Blond Mobile

 

Our next event is taking place on the first Monday of July - July 7th. there are 2 exciting things about this event - well actually 3: the first is that its in Tel Aviv (yes! we are called MoMo TLV but the first event was in Herzeliya) the second is that the theme is VoIP, which is a theme close to me - after all I work at JAJAH, and the third- well that’s a secret - you will have to come and see, its a very nice surprise…

Joining us for this event are Fring and JAJAH that represent Mobile VoIP companies, Orange that represents the Mobile Operators and Blue run the represent the Venture capital side. It should be interesting…

In addition to the above goodies, Yossi Cohen from DSP-IP will give an intro lecture about trends in Mobile VoIP and Modules. We will be serving drinks snacks, appetizers and more drinks to make things happy and fun.

I will be moderating the panel - very exciting!

Wish me luck!

More info about the event can be found on the Facebook event (we love the Facebook event application!)  the event is free, and there is free parking but you need to register on Facebook. if you do not have a Facebook account email me to jasmine_aha[at]hotmail[dot]com

See you there!!   .

 

The F5 - Refreshing women venture’s First meeting was on Thursday. it was organized by Liat Vardi and sponsored by Sun.

I arrived late, due to a major traffic jam  (2 hours from Raanna to Tel Aviv), but just in time to hear Miriam’s Schwab’s lecture on - "Using Blogs and SEO to Promote your Business". the lecture was general. The interesting part was samples of different blogs on the net and what to do to improve them.

 

After the lecture dessert was served and us girls had a chance to chat some more. other than business, technology and sharing goals we could say things like " bad hair day" and understand each other perfectly! The atmosphere was nice and relaxing.  I got to meet some very interesting women,  and learned allot. I’m waiting for the next events….

 

Today I had a very fun phone call, with James Body from Truphone. We had a JAJAH - Truphone call.

 

James used the JAJAH Buttons feature, just by clicking a link from my email. he asked to get the call to his Truphone number, and I received the call on my mobile device. By using the JAJAH Button feature, although he was the one to initiate the call, he did not need to pay for the call, and on my side it was a very cheap call. Since the call was not only a VOIP call but more of a PSTN- VOIP call, the call was very cheap and not a free call.

The sound quality  was excellent! there were no delays nor echoes during the entire call (which was somewhat long…). When James told me he is using his Truphone number, i.e. the Internet, I was very much surprised!

We did good!, hopefully in the upcoming years most communication will be VOIP which will eventually save us the cost of roaming (mostly for incoming calls).

Nowadays, the hitech industry is having more and more women, especially in Israel. I guess it’s something to do with the Multitasking and passionate features that women have.

Usually, when going to some technology event, most of the attendees are men. Of course, in some cases there are allot of blond girls which are called Nokia or Samsung girls, but I’m not referring to them.

My first women event was held in a beautiful hotel in Barcelona, drinking Cava and very women-like.  it was organized by the group, or should I say   Helen Keegen and Gillian Kennedy, which are also organizing , on the first of July, in London. Unfortunately I cannot attend that one- after all it’s in London. Happily enough, we have Liat Vardi who is organizing a , for hitech & web entrepreneur women. The group is called F5- Refreshing Women Ventures, and its goal is to inspire women, help get professional advice and support, as well as networking, so events will include lectures and will take place at the end of every month. I think this is a huge step for women in the Hitech industry in Israel - Thank you Liat, I’m so excited!

The first meeting will take place on June 26^th, in Tel Aviv.

Facebook Event link:

Meeting’s Schedule:

19:30-20:00 Mingling+ dinner

20:00-20:30 Networking

20:30-21:15 Ms. Miriam Schwab-" Using Blogs and SEO to Promote your Business"

21:15-21:30 Q+ A

There are only 5 places left! If you want to come please email Liat Vardi at LiatVardi [at] gmail[dot] com  as soon as possible with the following details:

Full name
Occupation – where do you work/what is your venture about?
Your blog/website
Cell no.
Mail address
City

I’m there!!

* I would personally like to thank Edward Resnick from Sun, that helped make this happen and also helped MoMo TLV

For some time, I wanted to create some application for . I usually dont like must of the applications, but I encountered a really cool gift application called .

In order to reveal new gifts, you need to send friends gifts, and since I was very intrigued to see the available gifts… I find myself using that application allot…

In the top of the application I noticed an option to create your own gift. clicking on the link, I got a wizard application called . This is a wizard for creating an application without needing to have the knowledge of a developer, or in my case PHP. (although I know many things, I didn’t get the chance of working with PHP…yet…)

So to make things short, what you need to do is this:

1- Install the make gift application

2- Follow the instructions

3- That’s it!

