In a recent interview, Google’s CEO – Eric Schmidt, said as advertising assumes a greater role across mobile networks, consumers should receive their handsets for free. Following a speech on the theme of business innovation organized by Italian student groups and the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, he said: “It just makes sense…
Nokia enters the Silicon Valley
Nokia’s research division, which recently celebrated its 20 year anniversary, now has a new Research Center in Palo Alto, California. At the same time, Nokia announced a three-year agreement with Stanford University, to develop joint research projects on collaborative mobile computing and applications. Nokia Research Center Palo Alto will initially focus on four core areas:…
Five questions for UIQ Technology
We had a chance to interview Sébastien Peirone, Developer Communications Manager at UIQ Technologies. Not to rant too much – here’s the interview: Q: Symbian has many “versions”, such as UIQ, S60, Series 80 and Series 90. Can you explain to our readers what exactly UIQ Technology does and where is UIQ’s place in the…
Nokia 330 Auto Navigation officially announced
It’s official – Nokia 330 Auto Navigation, the company’s first dedicated personal navigation device, has just been announced. It includes Europe-wide maps, with clear spoken and 2D/3D visual directions on the large 3.5″ color touchscreen. The Nokia 330 Auto Navigation comes with an integrated GPS receiver and a 2GB memory card with the preinstalled ROUTE…
Nokia E62 advertising
This is becoming a habit – to point to the cool posts on the E-Series blog. This time they found print ads for the Nokia E62, launched last month in the U.S. market. Along with the E-Series blog crew, I also hope that this will result in many more applications and services optimized for the…
Navicore's "world's smallest" Bluetooth GPS receiver
During the Smartphone Show, Navicore (recent Symbian Platinum Partner) introduced the world’s smallest Bluetooth GPS receiver to accompany the latest version of its award-winning GPS navigation product, Navicore Personal 2007. The design of the device is marked by its size (only 64 x 22 x 15 mm) and its weight (just 30g). Nevertheless, it doesn’t…
Nokia WiMAX mobile phones in 2008
At the recent WiMAX technology conference in Boston, Nokia’s representatives told the press that they will make the WiMAX capable mobile devices sometime during 2008. Roughly at the same time, Nokia rolled out a WiMAX-enabled version of its lightweight base station, previously used just for transmitting HSDPA and W-CDMA third-generation cellular signals. Those of you…
QSurround Mobile Technology presented at the Smartphone Show
QSound Labs, Inc., a leading developer of audio and voice software solutions, is presenting its QSurround Mobile Technology in both ARM’s exhibition stand #79 and Texas Instruments’ (TI) exhibition stand #40 at the Symbian Smartphone Show. QSurround Mobile offers an enriched audio experience providing virtualized surround sound for close proximity speakers and stereo headsets for…
Nigel Clifford's keynote at Symbian Smartphone Show
At the Symbian Smartphone Show, Symbian’s CEO Nigel Clifford today announced that the smartphone is poised to change the way people live in ways as profound as those triggered by the Internet and PC in the 1990s. During his keynote at The Symbian Smartphone Show at ExCel in London, Clifford stated that a smartphone revolution…
Emerging smartphone lifestyle
Research companies predict that close to one billion mobile phones will be sold in 2006 alone. No wonder so many industries are including mobile in their business strategies. Smartphones, mobile phones based on open operating systems, are packed with technology and power, offering great features and access to the latest converged services. Constant change drives…