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In a country known as the world's most guarded safe haven for domestically produced phones, South Korean mobile phone carriers said they are ready to launch overseas-made handsets from Apple, RIM and Nokia. Carriers are already in the final stages of getting non-Korean phones into the domestic market for consumers who have been...
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Finnish-based Nokia, the world's biggest mobile phone maker, said Thursday its operating profit dropped by 21 per cent in the third quarter 2008.
Operating profit for the quarter was 1.46 billion euros (1.98 billion dollars), compared to 1.86 billion euros for the corresponding business period in 2007.
Net sales dropped 5 per cent...
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 Alicia Keys is nominated for five awards during the 2008 American Music Awards. Her nominations include artist of the year and favorite female artist in pop, rock, soul and R&B categories. The 27-year-old singer had her debut album “Songs in A Mirror” in 2002. The album was a total success which brought her five Grammy Awards in the...
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The world's largest maker of mobile phones, Finnish-based Nokia, said Thursday it was "unclear" how the ongoing financial turmoil will impact different markets.
Nokia on Thursday reported that its operating profit dropped by 21 per cent in the third quarter 2008.
Operating profit for the quarter was 1.46 billion euros...
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Nokia mobile phone production in the Romanian city of Jucu near Cluj will reach the 10-million mark by early October, the company's vice president Anssi Vanjoki said Wednesday, Romanian news agency Mediafax reported.
Vanjoki spoke at the official opening ceremony of the Jucu plant, which started operating in February.
The new plant...
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 Tom Bergeron, of “Dancing With the Stars,”
Ryan Seacrest, of “American Idol,” Howie Mandel of “Deal or No Deal,” Heidi
Klum of “Project Runway,” and Jeff Probst of “Survivor” have been named co-hosts
for the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards, which will take place September 21 at the
Nokia Theatre and will be broadcast on ABC, ABC and The...
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 Filmmaker Spike Lee has teamed up with Nokia in a project that consists in making a movie composed of cell phone footage recorded by regular people. The film will be made up of three acts; each of them will have a certain theme that will be made public online in due time, so that cell phone users would have four weeks to record and send...
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 Filmmaker Spike Lee teamed with Nokia in order to direct a movie made with cell phone footage from everyday people, Reuters reports. It appears that the film will have three acts, and an “assignment” for each act would be announced online.
“You are seeing first hand the democratization of film,” Lee declared in...
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 The German engineering firm Siemens AG announced on Tuesday that it would cut 6.800 jobs from its telecommunications equipment division, in its attempt to orientate the business toward software, more than other domains.The Munich based company said in a statement that it plans to cut 3.800 jobs worldwide, including around 2000 in...
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 Activist group Greenpeace has released on Tuesday its last environmental ranking of the 18 most popular electronic companies that scored Nintendo 0, as the first company that did not get any points out of the possible 10.Along with Nintendo, Microsoft also was criticized due to the fact that it failed to remove toxic chemicals from their...
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 After 10 years of having its spectacular show at the
landmark Shrine Auditorium, which is located across the street from the
University of Southern California campus, The Academy of Television Arts and
Sciences has sealed a 10-year deal with Anschutz Entertainment Group to move the
Annual Emmy Awards to the 7,100-seat Nokia Theatre,...
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 The 35th edition of American Music Awards had in the center
of the prize-attention two American Idol stars.
Former competitors in the popular show Carrie Underwood and
Chris Daughtry won a hat-trick of awards each, leading in the top
winning artist of the Los Angeles’ Nokia Theater event.
Underwood, who has very recently won...
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 During this year’s edition of the GSMA Mobile World Congress
trade show held in Barcelona, the big players in the smartphone market looked
like they were struggling as much as they could to increase their revenues.
Companies such as RIM, Google, Nokia, Windows and Palm have
each come up with new products, in a competition that...
