Mobile Monday event was held on 7th May, 2012 at CIIT Islamabad campus as per schedule. Around 120 participants including students and faculty from NUST, APCOMS and CIIT Islamabad attended the event. The main objective of this month’s event was an introduction of wi-tribe bazaar among the students community.

Muhammad Yousuf Khan described the background and history of Mobile Monday and briefly gave a presentation about the activities done so far under this platform.  Mr Atif abdul Majeed from R&D Lab described the research and development activities of his lab and also gave a snapshot of some of their projects like COMSCAN(Super fast OMR), Electronic Voting Machine, Data Logger and Remotely monitored & controlled LED lights. He emphasized that there is a lot of potential in the students to develop distinctive projects in the related fields of ICT.

Mr. Zohare Haider from wi-tribe described the background and current state of wi-tribe company and presented the idea of Wi-tribe bazaar (Pakistan’s 1st ‘Buy’ & ‘Sell’ online software bazaar). He said that the intention of wi-tribe bazaar is to support, encourage and proliferate the local IT industry and software developers in particular. Later on, Mr. Ali Fahad and Mr. Luqman Arshad from wi-tribe also joined the discussion and explained that wi-tribe bazaar is a non exclusive platform for software developers where they can share their projects and can sell them to the interested customers. wi-tribe Bazaar is powered by wi-tribe scratch cards, allowing the purchase of software through scratch cards available at over 600 locations throughout Karachi, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore and Faisalabad. wi-tribe bazaar is also organizing Pakistan developers’ challenge which is a software development competition. They concluded the discussion by thanking Mobile Monday for inviting them and appreciated the efforts made by this platform for organizing activities related to telecommunications and particularly mobile devices.

The session was concluded by a vote of thanks from Mr. Shahid Ansari, head of Technology Incubation Center. He expressed his gratitude for wi-tribe’s participation in this month’s event. wi-tribe team then visited Modeling & Simulation and Antenna Design labs and appreciated the advanced level facilities provided by COMSATS to its students.

The Mobile Monday (MoMo) event has been scheduled on 7th May’ 2012 at Seminar Hall, Academic block I, CIIT Islamabad Campus.  The program will start at 3 PM.

Senior Managers from wi-tribe will be presenting their newly launched “wi-tribe Bazaar” which is Pakistan’s first online ‘Buy and Sell’ software bazaar. They will discuss the concept of wi-tribe Bazaar with CIIT students and need participation in terms of project ideas. Students from FAST university are also invited to attend the event and involve in Mobile Monday activities in future.

You are requested to join this event to catch up with fellow Mobile Monday followers in a relaxed atmosphere.

Mobile Monday event was held on 2nd April, 2012 at CIIT Islamabad campus as per schedule. Around 50 Students and Faculty members from Electrical Engineering and Mathematics department attended the event. Mr. Syed Yasir Imtiaz from CAST department shared his ideas about the importance of 3G technology and its need in Pakistan’s telecom market. He emphasised that after the 3G licensing, there will be more business opportunities in the Telecom sector. Mr. Muhammad Hassan Khan from Computer Science department gave a presentation about Mobile application development and also discussed about the achievements and activities of Comsats Mobile Application Development (CMad) lab created in Computer Science department.

The program concluded with some closing remarks from Mr. Wille Eerola. He appreciated the role of COMSATS for promoting Mobile Monday in Pakistan on such regular basis since its launch back in 2010. He also urged the students to play their part in the growth of Mobile phone industry in Pakistan by participating in the Mobile Monday event as it is a good platform for generating new ideas for the development of mobile applications.

The participants highly appreciated the presentations and participated actively in the interactive sessions. The event ended with the vote of thanks to the participants and they were served with refreshments later on.

Mobile Monday event was held on 5th March, 2012 at CIIT Islamabad campus as per schedule. Around 50 Students and Faculty members from Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics department attended this event. Mr. Syed Muhammad Raza from Computer Science and Mr. Mohsin Raza Danish from Mathematics department presented their ideas about Mobile gaming and its future with respect to the iPhone and Android development environments. They described the growing trend of Mobile Application market and urged the students to play their part in this field. CAST department has already started the training sessions on Android and iPhone application development with the collaboration of Syntacx and other mobile industry professionals.

