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May 17 MoMoPDX Meeting

admin — Thu, 13 May 2010 21:10:16 +0000

This month our focus is on The Budding of 4G.

As you know this is an extremely exciting and active space. Tim Sweeney, Technical Marketing Director at Intel’s WiMAX Program Office, will be giving us a presentation on where 4G is headed.

We look forward to many questions and seeing you this Monday at 6PM at Backspace, located at 115 Northwest 5th Avenue in Portland.

April Meeting

Mobile Monday Portland had its first programmed meeting last month. We had an all-star panel featuring Matt Hall of Vesta, Siva Narendra of Tyfone and moderated by Wireless Week. The focus was on Mobile Financial Services. A great conversation ensued. The following is the link to Wireless Week article written by Monica Alleven.

http://www.wirelessweek.com/Blogs/Wireless-Week-Blog/Keeping-It-Weird/

Please click on the following links for more information:

MoMoPDX
Backspace

P.S. Our panel on Mobile Video is being rescheduled.

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MoMoPDX Panel: Mobile Financial Services

admin — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:07:23 +0000

Mobile Monday Portland Meeting: April 19

Mobile Monday Portland is pleased to begin our programmed meetings with an all-star panel. The Monday, April 19 meeting (at Backspace, 115 NW 5th at Davis in Portland), features a panel discussion on mobile financial services. Doors open at 6:00 PM, and the panel will begin at 6:30 PM.

Mobile Financial Services

Just as the mobile phone evolved into a camera, it is now evolving into a wallet. Mobile financial services are letting people to use their mobile account to pay for virtual goods and online content, use their phones to manage and complete transactions at cash registers, among a host of other emerging services. Portland is home to many innovative and industry-leading companies in this rapidly expanding space. This panel will discuss the trends in mobile financial services, how people will use their phones mCommerce and the role the Portland mobile community is playing in this ecosystem.

Moderator

Monica Alleven, Editor-in-Chief of Wireless Week

Monica Alleven has been with Wireless Week for more than 10 years, covering beats as diverse as SMR and paging in the 1990s to, more recently, business and mobile content. She entered the wireless industry trade press after seven years with daily newspapers in the West. Previously, she served as copy editor for the Record Searchlight, a daily newspaper in Redding, Calif. Earlier she worked at two Oregon newspapers where she won awards from the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association for her published articles.

Panelists

Dr. Siva Narendra, Chief Technology Officer of Tyfone Inc.
Siva is co-founder and CTO of Tyfone responsible for its product architecture, roadmap, and IP. Before his current responsibility, he was with Intel Laboratories specializing in energy and yield aware designs. He has authored over 60 technical papers in peer reviewed conferences and journals, and frequently lectures on technology forums. He also has over 100 issued/pending patents and holds 5 divisional recognition awards from Intel and an award in 2003 for having 19 issued patents in that year.

Matthew Hall, Vice President of Business Development at Vesta Corporation
Matt Hall has a wealth of experience in wireless and data communications services, in both the US and Europe. Before joining Vesta in 2005, Matt consulted to a variety of mid-stage growth technology companies developing business models, market strategies, and capital structures. Prior to that, he worked in Germany as Director of Mobile Strategic Alliances for Lycos Europe, a Bertelsmann joint venture, where he developed relationships with mobile operators, as well as content and service providers, throughout Europe. Matt has also served as Vice President Business Development for Multitude, a voice-over IP and unified messaging company in San Francisco, California, and Vice President Finance for NetChannel Inc., where he was instrumental in its sale to AOL in 1998.

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Save the Date: MoMoPDX Next Event Monday, March 8th

admin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:12:30 +0000

Our next Mobile Monday event is just around the corner, next Monday, March 8th. The meet-up will be held at Backspace and since it’s right in between Mobile World Congress and CTIA, we invite anyone interested to share a little bit about their experience at Mobile World Congress and what should be checked out at CTIA in Las Vegas at the end of the month. If you’d like to share please let us know and we’ll be sure to have a venue set up. Here are the details for next week’s event:

WHAT: MoMoPDX Meeting #3
WHERE: Backspace – 115 NW 5th in Portland [map]
WHEN: March 8, 2010 from 6pm to 8pm

Look forward to seeing you there!

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MoMoPDX First Event Details

admin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:08:51 +0000

In January we kicked off our first MoMoPDX event at BackSpace in Portland. There was a crowd of folks from all walks of the mobile industry: mobile payments, WiFi, infrastructure, mobile video, and cell phones. We caught the first event on video and we wanted to share it with you. Be sure to check out our YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/MoMoPDXOrg for more footage from upcoming events.

