By Mike on 22 July 2008
INTERNATIONAL – Mobile life, whether collaborating, sharing or social networking can’t help but feel fragmented. We’re constantly compartmentalizing our mobile media existences and aren’t used to the concept of throwing our virtual eggs all into one basket. Well at least that’s how I find myself behaving, collecting bite-size services, be it Flickr, YouTube, FaceBook, and then let them all loosely live side-by-side in happy disharmony. So where does Ovi fit into things, with it’s one big basket approach?
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By Mike on 22 July 2008
INTERNATIONAL – Earlier this month James wrote an interesting piece on how Nokia’s wider recycling values are being applied internally. Continuing this thread, this week I was pointed in the direction of a smart internal website at Nokia that builds on this ethos. Simply called Connect to Protect, Nokia has set up a dedicated site that’s essentially a one-stop resource for environmental issues relating not only to Nokia as a business, but also to employees’ private lives.
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By Mike on 22 July 2008
HELSINKI, Finland – In a recent interview with top global news agency AFP, Leo Kärkkäinen, one of the chief visionaries at the Nokia Research Centre may have joked that “maybe some time in the future mobile phones will grow in a pot like plants or maybe you could print a new phone”, but his tongue-in-cheek quip perfectly highlights the far-reaching breadth of research being explored behind the scenes.
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By Mike on 21 July 2008
INTERNATIONAL – With location-based services (LBS) stealing so many online column inches recently, one aspect that I think has dodged discussion is the hardware – most of the limelight has been shone on the warranted significance of Nokia’s recent acquisitions of NAVTEQ, Trolltech and Plazes, alongside the tangible releases of pioneering new LBS apps such as Nokia Chat .
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By Mike on 21 July 2008
INTERNATIONAL – As a member of the Nokia Design Studio research team, Younghee Jung is on the vanguard of behavioural science and if you pop along to her blog you’ll discover all manner of ruminations and insights into how we interact with our mobile devices.
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By Mike on 21 July 2008
INTERNATIONAL – How connected are you and to what degree do you want be? In today’s fast paced highly connected mobile world and the breathless evolution of location-based services (LBS) it’s not such a simple question anymore, raising some important social issues along the way.
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By James on 18 July 2008
ESPOO, Finland – Last October myself and a couple of coach loads of international journalists made our way up to Oulu in northern Finland. About 100km south of the Arctic circle, I thought it an odd place for a media event, until we found out what The Way We Live Next was all about. In short, it’s like a window on Nokia Research Centre (NRC), where the juicy future projects being worked on are rolled out for the
selected media to poke, prod and write about.
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By Mike on 18 July 2008
At the tail end of last week Charlie wrote a piece on co-creation and Conversations. Basically a piece on how sites like ours and ongoing projects such as Nokia Beta Labs are hoping to bridge a gap between big old Nokia and anyone out there interested in having an influence and being heard. Sure, it’s small acorns at the moment, but momentum is beginning to grow on this front which is hugely exciting for all involved.
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By Charlie on 17 July 2008
ESPOO, Finland – We asked a colleague, Janne Jalkanen, about the Symbian deal. He not only has experience with the inner workings of S60 in Nokia, but he was the creator of JSPwiki, a popular open source Java-based wiki sofware.
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By Mike on 17 July 2008
ESPOO, Finland – Having barely had time to draw breath from the completion of the NAVTEQ and Trolltech deals, Nokia has brought another significant Internet services company under its wing. This week Nokia completed the acquisition of a small cutting-edge online outfit called Plazes, a bite-size company that offers a funky mash-up of a mobile social networking blended with context-aware location-based info and interaction.
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INTERNATIONAL – Mobile life, whether collaborating, sharing or social networking can’t help but feel fragmented. We’re constantly compartmentalizing our mobile media existences and aren’t used to the concept of throwing our virtual eggs all into one basket. Well at least that’s how I find myself behaving, collecting bite-size services, be it Flickr, YouTube, FaceBook, and then let them all loosely live side-by-side in happy disharmony. So where does Ovi fit into things, with it’s one big basket approach?
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