President-to-be Senator Barack Obama on the tarmac near his campaign plane in Reno, Nevada, September 29, 2008. From a collection of some of the best photos of President-Elect Barack Obama over the past several months. [Boston.com via boingboing] Image credit: EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images. s the phone a Motorola V750? The gadget blogs would know not better.

BOSTON, USA - The other day when Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo was addressing the Chief Executives Club of Boston one of his topics was the technology being developed and implemented for developing markets. Although it could hardly be called a rant, one of his key points was how "the impact that the mobile phone is having on the quality of life in poorer parts of the world is often overlooke...

Our next event will focus on early stage mobile companies.  We’ll have 10 companies giving 5-minute presentations on their new concept in mobile. Date:  November 17th at 7pm Location:  Downtown Boston or Kendall Square Cost:  Free Check back later this week.  Registration will open soon.

Correction on today eSeminar time, it’s a 10AM EST, so in about one hour ! The Boston Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group is holding an eSeminar on October 30th, 2008 at 10AM EST (check your local time). Ugur Kaner, CEO of Kuneri, will introduce their new online service SWFPack. Alessandro

Martin Cooper, cellphone pioneer, speaking at the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston runs down list of complaints including closed carrier networks and makes the case for femtocells and "smart antennas."

Tomorrow the Boston Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group is holding an eSeminar on October 30th, 2008 at 10PM EST (check your local time). Ugur Kaner, CEO of Kuneri, will introduce their new online service SWFPack. Please join the Boston Adobe Mobile and Device User Group to participate to the eSeminar and be part of

At least week's Mobile Internet World conference is Boston, Intel's Anand Chandrasekhar commented, in his keynote, that he didn't believe that the rapidly-emerging category of mobile PCs known as MIDs, netbooks, nettops, and whatever will replace the notebook PC.

The Boston Adobe Mobile and Device User Group is holding an eSeminar on November 24th, 2008 at 1pm EST (check your time), Scott will present Adobe Device Central CS4. In addition to some basics with working with Mobile and Device content in Device Central, Scott will cover the new features it offers, including: Online/Local Device Profiles

The Boston Adobe Mobile and Device User Group is holding an eSeminar on November 24th, 2008 at 1pm EST (check your time), Scott Janousek, CEO/Technical Director of Hooken Mobile, as he introduces some of the features new to Adobe Device Central CS4 and how to leverage the new Device Central SDK. In addition to some basics

BOSTON — The American waistline isn’t the only thing expanding. The latest crop of high-end wireless devices have been testing consumers’ size-and-shape boundaries, and it seems today’s shoppers are prepare to go big or go home.