The race for SMS location sharing started long before Foursquare. Before Foursquare there was Dodgeball the brainchild of Dennis Crowley and partner Alex Rainert. Rainert and Crowley worked together on the predecessor of Foursquare before selling to Google in 2005. After selling to Google the Dodgeball founders worked for the technology monolith until 2007. (Burns, 2010.) Cromley cited the departure from Google to be lack of support as he detailed on his Flickr picture (shown right) “It's no real secret that
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Nokia (произносится Но́киа) — финская транснациональная компания, производитель мобильных телефонов, смартфонов, а также телекоммуникационного оборудования для мобильных, фиксированных, широкополосных и IP-сетей. По состоянию на начало 2013 года в компании работает немногим менее 100 тыс. сотрудников, в конце 2000-х число сотрудников доходило до 132 тыс. человек. 1865 году на юго-востоке Финляндии зародилась лесопромышленная индустрия. 1967 году создали известного нам сейчас как корпорация Nokia
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Project background, the company and its product Nokia, a Finnish icon was the world’s leading mobile phone maker. Established in 1865, its principal products are mobile phones and portable IT devices. It also offers internet services such as games, music, media and applications through its Ovi platform. Ever since the revolution of Apple entering the phone market accompanied with the fast changing trend of smartphones, Nokia has since lagged behind. Nokia wish to examine and understand their target market
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Q1.Identify the important quality characteristics for Nokia products. Ans. The daily industry products which people consume present their own personalities, just like people themselves. The most ideal objective of products is to provide each consumer the goods or service they need or meet other particular needs from customers, at the same time, we advocate the exits of personality and common development, but that is not to mean there will be no personality if commonality exists, a good design still
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surged as much as 12.6 percent in German trading after reports said Microsoft Corp. and Nokia Oyj mulled a joint bid, while Amazon.com Inc. considered buying the maker of the BlackBerry smartphone. RIM “turned down takeover overtures” from Amazon because it wanted to fix its shortcomings independently, Reuters reported yesterday. That was followed by a Wall Street Journal article that said Microsoft and Nokia “flirted with the idea of making a joint bid” in recent months. Both cited unidentified
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Index a) Nokia Corporation 1. Introduction 2. History i) Pre telecommunication Era 1) Industrial conglomerate ii) Telecommunications era 1) Networking equipment 2) First mobile phones 3) Involvement in GSM 3. Acquisitions 4. Logos b) Global Market Captured/Targeted By Nokia Corporation c) Peru i) Quick Facts ii) General Overview iii) Economy
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Concerns about social and ethical implications on society caused by convergence technologies. Abstract The purpose of this paper is to outline concerns arising from the use of converging technologies such as smartphone’s. The discussion will more particularly dwell into the concerns resulting that are believed to have some social and ethical implications to the society. Introduction The technological convergence of communication and computing for mobile technology is in the outburst forefront
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The new generation smart phone : an extensive study on the future of cellphone Introduction Topic area In recent years, the demand for smartphone has been increased significantly. Even company like Nokia has been reported of loosing market share in different countries because of the new generation smart phones made by Android and Apple corp. The reason is, these days, the functions that people want from the cellphone is a lot different from the primary users. At first only making calls was
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SWOT ANALYSIS ON NOKIA INTRODUCTION The Corporation of Nokia is one of the world’s largest telecommunications equipment manufacturers. The Nokia Company has been established by leading a good brand presence in many local markets, and the business had been also expanded considerably in all the areas to fulfill the needs of the customers and also the growth of the telecommunication industry. Nokia comapny has also made its good name in the making of best mobile phones infrastructure and other
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Finland and Nokia Executive Summary Finland had transformed itself from a sleepy economy to a highly competitive one with maximum contribution from the telecommunications sector. Focused efforts in R&D and education helped Finland achieve this position with Nokia being a major player. While Finland maintained its ranking as a leading competitive nation in 2001, it was facing challenges. The overall growth rates were declining and the telecommunications cluster was experiencing a severe
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