A spokesperson for Orange in France has confirmed that they will sell both the locked and unlocked versions of the iPhone in France. No prices as yet except that it will be “more” than the €399, or $560 that the locked version will sell for. French law prevents carriers from selling locked phones unless they provide [...]
Well a quick trip to Apple tells us that their fancy-shmancy new operating system Leopard with glossy buttons and time machines is less than ten days away. Last time they did a release this big they gave us 17 days but a nice quick lead up this time. The release is a Friday so Mac [...]
Yesterday Radiohead released their new album “In Rainbows”. To stir the pot, the band are no long with a record label so released it independently through their website. The beauty of it, you can pay whatever you like for the album download - yes - that includes $0. I paid £ 4.45 (about $10) because to me, [...]
Barely 24 hours after Nokia announced the acquisition of Navteq, Tele Atlas shares have jumped. Good news for them, not so good for TomTom who will have to lift their $2.5 billion bid they made in July to obtain the mapping company. Tele Atlas is another Google Maps data provider along with Navteq so it [...]
Nokia announced today that they are acquiring mapping company Navteq for $8.1 billion, here is the 2-minute deal run down:
About Navteq
Founded 1985, has extensive digital map content and an associated data platform
$582 million in revenue 2006
Provides for car navigation, mobile navigation and internet based mapping
Provides significant data to Google (the other major vendor is Tele [...]
