Posts Tagged with ‘Nokia’

Though I like the fact that Nokia took steps to acquire its own social platform called Plazes, I'm not a huge fan of companies trying to keep up with the Joneses. Those Joneses, in this case, would be Apple, which recently announced that a similar stalker-friendly tool called Loopt will be available for the iPhone at the debut of the Apps store.
The reason I call Loopt and Plazes tools for those with stalker tendencies is because both [...]

I'm only half kidding with my headline, because Reuters really does want to give out phones. After a trial of using Nokia "Mobile Journalism Toolkits" in the hands of reporters to allow reporters to cover stories on the fly, or when a regular camera crew couldn't be used, Reuters is now hoping to extend the program to its entire reporting staff as well as "citizen experts."
While I'm sure that I can hear thousands of camera crews screaming in pain at [...]

To increase the footprint of Google's AdWords service from online advertising to print advertising, the search engine giant is relying on a new implementation of barcode technology. According to the Silicon Alley Insider, Google is placing high expectations on small, square barcodes (as seen in the image at left) to be strategically placed at the bottom of print ads. These barcodes can then be scanned by a reader with a compatible camera phone, which would then instantly direct their phone's [...]

The year is almost through. Eggnog’s running low. The once fresh-cut Douglas-firs placed inside millions of homes over the holidays are running dry and approaching their final demise. Bottles of bubbly are being prepped and placed on standby for the global celebration to happen next week for the new calendar’s arrival.
So I think it’s only fitting to follow convention here and offer up a few wise words in anticipation of suspected things to come in the wide world of Web [...]

It’s safe to say that a good portion of the world resides in a 3G era. It's here in North America. It's over there in Europe, and Asia. And in numerous pockets elsewhere. Wireless broadband, though short of being a quantitatively “mainstream” convenience (in the way, say, domestic DSL and cable Internet services are today), is all over the globe. And if it's not everywhere, it soon will be. Looking at where we've come from, it's reasonable to think that [...]

Last week, Sprint and Clearwire, two companies in the US that have, amid widespread skepticism, managed for a long while to remain steadfast and continue their drive for widespread deployment of WiMAX services in America, declared their separation.
According to a Reuters report on the matter, Sprint “ended its WiMAX partnership with Clearwire and was reviewing its plans for the next-generation wireless technology.”
Why do we bring this bit of news to your attention? Well, we do so because [...]

Mobile phones are very useful in today's society, being able to make calls, capture photos, record video and even browse the web. But, many of the tasks that we use cell phones for, such as text messaging and managing contacts, can become very tedious and time-consuming, especially on phones with smaller screens and those that lack a QWERTY keypad.
To make it easier for cell phone users to maintain their phones and all of the information stored within them, new web [...]

Nokia, in an attempt to make itself well-established presence in mobile world steadily increasing in on-the-go entertainment options and provisions as far as choice of content is concerned, has announced the addition of CNN and Sony Pictures to its list of media partners.
Both join the big name providers YouTube and Reuters as contracted suppliers of videos to the mobile phone company’s list of media-friendly devices, known as the N Series line.
As the terms mobile and media [...]

Did you find it at all strange or perhaps a touch disappointing to find the world of cellular phone makers seemingly sitting around idly as Apple debuted it’s “revolutionary” mobile touch screen device back in late June? It was quite bizarre actually. There they were, about four or five big-name handset manufacturers – not to mention the creators of widely implemented mobile operating systems – none of which had anything close to an alluring answer to Cupertino’s finest new gadgetry.
Well, [...]