Free Republic

German politicians ditch their Nokias By Hugh Williamson in Berlin Published: January 18 2008 21:09 | Last updated: January 18 2008 21:09 German politicians on Friday declared that they were ditching their Nokia mobile phones as anger grew over the Finnish company’s decision to move a factory from Germany to Romania at the cost of 2,000 jobs. Peer Steinbrück, finance minister, accused Nokia, the world’s largest mobile phone maker, of “caravan capitalism” while a spokesman for Angela Merkel, the chancellor, said that she was expecting “more information” on Nokia’s motives. Many Germans appeared shocked at Nokia’s announcement earlier this week...

Anti-Nokia opinions gathering momentum in Germany Public exhorted to avoid buying Nokia handsets in the wake of Bochum closure decision Mobile phone manufacturer Nokia is running into heavy weather in Germany, as a veritable national movement is beginning to rise against the decision earlier this week to close the Nokia handset assembly plant in Bochum on the Ruhr. An anti-Nokia campaign is being put together with considerable alacrity. The decision to shut down the plant and move production to Romania threatens directly to put more than 2,000 people out of work, with a further two thousand jobs in jeopardy as...

A city in Finland best known as the namesake to mobile phone giant Nokia is floundering in filthy drinking water after a municipal employee sent thousands of gallons of sewage into the water supply. Thousands have fallen ill -- and the water is still dirty. The 30,000 residents of the small Finnish city of Nokia have long lived according to what city leaders describe as a "principle" etched in stone. "We walk in Nokia boots, we use Nokia toilet paper and we talk using Nokia phones," the saying goes. Indeed, for close to 150 years the city's fortunes have been...

(New Delhi) - Nokia, the world’s largest maker of mobile handsets, on Monday blamed fake batteries and tampered cell phones for explosion in its mobiles, while advising customers to use original components. “Our investigation shows that either the batteries were fake or tampered with,” D Shivakumar, managing director, Nokia India, said, while addressing a press conference in the National Capital. The Finnish company also mustered support from the Cellular Operators Association (COAI) and Indian Cellular Association (ICA). According to ICA President Anand Mahendroo, there is a large market of counterfeit batteries in India, all imported mostly from China. “Seventy to...

BEIJING: Mobile phone batteries that exploded in flames during tests by officials in southern China were counterfeit, spokeswomen for Nokia and Motorola said Saturday. The Guangdong Industrial and Commercial Administration's Web site said four batteries exploded while being recharged during quality tests, which flunked 40 percent of mobile phone batteries and 80 percent of chargers. The tests also found that of 40 locally purchased batteries, 15 had a smaller capacity that labeled, sometimes by as much as half. Motorola spokeswoman Mary Lamb told The Associated Press that Motorola immediately sent a team to Guangdong province and found that the tests...

Pak says no to Nokia phones made in Chennai April 19, 2007 18:21 IST Stretching its reservations on imports from India to multinational companies, Pakistan is understood to have informed mobile handset maker Nokia not to sell phones made in India in the Islamic nation. The reservations of Pakistan in receiving such mobile phones apparently were conveyed to Nokia through authorised cell phone distributors, who have asked the company not to ship Indian made handsets into Pakistan on the ground that consumers may not like it. The company, which has a facility near Chennai in south India, has accepted the...

Around 1:00am August 11th three men purchased cell phones from the Wal-Mart store on M-81 near the corner of M-24 in Caro. Wal-Mart places a limit on the number of cell phones that can be purchased at once, that number is three. The three men allegedly bought 80 by purchasing them three at time so that an alert wouldn't be triggered by the cash register. They also paid cash. An alert clerk grew suspicious and called Tuscola County central dispatch. The Caro Police Department sent a unit and stopped the rented van on M-81 just east of Caro. The suspects...

www.motorola.com and www.nokia.com are going head-to-head in the southern city of Madras, India. But, Nokia is throwing the bigger punches. Nokia announced plans to build a $150-million plant near Madras. Motorola countered with a plan to invest $100 million in a plant of its own. Where do these companies get all of this money? $150 mill, $100 mil, and yesterday Yahoo put up $60 mil to invest in South Korea. Could someone please drop a million near me, or invest in me? India is one of the fastest growing handset markets. Gee, I wonder what country is number one. Nokia...

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Mobile handset giant Nokia (NOK1V.HE) sees the United States market as having importance out of proportion to its size in setting industry trends, its incoming chief executive said in remarks published on Friday. Success in the United States is more important than just the resulting revenues, said Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, who takes over from CEO Jorma Ollila in June, in an interview with Finnish weekly magazine Suomen Kuvalehti."The United States is especially important, because world trends originate there," he said."Many things spread elsewhere from there, rarely the other way round. If something succeeds in the United States, it...

