With smart mobile devices playing an increasing role in everyday life - from social networking to financial transaction management- privacy and security are becoming critical than ever. The soaring messaging threats such as SMS spam, MMS viruses and mobile phishing, are not only intrusive and annoying but also costly to battle and conquer, which put consumers at the risk of devastating identify theft and fraud. Mobile security will soon become ‘Must-Have’ rather than optional — without an effective mobile security solution, owning a mobile device is tantamount to an open invitation for serious data breaches and security snafus.

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Agenda:
6PM Food and networking
6:30PM Introduction
6:40PM Speakers and demo.

Moderator:
Tony Wasserman

Tony Wasserman is Professor of Software Management Practice at Carnegie Mellon West,
and the Executive Director of its Center for Open Source Investigation (COSI), which
focuses on the evaluation and adoption of open source software, as well as its use
in mobile devices. In 2000, Tony became VP of Bluestone Software (acquired by HP in 2001),
responsible for its West Coast Labs, where he led the creation of the award-winning open
source Total-e-Mobile toolkit, which allowed mobile devices to connect to web applications.

Tony is best known as the Founder and CEO of Interactive Development Environments (IDE). Before starting IDE, Tony was a Professor of Medical Information Science at the University of California, San Francisco, and a Lecturer in the Computer Science Division at the University of California, Berkeley.

Tony has a Ph.D. in computer sciences from the University of Wisconsin – Madison
and a B.A. in mathematics and physics from UC Berkeley.

Mike Fyall, Admob
As Manager of Product Marketing at AdMob, Mike Fyall is responsible for the company’s product marketing for next generation platforms, including iPhone and Android. He also leads the creation of the monthly AdMob Mobile Metrics Report, which analyzes the data in AdMob’s network of more than 23,000 mobile sites and applications worldwide to provide insights into trends in the mobile ecosystem. Prior to joining AdMob, Mike worked at Nielsen Mobile as an account manager handling the company’s relationship with a major national operator.

Kent Griffin Sr. Product Manager, PayPal
Kent Griffin is a Sr. Product Manager at PayPal and manages the mobile SDK products. His goal is to make it easy for you to integrate PayPal into your mobile apps. He has been with PayPal for over 5 years and is a founding member of the mobile team. Prior to joining PayPal, he helped developed search solutions for other financial service providers. Kent holds both a BS and MS degree in symbolic systems from Stanford University.

Tejas Bhandarkar, Product Manager, Cisco (Webex)

Michael Aday, Senior Director, Beyondsoft
Michael Aday has a long history in the mobile space starting in 1998 with his work on the deployment of Exchange infrastructures supporting the first Microsoft Activesync devices for mobile email. Having seen early the transformative effects of mobile email and applications on a smartphone, he was an immediate convert. Later in his Microsoft career he was responsible for market/competitive intelligence on the mobile platforms as well as helping to develop the intellectual property strategy for mobile devices. Michael left Microsoft in 2010 and is currently Senior Director for Business Development for Beyondsoft. In this role he is part of the team helping the company develop a broad set of services and capabilities around the mobile space.

More information regarding WWDC (from CNET)
• This year’s WWDC has 5,200 attendees from 57 countries.
• Apple has sold 2 million iPads in 59 days, and the device will be in 19 countries by the end of July
• To date, Apple has sold 100 million iPhones, iPod Touches, and iPads combined.
• There are now 8,500 iPad-specific apps, plus 200,000 iPhone apps.
• The app store now sits at 225,000 apps.
• Apple gets 15,000 apps submitted every week, in 30 different languages. Of those, 95 percent are approved within seven days.
• Users of the iBooks app have downloaded 5 million books in 65 days
• Apple has paid $1 billion to developers (from their 70 percent cut of sales)

Founded in 2005, ExtendLogic has mobile application development consulting office in California and R&D center in China which is one of the pioneers providing Smartphone application development outsourcing services to worldwide clients. With its core competitive advantages in areas of iPhone & Android, ExtendLogic will continue on Smartphone application development after being a part of Beyondsoft Group. By taking advantage of Beyondsoft Group’s strong marketing network, capital, technology and back office support, ExtendLogic aims to strengthen its international competitiveness and further expand its business scope for obtaining greater market share.

