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The 2009 MEX Conference includes a Manifesto on input and display modalities

Manifesto statement
We believe...enhanced input methods and font handling are key foundation technologies for revenue growth in mobile services. Combining these elements will allow customers to create, manipulate and share rich data more easily. With data-driven services now accounting for 20% of global mobile revenues and rising, investment in input and display modalities must increase to a similar percentage of R&D
budgets.

Nuance Mobile Developer Program Adds 12 Members, Accelerates Development of Mobile Ecosystem

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Partner Program Signs 12 Participants within First Month; Expands and Advances Global Market Potential for Mobile Innovations

April 02, 2009 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

BURLINGTON, Mass.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Nuance Communications, Inc. today announced that it has added 12 companies to its Mobile Developer Program in its first 30 days. The Nuance Mobile Developer Program, announced in February, was created for leading-edge integration, platform and OEM partners that develop applications and solutions for mobile and consumer electronic devices.

From Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry

Sixth Sense (project page at MIT)

SixthSense is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information. By using a camera and a tiny projector mounted in a pendant like wearable device, SixthSense sees what you see and visually augments any surfaces or objects we are interacting with. It projects information onto surfaces, walls, and physical objects around us, and lets us interact with the projected information through natural hand gestures, arm movements, or our interaction with the object itself. SixthSense attempts to free information from its confines by seamlessly integrating it with reality, and thus making the entire world your computer.

Fjord has released its 2009 predictions for Mobile. Compiled by Christian Lindholm and team.

Their first prediction is that application stores will become the digital innovation bazaars. The second prediction involves the 'Cloud': a place where you safely access and share your digital life. Location, photos, calendar, address book, video and audio all become accessible via the 'Cloud'. For countries where digital assets are primarily accessed via phones, the Cloud is going to be the place where services and data reside. The third prediction is about the connected netbook for kids. The fourth prediction is that TV will finally go mobile. Micro blogging will become the focal point of social media where the status box becomes the new search box. They also see Android becoming a major invader of the mobile market and Nokia has declared war with their Ovi  solution. Samsung and LG will have to follow with similar solutions which bring the application store and Ovi like functionalities to their customers. Because of the move towards micro blogging, twitter, QWERTY keyboards are becoming more and more popular. Location is becoming a focal point for convergence between the mobile and fixed devices with massive investments from Nokia.

From Armstrong and Miller