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Via Hacker News: And according to Nokia entry on Wikipedia In 1898, Eduard Polón founded Finnish Rubber Works, manufacturer of galoshes and other rubber products, which later became Nokia’s rubber business. At the beginning of the 20th century, Finnish Rubber Works established its factories near the town of Nokia and began using Nokia as its [...]

Nokia vs SGI on Hacker News Comments. Interesting to see how both have ex-Microsoft boss, and both have decided to replaced in house operating system with Microsoft’s offering. And we all know what happened to SGI. Another interesting post on what Microsoft has done with the management at Nokia. Brilliant.

Basically I have been playing with the HTC Dream smartphone for the last week and half, thanks to the loan phone from Optus. Let me say it first — it is a very very nice phone that I believe every geek would love to have one. On the day when it arrived on my desk, [...]

Problem I have recently bought a Nokia S60 smart phone, and have migrated my email to Google Apps. I am now using the Gmail interface to access my emails when I am on my desktop, but I am wondering how I can send/receive emails on my mobile phone. Solution(s) Well. It is complicated and so [...]

Took this phone the other day. Nokia 6150 Nokia E71 Released in 1998 Dual band GSM Infra-red port 84 x 48 monochrome display Released in 2008 Quad band GSM + dual band HSPA Wi-Fi + Bluetooth + Infrared + GPS/AGPS 320×240 QVGA colour display That Nokia 6150 wasn’t my first Nokia — I had a [...]

Took two deliveries at work today for my belated Christmas pressies (that I actually have to pay for myself). First one — all the way from the United Kingdom: It’s Real World Haskell by Bryan O’Sullivan, Don Stewart, and John Goerzen. It was released in November 2008 by O’Reilly, which you can actually read the [...]

It’s all over the news yesterday and today. Kogan, a relatively-small electronics shop in Melbourne famous for re-branded cheap Chinese goods, has pre-released their Google Android powered mobile phone. It can now be ordered online but won’t be shipping until late Jan 2009. There will be two models: Kogan Agora for AUD$299, and Kogan Agora [...]