Reported by Beet.TV, Nokia is about to open up its Ovi site for content sharing. Beet.TV interviewed Kamar Shah, head of global head of industry and marketing for Nokia. “The Nokia N95 is becoming part of the Internet social networking phenomenon, Kamar, says. He cites news gathering and the use of the device by 50 [...]

There has been lots of news lately about GPS-enabled applications, data, and devices, some tied to the Where 2.0 2008 conference last week. ABI Research said that by 2012 more than 550 million GPS-enabled handsets would ship. Navteq announced updates to its North American traffic database, adding Puerto Rico and Canada as well as expanded [...]

With the popularity of online maps, personal navigation devices (PNDs), and GIS we can easily forget that it all started on paper. We can forget the trials and tribulations of those who made early geographic discoveries, those who labored to produce early maps. In a world of instant information about where we are, many of [...]

Garmin announced its first mobile phone yesterday. According to Garmin, it’s slim, sleek, innovative, and a breakthrough. It’s a phone, navigator, camera, browser, and music player. Many of the media reports on it reflect surprise. I am not surprised. Why wouldn’t Garmin make a phone? Convergence has been in force in technology forever. The phone [...]

In a spell of temporary insanity (or some may say stupidity), I bought one of the just-released Nokia N810 Internet devices on Black Friday. I found it at Best Buy, where they told me they had a grand total of two sent to them. Apparently, the stores are taking a few to see how they [...]