Nokia

Foursquare Provided NFC Powered Tap to Check-in Feature at Nokia World - Posted November 28, 2011
Nokia's Near field Connectivity Blog provided interesting, if somewhat dated, information in a recent post. It lets us know that Nokia and Foursquare enabled NFC (Near Field Communications) check-in at Nokia World which took place in London a month ago (October 26-27). ... [SocialTimes.com]

Nokia Drive & Maps Apps for Lumia 800: Free Turn-by-Turn Navigation, Maps & Sharing - Posted November 9, 2011
Nokia's Windows Phone 7.5 based Lumia 800 will not be available in the U.S. until sometime in 2012. But, some of the custom software only available for Nokia's phones can be previewed now. Nokia's Drive and Maps apps curiously separate the functions of turn-by-turn navigation with map viewing. ... [SocialTimes.com]

Nokia City Scenes: Prototype App with Mapping, 3D Panorama & Social Network Data Overlays - Posted November 8, 2011
Nokia City Scene is a prototype app from Nokia Beta Labs that combines street maps, 3D panoramic views with gesture navigation and social network integration to provide what appears to be a powerful map discovery tool. ... [SocialTimes.com]

Nokia Mobile Web Maps Work Great on iOS/Android. Windows Phone? Not So Much - Posted October 25, 2011
Google is not the only company trying to move its services from mobile native apps to mobile web apps. GigaOm's Kevin C. Tofel used Nokia's updated web-based mapping service and gave it a thumbs up for features while noting its limitations in saving offline maps due to the large size of... [SocialTimes.com]

Nokia To Launch Windows Phone 7 Devices Through China Mobile - Posted August 15, 2011
Nokia is planning to launch its Windows Phone 7 handsets through China Mobile (China's largest mobile phone carrier). China Mobile accounts for two-third of the country's total mobile phone user base i.e. over 600 m... [SocialTimes.com]

Nokia Smartphones to be Overtaken by Both Samsung and Apple This Year - Posted June 13, 2011
[caption id="attachment_66331" align="alignleft" width="420" caption="Samsung smartphone & tablet lineup."][/caption]Nokia's smartphone presence in the U.S. is barely a blip on the marketshare radar. However, Nokia has been worldwide smartphone market leader since day one. Reuters sets this day one date as 1996. Reuters quotes a No... [SocialTimes.com]

Mobile Industry Responds to WHO Cancer Warning - Posted June 1, 2011
News that the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) found a possible link between mobile phones and cancer has caused quite the media uproar. In response, mobile businesses and orga... [PRNewser]

Nokia N8, E7, C7 Users Are Now LinkedIn - Posted May 10, 2011
Nokia ensured that users of its Symbian-powered N8, E7, and C7 series smartphones can stay connected by developing a LinkedIn ... [SocialTimes.com]

Microsoft & Nokia Sign Agreement Early-Acutely Aware of Time Pressure - Posted April 22, 2011
Two recent mobile platform analyst projections have placed Microsoft's Windows Phone platform as a solid if distant second place behind Android in 2015. This is difficult to imagine even among Windows Phone fans like me given the platform's distant fourth place position in 2011. The mo... [SocialTimes.com]

RIM WebWorks 2.0 (2011) vs. Nokia Web Run-Time for S60 (2007) - Posted April 22, 2011
One of the criticisms level at RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook tablet is the lack of apps. RIM is taking a cue from an old Nokia playbook to let web developers develop mobile apps for the both RIM's BlackBerry phones and the new PlayBook tablet. Introducing the BlackBerry WebWorks 2.0 Develo... [SocialTimes.com]

Nokia C7 (Astound in the U.S.) Angry Birds Magic Requires NFC to Unlock Levels: Bad Marketing Move? - Posted April 20, 2011
Here's a marketing move destined to backfire: Rovio To Launch Angry Birds Free with Magic, Requires NFC To Unlock Levels (via TheNextWeb) Angry Birds Magic will be preloaded on the Nokia C7 as part of an update to its Symbi... [SocialTimes.com]

Nokia's Human Cost for its Microsoft Windows Phone Strategy - Posted April 13, 2011
I am among the group that applauded when Nokia announced it would abandon Symbian as its primary smartphone platform in favor of Microsoft's Windows Phone. I continue to believe it is a good strategic move and am anxiously waiting for the first Nokia Windows Phone device to emerge. Unfortunately, there is always... [SocialTimes.com]

Nokia S40 Users Can Now Become foursquare Mayors - Posted February 18, 2011
Nokia S40 users can now check in with foursquare, as the location-based mobile app is now available in a version that is compatible with the mobile operating system. From the foursquare Blog: ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Kevin Thau at Nokia World 2010: Twitter Is Not a Social Network - Posted September 14, 2010
While Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone were ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Nokia PR Up For Grabs - Posted December 3, 2009
Nokia is in the midst of a PR review for its North American agency of record and for PR support in other global markets. PRWeek's Aarti Shah first ... [PRNewser]

Implementing Commercial Applications With Semantic Search - Posted January 21, 2009
Executive Summary A common challenge facing today’s enterprise, its employees, and customers, is the ability to easily and effectively access corporate data and product/services-related information.  To obtain the accurate and specific information needed from a vast corporate network is a daunting task, especially as data grows more complex and the workforce becomes... [semanticweb.com]

Rescue the Princess from Your Phone or PC - Posted August 5, 2008
Reset Generation, the latest title from Nokia Games Publishing, has an interesting theme: it's a video game about video games. That's not the most intriguing part of it, though. Reset Generation is a cross-platform game that allows multiplayer action between mobile and the PC. Players first choose one of 10 heroes representing... [ThinkMobile - SocialTimes.com]

Android, Symbian Merger in the Wings? - Posted July 28, 2008
Market analyst firm J. Gold Associates is predicting that Google's Android and Nokia's Symbian open mobile platforms will announce ... [ThinkMobile - SocialTimes.com]

Nokia, Qualcomm Reach Royalty Agreement - Posted July 24, 2008
Nokia and Qualcomm barely missed going to court over a ... [ThinkMobile - SocialTimes.com]

Smart Alternatives to the iPhone 3G - Posted July 23, 2008
For everyone out there who wants an iPhone 3G-type phone but doesn't want an iPhone, InformationWeek has an article talking up what it calls "8 killer iPhone 3G alternatives." If you don't w... [ThinkMobile - SocialTimes.com]

DeviceAnywhere Works with Forum Nokia - Posted July 8, 2008
DeviceAnywhere, which lets software developers test how their apps will work on a wide variety of handsets over the Internet, has launched a new version of the service with the Forum Nokia developer... [ThinkMobile - SocialTimes.com]