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• Free trial copies of Sybase software for conference attendees
  
  
  • Pylon, the industry-leading synchronization software from iAnywhere (a Sybase company), delivers your email, calendar, address book, and expenses right to your Pocket PC, Palm OS-based PDA, or smart phone at any time, anywhere. Pylon has been adopted by more than 2,500 corporations in 50 countries.
    
    Download a free 30-day trial at: http://www.sybase.com/products/mobilesolutions/pylon
  
  
  • SQL Anywhere Studio - Extending the Enterprise Anywhere with Advanced Synchronization
    SQL Anywhere Studio includes a comprehensive set of technologies for scalable, bidirectional synchronization of corporate information between enterprise and remote systems. SQL Anywhere Studio?s synchronization technologies are optimized for both occasionally connected and near real-time environments, including server-initiated synchronization to deliver timely alerts to remote devices. These technologies support the secure communication of information for remote and mobile users over a wide variety of synchronous, asynchronous, wireless, dial-up and Internet protocols.
    
    Download a free 30-day trial at:
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• Next year's ICMB will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark from the 26-27th June.
  For details and more information see http://asp.cbs.dk/icmb2006/
  
  
• McMaster University in Canada has been chosen for the ICMB2007 (m>Business 2007) Conference. This was annouced at the ICBM2005 meeting in Sydney on Wednesday 13 July. Congratulations to Professors Norm Archer and Yufei Yuan and their colleagues at McMaster. The 2007 meeting will be held in Toronto.
  
  
• Journalist Charis Palmer will be covering the conference for Online Banking Review, a banking industry publication read by financial services, IT and legal executives in Australia and New Zealand. Charis recently reported on Citibank's mobile banking partnership with Telstra i-mode. You can read the story at: http://www.onlinebankingreview.com.au/free3.asp
  
  
• LATEST NEWS - KEYNOTE SPEAKER LIST

  It is our honour to announce the following distringuished group of Keynote Speakers for the 2005 International Conference on Mobile Business:

  • Dr Victor Bahl, Mircrosoft Research Lab, USA
  • Professor Roger Clarke, Australian National University
  • Professor Peter Thomas, Carey-Thomas/ Melbourne University
  • Mr Jonathan Withers, CTO, iBurst
  • Ian Ross, Services Consultant, Cisco
  • Mr Bob Hayward, VP Research Fellow, Gartner
  • Mr Rob Zalums, Managing Director, Sybase Australia & New Zealand

• UTS PRO-VICE-CHANCELLOR TO SPEAK AT CONFERENCE OPENING

  Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) of the University of Technology, Sydney, Professor Sue Rowley will give an address at the opening of the 2005 International Conference on Mobile Business, Crowne Plaza Darling Harbour, Sydney.

• SYDNEY'S BIGGEST CELEBRATION OF JAZZ, FUNK AND BLUES

  Over three cool days and three hot nights, the city will swing to the sound of a stellar line up of Australian and international performers. It's all FREE!!

  Now in its 15th year, this year's festival features 38 bands and promises to be the best-ever. With a host of big names such as Australia's queen of soul Renee Geyer, Melbourne's funky-jazz reggae band BOMBA, Little River Band's former lead singer Glenn Shorrock with John Morrison's Swing City, the return of super jazz groove band DIG, and Jackie Orszacky's tribute to Ray Charles , the Darling Harbour Jazz festival is the place to be this June long weekend.

  Also appearing is the Berlin cabaret gypsy jazz combo Waiting for Guinness, rockin' blues band The Backsliders, former Australian Idol finalist and Video Hits host Axle Whitehead, Melbourne's Afro Jazz group Zebra Crossing, USA Jazz pianist-composer Alan Youngblood and, from Japan, Shikandaza.

  Performances will be held at Harbourside Amphitheatre, the Aquashell in Cockle Bay, Tumbalong Park and King Street Wharf.

  A poppin' fireworks spectacular will light up the night on Sunday 12 June at 7.30pm following Renee Geyer's headline performance.

  Saturday 11 June - 12noon to 7:30pm
  Sunday 12 June - 10.20am to 7.30pm
  Monday 13 June - 12noon to 7pm.

  Please see the information brochure for the full program.

• Ian Ross will be a Cisco Keynote Speaker at ICMB 05.
  Ian Ross is a Services Consultant for Cisco Systems Australia and is primarily involved with services innovation and creation for service providers. In this role Ian is responsible for the evolution of services strategies and end-user experiences, and works closely with Cisco’s customers to leverage the power of the network for marketplace differentiation and business growth.
  Ian’s experience includes engineering and marketing roles in Asia Pacific service provider and enterprise markets, and spans voice, data, optical and wireless technologies. Ian joined Cisco from Nortel, where he led Wireline Strategic Market Development in Asia Pacific and was largely responsible for introducing a strong focus on business and market application in customer engagements. Prior to Nortel, he worked as a hardware and software consultant in the information technology sector.
  Ian holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Communications), Honours, from RMIT University, is passionate about technology and its practical applications, and is currently based in Melbourne, Australia.
  
  
• Jonathan Withers will be a Keynote Speaker at ICMB 05.
  He is an experienced CTO having worked for many years in the telecommunications industry. He helped form his current company, Personal Broadband Australia (PBA), and has been responsible for the deployment of a new and innovative wireless technology. PBA is deploying a wide area, broadband wireless technology (iBurst) that provides ubiquitous and fully mobile broadband access. Before joining Personal Broadband, Jonathan was a director with Vodafone Pacific covering Australia, New Zealand and Fiji, in charge of technical strategy. During his ten years at Vodafone, Jonathan initially led the radio network deployment for the Vodafone's GSM system in Australia. In 1996, he was appointed Technical Director for the Vodafone network. Prior to Vodafone, Mr. Withers was based in the United Kingdom as an engineering manager with Motorola and was directly involved in defining the radio access specification for the GSM mobile telephone system in the late '80's.
  
  
• Personal Broadband Australia is an Australian company which owns and operates the iBurst wireless mobile broadband access network. iBurst is true mobile broadband offering wide-area range, high base station capacity and the Internet experience that business customers have come to depend on from their fixed networks.
  With iBurst you can access all your corporate applications, as well as email and the web without the worry of finding a high speed connection or enduring endless service hassles. The unprecedented coverage and capacity of the iBurst system enables true mobile broadband and makes the vision of the ubiquitous Internet a reality.

  For more information please go to http://www.iburst.com.au

• Distinguished resarcher Dr Victor Bahl will be a Keynote Speaker at ICMB 05. Dr Bahl is the founder and Chairman of the ACM Special Interest Group in Mobility (SIGMOBILE); the founder and past Editor-in-Chief of ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review (1996-2001), and the founder and Steering Committee Chair of the first conference dedicated to mobile systems research: ACM/USENIX Mobile Systems Conference (MobiSys); he has served on the editorial board of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, and is currently serving on the editorial boards of Elsevier's Adhoc Networking Journal, Kulwer's Telecommunications Systems Journal, and ACM's Wireless Networking Journal.

• Collecter 2005 will be held in conjunction with our conference.

• Professor Elizabeth Chang from the department of Information Systems, Curtin University, Western Australia and Dr Wayne Brooks from the department of Computer Systems, University of Technology, Sydney, have agreed to be program co-chairs for the 2005 International Conference on Mobile Business.