Here’s what happened at MobileBeat 2010

We just wrapped up MobileBeat 2010, our annual mobile tech conference. Over the course of two days, we brought speakers including HP’s Phil McKinney, AT&T’s John Donovan, and Facebook’s Erick Tseng on-stage to talk about their vision of the mobile industry’s future, and 20 companies demonstrated new products to compete for our Tesla Awards for best startup.

The big theme was “The Year of the Superphone.” If you didn’t make it to the conference, you can find links to all our coverage below. If you want to listen to full sessions, you can hear many of them on Stitcher’s MobileBeat channel.

So here’s the news from MobileBeat:

DeHood rolls out Facebook connectivity, new versions — DeHood, the location-based service building hyper-local communities, rolled out a revamped website, an iPad app and Facebook integration.

eduPath brings SAT test preparation to the iPhone — Looking to bring SAT test prep to the 21st century, mobile startup eduPath launched its TouchPrep application series available for the iPhone, iPad and iTouch.

Motolingo wants wants to make you a savvier driver — Ever wish you could be a smarter driver? Now a startup called Motolingo launched a set of mobile applications that sends car data to smartphones for improved service and travel.

Emantras brings classrooms to mobile devices with Mobl21 — Educators looking to reach their students outside of the classroom may have a new tool at their disposal. Emantras, a company that develops online and mobile educational tools, launched Mobl21, a platform for creating, managing and distributing educational content to the web and mobile devices.

OwnYourInfo puts your private data in a mobile lock box — OwnYourInfo gives users a secure, neatly-ordered location to store and view their most important data through their mobile phones — basically turning your handset into a locked filing cabinet.

AppCityLife puts city guides, local promotions in your pocket — AppCityLife, a new city guide application for your mobile phone, seeks to provide you with all the details you need about your local environment, from post offices to laundry to schools and hospitals.

HP’s Phil McKinney previews printed displays and other mobile tech — Phil McKinney, chief technology officer of Hewlett Packard’s personal systems group, offered some broad hints about HP’s mobile strategy. He didn’t announce any new products, but he discussed HP’s acquisition of Palm and previewed some of the cool technology his team is working on.

MyTalk introduces a smarter social network — At first glance MyTalk may just look like another location-based social mobile network. A deeper dive shows that this application may offer a bit more than location-based check-in points and knowing where your friends are eating on a Friday night.

Vaayoo’s Socialbox turns your phone into a social medai dashboard — Vaayoo provides a platform for application developers, web publishers and social networks to create and serve up new social and multimedia apps. Now its new SocialBox applications ties together everyone’s favorite social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and more to make it easy to share media and content via your phone.

Snaptu wants to make dumbphones smarter with apps — Mobile app startup Snaptu has a simple goal: To bring the rich mobile app experience seen on the iPhone, Android, and other smartphones, to every cellphone — in particular, low-end phones (often referred to as “dumbphones”).

BlogRadio lets you listen to blog RSS feeds — BlogRadio has come up with an interesting solution for RSS overload: The service lets you listen to any blog RSS feed with its natural text-to-speech technology.

SkyEye turns your phone into a personal surveillance system — New mobile application SkyEye turns your mobile phone into an around-the-clock security and surveillance system for your person.

MobileBeat Startup Competition: Meet the next generation fo consumer applications — The MobileBeat 2010 Startup Competition, sponsored by Palm, kicked off this morning with the introduction of five new consumer applications hoping to change the way you use your phone on a daily basis.

AT&T CTO: ‘We will move heaven and Earth to improve our conference’ — AT&T Chief Technology Officer John Donovan described his vision for a future where more and more data is flowing through mobile networks. AT&T “will move heaven and Earth” to meet its customers’ growing data needs, he said.

Mobile investing: Angels and big VC firms converge on capital-efficient deals — As mobile applications and startups become less pricey to fund, big investment firms are overlapping more and more with Silicon Valley angel investors as their funds and deal sizes shrink. The “Smart Strategies for Mobile Investing” session reflected this new convergence.

Micello pushes forward with indoor maps — Micello describes itself as “Google Maps inside a building.” The company has developed a simple method of mapping indoor locations like malls and universities.

Locomatix launches new location-aware app development infrastructure — Locomatix, developer of a location-aware technology, announced the launch of its new cloud infrastructure for the development of location-aware consumer applications. The company’s technology helps to integrate location into new and existing applications.

Call Loop soups up marketing campaigns for voice, text and email — Referring to itself as “Constant Contact for voice and text,” mobile startup Call Loop allows marketers to tie together voice, text and email marketing messages into coherent, automated campaigns.

