It should be fixed. Thanks Mike.

Reggie: It is indeed fixed. Thanks!

Now to entries...

Mobile phone operators - Urgh... Please Don't Steal My Content
http://mobile-phone-secrets.blogspot...gh-please.html
-- this is hilarious! This is a link to a roboblog, with a post by Beattie complaining about said roboblogs ripping off his stuff! Further, this site rips off his *entire* pro-PSP column (which mentions the 770) I linked to earlier.

Nokia Connection 2005
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/mobile/arti...5/news007.html
-- first, this was sourced from
http://m-company.seesaa.net/article/5553478.html
-- must give proper credit
-- the Thing To See at the first link are *new* pictures of the 770! Well, although the report (which is in Nihongo) is dated 2005/06/15, these are indeed pictures I've not seen on any other site. Check out the photo of Times Square. This is the photo that made my jaw drop when I saw it. The colors are just SO DAMNED VIBRANT on that screen! This photo *almost* but not quite captures that.

Nokia 770
http://www.maisonbisson.com/blog/post/10711/
>>>I’ve been babbling like a stoolie for Pepper here for the past couple weeks, but after some prodding by Roger Sperberg I’ve started to take a serious look at the Nokia 770 linux-based internet tablet.

KidSketch docs are out
http://nokia770.com/index.php/104/
>>>Daniel “NeoStrider” Monteiro published documentation for KidSketch, a simple graphics animation app for Nokia 770. He’s looking for fellow developers to help out

Gimp for Nokia 770 is coming?
http://nokia770.com/index.php/104/
>>>Internet Tablet Talk introduces KidSketch, a simplistic graphics animation app on Nokia 770, but Simon Budig at bigger things coming: Gimp on 770

Nokia 770
http://palmaddict.typepad.com/palmad...nokia_770.html

Some notes --

1) I notice that the Nokia 770 Blog has undergone yet another makeover! The grass is gone. I like the clean look.

2) Some links -- such as the Palm Addict one -- link back to this site. I'm still going to include such things, despite the dreaded Recursion Factor.

3) When I quote from a site, do *not* assume I am grabbing *all* the text. In most cases, I am grabbing just enough to entice you to go visit that site for more. I want people to visit other sites. Cross-pollination and all that.

Memo to Jorma the Oil Pimp
Re: Royal Dutch Shell is the Whore of Babylon

Please Change Your Mind about pimping for these creeps!

Shell Oil Lawsuit Continues Despite New Image
http://www.democracynow.org/article....e=thread&tid=5

Ogoni Day
http://www.democracynow.org/article....e=thread&tid=5
>>>Activists are demanding autonomy for the 500,000 Ogoni people in Nigeria as well as compensation from oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell for the environmental devastation caused to Ogoniland.

Fourth Anniversary of Saro Wiwa Execution
http://www.democracynow.org/article....e=thread&tid=5
>>>Today, November 10th [1999], marks the fourth anniversary of the execution of Ken Saro Wiwa and eight other Ogoni activists, who were hanged in 1995 by the Nigerian military. The men were protesting the environmental devastation caused by Royal Dutch Shell in the Ogoniland region of Nigeria, and the multinational oil giant's involvement in the human rights abuses of Nigeria's brutal military regime under Sani Abacha. Human rights advocates around the world criticized Shell Oil for failing to come to aid of the nine activists in an attempt to save their lives.

Oilwatch
http://www.oilwatch.org.ec/english/index.htm

Most likely I "blogged" this over at PIC, but it's worth a repeat here.

Nokia's CTO Says, "Keep It Simple"
http://www.business2.com/b2/web/arti...078457,00.html
>>>As phones become increasingly complex, the industry must make them easier to use, says Pertti Korhonen, chief technology officer for Nokia. I sat down with Korhonen this week to sound him out on the industry and its future. Here are some excerpts from that interview.

At that Japanese site you linked to, I ran across what turned out to be a reference to a report by Gartner on PDA shipments by OS. Here's one place that report is reported on:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7215702513.html

"Worldwide Q2 PDA shipments bounded up 32 percent year-over-year, to 3.6 million units, according to Gartner. Linux PDAs accounted for less than one percent of shipments, a figure likely to grow as PalmSource completes its transition to Linux, and as much-anticipated Linux PDAs such as Nokia's 770 ship."

