I have just received an awesome email from the Nokia India Music store with the much awaited news that Nokia Music is finally going DRM free and that it will soon merge into the Ovi brand. The email carries no specific date for the transition to occur, we can only hope it happens soon.
DRM free means that you can use the music you downloaded from the Nokia store on any device, be it your computer, mobile phone or mp3 player. After Ovi Maps going free, Nokia saw a lot of …

As I have told you before, I had gone to Helsinki for The Way We Live Next event last year and Nokia had some really interesting demos from the work being done at the Nokia Research Center. There I was fortunate to witness and be able to witness, interview and film a demo of the Explore & Share concept that allows wireless data transfer at very high speeds.
The setup is based on a new radio technology built from a scratch. At Nokia house it was being demoed on a specially …

What is MeeGo? A new OS? The name of a very important partnership? What happens to Maemo after this? Is Symbian still in the picture for Nokia? Maemo 6?

MeeGo is the result of Intel and Nokia’s broad strategic collaboration announced in June 2009. Today, they have come together to create MeeGo, a Linux-based software platform that will support multiple hardware architectures across the broadest range of device segments, including pocketable mobile computers, netbooks, tablets, mediaphones, connected TVs and in-vehicle infotainment systems.

Maemo …

I’ve just got word that Nokia will be holding a meet up on December 12 for all of you in and around Bangalore. The venue for the meetup is the Nokia Store at Off Brigade Road, and the meetup is expected to commence at 11:30 am and continue till about 5:00 pm.

At the meetup you will meet with the guys behind apps like Newshunt, Touch games and Mobile Search and help Nokia let you discover more about your phones. Not only that, anyone attending will get a voucher to download …

Two days ago I received this flash drive from the ‘Nokia Human Research Department’ courtesy of the good people at WOM World. Inside it were two videos showcasing the effect small has on people and how it was the inspiration for the Mini. You might have seen these videos on the web before but I will be honest and admit that despite seeing them, I hadn’t taken the time to watch them.

As it turns turns out, I was missing out of two pretty interesting videos, do check them out if …

The Forum Nokia Developer Conference is happening on the coming Monday and I will be making my way to Bangalore to attend on Nokia’s kind invitation. The conference is an event where Nokia invites developers to educate them on the opportunities for building for Nokia devices and also to help them acquire the necessary tools for the purpose.
From what I’ve  heard, we can expect a few signification announcements on Monday and to give you a better idea of what to expect, I’ve reproduced the agenda for the conference below. The …

It has been quite some time since I got back from Finland and The Way We Live Next 3.0 event. So therefore I would like to apologies for not bringing you all these awesome videos, demos and interviews sooner, but hopefully the content will be able to make up for it.

So starting today you can expect a whole lot of coverage from the event, and to kick things off here is a video showing what it feels to be inside Nokia House. In addition to trying to show the areas …

There is something about the default N900 wallpapers that makes the device come alive, the inherent freshness is indeed refreshing. Since Nokia’s touch devices also have fairly large screens (with a slightly lower resolution), I figured it would be a good idea to load these up on my N97 and I am glad to say it did look good.

The S60 5th Edition software automatically resizes the picture to fit the image in the landscape mode and it crops out a part of the image to make it look good in …

If you have been wanting to try the recently launched Nokia Music Store India but have not purchased a handset that entitles you to free downloads, there is some good news for you. Hit http://music.nokia.co.in/myn5free to get 5 tracks free from the Nokia Music store. Click on this from your mobile phone and it will open the Nokia Music Store application.

The Nokia Music Store has some exclusive content such as Sona Mohapatra’s (who also performed at the Nokia Blogger’s Bootcamp in Bangalore) new track so make sure you choose wisely. …

Boeing will launch Digital Globe’s WorldView-2 satellite tomorrow i.e. Thursday 8th October in California. WorldView-2 is the first high-resolution 8-band multispectral satellite commercially available. The new bands support greater levels of feature identification and extraction, more accurate change detection, and a realistic mirror image of the world’s natural colors.

If you are wondering what does any of this have to do with Nokia, then read on.