2005 – MoMo Tokyo

Mobile Monday France Inauguration Event

Joining the global Mobile Monday community; Austin, Helsinki, London, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Milan, New York, Rome, San Francisco, Singapore and Tokyo, Fing and Silicon Sentier invite one and all to attend their very first Mobile Monday France at the eSpace Zen Factory on 19 December. Four companies – Digitick, Bouygues Telecom, Celsa and Nokia – with “unique visions of the present and the future of mobility” will make presentations to an expected crowd of over 200 attendees.

Welcome aboard Paris!

MoMo Turku Gets Nokia Mobile-TV Preview

Turku is joining the MobileMonday family on November 28. The meeting will take place at Brewery Restaurant School. Turku ICT CEO Jaakko Kuosmanen will open the evening. Speakers will be Abo Akademi’s Christer Carlsson and Nokia’s Ari Ikonen. Turku to run Momos bi-monthly.

Ari Ikonen, Sr. Technology Manager at Nokia Ventures, will be introducing the first commercial technology version DVB-H mobile-tv. Nokia announced earlier this month in Barcelona next generation mobile-tv-device, the N92 and version 3.0 of Mobile Broadcast Solution, a service and management systems for mobile tv-broadcasters. Ikonen thinks that this is the first time the commercial version has been displayed outside laboratories, not counting Nokia Mobility Conference in Barcelona. Early versions of the service system are still in use several test networks, including Helsinki.

Bonenkai Report: i-Pod’s for All

Mobile Monday Tokyo’s “Super-Deluxe Bonenkai” hosted over 300 people at a swank, underground Roppongi niteclub on 14 November. For this year-end party event, we had no presentations, opting instead for a casual evening of business-card swapping and mobile networking. It was great to see such a wide mix of people from all corners of Tokyo’s wireless community attending for a super evening of cool jazz and, er… ‘fine’ wine.

It was also great to see high-profile attendees from the wireless carriers, ad agencies, several embassies and the hardware, application and content provider ecosystem in the house — plus at least a few VCs.

We had hoped to provide a free i-Pod shuffle to everyone, but the price-tag proved to be a bit steep… and with Santa being too busy to visit all the good mobile boys & girls, we settled for doing a business card draw instead. Congrats to the winners from Ante Music, Dai Job and Ubit…!!!

The next MoMo is in planning for mid-January 2006; we’ll send a notice to all registered MoMo members as well as post details here as soon as we have them. Meanwhile, have a super holidaze season.. =@_@=

Mobile Monday London Launch Event

The first Mobile Monday was held in London on 7 November packed the house at Vodafone’s Strand offices with presentations from organizer Dan Appelquist of Vodafone, Richard Jelbert from mTrack, Dennis Hettema from OP3/Shotcode and Chris Yanda from the BBC.

Excerpt from Keif.com

London’s mobile industry now has a monthly get together thanks to Mobile Monday London, aka momo london. I went to the first meeting Monday evening, which I enjoyed.

There was a good bit of general discussion between speakers and audience. A common concern of the group that emerged was the difficulties of getting customers “into” a mobile product, in terms of the platform incompatibilities, awkwardness of user experience, and legal and other obstacles that make barriers for users to register with and start using a mobile product and service. Since this is something that affects and requires all three of the types of mobile animals that came to this event to work together to solve, Mobile Monday has the potential to be quite interesting.

Congrats and Welcome Aboard.. 😎

MoMo豪華（！）忘年会のお知らせ

１１月１４日に今年最後のMoMoのイベント、豪華（！）忘年会が六本木のSuper Deluxe!で開催されます。

今年はbitWallet, I-CF, ColorZip, Mobaho!, Warner Music, MPPulse, GMap,Opera, Free Verse, G-Mode そしてMacromedia　の方々に素晴らしいプレゼンテーションをしていただき、MoMoにとって輝かしい年となりました。

MoMoは東京の最もホットなモバイルネットワーキングコミュニティーとして、毎回２００人を超える参加者を迎え、強力なネットワーキングの場として成長し続けています。もちろん２００６年もさらに進化してまいりますので、よろしくお願い申しあげます。

さて、今年もいよいよ忘年会の季節が近づいてきました。MoMoは１１月のイベントを１００％リラックスした、楽しいスーパーモバイルネットワーキング忘年会として企画しました。

料金JPY1,000
（但し、事前にオンラインで登録した方は無料！）
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協賛企業:
モルガン・ルイス・バッキアスLLP and Jonckers Translation & Engineering S.A.

日時：２００５年１１月１４日１９時より２３時まで
会場：Super Deluxe Roppongi　地図 – GMap
会費：下記より事前登録していただいた場合は無料、登録せずに直接会場にお越しの場合は会場受付けにて１０００円をお支払いいただきます。
注意：名刺はたくさん用意してきてください！

先着２００名様にはドリンクのサービスがございます。また、ご自身で料理を注文することも可能です。

２００５年MoMo忘年会！難しい話は一切無し、ネットワーキングをたのしみましょう！

参加申し込みはおわりました。

＊お申し込みは、お１人づつお願いいたします。また、申し込み後に受付け完了確認がemailにて送信されますので、プリントアウトの上、当日会場入り口にて必ず係員にご提示ください。

MoMo Tokyo’s Super Deluxe Bonenkai

Join us 14 Nov. for MoMo Tokyo’s season finale Mobile Networking Bonenkai at Super Deluxe!

日本語版

The past year has really been a blast with fantastic presentations from insiders at bitWallet, i-CF, ColorZip, Mobaho!, Warner Music, MPulse, GMap, Opera, FreeVerse, G-Mode and Macromedia. Tokyo’s hottest mobile networking community is strong and growing, with typically over 200 participants attending, and we look forward to another great MoMo year in 2006.

