Few people know this but The Feature, which comes across as some sort of independent commentator on the mobile industry, is in fact wholly funded and owned by Nokia. Under the site’s terms and conditions you will find: “3. Copyright. The contents of this Site are Copyright Nokia Corporation 2000.” I always wondered how they had the budget for Howard Rheingold. This would, of course, have implications for any writers
Consumers are abandoning fixed line phones in droves and replacing them with mobiles for all their voice calls, research conducted by Mori has found, reports VNU. However, the study was commissioned by Nokia. However, since the most fertile market for fixed-to-mobile substitution was found to be the young professional group, who use their mobile phone for most of their voice calls and are more likely to be male, in the
For once the Orangery in London’s Holland Park was empty of the latest conceptual painter’s work or a display of modernist sculpture. On a tropical Thursday last week, as the heavens opened after a day of 25 degree heat, London’s champagne-sipping brigade of trendsetters gathered for the launch not of a new album by some up-and-coming band, but of a mobile phone. In a savvy piece of marketing, Nokia had