By Mike on 16 March 2009
GLOBAL – The Nokia Locate Sensor concept from NRC is one of those topics that continues to resonate with many of you, and is certainly a subject that has gripped the team here on Conversations. If you’re coming to this fresh, let me bring you up to speed. Last month we asked you for your suggestions on possible alternative uses for the Nokia Locate Sensor – the idea being purely for us all to dredge our grey matter for some smart ideas that we’ll then attempt to run past the NRC team responsible for Nokia Locate Sensor, simply to get some feedback from the people behind this pioneering research project.
Having gathered together a heap of interesting ideas from Conversations readers in mid-February, towards the tail-end of the month we ran a poll to herd your collective opinions on the top three ideas that we should present the NRC team with. The results have been counted, so click through to find out which ideas we’ll be running past the Nokia Locate Sensor team and hoping to get feedback on.
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By JBC on 13 March 2009
TAMPERE, Finland – One of Nokia Research Centre’s open innovation initiatives, the Demola Facility picked up the Activator of the Year award from the Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications. The award recognizes the work the facility does to enable open innovation in the region. Co-founded by Nokia Research Centre, the Demola Facility is also a major collaborator and during the first five months of its existence the Demola centre and the NRC worked on seven open innovation projects.
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By Charlie on 13 March 2009
GLOBAL – In the past month, Nokia has launched four new devices in the XpressMusic range. Add to that the rolling thunder that is the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and you have the makings of a strong range of music devices in various price points and shapes and sizes. Something to suit everyone.
Is this for real? Is this just a flash in the pan or is Nokia really jamming to the music?
In this article, we review Nokia’s history in music (check out the milestones) and make some points about XpressMusic and Comes With Music. We hope to show that Nokia is sitting in the sweet-spot of devices, services, and customer desires, suggesting a tipping-point for the whole music industry.
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By JBC on 04 March 2009
LONDON, England – In the words of the peeps from the Symbian Foundation, things are developing nicely over there. Although a new website is currently being built, the team have put together a blog to keep everyone informed of what’s happening. The new site promises to be be comprehensive when it goes live at symbian.org (the original symbianfoundation.org URL will redirect to the new site). Until that happens, the blog will be the primary source of news and info about the Foundation’s activities. Membership documentation is also available from the old Symbian site, for those who want to join up.
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By JBC on 02 March 2009
GLOBAL – FrontlineForms, the new data gathering tool from the people behind FrontlineSMS launched today, utilising SMS as a carrier for data collection and surveys. Sticking with its core methodology of using SMS as a core technology, the new platform is designed to enable NGOs and those working in the field in remote parts of the world to gather and process data more efficiently.
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By JBC on 24 February 2009
GLOBAL – There’s no stopping the current hurricane that is Twitter and although there are plenty of options for accessing Twitter on your S60 device (including Stew, Dabr and Twibble) but now there’s a new kid on the block thanks to the folks at MobileWays.de. News of Gravity comes courtesy of The Guru who reckons the app “runs great on any S60 3rd Edition smartphone”. We’ve yet to try it out, but going by Symbian-Guru’s review of the beta, it looks pretty appealing. Continue reading>>
By Mike on 24 February 2009
GLOBAL – The brainchild of the Nokia Research Center, Nokia Locate Sensor continues to grip our collective attention and spark chatter on possible alternative uses for its innovative lost ‘n’ locate concept. With that in mind, two weeks ago I asked for your suggestions – ideas on how you think Nokia Locate Sensor could best be exploited and even improved.
The response was great, with many of you putting forward a heap of fascinating ideas for Nokia Locate Sensor. We’ve chosen six of our favourite suggestions, and want you to vote for which you think is best. Once we close the poll in a couple of weeks we’ll take the top three ideas to the NRC team working on Nokia Locate Sensor, and do our best to get a response from them with feedback and thoughts on your concepts, including whether they’re possible.
Click through to read more about each suggestion and to vote for your favourite alternative idea for Nokia Locate Sensor.
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By Charlie on 20 February 2009
BARCELONA, Spain – We’ve written about Nokia Research Center’s Image Space project before. It’s a photo sharing service that creates a navigable, immersive interface to images, maps, and video. Using data from a phone’s GPS, compass, and tilt-sensor, the service builds a 3D representation of the images.
What’s new is not only the ability to hear sounds and see videos, but a new 3D Point Cloud View that aggregates photos from a single object into a very cool three-dimensional model of all the images. Well, you have to see it to get it, so I’ve made a video (below) of Severi Uusitalo demonstrating this and all the other cool stuff in Nokia Image Space.
More after the jump.
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By JBC on 19 February 2009
GLOBAL – We wrote in December about the addition of S60 support to Aptana Studio, the open source Ajax and Web development suite. With 3 million downloads so far, Aptana is one of the best app suites to develop mobile applications in, and the addition of support for Nokia Web Runtime (the plugin is available now) means the path to getting apps onto Nokia devices suddenly got a lot easier. Add to this the new Ovi Store and the next phase of the Calling All Innovators competition, and things are looking very rosy indeed for mobile app development.
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By Charlie on 19 February 2009
BARCELONA, Spain – The head of Nokia Research Center is a guy called Henry Tirri. He was in Barcelona this week spreading the message of what Nokia Research Center is doing and what the future will look like. We caught up with him and he kindly stepped in front of the lens for a video interview.
Click through to watch our video interview with Henry Tirri, and for all the highlights of our fascinating chat with one of the key people responsible driving innovation from the frontline within Nokia.
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GLOBAL – The Nokia Locate Sensor concept from NRC is one of those topics that continues to resonate with many of you, and is certainly a subject that has gripped the team here on Conversations. If you’re coming to this fresh, let me bring you up to speed. Last month we asked you for your suggestions on possible alternative uses for the Nokia Locate Sensor – the idea being purely for us all to dredge our grey matter for some smart ideas that we’ll then attempt to run past the NRC team responsible for Nokia Locate Sensor, simply to get some feedback from the people behind this pioneering research project.
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