Nokia’s UK managing director, Simon Ainslie has recently been talking about the future of the company stating that Nokia will become a Web 2.0 outfit rather than just a device company.
The idea is that the company will increasingly be looking to secure tech and services in acquisition deals so that the company can punt a broader range of connected services under the Nokia banner. Moves have in fact already been made with Nokia’s recent acquisition of Navteq which will aid the company in making an aggressive push into the GPS device market both for mobile handsets and vehicles.
It seems like a smart road map for the company given the looming competition. With Google set to make its move on the mobile market, there is inevitably all manner of Web 2.0 goodness that it will bring with it and if the competition doesn’t prepare, it might find itself swamped.
(Via MobileMentalism)
Do you ever get bored with your mobile’s wallpaper? Pulsepaper is a S60 3rd Edition app that replaces your boring old static wallpaper with an ever-changing array of images.
Version 1.0 of Pulsepaper just let you cycle through a list of predefined images but, with v 2.0, makers Pulse Data Service have turned a run of the mill wallpaper rotator into a fully Web 2.0′d image gallery.
The app lets you select an ‘image source’ which can be a list of JPGs, a Flickr account or a Google Image Search keyword. You can also just select from a list of themed categories like ‘Night’ or ‘Sports’. Once you have you starter image, Pulsepaper will replace it three times a day.
In what could be the marketing move of the decade, the only feature missing from the free version of Pulsepaper is the ability to search for ‘adult’ content. (Or, at least, ‘unfiltered’ content via Google Image Search
