MoMo Tokyo - Feb. 4th - hAPPy New Year!

We hope everyone had a chance to relax and enjoy during oshogatsu and now back into the swing for another exciting year. We're kicking off the calendar with a killer event, see speaker line-up below, and are expecting a fantastic evening is in store for all. Will there be food, maybe.. drinks certainly.. tons of awesome people.. Definitely. We look forward to join all the mobilistas there!

Date: Monday, 4 February, 2013
Venue: Super-Deluxe :: GMAP
Running Time: 19:00 – 23:00
Fee: 1,000 JPY with Advance Registration - Or - 2,000 at the door
Includes: 1-drink and the greatest mobile biz folks in Tokyo!

Nicolas Loeillot - CEO - LM3Labs
LM3LABS launched a new service called Xloudia that can recognize millions of images, products or buildings. Pronounced cloudia, the solution targets B2B integration into mobile applications. Until today, image recognition, which is necessary for most augmented reality apps on a mobile phone was limited by capabilities of the device. Reference images were limited to a hundred maximum. Xloudia relies on a cloud architecture to recognize millions of images leaving to the mobile the lighter task of extracting feature points from the camera video flow and rendering contents. Xloudia supports iOS and Android platforms and is available to large e-commerce companies as well as to independent app developers.

Masato Kuninori - Sr. Producer - Sony Digital Network Applications, Inc
Pictures pile up on your smartphone. Don't let your cherished memories languish in a forgotten corner of your phone. Bring them alive with million moments (see video demo), a photo viewing and sharing application that lets you enjoy and share your favorite pictures in elegant, magazine-like layouts. Create albums without editing your images, import the pictures from your smartphone or your Facebook albums, or take new pictures from within million moments to create an album automatically. Imported pictures are automatically sorted by date, with one-to-five pictures displayed per page. Each page displays the dates the pictures were taken and any comments added using the comment feature. The layouts randomly change each time you open an album, ensuring each viewing is a unique experience. It's a beautiful new way to explore your memories.

Paul Pugh - VP Creative - frog design
As one of the leading handset manufacturers in Japan, Sharp recognized the need to address an expanding market of smartphone users. Sharp collaborated with frog's team of designers and technologists to design a new mobile user-experience model, "Feel UX", that is uncluttered and effortless to organize and use. frog and Sharp ideated, designed and launched this Android front-end in a short 9-month time span which is now the standard install on Sharp AQUOS smartphones with 3 different carriers in Japan.

Mark the date and spread the word - be sure to Register - it's shaping up to be an awesome evening!

-- MoMo Tokyo Team

Our "Friends of MoMo" partners at SERVCORP, an Australian Virtual office and Serviced office provider, have generously provided some complimentary business lounge and meeting facility vouchers which will be given away at this event as a Raffle Prizes! The company helps foreign and Japanese start-ups, small or large with a full-fledged office support platform including bilingual secretaries, IT services and much more. Virtual offices are a great way to start your business!