UK – Bike Week, guided by Nokia, kicks off tomorrow with a range of events happening all over the country. For the first time, Nokia is proud sponsor of the week and the Nokia Pavilion will be appearing at a range of events throughout the week. If you’re feeling fit, and fancy feeling fitter, then get yourselves along to one of these. You never know, you might even enjoy yourself!
LAUSANNE, Switzerland – Today marks the launch of the new long-term research partnership between Nokia Research Center and the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology, with the lab doors officially opening in Lausanne.
INTERNATIONAL – GPS has achieved unprecedented buzzword status on the mobile scene of late. What with Nokia CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, last week sparking a vision of GPS as standard when he spoke of expecting to ship “35 million GPS-enabled Nokia devices in 2008, which is equal to the entire GPS device market in 2007″.
ESPOO, Finland - When it comes to search, the likes of Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! are friends, not foe, of Nokia. The services complement what Nokia offers, rather than competes against it. Not because Nokia doesn’t think finding stuff is important, but because what and how you find using your Nokia is totally different. Moconews.net recently caught up with Nokia’s head of search Jussi-Pekka Partanen who talked openly about this and other search related issues. It’s well worth a read, and we’ve picked out a few of the choice bits here.
SAN FRANCISCO, USA – Last week, Nokia’s head of location-based activities, Michael Halbherr, told Reuters that Nokia is on track to have half of its devices shipping with GPS by 2012. That’s just four years away. Right now there are five GPS devices with four more due out in the coming months. That means a lot is going to change in the next couple of years.
HELSINKI, Finland – Having recently stated, “We expect to ship about 35 million GPS-enabled Nokia devices in 2008, which is equal to the entire GPS device market in 2007,” Nokia CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, paints a picture of GPS as standard. But the significance of this goes way beyond just personal navigation. Having GPS so interwoven into our mobile lives, paired with the rapid increase of faster data connections, encourages a brave new world of location-based interaction, enabling us to effortlessly mine our surroundings for information consciously and unconsciously.
ESPOO, Finland – For just about a year, we’ve been taunted with the
prospects of Widgets on our devices. Now we’ve got them, we don’t know
what to do with ourselves!
LAUSANNE, Switzerland – Somewhat of a head-scratching phrase, the “Internet of Things” is the core concept behind a new long-term research partnership between Nokia and the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology.
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