By James on 22 April 2008
LONDON, England – The global music download business is currently worth about $4billion. Tero Ojanpero reckons that if less than 10 per cent of the devices Nokia sold were Comes With Music devices, it would double the size of the market. That’s one helluva claim and probably one brought into the discussions which resulted in today’s news that Sony BMG is to offer its entire catalogue to Comes With Music customers.
By Mike on 21 April 2008
SYDNEY, Australia – The Nokia Music Store is plugged in and ready to be powered up for launch in Australia on Monday 22 April. The latest locally-focussed digital song shop to go live, this version was previewed earlier today and is being welcomed with open ears.
By Charlie on 21 April 2008
ESPOO, Finland – This week Nokia launched another NFC phone. NFC stands for ‘Near Field Communication’, a short-range radio-based data exchange technology. While NFC refers to a particular standard, you probably use something similar with tags such as bus cards, ski passes, or corporate access keys that you use by touching to a surface.
By Mike on 18 April 2008
LONDON, UK – My recent chat with Jeremy Belostock, Head of NFC at Nokia, about the future of Near Field Communication, helped reinforce a personal belief that touch-to-pay and NFC has the potential to permanently alter the way we behave with our phones, and that it can in fact have a significantly positive environmental effect.
By Mike on 17 April 2008
INTERNATIONAL – This week sees Nokia Beta Labs celebrate its first birthday. Headed up by Tommi Vilkamo and his small team, it’s kind of incredible to have witnessed how quickly Beta Labs has matured into such a dynamic site fuelled by an invaluably engaged community.
By Mike on 16 April 2008
LONDON, UK – Earlier today we caught up with Jeremy Belostock, the man at the helm of Near Field Communication for Nokia.
By Mike on 15 April 2008
ESPOO, Finland – Near Field Communications, and the whole tap-to-pay and tap-to-share concept, is an exciting twist on the mobile convergence theme. But it’s felt somewhat anonymous without an attractive flagship device to associate with it, and something to ground the concept in a day-to-day reality.
By the Team on 09 April 2008
LONDON, UK – The number of games coming to N-Gage has the potential to skyrocket in a brilliantly short space of time.
Ideaworks3D, the company behind launch titles System Rush:
Evolution and Mile High Pinball, has unveiled a smart new tool that lets games developers rapidly deploy existing games onto the N-Gage platform.
By the Team on 09 April 2008
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands – Having flicked the switch earlier today, the new Dutch Nokia Music Store is alive and rocking, and planning to seriously tune into local sounds.
By the Team on 08 April 2008
LAS VEGAS, USA – Satellite navigation is seriously under the microscope at the moment, with heaps of companies looking at fresh ways to enhance the intricacies of GPS-based experiences.
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