Nokia’s really on a good-will tip recently. Following on their announcement that they’ll be helping the German Say of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) “stimulate growth, create new jobs and generate investment for Bochum and the neighbouring cities” through the “Growth for Bochum” program, Nokia has agreed to pay €1.3 million to NRW in hopes of settling the Bochum dispute once and for all.

Germans in the NRW area are still understandably upset after Nokia decided to close the Bochum plant and move its handset manufacturing operations to Romania, in an effort to find lower labor costs. The Bochum plant closure left some 2,300 Germans out of a job during the cold, winter months. And, Germany’s NRW has been out to get as much financial compensation out of Espoo as possible.

So, in an effort to finally squash the conflict, Nokia will be paying off the NRW with an additional €1.3 million. Nokia already put up €20 million to get the “Growth for Bochum” initiative off the ground, and it seems the Finnish handset manufacturing giant is looking to finally put an end to the job-cutting bitterness that has plagued Nokia’s PR team for too long. The €1.3 million payment caps off the already mentioned €20 million investment and the €200 million that they already ponied-up to the NRW over the Bochum plant’s closure.

[Via: AFP]

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Nokia’s really on a good-will tip recently. Following on their announcement that they’ll be helping the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) “stimulate growth, create new jobs and generate investment for Bochum and the neighbouring cities” through the “Growth for Bochum” program, Nokia has concurred to pay €1.3 million to NRW in hopes of settling the Bochum dispute once and for all.

Germans in the NRW area are still understandably upset after Nokia decided to close the Bochum plant and move its handset manufacturing operations to Romania, in an effort to find lower labor costs. The Bochum plant closure left some 2,300 Germans out of a job during the cold, winter months. And, Germany’s NRW has been out to get as much financial compensation out of Espoo as possible.

So, in an effort to finally squash the conflict, Nokia will be paying off the NRW with an additional €1.3 million. Nokia already put up €20 million to get the “Growth for Bochum” initiative off the ground, and it seems the Finnish handset manufacturing giant is looking to finally put an end to the job-cutting bitterness that has plagued Nokia’s PR team for too long. The €1.3 million payment caps off the already mentioned €20 million investment and the €200 million that they already ponied-up to the NRW over the Bochum plant’s closure.

[Via: AFP]

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• Nokia: hell no we ain’t gonna pay back that $92 million
• Nokia teams up with the NRW Government and the City of Bochum for “Growth for Bochum” program

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Nokia’s really on a good-will tip recently. Following on their announcement that they’ll be helping the German Say of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) “stimulate growth, create new jobs and generate investment for Bochum and the neighbouring cities” through the “Growth for Bochum” program, Nokia has agreed to pay €1.3 million to NRW in hopes of settling the Bochum dispute once and for all.

Germans in the NRW area are still understandably upset after Nokia decided to close the Bochum plant and move its handset manufacturing operations to Romania, in an effort to find lower labor costs. The Bochum plant closure left some 2,300 Germans out of a job during the cold, winter months. And, Germany’s NRW has been out to get as much financial compensation out of Espoo as possible.

So, in an effort to finally squash the conflict, Nokia will be paying off the NRW with an additional €1.3 million. Nokia already put up €20 million to get the “Growth for Bochum” initiative off the ground, and it seems the Finnish handset manufacturing giant is looking to finally put an end to the job-cutting bitterness that has plagued Nokia’s PR team for too long. The €1.3 million payment caps off the already mentioned €20 million investment and the €200 million that they already ponied-up to the NRW over the Bochum plant’s closure.

[Via: AFP]

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• German say demanding Nokia refund $60.5 million factory subsidy, Nokia laughs
• Germany demands Nokia return $92 million in subsidies by month’s end
• Nokia to pay $314 million to make the closure of the Bochum plant less painful
• Nokia: hell no we ain’t gonna pay back that $92 million
• Nokia teams up with the NRW Government and the City of Bochum for “Growth for Bochum” program

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Sprint, in their renewed push to bring their customer service quality to the forefront of the company’s list of priorities, has refreshed their mobile web portal. The new mobile web portal is now accessible on more than 40 of Sprint’s mobile phones, giving the user more customized content.

The new Sprint mobile web portal uses ChangingWorlds’ technology to track the users’ previous web-surfing habits. Previously viewed websites are taken in to consideration the next time the user hits the Sprint mobile web portal, and is used to serve up custom home-page content relevant with the users’ interests. The technology essentially turns the once-static homepage in to an adaptive web portal tailored to each users’ needs.

Current Sprint customers will find the new, revamped Sprint mobile web portal is already ready to go on their compatible handset.

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All you outdoorsy types and rough-necks out there take heed. Verizon has finally gone live with their much-anticipated successor to the ultra-rugged Casio G’zOne push-to-talk handset, the Verizon Casio G’zOne Boulder.