Through this acquisition, Beyondsoft will enhance its ability to access the business opportunities from the vertical industries. As a leading Smartphone application development outsourcing company, ExtendLogic has extensive experience in quality assurance and process control. Based on the resource integration, Beyondsoft will be able to provide more professional high quality services to clients from vertical industry, which will help Beyondsoft Group to establish its leading position in Smartphone industry in the near future.

“ExtendLogic’s professionalism and mature project management experience in area of Smartphone application development outsourcing are great supplements to Beyondsoft. The successful acquisition not only expands our delivery capability, but also completes its reform of our own product chain. It is a very important step taken by Beyondsoft to improve its business structure and global strategy.” said by Bin Wang, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Beyondsoft Groups.

About Beyondsoft Groups:

Beyondsoft is a leading IT outsourcing company with Global Delivery Centers. Beyondsoft offers IT consulting, Application Development and Maintenance (ADM), ERP and BPO services to the clients across the globe. Headquartered in Beijing, Beyondsoft has development centers in the major cities in China, as well as operations/centers in the U.S., Japan, Singapore and India. The global delivery centers enable Beyondsoft to offer high-quality and cost effective services to its clients by adopting the right mix of onsite, near-site and multi-tier offshore delivery centers. It also allows Beyondsoft to share and grow its offerings, knowledge and process maturity. Beyondsoft is an ISO27001 certified company and the security systems at Beyondsoft meet world’s most strict standards.

http://www.beyondsoft.com

About ExtendLogic:

Founded in 2005 in California, US, ExtendLogic provides Smartphone application development consulting and outsourcing services by its onshore consulting office in California and offshore R&D center, Xi’an Knowledgesurf Technologies, in Xi’an of China. Having skilled iPhone, Android, Blackberry developers in-house makes ExtendLogic able to provide high quality services to global clients over the past several years. Since 2005, ExtendLogic’s subsidiary, Xi’an KnowledgeSurf has received a number of awards recognizing its service capabilities and growth potential, including 2008 Xi’an Software Park Great Contribution Awards, 2008 ChinaSourcing – Top 50 Service Providers in China 2008 Certificate.

SAN MATEO, USA and LONDON, UK, June 8, 2010 – GetJar (www.getjar.com), the world’s second largest app store, announced today that it has smashed through the 1 billion app download barrier. GetJar’s announcement comes as a landmark moment for the mobile industry as this is the first and only time that a cross-platform apps store has clocked over 1 billion downloads and second time ever for any app store to reach such a milestone.

The record-breaking, billionth download moment happened on June 7^th at 11:02 AM  – Geodelic, an app that discovers restaurants, retailers and attractions nearby, was downloaded on an Android handset.

Ilja Laurs, CEO and founder, GetJar comments: “We’re delighted to have reached this milestone in mobile app history. As a team, we’re dedicated to driving the app market forward through an open approach. We’ve supported over 60,000 apps from developers across all major platforms, including Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Symbian and our open philosophy has been integral to our continued growth and the development within the industry. We’re looking forward to the next billion downloads.”

Some Interesting GetJar Stats:

GetJar’s app store launched on March 23, 2004 and has rapidly grown in leaps and bounds, announcing in July 2009 that it had hit half a billion downloads – hot on the heels of Apple’s app store who had reached this only a few months earlier.

The first app ever to be uploaded on GetJar was ‘Just Yak’ – an app designed for the old Ericsson T610 mobile, on March 25, 2005.

The most downloaded app of all time on GetJar is Facebook’s mobile site shortcut, which provides a fast and easy way to access Facebook’s mobile website on nearly any handset or platform. It has been downloaded more than 61million times since launch late last year.

The most popular app is mobile messenger application, eBuddy, who recently surpassed a landmark 50 million downloads on GetJar with the help of GetJar’s Pay Per Download (PPD) mobile advertising service. Other popular apps include social networking and messaging apps Nimbuzz, Mig33 and Cncted, a mobile web browser – Opera Mini, Google, Yahoo! Mobile, and Fandango.

Over the last five years there have also been many surprise hits on GetJar, including the popularity of religious apps such as the ‘Bible’ app, which offers users access to the Bible’s entire contents through their mobile phone. It was downloaded more than 398,000 times in its first month alone. Islamic app ‘Azan’ has also proven a massive success, downloaded over 1.5 million times.

Dictionary, a simple app developed for feature phones by a sole developer in India, Vikrant Chavan, achieved over 3 million downloads since launch. Mig33 and Snaptu are also examples of small developer shops that were able to build their business and even get funding, partially due to their explosive growth on GetJar.