And:
"The Nokia 770 Internet Tablet (pictured at right) is Nokia's first Linux product aimed at consumers, and its first entry into the PDA market. If early enthusiasm for the device holds up, it could well boost Linux to a comeback PDA OS market share."

-- Of course, the 770 will be recorded as a PDA for a long time yet, till this niche is well established. I'll be interested to see what the figures will look like a year from now.

Roger

Roger keeps me on my toes, as usual...

Nokia N-Gage QD Silver Edition Comes to Europe
http://itreview.belproject.com/index.php?itemid=1677

The New Face of Royal Dutch Shell
>>>Jorma Ollila engineered a remarkable turnaround at Nokia, but getting the oil giant up to speed opens a whole new world of challenges
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/...8534_db016.htm
>>>He [Ollila ] is also known for being highly ethical, which could help the oil giant polish its image.

>>>Since Ollila, 54, became head of Nokia in 1992, he has transformed Finland's leading company from a money-losing $3.6 billion a year conglomerate making everything from cables to televisions to the world's leading mobile-phone maker, with annual sales of about $40 billion. While not an oilman, Ollila is a quick study, with an engineering and financial background. He once worked at Citibank.
-- poor Jorma! Psssst: It's not too late to change your mind. You can always cite Family or Health.

Nokia 8800
http://www.infosyncworld.com/reviews/n/6085.html
>>>Nokia's fashion department keeps Sindre Lia busy; this time, the stainless-steel 8800 and its pop-up slider receives a solid work-out. Open, close. Open, close. Open, close...
-- also known as the Tungsten T3 Shuffle...

Alternative Access Devices?
http://libdev.plymouth.edu/post/3
>>>Two devices, the Pepper Pad and Nokia 770, have spawned renewed interest in internet access devices that aren’t PCs or computers as we know them. I had a chance to meet with the Pepper folks and get some hands-on time with a Pepper Pad and I’ve started to imagine some of the ways I’d like to use such a device in libraries.

Infernal Devices
An Interview with Andrew Morton
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplan...rviews/5954/1/
>>>One of the most frequently cited difficulties transitioning to Linux (especially on the desktop) is that it can be difficult to find and integrate device drivers for new or obscure hardware. In addition, even when drivers are available, they may involve procedures that still strike terror into the hearts of newbies, such as recompiling the kernel. But is this really necessary? I rang up Linux Kernel guru Andrew Morton to discuss the state of Linux devices drivers in 2005.
-- by this time next year, it'll be Maemo, Maemo, Maemo...

Open Source Goes Main Street
http://www.eweek.com/print_article2/...=157348,00.asp
>>>Five years ago, if you had asked most people if open-source was a good basis for a business, they would have laughed at you. How things change.
-- next year...

I'm always worried that the announcement of the 770's availability will take place without my being aware of it. So every day or two I go to the Nokia site and check the availability section of the FAQ. (No change yet.)

Today I also checked out another part of the FAQ and glancing over the features list I noticed for the first time this entry:

Pre-installed games (Chess, Marbles, Mahjong)

Well, apart from expecting Crazy Parking, this surprised me. Chess?! Way to go!

Roger

I hope the games pre-intalled are multi-player ready.

I got to email someone from Nokia. I think they are targetting late September so apps as well as the hardware will are 'ready'.

FBReader for Nokia 770
http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=3349
>>>Wow. Already there’s another e-book reader being ported to the Internet Tablet 2005 version of Linux! That means the Nokia 770 of course (still reported as arriving “in the 3rd quarter of 2005.”)
-- Roger Sperberg always finds another damned rabbit in his hat. I have to get a new hat.

The original Nokia press site for the 770
http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,6771,75366,00.html

Matkapuhelinfoorumi
Nokia 770 (Internet Tablet Version 2005)
http://www.matkapuhelininfo.com/foru...a2fbd424eeb2b5
-- this is all in Finnish. Go ahead, scare your brain by trying to make sense of it! Thanks to James Kendrick (cited in first post; he's that jk!). This forum also included several links, the following of which are the most interesting:

Nokia esitteli Linux-pohjaisen nettipäätteen
http://www.tietokone.fi/uutta/uutinen.asp?news_id=23995
-- in Finnish, Maemo is written as "Maemoon?" Sounds like we got ourselves a mascot! Hang the Penguin! Bring on the Maemoon!

