By Mike on 17 September 2008
HOLLYWOOD, USA – Despite the emergence of ‘affordable’ consumer standalone high-def camcorders, many of us remain content with shooting home movies in standard definition and are even satisfied with capturing those motion-filled moments in lesser quality. And of course, much of this digital footage is shot using the camcorder capabilities built into heaps of today’s handsets. Why is is it we’re happy to document our lives this way?
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By James on 16 September 2008
GLOBAL – That’s the question Tim Berners-Lee asked when he was speaking to the BBC to publicise the launch of his World Wide Web Foundation. The Foundation is set up to improve the web’s accessibility, particularly for those in developing countries. According to the story on BBC news “only 20 per cent of the world’s population have access to the web.”
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By James on 15 September 2008
LONDON, England - We went out for a walk on Saturday and just after we stumbled into the local woods, I spotted a phone on the ground. It was old, a budget model, and blended in quite well with the gravel. But, a closer look reveled that it was actually on. Someone had dropped it. I’d never found a mobile phone before, so I was kinda excited!
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By Ben on 12 September 2008
Corporate social responsibility is an important issue for Nokia, and often one of the hardest things to work out is where the border lies between CSR and individual choice. Fitness is clearly an issue where the boundaries blur, and while there’s a sizable and growing fitness community, there are plenty of potential people who would be put off by a phone guilting him or her into jogging. But is prominent awareness of a feature really suggestion?
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By Charlie on 12 September 2008
HELSINKI, Finland – I was invited to come check out the Nokia Open Labs workshops here in Helsinki today. Last night I met some of the attendees and, must say, I am impressed with the roster.
The Nokia Open Labs is a discussion of the future, the kind of discussion you get when you pack 40-plus people in a small room, 40-plus people who live at the cutting-edge and have no reservations when it comes to sharing their thoughts. These workshops are a way for Nokia to get a fresh dose of ideas and new topics to think about.
Read on to see how you can follow this event online.
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By James on 11 September 2008
LONDON, England - This might just be me, but more often than not, I’m
finding people withholding their caller ID. My brother was the first to
do it, and it was really annoying as more often than not (given the
time he’d call me, and the fact I’d just ignored his message on my
landline) I’d have a good idea it was him, I couldn’t answer with
anything other than a quizzical hello.
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By Mike on 05 September 2008
HELSINKI, Finland – Imagine sitting down in front of your computer and manually and meticulously stitching together thousands of photos of Nokia devices together to create a self portrait… then thank the stars you don’t have to because there’s software out there that does all the grunt work (even if you were somehow in anyway inclined to do so). Find out more about the guy responsible right here…
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By Mike on 04 September 2008
Korea, ASIA – Having earlier posted a piece on Nokia’s Jan Chipchase and his contribution to this week’s “Beyond the Web Browser” themed Lift Asia conference in Korea, it reminded me of an interesting article I came across last month regarding Korean Internet etiquette education, written by no other than Jan’s old partner in design, Younghee Jung.
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By Mike on 04 September 2008
JEJU, Korea – Off the back of One Web Day, me and the rest of the Conversations team posted our experiences of the Internet and where we imagine things heading. The future of the Internet and how we interact with it is a hot topic at the moment, and we’re far from the only ones considering this…
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By Charlie on 03 September 2008
LONDON, UK – Do we really need smartphones? Indeed, why are they called smartphones? Are all other phones dumb?
I’ve been using cutting-edge Internet-connected mobile devices for around ten years and over time pushed the envelope so far, it’s even got ripped in a few places. Lately I’ve come to see that, in the end, it’s connecting to people (where have I heard that line?) that matters most to me and, for the most part, voice and text seem to do the trick.
Therefore, I hereby announce the formation of The 1100 Club (not to be confused with The 1100 Club).
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HOLLYWOOD, USA – Despite the emergence of ‘affordable’ consumer standalone high-def camcorders, many of us remain content with shooting home movies in standard definition and are even satisfied with capturing those motion-filled moments in lesser quality. And of course, much of this digital footage is shot using the camcorder capabilities built into heaps of today’s handsets. Why is is it we’re happy to document our lives this way?
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