Nokia today announced the grand opening of its 8th Flagship store around the globe. This one finally put the Finnish manufacturer on London’s Regent Street, directly across from the Apple Store. The store features Nokia’s entire current collection of handsets, all with internet connectivity so you can fully explore their capabilities. We sent our very [...]
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Germany Still Upset At Nokia, Demands Subsidies Returned
So, here’s the situation. About a decade ago, Nokia setup shop in Bochum, Germany. They hooked up with the local government and secured a bunch of subsidies (to the tune of $60.5 million) to help renovate a TV factory into a cellphone factory. Stipulations of these subsidies included a certain number of jobs created and [...]
Match Capital Partners launches; hunting for wireless, mobile internet companies
I had a note in from Steven Dotsch, top man at Match Capital Partners Ltd to let me know that they’ve just officially launched. Match Capital Partners specialises in raising money for for growing companies with wireless, mobile internet, online media, mobile and fixed telecoms activities requiring funding amounting to at least £1m. In 2005, [...]
Judge Rules in Broadcom vs. Qualcomm
A Federal California judge has ruled in the patent infringement case between Broadcom and Qualcomm. Broadcom claims that Qualcomm is infringing on three patents, covering WCDMA chips, EV-DO chips, and technology around mobile video compression, walkie-talkie services, and simultaneous network connections. The judge decided that Qualcomm has to immediately stop shipping all 3G/WCDMA chips infringing [...]
Nokia N82 Available For Brits For Christmas
Reports are coming in that the Nokia N82 is showing up online at the Nokia UK online shop, as well as at Carphone Warehouse. The N82 was announced not too long ago in Finland, and brings back the classic Nokia candybar form factor. The phone is an imaging powerhouse, with a 5 megapixel camera with [...]
Israel To Allow Palestinians To Setup 2nd Cellular Network
The Associated Press reports that Palestinians will soon be allowed to setup a 2nd cellular network. Israel controls all of the cellphone frequencies in the West Bank and Gaza, and have repeatedly turned down requests from Palestine to be able to set up a 2nd wireless network, to meet demand. The change in heart from [...]
In-Flight Calling Is A Go – In France
Air France announced today that they have equipped an Airbus A318 with an inflight calling system. The network will start up with a 6-month trial. The first three months, service will be limited to SMS and Email, but is expected to be opened up to full voice by the end of the trial. The system [...]
R.I.P. XE Mobile, Another One Bites The Dust
Joining the likes of ESPN Mobile, another MVNO, XE Mobile, recently posted an announcement on their website letting the world know that they’re shutting down. Effective December 31st, 2007, phone service will be terminated and all account balances will expire, apparently. Users wanting to keep their number should port quickly, or call 611 from their [...]
Navteq Shareholders Approve Nokia Takeover
Nokia announced earlier this year that it was buying out navigation overlords Navteq for approximately $8.1 billion. Not only does Navteq offer maps to most of the industry players, they also own Traffic.com, offering traffic updates for nearly anywhere online. Nokia also acquired Gate5 a few years ago, and in the past year introduced Nokia [...]
New SMS Text News Directory 2.0 launches verrrry softly
I’ve been working like crazy on the new SMS Text News Directory. We had one before, but I just wasn’t happy with it. It was getting a good lot of traffic but it’s design, layout and back end system was really, really winding me up. So I eventually worked through the night and built a [...]
Nokia and Vodafone help share ideas
Nokia and Vodafone have launched a new website designed to help share ideas on how to use mobile communications for social and environmental benefits. The site, www.shareideas.org, was created in direct response to NGO calls for better tools and information to help them use mobile services more effectively in their work. Ndidi Nwuneli, Founder and [...]
“SMS” — the world’s biggest brand?
Adam Bird of Esendex is in Monte Carlo at the Global Messaging Congress. He posted the following report on this page last night and I made a note to highlight it this morning. Have a read.. – – – – – – Ewan, Currently at Global Messaging 2007 in Monte Carlo. My job has its [...]
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