Do  mobile money transfers, WebGL, CUDA, NFC based payments, augmented reality, fascinate you? Yearning to how these technologies open up more opportunities for the mobile developer?

“How do I choose the platform to develop on? Where do I start?

How do I make my application user intuitive or  just blazingly fast?

How do I  sell my apps in the app store? How can I monetize my free apps popularity? ”

OR

“Are you trying to augment your tech knowledge to be ready for the next big challenge at work?”

Come listen to some of the brightest minds in mobile technology who discuss some of these questions at  Mobile Developer Conference. The conference will witness a gathering of 300 of the most interesting mobile developers, investors, executives, entrepreneurs, marketers for in-depth discussion, debate and power networking. It will look at which specific applications are driving the excitement and why and  also look at what’s coming next. It will also explore other important questions such as :- What about the device makers stand ?   How are they responding to the spanking new  devices like the iPhone and NexusOne ? Where’s the ROI in mobile investments? What are the critical factors for success in 2 sided markets.  Finally, what about the marketers and advertising networks? How will they adjust to the changing landscape, where carriers and device makers still exert considerable control over the mobile experience?

The Mobile Developer Conference offers unparalleled networking opportunities through interactions with the best mobile application developers, user interface designers, game developers,  early adopters of mobile technology & evangelists.

Further Details about of the conference is available at http://devcon.momob.in/

About Madanmohan Rao: A consultant and writer from Bangalore, is Research Director at the Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC), Singapore. Madan also works on some MoMo Global Projects with Jari Tamissto, CEO of MoMo Oy and a few others.

Confirm your participation by clicking add your name here http://twtvite.com/b6ssqv

Venue:

Mobile Monday Bangalore Trust

#57, Huligadarivasa,
KHB Colony, Koramangla 5th Block,
Bangalore - 560095
India
(Ph) 080-41100487
(M) +91-9379446943

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Date and Time:

Friday, February 26th, 2010

TweetUp Starts at 18:00 HRs

Details may be found at:

http://comsnets.org/mobile_india.html

Mobile India 2010 is the one of the first premier conferences of the year to be held in Bangalore, India on 8 January 2010 at the Chancery Pavillion. It is associated with The Second International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS) (http://www.comsnets.org), the world’s premier international conference on networking and communications technology innovation.

Mobile India 2010’s Focus: Innovative Mobile VAS Strategies, Technologies and Opportunities

Mobile India 2010 will explore the strategic focus, business models, technologies, and monetization strategies that are the keys to success for mobile VAS companies in India and in global markets. To continue the success of last year, Mobile India 2010 will also have an Entrepreneur’s Demo Showcase in which firms will exhibit their best-of-breed mobile VAS products and services.

Full Disclosure:

MoMo Bangalore is the community partner for this event and has helped curate this event. S R Raja of MoMo Bangalore is also part of the Mobile India 2010 organizing committee. MoMo Bangalore’ own M. Thiyagarajan will be speaking on one of the panels along with the other note worthy leaders from the industry.

Dear Members,

Let’s Tweetup!

MoMo Bangalore is organizing a tweetup on Mobile Applications.

Come and discuss about the various mobile applications and learn about cool mobile apps.

Have you used mChek, NGPay or WeMeet?

or -  Which is best twitter app on mobile  for instance ?

And - Lots more!

Here’s a chance to share your experience!

Date & Time: 12:00 pm, Sat, Nov 21, 2009

Venue: Kyra Theater, 100 feet Road, Indira Nagar

Lunch: Sponsored by Forum Nokia Developers Conference (for the first 25 registrants only).

To register, confirm your participation to @momoblr, @AbeOye or @NokiaDevConf

What is Tweetup?

Tweetup is an offline event that brings twitters face-to-face converting 140 characters into vibrant conversations.

Forum Nokia has announced their developer conference for this year on Dec 7, ‘09 in Bangalore at Hotel Taj Residency. Please find more details here FNDC09

This is an interesting place to explore how Nokia’s new Ovi Store ensures developers have easy access to publish applications and content to millions of Nokia devices through a unified publishing channel. It is also a nice place to know the Nokia’s technology platforms and user experiences.

More detail here.

Full Disclosure- Forum Nokia is annual sponsor for MoMo - Bangalore.

