Mobile Monday Boston and MassMobile invite mobile application developers to a meetup over beers and apps. All mobile developers are welcome: iPhone, Android, Symbian, Blackberry, etc. This event is generously sponsored by Apperian and the Cambridge Innovation Center. 

Agenda

6:30pm – 8:00pm
Impact and implications of OS updates (iPhone 3.0, Android 1.5)
Expanding to new platforms (BlackBerry, Palm, Flash, etc.)
Pushing functionality to the cloud (e.g. Google App Engine)
iPhone core graphics demo

8:00pm – 9:30pm
Networking hangout time

Details

Cost: Free, but registration is required to attend. 

Location: Cambridge Innovation Center

Transport: MBTA to Kendall, for parking, take a right onto Third St. off Broadway and you’ll see the underground garage on the right.

What’s next in tech? Discuss, asks Scott Kirsner at InnoEcco. Here are four hot areas within the mobile and wireless tech cluster in Massachusetts. 

Mobile Apps & Creative SMS
Boston developers are creating leading iPhone and Android apps. We also have a number of companies taking advantage of SMS engagement in creative ways. Like Geocade, Pongr, SCVNGR, Brring, Drync, Dinube, RunKeeper, FlightView, JitterGram, Kitty Canon, Locale, LocaModa, SnapMyLife, MocoSpace, Poll Everywhere, and TripChill. 

Professional App Development
The Boston area is home to a growing segment of professional developers that work directly with brands to create mobile apps. Like 211me, Apperian, Bit Group, Raizlabs, and Silverware Software.

Mobile Advertising & Marketing
We have the legacy of Enpocket (now Nokia Ads), Third Screen Media (now AOL), m-Qube (now VeriSign). And now Quattro Wireless, JumpTap, LocaModa, AirWide, Velti, and more.

Mobile Infrastructure 
The Boston area is home a growing segment of mobile infrastructure Skyhook Wireless (location), Nuance, Vlingo (voice), Lilliputian Systems, A123Systems (battery).
 

The last six weeks have been super active for investments in mobile and wireless companies in Massachusetts. Check out our roundup of the last 6 weeks below. There are two large deals here with $28 million raised by Lilliputian Systems and a $22 million acquisition.  But, there’s also an interesting segment (trend, perhaps?) of 4 smaller VC investments between $5 and $8 million. 

Investment / Acquisition Roundup: 

Ember, based in Boston, raised $8 million for Zigbee, their wireless mesh-networking chipsets. 

Chelmsford-based Reva Systems raised $5 million for RFID infrastructure development. 

Azuki Systems received $6 million to power rich media content on mobile devices. 

Cambridge-based Virtual goods provider Viximo raised $5 million. 

Acme Packet (from Burlington) has acquired Convergence (from Maynard) for $22.8 million.

Lilliputian Systems raised $28 million.

Despite the nationwide slowdown, venture funding in the Boston mobile industry continues to flow. This week, Azuki Systems announced $6 million in funding:

Azuki Systems, Inc., an innovator powering a new generation of mobile media, today announced that it has secured $6 million in additional equity financing. Original investors Sigma Partners and Kepha Partners, along with company executives, are participating in this round of funding.

“If there were any doubt that Greater Boston is holding its own as an international hub for the mobile industry, you only need to look at the growth of the local chapter of Mobile Monday…” MassHighTech covers Mobile Monday Boston.

We’ve released Q1 Boston mobile investment numbers. $215 million in Q1 – the biggest quarter in the last 5. Check out our charts and Globe coverage.

New Atlantic Ventures raised a new fund for investment in high growth areas like mobile.

Cambridge-based E Ink, the providers of high resolution displays to Amazon’s Kindle 2 and Sony eReader, got a nice profile in the Globe this week. Read that with this kick ass article about eBooks in the WSJ.

And there’s some wacky business going on today thru 5/10 at the Boston Cyber Arts Festival.

PS: Ben Affleck.

PPS: Register for our event next monday – Boston Mobile Company Demos

Jason Jacobs of RunKeeper will run the Boston Marathon with a busted foot dressed as an iPhone. Via Xconomy.

PhoneValley (the mobile ad arm of Publicis – they have an office in Boston) is running the mobile site for the Puma Ocean Racing Team, which is sailing into Boston as part of the Volvo Ocean Race on April 27. All kinds of crazy events around the Boston Puma City, check it out.

Hockey metaphors have hit the ice as Quattro Wireless has fallen on the NHL’s mobile puck (I try). Quattro is adding new features to the NHL’s mobile site that promise to “personalize [your] playoff hockey experience.” Oh btw, the next Bruins playoff game v. the Montreal is Saturday at 8pm.

Locals Flybridge Capital Partners and Atlas Venture have invested $6m in Series A in Mike Baker’s (former CEO if Enpocket) DataXu, as Xconomy reports.

Out of Cambridge, JumpTap has launched tapMatch, a mobile ad targeting engine that can match ads with chosen devices / operators. Via MocoNews.

Skyhook Wireless has added the Wi-Fi Positioning System into Flickr and the Android app PinPoint Location.

Acton-based Azuki Systems and SF-based Ad Infuse have integrated their platforms. Publishers can use Azuki to design sassy mobile “web portals,” and now can monetize with Ad Infuse ads. (I think).

In sorta mobile news: Boston is a Social Media Hub, according to Mashable.

Join us on Monday, April 27, 2009, for a special Mobile Monday Boston event with featured speaker Governor Deval Patrick. This event is generously sponsored by Wilmer Hale and Apperian.

A diverse set of mobile companies will deliver rapid-fire, 5 minute presentations on their business models, apps, and products.

Please note that registration will start at 5:30, and the event will start at 6:15pm – earlier than usual.

Demos Provided by:

Apperian

eInk

Geocade

Locale

Mobile Ed

Olin College

TripChill

Viximo

Valtus Mobile Technologies

Date: Monday, April 27th, 2009. Doors open at 5:30pm. Event starts at 6:15pm.

Cost: Free – but registration via Eventbrite is required to attend.
Cocktails: Provided

Location: Fairmont Copley Plaza

MBTA: Green Line – Copley, Orange Line / Commuter Rail – Back Bay
Parking: Just $9 around the corner at 100 Clarendon

We are grateful for the support of our sponsors, Wilmer Hale and Apperian.

Thanks to everyone who came through the pouring rain last night to join us for Mobile Monday. Over 400 people attended.

We are very grateful to the MIT Mobile Club for all their work putting on this event, and of course our moderator and panelists for putting on a great session.

And a big thanks to our sponsor Microsoft Research!

Mobile Monday at MIT