I was in Helsinki today (moved to Tampere last weekend) and I just had to stop by the Nokia flagship store. You can’t visit Helsinki and skip the flagship store, that is an act of treason in Finland. Lots of pictures after the jump.
Archives for 2007
Motorola wins WiMAX infrastructure contract for Taiwan’s M-Taiwan project
Motorola is really working on their overseas infrastructure build-outs. The struggling mobile phone once-giant has announced that it has secured two WiMAX infrastructure contracts for Taiwan’s M-Taiwan project, which aims to create a “ubiquitous mobile” network in Taiwan. The project would have Taipei’s two largest counties, Jhonghe and Banciao, in WiMAX, 3G, and WiFi in…
Rentokil RADAR mouse trap uses lasers and pressure sensors, alerts you by SMS text message to pesky catch
This sure ain’t your father mouse trap. The days of spring-loaded, inhumane mouse-traps are a thing of the past. Enter the Rentokil RADAR mouse-trap. The Rodent Activated Detection and Riddance system gets with the high-tech times that we live in. Like something out of a diabolical 007 movie, the RADAR system uses lasers and pressure…
See ya, Gary Forsee. Sprint CEO steps down.
Just as we expected, Sprint’s CEO has stepped down from his position at the head of the table. Gary Forsee is no longer CEO of Sprint. Sprint will look to CFO Paul Saleh as the interim CEO until the board of directors can find a suitable replacement for a fulltime CEO. James Hance, Jr. will…
Apple iPhone v1.1.1 SpringBoard hacked to display multiple pages
Wow, the iPhone Dev Team has really been cranking out the jailbreak developments over the past couple days. It was just yesterday morning that the Team made some preliminary breakthroughs in accessing the iPhone v1.1.1’s file-system. Then, last night, the iPhone v1.1.1 jailbreak process got another bump-up with third-party applications ported and working – although…
Orange UK dumbing down HTC Touch Dual – numeric-only keypad variant of HTC Touch Dual
Apparently, our Brit-friends over yonder aren’t too fond of the SureType-esque, 20-key, half-QWERTY keypad on the HTC Touch Dual. MoDaCo is reporting that Orange UK will be launching a 16-key variant of the HTC Touch Dual with a numeric-only keypad. Orange UK wants to slide in the HTC Touch Dual beneath the full-QWERTY smartphones in…
AT&T snatches up high-speed wireless frequency spectrum for $2.5 billion
Forget waiting on the January FCC auction of the 700Mhz frequency spectrum. AT&T has jumped the gun on competitors and bought itself a 12Mhz slice of the 700Mhz frequency band from Aloha Partners LP. The $2.5 billion deal will net AT&T additional 700Mhz licenses in 281 US markets – including 72 of the top 100…
California man files class action lawsuit against Apple over bricking of unlocked iPhones
Think the slew of class action lawsuits against Apple are coming to an end? Think again. The latest lawsuit to hit the Cupertino, CA. company comes from Apple’s home-state of California. Timothy Smith filed the class action lawsuit in San Jose (just a stone’s throw away from Apple’s headquarters, by the way) last Friday. In…
Gangsters in Canada use RIM BlackBerries for secure communication
The cat and mouse chase between law enforcement and gangs has become something of a technology war. Cops are trying to track down the bad-guys through email, text, and phone conversations. Gangbangers are trying to thwart authorities by finding alternatives to traditional phone conversations. Well, it looks like Canadian gangbangers have a new partner in…
Three men jailed for driving while using their mobile phones in India
We already know that using a cellphone or any other mobile device is prohibited in many countries. Hack, we’ve even seen UK government passing the law under which drivers in the country may end-up in jail for using their devices while driving. And now, we have three men in Mumbai, India being jailed for driving…