Boston Mobile Barcamp is coming.  Join us on March 21st for Boston’s annual event for mobile developers and enthusiasts.

When
Saturday, March 21, 2009
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
(Registration starts at 8:30 AM)

Where
MIT
Building E51 (Tang Center)
70 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307

Cost
Free

Sign up here.

This month, Mobile Monday hosted a CTO dinner to bring together technical leaders from Boston’s mobile companies. The dinner was sponsored by Flybridge Capital and moderated by Xconomy’s Wade Roush.

Over dinner our discussion covered the future of mobile platforms, market fragmentation, the mobile web, what consumers want, and much more. To hear what the CTOs have to say about the mobile industry in Boston and the future of mobile, check out our video:

MOMO Boston CTO Dinner from Chris Brackett on Vimeo.

Mobile Monday 11.17 from Chris Brackett on Vimeo.

Join us on November 17th, at the Omni Parker rooftop ballroom, and see 10 early stage mobile companies demonstrate their new mobile products. Each new company will provide a rapid-fire 5 minute presentation, followed by a social cocktail hour with product demonstrations.

Our keynote speaker, Tom Erickson, has experience starting and running companies in the best and worst of times including MRO Software during the recession of 1991 and WebMethods in 2000.  He’ll review the current economic situation and outline steps to help drive young mobile companies through rough seas. Tom is the Chief Product Officer for TeleAtlas, a member of Common Angels, a board member of SeeWhy, Quickcomm, and Acquia, and a advisor to iTKO.

Presenting are 10 mobile companies:

• Assured Labor:  A social marketplace for services utilizing web and mobile technology
• Cadio:  Location-based behavior-targeted mobile advertising
• Drync
• Mobegic:  Help retailers and consumer product companies deepen customer engagements  through their mobile phones
• Padpaw:  Helping groups organize using text messaging and mobile web
• Pongr:  Mobile price checking that uses innovative image search technology
• RunKeeper:  Mobile GPS fitness tracking applications for runners and cyclists
• SCVNGR:  A mobile gaming platform that lets anyone quickly and easily build out sophisticated mobile games
• Shovebox:  Manage snippets of information across your desktop and iPhone
• Urban Interactive:  Mobile applications that connect the digital world with physical spaces

Date: November 17th, 2008, 7-9pm

Cost: Free

Register now.

Location: Omni Parker Hotel – Rooftop Ballroom with an amazing view (details below)
60 School Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02108
Map
MBTA: Park Street Station (Green / Red), State Station (Orange / Blue), about 10 minute walk from North or South station
Parking for $12: http://www.pialleygarage.com

Thanks to our sponsor Goodwin Procter for making this event possible.

Join us for a reception at Mobile Internet World 2008, Wed Oct 22nd at 6:30pm, Boston Convention Center, Room 0-51, organized with MoMo NY and MITX. Cash bar.

Featuring:

>> Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner
>> Thi Linh Wernau, Senior Mobile Strategist at Nokia Interactive Advertising

This reception is free for MoMo members. Registration: Click Here

We have arranged a $200.00 discount on your behalf for Mobile Internet World – Boston, October 21-23, 2008. Expo passes are free and can be picked up at the door. Join 175+ executives from the mobile internet ecosystem including Google, Intel, Qualcomm and others. Grab your share of this $66 billion opportunity. Your code for Mobile Internet World: MIWMS9.

Registration:

http://www.mobilenetx.com/?page_id=19

More info:

http://www.mobilenetx.com/2008/boston/

Join us for a reception at Mobile Internet World 2008, Wed Oct 22nd at 7:00pm, organized with MoMo NY and MITX. Speaker TBA. This reception is free for MoMo members: registration TBA. We are looking for sponsors! If you are interested, contact us at tgschmidt at gmail dot com.

We have arranged a $200.00 discount on your behalf for Mobile Internet World – Boston, October 21-23, 2008.

Join 175+ executives from the mobile internet ecosystem including Google, Intel, Qualcomm and others. Grab your share of this $66 billion opportunity.

Your code for Mobile Internet World: MIWMS9

Registration:

http://www.mobilenetx.com/?page_id=19

More info:

http://www.mobilenetx.com/2008/boston/

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 30^th 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 2^nd 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 3^rd 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 2^nd 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 2^nd Street. Cross Cambridge Street and proceed 6 blocks. Orange Labs Boston will be on your right just past the intersection with Bent St.

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