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Entries from September 2008

A few days in Madrid

September 30th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m just checking my emails before leaving for Liverpool airport and a flight to Madrid, makes a change to always flying from Manchester. I’m off to visit a member of my team in Madrid for nearly two full days, I’ve checked the weather and it’s a rather nice 24 degrees Celsius, which makes a change [...]

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A nice present from WOM World

September 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment

it’s been yet another day with the phone glued to my ear today, when just 20 mins ago there was a surprise knock on the front door and there was the postman stood there with a special delivery envelope. Having photographer the said envelope (below) I proceed to find a gold envelope inside containing, some [...]

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Tags: Nokia/S60 · Nokiaopenlabs08 · life

Mining Loyalty Card Data for the environment and your health.

September 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments

An hour or so on our last day at Nokia open labs 08 was taken up with the Green workshop, we got a chance to see some cool videos made by companies trying to make going green more fun than it is right now. We also saw a video for Carrotmob, a group forcing and [...]

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Nokia Legends

September 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Whilst in Helsinki at the Open Labs event 08 Nokia launched it’s Nokia Legends add campaign to us first which was pretty cool.
The web site is not up and it’s available at www.legendstelegraph.com

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Tags: Mobile · Nokia/S60 · Nokiaopenlabs08 · life

Open Labs and Open People

September 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I wrote this on the plane back from Nokia Open labs 08 in Helsinki, Finland;
It’s been an amazing 3 days, I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again,  a big thanks to the WOM team for picking me to come along and for organizing an event fantastically well. They’d thought of every last detail, [...]

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Tags: Mobile · Nokia/S60 · Nokiaopenlabs08 · life

You can recycle a Service

September 15th, 2008 · No Comments

One thing that I found interesting during the Nokia Open Labs 08 event was that it was more about being connecting and living in that connected world, which was the most important thing. It wasn’t about forcing Nokia products into the conversation, it was much more interesting than that.
It’s about the connected eco system, Nokia [...]

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Tags: Mobile · Nokia/S60 · Nokiaopenlabs08 · life

Nokia Open Labs

September 10th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve just finished packing for tomorrows trip to Finland and Nokia’s Open Labs event. We’re all staying in the same Hotel in Helsinki, which looks very nice indeed.
I’ve also finished packing my kit too, I’m taking my Asus Eeepc 900 as my blogging machine to keep the weight down, the N800 is coming too, [...]

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Tags: Gadgets · Nokia/S60 · Travel

remind me to cover these topics when I get the time.

September 6th, 2008 · No Comments

1.Nokia Intelisync on the E61i – corporate push email, with great directory access.
2. 3’s HSDPA dongle – speeds and coverage
3. My mates iPhone. – sorting out his wi-fi.
4. N800 as a RSS reader & pod catcher.
I’m sure there are a few other topics that’ll come back to me..

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Nokia E71 and Finland

September 6th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve got a WOM E71 again this time for the trip next weekend to Helsinki, Finland for the Nokia OpenLabs event. Having had an E71 on trail a few weeks back I thought the device would make sense as my next handset. Using it again, has confirmed it, I’ll be getting an E71 in a [...]

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