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Nokia Buys Mobile Platform 'Symbian'

Yesterday’s news that Nokia acquired location based social network Plazes, was worthy only of making our Pilgrim’s Picks.

Nokia May Lead In Location-Based Advertising

If you connect the acquisition and investment dots, you wind up following Acuity Mobile to Navteq to Nokia.  And since Acuity deals in mobile marketing, Navteq works with maps, and Nokia's all about cell phones, this could indicate that some pretty big companies are growing more interested in location-based advertising.

Nokia Unveils Gaming Platform

Nokia has launched a preview version of its delayed N-Gage mobile gaming service for N81 owners with a full launch on the way. Now available in "First Access" form, Nokia is inviting users to reserve their player names, download the N-Gage application, try and purchase games, and offer feedback on how the service works.

Web Standards and Devloping for Mobile

I’ve been an avid Mac user for many years, since about 1996, and actually that’s when I started working on the web.

A Good Starting Point for Learning About Video

If you’re interested in using video in your communication plans but don’t really know where to start - what equipment to get or what software you’ll need - three excellent articles published today on Journalism.co.uk will give you some clear pointers.

Nokia Getting Greener

Nokia is a Global leader in their market, no questioning that. So, perhaps their move to make "greener" more environmentally sound decisions in their business processes will spread to others... indeed they are a good role model for action.

3's Plans for the Coming Year

I spent an interesting and enjoyable couple of hours at mobile operator 3’s UK headquarters in Maidenhead last week in the company of a handful of bloggers and some executives from 3.

Great Idea for an Event Organizer

What a great idea for an event organizer... I've often wondered why event planners don't come out with "official" tags for people to tag entries on blogs, photos on flickr, videos on youtube etc... (many people, including yours truly post photos and create our own tags) but here's a cool idea that I never thought of.. what about networking groups on LinkedIn, facebook and others? That's exactly what Nokia is doing for their Nokia World event... attendees can coonect by being accepted into these special groups... nice idea!

Nokia: Content Fuels Mobile Growth

Cell phone maker Nokia says that content for the mobile Internet is an important factor in attracting more mobile phone users.

Nokia Purchases Enpocket

Nokia hopes to improve its mobile business with a definitive agreement to acquire Enpocket, which offers cell phone marketing technology and services to advertisers. Financial details of the purchase were not released.