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        ACM SIGMOBILE E-Mail Newsletter
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SIG Announcements:

- The 5th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
  (SenSys 07) to be held 6-9 November, 2007, Sydney, Australia:
  http://sensys.acm.org/2007/Home.html


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Latest News and Articles:

Video Search Makes Phone a 'second pair of eyes' (New Scientist)
http://technology.newscientist.com/article/

Nokia Unveils Vision For Mobile Technologies Of The Future (InformationWeek)
http://www.informationweek.com/mobility/showArticle.jhtml

BYU Computer Scientist 'spills' Handheld Screen on Table (BYU)
http://byunews.byu.edu/archive07-OCT-Spilling.aspx

TinyOS Creator David Culler Wins SIGMOBILE 'Outstanding Contributions'
Award (Business Wire)
http://www.live-pr.com/en/

Wi-Fi Cameras Crack Down on Rogue Parking in U.K. (CNet)
http://www.news.com/Wi-Fi-cameras-crack-down-on-rogue-parking-in-U.K./

Merging the Real and the Virtual in Canterbury (Stuff.co.nz)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4238611a28.html

'Transparent' Gadget Could Trump iPhone Interface (New Scientist)
http://technology.newscientist.com/article/

Smartphones for the Enterprise a Work in Progress (InternetNews)
http://www.internetnews.com/wireless/article.php/3706756

Mobile Entertainment Ready for Its Close-Up? (InternetNews)
http://www.internetnews.com/wireless/article.php/3706646

Companies Test Fingerprint Recognition For Mobile Payments (InformationWeek)
http://www.informationweek.com/mobility/showArticle.jhtml


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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.


SenSys 2007
The 5th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
6-9 November, 2007
Sydney, Australia
http://sensys.acm.org/2007/Home.html

MUM 07
Sixth International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia
12-14 December, 2007
Oulu, Finland
http://www.mum2007.oulu.fi/

HotMobile 2008
The Ninth Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications
25-26 February, 2008
Napa Valley, California, USA
http://prisms.cs.umass.edu/hotmobile2008/

MobiHoc 2008
The Ninth International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and
Applications
26-28 May, 2008
Hong Kong SAR, China
http://www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2008/

MobiSys 2008
The Sixth International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications
and Services
10-13 June, 2008
Breckenridge, Colorado, USA
http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2008/

MobileHCI 2008
The 10th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with
Mobile Devices and Services
2-5 September, 2008
Amsterdam, Netherlands
http://www.mobilehci2008.org/

UbiComp 2008
The Tenth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
21-24 September, 2008
COEX, Seoul, South Korea
http://www.ubicomp.org/ubicomp2008/


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Latest Developer Headlines:

Apple Launches iPhone Resource Center For Developers (InformationWeek)
http://www.informationweek.com/mobility/showArticle.jhtml

Common AJAX Platform Seen for Devices, Desktops (InfoWorld)
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/10/01/

Sun: Plenty of Life Left in Java ME (InternetNews)
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3706886

Firefox Set to Join Mobile Browser Fray (InternetNews)
http://www.internetnews.com/wireless/article.php/3704661

Back to Basics: How to Manage Collections in Your Legacy Brew Applications
(DevX)
http://www.devx.com/wireless/Article/35605