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 The Nokia Corporation has launched a new Internet music store under its new Ovi brand this week, with more than 2 million songs from all the major record labels, besides Warner Music Group Corp, due to a dispute about illegal downloads, casting a shadow on the launch, according to media.Warner, who is home well known bands such as...
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 Although Nokia’s E65 mobile phone
has been one of the best selling items and a real profit generator for the
popular Finnish cell phone making company, a drop of price has eventually hit
this phone too. This week, Nokia has cut the E65’s price around 15 percent off,
in a move that hasn’t quite surprised the analysts of the mobile...
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 British actress Natasha Richardson was hospitalized on Monday afternoon in Montreal due to a serious head injury she had suffered, according to published reports. Moreover, the 45-year-old was in critical condition following a ski accident in Quebec.In spite of the fact that People.com and IrishCentral.com initially reported that the...
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 American Music Awards has its first nominations leaders. R&B
star Beyonce, rock band Linkin
Park, pop singer Justin
Timberlake and “American Idol” contestant Chris Daughtry homonymic band each scored
a hat-trick in this year’s nominations for the 35th edition of the AMA.
Artists that earned a pair of nominations include...
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 A report by the Federation of American Scientists, conducted by the 304th Military Intelligence Battalion, showed the potential mobile device and service threats that terrorists may use to coordinate future attacks. One of them is Twitter, the social network and microblogging site, which occupied two pages in the report. Twitter has...
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 Mozilla released Fennec, their new mobile browser available, as a public download. It appears in two versions, one for PC and the other for Mac. Fennec is a small fox that lives in the Sahara Desert and is known for its large ears. The new mobile browser has been made using the same Gecko code (this is the one behind the latest Firefox...
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 The Finnish company Nokia Corp.
represents the world’s largest mobile phone-maker, but despite this fact
Apple’s devices and services have obviously represented a major challenge for
the Finnish company. But this has got to
an end, as Nokia has unveiled yesterday several brand new services and devices
that are to help its customers...
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 In five years from now, we might work on laptops with Symbian software. Nokia has been recently heard about its plans to put the Symbian software program on laptops, and the vendor predicted converged devices to be available as likely as five years from now on.Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, the CEO at Nokia, confirmed the plans and the five-year...
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 Motorola bought Good Technology two years ago, but has now decided to sell it to the mobile email provider Visto. The mobile messaging company and the privately held email provider for mobiles announced about the deal just today. Visto added that the new unit they had bought from Motorola will help them develop the base of their user as...
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 Developers of mobile-phone software programs are now experiencing something that would sound much alike of a nightmare. The online market of “app stores” for such software programs is full of companies which wish to obtain the best platform to target.The business of writing programs for mobile phones has turned into something very big,...
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 On Thursday, the Linux Phone Standards Forum (LiPS) said it
would merge with the Linux Mobile Foundation (LiMo) in an attempt to strengthen
the mobile Linux system.
LiPS was first started back in 2005 by several companies,
including Palmsource, France
Telecom and Orange.
LiMo was launched last year in January and has managed,...
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 Apple to offer free access to
iTunes music library? Could this be true?
We can’t be sure of anything,
especially of rumors, but this time it is The Financial Times that is reporting
that Apple might be already negotiating with record labels in order to offer
free access to iTunes’ music library to its clients. The British...
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 On Tuesday Opera Software
unveiled the newest edition of its mobile Web browsers, the Opera Mobile 9.5
browser for commercial use. Supporting tough new enhancements such as zooming,
panning and Flash support, Opera Mobile 9.5 seems quite smart and also good
looking.
The brand new tool uses Opera
Software’s zoom technology to...
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 In its attempt to broaden its consumer offerings, Microsoft Corp has declared that it plans to buy the mobile music service company Musiwave, a unit of Openwave Systems Inc, and has already started exclusive talks in this direction.Openwave has bought the company in 2005 for around 121 million dollars, expecting to bring more than 50...
