Nokia Beta Labs spring cleaned and psyched about Ovi Store

GLOBAL – There’s been a bunch of activity over at Nokia Beta Labs this week, with a couple of fresh app updates and some significant stuff being laid to rest. But it’s all good, and this particular Beta Labs spring clean marks a milestone moment as we begin to spy swarms of exciting apps buzzing over the horizon with the imminent arrival of Nokia’s upcoming Ovi Store.

Read on to find out more about what’s been happening this week over at Nokia Beta Labs.
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Symbian Smartphone Show: browser battles go mobile

LONDON, England – The Internet browser wars have been escalating of late, with Google’s Chrome mixing it up with Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer on the desktop front. But things are becoming just as heated when it comes to the mobile Internet, with Mozilla and Opera releasing new browsers not just in the same week, but on the same day.

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Nokia’s new breed of workplace

The ‘workplace’ is fast evolving beyond traditional recognition, and Nokia is one of the many companies creating radical mould-breaking working environments. Is this change being born purely out of enhanced communication tools and the advent of high-speed Internet culture? Yes, in part.

It’s also clear that there’s a greater human angle to the new approach towards how we work, with core values such as freedom and good health (mental and physical) at the heart of the formula. These new-wave working environments are designed to echo the culture and ethics of a company. So therefore, increased productivity, innovation and results have to come into the equation, don’t they?

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Exploring the Linux learning curve

BERLIN, Germany – Mentioning Nokia and Linux in the same breath has been somewhat taboo recently. Especially since the merest utterance has previously led to false speculations on Nokia’s future mobile platform focus, which clearly remains Symbian, although Linux and open-source clearly have a role to play (a Linux-based system, Maemo, forms the backbone of Nokia’s N810 and N800 Internet Tablets). This is something that Nokia’s head of software, Ari Jaaksi, openly delved into at the Handsets World event in Berlin earlier this week. However, what is clear is that there are some nerve-striking challenges that need to be openly addressed.

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The people behind the products

USA – The latest issue of Fortune Magazine packs a brilliant story (we can modestly declare) of the team behind the N810 Internet tablet. Exploring the team behind a product is always kind of interesting, but the one thing that stands out about the N810 team is the location – it is truly global.

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Nokia N810 – more than its cracked up to be?

WASHINGTON, USA – Ever since the launch of the N770, Nokia has been breaking new ground with its Internet Tablets. The latest version, the N810, upped the ante even more, though not everyone can see the point.