Read all about Nokia’s new R&D facility in India and two new CDMA handsets introduced in Asia-Pacific markets.
Monthly Archives: April 2004
Nokia: Don't Bet Against Sisu
Monday, April 12, 2004
Is the sky falling on Nokia? Motley Fool Seth Jayson thinks not, and he has the numbers to back it up.
Watch for more from Nokia in their Friday April 16th quarterly earnings call. Access a live webcast of the call from Nokia’s Investor web site.
Nokia 6230 developer analysis
Saturday, April 10, 2004
Peter Rogers’ brain dump of J2ME and related developer issues for the Nokia 6230 (part of a 6230 thread on the kvm-interest list) is worth a read for anyone interested in J2ME MIDP 2.0 development on Developer Platform 2.0 for Series 40 devices (the 6230 is the reference device).
Love it or hate it: Nokia 6255
Friday, April 9, 2004
I blogged about the Nokia 6255 cellcam a couple of weeks ago.
Now everyone’s joining in:
Russ likes it
The Register doesn’t
Engadget seems unsure, but leaning towards the Bill/Russ camp
Not sure whether to love it or hate it? Access the details from Forum Nokia and more pictures via MobileBurn’s review, then tell me what you think.
Sony cedes low end camera market to cellcams
Tuesday, April 6, 2004
It’s nice to have TheFeature and Reiter’s Camera Phone Report agree with me that cellcams are displacing dedicated digicams. What’s even nicer is the excerpt they’ve pulled from BusinessWeek:
Sony Ericsson president Katsumi Ihara says that Sony has ceded the low-end camera market to mobile phones.
OK, so it is a done deal. Look out [...]
Channel 9
Tuesday, April 6, 2004
I learned about Microsoft’s new Channel 9 from WebTalkGuys Radio and the Scobleizer blog. After reading more about it from CNet News.com, I decided to pay a visit to see what’s up.
A highlight among the riveting threads of recent discussion: “Should one use one or two spaces after a period?“.
Now that we’re buds [...]
Planet Sun
Tuesday, April 6, 2004
Fellow Sun employee David Edmondson has launched a nice Planet based aggregator of Sun employee blogs, Planet Sun.
You can subscribe to one RSS 1.0 or RSS 2.0 feed to monitor and interact with all of the aggregated bloggers, including the likes of Tim Bray, Norm Walsh, and James Gosling. Particularly useful for us Sun [...]
Nokia warning sends shares tumbling
Tuesday, April 6, 2004
The skinny from CBS Marketwatch: “Nokia falls almost 19 percent on sales warning“.
Nokia plans for New York
Monday, April 5, 2004
Interesting facts, and speculation, about Nokia’s moves outside the home country of Finland: Nokia plans up to 300 staff at New York site.
Schwartz on the Deal
Monday, April 5, 2004
Jonathan Schwartz’s take on the Big News.
On the potential effects on open source and Linux, Schwartz says:
I’ve seen some writers suggest that this is anti-Linux. To me, this is the single biggest accelerant in assuring the success of the most interoperable alternative to the Microsoft Windows PC, called the Java Desktop System (JDS). [...]
