Nokia finds Romania's hidden labor force
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CLUJ, Romania  - The tiny village of Jucu in  northwestern Romania, which will host a new factory making  Nokia mobile phones, currently earns its livelihood from  farming vegetables such as peppers, tomatoes and eggplants.
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Nokia , the world's top cellphone maker, reported a 57 percent rise in earnings per share from October to December, with booming demand in emerging markets boosting its global market share to 40 percent.
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Investor's Business Daily - They may once have looked like the Keystone Cossacks. But Russia's troika of top wireless operators -- Mobile Telesystems  , Vimpel Communications   and Megafon -- have delivered mobile phones to most of the country's 143 million citizens in a few years.
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TechWeb - Nokia also introduced a smartphone, camera phone, and low-end phone including an FM radio.
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Nokia signed a contract with the Libyan post office for a nationwide mobile-phone network in a deal valued at &#36;146 million, the Finnish company said Monday.
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Nokia, the world's top cellphone  maker, reported a 57 percent rise in earnings per share in the  October-to-December quarter, with booming demand in emerging  markets boosting its global market share to 40 percent.
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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is providing a set of tools based on RFID technology to help businesses get the most from their workers in the field. The Nokia field force offering is targeted at the security, services, utilities and health care industries, as well as government agencies.
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In Internet chat rooms, TV talks shows and cafe conversations, the topic is on everybody's lips: The opening of the files of Romania's dreaded secret police that have been buried since the fall of communism 17 years ago.
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InfoWorld - A U.K. startup specializing in offering Internet telephone service via certain Nokia Wi-Fi enabled cellphones is making few friends with mobile operators, signalling tension ahead in the high stakes mobile phone industry.
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EU entry seems destined to change Romania's small-scale farming methods - and its landscape.
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Nokia (NOK1V.HE), the world's  top cell phone maker, unveiled two new multimedia phones and a  music service in an effort to find new revenues and win back  popularity lost to rivals like Motorola .
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Nokia, the mobile phone company, is standing by its decision to close its factory in Bochum, western Germany. About 2,300 employees are affected along with, according to trade union estimates, up to 2,000 jobs at suppliers and subcontractors. The Finnish company's decision has provoked indignation. The reasons for the public outrage are obvious: Nokia earns EU90,000 a year from each production worker - operating profit at Bochum runs at an annual EU134m. Nevertheless, production will now be shifted to Romania.
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The world's top cellphone maker, Nokia  , unveiled on Tuesday a new phone model, the Nokia  E51, for corporate users and said it still expects to fast  growth in the mobile e-mail market.
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Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker has signed two contracts worth over two billion euros (2.54 billion dollars) with Chinese companies China Mobile and PTAC.
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(InfoWorld) - Nokia Corp. revealed its new online multimedia strategy on Wednesday, and showed mobile users the door. It also unveiled a range of new phones for playing games and music, and demonstrated a new user interface for future multimedia phones. Ovi, the Finnish word for door, is Nokia's new umbrella brand for online gaming, music, mapping and social networking services, and also the name of a portal where they will appear. The portal, accessible from a mobile phone or a PC, will also be open to other vendors' services, executives said at a news conference, held in a former fish market in London. The first service to appear on the site, from November, will be an updated version of Nokia's mobile gaming platform, N-Gage Arena, which currently works only with the company's N-Gage mobile game consoles, but will soon work with other Nokia devices too. "We believe it will become the largest online gaming platform by far," said Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia's general manager for multimedia. The strategy is to make the service compatible with many of Nokia's existing N-Series multimedia phones, and all future N-Series models based on the S60 software platform. Nokia had originally promised game developers 6 million users of the service, but has only managed to deliver 3 million so far, Vanjoki said. Game publishers including Capcom Co. Ltd., Electronic Arts Inc. and Gameloft Inc. have pledged support for the service, he said. Nokia will offer free trials of the games on Ovi, which can then be bought for between â¬6 and â¬10 or rented by the day or week. After games, Nokia will add an online music store to Ovi. The store will open in the U.K. and other large markets in Europe in the fourth quarter, with Asian markets to follow. Plans to offer the Ovi platform in North America were not discussed. "Our philosophy is to offer all the music in the world, everywhere, to all the people, at a reasonable cost," he said. The store will offer millions of tunes for download over the Internet to PCs, or over the air direct to mobile phones for â¬1 each or from â¬10 per album. A subscription for unlimited streaming will cost â¬10 a month. Users will be able to copy tunes from their PC to their phone and back again, but copying will be limited by Microsoft Corp.'s DRM (digital rights management), he said. Nokia also unveiled some new phones. The simplest models, the 5310 and 5610 XpressMusic, each have 4G bytes of memory and dedicated keys for playing music. The 5310 will go on sale in the fourth quarter for around â¬225, and can play music for 18 hours between charges. The 5610 slides open to reveal its keyboard, has a 3.2M-pixel camera, and will play music for 22 hours nonstop. The company will release an upgraded version of its N95 multimedia phone in early October, with 8G bytes of memory and a larger, 2.8-inch, screen. It will cost â¬560 before operator subsidies and sales tax. Another new multimedia phone, the N81, connects to 3G (third generation) mobile and Wi-Fi networks. A version with 8G bytes of memory will go on sale in the fourth quarter for â¬430 before subsidies and tax. The N81 has a new 3D menu system, one of the first elements of a new user interface that will appear progressively in new phones over the next year, Vanjoki said. Future version of the interface will take cues from Apple Inc.'s iPod and iPhone: Pressing a touch-sensitive panel below the screen allows navigation through a series of menus -- left and right to choose the menu, up and down to pick an option -- while stroking the panel in a circular movement familiar to iPod users will scroll through music collections or other long lists. Asked about the similarity with Apple's interface, Vanjoki said he didn't know who had copied whom.
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The BBC's Nick Thorpe in Romania investigates a tip-off of possible electoral fraud in the country's presidential and parliamentary elections.
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The luxury unit of Nokia has started  selling a phone designed jointly with Ferrari for about 18,000  euros ($25,400) at its stores in London, Paris, Hong Kong and  Singapore, it said on Thursday.