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        ACM SIGMOBILE E-Mail Newsletter
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SIG Announcements:

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!


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Latest News and Articles:

The World's Smallest Film Contest (CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/ptech/12/23/cellflicks.ap/index.html

Throwable, Baseball-Sized Camera Helps Police In Dangerous Situations
(InformationWeek)
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=174909447

Top 10 Tech Trends for 2006 (Mercury News)
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/13486960.htm

Surveys Say: Chinese Wireless Moves Forward In Java, Mobile Music (TeleComWeb)
http://www.telecomweb.com/news/1135268560.htm

Mobile Malware to rise in 2006 - McAfee (MobileMag)
http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/344/C5717/

Opera Goes Mobile in Battle of Browsers (LinuxInsider)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/6MT0rdREeRAxnL/Opera-Goes-Mobile-
in-Battle-of-Browsers.xhtml

Gmail Gone Mobile (InternetNews)
http://www.internetnews.com/wireless/article.php/3571571

The End User: Internet for the Small Screen (Internatioanl Herald Tribune)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/11/30/business/ptend01.php

Report: 24% Of Enterprises Have Deployed Wireless Nets (InformationWeek)
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=175007416

Will Mobile Broadband Kill Wi-Fi? (InformationWeek)
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=175007157

RFID Market To Reach $3 Billion By 2010 (InformationWeek)
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=175002539


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Upcoming Conferences and Events endorsed by SIGMOBILE:

** SIGMOBILE members get the same low registration fee as
** members of the organization which is sponsoring the event.


COMSWARE 2006
The First International Conference on COMmunication System softWAre
and MiddlewaRE
January 8-12, 2006
New Delhi, India
http://www.comsware.org/

ARCS 2006
19th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systmes
March 13-16, 2006
Frankfurt/ Main, Germany
http://arcs06.cs.uni-frankfurt.de/

WTS 2006
2006 Wireless Telecommunications Symposium
April 27-29 2006
Pomona, California
http://www.csupomona.edu/~wtsi/

MDM 2006
The 7th International Conference on Mobile Data Management
May 9-12, 2006
Nara, Japan
http://www.mdm2006.kddilabs.jp/

W4A
International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility
May 23-26, 2006
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
http://w4a.man.ac.uk/

Mobiquitous 2006
3rd Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems:
Networks and Services
17-21 July, 2006
San Jose, California, USA
http://www.mobiquitous.org/

UbiComp 2006
The 8th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computin
17-21 September, 2006
Orange County, California, USA
http://www.ubicomp.org/ubicomp2006/

Mobility 2006
International Conference on Mobile Technology, Systems and Applications
25-27 October, 2006
Bangkok, Thailand
http://www.mobilityconference.org/


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Latest Developer Headlines:

10-Minute Guide To Wi-Fi Standards (InformationWeek)
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=174918761

Building Speech-Enabled Applications with ASP.NET (DevX)
http://www.devx.com/codemag/Article/30085

10-Minute Guide To Setting Up A Wi-Fi Network (InformationWeek)
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=174900729

You're a Fool to Design Only for the Un-mobile Web (OnLamp)
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/wlg/8817