International superstar Rihanna will showcase new material from her highly-anticipated forthcoming album Rated R exclusively to a Nokia audience via a globally streamed live performance on November 16th 2009. This ground-breaking event in partnership with Nokia will preview tracks from Rated R -- set for a November 23nd release worldwide -- performed live from a secret London location. From her breakthrough multi-platinum album A Girl Like Me to her ubiquitous global smash Good Girl Gone Bad, in just a few short years, Rihanna has helped redefine the path of popular music for a new generation. She continues that musical and stylistic journey on one of the most hotly anticipated new albums in recent history, her fourth original studio album, Rated R. Rated R features the sultry, provocative first single “Russian Roulette,” which is rocketing up the charts at radio stations across the globe. This event places Rihanna at the forefront of cutting-edge technology to deliver music and exclusive content to fans, whilst enabling fans to get closer to the live action from wherever they are in the world. Rihanna fans can: - Sign up to watch the live stream - Invite their friends to watch the performance simultaneously with them through Facebook and Twitter - Download a web widget counting down to the live performance. - Download an exclusive Rihanna mobile application from Nokia’s Ovi Store. - Download the album with an exclusive track either to their PC or over the air to mobile from Nokia Music Store or Comes With Music. In addition, Nokia will offer of an exclusive version of the new Rated R album via Nokia Music Store, as well as a companion Rihanna application with exclusive footage and other links on Ovi Store. Rihanna stated, “I am so excited to partner up with Nokia. They are doing some really revolutionary things with this album, enabling me to reach more fans than ever before.” To secure your place in the making of music history, register at www.nokia.com/rihanna.
Press: Rihanna set to launch new album, through global listening event with Nokia
This is a in-game video of the upcoming iPhone and iPod Touch game “Vampires Origins”. Check it out after the break…
The Nokia Foundation has granted its 2009 award to Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, the free, multilingual encyclopedia. Wales was awarded for his contributions to the evolution of the World Wide Web as a participatory and truly democratic platform. The EUR 10,000 award was presented at the Nokia Foundation scholarship awards ceremony on 4 November, 2009. “It’s a great honor to present this award on behalf of the Board of the Nokia Foundation to an individual who we believe has made a unique contribution to accelerating online collaboration and interaction for millions of people around the world, and effectively democratizing information sharing,” said Henry Tirri, head of Nokia Research Center and Chairman of the Board of the Nokia Foundation. “The theme for this year’s award is Open Innovation, a way of working which is very important for our activities at Nokia Research Center, and a value which we believe is embodied in the participatory and inclusive approach of Wikipedia,” he continued. Since its creation in 2001, Wikipedia has grown rapidly into one of the largest reference web sites, so far attracting an average of more than 330 million monthly visitors this year. There are more than 75,000 active contributors working on more than 14,000,000 articles in more than 260 languages. Wales is also the co-founder of Wikia.com, a project which expands the participatory editing model into new areas, allowing the global community to come together to build the “rest of the library”. Previous recipients of the Nokia Foundation annual award include Lauri Kuokkanen (1995), Pekka Tarjanne (1996), Linus Torvalds (1997), Arto Salomaa (1998), Kullervo Nieminen (1999), Osmo A. Wiio (2000), Ilkka Haikala (2001), Veikko Rintamäki (2002), George Metakides (2003), Heikki Lyytinen (2004), Moncef Gabbouj (2005), Mårten Mickos (2006), Pekka Abrahamsson (2007), Aapo Kyrölä and Sampo Karjalainen (2008). This year, the Nokia Foundation also awarded 77 scholarships with a total value of EUR 385,000. All 77 scholarships were granted to post-graduate students to support the completion of their doctorate studies in the field of information and data communications technology.
Cnet.uk has published an article about why they think the iPhone is the “worst phone in world”. What do you guys think? To be honest i actually didn’t like the iPhone at all until i jailbreaked the phone (its like going from a brick to a pretty nice working phone). Its really impressive how many good customization apps there are available in Cydia. If the iPhone is inaudible, unconnected, on fire and out of battery, why is the thing so popular? The fact is, although the iPhone is the worst phone in the world, it’s the best handheld computer there is. Web browsing is a revelation, it’s a fantastic music- and movie-playing iPod, and it’s easy as pie to install thousands of apps that do everything from editing your photos to tuning your guitar. And unlike its competitors, its responsive touchscreen and crystal-clear user interface make tapping away on the iPhone a real pleasure.
An artist’s concept of the future of the Symbian UI, also shown in Lee Williams’ keynote at SEE 2009 on 27 October 2009. This concept is not part of the Symbian UI Roadmap, but they hope some of the cool features and effects will make it into their reference UI and/or delivered handsets.
This is a short demo video of the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 UI. The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 is the manufacturer’s first Android phone. It is rather high-end, equipped with a 1GHz Snapdagon processor, 4-inch TFT screen with a resolution of 480x854 pixels and an 8.1-megapixel camera with autofocus. However, its software features are just as impressing. What it adds to the Android universe is a personalized interface, called UX (from User eXperience). Basically, UX combines various entertainment and social media features.
Apple officially announced today that it has broken the 100,000 App Store barrier with over 100,000 applications now available from a universal range of 20 categories some of which include business, news, reference, health and games. Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president said “The iPhone SDK created the first great platform for mobile applications and our customers are loving all of the amazing apps our developers are creating.” Travis Boatman, vice president of EA Mobile added “The App Store has forever changed the mobile gaming industry….” 148Apps.biz provides a break down of the App Store listing by release date, category and price with Games being the largest group of sales.
Mr. Lock is a free customizable auto-lock utility for Symbian 5th Edition phones such as the Nokia N97, Nokia 5800 and the Nokia 5530. Main features:
Nokia Conversations has published two promo videos of the newly announced Nokia 1800 and Nokia 2690. Check them out after the break… Nokia 1800 support FM radio, prepaid tracker, flashlight, anti-scratch cover and dust-resistant keymat, among other features The Nokia 2690 is an entertainment device and supports up to 2GB of memory through its memory card slot.
If the insider got the inside info straight, you must be looking at the Sony Ericsson Kurara. The rumored phone is suppose to be a lower end Sony Ericcson Satio running S60 5th edition toped with Sony Ericsson UI. Little is known for this buddy other than a 8.1 megapixel camera and possible OLED screen. Hit the link to see more pics of Kurara here.