Nokia has begun shipping its Linux-based Nokia 770, the so-called "Internet tablet", according to the Finnish giant's direct-sales website. The device lacks the usual Nokia mobile phone technology, relying instead on Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) and Bluetooth to connect it to a broadband connectivity host. The 770 is pitched at consumers who want to access the Internet for emailing and web browsing anywhere in their home.

Biting the hand that feeds IT The Register » Mobile » Mobile Data » Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/31/nokia_mobile_tv/Nokia makes the case for mobile TV By Faultline (peter at rethinkresearch.biz) Published Wednesday 31st August 2005 12:39 GMT Nokia says that data from one of the world's first commercial mobile TV pilots in Helsinki, Finland shows that 41 per cent of pilot participants would be willing to purchase mobile TV services, and that a monthly fee of €10 ($12) is a reasonable price to pay.Over half (58 per cent) said that they believed broadcast mobile TV services would be popular. The trial was...

HELSINKI, Finland (AP) -- Nokia Corp. shares rose Monday after a report that Cisco Systems Inc. was interested in an acquisition in the wireless market and the Finnish mobile phone maker might be a target. Nokia shares were up 1.9 percent at 13.17 euros ($16.31) in early afternoon trading on the Helsinki exchange. The gains came after The Business newspaper in Britain reported Sunday that San Jose, Calif.-based Cisco is considering buying a wireless company, and that Nokia had been identified as the most likely target. The newspaper did not identify its sources, and Nokia declined to comment to The...

LONDON (Reuters) - Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:CSCO - news) is considering buying the world's top mobile handset maker Nokia (NOK1V.HE) in a bid to gain its wireless infrastructure technology, the Business newspaper reported on Sunday. The paper, which did not reveal the source of its information, said U.S.-based Cisco had traditionally concentrated on acquisitions of niche technology players, but its Chief Executive John Chambers is believed to be interested in merging with a wireless infrastructure company. "Nokia has been identified as the most likely target," the paper said. Cisco, the largest maker of Internet equipment, is worth around $123 billion,...

By Peter Sayer, IDG News Service MacCentralMon Jun 13, 1:05 PM ET Nokia Corp. is turning to open-source software developers to provide a new Web browser for smart phones based on its Series 60 mobile phone software platform, the company announced Monday.Series 60 is a user interface layer that runs on the Symbian smart phone operating system from Symbian Ltd. Nokia licenses its software to a number of companies, including LG Electronics Inc., Lenovo Mobile Co. Ltd., Panasonic Mobile Communications Co. Ltd., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Sendo International Ltd. and Siemens AG, so the new browser could pop up...

Nokia Corp., the world's largest cellphone maker, unveiled its first handset with a built-in hard drive, taking aim at the market for iPods and other stand-alone digital-music players. Nokia, of Espoo, Finland, said the cellphone, earmarked to go on sale world-wide in the fourth quarter, will be able to store 3,000 songs and have a built-in Wi-Fi radio and camera. Dubbed the Nokia N91, the device will have a retail price of about €700, or about $908, before any subsidies by cellphone-service providers, Nokia officials said. That price compares with about $200 for an iPod mini with a similar storage...

A fuel cell phone would eliminate the need to charge the phone using an electrical cord, rather the user would refill the phone similar to the way a refillable lighter is used.

CANNES/HELSINKI (Reuters) - The world's largest mobile phone maker, Nokia, and software giant Microsoft struck a deal on Monday to make it easier for consumers to buy digital music on-line and play it back on their handsets. In a comprehensive agreement, which involves a separate deal with digital media company Loudeye, Nokia agreed to put Microsoft's music player software into its handsets. In return, Microsoft, will introduce open standards for digital music compression and piracy protection in its Media Players for personal computers. "Users can synchronize their music collection with their mobile device," Nokia said in a statement. "This agreement...

World Media Digest Nokia CEO voices concern about U.S. mores , 01.24.05, 12:29 PM ET The News and Observer HELSINKI, Finland (AP) - The head of Nokia - the world's largest mobile phone maker - expressed concern Sunday about disintegrating values in society and an apparent resurgence in conservative attitudes in the United States. Nokia's chief executive, Jorma Ollila, said in a rare television interview that the world is living in "an era of selfishness" very different from his childhood days in a small town in central Finland, when family values were of prime importance. "Put in a nicer way,...

HELSINKI, Finland - The head of Nokia — the world's largest mobile phone maker — expressed concern Sunday about disintegrating values in society and an apparent resurgence in conservative attitudes in the United States. Nokia's chief executive, Jorma Ollila, said in a rare television interview that the world is living in "an era of selfishness" very different from his childhood days in a small town in central Finland, when family values were of prime importance. "Put in a nicer way, it is an era of individualism. This is a very self-centered period, which also has plenty of good features too...

