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div class="rxbodyfield"p class="ArticleBody" page="1"Seeking to bridge "the now to the next," a
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has set its sights on Internet services, next-generation wireless technology, and mobile
application development./pp align="right"a
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the company's efforts include the impending beta release of a
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class="regularArticleU"Point amp; Find/a, a technology for finding information and services on the
Internet by pointing a camera at real-world objects. The upcoming beta release lets users watch a
film trailer, read a film review, or find a nearby cinema to buy tickets by pointing a camera phone
at a movie poster./pp class="ArticleBody" page="1"In the wireless radio technology space, the
company is focused on LTE (Long Term Evolution of Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network), said
Jim Harper, a Nokia senior technology marketing manager. LTE requires fewer network elements than
earlier-generation networks, and it requires no circuit-switching, he said. It's being proposed as
a competitor to WiMax, a technology that Sprint has begun rolling out in the U.S. this fall./pp
class="ArticleBody" page="1"b[ Does/b bWiMax deliver? Find out in the InfoWorld Test Center's road
test: a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/09/29/40TC-wimax-road-test_1.html?source=fssr"
class="regularArticleU""Does WiMax work in the real world?"/a ]/b/pp class="ArticleBody" page="1"In
the development tools space, Nokia is positioning its Qt application development framework
(pronounced "cute") as a platform for building applications to run on different types of systems.
Applications also can be developed once and run across various desktop OSes, said Dilip
Kenchammana, a Nokia product line manager./pp class="ArticleBody" page="1"Another focus is
cognitive radio, in which a device can dynamically jump between different frequency bands to
increase bandwidth capacity, for purposes such as sending audio bits or data./pp
class="ArticleBody" page="1"Nokia has also previewed several research projects, including:/pp
class="ArticleBody" page="1"* Videoconferencing pet, which features a mobile unit that can, for
example, let grandparents catch a glimpse of their far-away grandchildren. It acts as a physical
avatar of the caller./pp class="ArticleBody" page="1"img src="" border="0" height="280" width="267"
sys_contentid="118227" sys_variantid="305"//pp class="ArticleBody" page="1"* Mobile 3D video, which
provides immersive video experiences and rich communication./pp class="ArticleBody" page="1"*
Mobile Millenium, which offers a next-generation real-time traffic data platform that uses
GPS-enabled phones gather data on traffic./p/divbr style=clear: both;/ a
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