2006 Archives

Mobile Monday Launches in Spain.. and, and, and!

We are pleased to announce the first MobileMonday chapter event in Spain in Barcelona on 3 July. Vicente López, CEO of Barcelona Media, and Jari Tammisto, CEO of MobileMonday in Helsinki, will do the introductions. The evening will be moderated by Hernán Rodriguez, CEO of Aecomo.org (Asociación Española de Comunicaciones Móviles) and followed by a networking cocktail.. Ole!

With 11 more chapters starting operation this year, it is getting harder to keep up with the news! Bangkok and Toronto just held their first events and we are expecting Mumbai, St. Petersburg, Brussels and Chicago to come online very soon. Welcome aboard everyone.. 😎

Mobile Monday Global Summit Reviewed

The 2nd annual Mobile Monday Global Summit brought together over 1,000 mobile business leaders from around the world on May 8th and 9th to attend this event held at the Wanha Satama Fair Center in Helsinki, Finland. Speakers at the conference, which focused on mobile trends and visions, profitability for businesses and fun for consumers, included Anssi Vanjoki (Executive Vice President, Nokia Multimedia), Ted Cohen (SVP of Digital Development & Distribution, EMI Music), Harri Koponen (CEO, Wataniya Telecom of Kuwait), Mikael Jungner (CEO, Finnish Broadcasting Corporation), Christian Lindholm (VP Global Mobile Products, Yahoo), as well as Jonas Kjellberg (Nordic Manager, Skype). Continue reading Mobile Monday Global Summit Reviewed

GPS Blogs, Flash and One-Seg TV at MoMo Tokyo

The Year of the Dog is flying by at 3G speed and, after taking an April break for Golden Week, the next Mobile Monday Tokyo event will be on May 15th – showcasing GPS blogs, Flash and mobile TV.

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GPS Blogs, Flash and One-Seg TV at MoMo Tokyo

Guest presenters include a pair of genki mobile startups showing-off their GPS blogging and next-gen mobile Flash apps. Plus: A timely presentation on KDDI’s just-launched One-Seg mobile digital TV service! Join us for another full house in Harajuku down at the always fabulous KDDI Designing Studio. 😎

Guest presenters:

Mandali Khalesi — Co-Founder — NaviBlog Corp. .PDF
Software house NaviBlog‘s latest navigation-enabled blogging service, NaviBlog Mobile Beta, is fast, fun and free. Running straight off the browser, NaviBlog Mobile pushes the boundaries of browser applications and mobile 2.0. Exclusive to MoMo: preview the company’s upcoming mobile browsapp — NaviBlog 2.0 — due for launch later in 2006.

David ‘DC’ Collier — Founder & CEO — Pikkle KK .PDF
Pikkle provides official content to Japan’s mobile operators, including Charajam, Japan’s leading Flash portal. Charajam features this country’s best character designers and weekly updated ring-tone hits. The unique ‘Charajam mixer’ allows people to customize screensavers, picking characters and backgrounds, adding their own messages and even their own photos on top. Pikkle is introducing new core technology via a Flash application server, allowing full-screen interactive Flash to be generated in real time and creating a totally immersive mobile Flash experience.

Hitoshi Ienaka — Group Leader — KDDI Contents Media Div. .PPT
The full-service launch of 1seg terrestrial broadcast TV providing programs to digital tuner-enabled phones, car navi systems, and TVs started in Japan on 1 April. KDDI has introduced two new handsets (from Hitachi and Sanyo) and announced a tie-up with TV Asahi Corp. 1seg broadcasting utilizes H.264 video and AAC audio codecs in an MPEG-2 transport stream. Additional data, such as e-program guides, interactive services, etc., are delivered via BML (Broadcast Markup Language). Ienaka-san will provide an overview of this project going forward.

