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Nokia warns 3Q market share will fall; shares dive

AP — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:16:03 +0000

Nokia Corp. warned Friday its third-quarter global market share will decline from second-quarter levels, sending its U.S. shares tumbling more than 10 percent.

Nokia warns 3Q market share will fall

AP — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:39:02 +0000

Nokia Corp. warned Friday its third-quarter global market share will decline from second-quarter levels, sending its U.S. shares tumbling more than 11 percent in premarket electronic...

Woman in Finland convicted of killing 3 children

AP — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:39:51 +0000

A court in Finland has convicted a woman of murdering her three young children and has given her a life sentence.

Nokia provides Lonely Planet maps on cell phones

AP — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:19:30 +0000

Nokia and travel information company Lonely Planet said Tuesday they are joining forces to sell maps and city guides that can be accessed on mobile phones.

World Sauna Championship: Are you ready to sweat it out?

Jaiyant Cavale — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:36:52 +0000

Could anyone guess why anybody would want to bear sweltering temperatures of 230° Fahrenheit (100° Celsius)? According to some sauna enthusiasts, they would, in order to win the title for the World Sauna Championship. In what looks like...

Finland's Makela-Nummela wins women's trap

AP — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:03:11 +0000

Satu Makela-Nummela of Finland has won the gold medal in women’s trap shooting, hitting 21 targets in the finals to set an Olympic record.

Kovalainen grabs maiden victory in Hungary

Sameer Kumar — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:24:28 +0000

McLaren’s Heikki Kovalainen celebrated a shock maiden win at the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday after Ferrari’s Felipe Massa suffered an engine failure while leading with three laps...

Biohive: Designed inspired by nature’s structure!

Sameer Kumar — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:48:11 +0000

There are many cars and bikes that are these days are being designed drawing inspiration from nature and its spectacular designs that surround us. From being inspired by the fastest land animal, to the Gecko, we have seen it all earlier. But this...

Just three percent of world’s mobile phones are recycled: Nokia

Sean — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:17:09 +0000

Only three percent of mobile phone users around the world recycle their old cellphones, Finnish handset maker Nokia said Tuesday. According to a global survey conducted by Nokia, only three percent of the 6,500 cellphone users interviewed in 13...

Nokia to buy rest of Symbian, free its software

AP — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:57:54 +0000

Nokia Corp. is buying the consortium that makes the software for its phones and making it available for free to other manufacturers, in hopes of blunting the influence of competing software providers.Nokia said Tuesday that it is offering to buy...