With the year-end party season just around the corner, we’ve decided to make the November MoMo event a 100% relaxed and fun Super Mobile Networking Bonenkai.* And for good little boys & girls, Santa will be there with some door-prize goodies! Continue reading MoMo Tokyo’s Super Deluxe Bonenkai

MobileMonday Hits a Sweet Spot in Singapore

MobileMonday hits a sweet spot in Singapore The inaugural MobileMonday Singapore event was a success!

Well over one hundred people crowded into Harry’s Bar, according to Mobile Monday Oy CEO Jari Tammisto. Participants included folks from NTT DoCoMo, regional managers from Nokia and mobile operators Starhub, SingTel Mobile and Mobile One, Yahoo Asia Pacific, Starcut, Open Mobile, Mobile365, Gartner, Philips, Finpro, Logica, Seven, Reuters, BBC, Mobile World, Nemo Technologies and Meridea, among others. Jari Tammisto also signed a memorandum of understanding with Singapore Infocomm Technology Federation in the presence of the Finnish and Singaporean ministers of trade and industry. Update: See their Flash Web Video Here!

Meanwhile, the Silicon Valley October Mobile Monday was a “Barn Buster,” according to organizer Russell Beattie, with over 300 people packed into Google’s auditorium to hear the panel and see the demos. The meeting was broadcast over Userplan’s Flash-based group chat. “About 20 people used the chat and listened to the audio, video was bit choppy, but it worked pretty well,” according to Beattie.

Mobile Monday Tokyo’s OktoberZest: Banzai Siesta

It was yet another stellar MoMo turn out at Zest Cantina with almost 250 folks heading down for a few margaritas to take in the evening’s feature presentations from Hiro Higashiyama from G-Mode and Akio Tanaka and Dwight Rodgers from Macromedia. We got fantastic overviews on how Java games have started to gain traction in global markets while FlashLite and the new FlashCast service (branded i-Channel on DoCoMo) are pushing mobile data to the next level here in Japan.

We will be making the announcement for our next event here sometime soon – mark 14 November on your schedule – and meanwhile we’ll get the most recent presentations online for everyone ASAP.

オクトーバー・ゼスト：ホットなフラッシュ＆クールなジャバ

OktoberZest: Hot Flash and Cool Java モバイルネットワーキングイベント　－モバイルマンデー（MoMo）を恵比寿ゼスト（Ｅｂｉｓｕ　Ｚｅｓｔ　Ｃａｎｔｉｎａ）にて下記のとおり開催致します。　今回は、あのワイヤレス・ウォッチ・ジャパン編集長のダニエル・スクーカが戻ってきます！Ｄｏｎ‘ｔ　Ｍｉｓｓ　Ｉｔ!

料金JPY1,000
（但し、事前にオンラインで登録した方は無料！）

今回はＧ－Ｍｏｄｅとマクロミディア・ジャパンより、それぞれプレゼンターをお招きしています。

プレゼンターより：

Ｇ－Ｍｏｄｅ　Ｋ．Ｋ．　－　Ｊａｖａゲーム～海外での成功
ゲームは、利益率が高く、急成長しているモバイルコンテンツの一つで、世界中で楽しまれています。　Ｇ－Ｍｏｄｅは、東京における一番元気なゲーム開発企業の１社で、２００１年にドコモが最初のＪａｖａ　ｉ‐ｍｏｄｅを導入した時に注目されました。　東山氏はゲーム市場について、アジアやヨーロッパにおけるＧ－Ｍｏｄｅの成功についてなど解説します。

マクロミディア・ジャパン　－　３Ｇ携帯コンテンツ用フラッシュ
マクロミディアは、“フラッシュライト”テクノロジーを活発に開発しています。　このテクノロジーは、最近注目されている、モバイルまんがや地図アプリケーション、ＮＴＴドコモの“ｉチャンネル”サービスなどを可能にしています。　日本の通信会社は、フラッシュをモバイル・インターネット・ポータルとして活用しており、将来フラッシュは、ゲームやマルチメディア、携帯ＴＶで標準的に使用されるだろうと予測されています。　フラッシュのテクノロジーとビジネスについてのプレゼンテーションがあります。

協賛企業:
モルガン・ルイス・バッキアスLLP and Jonckers Translation & Engineering S.A.

日時　：　２００５年１０月３日（月）　１８：３０～２３：００
場所　：　恵比寿ゼスト (MAP)

１８：３０　　開場
１９：１５　　プレゼンテーション－１
１９：３０　　プレゼンテーション－２
２０：００　　ネットワーキング
２３：００　　終了

参加ご希望の方は、事前にMobile　Monday Tokyoにご登録ください。
では、MoMoでお目にかかりましょう。http://www.mobilemonday.jp

OktoberZest: Hot Flash and Cool Java

OktoberZest: Hot Flash and Cool Java Get your sombreros and lederhosen out of the closet! MoMo Tokyo is set to take over Ebisu-Zest Cantina on Monday, 3 October, for another great event.

日本語版

We’ll have two fantastic presentations – from G-Mode and Macromedia – blasting onto that monster-sized screen and WWJ chief editor Daniel Scuka will be back leading another mobile intelligence mission, so it’s an evening not to be missed!

Applications are the heart of 3G and this event will highlight Flash and Java, the two heavyweights of cutting-edge, rich mobile content development. Make sure you complete the registration form below and we’ll look forward to seeing you for some serious “OktoberZest” mobile networking… Mexican style! Continue reading OktoberZest: Hot Flash and Cool Java