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• 21Jun

  Ovi Maps makes summer travel easier and more fun

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  New content from Qype with community based recommendations helps everyone make the most of their time

  Ovi Maps, the free walk and drive navigation service from Nokia, announced new partnerships that deliver more relevant information on more points of interest making travelling easier than ever. With summer holidays fast approaching, the updated Ovi Maps gives travelers and locals alike the ability to find the most interesting places and sites in the area making traveling less about getting from A to B and more about enjoying everything in between.

  Ovi delivers unique mobile experiences that mix content with the best location, social networking and connectivity services and is the go to-place for discovering, sharing and enjoying lifestyle content and entertainment, all from a Nokia smartphone.  

  New partnership with Qype delivers community based recommendations
  Ovi Maps now includes Qype, Europe’s biggest portal for local community-based reviews, helping people find new places wherever they are, leaving nothing overlooked.

  Initially offering information on more than 20,000 cities, the Qype community enriches Ovi Maps with hundreds of thousands of reviews and recommendations from locals and travelers on  many European hotspots like cafés, shops, spas and hotels, giving the inside track before arriving. And, with a new post added to Qype every 40 seconds, people are assured to have the latest information to help them make the best choices no matter what they are looking for.

  More tailored and personal trips
  In total,Ovi Maps now offers Nokia smartphone users access to more than 25 million points of interest worldwide.  Whether people are looking for a souvenir shop or a youth hostel, trips can be personalized and planned right down to the last detail with map data from NAVTEQ and city guides from Lonely Planet, WCities and Michelin. Agreements with leading directory companies such as telegate in Germany, Turkey Yellow Pages and Yell Publicidad-Páginas Amarillas in Spain make it even easier than before to find the closest pharmacy, cash machine, shop or service. Hotel booking services such as HRS and Expedia make it easy to find a place to stay.

  In-car navigation made easier
  For people planning a road trip, Nokia has started to include car kits with new smartphones in-the-box* at no extra cost which makes finding new places and navigating whilst driving safe and easy. And, with the added convenience of pedestrian routes for exploring cities on foot, swapping the phone from car to pocket makes navigating around new places easier, no matter how people choose to do it.

  Holidaymakers can plan routes before leaving the house, on a computer or laptop and simply upload them onto a Nokia device to use when abroad. This saves time searching for routes when out and about and enables people to use maps in offline mode, reducing roaming costs when traveling in foreign countries.

  The latest version of Ovi Maps (3.04) is available to download for free from www.nokia.com/maps

  

  Tags: Ovi Maps

• 09Mar

  Mobile Giant Vodafone To Cut 375 Jobs

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  Mobile phone giant Vodafone is to cut 375 jobs across its business.

  

  The company said the job losses would primarily affect back office positions in a number of locations, including its headquarters in Newbury, Berkshire.

  The cuts are part of a £1bn cost-cutting programme undertaken by the group in the last year as it looks to improve its fortunes.

  But Vodafone also said it would be taking on 170 new staff in retail and call-centre roles.

  An additional 50 graduates will start work this September after more than 3,000 applied to its university leaver programme.

  Matthew Brearley, human resources director at Vodafone UK, said: “We’re committed to increasing the number of customer-facing employees which will help us simplify our business and continue to deliver outstanding communications services across the UK’s best network.”

  Full Article Business Sky News, Ed Merrison, Sky News Online

  

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• 15Sep

  Winners announced at Nokia World for its 2009 “Calling All Innovators” global developer competition

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  Special recognition for innovation also announced.

  

  Nokia today announced the winners of its Forum Nokia 2009 Calling All Innovators contest, a global mobile developer competition designed to generate applications and solutions that enhance the use of Nokia mobile devices in real-world scenarios.

  Category winners were recognized at the Calling All Innovators Awards Reception held in Stuttgart on the eve of Nokia World. The total cash and prizes for the 2009 Calling All Innovators contest exceed USD 250,000. The top three submissions in each category will receive a cash award, and prizes that include premium placement featuring the winning application in Nokia’s Ovi Store and the opportunity to demo their winning apps at Nokia World.