The sessions that are relevant to the momo/mobile community( from ideas/opportunities point of view) are the following

• Panel 4: Product strategies in the telecom sector: potential for global leadership, moderated & curated by Sanjiv Mittal.
• Panel 8: Technology Opportunities serving the millions of India: The next major growth area for Indian technology firms, panelist,  Sean of Babajob ( talks about the BoP markets served by mobile and others ).
• Panel 9: Building a product ecosystem that addresses the millions of India , co-curated by Sean of Babajob, panelist Krishna Durbha & Piyush Shah - Nokia Emerging Market.

Also hear Kesava Reddy share  MoMo’s two cents/bits ‘pulse‘ of contribution towards building and nurturning product  startup ecosystem in an interactive session called ‘Startup Ecosystem Enablers‘

The number of mobile phone users is expected to exceed the 4 billion
mark by the end of this year — that’s more than two thirds of the
world’s population. And the number of text messages is expected to reach
a whopping 1.8 trillion in 2010.1 From the U.S. to Moldova to Iran to
Uganda cell phones have facilitated all kinds of activism. While mobile
phones bring many benefits to social movements, it is important to be
aware of the digital data trails they leave behind.

This workshop has three parts:

First, an overview on surveillance of mobile communication with special
reference to the European Union Directive on Data Retention of
Communication.

Second, a presentation of the mobile application CryptoSMS.org, an open
source Gpl’d tool for the exchange of encrypted text messages.

Third, you’ll have a chance to get your inner hacker on with a hands-on
workshop. We’ll install the encryption software on our cell phones,
initialize them, exchange keys, and send encrypted SMS messages.
(as this is the first time usage of CryptoSMS.org in India, this is
also a debugging session)

ABOUT CryptoSMS.org
CryptoSMS.org is a GPL (general public license) open source application
for cell phones running J2ME (Java for mobiles). It runs on a lot of
phones. CryptoSMS provides public/private key encryption, key generation
and key management. It sends and receives encrypted SMS and public keys,
encrypts and de-encrypts files, offers key verification via fingerprints
and provides a secure login.

CryptoSMS is based on encryption with elliptic curves, which is a modern
solution for encryption with small and/or embedded devices. Elliptic
curve encryption provides good performance and has low memory
requirements. It encrypts only the contents of the messages, but does
not in any way encrypt or scramble the identities of the sender or
recipients. It is not an anonymizer — it does not hide the device’s
id/number from where the SMS comes and where it goes to.

Project Page: http://cryptosms.org
Speaker’s Profile :

He has been involved with the CryptoSMS.org project since its
inception, and mainly keeps the project organized, does the
communication work and strongly enforces the support of many languages
in the CryptoSMS.org user interface. At the moment he is traveling to a
couple of global cities to conduct research on mobile media and
dataveillance, interviewing participants in social movements, hackers
and artists about their use of mobile media. He is based in Hamburg,
where he suffers from bad weather but enjoys people and culture.

When:
12th-oct-2009 Time 6:30 to 8:30 P.M

Venue:
Mobile Monday Bangalore Trust:
#57, Huligadarivasa,
KHB Colony, Koramangla 5th Block,
Bangalore - 560095
India
Register here for the event   http://workshopatmomob.eventbrite.com (Event is free to attend but registration is necessary)

MoMoB Oct 2009-Tech Session on Adobe Flash Lite:

Based on the Adobe Flash Platform,Adobe Flash Lite is highly optimized implementation of the Flash Run time for mobile phones,consumer electronic devices and internet-connected home digital devices.Flash Lite enable OEMs and service providers to differentiate their devices via customized application and user interface,a more complete web experience and the ability to acess video and rich content across devices.Flash Lite for the digital homes enables the delivery of high definition content and rich application to the internet- connected TVs and TV-connected consumer electronic devises.Flash Lite for the digita homes enables the delivery of high-definition content and rich application to the internet connected.TVs and TV-connected consumer electronic devices in the digital living room.Additionally,Flash Lite allow developer to quickly create enaging applications,accelerate time to market and increase customer adaptation.Debashish From the Adobe Engineering Team will demonstrate how easy is to create Flash Lite application and Deploy on Phone.This will be a practical session,where the audience can follow the presenter on the laptop and eventually would have Flash Lite application ready for use.

• Participants who are interested to follow the session Hands On should download the trial version of the Creative Suite after registering the link:http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?loc=en&product=flash

Agenda:

• First thing first for Flash Lite Development.
• How to create,Publish,Test and Deploy a simple flash lite application on to a phone-This will be a practical session.
• Creating a Real-Life-app-this will bring out the latent power of flash lite,it will touch upon the general concepts along with design and development approach-tis will also be on the Fly
• Quick tips and trips.
• Demo.
• Q&A.

