Category Archives: Events

Google I/O Day One Wrap Up

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The theme of today’s I/O keynote was Google’s commitment to HTML5 and web apps. The day’s significant announcements all lend support to Google’s web centric vision of the future: Google announced that it has open sourced the  high performance VP8 video codec that Google acquired through their acquisition of On2. VP8 packaged with the Ogg Vorbis audio codec in the  Matroska  container format make up WebM, a new web video standard that is 100% open source and royalty free.  WebM … Continue reading →

What Will Google Unveil AT I/O Tomorrow?

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Photo: beussery cc Some rights reserved The big Google I/O developer event kicks off in San Francisco tomorrow. WapReview will be there trying to learn as much as possible about what Google will be doing in mobile, especially in mobile webapps and services. Watch for live updates from the keynote tomorrow on my @Yeswap account on Twitter and for a daily wrap up here on WapReview.com I expect to see some big announcements in the mobile web services area. Likely … Continue reading →

Don’t Miss It! Mobile 2.0 Europe – June 17, 2010

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The European version of my favorite mobile conference, Mobile 2.0 will be held June 17th in Barcelona at the beautiful new campus of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra . While I won’t be able to make it to Barcelona this year, I’ve attended several of the past  Mobile 2.0 events and found them extremely worthwhile. Somehow the Mobile 2.0 organizers always seems to get  the best speakers and host the liveliest panels.  And it all happens in a fast paced format … Continue reading →

Two Don’t Miss Events for MWC Attendees

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A couple of quick reminders for all of you attending MWC in Barcelona two weeks from now. The Mobile Premier Awards for the best grassroots startup innovation will be held at the Petit Palau of Palau de la Musica on Monday, February 15, 2010. Full price tickets at 99€  are available from Amiando. There’s a great deal for Dotopen members who can buy up to four tickets at the special price of 39€. Mobile Sunday Barcelona, a causal get together … Continue reading →

Mobile 2.0 – Apps vs. Browser Based Web Services

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There is tremendous buzz currently around native apps and app stores thanks to the iPhone App phenomenon. This was especially noticeable  during a panel at Mobile 2.0 titled “Developers, Mobile Ecosystem Development & Third Party Services & Applications” The panelists, from Qualcomm, GetJar, O2, Sun and the Symbian Foundation, were all involved with their respective company’s App Store efforts.  While one can hardly blame players in the App store space for touting their vision, I  think it got a little … Continue reading →

Mobile 2.0 – Advertising Tips for Mobile Web Publishers

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I spent the last two days at the Mobile 2.0 Conference – Silicon Valley. This is my fourth Mobile 2.0 and like the previous three was a first rate event with great speakers and panels and attendance by a global group of mobile entrepreneurs and developers. It was ably organized and run with great attention to detail by Greg Gorman, Mike Rowehl and Peter Vesterbacka with off-site support from Rudy De Waele and Daniel Appelquist . The event was two … Continue reading →

At Mobile 2.0

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I’ll be at Mobile 2.0 today and tomorrow.  It looks to be an exciting event and I’ll be covering it here on WapReview.  I won’t be live blogging, as I’ve found I’m pretty bad at it, but will do a wrap up post or two after the event.  If you are attending Mobile 2.0 and want to meet up please use the contact form which I’ll be monitoring all day.

CTIA Mobile Website and App

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If you’re at the big CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & Entertainment® show this week in San Diego or just want to keep on top of news from the event, the CTIA has a mobile website for you at ctiamobileapp.com with: Alerts (currently empty) Schedule of sessions where you can also vote on yea or nay on each one Searchable Directory of exhibitors with booth numbers and clickable contact email addresses and phone numbers. CTIA news feeds from WirelessWeek and Unstrung @CTIAShow … Continue reading →