Over the past year, GetJar has tripled its headcount, quadrupled downloads per month and maintained its profitability despite a challenging economic environment.

About GetJar

GetJar is the world’s second largest apps store, second only to the Apple App Store, with over 1 billion downloads to date. The company’s key point of difference is its open market approach , which allows it to deliver applications for both feature phones and smartphones across all major platforms such as Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, iPhone and Symbian among others. The company provides more than 65,000 mobile applications to consumers in more than 200 countries. In 2009 GetJar won the Meffy, Tiecon50 and Mobile Excellence awards for its achievements and products. GetJar is backed by Accel Partners and is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in the UK and Lithuania. For more information: www.getjar.com and follow us on Twitter @getjar.

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LGE’s Mobile Communications Division has big plans for their new Silicon Valley Mobility Innovation Center.  At this time, we have close to 15 openings and anticipate hiring more after we fill this first batch.

Group overviews:

Mobile Innovation Group – Charter is to identify, develop, and solidify key strategic relationships that will help in developing next generation and disruptive mobile technologies.  The current team under this group is handling the Android relationship and actively looking for an experienced Technical Account Manager.  <Job Description attached>.

Mobility Enterprise Group – Charter is to identify, develop, and solidify key strategic relationships to partner with and develop enterprise solutions, while maintaining mobility as the focal point.  This group Ground Zero and the first 11 hires will be our key leaders representing this initiative.  Open positions include Business Development/Strategy, Partner Marketing, Enterprise Marketing, and Solutions Development.  <Job Descriptions Attached>.

CTO – New BD Opportunities Group – Charter is to identify, develop, and solidify key strategic relationships to help in developing next generation and disruptive technologies that lends itself to the whole LG Electronics Ecosytem.  Examples include 3D TV, Netflix Player integrated in Blu-Ray, etc…  This team will act as representatives of LGE’s CTO Group that will evaluate businesses, provide advisory solutions, and pitch/sell idea of partnering and/or investing in business.  Open positions now include Sr. Manager, Strategic Technology Sourcing.

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They have the following positions open:

Technical Account Manager

Strategy-BusinessDev

Enterprise Marketing.

Partner Marketing

Solution Development

SrMgr – Strategic Tech Sourcing  CTO

Announced from Android Top Gun

To celebrate the achievement we have made and give our camp life a brief summary, we would like to invite you to our Android Top Gun post session, which will take place at Bunker Hill Lane on Jun 2nd.

This will be our last gathering during the Training Camp, so we cordially invite you to come and join us.
Here is the detailed information:
Date: Jun 2nd, 2010
Time: 6:30 PM.
Place: 2593 Bunker Hill Lane，Santa Clara

Please be sure to attend on time.
We are looking forward to your arrival!

BeyondSoft  Consulting Training Team

With the deluge of mobile apps at ever increasing app stores from handset manufacturers and carriers in addition to Apple AppStore and Google Android Market, app developers and publishers now face a new set of challenges: how to ensure their apps are published at the best channels/stores, with the optimal visibility that can be hoped for? And how can smartphone users discover the right apps that suit their needs?

To explore the answers to these questions, SVCWireless Mobile Application SIG is pleased to present you the upcoming event on May 27th, 2010:

Mobile App in Business: Stores, Visibility and Discovery

A panel of mobile industry leaders and veterans will share with you:

-  Different App Stores

-  Marketing channels to ensure app visibility

-  App Discovery/Analytics Tools

-  Alternative devices (TV, Tablet, PCs).

This is an informative and stimulating event regardless whether you are a developer/publisher serious about getting your mobile app off the ground or a casual observer wanting to get exposure to mobile app landscape.  We at SVCWireless Mobile Application SIG cordially invite you to join us at this exciting event.

Date and Time:           6:30pm – 9:00pm                                 Thursday May 27, 2010

Venue:                         Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP,

2475 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA

Agenda:                                              6:30pm to 7:00pm                   Registration and networking

7:00pm to 7:30pm                   Keynote

7:30pm to 8:30pm                   Panel and Q&A

8:30pm to 9:00pm                   Open Discussion and Networking

Registration Link:

https://www.123signup.com/register?id=msxnm

Admission:

Regular Member: Free

Associate Member/Non-Member: $10

Student: $5

Note: Snack and drinks will be provided. Due to the limited capacity, we highly recommend participants to register as early as possible.