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 Mozilla Corp. has announced
earlier this week that it is already working to a new mobile Firefox browser,
but even more recently a developer working on this project has made public that
the new mobile browser will likely be available for the mobile phones running the
Windows Mobile and Linux, as well as Symbian operating systems. The...
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 Vlingo Corp. is not such an old
or very popular company in the high tech industry, but its recently revealed
software could bring it a little bit of fame and glory. Vlingo has made public
its releasing the beta version of a voice-based interface for the mobile
phones. Because the voice-commanded technology hasn’t yet become very...
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Indian telecommunications majors Bharti Airtel Ltd and Vodafone Group PLC launched the third-generation Apple iPhone Friday across India, the world's fastest growing mobile phone market.
At 30,000 rupees (690 dollars), the iPhone 3G costs almost triple its price in the United States, where it is subsidized by telecommunications...
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 On Thursday, Microsoft officials announced the company’s
plan to acquire a Portugal-based, mobile service-oriented company called
MobiComp, for a yet-to-be-disclosed sum.
MobiComp’s offer includes a series of consumer and carrier services,
such as MobileKeeper (used for mobile back-up, news reception and also social
networking)...
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 On Tuesday, Nokia Corp. announced its plan to acquire the remaining 52 percent of mobile software maker Symbian; this will probably cost the former about $260 million.Nokia also announced its intention to work alongside other electronics makers within the Symbian Foundation, whose purpose is to come up with a unified software platform,...
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 Nokia announced on Monday that it has won a patent case against the chipmaker Qualcomm, as a United Kingdom High Court ruled in favor of the world’s top mobile phone maker.The judge’s decision said that all the asserted GSM patent claims of Qualcomm in the trial that began in May, 2006, were invalid, which means that Nokia is not due to...
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 It seems that the iPhone was
great business after all, as Apple became the third largest smart phone
supplier of the world. The American company has reached this stage despite the
fact that it launched the iPhone on the market less than a year ago and just in
four countries.
One of analyst firm Canalys’ most
recent researches...
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 According to a research Canalys
recently made public, Apple sold an impressive number of iPhones in the fourth
fiscal quarter of 2007. Although the iPhone had been on the market for less
than six months, the smart mobile phone’s sales surpassed the number of Windows
Mobile phones Microsoft sold in the United States during the...
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 Nokia, the world’s leading mobile phone maker, announced on Monday that it had entered into an agreement with Trolltech ASA in order to make a public voluntary tender offer of 843 million Norwegian crowns (153.3 million dollars) for the acquisition of the Oslo based software firm.Trolltech would help Nokia accelerate its software...
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 Nokia announced Tuesday the closure of its German mobile-phone factory,
bringing gloom to 2,000 employees and ending Germany's last vestige of
wireless phone manufacturing.
The announcement follows the 2006 closure of BenQ, formerly
Siemens, plants in Germany and last year's shutdown of a Motorola
factory. The industry had its...
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 During its annual investor event today, Nokia has announced its forecasts for the next year, as well as its targets, while senior company executives talked about the company’s plans to move into the Internet services.The world's biggest maker of mobile phones rose 78 percent during the current year until Monday, when it fell 4.8 percent...
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 A new investment coming from
Motorola’s pockets in UIQ Technology AB represents this company’s effort to
come back on the market against its competitive rivals such as Nokia Corp. or
Apple Inc. Motorola has just announced it has bought 50 percent of the stakes
in UIQ Technology AB; this way Motorola and Sony Ericsson Mobile...
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 Nokia wants to boost its mobile ad business through the acquisition of Enpocket, a company which provides cell phone marketing technology and services to advertisers, Web publishers, and carriers. "By acquiring Enpocket, Nokia will accelerate the scaling of its mobile advertising business, leveraging Enpocket's platform, and strong...