The participants highly appreciated the presentations and participated actively in the interactive sessions. The event ended with the vote of thanks to the participants.

The Mobile Monday (MoMo) event has been scheduled on Monday 5th March, 2012 at Seminar Hall, Academic block I, CIIT Islamabad Campus. The program will start at 3 PM. The theme for this MoMo meeting is “Mobile Gaming”. Faculty/Students from Academia and Experts from Industry are invited to attend this event.

MoMo event was held on 20th February, 2012 at CIIT Wah campus as per schedule. Around 100 Students and Faculty members from Electrical Engineering and Computer Science departments attended this event. Members of MoMo team as well as undergraduate students of CIIT Wah campus presented their ideas and research projects at the event. The participants highly appreciated the presentations and participated actively in discussions. The senior faculty and the industry representatives regarded the projects as highly promising for society and gave their valuable feedback for further improvements.

The program concluded with an interactive session lead by Dr. Mahmood Ashraf that emphasised on brainstorming research ideas among young students for their Final Year Projects. The participants of the event appreciated the initiative of MoMo platform for linkage between academia and industry. Dr. Mahmood Ashraf also proposed to establish a Mobile Application group at CIIT Wah Campus on the same footing as in Islamabad Campus.

The event ended with the vote of thanks to the administration of CIIT Wah for providing facility to hold MoMo Event. Director of Wah campus Dr. Tayyeb Akram appreciated the efforts of the MoMo team and stressed his faculty for future coordination in this regard.

Mobile Monday (MoMo) event was held on Monday 23rd January, 2012 in the Faculty Cafeteria, CIIT, Park Road, Islamabad. More than 80 participants (Faculty and students) participated in the event.

The main theme of this event was the launch of Mobile Applications Group. Mr. Ahsan Malik gave a presentation about the importance of Mobile application development in the current era and emphasis on the Creation, Management, Distribution as well as the extension of mobile applications. A computer lab at CAST department is dedicated for this group.

Later on Mr. Muhammad Ahmed who belongs to pioneer batch of Comsats and director of Syntacx Company based in Islamabad highlighted the important areas in mobile application industry. He agreed on providing full support to the Faculty as well as the students by arranging different training sessions as well as providing all the development tools necessary for mobile application development.

Dr. Mahmood Ashraf (Director CAST) concluded the session by saying that Mobile Monday is a platform to generate ideas therefore all the students as well as the faculty should give their ideas about mobile applications so that we could be able to build applications according to the need of the common people.

The Mobile Monday (MoMo) event has been scheduled on Monday 23rd January, 2012 at Faculty cafeteria, CIIT Islamabad Campus. The program will start at 3 PM. Faculty/Students from Academia and Experts from Industry are invited to attend this event.

The Mobile Monday event of December has postponed due to the FIT conference and ongoing terminal Exams. Next tentative Schedule of MoMo event is 20th February 2012 at Comsats, Wah Campus.

Mobile Monday (MoMo) Event held yesterday (21^st Nov) in faculty cafeteria. More than 100 participants from academia and Industry were present in the event.

Dr. Mahmood Ashraf highlighted the achievements through MoMo events at the start of the event. Later, an opening talk was given by Mr. Willie Eerola on Mobile Advertising. He stressed the importance and new business opportunities in this sector. Another presentation on topic “Mobile Advertising (Potential and Opportunities)” was given by Syed Abdul Mannan Kirmani. The final presentation on Mobile Phone Recycling was delivered by Mr. Khurram Shahzad. The re-cycling of old mobile phone Campaign was also inaugurated by Mr. Eerola.

The Closing Remarks were given by Dr. Shahid A. Khan Dean Faculty of Engineering and he thanked Mr. Willie Eerola for coming to Pakistan and guiding us in different areas.

The event was supported by some skates related to Mobile Advertising which amused the participants. Dr. Raheel Qamar Dean ORIC presented MoMo shield and Bouquet of flowers to Mr. Willie Eerola.