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Jorma Ollila NOKIA Chairman and CEO 51, Finnish www.nokia.com...
...Finnish phone maker is concentrating on developing the software, known as middleware, that will enable this type of enriched content to be delivered to consumers and businesses. Though its competitor in this realm is Microsoft, Ollila is confident Nokia is better positioned to know what mobile users want. Nokia's first 3G mobile terminals - phones with high-speed Internet connections - are expected to start shipping in the third quarter of next year...
...North America, Japan and China. The stakes are huge: tech consultancy Ovum predicts that in five years 46% of the world's 1.95 billion cell phone owners will be using wireless data services. Microsoft is not only competing with Symbian in mobile operating systems, but also positioning itself against Finnish phone maker Nokia in "middleware," the software platforms that mobile phone operators will use (see No. 2, Jorma Ollila...
Birkeland, a native Norwegian, spent a year on a remote Finnish mountain tracking the magnetic fields of the Earth and their relationship to the auroras, the so-called northern lights. At the end of the nineteenth century, the setting of Jago’s account, the northern lights were still a mystery—heralded by some as messages from the gods and by others as signals from the dead. Jago manages to successfully transport the reader to Birkeland’s world, where adventurers still dreamed not of faraway planets, stars and moons, but of uncharted mountains, desolate frozen...
...filing when it happened: Ears plugged with the Finnish teen pop sensation I had to write a blurb about that week; mind occupied with little other than filing Lil’ Kim’s press photo between Lil’ Bow Wow’s and Lil’ Troy’s. My editor at my summer internship at the Village Voice was on the phone nearby, his voice muffled by my Walkman warbles...