Nokia 770 Internet Tablet
http://www.mobilegazette.com/nokia-7...net-tablet.htm
>>>The Nokia 770 is billed as an "Internet Tablet" - and in fact, it isn't a phone at all. However, it can be seen as a logical evolution to widescreen devices such as the Nokia 7710 Smartphone.
-- dated May 25th, but still worth a peek

Nokia 770 - linuxová placka na internet
http://mobil.idnes.cz/telefony.asp?r...8_telefony_ada
-- has some pics

Introduction to the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet
http://www.linuxdevices.com/files/article057/
-- how in the world did I miss this?! The *slides* from the Linux World Expo 770 intro! But how can that be? There's a slide showing AbiWord and Plucker under Maemo! Wow! This is a 23-slide exegesis on the creation of the 770 and also includes all the names of the major open source components they used, plus the reason they chose Opera as the browser. I expect Reggie will plop this on the front page due to its importance!

Nokia is pushing hard into multimedia --

Nokia takes part in mobile TV broadcasts at IAAF World Championships in Athletics
http://www.m2.com/m2/web/story.php/2...2570540042C0E9
>>>Finnish telecomms solutions provider Nokia said on Friday (5 August) that mobile TV broadcasts would continue in August at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki.

>>>During the World Championships in Athletics, mobile TV users would also have access to regular YLE TV1, MTV3, Nelonen, CNN, BBC World and Eurosport TV programmes.

>>>The real-time TV programmes would be watched on the Nokia 7710 smartphone equipped with a special accessory to receive mobile TV broadcasts.

Chinese Directors, Nokia Discuss 'Mobile Films'
http://www.china.org.cn/english/2005/Aug/137489.htm
>>>Famous Chinese film director Tian Zhuangzhuang and director-cum-cameraman Gu Changwei discussed the development of "mobile films" with mobile handset giant Nokia on Tuesday afternoon.
-- coming soon, the only-on-cellphone epic, The Re-Education of Chairman Mao!

China, Nokia keen on 'mobile film'
http://us.rediff.com/money/2005/aug/05nokia.htm
>>>The Chinese film industry has started discussing with cellphone major Nokia the possibility of developing 'mobile film', considered the fifth-generation medium.

Hmmmm....5th-gen? We haven't yet had John Rogers' *4th-gen*, as described here --
http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/07...ion-media.html

Nokia 3230 smart phone
http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=1730
>>>Finland has a lot to thank Nokia for. If you’re old enough to be able to remember the time before mobile phones became the pocket-sized multimedia life jackets they are today, you’ll remember that Finland only used to be famous for, er… well nothing springs to mind actually.
-- also reprinted here --
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08...230/print.html

More on the posh 8800 --

Elegant Nokia 8800
http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives...t_nokia_8.html
>>>Fashionistas, take note! Nokia will start shipping its Nokia 8800 fashion phone, and it should appear at stores in a few months' time. The US version will be given the model number 8801, and I couldn't be bothered by the nuances in model numbers because it looks droolingly nice!

Nokia design chief stakes reputation on new cellphone design
http://www.dailyherald.com/business/...y.asp?id=80349
>>>In the late 1990s, Frank Nuovo was responsible for designing the phones that helped make Nokia Corp. the world’s biggest cellphone company. But in the past few years, with Nuovo as its chief of design, the company has slipped badly, missing some key style trends.
>>>Nuovo says the Nokia 8800 is intended to be a lasting design. “This product, five years from now, 10 years from now, it’s going to look great,” he says.
-- Memo to Frank: We don't *keep* tech that long. Things fall and break. We get tired of them. They lack the newest features. They stop being hep. Wake up. Or it's off to Royal Dutch Shell for you!

InterDigital, Nokia spat intensifies
http://www.telecoms.com/marlin/30000...sh=102b2b8ae7e
>>>U.S. vendor InterDigital today reported that it has still not received the final award of between US$180-US$220 million it is seeking in a dispute with Finnish vendor Nokia over royalty payment obligations for GSM/TDMA and GSM/GPRS/TDMA patents. The International Chamber of Commerce had set a deadline of May 31 for the issue of a final award, but Nokia has failed to comply and has since filed a volley of eight separate legal actions involving InterDigital and certain 3G patents owned by Nokia.
-- Memo to Nokia: PAY UP! You can appeal and get it back later, *if* you win. Don't Be Like BillG!