Today we’re beginning a new series of guest blog posts on Mobile Monday Boston. Most analysts are predicting 2010 to be a turning point for the mobile industry. There’s a tremendous amount happening in the mobile industry in Boston and we hope through this series to bring some new voices to you.

To kick off the series, we’ve invited Jeff Glass to comment on the Quattro acquisition. Having sold m-Qube to Verisign for $250 million, Jeff is in a unique position to talk about the recent acquisition of Quattro.

We kick off the new decade with some great news for Boston.

Andy, Eswar, and the rest of the team have been great friends of Mobile Monday over the years and we’re very happy about their success. Here’s some of the news on Quattro’s acquisition by Apple.

Official announcement from Quattro

Techcrunch

WSJ

Silicon Valley Mercury News

Boston.com

New York Times

Newsweek

GigaOm

Here are the presentations from last week’s event on mobile in emerging markets.

• Mobile Giving
• Assured Labor
• txteagle
• Moca
• MDNet
• Zaca
• Ruma

We used PollEverywhere to choose an audience choice award. The winner is Ruma!

Also a big thanks to Ted Chan and Itay Sharfi and MoMIT for their great work organizing this event.

Within the next three years, another billion people will begin to make
regular use of cell phones, continuing the fastest adoption of a new
technology in history (source: MIT Next Billion). Organizations such
as Grameen Phone have shown how mobile phones can provide a positive
impact in the developing world. In many regions, mobile phones provide
the first connectivity to the outside world and enable such diverse
services as: money transfer, medical record keeping, commodity price
updates, literacy education, and election monitoring.

Join some of the pioneers in this space as they discuss the challenges
and opportunities of using mobile phone technologies to improve
people’s lives throughout the world.

Time: Monday, November 16th, 6.30pm. Presentations lightning round
will start at 7pm.

Where: MIT Sloan, E51-115, Wang Auditorium – 2 Amherst St, Cambridge.
More information at http://bit.ly/eR4qs

Cost: Free, but you need to register at http://mobilesocial.eventbrite.com/

Mobile entrepreneurs: This event is for you! If you would like to have
a short pitch on how your company/organization is using mobile phones
to create social impact, please fill out your details at
http://bit.ly/m7Clz

Can carrier deals mint money for app developers?  Our October event will focus on monetization of Carrier and OEM App Stores.  We’ll examine the perspective of store front owners AT&T and RIM, and also get the point of view from app developers in the middle of a complex multi-party relationship.

Topic:  Mobile monetization from carrier and OEM storefronts?

Our speakers include:

Steve Krom (VP, AT&T)

Mike Kirkup (Sr Director, RIM),

Doug Hurd (Sr Director, uLocate)

Eric Weinberg (Sr Director, DeviceAnywhere)

Moderator: Todd Hixon (Founder, New Atlantic Ventures)

This event is made possible by our sponsors New Atlantic Ventures and DeviceAnywhere.

Time: Monday, October 19th. Doors open at 6.30pm, event starts at 7pm.

Location: The Place in Boston’s Financial District (map)

Click here to reserve your place now.

We’ll be co-hosting this event with The Capital Network.

Mobile Monday on a WEDNESDAY. Yes, we’re breaking all the rules. (The change is due to Yom Kippur).

Join us on WEDNESDAY, September 30th for a Mobile Monday Boston panel discussion on Mobile Advertising for apps and the mobile web. This event and its open bar is sponsored by GetJar, CommonAngels and Cooley.

Register now, please. 

Panelists Include:
Bill Scott – VP Sales and Business Development, GetJar
Andy Milller – CEO, Quattro Wireless
Jason Jacobs – Founder, Runkeeper
Seth Priebatsch – CEO, SCVNGR
Moderator: Shikhar Ghosh – Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School

Location: Boston Harbor Hotel
Date: WEDNESDAY (got it, Wednesday!) September 30th. Doors at 6:30 PM EST, event starts at 7 PM EST
Cost: Free – but registration is required to attend. Click here to register: http://momobostonsept09.eventbrite.com/
Cocktails: Provided
Parking: $29 at the hotel, cheaper parking by the Barking Crab, Courthouse, and Aquarium.
MBTA: South Station, Government Center, Aquarium

Join Mobile Monday on July 27th for a relaxed summer gathering on the deck of the Grand Canal.  Meet some mobile people.  See some demos.  Enjoy summer.  Cash bar.

Bring your mobile phone if you have something to demo.  We won’t have formal demo stations, but let us know in advance so we can post about it.

Time: 6 to 9 pm

Location: The Grand Canal, Boston, MA (map)

Transportation: Near Haymarket and North Station T stops (Orange line, Green line, and northern Commuter Rail lines)

Register now so we know you’re coming.

Be sure and stop by for a chance to win a free copy of iPhone Developer’s Cookbook by Erica Sadun, courtesy of the Voices That Matter: iPhone Developers Conference.

Hope to see you there.  Note:  We won’t be holding an August event, so the next Mobile Monday will be sometime in September.

Q2 2009 yielded a total of $81 million in investment for mobile companies based in and around Boston. A series of smaller investment rounds dominated Q2 as six out of seven companies receiving funding in Q2 raised less than $10 million from venture capitalists. While total investment declined from Q109 to Q209, VC funding increased from $39.4 million to $58.8 million.

Lilliputian Systems raised $28 million
Ember Corp. raised $8 million
Reva Systems raised $5 million
Convergence Inc was acquired for $22.8 million
Viximo raised $5 million
Azuki Systems raised $6 million
Celtra raised $1.2 million
Beaumaris Wireless raised $5.3 million

Notable mentions: E Ink’s $215 million sale to Prime View International is still pending, LogMeIn IPO in July raising $107 million, ending the IPO draught.

* This data & post was assembled by Amir Shaikh, Mobile Monday Boston’s summer intern.

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.