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Great news for WIP members! Here are 3 ways to get involved with WIP @ CTIA in San Diego, CA. (Not a WIP member? Register here!)

1. Developer Pavilion at CTIA
Wednesday, October 7 – Friday, October 9, 2009
Fully pimped out booth (5′ x 10′ for $2,000.00) and valuable extras
Deadline August 7 for full benefits!

2. Pepcom – Mobilefocus@CTIA WIRELESS IT&E 2009
October 7, 2009; 7:00 – 10:00 pm
At the Omni in San Diego
20% WIP Member Discount

3. WIPJAM @CTIA
Thursday October 8, 2009
Don't forget to sign up to Jam with us!

Here is more information on these great opportunities!

Developer Pavilion at CTIA
Wednesday, October 7 – Friday, October 9, 2009

Become an exhibitor at the CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment Show with us!
We've secured a great rate and valuable extras for WIP members and partners at the Developer Pavilion. Fully pimped out booths are available in 2 sizes:
• 5' x 10' booth for $2,000.00 USD
• 10' x 10' booth for $3,800.00USD

All booths include:

• 2 chairs...

Join the throng at Mobileslate.com's first Carnival of the Mobilists as Eric Chan hosts #185 with this spectacular carnival crowd illustration. Included is an article by Andy Favell of mobiThinking who writes about "Why recession is a great time to invest in mobile". I think we can all agree that in this recession, one of the few things people are not parting with is their mobile.

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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...

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...

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...

The Dev Program Bowling Smackdown held April 2 after the Jam Session was a perfect ending to a great day of Jam'n. Nine teams lead by Developer program representatives battled it out on the bowling lanes for the right to claim the title of "Best Bowlers". The title goes to The Blackberry Bruisers! Congratulations!

Here are the Smackdown results:

• 1^st - The Blackberry Bruisers with an average score of 118 points
• 2^nd – The AT&T ATTackers – 115 points
• 3^rd - The Microsoft Incredibowls – 104 points
• The ACCESS King Pins – 103 points
• The OMTP Surfers – 102 points
• The Symbian Sizzlers – 100 points
• The Sun Hyper Strikers – 98 points
• The Sony Ericsson High Rollers – 97 points
• The Oracle Gutter Brawlers – 86 points

It was an evening of bowling, networking, laughing and singing. Yes, by popular demand, Jameoke was back, lead by Stephen from Mob4Hire! "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" was a crowd favourite once again.

Thank you to our sponsors. Without...

Thank you to all attendees, speakers, discussion leaders and sponsors for helping to make our 8^th Jam Session, held April 2^nd, 2009 at CTIA in Vegas, a huge success. By the numbers, there were:

• 189 attendees from 12 countries and 5 continents representing
  130 companies
• 14 speakers
• 21 discussion leaders
• 8 discussion topics
• 7 sponsors

Stay tuned for announcements of future WIP Jam Sessions coming soon! Jam on!

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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...

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

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...