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Here at WIP, we are thrilled that our Founder and CEO, Caroline Lewko, has been named as one of the top 10 Women in Wireless by FierceWireless.

Fierce Wireless selected the top 10 for their accomplishments, their technical savvy, their leadership–and perhaps most importantly, their influence on the industry. As stated in their publication "These are the women who you often see speaking at industry events, working on various committees or negotiating tough deals. From entrepreneurs who have turned their passions into successful ventures to savvy executives who are climbing the corporate ladder in traditionally male-dominated firms, these are the women that the industry should keep an eye on in 2009 and beyond."

Caroline is in great company on the Top 10 Women in Wireless list. She is joined by the following dynamic women: Cathy Avgiris, Comcast; Jill Braff, Glu Mobile; Venetia Espinoza, T- Mobile; Peggy Johnson, Qualcomm; Selino Lo, Ruckus Wireless; Kelly Owens St. Julian, Boost...

Watch the Live Webcast from the Verizon Developer Community Conference, taking place July 28, 2009 in San Jose, CA. Register at: www.vdc2009.com

The morning general sessions live webcast will commence at 9:30 am PT (12:30 pm ET) and will provide mobile applications developers with an overview of the VDC, including technical, marketing and network information from Verizon Wireless and other industry leaders.

Confirmed speakers for the morning sessions include:
— Lowell McAdam, chief executive officer, Verizon Wireless
— John Stratton, chief marketing officer, Verizon
— Roger Gurnani, senior vice president, product development, Verizon Wireless
— Jim Balsillie, co-chief executive officer, Research In Motion
— Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer,Softbank Mobile (via video)
— Executives with developer partners discussing their experiences launching
applications with Verizon

The afternoon deep-dive sessions will be available for viewing on the Web shortly...

This week's Carnival is hosted at TamsIJungle, with some select mid-summer analysis of the mobile world. Great content has been listed including WIPs Back from Linuxtag so take a look.

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Following our Europe Open Source in mobile WIPjam tour, here's the second blog in a short series summarizing the tour.

So if we do not want openness in mobile to equal opensourness soon can we really limit it to opensourceness and exclude other aspects of openness such as open development, open governance…

The first answer to the question came from a very unexpected angle and (un?) surprisingly from a non mobilist Tomcat from Mozilla. [For background information Mozilla Christian Sejersen was presenting on Fennec (Firefox for mobile) at the show and one of our discussion leaders at the WIPJam.]

The conversation had started very badly though on the slippery subject of certification and signing. The subject is fairly commonly referred to as the rock and the hard place of debates between mobile application developers. And it usually takes strong moderational talents to navigate around them… On that day I failed… But when the subject is usually the beginning of an endless (if partially...

The first mobile-hosted Carnival is #182 where a new member of our carnival hosting team Antoine RJ Wright spins a tale about a tent full of mobile expert bloggers and points us to their posts. WIP's blog Around the World in 31 days is included.

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As many of you know, June was a heavier than usual business travel schedule for me as it included 10 airflights, 4 train rides, 6 countries, 3 continents (Asia, Europe and North America), 1 boat ride, 3 speaking engagements, 2 WIP receptions and 2 mini WIPJAM sessions. Whew!

I want to share with you the activities and observations I had along the way – warning this is a long blog.

I started traveling at an early age, so am well aware of how countries and cultures can be different that you expect; and that you certainly can't paint countries or even cities in a region with the same brush stroke of 'this is the way they are'. This trip once again confirmed that, and in particular the the developer/mobile industry nuances in different places. And as always, I'm ruled by my belly, so I also shared some 'personal' impressions too!

NORTH AMERICA
San Francisco – June 1-4 – Java One
June started off at JavaOne in San Francisco (15,ooo attendees) for our WIPJAM Session with the Java...

Following our Europe Open Source in mobile WIPjam tour, here's the first blog in a short series summarizing the tour.

Obviously one can wonder these days about the usefulness of blogging about an event when twitter offers you a better, more multilaterally objective opinion @ TwitterSearch ?

If you do not speak German? You could probably get all posts googletranslated and start wondering about what really happened and what the discussions were all about. And frankly looking at tweets like this one you would be led to believe that there were serious and interesting chats going on when it comes to openness in mobile: @taknil "Back from LinuxTag. This is where Apple is not an open wireless devices found. Did the Android phone is not won." (*)

Unfortunately this is entirely misleading and the debates around openness and mobile were rather scarce… or rather the open-sourceness spirit and mobile did struggle a bit to meet at the show (as a reminder LinuxTag is the largest open source show...