The instructions are very simple and well explained. I whish all program installations would be clear as the instructions in this wizard (including the .Net Web Services Wizard…).

In the process of creating your gift application you first uploads the images - a.k.a the gifts, then you install the and you are left with 3 simple and clear stages, that the guides you through:.

1- Create a new application in Facebook

2- Update the Gift maker application with the Facebook Keys

3- Update the resulting application URL in the Facebook application

Have Fun!, and no, Im not telling what is my  gift application

When I was in the MWC (a.k.a 3GSM) in Barcelona, I encountered an interesting company by the same of ZYB (and also interesting name…:P )

They introduced a mobile application, that is an addition to your address book/contacts and allows you to have extra features  that are related to your contacts and mobile devices do not support. the nice thing about the application is that you can access the features just by a click, and as you where browsing your regular contact list.  they had features such as sending an instant message and getting your friend’s location. They also do contact synchronization.  out of allot of companies that I saw in the WMC,  Zyb really stood out.

When getting back to the office, I checked out Zyb. It seemed that the features they demonstrated in 3GSM where not published, so I used their contact synchronization service, and I was very much satisfied. their technology uses Sync ML and is very simple and user friendly.

You go to the Zyb site, set up your phone, get a SMS with the SyncML settings and start syncing away!

For me, their service is very good. I change mobile devices frequently, in order to test new devices, and also when going abroad. I also have 2 mobile devices, one in the car and one for every day usage. although I have a SIM card and most contacts are stored in the SIM, there are cases when not all contacts are saved on the SIM (if someone sends you a contact by SMS…).Its also very good to backup. You can also edit your contact easily on the web, with a regular keyboard, lazy  lazy me

The nice thing abut ZYB is that you can setup a device once and then sync it, so if you setup several devices, all settings are saved and you can chose what device to sync. - very comfortable

There is also an  option to re-set your device settings and resent a SMS with the SyncML settings. This was useful after breaking my SE Z610i. I got a new one and I wanted to sync my contacts, I just chose to sync that device, and set it up. a SMS was sent to my new device and I was ready to go! for some reason all my contacts where duplicated, but they had a solution for it!

Cool feature - Merge duplicated contacts: funny enough, after getting duplicated contacts I found a solution , there was a "merge duplications" option. Using this option you get all the duplicated phone numbers, or any contacts that may be duplicated (also by contact name). You can choose to merge them, on the web site with a comfortable screen and keyboard. after doing that, I synced my device again and every thing was good.

Cool feature - Internet calls: you can also make an Internet/Voip call directly from the web site, to any of your contacts using Skype, by a link. what about calling via JAJAH? well lets wait and see…also for now, the JAJAH Firefox Extension does not mark the contact number, allowing you to make a quick JAJAH Call

Needless to say that they have a privacy policy and your data is safe. you can also create a social network in the site, but I didn’t check that out (yet…). I would like to have an option to sync my Facebook events with my mobile, using SyncML…

To summarize: I recommend this service very much, very simple and user friendly. I have been using if for more than 6 month and I’m very satisfied,  and its free

*Link to pictures is in the end of the post

Friday, May 30th, I went to the And One Concert, an old Synthpop/EBM band from Germany.

The concert was in Barby Tel Aviv. I was very much surprised to find the place full!. knowing that the gothic scene in Israel is growing, I still didn’t expect the place to be packed.

    

Although the whole organization was terrible, the great 2 hours(!!!) concert was the best one I saw this year.

On the Barby site, the opening time was 22:00. Knowing the Barby, I knew that the opening band will not start before 23:00. We arrived at that time, at the entrance we were told that no cameras are allowed and that we must leave the cameras in the car. As the Barby being in the south side of town, I didn’t  want to have the chance of getting my camera stolen from the car. After some phone calls and arguments, I entered the Barby (Happy Happy me). The opening band - - went on stage only at 23:30- a bit late. Being happy that And One are in Israel, The keyboard Player being hot and the singer even more, we didn’t care too much.

They gave a fun show, and now we were prepared for And One…  unfortunately And One only went on stage at 1:00 am!, we waited around an hour after the opening band, and 3 hours from what was published!!

And One got on stage, full of energy. Other than having good songs they sure know how to perform! Steve Naghavi,  (the singer) is also a great dancer and really knows how to make contact with the audience, especially in Hebrew.  It seemed that he knows allot of words such as "bira", "Shalom" and some uncommon words such as "Shilshol"…

Other than doing allot of old songs, they did covers of Alphaville, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, Eurythmics and some more… making it more fun for people that don’t know allot of their songs. They gave a concert of 2 hours, which was very energetic and most of it I, and the rest of the audience where dancing and going wild…

I would like to thank for making this evening happen. after I was lucky to see And One, In Strict Confidence and Hocico  in Israel, I hope to see Blutengel

for more pictures click .