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 Texas Instruments Inc., the top supplier of chips for cellular handsets, digital signal processors (DSPs) and analog semiconductors, announced its third quarter revenue would be in the range of $3.56 billion to $3.72 billion, which equates to growth of 4% to 8% over the three months ended June 30. The previous forecast was for sales to...
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 Nokia, the world's largest manufacturer of mobile telephones, with a global device market share of approximately 38%, announced that 46 million batteries used in its phones are predisposed to overheating and the company would swap them free to consumers. Finland’s biggest company is currently discussing with Japan's Matsushita Battery...
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 The war between wireless communications giant Qualcomm and Finnish behemoth Nokia just got worse, with the latter countersuing its American rival for patent infringement in relation with its MediaFLO and BREW businesses."Over the past 19 months Qualcomm has filed 11 patent litigation cases against Nokia seeking damages and...
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 At the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona, this week, 17 leading mobile companies came together to adopt a “Universal Charging Solution” (UCS) by 2012, using micro USB as the charging interface. The list of 17 members includes GSMA members such as 3 Group, AT&T, KTF, LG, mobilkom austria, Motorola, Nokia, Orange, Qualcomm,...
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 The war between wireless communications giant Qualcomm and Finnish behemoth Nokia just got worse, with the latter countersuing its American rival for patent infringement.At the same Western District of Wisconsin where Qualcomm had previously filed a suit against Nokia on April 2, Nokia responded with another lawsuit, stating that the...
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In a departure from their dependence on domestic mobile phone brands like Samsung or LG, South Korean mobile carriers are preparing to launch non-Korean brands for smart-phones.International vendors such as HTC, RIMM, Apple and Nokia will be able to sign up with local carriers to put their international bestsellers in the hands of South...
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 Sales of mobile phones reached 1.15 billion in 2007, the
market research company Gartner reports.This means a 16 percent increase from 2006, when 990.9
million phones were sold, the firm said.
The increase is probably due to the fact that technology
kept evolving and consumers changed their old mobiles with new ones,...
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 The world’s
biggest mobile phone maker, Nokia, announced recently that it had partnered
with the University
of Cambridge in order to develop
Morph, a brand new cell phone based on a highly innovative nanotechnology
concept. The new tech idea demonstrates how future cell phones could be
flexible enough to transform into different...
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 Nokia, the Finnish cell-phone company, is collaborating with
the University of California, Berkeley,
in order to test if traffic can be predicted and monitored through cell phones.
The test lasted all day Friday and 100 Berkeley
students were involved, Cnet News reports.
Each student’s car was endowed with a Nokia N95 phone...
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 The world’s leading GPS manufacturer, Garmin International Inc., announced on Wednesday that it would enter the mobile phone market with its ultra thin touch screen phone nuvifone, which incorporates a mobile web browser and a sharp personal navigator into a premium phone."The nuvifone is an all-in-one device offering unmatched...
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 According to a survey, the
popular companies Microsoft, Siemens, IBM and others have spent during this
year quite important amounts of money on research and development (R & D)
programs and projects. Microsoft has been showed of having spent up to 6.5
percent on R & D for 2006, and has gained the top place in the...
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 The most recent rumors are not
telling only about gPhone, the ultimate mobile phone that Google Inc. is allegedly
preparing to announce and release, but also about a similar plan that would
come now from Microsoft’s battle field. So, this idea seems to have been born or
at least to have been pronounced out loud for the first time at...
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 The famous Finnish mobile device
manufacturer Nokia and Microsoft have announced they have become partners.
Through the new deal Microsoft will start to provide Nokia devices’ users with
a new suite of Windows Live services. The American company has designed the
suit specifically for the Finnish-branded devices.
So, starting with...
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 Just hours after the notebook
computer-manufacturer Toshiba has started recalling for some of its laptops’
Sony-made batteries, the popular Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia has
made public a similar recall.
The company has just issued a
warning and also a recall notice related to its BL-5C batteries made by
Matsushita...
