Waze, our favorite social navigation application, just let us know that users will see some new road goodies on the maps, starting today. The new road goodies – heart-shaped ‘love balloons’ and cupid’s arrow, will replace the holiday-themed candy canes and snowflakes. The Waze team says there will be more of these on the maps, [...]
After nearly a week of build-up, Nokia finally announced their big Ovi announcement…..free premium content in Ovi Maps…on a select number of handsets. There are currently over 83 million GPS-enabled Nokia devices in the market, apparently, and thanks to Navteq, they have voice-guided turn-by-turn directions for 74 different countries around the world. Says Anssi Vanjoki, [...]
When we look back at 2009, one of the major changes we notice in our personal behavior as well as the general population’s is the rising importance of the Social web. We’re now interacting with friends we know in real life and “friends” we might never meet in person, we have access to updates and [...]
This morning, Nokia announced the second beta of its Nokia Messaging for Social Networks, v2.0, with improved Facebook support and the addition of basic Twitter functionality. I’ve been testing this new client out on my Nokia N97 over the weekend, and find it pretty interesting. For starters, Nokia Messaging for Social Networks is only supported [...]
When the Nokia 6790 Surge for AT&T was announced, the tagline is that AT&T and Nokia are riding ‘a social wave into summer’ with the Surge, and there was chatter about the access to various social networks built into the device. Intrigued by this, I dug a bit deeper, only to find out that the [...]
In case you’ve already forgotten, Nokia’s first ever OpenLab event was held last week onsite in Helsinki, Finland. The event brought over 3 dozen social and mobile enthusiasts together to talk about, well, whatever. The official definition, from the OpenLab08 site, says the event is the first of its kind hosted by Nokia, where an [...]
I’ve covered the S60v3 Jaiku application here on Symbian-Guru.com before, and know tons of readers on there. However, when Google purchased the social microblogging service last year, they closed it off to new accounts and gave current users a limited number of invites. This has prevented many of you from enjoying the service, and I’m [...]
