By James on 02 October 2008
LONDON, England - Tero’s back on stage now, telling us about the various Music offerings on the software front. The Nokia Music Store and now Nokia Music for PC. How it manages your music, syncs your playlist and the like.
By Charlie on 02 October 2008
ESPOO, Finland – In the course of our interview with Daniel Peterson from Nokia Design, he made a comparison between cars in the 20th century with phones in the 21st century.
Daniel spent many years as a Vehicle Industrial Designer in the auto industry. And he’s been comparing those years with what he’s been learning about mobiles since joining Nokia about a year ago. He has a strong sense of responsibility for the people he designs for. He feels that the design decisions he makes affects many people and he believes Design is a way to make things more human and more beneficial to humanity.
He also wonders whether the phone can supplant the car as a tool for freedom.
By Charlie on 01 October 2008
ESPOO, Finland – We spend so much time focusing on the product – what is in a device, when is the device shipping, what tech is in it, how much does it cost, yada yada yada. What I hope we get to do here at Nokia Conversations is also highlight the other aspects of this industry, such great stuff we are involved in that makes the world a better and more beautiful place.
In light of my more morose post yesterday, I’d like to point to things that show that creativity and compassion should always be on our minds.
By James on 26 September 2008
GLOBAL -Even though I never really had a clue what it meant, I’ve always been (as have Mike and Charlie) excited by the concept of The Internet of Things. See, mobile browsing isn’t a brilliant experience. Sure, snapping quick tugs of information is fine, but nobody’s going to spend their day surfing on a small screen. I have no desire to try, and I doubt many others do either. But that’s not all the Internet is good for.
By Charlie on 23 September 2008
ESPOO, Finland – This week will be a lot about innovation in the mobile world (James and I are at The Way We Live Next, Nokia Research Center’s geek-fest for journalists of all stripes).
By Charlie on 23 September 2008
KENYA AND INDIA – Just listened to the segment I most wanted to see here at the Way We Live Next event, at Nokia House Espoo. James has been writing up some talk summaries at the end of each session (and a growing round up), but I wanted to just point out one question that came to mind after listening to Jan Blom’s talk about India and Jussi Impiö’s video from Kenya.
Jan and Jussi pointed out a common theme around how Kenyans and Indians tackle the challenges of access, power, tools, and tech in general. The solutions that stood out usually had something to do with community and sharing.
By James on 23 September 2008
ESPOO, Finland – Opening the second annual ‘The Way We Live Next’ conference at Nokia HQ in Espoo, chief technology officer Bob Iannucci gives an insight into ‘Agenda 2015′ – what Nokia thinks the world will be like seven years from now.
Iannucci talks about the eight areas of focus for research in Agenda 2015 and how the research is actually being carried out.
By Charlie on 22 September 2008
INTERNATIONAL – Just wanted to remind everyone that today is OneWebDay. We wrote a few stories back in August about it. But now today is the day.
There’s a great article in the Huffington Post about the origins of the Day and what’s going on. Please go read it.
By Charlie on 19 September 2008
ESPOO, Finland – Is it good or bad that we can record what we do, where we are, and what’s around us – automatically?
By Charlie on 18 September 2008
ESPOO, Finland – Apologies for being absent these past many days. I’m still trying to figure out where last week or so went. There was a lot going on (the world did not end) and I had some great deep discussions with folks inside and outside the company that will have me writing some interesting things over the next weeks.
As for the news online while I was offline, the theme was synchronization. So, let’s get our bookmarks in sync and I’ll share a few items of note.
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