Michael del CastilloUpstart Business Journal Technology & Innovation Editor Email |TwitterThe UpTake: A series of new Nokia technologies are hard to ignore, especially considering they've now go Microsoft's asset's behind them.
S teve Ballmer's out, Microsoft bought Nokia's phone division, and Nokia's chief, Stephen Elop is rumored to be a likely Ballmer replacement. No one knows for sure what's going on behind the closed doors of this once great giant, but what is evident, is it seems newly reinvigorated with a series of big ideas. And it's likely that's exactly why Microsoft was interested in the first place.
Gizmodo today reported the Espoo, Finland based Nokia has successfully charged a Lumia 925 cellphone using 200,000 volts of laboratory-generated lightning.Presumably, the ongoing experiments to understand the "natural power of lightning and [to] be able to harness its energy," as Neil Palmer of the Tony Davies High Voltage Laboratory explained it, isn't to reanimate Frankenstein-style phones, but to learn more about wireless methods of charging electric devices.
Last week, the FCC approved a Nokia tablet with AT&T and Verizon LTE, according to a report by Engadget. The device, at least for now called the RX-114, could be ready for public viewing as soon as the Nokia World conference in Abu Dhabi , on October 22, according to the report.
And also last week, Nokia released the free Internship Lens, a Windows-based mobile app that lets users see where internships are in augmented reality, simply by pointing the phone's camera at a building. The app lists 75,000 internships from 45,000 companies across the United States through a partnership with internship listings site Internships.com, according to a Reuters report. As far as we can tell, this is the first time anyone has integrated augmented reality with job hunting.
news by October 02, 2013 at 07:13AM
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