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C3 Mobile Content Festival with showings of the submitted materials and awards for the categories of Mobile Games, Films, and Applications. (Note: the Mobile Content Festival is a project of the Digital Convergence Initiative and is not affiliated in any way with SXSW Interactive.)

I think this officially signals the demise of everything Palm was. I’ve been watching them shoot themselves in the foot over the past few years. It’s been sad to see such a leader basically undo themselves, among many things: buying Handspring and killing it, spinning off the OS group, botching their whole brand recognition. And the Treo has been chugging along despite all that.

But, I think they are running on fumes and momentum (Andrew will flog me for that comment). What a pity, since they had a lock on the handlheld market, not only defining the experience, but understanding what it meant.

Maybe they’ll make a Sony Ericsson-type of recovery.

Link: 3GSM – Palm OS Is Dead, Long Live Linux Palm at MobHappy.

Access this morning announced its Access Linux Platform, or ALP, it’s next-generation mobile OS that will replace Palm OS. They’ve ditched Palm OS 6, saying it won’t ever be used, and sound like they’re even going to ditch the Palm OS name.

Link: Jan Chipchase – Future Perfect: Removing, Supplementing Core Features.

Raku Raku 3G phone for sale in Japan – targeted at elderly users. Includes a slider where the owner can write phone book entries instead of using the elecronic address book. Taking core features such as the address book outside the phone can benefit non-literate and elderly users.

Ka-ching! Another mobile marketing purchase by Neomedia.

Link: Musings of a mobile marketer: Mobile Marketing company Sponge acquired by NeoMedia.

NeoMedia Technologies, Inc. has acquired Sponge with an aggregate of �10m consideration, including �3.45 m in cash and the remainder in NeoMedia shares with a further �2.5m available under an earn-out based on targets being reached in the next two years.

Good overview of the fusion of mobile and Web services.

Link: Russell Beattie Notebook – Helping the Mobile Mashup Discussion.

MashupCamp is actually going to have a discussion about Mobility, which I’m extremely happy to see. Here’s the current description of the session from the Wiki:

Consider the content and services that are being supported by today’s mashup API providers… events, places, relationships, media, messaging, search, commerce, and storage. Now match these with the functionality provided by the software components found on today’s most dominant device, the mobile phone. The telcos have so far failed in their attempts to provide a compelling and usable personalized experience that successfully integrates the obvious relationships between these offerings. This is a compelling opportunity that needs to be addressed by those interested in tearing down the walled gardens that have been erected by the proponents of the so-called Open Mobile Alliance (OMA).

So since I’m in London and can’t attend, I wanted to help direct this discussion a bit from here, and correct some issues I have with the description.