Mobile Monday Boston chapter is participating to the Mobile Monday Peer Awards 2009.

Here more information about the Mobile Monday Peer Awards:

“The Mobile Monday Mobile Peer Awards Barcelona are among the most influential events in the mobile industry and, with over 1000 attendants, the point of reference in startup innovation during the Mobile World Congress. If you are an innovative startup you have an opportunity to make it big by presenting in front of investors, operators, media companies, and everyone else in the mobile value chain, press and influential bloggers and your peer entrepreneurs.”

We are encouraging all mobile start-ups who are part of the Mobile Monday Boston community to participate.
Here are the requirements to participate to the Mobile Monday Peer Awards:

• Create your company page by November 30th and register your start up to participate in the Peer Awards.
• Company MUST attend the Mobile World Congress at its own expenses.

The voting for Mobile Monday Boston nominees will be conducted between December 1st and 14th.
One start-up will be selected On December 15th and will be the Mobile Monday Boston nominee to the Mobile Monday Peer Awards.

If you have any questions please contact us at: info@momoboston.com

Thanks
Mobile Monday Boston team

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/

Great event on Monday night at BU! Thanks again to our sponsors, CommonAngels and Silicon Valley Bank, and out host, BU Entrepreneurs. Check out the event photos, video (thanks Shane!) and my slides:

Mobile Monday Boston – 10.6.2008 from Shane Martz on Vimeo.

Presented by Mobile Monday Boston, BU Entrepreneurs, and Techmedia Club, Student Clubs of HBS, Inc.

**MOMO HAS MOVED THE LOCATION OF THIS EVENT**

Here are the new details:

Monday, October 6, 2008
Boston University School of Management, 595 Comm Ave, Boston
6:00pm Registration
6:30pm Speaker Panel in the Auditorium
7:30pm Cocktail Reception in the Atrium

Registration is required.

And this MoMo event (as always) is free and open thanks to generous sponsors CommonAngels and Silicon Valley Bank.

This Mobile Monday Boston event will connect Boston’s leading mobile entrepreneurs with 15 tech and entrepreneurship-focused student groups from local colleges and universities. The event will highlight Boston as a global center in mobile and wireless and expose local students to the professional opportunities available in Boston’s mobile industry.

Participating Organizations

BU Entrepreneurs, HBS Tech Media Club and 15 additional student groups from Bentley, BC, BU, Harvard, HBS, MIT, Northeastern, WPI and Tufts.
Mobile Monday Boston’s 80+ Member Companies

Panel

Shikhar Ghosh, Moderator
founder and CEO, Appex (acquired by EDS), OpenMarket
currently Faculty, Harvard Business School

Jeremy Wright
founder and CMO, Enpocket (acquired by Nokia)
currently Global Director of Mobile Brand Strategy for Nokia Interactive

Dan Roth
founder and CEO, VoiceSignal (acquired by Nuance Communications)

Stephen Randall
co-founder and COO, Symbian
currently founder and CEO, LocaModa

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/

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

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:

Moderator:

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.

Sponsors:

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.

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.

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.