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Despite recession, Nokia keeps investing in research and development. Their latest move involves opening of the new Nokia Research Center near the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) campus. The new Lab will be under the direction of Dr. John Shen, the same guy who heads Nokia Research Center in Palo Alto, California.
Among the subjects the new NRC lab will explore is parallel computing, which includes such areas as:
- accelerating the mobile web browser and runtime environments,
- increasing mobile device performance while lowering power consumption in both active and idle modes, and
- achieving seamless ubiquitous wireless connectivity and cross-domain interoperability.
For the record, Nokia Research Center has six labs in eleven locations worldwide, and it collaborates with universities and other institutes to conduct “leading-edge research.”
Full press release can be found on Nokia’s website.
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
