It’s Friday and we hope everyone is enjoying their weekend, but it seems 5000 people at AT&T will not be as soon as they find out that they’ve been axed.
1788 entries in the Google Android Developer competition, reward money decreased?
Back in January Google announced that they were going to give $10 million out to the developers that create the most interesting applicatiosn for Google’s Android, the deadline was April 14 and the results were tallied up: 1788 applications were submitted! Of those 50 finalists will get $25,000 to contine development when handsets become available…
Nokia event on the 22nd of April, be there or be square!
There appears to be a Nokia event dealing with Nokia Music on the 22nd of April, sadly the site doesn’t load properly, but if you go to nokia.com/press you’re presented with this image:
Brief: More mouth watering Black Nokia N82 pictures
The site is in French, but lust needs no translation. Check out Planete-Nokia.
Nokia Q108: Net sales up 28% year on year, 115.5 million units shipped
Nokia’s Q1 2008 Financial Figures are out and boy are they great! Net sales are up 28% year on year coming in at 12.7 billion EUR, 115.5 million devices have shipped, market share dropped 1% to 39% and the average price of each handset sold (a term known as ASP) is down to 79 EUR…
Samsung Chairman Lee Kun Hee has been indicted for evading taxes
Rich people like money. Rich people like to keep their money. Rich people like to hide their money from the people who come to take their money away. Samsung Chairman Lee Kun Hee was hiding about $4.54 billion and thus he has been indicted. Rich people influence government. Rich people do not go to jail…
LG Q108: 35.7% increase in handset sales, 24.4 million units shipped
LG had a strong first quarter this year with a 35.7% increase in handset sales totaling $3.346 billion for the number 5 handset maker. A new personal record for the company has also been reached with 24.4 million devices shipped, of that the emerging countries in the Asian and Middle East regions accounted for a…
Video: Enkin, GPS based augmented reality for Google’s Android
The concept is simple, point your phone at the horizon and look at your screen to get more information about your surroundings. Rafael Spring and Max Braun wrote a program Enkin for Google’s Android that does just that as their submission to the Android Developer Challenge. With the recent announcement that KML is now an…
Nokia says good bye to employees in Bochum while RIM says hello
Nokia closed a plant in Bochum citing the cost of labor was too high. RIM saw an opportunity, plenty of talented people who’ve been working on Nokia mobile devices for 1989 are now out of a job, which is why they’re planning on opening up a research faciliity and looking to hire 300 people. Nokia’s…
The Nokia 6212 Classic: Nokia’s first NFC enabled 3G mobile phone
The 6212 Classic is Nokia’s first NFC (Near Field Communications) enabled device with 3G capabilities. You may remember the 3220 which had a shell you could purchase to enable NFC and then the 6131 which was announced early last year, neither of these took off and I’m wondering if the 6212 Classic will face the…