By JBC on 21 September 2009
GLOBAL – If you’ve been wondering just how you can get your N900 to interact with a Speak ‘N’ Spell, View-Master or a rolodex, then fear not, as the folks at Tinker.it have released some more details on how they did it. Okay, so you’ll be short of an N900 until they actually go on sale (soon, we’re told) but at least you can start assembling the required parts in time for your very own hackathon.
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By JBC on 18 September 2009
GLOBAL – We don’t know what was said during what is believed to be the world’s first call made on a next generation 4G LTE network yesterday. It probably wasn’t somebody saying that “the future [is] calling”, but it should have been. I won’t go into the details of what LTE networks are here (read about 4G modems here instead to get some background) but the news reaching us this week of the first official call, using a real base station and standards-compliant software means the future is getting much closer.
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By JBC on 11 September 2009
LONDON, England – The onedotzero festival opened on London’s Southbank last night and star of the show (for Conversations at least) is the Nokia N900 powered installation which greets visitors to the BFI. The installation is absolutely huge, and can be controlled, influenced and manipulated by the Nokia N900 (get the full lowdown here).
By JBC on 11 September 2009
LONDON, England – That’s the title of a panel discussion which took place at London’s BFI last night. Chaired by Russell Davies from the Really Interesting Group the discussion set out to explore the development and future of open source. Conversations rocked up because the head of user experience design for Nokia’s Maemo unit, Harri Kiljander, made up one third of the panel discussing the topic. Sitting in the audience, Conversations bumped (once more) into Jussi Mäkinen (we also rubbed shoulders at last week’s Nokia World party), in town to hobnob with Maemo developers during the onedotzero festival.
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By Mike on 10 September 2009
GLOBAL – Recently we were lucky enough to grab a quick chat with Mark Ollila, Director of X-Media Solutions at Nokia. An intriguing job title, indeed, backed up by an exciting role. See, Mark is responsible for running a worldwide team focused on creating new cross-media services, cross-media games (including N-Gage) and evolution of current services such as Ovi Share (whilst juggling and balancing plates on his head). Certainly, no small task. We spoke to him briefly at NW09 about the hot topic of location-based gaming and he gave us a better idea of when we can expect what he calls “casual location” games to leap out of the conceptual arena and spring to life.
By JBC on 07 September 2009
ESPOO, Finland – The next generation of mobile broadband moved a step closer today with the release of the Nokia Internet Modem RD-3, Nokia’s first LTE-capable Internet Modem. The new device is designed to be used in industry trials which will help the development of Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology. The device itself is expected to be used by network vendors, equipment manufacturers and operators. It is expected that the first LTE-capable networks will launch before the end of 2010.
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By JBC on 03 September 2009
STUTTGART, Germany - Creating applications for Nokia devices has just got a whole lot easier. This morning on the second day of Nokia World 09 the Ovi SDK Beta was unveiled, along with a new navigation API. What’s more the new SDK will enable developers to deploy applications across multiple devices, quickly and easily. The new navigation API offers developers the opportunity to bring navigation directly into applications.
By JBC on 01 September 2009
STUTTGART, Germany – On the eve of Nokia World 09 the winners of the Calling All Innovators developer competition were announced. Three winners were revealed for the three main categories covering Internet Innovation, Flash and Emerging Markets (Apps on Maps winners will be announced later in the week). Over 1,700 submissions were made for Calling All Innovators from developers representing 85 countries. But that’s hardly a surprise, given the $250,000 prize purse on offer.
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By Charlie on 18 August 2009
BOSTON, USA – We spend all day glued to our data streams looking at phones and gadgets and Web services and changes in tech and so on. We fall into the rabbit hole of the nitty gritty and crave to touch the fantastic hardware.
But, I try hard to see what’s happening above that, as well, such as large industry trends (or non-trends) or events that I think are tremendously significant, but usually missed by the folks around me.
Below, I list two very interesting things that will get you talking. The first one compares phone usage patterns in the US and Europe. The second one is about some African hackers.
By Charlie on 07 August 2009
BOSTON, USA – I want to bring up two things for discussion today: the end of the world and the quantified self. One is about all information disappearing, the other, about all information appearing. What ties them together is the future of the Web.
Intrigued? I hope so. Read on.
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