  Over 1,700 submissions were received from developers and publishers in 85 countries signaling a strong answer to Nokia’s challenge to think big and create mobile applications and services that can help build a better mobile user experience. More than 421,000 visits to the contest website from around the world engaged with Forum Nokia, the world’s largest mobile developer community.

  “The competition was fierce this year and the winners exemplify the future of apps and the future of Ovi Store,” said Purnima Kochikar, vice president, Forum Nokia. “We look forward to working with the developer and publisher community in providing the best mobile applications to consumers around the world.”

  The 2009 Calling All Innovators Grand Prize winners are:

  - Internet Innovation
  Tech Buzz Homescreen Widget – The Tech Buzz Widget from UK-based Mippin, is a fast, elegant way to reliably access the latest tech news anywhere on Nokia mobile devices. It regularly downloads tech stories from across the web, displaying the headlines and images in rotation on the Nokia N97 home screen, to give users immediate access. Developer website:

  - Flash
  Reuters Slideshow – The Reuters Slideshow app from UK-based Tui Interactive Media, combines Flash and WRT widget functionality to deliver a constantly updated feed of pictures and news. Coupled with its mini-view for use on S60 5th Edition devices, the application offers an engaging way to catch up on the latest news. Developer website: http://www.tui.co.uk/

  - Emerging Markets and Mobile Necessities
  Mobile Credit Card Terminal – Mobile Credit Card Terminal from 2C2P in Singapore gives business owners the ability to charge a credit card/debit card, and to manage transactions securely from Nokia S60 devices without additional equipment. Developer website: http://www.2c2p.com/

  - Apps on Maps
  Winners will be announced on September 3 for this category at Nokia World. The winner in this category submitted a new idea to harness the power of location-aware services using Ovi Maps on Nokia devices. From all of the ideas submitted, 14 developers were given exclusive access to the Ovi Beta SDK to turn their ideas into a completed application for use on Nokia devices.

  A complete list of Forum Nokia’s Calling All Innovators winners including video demonstrations of the applications can be found online at www.callingallinnovators.com.

  The judging panel also presented a Special Recognition Award for Innovation and a cash prize of USD 10,000 to the application MoBots, submitted by DEIMOS Space from Madrid, Spain.

  The Judges chose MoBots, which are easy-to-configure automations created by individuals directly on their Nokia S60 mobile device, because of the high scores it received in creativity and commercial viability. The MoBots app is designed so that anyone – even non-programmers – can develop practical applications for use on their mobile phone with only a few simple steps. Individuals can set-up new, customized MoBots using the application’s appealing, on-screen visual interface; and the results can be shared in the mobots.org community so that more people can take advantage of the creativity that MoBots support.

  About Forum Nokia
  Nokia’s global developer program, Forum Nokia, connects developers to tools, technical information, support, and distribution channels they can use to build and market applications around the globe. From offices in the U.S., Europe, India, Japan, China, and Singapore, Forum Nokia provides technical and business development support to developers and operators to assist them in achieving their goal of successfully launching applications and services to consumers and enterprises. More information is available at www.forum.nokia.com.

  NOKIA PRESS RELEASE September, 2009

  

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• 15Sep

  Nokia expands ecosystem opportunities and showcases work with partners, publishers and developers

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  Nokia makes it easier for web publishers and developers to create applications with integrated services with Ovi APIs and Ovi SDK Beta introducing a new breed of applications for the web and smartphone platforms.

  

  Stuttgart, Germany – Nokia today made it easier for web publishers and developers to create applications with integrated services and native-like user interfaces, quickly and with less effort with new Ovi APIs and the Ovi SDK Beta. Announced at its annual Nokia World conference, the company said it will progressively roll out web and mobile APIs for its services, beginning with the Ovi Maps Player API and the Ovi Navigation Player API for cutting-edge location solutions on its smartphones. The company also hosted a keynote from Henri Moissinac, Director of Mobile, Facebook, highlighting the opportunities in mobile social networking and the close collaboration between the two companies.