Hosting Organization:

Mobile SIG

SVCWireless 2010 Program Team

Silicon Valley China Wireless Technology Association

Contacts:

Wei WU, wei.wu@svcwireless.org

David CAO, david.cao@svcwireless.org

David XU, david.xu@svcwireless.org

Tianbo LI, tianbo.li@svcwireless.org

Speaker Bios:

Greg L. Pickrell, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw LLP

Mr. Pickrell is a partner in the Emerging Growth & Technology practice group in Pillsbury’s Palo Alto office. Mr. Pickrell has been a corporate and securities lawyer for over 25 years, with a focus on the representation of high-technology companies. His clients have reflected the growth of Silicon Valley and range from typical startups to the Fortune 500/Global 100 companies. He has broad experience advising companies in a wide range of technologies, including computer hardware, software, Internet, semiconductors, telecommunications and cleantech. He has a wealth of experience in transactions involving Asia, particularly China and Japan.

Mr. Pickrell started his legal career in Silicon Valley with the firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati, which he left to found Coudert Brothers’ first Silicon Valley office. He also served as managing partner of that firm’s Tokyo office. He was a cofounder of the firm’s Shanghai Office and China Practice. Mr. Pickrell frequently speaks and writes on his various areas of practice including venture capital financing, mergers and acquisitions and international transactions.

Sean Galligan, VP of Business Development, Flurry

Sean is responsible for developing and managing Flurry’s distribution and partnership strategy with publishers, developers, operators, device manufacturers, and technology service providers.  Flurry provides mobile application analytics and marketing solutions to publishers and advertisers across four platforms: iPhone, Android, Blackberry, and Java.  As VP of Business Development for Flurry, Sean manages the team that works with Flurry’s 30,000+ developers and publishers.  Sean has 15 years of experience with major operators and start-ups in the telecommunications industry, serving in various management roles in business development, marketing and sales.  At Sprint, he was part of the team that launched the company’s e-Business and Mobile Computing business units and led the sales and channel marketing organizations for those businesses in the eastern region.  Sean holds a Bachelor of Science from Purdue University and a Master of Business Administration from Cornell University.

Vishal Gurbuxani, Co-Founder, Mobclix

Vishal is Co-founder at Mobclix (www.mobclix.com), the industry’s largest targeted mobile ad exchange — the first open marketplace for mobile developers, advertisers, ad networks and agencies. Mr. Gurbuxani was a Manager for the Accenture Technology Labs Group, which is a global team of 150 researchers and developers focused on laying out the go-to market strategy and technical vision for the 180,000 Employees at Accenture.  Mr. Gurbuxani focused on numerous projects within Enterprise Analytics and Insight, which included unifying marketing spend and advertising of products and services for the numerous Fortune 500 Clients. Most notably Mr. Gurbuxani managed and delivered the Vongo Platform for Starz Entertainment, which is a leading video delivery platform for user generated content as well as licensed and secure content.  Mr. Gurbuxani also managed and delivered a remote monitoring and diagnostic platform for Solar Turbines, which is estimated to bring in record numbers of dollars for Solar Turbines.  Mr. Gurbuxani has led global teams within India, Manila, and Europe to deliver services and solutions to drive business value and monetization for Accenture’s Fortune 500 clients.

Mr. Gurbuxani has also authored numerous patents for large scale device management and personalization. Many of the key insights that Mr. Gurbuxani has learned through driving business value through technical execution, have been cultivated for the Mobclix mobile platform.

Mr. Gurbuxani graduated with Honors from Santa Clara University with both an M.S. and B.S. in Computer Engineering.

Duc Haba, CTO, Motally inc.

Duc Haba has successfully founded and co-founded four technology companies. His illustrious technology career began at Xerox Research in Palo Alto (PARC) where he was a recognized leader in developing expert systems (6 patents filed). At Oracle, he programmed the first Oracle website and led a team of over 100 people to develop the Oracle Store. Duc was a founding member of Viant Inc., eCoupons.com, and GreenTomato Software. He loves to program mobile applications, heuristic learning systems and expert systems, and is an avid morning swimmer.

