Mixed Reality, Dynamic Wireless and mobile life in 2015: Nokia’s Head of Research sets the scene

HELSINKI, Finland – Launched in June 2008, The Leadership Edge is an interesting little Nokia site dedicated to “insights into innovation from the office at the CTO at Nokia”. It’s been a little light on content until now (I’ve eagerly been checking), but earlier this week Christopher Iwata, Nokia’s Head of Research Strategy, posted a tantalizing piece looking seven years into the future, identifying key areas for research and the stuff that excites the Nokia Research Center most, including something called ‘Mixed reality’…

LONDON, UK – Having soaked up what Charlie had to say about One Web Day and the impact the Internet has had on him personally, Nokia, and you, I thought I’d throw my hat into the ring. Plus, James my other Conversations cohort had some interesting thoughts on how the Internet has and is affecting our lives, so I thought I’d better gatecrash the opinion party.

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Location-based answers – what are your questions?

Recently I’ve been on a bit of a mobile behavior binge, writing at any opportunity about context aware services and how their rapid evolution could unwittingly yet positively affect the way we use our handsets. The reason? Simply that I believe that we’re in one of the most fascinating periods of transition when it comes to our mobile lifestyles, as location-based services are now a reality with the growth of GPS and faster connections, making it tremendously exciting as a phone user looking at the horizon.

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Internet of Things research center opens doors to new thinking

LAUSANNE, Switzerland – Nokia’s hunger for collaboration and gleaning ideas from the world’s brilliant minds is one of the pillars of its innovation strategy, and crucial in shaping the mobile future. The recently opened Nokia Research Centre in Lausanne, dedicated to studying the Internet of Things, continues Nokia’s ‘sharing ethos’ and is looking to recruit anyone with ideas to drive forward this major research project.

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Is ‘Internet of Things’ already under our noses?

INTERNATIONAL – There are some ties to the physical world that we just can’t seem to shake off, like the humble old business card. Appreciating that, the new Multiscanner business card reader built into the E71 and E66 enables you to take a photo of card and then squirt the info electronically into your address book. You might need to change the odd bit of info here or there – the tech used is called Optical Character Recognition (OCR), and can sometimes be more of an art than a hard science – but it will do the bulk of the heavy lifting for you.

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Nokia’s software springboard in place

ESPOO, Finland – Way back in January news emerged of Nokia’s plan to buy Trolltech. In mainstream terms it’s a little known organization, but despite the lack of glitz this is a smart outfit equipped with world class cross-platform development software and tools. So today’s news that the acquisition has been unconditionally approved by the European Commission marks an important milestone on Nokia’s journey towards enabling everyone to access the software and services they want on multiple platforms and devices, a vision championed in the recent evolution of Ovi.

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Research on the “Internet of Things” officially begins

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.

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NRC outreach calls for context aware pioneers

LAUSANNE, Switzerland – The new Nokia Research Center project in collaboration with the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology has yet to officially swing its doors open, yet we’ve noticed in a hidden corridor on the NRC website that it’s already begun casting its net to pull in even more talent and creative thinkers – the core focus on context aware services and the “Internet of Things”, an extremely exciting area of development that we’ve covered a many times here on Conversations.

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Fresh perspectives on the future of mobile life

LAUSANNE, Switzerland – Next Thursday 5 June sees the launch of the new Nokia Research Center (NRC) program in Lausanne. Fusing the talents of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology and NRC, this collaborative research venture is already promising to explore some of the most exciting and unchartered paths on the mobile development landscape, including contextually aware interaction, environment sensors and bold new visions for sustainability.