Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Facebook to use NFC?

Rumors from Facebook’s F8 developer conference have it that Zuckerberg & co. may be adding NFC-based features to the social networking site, says pocket-lint.com.

Visitors to the April 21st conference were issued tags to tap in and out of exhibits. Some believe this is Facebook’s way of testing the technology to develop a location tracking feature for the website.

Pocket-lint imagines a scenario in which a Facebook user’s NFC phone would communicate with the site’s server to tell your friends Google Latitude-style where you are and what you’re up to.

If that sounds obtrusive, consider that, if taken to the extreme, the technology could allow Facebook to trace your NFC mobile transactions to tell your friends, say, that you just bought a round at Hooters.

Read more here.

Congo to all LBS Challenge Winners!!

The 2010 NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge has announced five winners for the North America competition and 12 finalists for the India region. The Challenge is a worldwide competition for developers building innovative location-based services (LBS) using dynamic positioning technology and NAVTEQ maps.

The North American winner is Cypress Solutions of Vancouver, Canada; its VUE application tracks tugboats, barges and log booms for marine fleets. The first runner-up is ZOS Communications, whose zhiing application creates a universal in-box for location communications and interaction. Second runner-up is Spriv, whose application prevents the fraudulent use of stolen credit cards and user/password information. Also, two special-recognition awards were given to 3D Arts, publisher of Hile Arcade; and Cell Storm, publisher of Cell Storm Real Estate.

For the India region, 12 applications have been selected to advance to final judging. These include location-aware applications with the latest features in fitness and tracking services, enterprise solutions, location-based advertising and mobile couponing, social networking, navigation, search and news services. Among the 12 finalists are Ariose Software, maker of Hobby Lobby; Genesys International Corp., developer of GenesysGolf; and Ninad Majumder, developer of LooLoca. The winners of the India region competition will be announced on 29 April.

NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge winners in two additional regions will be announced soon: South America on 22-27 May; and Asia/Pacific on 14 June.


Meet the 2010 NAVTEQ LBS Challenge North American winners.

Learn more about the 2010 NAVTEQ LBS Challenge.

Nokia N8 official!

Hello All

Finally comes the announcement a New Nokia Device with much awaited Symbian^3 and Qt .


The best thing i like about the N8 is this is the first Device from Nokia which has Qt integrated with it, which makes it possible to build applications once and deploy across Symbian and other software platforms. Nokia has also made the powerful and simple to use Nokia Qt SDK available, in its initial beta, to enable developers to start realizing the potential of Qt.



Nokia N8 has great specs like a 12 MP camera with carl-zeiss optics and Xenon flash

Check Nokia Conversations Blog for more details.
Read the detail Nokia N8 Specifications.

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Nokia Brazil has been recognized by different awards in the country

Nokia Brazil has been recognized by different awards in the country, clearly demonstrating the relevance of the company in the local market. The awards demonstrate the strength of the Nokia Brand, the innovation of our solutions and the quality of the people practices we have in place in Brazil.

Below is a list of the prizes Nokia won in 2009 and so far in 2010:

- 7th Cunhantã Prize - Biggest exporter in Manaus Industrial Pole in 2009. The Cunhantã prize recognized 21 companies. The criteria was the result of the performance indicators provided by the federal agency that manages tax incentives and plans Amazon region development.

- Top of Mind Internet (UOL) award – Mobile phone category – The award was created in 2007 and last year Nokia won the mobile phone category for the 2nd consecutive time. Nokia Brazil got 29% of the votes!

- Folha Award Top of Mind – Top Family (2nd place) and Mobile Phone (1st place) - It’s the most important brand awareness award in Brazil. It’s the result of extensive data research made in 161 Brazilian cities with more than 5,000 interviews with people over16 years old from all social and educational levels. In the Mobile Phone category, Nokia won the prize for the 10th consecutive time with 40% of total votes.

- Best companies to work for 2009 - Nokia Brazil was chosen one of the best companies to work for in Brazil in 2009. The 150 Best Companies ranking is part of Voce S/A – Exame guide – one of the most important and respected guides in the country.

- Info magazine Best Music Service award – Comes With Music - The Comes With Music service was the most voted by Info magazine readers and named the best music service on the web. This is the 1st time that Nokia has won this prize. The Comes With Music service received 56% of the votes.

- Company that most respect the consumer - The study “Companies that most respect the consumer”, prepared exclusively for Modern Consumer magazine, gave Nokia the 1st place in the mobile device category. 57% of total respondents said that Nokia Brazil is the company that most respect the consumers.

- The most admired companies in Brazil – Electronic equipments category - The Most Admired Companies in Brazil, an award sponsored by Carta Capital magazine, put Nokia Brazil in the 1st place in the Electronic Equipments category. Nokia Brazil received 25% of all votes.

- Nokia Brazil is one of the best in Leadership - Nokia Brazil was awarded one of three Best Foreign Subsidiaries in Brazil and the sixth best in Latin America when it comes to Leadership and Talent Development.