Sponsored by:
Morgan Lewis & Bockius and Jonckers Translation & Engineering

Date: Monday, 15 May 2006 :: 19:00 – 22:30
Venue: KDDI Designing Studio — MAP
Admission: FREE with registration (below) — OR — JPY1,000 at the door
Complimentary drink ticket for first 200 guests!

18:30 – Doors Open
19:00 – Welcome/introduction
19:15 – First presentation
19:30 – Second presentation
19:45 – Third Presentation
20:00 – Networking
22:00 – Last call

Mobile Monday Malaysia Launch Event

Mobile Monday Malaysia Launch Event Malaysian mobile industry professionals can look forward to the establishment of MobileMonday, a non-profit and open community that promotes the wireless industry, and fosters cooperation and networking among industry players.

The community will launch its Kuala Lumpur Chapter on April 24 here at the Regent Hotel. The event will be attended by Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Datuk Sri Dr Jamaludin Jarjis, who will deliver the inaugurating address.

Mo-Music: Cherry Blossoms and Tokyo Mobile Rock!

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MoMo-ers who attended last month’s event at the MTV Studio Cafe will agree that it was the perfect space for hosting Mobile Monday, so we’re thrilled to announce we’ll be back there on 27 March with another stellar line up! It’s no secret that mobile music has become the killer content of choice and we’ve booked a pair of industry giants — MTV Japan and KDDI’s Lismo — to present their music strategy and mobile content plans.

We look forward to seeing one and all out again for yet another fantastic evening of mobile mingling! And if you can’t be at the cafe in Harajuku in person then remember to log on to this site as we’ll stream the event live to the web as well..!!

Admission:
FREE with registration (below) — OR — pay JPY1,000 at the door

Guest presenters:

Yu Sasamoto – President – MTV Japan .PPT N/A
MTV Japan mobile has been active on the official menu of the Big Three Japanese carriers for several years now, offering a mix of free and fee-based services. In October 2004, MTV and KDDI started a free advertising-sponsored show linking MTV programming and wireless content.

Katsuhiro Kouzuki – Contents Media Business Div – KDDI – .PDF HERE
KDDI’s “Listen Mobile Service,” or LISMO, is a new music service suite that enables au mobile phones and fixed-line PCs to seamlessly interact with one another. LISMO’s “Music Port,” a PC music management application that allows au mobile phones and PCs to share music, enables music download from the DuoMusic Store (a new music downloading site created especially for PC), the back-up of EZ Chaku-Uta Full to a PC, and the transfer of files from CD to PC. Watch video here [Win media].

Sponsored by:
Morgan Lewis & Bockius and Jonckers Translation & Engineering

Date: Monday, 27 March 2006 || 19:00 – 23:00
Venue: MTV Studio Cafe — GMAP
Admission: Free with registration below — OR — JPY1,000 at the door
Complimentary drink for first 200 guests — a la carte food menu available

18:30 – Doors Open
19:00 – Welcome/introduction
19:15 – First presentation
19:30 – Second presentation
19:45 – Open forum/Q&A
20:00 – Networking
23:00 – Last call

Registration is now closed. See you on Monday!

The MobileMonday Global Summit 2006

The MobileMonday Global Summit, May 8th and May 9th in Helsinki, brings together over one thousand corporate decision makers, trendsetters, the media, business analysts and venture capitalists to meet, share and learn from each other in an open and informal environment. New business models are discussed by operators, content providers, aggregators as well as business users. Local and international companies will present specific cases demonstrating how innovative mobile solutions have worked in practice. The agenda includes SVP level presentations from EMI Music, Nokia and Yahoo! combined with the MobileMonday Global Peer Awards ceremony for best of breed mobile B2C and B2B product offerings. See you there.. 😎

MobileMonday Beijing Announces Launch Event

MobileMonday Beijing has announced that its launch event will be held on Monday, 20 March 2006, in the heart of Zhongguancun — Beijing’s “Silicon Valley” — in the casual & high-tech Innovation Gardens showroom of France Telecom R&D Center. The event will cover mobile music. Recognized worldwide as a major contributor to carrier revenues, mobile music has allowed China to leapfrog from an underdeveloped ‘offline’ music industry to a highly successful online economy.

