Added weight = slower car = Stefan is not happy. Not happy at all. Putting People First: Nokia Research has published a short paper by Stephan Hartwig and Michael Buchmann on how mobile communication services can become a next generation ride-sharing tool, with a potential to mitigate traffic- and emission problems in the 21st century.…
Archives for March 2007
Interview: Nokia’s Head of Games Global Sales, Antoine Doumenc
Games Industry has a brief one on one with Antoine and from the first question and answer you can easily see how hard Nokia is trying to make N-Gage work: GamesIndustry.biz: Can you begin by telling us a little more about the thinking behind third-party and first-party publishing on the new N-Gage platform? Antoine Doumenc:…
Guy Kawasaki blogs about the iPhone
A long-time Apple evangelist and now a venture capitalist, Guy Kawasaki never hesitate to speak about Apple and its products. So it’s not surprisingly that he now discuses the iPhone. Actually, he posses eight very important questions about it. His questions include such things as battery life, consumers’ expectations, the speed of the data transfer…
More GPhone details
Over at HighContrast blog, Simeon Simeonov of Polaris Venture Partner unveiled more information about the potential GPhone. The Google Phone (codename “Switch”), will apparantly be a BlackBerry-like device running C++ at the OS’ core. According to Simeon’ sources, the GPhone will also run an optimized Java, and will have a VoIP capabilities. This latest information…
More snowboarding videos shot on the N93
Won’t embed this since it is QuickTime, but I always get a kick out of watching these guys. Check it out at WOM World.
Dear Nokia: Make the S60 web browser separate
If we all ask for it then maybe it just might happen. Here is what the official Web Browser for S60 blog has to say: There seem to be a number of people who want the S60 Browser to be available outside the S60 platform release system — for example, as a SIS file —…
Japan’s CELUX offers exclusive Nokia 7360s
Engadget Mobile: Between Vertu and the 8800, Nokia gives the world plenty of ways to flaunt its surplus cash — but not enough for Japan’s members-only CELUX department store, apparently. The ultra-exclusive "shopping club" will be offering unique versions of the Nokia 7360 — a member of the chic L’Amour Collection — for just a…
Nokia wants to see you on the runway
The Nokia Phone Blog: Nokia’s got a new site: Nokia Catwalk And they want YOU to film yourself walking down the "world’s largest online catwalk." Every video clip you submit to the Catwalk site enters you into a drawing to win a 2000 Euro gift certificate to your favorite fashion store, as well as 1…
Nokia at GDC: New games, publishers and tools
At the GDC 2007, Nokia announced the latest games and publishers for its new N-Gage mobile gaming platform. The Finish giant also introduced updated software development tools for the N-Gage platform and a new testing program for SNAP Mobile’s Java platform. Among the introduced games were Gameloft’s Asphalt 3, Street Rules, Brothers In Arms, Hell’s…
Sun announces support for the next generation mobile Java platform
Sun, along with 13 other companies, participated in the development of MSA through the Java Community Process. The goal of MSA is to provide greater handset platform functionality to application developers and reduce implementation variation through the creation of standard APIs and specific component clarifications. The new MSA capabilities allow creation of compelling mobile applications…