Hello! And Welcome To the 41nd Carnival of the Mobilists brought to you by MOpocket and Khosla Ventures who awards $250 to the author of the best post each month. This weeks Carnival also has a special dedication in honor of my parents Stuart and Paula Oberman (pictured above) who celebrated their 32nd Anniversary last Friday August 18th. My mother is looking for a new cell phone and is open to suggestions :-). I love you Mom and Dad, thanks for everything and I hope we celebrate another 32 anniversaries and more!

There are a lot of great contributions to this weeks carnival but before we get to them their is some Carnival and Mobilist business that we have to take care of. REMEMBER, IF YOU FIND YOUR BLOG MENTIONED HERE IT IS ONLY COMMON COURTESY TO LINK BACK. If you don’t my parents may be very disappointed in you ;-).

MY JEWISH MOTHER SAYS VOTE NOW!

My mother told me to remind you that If you have not already done so please go over to the Carnival website and vote for July’s best post. This is an essential part of the now well sponsored Carnival by Khosla Ventures and such great stuff should not go to waste, my mother says. Its always good to listen to your Jewish mother If you vote maybe she will cook you her famous brownies… yummmmm.

DAD SAYS LETS PARTY IN LA.

Always the party social networking man (he is the CEO of a major insurance brokerage firm) my father feels obliged to tell you about the 2nd CTIA Gathering Of The Mobilists and urges those interested to RSVP and attend. “My son and other influential mobilists will be there,” he says, “it would be insane not to try and make it. The event will be held at Cicada Restaurant on Tuesday September 12, 2006 and invitations are limited. For more information visit the information source for the event at Rudy’s M-Trends.

And by the way, if anyone out their is looking for insurance and or an insurance broker you should contact me as me and my brother can take special care of you. We have some amazing policies for technology companies and firms, even web freelancers. The company is a very well known and highly respected insurance brokerage.

And now, as my parents dance to their wedding song… I present to you this weeks Carnival of the Mobilists:

We Begin With Carnival Newcomers Or At Least Blogs That Are New To Me

Sprint’s $3bn 4G Gamble

Kevin Evan’s in Kevin’s Mobile Industry Commentary, a blog I just discovered because of the Carnival, talks about Sprint’s move to WiMax and, to be frank, tells it like it really is. [Read]

Access’s Latest Press Releases

Tam Hanna has a Palm specific blog titled TamsPalm: The Palm OS Blog in which he deconstructs Access’ latest press release about the growing momentum of Access’ Linux OS Platform for Palm. [Read]

Now Lets Talk About Mobile Influences On Our Lives And The Way We Live Them

Can Mobile Devices Help You Get Things Done?

Mat Miller over at ZDNet in his Mobile Gadgeteer Blog has a great article about the everyday life and mobile devices which discusses the ways in which we organize our lives and get things done via our mobiles. [Read]

Mobile Phones, Social Coordination, Urban Environments

Howard Rheingold from Smartmobs has an interesting little ditty on “hyper-cordination” and the way mobile technology is influencing our societal ergonomic discourses (especially regarding the philosophy of waiting). [Read]

Connecting Cultures Through Music

From the Mobilist daddy himself, Rudy De Waele of M-Trends.org sends in an article he wrote for Vodafones Reciever Magazine in which Rudy talks beautifully and eloquently about the ways in which mobile technology makes music into a social networking phenomena the likes of which we have never seen. While Rudy’s article is meant to be about music specifically it has some real buried treasures deep inside its discourse that can be used to discuss the greater impacts that mobile technology will have on our smartmobby like existence. [Read]

Lets Get Technical For A Moment Here

I am Now Cingular 3Gified! Or Am I?

My own submission to the Carnival in which I talk about my run in with Cingular’s (an America’s) UMTS and HSDPA standards, its technical difference with its European counterpart and why that means I can;t really use it yet. [Read]

People Over Process And IT In Mobile Workforces

Rod McLaren’s blog over at Mobbu has a really interesting article that I was intimidated by at first but then found actually really enjoyable and interesting. So don’t get the “IT” jargon get to you ever wanted to know if a synchronous/asynchronous data model between mobile device and a server mean that users can get horribly out of sync, leading to catastrophic real-world failures to public service infrastructures that need it the most you need not worry says McLaren. [Read]

The Mobile Service Architecture Specification

C. Enrique Ortiz in his same-named titled Mobility Weblog points to an article he wrote in the Sun’s Mobility Development Center which, he says, introduces JSR 248 and next generation platform for Java ME devices. See how the pieces of the new platform fit together. I link to his blog, the rest is up to you. [Read]

