Scott Janousek posted about an event he’s taking part in this Friday (Oct. 10th) in Boston - Programming advanced Nokia Features with Flash Lite.

The speakers include:

• Ganesh Sivaraman, Internet and Web 2.0 Business Development Manager, Forum Nokia
• Robert Burdick, Senior Architect for Emerging Technologies, Forum Nokia
• James Talbot, Adobe
• Alessandro Pace, Forum Nokia Champion
• Scott Janousek, Forum Nokia Champion
• Rob Toole, Fidelity
• Ira Hochman, Untravel Media

Scott is going to talk on “Programming Advanced Nokia Features with Flash Lite” which sounds pretty interesting. Also, in the event page it’s said Attendees will also be eligible to win Nokia N95 - 8GB smart phones. And there is free food.

You can check out the agenda and then head to register.

NAVTEQ holds it’s yearly LBS Challenge contest this year again, which is your opportunity to win fame and (some) fortune if you’ve developed / working on an LBS app or service. It can be a business app, navigation tool or fall under the ’social networking’ category which is where all the games are..

If you’re from the EMEA region you might want to be quick, though, as submissions deadline is October 24th (in 17 days). The Americans got until November 28 to submit and the guys from the APAC region… well, you guys can only begin to register on October 31.

The prize pool is noted for being US$5.25 Million, which is a LOT. Also worth noting each region has it’s own grand prize winner and runner ups, something that could probably help bring more developers to the spotlight.

The grand prize for EMEA Region is €35,000 cash + a three-year NAVTEQ territory license, grand prize in the Americas is $50,000 cash + a three-year NAVTEQ territory license. All winners and runner-ups will also get a free licensing of deCarta’s Drill Down Server geospatial software platform or Hosted Web Services with its servers. Read more »

Handcase, a company from Brazil, announced it’s going to launch an Ad-funded games platform aiming at Palms. We heard of Ad-funded networks before, but targeting Palms is not that common.

Palm, as many of us developers see it, is almost a dead horse. Technically, it’s quite a good OS. It’s one of the fastest, especially compared with the too-heavy Symbian and the ‘Did someone pressed a key a while ago?’ windows mobile. iPhone is fast too, which is one of it’s best qualities. Read more »

Independent research can sometimes give very interesting results. On one such research, ‘Tommo_UK’, a member of the Mac Obsorver’s Apple Finance Board forum, and ‘howlongtoretire’ from Investor Village’s AAPL Sanity board, collected serial and IMEI numbers from iPhone owners, in an attempt to know how many iPhone devices had been manufactured by Apple.

As the project progressed and more details were collected in the Google Docs spreadsheet, around 170 devices’ details were collected, and by analyzing the IEMI number, they have reached the conclusion that atleast 9.1 Million devices had been produced. Read more »

I wish to welcome the 28 people who had been approved on MobileGD Linked-in group today. We have now reached 201 members on that group, all industry people you should be interested to know.

So.. (big breath) Frank, Szymon, Edwin, Fernando, Lukasz, Marcelo, Jonathan, Michal, Sameer, Sebastian, Uday, Bogdan, Man, Mariusz, Cristian, Wesley, Shirl, Alain, Ben, Elliot, Satyarth, Adesh, Varsha, Steven, Vlad, Jack, Thomas and Abdul (fuuwww…) - Welcome!

If you are Linked-In but didn’t join our group yet - apply now.