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Submission + - Nokia Buys Navteq for $8.1 Billion (nytimes.com)

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mytrip

on Monday October 01, 2007 @01:44PM

mytrip writes: "Nokia, the world's biggest cellphone maker, said today that it had agreed to pay $8.1 billion for Navteq, the maker of digital mapping and navigational software based in Chicago, as it seeks to migrate satellite-based location services onto its range of phones.

Nokia's president and chief executive, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, said that location-based services were a cornerstone of Nokia's Internet services strategy, which is part of an overall plan to expand beyond the production of cellphones into user services like photos, video, music and games.

Navteq data is used by Google Maps, Google Earth , numerous other online services, and many GPS products."

Submission + - Bloggers who risked all to reveal Junta in Burma 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 01, 2007 @06:21AM

An anonymous reader writes: Internet geeks share a common style, and Ko Latt and his four friends would not be out of place in cyber cafés across the world. They have the skinny arms and the long hair, the dark T-shirts and the jokey nicknames. But few such figures have ever taken the risks that they have in the past few weeks, or achieved so much in a noble and dangerous cause. Since last month Ko Latt, 28, his friends Arca, Eye, Sun and Superman, and scores of others like them have been the third pillar of Burma's Saffron Revolution. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2563937.ece

Comment Re:Classification? (Score 1) 309

by zmarty on Sunday March 19, 2006 @05:50PM (#14953503) Attached to: US Government Seeks Open-Source Translation

RTFA. It says that the documents were already skimmed by professional translators. So you won't find anything important.

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