Blyk, the free Finnish born (but operates only in UK) mobile network for 16 to 24 year-olds funded by advertising, has signed a frame agreement with Aito Technologies, a Customer Experience Management (CEM) solution provider, for the delivery and implementation of its Business-Driven CEM software product, Aito, to UK market. This follows a successful 3-month pilot installation, which began in May.

This is a reminder that ArcticStartup and Nordic Mobile Media Conference are looking for the “most interesting Nordic/Baltic mobile startup”. The winner startup will get 2 free passes to the event in Tallinn, Estonia on December 3-4th. To apply, please tell us why you should be selected by sending mail to mart.kikas [at] aspiro.ee and info [at] arcticstartup.com.

Valimo, the Finnish mobile identification service provider, has signed agreement with the second largest Finnish mobile operator Elisa. The agreement allows Elisa’s 2.5 million mobile customers in Finland and another 340 000 in Estonia to use mobile phone as everyday electronic identification method. With Valimo’s solution the customers can login to internet services with a single PIN code, and also digitally sign documents.

Kaskado, founded in 2007, takes a Swedish approach to mobile coupons and marketing promotions. Kaskado’s Kaskado Deals mobile service is a mobile Java application which fetches location-based promotions over-the-air and displays them to users (well at the moment you need to pick your city from the list yourself).

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Adactus is a Norwegian startup providing cross-platform content delivery systems. Adactus aims to enable broadcast television and other content providers to increase their market reach to mobile to get new customers and revenue.

Trust Solutions is Swedish startup developing a mobile skill-based gaming service GameJane, which was launched in July.

Estonian startup NOW! Innovations, founded in 2003, will reportedly start cooperating with a US startup StreetSmart Technology. StreetSmart Technology will offer its customers an integrated total solution for automatic mobile parking service system.

Nordic Mobile Media Conference will be held in Tallinn, Estonia on December 3-4th for the fifth time. The conference will address different perspectives to mobile media strategies and act as a networking forum for mobile media professionals, and those eager to collaborate to further develop the mobile media industry and grow the market. Participants will have the opportunity to exchange ideas, share and learn from experiences, and hear about new exciting opportunities.

Kuneri, Finnish Flash Lite specialist founded in 2006 and based in city of Oulu, announced yesterday the launching of public beta release of their newest product SWFPack. SWFPack is a unique online mobile development tool for Flash Lite developers.

Mobile Sorcery, a Swedish startup founded in 2004, provides cross-platform mobile development tools. The company’s product is called MoSync, which allows developers to write single source code and then launch their applications on a wide range of mobile devices with different platforms, like Symbian, J2ME and Windows Mobile.

Mobile Summit 2008 will be organized in Stockholm on October 28-29th. The event will be big; so far MobileMonday chapters from almost 30 different cities have confirmed to take part. Lots of the industry’s main players will be present and there should be plenty of chances to network and find business opportunities. See conference agenda for details.

Reboot has now published the video of my talk on social objects, social peripheral vision, and nodal points. I gave a slightly developed, much condensed version of the same at PICNIC08 last week. Below's the blurb from the Reboot site. The length of the video is 33 minutes.

The Finnish startup Mobile Advertising Solution (MAS) has expanded their ad-funded games service to four new European countries: France, Germany, Italy and Spain. MAS launched their pilot portal 123play.com in the UK in May this year.

Cellictica, founded in 2007, is a Finnish mobile translation service provider. The mission of the company is no less ambitious than “to enable everybody to understand and speak with anybody” regardless of language barriers. The company uses partners to enable machine translation and speech synthesis technologies to provide translation services to users on mobile devices. It’s unclear to me who the partners Cellictica uses are, and what kind of business model they have together.

Momail is a Swedish startup, founded in 2006, offering a free and global e-mail service for mobile devices.

OtaSizzle is a new mobile social media test environment project founded in Otaniemi, Espoo (home of Helsinki University of Technology TKK). OtaSizzle will include an open experimentation environment for testing mobile social media services. The purpose is to create prototype mobile social media service platforms and study them with extensive field tests, coupled with quantitative measurements and qualitative analysis.

Moyume is a Swedish startup offering a service allowing instant sharing of mobile pictures to web. It has been described as the Twitter, or Jaiku, for photos.

Fortumo is an Estonian mobile service startup.

Like I already said we are going mobile.