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 Nokia, the Finnish telecom giant who invented a “variant” of the Bluetooth technology called Wibree, announced that the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) will “absorb” the ultra low power wireless technology in the near future.Wibree is an open industry initiative extending local connectivity to small devices. This new radio...
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 Nokia hopes to have the first phone that warns its owner of the imminence of a lightning strike in the next decade.According to the patent filed by the IT&C Finish behemoth, the phone would use existing frequency receivers, like FM and GSM tuners, to detect abnormal waves caused by nearby lightning. Typical lightning bolts produce...
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 Another one gunning at Apple
Inc.! This time, surprisingly or not, it is the popular environmental
organization Greenpeace that is shooting towards Apple Inc.’s once famous
ultimate gadget, the iPhone. After Greenpeace’s hit report, it now seems that the
iPhone is not only a controversial phone because of all those technique...
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 Apple’s ultimate gadget, the both
famous and controversial iPhone, has appeared to really be a commercial hit for
the company that has created it. According to the market research company
iSuppli, it seems that in July the iPhone has outsold all the other smart
phones in the United States.
It has been also said that in the first...
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 Apple’s iPhone has been launched
as the ultimate gadget few weeks ago. Its fans can use it as a phone, a camera,
a web browsing device and they can even listen to the music or watch videos on
it. So the only problem with iPhone seems to be just that it is not also a video
gaming hand-held device, although it looks very similar to...
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 Apple’s CEO Steve Job had the
brilliant idea of transforming the anti-piracy fight into a source of profit
for his company and in only four years Apple’s iTunes has gained continual
supremacy on the market. Apple has become one of the top music retailers of the
world, reaching the third position on the United States’ chart.
But,...
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 Already announced as one of the most interesting, expensive and craved gadgets of 2007, Apple’s iPhone has already received an award from Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, although it is not yet on the market.Jurors of the 2007 National Design Awards discuss the current state of design in America and the selection process for this...
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 Motorola is postponing the spin-off of its mobile division due to less encouraging financials. This was initially planned for the third quarter of 2009. The cell phone maker said it will refocus mobile device development on two platforms, Android and Windows Mobile, reducing costs. Motorola will probably launch its first Android...
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 California mobile video company Qik announced on Sunday that it has released version 1.0 of Qik for BlackBerry. It is a free, downloadable application that allows cell phone filmmakers stream video live from their mobile phone to Qik.com, social networks like MySpace, Facebook and to any personal blog. Furthermore, Qik also plays a...
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 On Monday, the new MOTOZINE ZN5 camera phone was launched. This device is the result of the collaboration between phone-maker Motorola and imaging giant Kodak. ZN5 features Kodak's Perfect Touch Technology, which will allow users to create panoramic images composed of up to three photos.The ZN5 camera is the first comer of the Zine...
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 As the launch of the new Batman movie is closing in (July 18), Verizon and Nokia have come up with a special edition of the Nokia 6205 phone. The device has a "mysterious black color" and comes with a Dark Knight emblem on its back. The "special" doesn’t stop here, as the phone also features Batman wallpapers, tones...
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 EBay-owned Skype has finally managed to release a beta version of its VoIP client, covering 50 different models of mobile phones from Motorola , Nokia , Samsung, and Sony Ericsson. The beta version’s objective is to gather consumer feedback that will eventually lead to product improvement. The service will only be made available inside...
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 EBay-owned Skype has finally managed to release a beta version of its VoIP client, covering 50 different models of mobile phones from Motorola , Nokia , Samsung, and Sony Ericsson. The beta version’s objective is to gather consumer feedback that will eventually lead to product improvement. The service will only be made available inside...
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 On Monday, three new Nokia phone models came to complete the company’s already ridiculously wide range of devices. These mid-priced phones, Nokia 6600 Fold, Nokia 6600 Slide and Nokia 3600 Slide, are to hit stores sometime in the third quarter.The Nokia 6600 Fold model, coming with 3G technology and a 2 megapixel camera, will be made...
