December 3, 2008, Umea, Sweden, the 7th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM)—a prominent annual international conference—takes place. The results of the latest research on mobile and ubiquitous multimedia are presented at MUM 2008. The Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards will be introduced for outstanding contributions.

The topics discussed at the conference comprise intermittent connectivity, mobile user interfaces, interaction design and techniques, middleware and distributed computing support for mobile and ubiquitous multimedia, mobile media management, rich media applications on mobile devices, and many others. Specialists of all major branches of mobile technology business are likely to find a lot of useful information there.

“The events like MUM 2008 help companies providing mobile solutions see the most up-to-date or even next-generation technologies used within the field and to share their own experience, as well as show their achievements,” comments Maria Borisenko, the Softjournal Magazine editor. “The names of the most outstanding contributors as well as the most interesting topics discussed at the conference will be available in the next numbers of our weekly moderated online magazine http://www.softjournal.ru ”.