That’s right. Verizon’s on the web webstore is offering the Casio G’zOne Boulder for $129.99 after 2-year contract and on the internet discounts are applied. Those of you looking for more instant satisfaction can pick up the Casio G’zOne Boulder for $179.99 at your local Verizon brick-and-mortar store. Black-on-Silver is the only available color choice at the moment, but we’d envision Verizon is readying that bright-orange jobby for release down the line.

The Casio G’zOne Boulder’s cosmetic updates, while significant and seriously eye-catching, aren’t the only changes in store for Verizon subscribers needing military-spec shock, dust, and water resistance. The Casio G’zOne Boulder offers a 1.3 megapixel camera (up from VGA resolution on the G’zOne Type-S), push-to-talk on the EVDO Rev. A network, and a slimmer profile.

Go forth, all you crazy water-borne, sand-loving, adrenaline junkies and grab yourself the absolute standard in rugged handsets. But, please, watch your step.

Verizon Casio G’zOne Boulder 

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Talk about taking the lead. Verizon has just posted the industry’s highest Q2 revenue numbers. At $12.1 billion, Verizon has increased their earnings by 11.8%. While still technically the No. 2 US wireless carrier, Verizon Wireless’ quarterly earnings easily outpaced those of the leading US wireless carrier, AT&T. Huge Blue lagged behind Verizon by about $85 million.

The financial news comes on the heels of Verizon’s announcement that they added more customers (1.5 million) to their network in Q2 2008 than did AT&T (1.3 million), helping to close the gap between the two giants’ subscriber bases.

Verizon’s good fortunes are being buoyed by customers’ increased adoption of data-plans. While the CDMA carrier’s ARPU (average revenue per user) dipped to $51.53, compared to $51.84 in the same period last year, data ARPU rocketed to 31.3%. And, it doesn’t injured that Verizon saw customer churn drop to 1.12% from 1.3% last year.

With Verizon pushing hard to make sure their Alltel acquisition makes the FCC-cut, the company is poised to take the US wireless market by the horns. AT&T, still claiming the top-spot with the most wireless subscribers, could see Verizon leap-frog ahead of them with Alltel’s customer base absorbed into their own. That’s not even considering Verizon’s plans to leverage their recent 700Mhz spectrum acquisitions to launch their LTE network in coming years.

[Via: RCR]

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For all you QWERTY-loving BlackBerry fans out there drooling over Waterloo’s hottest new push-emailing flagship, good news! Rather than wait anxiously for your opportunity to buy-up a BlackBerry Bold 9000 of your own, you can pre-order a BlackBerry Bold 9000 from TigerDirect and wait anxiously for the handset to ship to your door.

TigerDirect has the BlackBerry Bold 9000 available on pre-order for the wallet-shocking price of $649.99. Allowed, compared to other pre-orders we’ve seen for hot, new smartphones, TigerDirect’s asking price isn’t all that hard to swallow. But, $650 is still a good chunk of change for us.

TigerDirect says that they’ll be shipping the BlackBerry Bold 9000 on the launch date, indicating that their warehouses might be receiving shipments prior to the street-launch date in order to get those eagerly awaiting Bolds shipped out and to your doorstep.

Tiger Direct

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Remember Sony Ericsson’s Project Capuchin which we covered back in May? Basically, the Swedish-Japanese handset maker developed a Java ME API that defines a bridge between the Java ME and Adobe Flash Lite programming environments, making it possible to use Flash Lite tools while still having access to all phone services through Java ME. Now they’ve come up with a concrete tool called Swf2Jar. Here’s what it does:

The Swf2Jar 1.0 tool automatically packages together a jar containing a Java MIDlet class and a Flash file (.swf). The simplest Project Capuchin application is to package existing Flash Lite content in a MIDlet jar file which applies Java security, distribution methods and installation.

On the downside, though, is that the first phone which is Project Capuchin enabled is the upcoming Sony Ericsson C905 Cyber-shot. That means we’ll have to wait for quite some time to see anything real/massive from this technology. In the meantime, check out this page on Sony Ericsson Developer World for more information about Swf2Jar.

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Last time we covered GyPSii, they were partnering with Garmin. This time, however, the location-based mobile social network announced that it has entered into a multi-year worldwide agreement with Samsung.

This is a big win for GyPSii as it will be able to reach more users than ever. Under the terms of agreement, GyPSii will provide technology, products, worldwide data center infrastructure, and GyPSii branding rights to Samsung, on a worldwide non-exclusive basis.

Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but we know the Korean giant plans to pre-install GyPSii app on its SGH-i900 Omnia and SGH-i780 Windows Mobile Professional smartphones.

[Via: the::unwired]

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