Nokia Maps London In Three Dimensions | Londonist

Ovi Maps from Nokia recently released a three-dimensional option, allowing you to zoom around town in unprecedented detail. That’s right, the image above isn’t a static photo. You can zoom in, rotate, move off into the distance, sit on the roof of 1 Canada Square, or on top of the O2. It’s pretty damn jaw-dropping, so long as you’ve got a good graphics card.

While Google Earth has long offered 3-D layers, they’re not as photo-realistic as this. In addition, London’s coverage has always been patchy in Google Earth, although a recent update has improved matters.

New Media Knowledge - Nokia launches international short film competition for aspiring directors

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...Aspiring directors will be able to submit their idea for a short film at http://www.vimeo.com/nokia on a subject of their choice. Following a rigorous selection by a panel of judges, eight of the best submissions will be shortlisted for the semi-finals and their creators awarded a budget of 5,000 USD and two Nokia N8 smartphones to make their film. The winning film will be chosen by the panel of judges and will be screened at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in June 2011....

Funny. Bass lines. Poodles. DIY Mixing from NOKIA = Loop

Remix SoundCloud

Welcome to Loop. A music-making app that allows you to sample sounds and make music with anything, anywhere, anyhow you like. Pre-programmed with nine baselines to get you started, recording your own music couldn’t be easier. Make a track. Set it as your ringtone. Share it on Facebook. Available free and exclusively
on Ovi Store, for Nokia C7 and Nokia N8 handsets. Hear what other people have looped below.

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A Universal Inbox from Nokia = nice: Out of Many, One In-box

Digital butler: This universal in-box pulls in e-mails, text messages, tweets, Facebook updates, and more. It’s an effort to make it easier for people to handle all the communication technologies offered by a smart phone.
Credit: Nokia Research Center

Communications

Out of Many, One In-box

Nokia experiments with a universal in-box that combines messages from many separate apps into a single place.

  • Wednesday, November 24, 2010
  • By Tom Simonite

Excerpt:

"The universal in-box looks superficially like a regular e-mail in-box. But the stream of recent messages can be a mixture of e-mails, text messages, call logs, tweets, Facebook updates, Flickr photos, and more.

Just last week, Facebook launched its Messages product—aka an "e-mail killer"—to combine e-mail with text messages and private Facebook messages. Smart phones can already receive messages sent over those and other communications channels, but the messages are stuck in separate app "silos." "The universal in-box brings together all those communications into one place so the user does not need to check separate apps," says Rafael Ballagas, a researcher at Nokia Research Center, in Palo Alto, California.

That makes it easier to track and carry out conversations that span different kinds of messaging. For example, it would be simple to see that someone responded to a Twitter update with a text message. It would also be possible to seamlessly switch methods of communication, and reply to a person's latest Facebook update by e-mailing them."

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