Speaker Details:

Debashish Paul,

Lead Software Engineer

Tenure in MDBU:4Years

• Was into multimedia,e-learning and advertising design nd developmentfor three years before Adobe
• Have done a lot of concept mobile applications using Adobe Mobile Technologies
• A co-inventor of a mo0bile interaction frame work.
• Have got a couple of awards in usability and interaction design competitions.
• Photography travel and wild life are few of the hobbies i am passionate about.

When:
Date 10th-oct-2009Time 10:30 to 3:30
Tea/Coffee/light snacks /Lunch break in between the workshop

Venue:Craig Barret Auditorium,
Sasken Communication Technologies Limited139/25,
Domlur Inner Ring Road,Bangalore,Karnatka-560071

Driving Directions:When driving down from Koramangala:
Take the left into the lane in front of Hyundai Workshop – just after Mother Earth - and then the first left, second right – leads up to Sasken.
When driving from Indiranagar –
Old Airport road flyover side:Drive past EGL offices on the left – stay on the ring road -
Take the U Turn and come back towards Hyundai Workshop - then take the left into the lane in front of Hyundai Workshop –
just after Mother Earth - and then the first left, second right – leads up to Sasken

Parking:Ample parking space is available in the grounds next to the Sasken building

Register here for the event http://momob1009.eventbrite.com (Event is free to attend but registration is necessary)

Karbonn K217, Sony Ericsson C903, HTC Hero, Spice D6666, Samsung Omnia Pro, Intex IN 4477

Nokia’s devices are apparently eco-friendly – They are reducing the usage of hazardous material in their mobiles.

Apps/Services

ESPN has launched mobile TV service for a few of its programs – could not find out about operator support. It supports only Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Blackberry devices now. Airtel offers 50+ channels in its service. Apart from these, MTV, Colors and other channels are on the way.

Navteq has expanded its Indian presence. Slowly & steadily, they are becoming a tough competitor to MapMyIndia. However, people to be noted is – BIGMaps. They have launched now only with Reliance Mobiles but hope they offer services to everyone through APIs soon.

MTNL has launched its own LBS service based on mobile network information itself.

An application for booking doctor’s appointments through SMS has been launched in Kochi.

UshaComm is looking for grand expansion in Africa for VAS services – frankly, I have not heard much about them in India. Are they big? Or are they just into billing?

RML has tied up with Idea Cellular to expand their agriculture information services. What is puzzling is – they have their own service offered separately, offered through Nokia with Idea again etc – how are all these differentiated?

Nokia Messaging may get launched in India in December 2009 with push email support.

SMSGupShup, the ‘Desi Twitter’ will soon launch ‘real time search’ of its messages. Sorry if I am being irreverent, does serious talk happen in SMSGupShup channels, is it not filled with jokes and ‘timepass’ material.

Operators

Numbers starting with ‘8’ have started coming out – Reliance has started a gimmick with that already, the BOSS (8055) series.

Blackberry is trying to get into the customer segment and seems to be getting some success too. Aircel and DoCoMo have started offering Blackberry services too.

Climax of the Bharti-MTN saga is coming soon. Bharti seems to have sweetened the deal a bit.

Essar Group has taken control of Yu, a Kenyan operator. Meanwhile, BSNL & MTNL are rumored to have bought stake in Zain, though they claim to be still only ‘considering’ it.

DoCoMo have expanded their ‘charged in paisas’ tune to SMS also. After pay one paisa per second, it is pay one paisa per character in SMS.

Regulators

The Government has once again set a deadline to block phones without IMEI – Nov. 30. COAI has already asked for more time.

The ‘pre-bid meeting’ for 3G is planned for 13-October. Here is hoping that it happens for sure. By the way, new players may pay 3% of revenues for 3G spectrum.

The prime minister is interested in mBanking – Good news this.

DoT & National UID Project people will discuss about how mobile subscription numbers can be utilized for the UID project.

Others

When you talk to call center agents at telcos, do not lose your temper – your calls may get blocked. I agree with this, sometimes we behave really bad with them, but then the decision to block should not be left with the lowest level employees.

Statistics for August – Subscriptions, Market Shares etc. And by the way, Indian mobile content market will be worth $2.3 billion by 2013.

One more report from Vital Analytics – on mobile gaming in Urban India. As we are at it, IndiaGames have launched new games on latest movies.