AFK keeps gamers connected to their worlds from anywhere — AFK Interactive’s M4 platform (Massively Multi-user Mobile Monetization) is the holy grail for gamers: It allows you to stay connected to massively multi-player online games (MMOs) like World of Warcraft, virtual worlds like Second Life, and social games like Farmville from any mobile device.

Anyfi pitches an answer to mobile network capacity woes — Noting the fact that 98 percent of fixed broadband capacity goes unused, Swedish startup Anyfi Networks is in the process of patenting technology that turns broadband network operators’ spare capacity into mobile broadband.

MobileBeat 2010 kicks off with a bang (photo gallery) — The headline kind of speaks for itself.

MobileBeat Startup Competition: Infrastructure and services go head-to-head — The MobileBeat 2010 Startup Competition, sponsored by Palm, recommenced with the introduction of five infrastructure and services companies striving to improve the architecture underpinning our mobile systems.

MobileBeat: Samsung offers glimpse of superphone future with Galaxy S — Samsung is moving fast into the era of superphones now that it is in the process of launching its Galaxy S smartphones at six different carriers this summer.

Aava offers a truly open-source mobile device platform — Now one year old, Aava Mobile offers both open hardware and software, giving mobile developers enough leash to make truly creative designs and applications.

Thumbspeak helps your company get feedback from people on the go — The first opinion network made for mobile phones, Thumbspeak gives companies and app developers a way to rapidly collect insights and feedback from their customers by asking them questions on their phones.

POIdo makes location-based advertisers compete for your attention — POIdo, one of a number of location-based advertising startups, is putting a new spin on the concept.

Sentegra’s meWallet makes secure mobile payments a reality — Mobile transaction startup Sentegra has come up with an all-encompassing mobile wallet platform with its meWallet system.

Enole provides a single sign-on solution for the real world — Identity authentication startup Enole provides a secure way for people to use the same login information to access the internet through a multitude of devices, and will be particularly useful as more and more connected devices come online in coming months.

MobileBeat Startup Competition: Infrastructure players try to shake up the way you use your phone — The MobileBeat 2010 Startup Competition, sponsored by Palm, wrapped up with the introduction of five more infrastructure and services companies working to break down and rebuild the way we all use our mobile phones.

EduPath, Micello take home top honors in MobileBeat Startup Competition — The two panels of judges for MobileBeat 2010’s Startup Competition have spoken: mobile test-prep application EduPath nabbed the top prize in the consumer-facing app category, while indoor mapping provider Micello won the mobile infrastructure and services category.

Twitter’s director of mobile: AT&T has guts — One of the themes this afternoon at the conference was “Who owns the user?” It would have been a great opportunity to pile-on criticism of mobile carriers, but a couple of speakers, including Twitter mobile head Kevin Thau, had favorable things to say.

A mobile payments breakout is still a few years away for the U.S. — A breakout hit for real-world mobile payments in the U.S. is still a year or two off, despite the emergence of superphones and rich ecosystems with hundreds of thousands of apps, said panelists.

Google’s Omar Hamoui praises Apple’s iAds — Now that mobile ad network AdMob has been acquired by Google, the company’s founder and chief executive, Omar Hamoui, is getting pulled into what looks like a mobile advertising battle between Apple and Google.

Catching up at MobileBeat 2010 (photo gallery) — Aside from the panels and breakout sessions going on at MobileBeat 2010, one of the major attraction of conferences is the chance to catch up with colleagues and new companies. The hallway is the place where networking happens, and MobileBeat 2010 is no exception.

Motorola: We “doubled down” on Android and are “raving about it” — John Ellis, director of software and services for Motorola, said the handset manufacturer was happy with its big bet on Google’s Android platform.

Location-based services need brands more than brands need them — As large, national and international brands begin to show interest in advertising on location-based services, the check-in games are finding they’re on the winning end of the deal.

Will Android beat iPhone in mobile gaming? — While Android’s user base is expected to surpass the iPhone’s, many passionate gamers would tell you that the gaming experience on the iPhone is far better than on Android – primarily because of the buttonless form factor of iPhone, but also because of the superior iPhone graphics. But a panel on mobile gaming said that’s not the case.

GetJar names Gettie Award 2010 mobile application winners — GetJar, an online mobile application store, announced the winners of The Gettie Awards, an annual mobile app competition.

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VentureBeat would like to thank the companies that supported MobileBeat 2010, including GetJar, Placecast, Greystripe, Qualcomm, Microsoft, Paypal, and Jumptap as Gold Sponsors, AdMob, OpenMarket, Navteq, MasterImage 3D, Symbian, DeHood, Flurry, and Palm as Silver Sponsors, and Nexage, Offerpal, Marvell, Verizon, Mobclix, Mayfield Fund, InMobi, Appolicious, Offermobi, and Norwest Venture Partners as Event Sponsors.