A big thank-you to all who braved the weather to attend MoMo Aug. 25th, you’re real troopers one and all. As noted our next gathering is Sept. 22nd at the Canadian embassy. Since all eyes are looking at the americas for potential growth, we’ve gathered - from both sides of the equator - a couple of industry insiders to share their insights. As always it promises to be a fantastic evening in a swank venue and we are thrilled to count that as the 4th anniversary of the MoMo Tokyo chapter launch!

Thanks to everyone who made it our for Nico Nico Night on the 14th and then the 4th annual NetTokyo fund-raiser last weekend, it was a great way to kick-off the summer! Our next MoMo Tokyo is August 25th and we have tapped a couple of savvy VC’s for a ‘money meets the talent’ evening. Be sure to register now and try to stay cool in the meantime.

We hope you all enjoy rainy season now because it’s gonna get hot-hot-hot real soon. So, with that in mind, your hard-working MoMo Tokyo team looks forward to chilling with everyone at Sam and Daves on July 14th while taking in a couple of super interesting presentations coming from the good folks at Xtone and Niwango. See ya there!

Thanks to everyone who attended our last event at Google on April 21st, a great evening was had by all. For those who may have missed it we have the presentation [.pdf] from Jaehong Lee, COO of Mikle Inc., uploaded Here.

Meanwhile, mark your calendar for our next event on June 23rd at the always fashionable KDDI Designing Studio in Harajuku with a Texting 2.0 theme. We’ve lined-up an interesting company to demo their touch screen input and translation software and are looking forward to hear from a senior Nuance representative regarding the future roadmap of their T9 predictive text entry product.

Thank you all for coming out to our MoMo Tokyo 2008 Peer Awards event on March 24 at Shinsei Bank. We had a lot of very cool and innovative products presented! Congrats to the three winning companies and thanks to everyone involved for making it such a great evening. The video is now online Here.

Our next MoMo Tokyo event, April 21st, will focus on ‘Solving big problems on small devices - Google’s approach to the mobile internet evolution’. We’re looking forward to welcome our key mobile industry members for what promises to be an interesting presentation.

John Lagerling, Strategic Partner Development Manager, Google
John Lagerling is responsible for Google’s mobile business development activities in Japan. He has forged key partnerships with the major carriers in Japan, including NTT DoCoMo and KDDI as well as the major handset manufacturers. In parallel he is responsible for expanding the mobile ad-network in Japan, including partnerships Mobile SNS sites Mixi and GREE.

By all accounts the MoMo Tokyo 2008 Peer Awards held on Monday evening was a fantastic event and we would like to thank everyone involved for making it one of our best gatherings ever. Hearty congrats are in order for the winners and complete respect offered to all of the candidate companies who stepped-up to participate. Honorable mentions for two surprise guest speakers are also in order; Nina Norlund, former biz dev. mgr at HP Bazaar, who helped us get the MoMo Tokyo chapter rolling and Faraz Syed, CEO of Mobile Complete, a past winner at MobileMonday 2007 Global Peer Awards.

We would like to pass along a very special thanks to our esteemed judges; Stephan Burke from Mobile Content Networks, Yurie Horita from Impress R&D, Hitomi Murakami from Seikei University, Masaaki Suga from Cybird Ventures and Martyn Williams from IDG News as well as Patrick Bray from GeoVector who served admirably as our MC for the night. We would also like to offer our most sincere gratitude to the great people at Shinsei Bank who provided an awesome venue, the folks at Infinita who built this groovy mobile voting site and finally, of course, everyone who attended. Yoroshiku!

Heads-up to all innovative mobile start-up companies in Japan: While the 3rd annual MoMo Global Summit in Helsinki last September seems like only yesterday, we’re already looking forward to Kuala Lumpur, in mid-May. The Global Peer Awards will play a central part in the Malaysia Global Summit, so we are calling for submissions from […]

The mobile browser wars are set to heat up in 2008 so it’s a good time for a themed event digging into issues such as user interface and open standards. We have lined-up three really fantastic speakers from W3C and Mozilla.. so Register now and we’ll see you on February 18th, please note this is an “industry only” event, so no recruiters or life insurance sales people need apply. Also, we are starting to get some great companies coming online for the MoMo Tokyo 2008 Peer Awards, more Details Here.

Welcome to the Year of the Mighty Mobile Mouse..!! Chances are it’s been a hell-rush for everyone coming back to work here last week. We hope you had a super holiday season and are ready for what should be a great 2008! We’re looking forward to connecting with you for a few sociable drinks - and plenty of networking - on Jan. 28 in Harajuku. This MoMo is an ‘Open-To–All’ event - see full details for venue location, etc. below.

Your faithful MoMo Tokyo organizers are working on our event plans for the coming year, feedback on themes, speakers and potential locations is always welcome. We intend to announce upcoming MoMo dates with plenty of notice so members can juggle their busy schedules accordingly. Watch for updates coming soon – and mark MoMo on Feb. 18 in your calendar!

December 13, 2007 — Helsinki, Finland and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — MobileMonday (MoMo), the global community of over 70,000 mobile industry visionaries and developers, today announced it will invite the worlds most exciting and innovative mobile companies to attend the 4th annual Global Summit in Kuala Lumpur from May 18 - 22, 2008. MobileMonday’s unique cross-border platform has proven to generate real business opportunities via cooperative relationships with the Open Mobile Alliance and GSMA, which represents 700 mobile operators and 200-technology partners worldwide. The upcoming event, the first ever to be held in Asia, will be co-located with the World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT 2008) conference to be held in Malaysia.

Kuala Lumpur is set to be the point of convergence for the largest-ever gathering of global leaders and decision makers on information and communications technology. Held once every two years, WCIT is the premier global forum that brings together leaders in business, government and academia to impact economic and social development through the exchange of policies and ideas on technology. WCIT 2008 is expected to be the point of convergence for more than 2,500 participants from over 80 countries worldwide. Keynote speakers are expected to include some of the most respected and admired names in the industry. WCIT 2008 is jointly organized by the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) and the Assoc. of the Computer and Multimedia Industry of Malaysia, with the support of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation Malaysia.