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Only one more sleep before WIPJam and SmackDown Bowling & Jameoke!

We are pleased to announce the following teams and their captains:

Lane & Team Captain

1. The ACCESS 'King Pins'- Jimmy 'Ninja' Della

2. The Sony Ericsson 'High Rollers'- Eric 'Madness' Ang

3. The AT&T 'ATTackers'- Amy 'Boom Boom' Law

4. The Symbian 'Sizzlers'- Paul 'Rabble Rouser' Jarratt

5. The Blackberry 'Bruisers'- Mike 'Stinger' Kirkup

6. The Oracle 'Gutter Brawlers'- Steve 'The Body' Cull

7. The Microsoft 'The Incredibowls'- Kevin 'Killer' McGuire

8. The Orange 'Krushers'- Steve 'Yankee' Glagow

9. The OMTP 'Surfers'- Tim ' Eat my Dust' Haysom

10. The Sun 'Hyper Strikers'- Yael 'Twinkle Toes' Wagner

It is going to be a fabulous event. You have to be a registered Jam'er and must attend WIPJAM to get your intive to this once in a lifetime chance to "BOWL with the Developer Programs"!

Transportation and location hints for the SmackDown: Shuttles are available to the RIO from the Paris and the Harris. Once you are...

This week's G20 special edition carnival of the mobilists is now live from London Calling! Be sure to take a look all the interesting posts from many different nations.

A bunch of us are going to be down in Las Vegas this week for a little event you might have heard of called WIPJAM (wink wink) so if you're there, be sure to say hi!

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Here's who! So far anyway – registration closes on Wednesday, March 25, 2009. What are you waiting for?

The Carnival is always worth waiting for!

Welcome to #166 – the Carnival of Mobilists' one hundred and sixty-sixth post, which by my calculations means the Carnival has been active for over 3 years now. This is the first time WIP has hosted, although we have been an active friend of the Mobilists for almost since inception. Our conclusion – hosting and reading all the posts is a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon with great reads! Enjoy…..

Our very diverse set starts with Dave Levy from Most Likely To Die Alone (just checking out that threat advisory system is worth a visit); where he takes a different twist on the mobile privacy debate and asks the question: "Will we, as audience members and mobile phone users, care nearly as much?"

Wading into the mobile operating system quagmire as he often does, Andreas Constantinou from Vision Mobile, goes behind the scenes to find out why LiMo is still catching up to Google and Nokia and why its effectiveness will be limited – unless LiMo...

Well we don't think we can just stop jamm'n after our Day for Developers is over at the upcoming International CTIA Wireless in Las Vegas. Our sponsors and developers didn't either – so we added an After Party!

And in true WIP fashion, we wanted an event that was fun, interactive, and really condusive to great networking. Why not bowling!

Wait for it – we are hosting the Dev Program Bowling SmackDown event after Jam starting at 8:30pm at the Lucky Strike Bowling Lanes and Lounge. Ten Developer Programs including Access, Sony Ericsson, Symbian Foundation, AT&T Dev Central, RIM-Blackberry, Microsoft-Windows Mobile, Oracle, and Orange Partner will square off joined by Jam attendees. Rumour has it that Symbian is bringing 10 different colored t-shirts for the teams! We will announce the team captains and team names next week.

We are also pleased to again have Stephen King from Mob4Hire lead Jameoke – it was so popular at MWC in Barcelona. We'll have 2 guitars and a set of bongo...

Whoops! I took a step back into the past! This week's carnival is actually from VisionMobile who has the heads up on the great debate of whether or not smartphones are really the future. Also, a nice piece on whether the Windows App Store is better than the Apple App store (The Mac vs. PC never ends, even on mobile!).

Guess who is up next week for Carnival? That's right, its us. Stay tuned.

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This week's carnival comes from Ubiquitous Thoughts who gave us plenty to think about with some interesting topics on mobile content, marketing, and development. They chose a piece from Andrew Grill at London Calling for the post of the week. Check it out! Next week is Vision Mobile, so we'll see you then.

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Another Contest!

Don't miss your chance to pitch your cutting-edge mobile app, service, or content to AT&T for a chance to win a share of $70,000 in cash prizes, the opportunity to go-to-market with AT&T, and the coveted title of 2009 Fast-Pitch Platinum Award winner.

devCentral, the AT&T Developer Program, will be hosting the Fast-Pitch Platinum Awards for consumer and enterprise developers at CTIA Wireless at the Las Vegas Convention Center, April 1-3, 2009. These awards are designed to recognize the innovation, creativity, and skill of the mobile development community.

Submissions for the contest are due by 11:59:59 PM Pacific Time, March 10, 2009. Learn more about the awards and enter soon!

To ensure consideration, it is highly encouraged that you enter the contest now even if you are not ready to submit your full application yet. You can then return to the Fast-Pitch registration site to submit your application before the entry deadline of 11:59:59 PM Pacific Time, March 10,...

Presenting the only Open Source in Mobile Gathering in the USA with full ecosystem representation!

OSiM USA
Open Source in Mobile USA
March 11-12 2009
The Westin, San Francisco, USA

Developers Go Free! OSiM USA 2009 will cater for the independent developer. All developers are invited to attend the conference for free and will benefit from not only high level strategic presentations but technical, developer focussed talks as well. The Independent Developer Pass entitles you to attend both days of the conference in their entirety for absolutely no cost. To register email adam.shaw@informa.com

We are definitely going as Caroline will be chairing the morning session on the 12th. She is also planning a dinner meet up on March 10th so if you are interested in attending the dinner, give her a shout at caroline@wipconnector.com

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After bidding adieu to #mwc09, we're back to work for the CTIA (Vegas baby!) WIPJAM. This week's mobilist comes from Golden Swamp, and they have provided some link love on our Mobile World Congress wrap up as well as some discussion on how much we actually like the touch screen revolution.

In completely unrelated news, WIPJAM has now upgraded along with the rest of the world to Wordpress 2.7.1! Yeah!

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