Before you say “WTF,” let me emphasize that this is actually nice and planet-loving idea with the point to welcome Christmas without cutting any trees. Apparently, Taiwan’s port city Kaohsiung will gather 50,000 people on Shidai Avenue in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, to form the shape of a giant Christmas tree. The participants will hold up…
Archives for 2007
Samsung steals Nokia India’s sales and marketing director; Appoints him as new country head for mobile division
In a never-ending battle for winning hearts and minds of the consumers, companies are eagerly eyeing successful executives from other companies, competitors included. That being said, we’ve spotted Samsung appointing Sunil Dutt as its new head for the company’s mobile business unit in India. Previously, Dutt was Nokia India’s sales and marketing director and we…
NTT DoCoMo to carry iPhone in Japan?
File this under “we’ll wait and see,” but it seems Jobs&Co are in Japan negotiating with the leading carrier in the second-largest economy – NTT DoCoMo. According to the Wall Street Journal Asia, Steve has met with DoCoMo’s president, Masao Nakamur, and is currently pushing him to accept the revenue sharing deal. The story goes…
ABI Research: Japan and South Korea leading in mobile advertising
ABI Research has a new study titled “Mobile Marketing and Advertising in Japan and South Korea.” As you can guess for yourself, it’s not just the coolest handsets Japanese and Korean people are using — it’s also the most advanced services. That being said, it doesn’t surprises that they’re leading the pack with their mobile…
Nokia moving four production lines to South Korea
As part of its reorganization efforts and due to a regional labor shortage, Nokia is moving four production lines from its Finnish Salo factory to South Korea. Apparently, the idea is to move the early stage production of mobile phone “engines” to accommodate more final assembly at the Salo factory. According to Nokia spokeswoman Eija-Riitta…
Chinese X-phone
Following the “intriguing” Shaolin Budha mobile phone, we now have another “marvelously” designed handset from China. Drums please… forget the iPhone… drums… Nokia N95… drums… that’s the X-phone! Designed to resemble X-Box or possibly X-Men (hence it’s “Marvelous”), this ugly phone will make your kid look like a true weirdo. Beside the unique design —…
S60 users now have full access to the entire YouTube library
While iPhone users have to wait for the YouTube to convert their videos into h.264 format, S60 users can install emTube and enjoy the entire collection right now. This application is one of the first to take advantage of S60’s Open C support, meaning that the standard c++ code written to decode videos in the…
Picture of a Google Android device in the wild
If you’ve used the emulator then you are familiar with the design of the product above. Not much information to be said except that it comes from Gizmodo who says that their developer friend thinks the OS is better than Windows Mobile 5. When your bar is Windows Mobile 5 then I guess everything looks…
Ribbit is proof that the Valley is on crack
“Silicon Valley’s first phone company” as Ribbit likes to call themselves, just received $10 Million in VC funding. Ribbit will give developers the opportunity to create applications that enable telephony features to be integrated straight into a website or service on your phone or desktop. In Ribbit’s next release you will be able to record…
Video: New S60 accelerometer based application and a tour of France
ShutUp – bySamirUploaded by Ali-Parodisiaque Samir is a French S60 developer who has taken the beta accelerometer toolkit and used it to create several applications such as NokMote and RotateMe. Recently he created a new application called “ShutUp.” Not the most marketable label, but the basic functionality is this: when someone calls you and you…