Yesterday, Monday 12th of May, was our first event. it was held in a bar in Hertzelya Pituach.

The event was a big success. Much more people than we expected arrived. It was mostly a networking event, with an open bar and food such as sushi,  cheese and other good things. Orange, our annual sponsor also handed out gifts. Sorry for those who came late, and missed out…

As all the events (to come) of Mobile Monday Tel Aviv, the event had lectures. This time, since it was our opening event and we wanted to make it interesting to all participants, we had 2 general lectures; Ofir Yaffe, From Orange which talked about mobile product development and Yoav Lorch from Zlango, who talked about courtship, mating and reproduction with mobile operators. I hope these two lectures interested everyone, and if not, there was enough alcohol to make things happier :).

I was happy to meet allot of new people and even more happy to see old friends. It was very nice to see Michael Poppler from Gips come to our event, while he is here in Israel.

Oren Todoros from Modu came with his small toy, which was a hit. I guess in our industry, The smaller, the better.

 

 

 

 

Our next events will have a theme and will target different aspects of the mobile industry. If you would like to lecture or interested in a specific theme, let us know! you can or tell us on our .

Hope you had fun like I did!

See you in the next MobileMonday Tel Aviv Event!

In a previous post, I wrote about how to run a method when the device wakes up, or comes back from sleep mode. In that post I wrote about calling the CeRunAppAtEvent native function, which signals a given  event (hEvent) when the device wakes up.  I used the WaitForSingleObject(hEvent, INFINITE) function to wait until the hEvent is signaled.

The problem occurs when wanting to close the application, and a thread, which called the WaitForSingleObject()  is still waiting for the event. In that post, I wrote that in case wanting to close the application the below function should be called in order to terminate the waiting thread. 

public static void Close()
{
    _close = true;
    if(_wakeupServiceThread != null)
       _wakeupServiceThread.Abort();
}

Unfortunately, The wakeupServiceThread could not be aborted, since it was waiting due to the call to WaitForSingleObject function.

The solution was to stop waiting on the WaitForSingleObject function,  and for that the _nativeWakupEvent event needed to be signaled.

Here is the code:

[DllImport("coredll.dll", SetLastError = true)]
        public static extern bool EventModify(IntPtr hEvent,
            [In, MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.U4)] int dEvent);

private const int NATIVE_EVENT_SET = 3;

public static void Close()
{
     _close = true;
     if (_hEvent != IntPtr.Zero)
             SetEvent(_hEvent);
}

private static bool SetEvent(IntPtr hEvent)
{
     return EventModify(hEvent, NATIVE_EVENT_SET);
}

Last Wednesday I attended the HandyTech 2008 event. it was in Dizingof Center. the event was held by Handy and Pocket PC Freak. The event included various stands by companies such as Motorola, Nokia, Samsung and others and some key speakers, including Arne Hess, founder of The Unwired.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The exhibitors stands were nothing special, the most interesting attraction was  the blond girls of Sumsung and SanDisk. To make things clear,  Im a girl, and a girl that is interested in technology, unfortunately there was nothing to interesting at the stands, for me at least.

The lectures were more interesting, Arne Hess And Helio Diamant (from Pocket PC Freak)  tried to demonstrate some cool things, but had some problems doing so, due to connectivity issues (the world of mobile is cool, but not 100% working… yet)

Arne Hess talked mainly about seeing multimedia files from home on your mobile device, using Place shift and SlingBox, something which I didn’t really relate to. Helio Diamant, talked about calling a specific phone number, receiving it as a VOIP call, using any SIM card, with any number and being able to exchange your SIM card, and still receive the call when calling the original phone number. (Changing SIM cards is done for  saving on roaming coasts). After talking to him at the end of the event he explained (since during the lecture I didn’t fully understand) that he was using both Gizmo and Fring to make this happen, probably something that only a gadget freak like him could do with just a bit of trouble. Gal Biran, From Microsoft, gave an interesting lecture on different new application to come out, and about cool things that Microsoft is doing for Windows Mobile. at some point during the lecture a blond stewardess offered snacks, Johnny Walker black label, and other nice alcoholic beverages.

At the end of the lectures, a wide variety of prizes where handed out to some of the lucky winners that came. I was surprised of the quality and amount of prizes, such as Navigation devices, mp4 players etc. Sadly I never win

Awaiting for next year….