Mobile Monday Bangalore

The much awaited yearly Mobile Monday Global Summit is just
around the corner, scheduled to take place in Helsinki in early September. Visitors from across the globe are going to throng Helsinki & St.Petersburg for 3 days of power packed thoughts sharing & relaxed networking sessions.

Few highlights of this years Global Summit are

• Helsinki Launch Pad for small companies and investors to meet
• Helsinki – St. Petersburg co-operation
• More media coverage

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Topic: Mobile VAS Trends: The OnMobile Experience by Kiran Anandampillai, Director of Engineering, OnMobile

Demo: BanKaro demo by maxHeap Technologies.

When: Monday, 27th August, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

Where: OnMobile cafeteria @ #26, Bannerghatta Road, J. P. Nagar, Phase III, Bangalore, Ph: +9180 41802500

Cost: Free

Register: here.

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Topic of this month’s discussion is “Mobile Imagineering” and the talk would be led by Atul Chitnis , Senior Vice President (Product Technologies and Strategy) at Geodesic Information Systems. Following this Kiran Rambhatla of Jataayu Software, will be giving a demonstration of the Instant Messaging Service -jIMPS, which is being rolled out nationwide, through the Cellular Operators Association of India.

What: MoMo Bangalore July 2007, “Mobile Imagineering & jIMPS Demonstration”

When: 23rd July 2007, 6.30 pm – 7.30 pm - Talk

7.30 - 8.00 pm - Demo

8.00 - 8.30 (networking & snacks)

Where: Aztecsoft Ltd
Maruthi Infotech Centre,
11/1, 12/1 Kormangala Inner Ring Road,
Amarjyothi Layout,
Bangalore - 560 071

Directions: here

Who: Anybody interested in Mobiles

Cost: Free (registration required though)
Venue Sponsors:

Snacks Sponsors: Jataayu Software

With popular demand from the members we have added SMS interface to Mobile Monday announcement, updates, reminders & registrations.

To join send an SMS to 9980153695 with the keywords JOIN MOMOB.

Mobile Search currently a very hot area in the mobile space is going to be the topic of this month’s discussion, the discussion would be led Ajay Sethi & Sameer Shishodia of Ziva Software , a VC funded mobile search startup based out of Bangalore.

What: MoMo Bangalore June 2007, “Mobile Search”

When: 25th Jun 2007, 6.30 pm – 8.00 pm (talk & demonstration)
8.00 - 8.30 (networking & snacks)

Where: Aztecsoft Ltd
Maruthi Infotech Centre,
11/1, 12/1 Kormangala Inner Ring Road,
Amarjyothi Layout,
Bangalore - 560 071

Directions: here

Who: Anybody interested in Mobiles

Cost: Free (registration required though)
Update: Registration is closed now.

Venue Sponsors:

Cost: Free (registration required though)

Jof Walters - an Innovator, Entreprenuer and Consultant, from the UK who most recently started a non profit initiatiave SUDT (StartUpOrDieTrying) with an aim to provide “free” credible advise to young Entreprenuers to survive the first year of trade. Mobile entreprenuers would find this as an excellent resource to look for advise.

This month we would be having a discussion related to IMS, a topic sought after to be discussed since long by MoMo’ers .Speaker for the event is Mr Akshay Aggarwal who manages ecosystem 3rd party relationship for TI in India and Korea.

The discussion would be followed by a demonstration of the jB5-mobile browser from Jataayu Software.

What: MoMo Bangalore May 2007, “IMS in India”

When: 28th May 2007, 6.30 pm - 7.30 pm (talk)
7.30 - 8.00 pm (demo)
8.00 - 8.30 (networking & snacks)

Where: Nokia Siemens Networks (Formerly Siemens Communication Software),
3rd floor, Shankar Narayana Building -2,
25 Mahatma Gandhi Road,
Bangalore - 560001

Landmark: Adjacent to Raheja Towers in MG Road, above HDFC bank in SN building -2

Who: Anybody interested in Mobiles

Cost: Free (registration required though)

Venue Sponsor : Nokia Siemens Networks

Snacks Sponsor: Jataayu Software

April’s talk would be about mobile media revolution in India and speaker is Dr. Aditya Dev Sood of CKS.

Abstract of the topic

“Those seeking to be involved with the coming media revolutions that are bound to unfold in emerging economies such as India would be advised to leave behind the expectation that these regions shall merely ‘come online’ or replicate industrial societies’ adoption and enthusiasm for the web as it exists today. This will not merely be a web 3.0 or a mobile 2.0. The world of mobile media in India by the end of this decade will be more richly immersive, multiply-mediated and nuanced, using subtle forms of gesture, and movement — it will be an entire ecology, growing, shifting and changing at the rate of sociality itself.”

Aditya Dev Sood is the author of the Mobile Development Report, which offers a careful analysis of the social dynamics of mobile phone usage among urban and rural users from lower income backgrounds. It argues that new kinds of mobile enabled welfare and social services will not only revolutionize life in rural areas, but also represent the most important new opportunity for mobile ventures.

Demo:
The talk will be followed by a demo by Srinivas Ramprasad of Sloka Telecom.

What: MoMo Bangalore April 2007, (Mobile Media Revolution & India, Product Demo)

When: 23rd April, 6.00 - 8.30 pm

6.00 - 7.00 talk

7.00 - 8.00 demo

8.00 - 8.30 snacks & networking

Where: Aztecsoft Ltd
Maruthi Infotech Centre,
11/1, 12/1 Kormangala Inner Ring Road,
Amarjyothi Layout,
Bangalore - 560 071

Directions: here

Who: Anybody interested in Mobiles

Cost: Free (registration required though)

Venue Sponsors:

Snacks Sponsor:

Continuing the format from last time we will have a talk and a demo in this month’s MoMo.The topic of discussion this time is “Building websites for Mobile users” led by M.T Ragunath of Google India.

Talk

Abstract of the topic
There are several different types of mobile phones in use around the world. Phones differ widely in terms of their capabilities such as screen size, supported content types, supported markup, etc. Many of the features such as rich graphics, and complex scripts, that work well on desktop browsers are often unsuitable for mobile handsets.
Designing a web site for mobile users requires site designers to keep things simple, and to follow certain practices so that the sites are accessible to a broad range of mobile devices. Badly designed mobile web sites result in a poor experience for end users.In this discussion some of these issues would be discussed by working through some examples of how to design web pages so that they work better on mobile phones.

About the Speaker
M. T. Raghunath has been with Google since Jan 2006 and has been working in the area of Mobile Search and Mobile Ads. Earlier he was a Research Staff Member at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center, where he was part of the team that built the first Bluetooth connected wristwatch computer running Linux and X11. Raghunath has a B.Tech from IIT Madras and a Ph.D in Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley. Raghunath is interested in building innovative solutions for enabling access to information on a wider scale.

Demo
The talk will be followed by a demo on “Mobile Application Platform” by Mango Technologies.

What: MoMo Bangalore March 2007, (Building website for mobile users & Product Demo)

When: 26th Mar 2007, 6.00 pm - 7.30 pm (talk )
7.30 - 8.00 pm (demo)
8.00 - 8.30 ( networking & snacks)

Where: CKS Consulting,
4004, 100 Ft. Road, HAL 2nd Stage,
Bangalore- 560 038, INDIA
V: 91 80 41254373
F: 91 80 25350181

Directions : here

Who: Anybody interested in Mobiles

Cost: Free (registration required though)

Venue Sponsor: CKS

Snacks Sponsor: SVB India Advisors Pvt. Ltd

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Thanks to Manjula Sridhar.