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Who will win the smartphone race and how will they get there? Who will end up controlling the user experience on the device - the manufacturers or the operating system makers? These were the sort of questions being discussed on a panel at the Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco last week. On hand were several executives from device makers themselves, including HTC, Samsung and Motorola.

At last week's Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco, mobile industry leaders including Yahoo! CTO Raymie Stata, SVP and GM at NBA Digital Bryan Perez, and C?EO of Foursquare Dennis Crowley, talked about the changing dynamics of the mobile Internet value chain and what opportunities there are outside of the iTunes App Store.

At last week's Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco, several high-profile mobile app designers and publishers spoke about how developers can improve their mobile applications, gain and retain users. On stage were Google's Lead Interaction Designer, Chris Nesladek, Shopkick's co-founder Jeff Sellinger and Urban Airship's CEO Scott Kveton. Each spoke on one of the factors - design, conversion and retention - by providing specific examples from their own previous experience in app development and design.

This morning's focus at the Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco was how developers can make money with their apps. Several high-profile developers and app publishers were on hand to provide their insights on the various ways they've successfully monetized their applications through mobile ads, game mechanics, virtual goods and scaling.

The mobile landscape is evolving rapidly with no signs of slowing down. For those who can quickly adapt to the ongoing disruption caused by mobile, tremendous opportunity awaits.

At this morning's first panel at the Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco, the topic was the evolution of the mobile industry - that is, both where we are now and what's happening next.

There are a number of ways developers and publishers of mobile applications can earn revenue, including everything from ads and subscriptions to virtual goods and advertising. But which models work? And can you make "real" money using these methods?

Leading application developers and content players from the industry shared their experiences on the topic on a panel this afternoon at the Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco.

Computational engine Wolfram Alpha's Managing Director, Barak Berkovitz, talked about the data layer of the mobile Web at a session this afternoon at the Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco.

Like geo-data has done for location, Wolfram Alpha adds a new layer to the Web: a factual dimension. This will impact the Web's evolution, says Berkovitz.

Citibank-sponsored service Single-Click Checkout just launched at the Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco. The service is the first in-app single click credit card checkout system for Android. With Single-Click, merchants can accept credit card payments from any mobile user.

The service enables credit card transactions across the existing infrastructure from companies like MasterCard, Visa, Discover, American Express and others - it doesn't require users to create a new account with an associated username and password.

Who will control mobile advertising - Apple, Google an assortment of small time players, each with their own slivers of the market? How should ads be targeted? What new advertising trends are we seeing now?

These topics are more were discussed this afternoon at the Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco by top executives from mobile ad firms and Jason Spero, Director of Google Mobile.

Mobile industry executives from several companies spoke about the challenges of mobile video at this morning's Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco. On hand were Anthony Melone, CTO of Verizon Wireless, Bob Bowman, CEO of MLB.com and Hossein Moiin, CTO of Nokia Siemens Networks. The panelists, moderated by Ann Winblad, Managing Director at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, talked about mobile video, streaming challenges, the future of LTE/4G and, perhaps most importantly, how are businesses going to charge for all this mobile video content?