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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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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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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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