This is to cordially invite technicians and developers to the N97 Widget Challenge Workshop organized by Forum Nokia next weekend. This event is open to all mobile and web developers.

- Speaker: Nicholas Foo - Head of Technical and Consulting Service - Forum Nokia APAC

- Topic: Widget technology - This is relevant topic for mobile developers as well as web developers

Program Agenda:

++ 1. Talk on widget technology and how to create widget.
++ 2. Hands-on practice under Nicholas’ guidance.

- Timing: Two sessions - 15/8 in HCMC and 16/8 in Hanoi

Please note participation requires a simple registration form on this website:
http://thuthachwidgetN97.com.vn/dkhoithao.aspx

Workshop details are also available at:
http://thuthachwidgetN97.com.vn/hoithao.htm

This is to cordially invite technicians and developers to the N97 Widget
Challenge Workshop organized by Forum Nokia next  weekend. This event is
open to all mobile and web developers.

   * Speaker: Nicholas Foo - Head of Technical and Consulting
Service - Forum Nokia APAC

   * Topic: Widget technology - This is relevant topic for
mobile developers as well as web developers

   * Agenda: 1. Talk on widget technology and how to create
widget. 2. Hands-on practice under Nicholas’ guidance.

   * Timing: Two sessions - 15/8 in HCMC and 16/8 in Hanoi

Please note participation requires a simple registration form on this
website

http://thuthachwidgetN97.com.vn/dkhoithao.aspx

Workshop details are also available at
http://thuthachwidgetN97.com.vn/hoithao.htm

Nokia calls on local developers to participate in this initiative to showcase their talents.

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam - Nokia – the world leader in mobility, driving the transformation and growth of the converging Internet and communications industries has announced today the start of the N97 Widget Challenge for local developers which will be used for the local content of Ovi Store and N97.
According to Mr. Benoit Nalin, General Manager of Nokia Indochina, “Vietnam has a big pool of developers that grow at an impressive annual rate of 30-40% (*). They have tremendous talent and this is a great chance for them to showcase their creativity and technical know-how as well as to easily connect with consumers through our Ovi Store.”

(Vietnam News 09-06-2009)

HA NOI — The
International Finance Corporation signed an investment agreement in Ha Noi
yesterday to provide Vina Paynet Network Joint Stock Company with VND21 billion
(US$1.2 million) to help expand its electronic payment services.

Under the agreement, the
investment by the corporation, a World Bank Group member, will be used primarily
to strengthen back-office infrastructure of Paynet, one of the leading retail
payment processors in Viet Nam. This will be achieved by improving back-up
systems.

The investment will also
be used to expand the retail payment networks to millions of households and
individuals in Viet Nam.

To read the whole article, please click here.

Wednesday,  6/10/2009, 15:37 Vietnam (GMT+7)

By Hien Nguyen - The Saigon Times Daily

HCMC –
Strong movement is occurring in Vietnam’s mobile market which has seen
handshakes and fierce races among mobile operators since the third
generation network licenses were approved in April, heard the Nokia
Convergence and Connection Era conference which opened in HCMC on
Tuesday.

One of the strong movements is the cooperation between Nokia and MobiFone, which was announced on Tuesday.
Under
the cooperation, MobiFone will supply unlimited data service to Nokia
clients who buy Nokia N97. MobiFone provides GPRS service for 3 and 6
month terms for those who buy Nokia N97.

Mai Van Binh, deputy director of MobiFone, said at the conference on
Tuesday that the cooperation with Nokia is an important strategy of
MobiFone with an aim to offer the latest solutions and services to
their mobile users based on the 3G platform.

To read the whole article, please click here.

Photo by: Le Duy

04 June 2009 by China Wireless News Editor

CPCNet
Hong Kong Limited has started working with Vietnam Datacommunication
Company to establish a virtual private network in Vietnam, with the
first POP ready for operations in Ho Chi Minh city this July. To read more, click here.

MobileMonday is pleased to announce our participation at CommunicAsia 2009,
16 - 19 June, at the Singapore Expo Center. We have stepped forward as
co-presenter this year with two-full day agendas, under the Mobile Marketing and Mobile Tv themes, and are looking forward to welcome a wide range of speakers, delegates and chapter founders from the MoMo community… Read More

The
conference will see the announcement of the “N97 Widget Challenge” and
MobileMonday Vietnam proud to be one of the organizing partner.

Time: 8h30 am June 9th, 2009

Venue: Park Hyatt Hotel, 2 Cong truong Lam Sơn, District 1, HCMC

Details of the event in English and e-invite in Vietnamese are attached below.

Schedule:

8.30  Guests arrivals
9.00  Key notes address - Tran Duc Lai, Vice Minister, Ministry of Information & Communications
9.45  Nokia celebrating the new era of Convergence
10.00 Insight sessions

•         Social networking and converged world
•         3G and Opportunties – VMS Mobifone
•         The power of Covergence - Wunderman

10.45 Ovi Store and Announcement of Vietnam N97 widget challenge
11.45 Panel discussion
12.00 Lunch

Note: This is an invitation event. There are limited seat available for MobileMonday Vietnam community member. If you are really interested to join us, please kindly RSVP to tomsee@mobilemondayvn.net by June 7th, 2009. We look forward to your participation at the conference.

We are glad that BuzzCity sharing their on their research on Global Mobile Adverstising Index (Q1- 09), listed by advertising page views
and percentage Quarter-on- Quarter growth (in parenthesis) is :-

The Mobile Advertising Index could be downloaded at Buzzcity main site at www.buzzcity.com or directly at this link.

There are also interesting articles in Buzzcity corporate blog. This could be accessed at http://gammalife.blogspot.com. Enjoy reading!