Where: Nokia Research Center (directions)
      3 Cambridge Center
      2nd Floor,
      Cambridge, MA 02142
    • RSVP: Due to limited space (70 seats)

    If you did register but you cannot attend please unregister so that others can register.

    Theme: Research at Nokia Cambridge

    • 4x 20 minute presentations with 5 minutes for questions.
    • 7:05 Introduction (Paul Wisner)
    • 7:10 Linux Research Phone Platform derived from Ubuntu & Debian (Brian Avery)
    • 7:35 ConnectingMe Semantic Web Project (Deepali Khushraj)
    • 8:00 Virpi Virtual Personal Assistants - conversational natural language dialog (Mark Adler)
    • 8:25 MyNet Private Personal Networks and Device Clusters (Paul Wisner)
    • 8:50 end

    IMPORTANT NOTICE: You will need a photo ID to be admitted into the Nokia facility. Security prefers government IDs (drivers license, passport, …) but they will accept student IDs for registered participants.

    Thanks

    Mobile Monday Boston team.

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