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        ACM SIGMOBILE E-Mail Newsletter
                 for Jan/2007
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Latest News and Articles:

Who Has the Best Muni Wi-Fi Network? (ComputerWorld) 
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do

Apple Packs all Kinds of High-Tech Goodies into iPhone (USA Today) 
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2007-01-09-iphone-goodies_x.htm

Wi-Fi and Bluetooth: A Marriage of Temporary Convenience? (ComputerWorld) 
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do

Monitoring your Assets (ComputerWorld) 
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do

Report: China's 4G Wireless Launch Leapfrogs 3G (CNet) 
http://news.com.com/Report+Chinas+4G+wireless+launch+leapfrogs+3G/

Visa, Nokia Turn Cell Phones into Credit Cards (CNet) 
http://news.com.com/Visa%2C+Nokia+turn+cell+phones+into+credit+cards/

Nearly 1 Billion Mobile Devices Shipped in 2006, But Handsets Fail to Wow 
End-users, says ABI Research (BusinessWire) 
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp

Cellular Carriers Need to Develop WiMAX Strategy Now (WirelessDesignAsia) 
http://www.wirelessdesignasia.com/article.asp?id=4237

India Blows by China in Mobile Phone Market Growth (BusinessWeek) 
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/asiatech/archives/2007/01/

Seagate Adds Gigabytes of Wireless Storage to Mobile Devices (HardwareZone) 
http://www.hardwarezone.com/news/view.php?id=6499&cid=10 

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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. 

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/

MASS 2007
The Fourth IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems
8-11 October, 2007
Pisa, Italy 
http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/mass2007/

WICON 2007
The Third Annual International Wireless Internet Conference
22-24 October, 2007
Austin, Texas, USA 
http://www.wicon.org/index.shtml

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:

IBM's Infinity Middleware Looks to Bridge Ad Hoc Networks (ComputerWorld) 
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do

Linux Mobile Foundation Created To Promote Open Source Software For Mobile 
Devices (InformationWeek) 
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197000837

Tweak Brew's Component Interfaces to Tackle Any Task (DevX) 
http://www.devx.com/wireless/Article/33465

Yahoo Makes Its Mobile Bet (InternetNews)
http://www.internetnews.com/wireless/article.php/3652791