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“The most addictive game on Android Market” - Colorix

Colorix is a completely new product created by Awesome Software and Mobo Studio for the lovers of Tetris-like games. Rules are simple - just arrange falling marbles on the board. Three or more marbles of the same color lined diagonally, horizontally or vertically explode and disappear from the board.


MoMo #5 - Slides

Following our last event, before holidays, here’s the talkers slides:
- Mobile Games: A Practical (Business) Approach by Tiago Loureiro from VectorLab
- A view on mobile marketing by João Fernandes from Monday
For the next meeting we’re having an one day event. Some details here: Mobile Lisbon Summit


MoMo #5 - 15 June; 6:30pm ~ 8pm

Next monday will have our fifth meeting and for the first time its not the first month monday, due to Mobile Monday Amsterdam #11, that was on the same date and we’re attending. It was a memorable event and congratulations to our Amsterdam friends. I’ll get into more details if you would like at our meeting.
This [...]


last minute agenda for today’s 4th meeting

Twice in a row isn’t a coincidence, it’s “failing gracefully” (kudos for OFFF event)
- 18h00 - MoMoPT introduction by Vitor Domingos
- 18h15 - Vodafone App Contest by Rui Carmo
IST graduate, telecommunications professional since 1994 (Vodafone staffer from 1999 onwards), deeply involved in the roll out of fixed and mobile data services (corporate services, network planning [...]


Vodafone Portugal launches a widget contest

It’s called “Concurso Apps Vodafone” and aims for innovation and creation of small web apps (widget’s) in Portugal for the Vodafone app store (soon to launch).
The best 5 widgets will get prizes; €20.000 for the best, $5.000 for second place and €2.500 for the last three. The selected widgets could be monetized on the app store and the first price [...]


3rd meeting slides

Following last meeting, here’s the slides for Paulo Glórias talk: iphone-livetv_momopt.
Diogo Caldeira Pires, “smile, it’s monday”, is available on prezi.
I would like to thank all that showed up and stayed for dinner, but specially to Paulo and Diogo for starting the debate afterwords.


Last minute agenda for today’s 3rd meeting

We know that it’s probably way too late to post, but agenda problems with some speakers forced us to change it by last minute:
- 18h15 - Smile, it’s monday! by Diogo Caldeira Pires
Diogo Pires holds a Business Communication Degree at ISCEM, with academic internships at companies like ideiateca and SIC Online, worked as Marketing and Communication Manager [...]


MoMoPT on linkedin

For those interested, we’ve created a linkedin group for our chapter:
Mobile Monday Portugal
And for the next meeting, here’s the event where you all can check if you’re going or not:
Mobile Monday Portugal - 3rd Meeting
See you there!


Meeting #3 - 6th April, Lisbon

As proposed on our last event, we’ll have our third meeting on April, 6, in the same place as the previous ones: TBStore, Av. 5 Outubro, Lisbon.
We’re currently looking for speakers and there’s no main theme - since we’re just starting MoMo - proposed, so don’t be afraid and feel free to jump into the [...]


second meeting slides

Here are the slides of our second meeting:
André Marquet - “Is it Possible to Build a Telecom IT Cluster in Portugal? The Examples of Finland and Israel”

Celso Martinho - “Portals, from the Desk to Mobile”


second meeting over - first roundup

Yesterday (2 March) we just had our second MoMoPT meeting, with almost a full room (20+ people).
A warm thank you to everyone who made it possible on short notice; Pedro Aniceto for the venue, Rui Carmo of Vodafone Portugal, André Marquet of WIT-Software and Celso Martinho of Sapo for speaking and showing their thoughts on the [...]


second meeting - 2009/03/02

Here’s the lineup for our second meeting. There’s a physical limit of 30 people, and there’s no registration needed, so be there early!
Time, Speakers & Themes

18h - Rui Carmo
“The Future of Mobile Applications *(vertical handsets and consumer services)”
IST graduate, telecommunications professional since 1994 (Vodafone staffer from 1999 onwards), deeply involved in the roll out of fixed [...]


MoMoPT - 2nd Meeting - 2009/03/02, Lisbon, 18h-20h

We’ve been MIA since out first meeting ( http://mobilemondayportugal.com/pipermail/list-mm/2008-September/000004.html ), with a few bumps on the project since then, but we’re now on the right track, as an official Mobile Monday chapter.
Secondly; right now, MoMoPT is Lisbon based, but we’re open to have more MoMo meetings and chapters anywhere in the country. So feel free [...]


Betavine 2nd Birthday Party; London, January 29

I’ll be at betavine’s birthday party tomorrow in London. If you would like to meet, just mail me vd@mobilemondayportugal.com 
What is Betavine?
Betavine is an open community & resource website, created and managed by Vodafone Group R&D, whose mission is to support the wider development community in stimulating ideas, developing, testing and launching great new applications for [...]


Femtocells in Portugal Telecom; Mobile Video in Vodafone

TMCnet reports that Vodafone Portugal has signed a deal with Ortiva Wireless, for delivering high quality video, audio and rich multimedia experience to mobile users under variable wireless network conditions. Vodafone Portugal is the company’s first European customer and will be using its mobile Video Optimization Gateway (mVOG). This will be also used to enhance all live TV channels starting [...]