  “This is just the beginning. We will work in close cooperation with developers to evolve the offering, starting with social location solutions,” said Niklas Savander, EVP, Services, Nokia. “Our goal is clear, and that is to make it effortless for our partners to create highly appealing, context-relevant applications that consumers will find indispensable.”

  Nokia has already been working with key partners such as Lonely Planet, Deutsche Bahn, Associated Press, Qype, National Geographic, Deutsche Telekom Medien and Langenscheidt to create example applications using the Ovi SDK Beta and Ovi APIs (Click http://events.nokia.com/nokiaworld to see the Ovi SDK video).

  Web partner discusses developing with Nokia

  “We’ve been very pleased with our relationship with Nokia,” said Henri Moissinac, Director of Mobile, Facebook. “Since its release in June, the Facebook application for Nokia is available for download in more than 150 countries and is currently one of the most distributed applications in the Ovi Store. Needless to say, it’s really exciting to be working so closely with the largest handset manufacturer in the world to bring our 250 million users worldwide an innovative Facebook experience on their mobile devices – and this is just the beginning.”

  The Ovi for Developers beta program
  Nokia is inviting developers to join the Ovi for Developers beta program on the Forum Nokia Developer Community site (www.forum.nokia.com/Ovi), and will make the Ovi SDK Beta and Ovi APIs available to them. Applications created with Ovi SDK and Ovi APIs will be distributed through the Ovi Store in 2010, bringing the applications available to the hands of millions of consumers around the world.

  The Ovi SDK Beta and Ovi APIs
  The technology preview, now available to developers via registration, contains:

  Ovi SDK Beta – an easy-to-use, web-based toolbox which provides tools to create applications for the web, and Symbian and Maemo platforms, with integrated Ovi features and a distinct user interface. The Ovi SDK Beta contains the Ovi APIs and all-new Ovi User Interface (UI) libraries, which enable effortless creation of rich applications. The Ovi SDK Beta utilizes standard web technologies – HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and JavaScript (JS) – programming languages that are most familiar to the world’s developer community.

  Ovi APIs – provide developers with a simple way to integrate service features such as maps or navigation to their web applications. Nokia today introduced the first two Ovi APIs:

  - Ovi Maps Player API – bringing maps to mobile and web applications effortlessly. The API is powered by Ovi Maps and features over 180 country maps, location-based search and detailed place information. Other features include vector-based maps that give a range of views, including map, terrain and 3D modes for dynamic map mash-ups. Nokia first introduced the Ovi Maps Player API for the web earlier this year.

  - Ovi Navigation Player API – allowing developers to bring Nokia’s industry-leading walk and drive navigation features to their applications, including pedestrian navigation, turn-by-turn car navigation and route planning. This makes it possible for content creators to create applications that take the consumer to his destination of choice – be it to a friend’s location, a landmark, a restaurant, or the bus stop.

  Nokia announces the Apps on Maps category winner of the 2009 Calling All Innovators competition
  Nokia also announced the Apps on Maps category winner of the 2009 Calling All Innovators competition. Using the Ovi SDK Beta, Primordial, from St. Paul, Minnesota emerged tops in its category by creating Ground Guidance, an application based on technology originally built for the U.S. Army. The application, which wins USD 30,000 amongst other prizes, enables the Ovi Maps user to get from one point to another, even if there are no roads or road data. With the application, all a user would need are his start and end point – and Ground Guidance would present him with a walkable path while avoiding undesirable terrain such as steep hills or water. Calling All Innovators, launched in March 2009, is a global mobile developer competition designed to generate applications and solutions that enhance the use of Nokia mobile devices in real-world scenarios. Apps on Maps participants were required to submit new ideas that harness the power of location-aware services using Ovi Maps.

  * More information about the Ovi SDK Beta, Ovi Maps Player API and Ovi Navigation Player API are available from the Forum Nokia website, http://www.forum.nokia.com/Ovi/.

  NOKIA PRESS RELEASE September, 2009

  

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• 09May

  Three Skype phone calls – Free calls on Skype mobile phones

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  Three mobile phones are offering Free Calls Forever with their latest link-up with Skype.

