Daily Archive: September 11, 2007

3G / Ericsson

Ericsson CEO: Mobile Broadband is Becoming a Mass Market

September 11, 2007

With 128 commercial HSPA networks rolled out and more than 300 HSPA devices available around the world, mobile broadband is moving quickly toward becoming a mass market, Ericsson President and Chief Executive Officer Carl-Henric Svanberg said today at the company’s Strategy and Technology Summit in London.

As evidence he gave several examples where, in commercially launched HSPA networks, data traffic has quadrupled over the past year and is accelerating. Ericsson has laid the foundation for this development with its technology, which connects more than one billion people around the world.
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Cellphones / Nokia

Nokia Revamps its Location-Based Experiences

September 11, 2007

Speaking at the Canalys Navigation forum in Barcelona, Michael Halbherr shared insights about the current state of navigation and plans for updates and improvements for Nokia Maps. Launched in February of this year, the Nokia Maps mobile application and the Nokia Map Loader for PC’s have each been downloaded over 1 million times.

A key point highlighted by Halbherr, head of the location-based experience team in Nokia Multimedia was the evolution of Nokia Maps from the first version, announced in February, to the next phase, which is available for download today. “We have taken a lot of the consumer feedback that we received when we launched Nokia Maps and are feeding that into the next versions of the product,” said Mr. Halbherr.
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