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.
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…
GLOBAL – Floods of Nokia N96 handsets have begun their exodus from factory to shop floor, with shipping beginning today. Hardly in need of introduction, the newest Nseries unquestionably out-muscles the N95 8GB in face-off features stakes – it comes loaded with 16GB of storage coupled with optional microSD card slot that’ll suck up to 24GB of extra memory, supports live TV (if you’re region supports DVB-H), and my personal favourite… the kickstand!
LONDON, England – The concept for Comes with Music was first uttered publicly by Nokia back in December 2007, since triggering a full spectrum of opinions ranging from positive anticipation to fierce gut-felt cynicism. What is undisputed and exciting, however, is that this is a mould-breaking service that is igniting debate, pushing boundaries and perhaps, could fundamentally change the entire landscape of how we going about digesting music, directly or indirectly. Interesting times in tunes-ville.
HELSINKI, Finland – The minds over at the Nokia Research Center in Helsinki, have just published a report on a new breed of mobile universal remote called Homebird. The idea simply being that you’d be able to control any wireless WLAN device in your home remotely via your Nokia handset, be it remotely scheduling TV recordings, adjusting lighting throughout your home, or controlling any networked digital aspect of your life from anywhere.
GLOBAL – Over the past couple of weeks we’ve been pointing our telescope at a constellation of smart mobile apps that were hand-picked to receive Nokia support as part of the 2008 Forum Nokia Innovation Series initiative.
TREVISO, Italy – In recent months we’ve witnessed an interesting evolution as location-based mobile services have stretched their tendrils into new spaces – social networking (Plazes), conversation (Nokia Chat), and even in combating CO2 emissions (we:offset). So it’s encouraging to see yet another developer take a different approach to context aware services. Dubbed UbiSafe, this location-based service has been designed to help ensure people with special needs, children, or elderly remain safe within a designated area, using GPS tracking technology.
ESPOO, Finland – Despite the broadening reach of the Wi-Fi cloud across cities, there remain large holes that need plugging, urban as well as rural. So with 3G and faster HSDPA networks plugging many of those holes, JoikuSoft lets us and our friends tap into this by transforming your 3G signal into a secure Wi-Fi hotspot.
GLOBAL – I recently chatted with Tommi Vilkamo, the modest man heading up Nokia’s equally modest Beta Labs division, and was intrigued to discover the vision behind it and what the future holds for Beta Labs.
SAN MATEO, USA – Despite mobile TV being a perennial buzzword, it’s now taken to humming in the background while other tangible and more readily accessible services such as GPS location-based software hog the limelight. That said, regardless of the challenges live mobile television faces in establishing itself in many countries, alternative solutions are being championed. As is the case with Hava Mobile Player, created by Monsoon Multimedia – one of the developers cherry-picked for support as part of the 2008 Forum Nokia Innovation Series program.
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