Anne-Louise Kardas, Strategic Business Development Manager, Sprint

Anne-Louise has been working with Sprint for the past 8 years, in various roles in business sales and most recently business development. She represents the “eyes and ears” of Sprint’s Product and Technology organizations in Silicon Valley to identify potential partnership opportunities that can enhance Sprint services. She works closely with the VC community, startups and developer groups in the Bay Area. Prior to Sprint, she worked for 5 years at Nortel Networks in their Enterprise and Professional Mobile Radio division. Anne-Louise graduated from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Paris and Pantheon-Assas University in Paris and spent a year in Mannheim University, Germany.

Bruce Jones, Sr. Developer Evangelist, GetJar, Inc.

GetJar is the largest independent app store and the best place for bringing a cross platform app to market.  Bruce comes to GetJar after being the App Development Manager at EventRadar, Chief Gecko at Savage Geckos, a futurist at Ford Motor Company and a bedouin C programmer in the deserts of Saudi Arabia.   Bruce has an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Marko Gargenta, Marakana

Marko Gargenta has been programming in Java even before it was named Java. His background is in very large enterprise web application development but he’s also had a fair-share of UI experience having rewritten the entire AWT into lightweight components before Java Swing ever came out. He’s a big believer in agile development processes, being a certified ScrumMaster himself as well as contributor to eXtreme Programming methodology.

Marko is a professional consultant and instructor. He’s taught teams of organizations such as Sony-Ericsson, Ericsson Canada, MetroPCS, Experian, DoJ, DoD, and many others. He’s published a PHP/MySQL by Example book with Prentice Hall (world’s largest tech publisher) as well as created many of Marakana’s courseware, including the Android series.

Georgi Dagnall, CEO at Geogad, Inc

Geogad is an Internet travel content platform that distributes audio- and video-based self-guided tours of popular tourist destinations. The tours are available over the web, over the mobile web to browsers on feature phones, and over Google Android-powered smartphones via native apps. During her time at Geogad, Dr. Dagnall has become proficient in audio and video content delivery over multiple channels and mobile devices. She hosts the Informal Android Developer Meetup in Silicon Valley and coordinated and led the first Android-related developer-led competition in Silicon Valley. Her wide background in computer systems and languages is includes HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, Java, J2EE, PostgreSQL, C, and C++  among others. Her prior employment covered both R&D and technical marketing in the cable TV optical systems division of Harmonic, Inc. She received her doctorate from the Georgia Institute of Technology while researching the growth of InAsP strained quantum well lasers.

Jian Zhang, Chief Android Architect of ExtendLogic, Founder and CTO, Xeeku LLC

Jian is one of very few earlier developers starting Android development from the very beginning in 2007. He has strong passion in Android technologies, and had been working and managing types of Android Apps.  Currently, he has several Android apps in Android Market which were led developed by Jian under name Xeeku.

Besides helping ExtendLogic defines its Android enterprise solutions, Jian also has been working as CTO for Xeehu which Jian founded 3 years ago. Xeeku’s mission is to create an unified access portal for personal information consumption and capture.

Jian participated in Google’s Android Developers Challenge both Phase I and II, and was #6 and #12 in the Life Style and Social categories. Jian also participated in Android Hachathon.

Nelson To, the founder of Apofa

Nelson has been working Android since 1.0. I have published 12 android application on Android market myself under Apofa. www.apofa.com.  He also get involved with different android projects. Including Stanford University Android Research project. (which was working on M3, M5 android level), AOL AIM on Android and many others.

David Cao.

I bought an iPad today. The line is not too long, I did wait for few minutes. The activation is pretty simple. Haven’t found enough fun apps. But still, my kids like it a lot.

Overall, it is better than my expectation. I start to wonder what the Chrome netbook will looks like. How Chrome will compete with iPad will be widely expected.

XeekuNote features rich personal info aggregater supporting voice memo, camera, photos, location, map, and an elegant content browser.

Unlike popular search engines such as Google Search, Xeeku provides each individual user with a self-learning search agent which  is tailored to each user’s tastes and interests, and diligently searching, categorizing, and self-improving for each individual user.

Information capture with Xeeku is easy and fast using on-device features such as keypad, cameras, voice input, to augment content.

Privacy protection is built right into the foundation of Xeeku’s data structure and extensive measures are excercised to protect user’s privacy.

Xeeku was founded in 2007 with a single mission: to make information access ubiquitous and easy. Xeeku product line will cover a full spectrum of personal information services including personal notebook for projects and daily chores; a personal news aggregator for news and media contents.

Xeeku’s CTO Jian is also instructor for Android Top Gun Training Camp.