GLOBAL – Ok, folks, we are now on Day 5 of the Pass the Parcel game. There’s been a lot of speculation and excitement over this, more than we expected. Indeed, we are really happy with the reaction and all the guesses.
Nonetheless, for all of us who are not on the lucky list of parcel-passers, all we can do is guess what the heck is in the package.
As for what the package has been revealing, we’d like to make a few comments here, if only to occupy our minds while we wait for the final layer to be removed. Read on for more.
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ESPOO, Finland – Download speeds, and how fast we can suck up data over the air via 3G and newer HSDPA technologies, has been a collective obsession in recent years. Well, in fairness we’re not interested in the technologies per se, but rather purely the fact that we’re now (in many territories) able to download complex webpages, soak up songs and receive bloated attachment-packed emails in seconds. So it’s fair to say that the incoming delivery service is humming, and we’re reaping the fruits. However, on the flip-side, the outgoing postal service and uploading in general has been less talked about and has yet to spark a flame of excitement.
But of course it should, and now is the time to fan the fire.
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GLOBAL – Looking backwards is healthy and can be entertaining, but it’s no secret that the guiltiest vice of being immersed in the mobile world is looking forward and seeing our future relationships with devices come into focus. Over the past couple of years we’ve witnessed the reality of high-speed data and Internet connectivity on the move, triggering an explosion in mobile Internet services and encouraging innovations such as location based services. Recent developments with HSDPA and the emergence of 3.5G networks has helped cement this, but already the seeds of a 4G planet are being sewed.
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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.
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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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AUSTRIA – How fast is your broadband at home? On a good day, we get about 3Mbps, which is good enough for most activities, though downloading big files does take a little time. Now how about if we had 10Mbps? That’d be quick, certainly fast enough to do pretty much anything we want online. Now how about if you had 10Mbps on your phone? That’s just what Nokia Siemens managed in a recent test with mobilkom Austria.
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GLOBAL – Ok, folks, we are now on Day 5 of the Pass the Parcel game. There’s been a lot of speculation and excitement over this, more than we expected. Indeed, we are really happy with the reaction and all the guesses.
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