Nokia is announcing their Comes With Music program today. With this new service, you will be able to download and keep any tracks you buy when your subscription is active. That’s right – if you download music, you get to keep it forever. Additionally, when you buy a Comes With Music device (such as the…
Nokia, the Finnish mobile handset maker, is actively making moves to concentrate its efforts. The Espoo-based mobile company has made two recent announcements, both of which will cause the company to focus their efforts on becoming a consumer-based handset maker and Internet-based mobile services provider. Exiting the Security Appliance Business Casual observers may not know…
Sprint, the number three U.S. wireless carrier, has formed a new company called XOHM. Recently they announced a merger with ClearWire, the main WiMax service provider in the United States. WiMax will be a major leap forward when the network is finally rolled out. If youâre unaware of WiMax, think of being able to access…
Last week at Mobilize ’08, I had the opportunity to sit down with Morgan Gillis, Executive Director of the LiMo Foundation. This industry consortium was formed last year and has been tasked with building a scalable Linux platform for use in the mobile handset market. The LiMo Foundation (shorthand for Linux on Mobile Foundation) has…
Soon I’ll be heading down to San Francisco, CA for the Mobilize conference put on by GigaOm. What gear does one need to cover such a conference? Here’s my rundown: My original Macbook: I was hoping Steve Jobs and Apple would have come out with the new version of the Macbook Pro by now. However,…
A big announcement today came out of Espoo, Finland as Nokia extended Exchange email support for all Symbian S60 3rd edition phones. Mail For Exchange used to be only available on Nokia’s business-centric ESeries devices but now the company is extending support to the more numerous NSeries line as well. With Mail for Exchange, Nokia…
The Controversy On September 23, Om Malik wrote a post regarding Nokia’s support of mobile VoIP service in the newest Nseries handsets from Nokia. For those unaware, Nokia has been very hospitable to using Internet telephony on their mobile handsets by 1) including Wi-Fi as an on-board capability and 2) by supporting VoIP via included…
Google Chrome was announced yesterday via a Google comic book. Basically, Chrome is a Google-enhanced web browser that Michael Arrington of Techcrunch thinks is intended to dethrone Windows. Google is aiming Chrome to be a web browser for “today’s” Internet, which IE is ill-equipped to handle. This means that Chrome is enhanced to handle web…
After you get home from a trip or vacation, the first thing you do is share your photos and experiences of your trip with family and friends. Have you ever wanted to do this in a more rich, environment – perhaps with your photos and videos layed out on a map? Well, in the near…
Gnomedex is a yearly conference held in Seattle during the late summer. It’s a conference that, according to the website: …… hundreds of the worldâs leading bloggers, podcasters, and tech-savvy enthusiasts will once again descend upon the city of Seattle, Washington. The eighth Gnomedex conference is generating buzz in the blogosphere, which underscores our reason…