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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?...