By JBC on 22 July 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, USA - NewScientist.com reports that bio engineers working in the University of California in San Francisco have come up with a system to aid disease detection in developing countries using a Nokia N73. The device is one part of an apparatus the team developed which enables medical staff to photograph blood samples before sending them over the Internet for analysis. The team believe that images of malaria-infected blood captured by the device are good enough to detect the disease.
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By JBC on 16 July 2009
GLOBAL – Symbian Horizon is a new application-publishing program previewed today by the folks at The Symbian Foundation. The program, set for release in October is designed to make publishing applications to Symbian platforms faster and easier for developers. Symbian Horizon also sports a range of support services to smooth the way for introducing applications.
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By JBC on 24 June 2009
GLOBAL – That’s what Anand Chandrasekher of Intel’s Ultra Mobility Group said yesterday on the news of Nokia’s cooperation with Intel on device and chipset architectures for a new class of mobile computing devices. The collaboration is far-reaching, touching on Open Source technologies and bringing the best of portable computing power together with mobile communications to create new mobile Internet focussed devices. Stepping beyond today’s smartphones, notebooks and netbooks, the companies are expanding their longstanding relationship to help bring to life innovative hardware, software and mobile Internet services.
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By JBC on 10 June 2009
GLOBAL – The folks at Nokia Research Centre have come up with a new source of power for mobile devices – ambient radio waves. Using the electromagnetic radiation emitted from WiFi transmitters, mobile phone antennas, TV masts and the like, the team are already harvesting 3-5 milliwatts using current prototypes test circuits. [UPDATE 11jun09: Sorry folks, these are research test set-ups not product protos. Changed the word so as not to perpetuate the confusion in the original article. - CS]. The target is to hit 50 milliwatts, which would be enough to (eventually) re-juice a phone that is switched off.
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By Mike on 09 June 2009
Berkeley, USA – There’s no disguising the fact that we’re shameless fans of what the teams over at the Nokia Research Center do, applaud NRC’s open innovation approach, and hurl praise at its many collaborators and radical thinkers. From recent developments such as Nokia Locate Sensor and indoor positioning trials to battery bending and face sketching, this is one of the most exciting divisions within Nokia, so it’s great to see another collaboration and new laboratory pop up recently in Berkley, California in the USA.
The new Nokia Research Center in Berkley is tasked with some fascinating projects coupled with important ambitions that could help alter (for the better) what our devices are capable of achieving in the future. One of the core areas of research is the alchemy of squeezing better performance from mobile products using less power consumption. Read on to find out more about this and the other fields of research that will be explored at Nokia’s latest research facility.
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By Mike on 05 June 2009
LONDON, England – The recent shift towards including innovative sensors into mobile devices has given birth to a new dialect of mobile interaction and communication in the form of physical gestures – the rise of accelerometers has already facilitated the adoption of a handful of instinctive solutions to common tasks otherwise reserved to the realm of a series of button presses, whether it’s flipping your phone face-down to silence it on the Nokia 8800 or turning a device into a landscape position to rotate the image onscreen on the Nokia N86 8MP.
The field of mobile gestures is a fascinating one that Nokia is keenly exploring and researching, with explorative designers Younghee Jung and Joe Macleod on the frontline. Last week we had the opportunity to chat to them at The Inside Story design day in London about their ideas on mobile gesture design, the research they’ve been doing, and the tools that have been developed to help test how well future mobile gestures might work.
Click through to watch our video interview with the duo, in which they talk about the creation of the gesture phone prototype that they use to explore this new dialect of physical interaction designed to let you perform tasks and communicate in very new ways.
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By Mike on 04 June 2009
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UPDATE: We’ve just got hold of the video showcasing the latest phase of the indoor positioning trial at the Kamppi shopping center in Helsinki, Finland. Click through to watch Christian Del Rosso from the Nokia Research Center walk you through what’s going on.
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HELSINKI, Finland – Indoor positioning, and the contextual services that can be strapped to it, is something that has gripped our attention since word of this innovative development broke outside the walls of the Nokia Research Center back in April 2008 (read our very first story to mention indoor positioning). Since then the buzz around indoor positioning has increased (aided by the excitement around technologies such as the Nokia Locate Sensor), and has recently galvanized through live real-world trials – the latest being the second phase of a trial that’s currently taking place at the Kamppi Shopping Center in Helsinki, Finland.
Read on to find out more about what’s going on with Nokia’s indoor positioning research and development after the break.
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By JBC on 26 May 2009
GLOBAL – In the true nature of Open Source, Forum Nokia is encouraging designers and developers to share their best design resources with the wider Nokia development community. To help oil the wheels they’ve got some top prizes up for grabs, and a whole heap of recognition. The Mobile Design Challenge will see three winners walk away with a Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and the overall winner also bagging a copy of Adobe CS4.
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By JBC on 21 May 2009
GLOBAL – Last night we brought news of the new Ovi Maps Player API and with it a brief intro to the latest Forum Nokia Developer competition: Calling All Innovators – Apps on Maps. With the new Ovi Maps Player API Ovi Maps has been opened up to third parties to add location aware services and content to Ovi Maps. What’s more, Ovi Maps can now be easily embedded in other websites or web applications, all using familiar technology such as HTML, CSS and Javascript. Oh, and there’s the small matter of $30,000 too. That’s the prize fund up for grabs for the best Apps on Maps solution. Continue reading>>
By JBC on 15 May 2009
ESPOO, Finland – Nokia Betalabs, the virtual incubation room where new applications hang out to get tested and improved before official release, has had a makeover. The site plays host to a substantial community of Nokia users who use it to find and download new applications, released in beta mode, before feeding back comments and suggestions. Initial reaction to the refresh is very positive, but the biggest boost comes in the form of a mobile version of Betalabs (much like our own mobile version of Conversations – have you seen it?). Continue reading>>
SAN FRANCISCO, USA - NewScientist.com reports that bio engineers working in the University of California in San Francisco have come up with a system to aid disease detection in developing countries using a Nokia N73. The device is one part of an apparatus the team developed which enables medical staff to photograph blood samples before sending them over the Internet for analysis. The team believe that images of malaria-infected blood captured by the device are good enough to detect the disease.
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