They will feature presentations from three speakers, all belonging to music-related mobile value-added service companies: Linktone, Colorme Tech and A8 Music Group.

MobileMonday Launch Event in Hong Kong

The MobileMonday Hong Kong Chapter launch event will be held 13 March, at 18:30. The theme of this first event will be on the highly anticipated topic of mobile TV. High calibre speakers from the industry have been invited to present their views and visions on the topic; this is a great chance to hear what other industry leaders are talking about. The pre-registration closes on 13 March at 12:00.

The MobileMonday Hong Kong Chapter exposes Hong Kong and Chinese mobile developers to foreign companies and markets and provides an opportunity for non-Chinese wireless industry players to meet their Chinese counterparts. Besides Hong Kong, there will be several other new MobileMonday chapter launches in the next couple of months including Bangkok and Beijing. Looking forward to see everyone there!

Next MoMo Tokyo at MTV Studio Cafe

Special thanks to all those who came out for our New Year Shinnenkai last week! It was a great way to kick off 2006. You might have noticed some of us were running a bit late as a result of the concurrent Mobile Industry Panel hosted by MoMo Tokyo sponsor Morgan Lewis – TMI on the same evening. By all accounts both events were packed and provided valuable mobile insight and connections for participants.

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Now that the party season is over (Phew!), we’re getting back into our regular MoMo format starting off this month at the MTV Studio Cafe in Harajuku for the next event on 27 February. We’ve got a line-up of super presentations from the cutting-edge mobile folks at DG Mobile and Technorati Japan. We’ll be streaming live video to the fixed and mobile web, a MoMo first!

Kenichi Sugi — Project Manager — DG Mobile – .PPT HERE
Digital Garage Inc. was founded in Tokyo in 1995 and went public in December 2000. DG Mobile was founded as a strategic subsidiary in the mobile business area starting with “Mobile Contents Business for 3G” as its first business activity. The effort includes software sales, rich content production and systems operation services using the Mobile Comic Solution developed by Celsys, Inc., which has capital and business tie-ups with DG Mobile. In addition, DG Mobile is committed to the extension of its business into potential growth areas, including mobile commerce, overseas market and mobile advertising.

Fumi Yamazaki — Marketing Manager — Technorati Japan – .PPT HERE
Technorati, an industry leader in tracking what’s happening on the Web right now, partnered with Digital Garage to launch Technorati Japan services in May 2005, marking Technorati’s first foray into international markets. Last summer they announced a mobile version of Technorati designed especially for handhelds and cell phones. Take Technorati with you wherever you go to get the latest buzz online in real time.

Sponsored by:
Morgan Lewis & Bockius and Jonckers Translation & Engineering

Date: Monday, 27 February 2006 :: 19:00 – 23:00
Venue: MTV Studio Cafe — MAP
Admission: Free with registration below — Or — JPY1,000 at the door
Complimentary drink for first 200 guests — a la carte food menu available

18:30 – Doors Open
19:00 – Welcome/introduction
19:15 – First presentation
19:30 – Second presentation
19:45 – Open forum/Q&A
20:00 – Networking
23:00 – Last call

Registration is now closed. See you on Monday!

MoMo Meets at 3GSM in Barcelona

MoMo Meets at 3GSM in Barcelona As there will be many MoMo’ers in Barcelona next week, we are pleased to pass along this info to our network that the Mobile Monday founders and organizers, from over 15 global chapters in operation today, will meet at the Finnish stand — Entre marketing at Hall 1 section/stand C59 — on Monday 13 February between 13:00 and 15:00. They will also be handing out “Smile it’s Monday” buttons and infocards for this years MoMo Global Summit as well. Look forward see many from Tokyo there!