This year’s Race of Champions – held for the first time in London at Wembley Stadium, is being broadcast on mobiles courtesy of motorsport apps specialist Enede.
The Race of Champions is has been going for a little while now and it sees the World’s best circuit and off-road drivers racing each other head-to-head on parallel tracks. Top drivers from F1 (Michael Schumacher, Jenson Button and David Coulthard), the World Rally Championship (Marcus Grönholm), NASCAR (Jimmie Johnson (pictured)) and World Touring Cars (Andy Priaulx) are among the drivers competing.
Enede.com will broadcast the actual event to mobiles around the world, either streamed downloaded. Beforehand, exclusive pre-event news, interviews and other content is available from today, prior to the actual event on Sunday 16 December.
For £5, UK race fans can get the latest news in the build-up for £5 by texting ROC to 80225 and when the event’s underway on December 16, texting ENEDE to 80225 will enable live streaming to your handset.
This week Nokia held its annual Nokia World Conference in Amsterdam, outlining its 2008 plans. The key themes in CEO and President Olli-Pekka Kallsvuo’s keynote address were; the ‘convergence of mobility and the internet’; and the need for environmental sustainability.
Ovi
Central to Nokia’s ‘vision’ of ‘convergence of mobility’, is the merging of individual services such as mobile applications and mobile internet services, into a kind of joined-up suite of integrated services.
The aim of Ovi is to link different services across mobile, online and PC platforms – for instance linking Nokia Maps to Nokia Photos, to enable people to take pictures of/at a location, share them with friends on their mobiles and online.
Ovi launched this year with Nokia Maps, Nokia Music Store and this month, N-Gage games service. Nokia Intellisyc Email was also launched as well as web communities (such as Widsets and MOSH), and app downloads via the new Nokia Download! service available on new NSeries devices.
A web portal to Ovi is being launched next year, while an on-device version is already available on the 8GB versions of the Nokia N81 and N95, with new NSeries devices getting Ovi in 2008.
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Nokia has opened the doors of its Beta Labs once more and before any of the tireless boffins inside could even feel a draft, a new and interesting application flew out into the world for us all to poke with sticks.
It’s called Download! (surely the first thing to be updated here should be the slightly unimaginative name, you wouldn’t call a new Nokia music store, Nokia Music Store, oh wait!) and essentially it is a client that through the somewhat amorphous currency of banner ads can pay for and deliver content to your phone.
So to say it more simply it is an ad-funded download client. The app is available now and all of the content that can be accessed via it is currently free. Worth checking out then.
(Via Nokia Beta Labs)
Mobile content provider Jamster has made its full-track music download service available on Nokia’s latest Xpress Music devices.
Jamster has wangled a deal with Nokia to include pre-installed access for users of some Nokia handsets, via their on-handset Download! content distribution service.
Jamster has now announced it will provide Jamster Music to users of Nokia’s 5310 and 5610 XpressMusic handsets.
With Jamster Music, customers can purchase up to six tracks from a range of over 1.4 million, for just £4.50 a week.
This is apparently the first time that Jamster Music has been made available as an on-device solution.
[Via Mobile Entertainment]
