So, just how did the German threat of legal action fare with the Finns? Well, it seems that Nokia couldn’t care less (or couldn’t care more, depending on how you look at it) about North Rhine Westphalia’s demand for repayment of subsidies. As you might recall, the German state bank, NRW.Bank, recently called upon Nokia…
Nokia is holding its ground – $1 billion in licensing fees to Qualcomm is enough
Again and again with this legal back and forth between Qualcomm and Nokia. The latest bit to come out of Espoo basically calls into question Qualcomm’s entire argument. Nokia states that they’ve dumped something like $1 billion in licensing fees to Qualcomm in order to use Qualcomm’s early mobile technologies. The licensing deals from 1992…
Nokia Nseries PC Suite graduates from Beta Labs
Nokia Nseries PC Suite 2.0 is now out of Beta. NSeries owners may want to read Stefan’s post before deciding to opt for installing. The 300+ MB heavy suite is actually a collection of applications (Nokia Lifeblog, Content Copier, Nokia Application Installer, Nokia Multimedia Player, Nokia Music Manager, One Touch Access, PC Sync, Nokia Photos,…
Nokia to launch WiMAX enabled N810 at CTIA?
Nokia may launch the new Internet Tablet device on April 1st at CTIA Wireless in Las Vegas. According to always highly informed Boy Genius, the Finish giant will use the event to announce its first WiMAX enabled device that will run on Sprint’s network. As far as we know the new tablet is identical to…
Today is Stavros day, follow the mad artist and witness the creative process
The world is my canvas is an online marketting campaign by Nokia starting Stavros. His mission is to walk the streets of Italy with a Nokia N82 dangling from his neck and have his entire route traced which well then produce a piece of art. For the past few weeks users have been able to…
Ari Jaaksi: The man inside Nokia who really gets Open Source [23 min audio]
At the Open Source in Mobile conference Ari Jaaksi gave a talk about what Nokia is doing with Open Source and how they increasingly want to adopt the philosophies these communities represent. Nokia does not want to take code, fiddle with it to make it fit inside a product and let that be that, they…
Germany demands Nokia return $92 million in subsidies by month’s end
It’s clear that Nokia’s closing of their German plant has incensed the Germans to no end. Like a crazy girlfriend scorned, the state-owned NRW.Bank has sent Nokia a demand for the return of subsidies provided to open the Bochum plant. Here’s the kicker, NRW.Bank wants the subsidies refunded with interest. Germany already demanded the return…
UK: N96 incoming for August 08!
Mobile Choice is reporting that Carphone Warehouse is listing the Nokia N96 as “coming soon” for August 08! We all know the specs, so I won’t re-list them, however, what’s interesting is what else is also coming at around about that time…. First of all we have the Sony Ericsson C902, due June 08. Next…
UK Retail: Top 10 handsets, week commencing 29/2/08
The guys at Mobile Choice compile a “weekly bestsellers” list, as I’ve mentioned before – here’s the Top 10 contract and prepay handset, by their count, as of week commencing 29/2/08: Nokia and Sony Ericsson coming out on top in the contract handsets….. whilst on the prepay front….: Nokia takes up half the top ten!…
Video: Why is the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 is important for the mobile industry?
Fascinating 23 minute video that certainly brought to my eyes I ever knew existed, battery life being number one. If Nokia’s vision of having a Mobile Web Server is to come to fruition then this transition needs to occur much faster than people originally though.