  

  Join the other 400 million Skype users Worldwide with an internet phone like the LG Renoir Mobile Phone and you will be able to talk for free.

  Three mobile phones are offer 200 free minutes, free texts, unlimited email and Internet access with free calls forever with Skype.

  This is probably one of the best things that a mobile phone provider has done with a mobile phone and the Internet, with most phones having such a small screen thereby making it almost impossible to browse the internet.

  Three Mobile Phones are always leading the field when it comes to pushing down mobile phone costs – there were many that said Three would not last, but here they are a few years later still going strong and leading the field yet again.

  

  

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• 09May

  AMOLED – Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode

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  AMOLED – Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode is the latest mobile phone screen technology and one of the first phones to use it is the Samsung Tocco Ultra Edition mobile phone.

  AMOLED is the latest in display technology which is used in portable devices like mobile phones and is important due to the fact that the technology uses less battery power.

  The passive-matrix OLED mobile phones, which is the alternative technology, uses significantly more power that the new Active-matrix OLED displays without loosing out on performance. Where battery power is critical Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode (AMOLED) is the way to go and with Samsung recently announcing their Samsung Movie Service you will be able to watch a full movie and more on mobile phones like the SAMSUNG Tocco Ultra Edition.

  

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• 08May

  Samsung Mobile Launches Movie Store

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  Samsung have launched a new movie service powered by Acetrax (experts in premium movie content delivery) that brings movies and TV to compatible Samsung mobiles.

  Get over 1,000 movies and TV shows and download them to your mobile from Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal and Momentum Pictures. In the future Samsung plans to expand their movie service to notebooks, mp3 & mp4 players and Samsung TVs.

  This new service was launched in London on 19th March 2009 and is a dedicated movie store for Samsung customers, with the downloads are available to own or rent. You will be able to watch your favourite movies and the latest Hollywood releases, with over 500 blockbusters to choose from.

  The movies and TV shows can be downloaded and viewed on video enabled Samsung phones such as the new Samsung Tocco Ultra Edition and the service can be accessed from samsungmovies. Service will initially be accessable from within the UK and Germany and later in other key European countries later in the year.

  

  

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• 26Apr

  Free ringtone downloads Nokia

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  If you are looking for free ringtone downloads for your Nokia mobile phone you can visit Mobile9.

  Mobile9 have free ring-tones, free wallpapers, free themes and free software and not just for Nokia.

  So go visit them for you Free ringtone downloads for Nokia.

  

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• 11Apr

  Vodafone and O2 Team up to launch network share agreement – ‘VO2 Twin Phone’

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  Vodafone and O2 have teamed up to launch network share agreement and they have confirmed that they will offer a new handset for this new partnershipand will be available from June of 2009.

  The new mobile phone handset will automatically latch onto the best tariff available from either Vodafone or O2 for each phone call you make. They claim that the savings will be around 30 per cent on local and international calls by using these joint tariffs.

  This new handset has been named the ‘VO2 Twin Phone’ and will come complete with a dual keypad and a split-screen. The dual components will allow each network to embed their own firmware and unique features.

  Vodafone and O2 will issue single dual SIMs for the handset. Customers that use this mobile phone will get an aggregated bill andit will only be sold by Vodafone and O2 stores so dealers will not be permitted to the sell this device.

  

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• 25Mar

  Phone directory – Phone number lookup and search for Free

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  If you are looking for a telephone directory online for a phone number lookup then we have compiled a list of phone number search sites for you to choose from.

  BT phone book directory – Residential Name search - no need to register – Free phone number search

  BT phone book directory - Business Name search - no need to register – Free phone number search

  UKPhoneBook.com directory – Name search – Need to register – Free phone number search

  Mobile118 mobile phone directory – Mobile phone search – Free mobile phone number search

  118.com directory – Residential name search – Free phone number search

  118.com directory - Business name search – Free phone number search

  These sites offer a free search for those people who are non-ex-directory, which is no different from you calling say 118 118 and paying for a telephone number search.

  

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