Mobile Technology and Politics, A Favorite Topic Of Mine

Women Voter Registration Goes SMS Mobile

From the Personal Democracy technology and politics blogosphere we have a post about the ways in which a Women’s voter registration organization is using the ubiquitous nature of mobile technology and SMS to increase voter registration drives amongst women. [Read]

BBC Wap Use Flourishing In Africa

From the mobile technology and political activism blog MobileActive Ken Banks from Kiwanja.net writes about how Africa (and in particular Nigeria) is dominating international mobile phone access to the BBC website and how this is a great example of what the economics of broadband versus mobile phones means in developing countries. [Read]

Why Not Learn Something On You Mobile Every Once In A While

Mobile Learning Reading List

I blogged about this post from Stephanie Rieger’s blog Keitai: Mobility, Culture and User Experience earlier on MOpocket and I am glad to see in this weeks carnival. Simply put its a collection of projects and resources that Stephanie has collected regarding the theme of mobile learning and education. [Read]

Little Kids Need Converged Mobiles

Judy Breck, my literal NYC neighbor (she lives like one block from me) writes a reaction to a New York Times Article about kids going back to school with laptops and cell phones in her blog Golden Swamp. Her concern is with yet the not so easily converged uses of these technologies for children and discusses how the convergences between the two can be better improved. Judy, we still have to get coffee sometime, ping me. [Read]

Although, Lets Not Forget The Importance Of Mobile Marketing

Google Coupons - But Where’s the Mobile Element?

Russell Buckley over at MOBHappy sends in his thoughts on Google’s lack of mobile thinking vis-a-vis creating the ability for local business to coupons against their products and services via Google Maps allowing users to simply print them and then then redeem them as usual. Join the debate [Read]

Yelp Mobile

Dennis the WAP expert from WapReview applies his expertise to analyzing and critiquing Yelp’s Mobile site. For those of you that don’t know, Yelp.com is a site featuring user generated reviews of businesses, services and attractions mainly in major US cities. [Read]

What Can Your PC Do For Your Mobile

Nokia PC Suite Wishlist

Listen up Nokia! The Mobile Diva herself, Darla Mack in her newly decorated Darla Mack blog talks about the often underestimated power and beauty of Nokia PC Suite and talks about a few features she would like to see in future versions with the with the newer S60 devices and all the cool new features installed. I would just like to add that I wish they made one for Mac. [Read]

How to Share Your 3G Connection

Martin Sauter of Martin’s Mobile Technology Page (aka Mobile Society) takes a break from his summer holiday to talk about what I basically would tart to think about as Fon for mobile data. Simply put, Martin describes how to share your 3G connection using the Internet connection sharing functionality of Windows XP. Anyone try it on a Mac? [Read]

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Dear Mr Leonid Iakovlev. You submitted the link http://wblog.livejournal.com/15992.html#cutid1 which does not link to a post or an article. So I do not know what you want me to do but the Carnival rules are rules. So I will just mention that you sent this in in case an error was made.

THE POST OF THE WEEK

As part of Khosla Ventures‘ sponsorship to the Carnival they pay-out 250 dollars to the best post of the month the contestants of which are decided by the various sites hosting a Carnival during that month. It is therefore my responsibility to vote for a post or article that I believe merits this type of attention and award. It is therefore, on those grounds that I award Rudy De Waele’s Connecting Cultures Through Music article the honorary Stu and Paula Oberman post of the week award and therefore submit the article into the voting pool for Augusts mobile technology post of the month. Congratulations Rudy! As an extra bonus my mother has agreed to cook you a batch of her famous brownies, yummm.

In Conclusion…

Well, thats it for this Carnival. I hope you had as much fun reading it as I have had writing it. And if this was your first visit to MOpocket then welcome and I hope to see your referral links here again soon Stop and stay a while, read some old or new articles and enjoy.

Next weeks Carnival of the Mobilists will be hosted by MobileActive. Full a full list of upcoming Carnivals visit the Carnival websites schedule page.

For a full list of past Carnival of the Mobilists visit here.

Want to submit an article to the Carnival of the Mobilists or perhaps even host? Don’t delay, its really easy. Just visit the Carnival’s about page for more information and instruction.

To send my parents a happy anniversary message send an email to Stuart and Paula Oberman via Bluesites_at_aol.com

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