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        ACM SIGMOBILE E-Mail Newsletter
                 for Dec/2006
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SIG Announcements:

Happy New Year!


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Latest News and Articles:

Project to Tag Tokyo Neighborhood With RFID (ComputerWorld)
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do

Takahashi: 10 Tech Trends of 2007 (Mercury News) 
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/16315679.htm

Report: Mobile Enterprise Market Will Grow 23% Annually To $3.5 Billion 
In 2010 (InformationWeek) 
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196604317

Pick up the Tab by Texting (CNet) 
http://news.com.com/Pick+up+the+tab+by+texting/2100-1039_3-6139451.html

"Laptop Lag" Hinders Getting Work Done On The Road (InformationWeek) 
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196602715

Mobile PCs Actually Not So Mobile (InformationWeek) 
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196602480

Lack Of PCs Will Thwart WiMax In Developing Nations (InformationWeek) 
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196602357

America's Most Digital Cities? Think Sun Belt (CNet) 
http://news.com.com/Americas+most+digital+cities+Think+Sun+Belt/

Microsoft to Join Municipal Wi-Fi Fray (CNet) 
http://news.com.com/Microsoft+to+join+municipal+Wi-Fi+fray/

Researchers Spot First Mobile Spyware (IT News) 
http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=43246&src=site-marq 


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Upcoming Conferences and Events Sponsored By or In-Cooperation With SIGMOBILE: 

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

COMSWARE 2007 
The 2nd International Conference on COMmunication System softWAre 
and MiddlewaRE 
7-12 January, 2007 
Bangalore, India
http://www.comsware.org/ 

HotMobile 2007 
The Eighth IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications 
26-27 February, 2007 
Westin La Paloma, Tucson, Arizona 
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/hotmobile2007/ 

WiOpt 2007 
The 5th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and 
Wireless Networks 
16-20 April, 2007 
Limassol, Cyprus 
http://www.wiopt.org/

WTS 2007 
The 6th Annual Wireless Telecommunications Symposium 
26-28 April, 2007
Pomona, CA 
http://www.csupomona.edu/~wtsi/

MobiSys 2007 
The 5th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services 
11-14 June, 2007 
Puerto Rico 
http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2007/ 

Mobiquitous 2007 
The 4th Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: 
Computing, Networking and Services
6-10 August, 2007 
Philadelphia, PA 
http://www.mobiquitous.org/

QShine 2007 
The Fourth International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for
Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness 
14-17 August, 2007 
Vancouver, Canada
http://www.qshine.org/ 

MobiCom 2007 
The Thirteenth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and 
Networking 
9-14 September, 2007 
Montreal, Canada 
http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2007/

  Co-located with 
  
MobiHoc 2007 
The Eighth ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking 
and Computing 
9-14 September, 2007 
Montreal, Canada 
http://www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2007/ 

RoboComm 2007 
The First International Conference on Robot Communication and Coordination 
10-12 September, 2007 
Athens, Greece 
http://www.robocomm.org/ 

MobileHCI 2007 
The 9th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with 
Mobile Devices and Services 
11-14 September, 2007 
Singapore 
http://www.mobilehci2007.org/ 

  Co-located with 
  
Mobility 2007 
The International Conference on Mobile Technology, Applications and Systems 
12-14 September, 2007
Singapore 
http://www.mobilityconference.org/

MobileHCI 2008 
The 10th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with
Mobile Devices and Services 
11-14 September, 2008 
Amsterdam, Netherlands 
http://www.mobilehci2008.org/


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Latest Developer Headlines:

Opera Mini For The Mobile Set (InternetNews) 
http://www.internetnews.com/wireless/article.php/3645916

Capture Signatures Remotely from Your Pocket PC (DevX) 
http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/33389

Optimize Your Resource Management with Brew and XML (DevX) 
http://www.devx.com/wireless/Article/33417

Mastering Symbian OS Descriptors (Developer.com) 
http://www.developer.com/ws/other/article.php/3646881