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Haiti Relief – How You Can Help

admin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:40:31 +0000

We’ve all been moved by the news, stories and images coming from quake ravaged Haiti. MoMoPDX is banding together with other chapters of Mobile Monday to direct local members of the mobile community to worthy organizations seeking money to help rescue and rebuild Haiti. The board of Mobile Monday Portland has selected two organizations that have either a local or mobile industry element, and who are known to be trusted and important organizations in disaster recover and reconstruction. If you haven’t yet donated to a relief organization, or if you can still give more, MoMoPDX urges you to consider donating to:

Backed by technology companies such as Intel, Cisco and Microsoft, NetHope’s mission has a clear focus: to be a catalyst for collaboration among international humanitarian organizations. By working together to solve problems and share knowledge, NetHope helps ensure that its members have access to the best information and communication technology and practices when serving people in the developing world. NetHope is currently in Haiti helping restore communications so that all the different aid organizations in Haiti can communicate locally and with the outside world.

Donate today at https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php?aid=10514

Portland, Oregon based Mercy Corps is a team of 3700 professionals helping turn crisis into opportunity for millions around the world. By trade, Mercy Corp participants are engineers, financial analysts, drivers, community organizers, project managers, public health experts, administrators, social entrepreneurs and logisticians. In spirit, they are activists, optimists, innovators and proud partners of the people they serve.

Donate today at http://www.mercycorps.org/haiti

Thank you for your support for Haiti relief efforts.

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Save the date – MoMoPDX kicks off monthly meetings on January 11

admin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:06:28 +0000

After several months of administrative work, blogging, tweeting and planning, Mobile Monday Portland is about to formally launch! So put a note in your calendars to come to our inaugural event!

WHAT: MoMoPDX Meeting #1
WHERE: Backspace – 115 NW 5th in Portland [map]
WHEN: January 11, 2010 from 6pm to 8pm

Details will follow, so keep your eyes on this blog. However our first meeting is intended to be a fun meet and greet where you can mix and mingle with people working in Portland’s diverse and growing mobile industry. Future events will have a more structured program with panel discussions and presentations.

As the board prepared to launch MoMoPDX, we were struck by how many people from within the local mobile industry were unaware of how large this community is. All of us certainly know that the perception of our local industry outside of Portland is that it is small. We think you’ll be surprised by how big the Portland mobile industry really is. So far the MoMoPDX board has identified more than 40 companies in the mobile and wireless industries located in the Porltand/Vancouver metro area.

The local mobile ecosystem includes hardware manufacturers, chip makers, software companies, service providers in addition to independent developers, mobility-focused marketing companies, reporters, bloggers and industry analysts. Come meet your peers as the world’s largest mobile organization launches in Portland!

For more information about Mobile Monday, please read our “About” page.

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Mobile Monday Chapters Twitter List

admin — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:43:35 +0000

Our friend Rudy De Waele of m-trends has created a Twitter list of Mobile Monday chapters. You can follow Rudy’s list at https://twitter.com/mtrends/mobilemondays. And be sure to also follow MoMoPDX.

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MoMoPDX Brief: Mobility Public Relations – Lake Oswego, Oregon

admin — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:35:45 +0000

Mobility Public Relations is an award-winning, full-service PR agency exclusively serving mobility technology businesses and organizations. Focusing solely on mobile technologies better positions MoPR to build expertise, share information and create compelling PR campaigns. Our approach to PR is to create impact with comprehensive communications programs that advance client business objectives.

With years of experience serving a wide range of businesses, from venture seeking start-ups to century-old public telecom corporations, the team at MoPR employs aggressive communications strategies including both traditional and social media PR components to deliver results that matter. For more information visit www.mobilitypr.com.

Network with members of Portland’s vibrant and growing mobile community through Mobile Monday Portland (MoMoPDX), the newest chapter of the global Mobile Monday movement. For more information about Mobile Monday Portland visit our website. Join the MoMoPDX online community on Yahoo! Groups and follow us on Twitter at MoMoPDX.

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MoMoPDX Brief: Avatron Software – Vancouver, Washington

admin — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:45:10 +0000

Founded in April 2008 by Dave Howell, a six-year veteran Apple engineering manager, Vancouver, Washington-based Avatron Software is a developer of popular applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. Avatron’s Air Sharing application, downloaded by over one million users in its first two weeks, has raised the bar for iPhone application design and software quality. For more information visit www.avatron.com.

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MoMoPDX Brief: GreyHawk Technologies – Vancouver, Washington

admin — Mon, 25 May 2009 15:45:14 +0000

GreyHawk Technologies in Vancouver, Washington consists of a team of professionals with numerous years of experience in handheld and pen-based computers, as well as touch screen technology. Its strategic direction is to design, develop, and implement mobile applications to targeted markets within the transportation industry with specific focus on trucking and transit. Through its MDT, CEHawk, transit routing systems, Bus Lot Inventory System, OBC Vehicle Monitoring System, and Transit Police Systems products and customization, integration, and network services, GreyHawk Technologies can transform its flexibly-designed systems to be a price-performing addition to metropolitan transit authorities and others in the transportation industry. For more information visit www.greyhawk.com.

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