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Videos From Nokia World 2007
Written by Glenn Letham
Wednesday, 12 December 2007
The following are but several of the interesting moments we captured on video (ala. N95 8GB) at Nokia World 2007, Amsterdam. See some future ideas come to life, look at the birth of Sports Tracker, and get insights into mobile advertising... enjoy!
The Nokia World 2007 Movie...
Bob Iannucci, Nokia Research on Computing, communications and sensing our World... using mobile devices as sensors
MobiTubia demo - Winner of the Open C Challenge - At nokia World Amsterdam (2007) Lee Epting, Forum Nokia presented a demo showing the winning application from the Open C Challenge (contest for porting app to S60 via open C) - the winning app is MobiTubia - a mobile enabler for searching and viewing Youtube videos.
Navteq Traffic on the go - A presentation from Nokia World, Amsterdam, describing how effective location-aware advertising can be. Presented by Chris Rothey, VP Navteq.
The Future of Mobile 3D Gaming - This clip shows a preview of what's being planned in Hollywood in the area of 3D immersive gaming that will be a reality in the mobile realm in the near future.
Lucas Foster on Hollywood and the self-promotion and dishonesty of Hollywood! At Nokia World 2007 in Amsterdam, Hollywood Producer Lucas Foster (MediaTribe Inc) was blunt.. Hollywood is worried about one thing, the self-promotion of Hollywood. Movies cost way too much and the consumer is basically a sucker and getting ripped off... I totally agree! Hollywood is a business, the consumer is getting ripped off, and all too common movie sequel is a piece of crap designed merely to milk a brand and grab your $$... what an great speech!
Team Finland... I mean Team Nokia women's Beach Volleyball team! A number of attendees attempted to play the duo but nobody managed to score 5 points!
Vegas the Dog tracked with Nokia N95 and Sports Tracker - At Nokia World, Amsterdam (2007) we heard all about Vegas the dog who walks and runs around Stanford University while his owner tracks him using a Nokia N95 GPS enabled smartphone and the cool Sports tracker app fromm Nokia Labs - presentation by Bob Iannucci, Sr VP Nokia Research Labs and soon to be CTO, Nokia
The birth of Nokia Sports Tracker - From Nokia World 2007, Amsterdam.. this clike describes how the very cool and popular Sports Tracker application was conceived
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