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 On Tuesday, Sony BMG, a major player in the recording game, announced that it has teamed up with Nokia in a project that would allow users of certain Nokia devices to gain access to its music catalogue. The plan is as follows: once the customers pay for one of these devices, they get unlimited access (and also free) to all Sony BMG...
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 Yesterday at the Evans Data Developer Relations Conference in Redwood City, California, Nokia finally disclosed some information regarding its upcoming phone, currently known as the Tube. Nokia is thus entering the competition against Apple’s iPhone. The phone should hit the markets everywhere sometime in the second half of 2008.The...
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 Nokia will run Microsoft's Silverlight cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in on select phones which use its Symbian OS platform. This comes as a large surprise mainly because Microsoft and Nokia are the biggest competitors in the mobile phone OS market: Microsoft tries to push its Windows Mobile while handset leader Nokia promotes...
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 We live in world where everything
becomes possible. Step by step. For example, the mobile phone that can read to
the blind was just revealed. As you might have guessed, it was the world’s
largest mobile phone manufacturer that thought to introduce this brand new
technology. Nokia joined forces with K-NFB Reading Technology and is to...
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 The world’s largest mobile phone
making company, Nokia Corp., has launched on Wednesday the latest version of
its Linux-based Wi-Fi tablet device. But this version will be a brand new one
as it will come with a full keyboard too.
The N810 will be the Finnish
company’s third version of the Wi-Fi tablet and it is expected to hit the...
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 Because the demand for a
universal solution for the memory cards issue has become more than a necessity
today, Nokia Corp., Samsung, Sony Ericsson and other mobile phones
manufacturers have left behind their market rivalry and have joined forces for
creating a standard flash memory card that will work with different mobile
phones...
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So, it seems that the rumors were
true, as Apple has announced yesterday the ultimate iPod device. Because of the
buzz that has anticipated the move, the company’s announcement regarding the
new iPod has been well received, but has not represented quite a surprise.
The amazing fact has come from
Apple’s decision to also...
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 It seems that these are Nokia’s
days! After the company’s recent several announcements, everyone is talking
only about the Finnish mobile phone-maker’s new products and services, such as
the United States-compatible version for N95 or the brand new OVI web platform
and also about the company’s revived N-Gage game system.
However,...
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 Nokia Corp. is to license Microsoft's brand new PlayReady copy protection system, alongside Windows Media DRM 10 and Open Alliance Mobile DRM. "It's all about choice," Steven Knuff, a spokesman at Nokia's multimedia division, said. "If customers want a particular DRM technology, then we'll provide it."The new digital...
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 In a buzz-worthy launch worthy of Apollo 11's blast off to the moon, Apple's iPhone hits US stores on Friday, hoping to eliminate world poverty, eradicate disease, and put a kabosh to war.
OK, that's a slight exaggeration. The new-fangled must-have gadget is only a cell-phone, albeit a really cool one, but judging from the amount of...
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 The need for portability has determined a bunch of known and unknown manufacturers to come up with all sorts of concepts for ultra-mobile PCs, and the latest in the apparently never-ending series is Amtek.Intel gave the signal back in April, with its Ultra Mobile PC platform, on which Fujitsu, Samsung or Asus have built their own...
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 Already renowned for phone models that use materials such as leather, chrome, cloth and even gold and diamonds (in the high end Vertu line), Nokia has announced that its 8800 Luna cellphone will use an exquisite combination of glass and steel.8800 Luna’s hardware will come encased in a combination of nearly opaque smoked glass and steel....
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 Motorola, the second largest phones manufacturer in the world after Nokia, has recently unveiled the successors of its popular RAZR series of cellphones, simply gathered under the umbrella of RAZR 2.The new phones inherit the “champion genes” of their praised predecessor, but also bear the touch of the future, boasting with not one, but...
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