JEDDAH, 4 April 2004 — Legal or not, mobile phones with cameras are alive and well in the Kingdom. They are openly on sale in phone souks and freely available over the counter in branded stores. To add to the confusion, the technically illegal Samsung E 700 is even advertised on a main thoroughfare in Jeddah. The authorities are reacting. Al-Yaum Arabic daily recently reported that a college student was expelled in the Eastern Province for taking pictures of her friends with her mobile phone camera on campus and distributing them via the Internet. Parents complained to the college administration...

A record number of cellular phones were sold last year by manufacturers, primarily due to people replacing their handsets with newer models and increased sales in emerging markets, a market research firm said. Worldwide shipments totaled 520 million units in 2003, a 20.5 percent increase over 2002 sales, Gartner Inc. said. Sales were so good, manufacturers struggled to meet demand. "This unprecedented demand is set to continue in 2004 with the first quarter already looking strong," Gartner analyst Ben Wood said in a statement. "We've increased our market estimate for 2004 to 580 million units." Nokia continued to hold the...

Smartphone wars over, Symbian and MS both lost? By John Lettice in Cannes Posted: 01/03/2004 at 18:36 GMT 3GSM Events of the past few weeks have kind of undermined images of Symbian as the victor in the smartphone wars. Depending on how you look at it, last week at 3GSM the company was either staggering about with a dagger in its back, or David Levin was pointing a gun at his head and telling any shareholder who'd listen, "Buy more shares or the puppy gets it." Maybe a bit of both, but does it matter who wins/won? It's beginning to...

NOKIA has given a sneak preview of its first truly mobile multimedia device — the 7700. Optimised for internet browsing over high-speed wireless networks, this remarkable gizmo features an integrated VGA still/video camera, a new "visual" FM radio service, an MP3 player, voice recorder and on-screen keyboard, along with full multimedia messaging and email capabilities. But that's not all. The 7700 packs MS Office applications plus personal organiser/calendar functions, so it may be possible to persuade the boss (or the taxman) that it is an essential work tool. Certainly, it will be one of next year's hottest toys for cashed-up...

I did a thorough search of the internet and found ONE LAST copy of this article on an older (defunct?) Arnold fan club web site.  So before it became extinct, I copied the complete article and the picture for ARCHIVAL purposes only. For your education and edification ..... Arnold, Buffet, and the Third World Order?Date: Wednesday, August 20 @ 09:44:18 Topic War on Terror ARNOLD & BUFFETT's LOADED ELEPHANT GUN?TheArnoldFans Reported By: Reuters - Tuesday, September 24, 2002 Buffett's Back, with the Terminator! WADDESDON MANOR, England (Reuters) - The world's second-richest man dropped into the English countryside with the Terminator...

<p>Cem Uzan, head of Turkey's Youth Party, had a $6.3 million condo at 515 Park Ave. seized.</p> <p>A federal judge yesterday ordered a fabulously wealthy Turkish family to fork over $4 billion to Motorola for ensnaring the communications giant in what he called a web of "lies, threats and chicanery." And if members of the family set foot in the United States, Judge Jed Rakoff wants five of them arrested for pulling off the super-sized scam.</p>

Games industry set for LA extravaganza 12 May 2003 - Reuters LOS ANGELES: Cram 65,000 people into a convention centre, add the sounds of aliens being shot and race cars being crashed at rock-and-roll volumes, then sprinkle in a few women dressed in costumes just an inch or two this side of indecency. What you get is E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, the video game industry's annual convention that starts this week in Los Angeles and represents the favoured forum for deal-making and promotion in a business expected to generate US$30 billion in sales in 2003. "I think it's going...

EXCERPT: The tale of how Motorola Inc. fell victim to one of history's bigger financial frauds--an alleged $2.5 billion swindle by a powerful Turkish family--is set to unfold in painful detail in a federal courtroom this week. Yet even a clear legal victory in its lawsuit wouldn't spare Motorola the embarrassing question of how it came to lend more than $1.8 billion to a family that it now alleges has a history of defrauding investors and using Turkish courts to elude prosecution. The story of Motorola's massive losses--they were written off months ago--to the billionaire Uzan family is a cautionary...

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Six University of Maryland students have admitted cheating on an accounting exam by using their cell phones to receive text messages with the answers, the school said Thursday. Another six students were implicated in the case. The scheme worked this way: Test-takers brought their cell phones into the exam with them. They used the phones to contact friends outside the classroom

Nokia faces much bigger challengers than the Redmond Monster By Tony Dennis: Wednesday 17 July 2002, 14:28 THAT OLD CHESTNUT that Nokia is frightened by Bill Gates' shadow was trotted out again in today's Financial Times. The claim is that Microsoft will mutate the handset market so that it resembles the PC industry where margins on hardware are minute while software margins stay high. Apparently there's a danger that Microsoft could help to commoditise the handset market. Eh? Global handset sales are already around 400 million units compared to 120 million at most for PC sales. Which is the commodity?...