“Oct. 15 (Bloomberg) – Nokia Oyj, the world’s biggest maker of mobile phones, had its first net loss since the company began reporting quarterly in 1996, hurt by costs related to a joint venture with  Siemens AG and weaker demand.

The net loss totaled 559 million euros ($834 million), after a profit of 1.09 billion euros a year earlier.”

Nokia also said that its smartphone market share dropped to 35% versus 41% in the previous quarter. 6% drop within the last 3 months is not normal at all.. its like 6% of the Nokia smartphones owners switched to another brand.

sources:

bloomberg, Engadget

Few months back I had the chance to visit R/GA, a digital media agency, to discuss some work projects. This is when I first learned about the “Nike+”, which was one of the many innovations and concepts introduced by this agency. Nike+ is simply syncing your Nike running shoe to your iPod to know the distance you actually ran, how many calories you’ve burned, and then to profile all that data to your Nikeplus.com account and compare it with other runners all around the globe.

Click here to find out what is Nike+ in detail, and how they came up with this great idea.

Today, I got my Nike+ kit, including:

Nike+ Shoe, sports kit, and the carrying case

• Nike+ shoes (Air Pegasus +25; Black)
• Nike+ Sensor and adapter
• Nike+ kit carrying case
• And of course, I already have my iPod nano which is compatible with this kit, but before using be sure to update your iTunes and iPod software to the latest versions.

I’ll be posting a review about my Nike+, stay tuned ppl!

Finally, now you can sync all your apps, contacts and media with your blackberry device. I’ve just tried the app and synced everything smoothly, this is a must have app for all mac users.

enjoy

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Zain create is a huge project initiated by Zain in cooperation with Rotana. A source has stated to us that the project will be released by tomorrow.

Zain has provided a special website for Create, a PC client (screenshot above), an ODP (On-Device-Portal) which is a client for mobile phones. Zain create website and clients will allow Zain customers to download and stream Rotana songs exclusively, and it will also stream Rotana’s Audio and Video channels.

We had the pleasure to test the Zain create PC client! one word, FLAWLESS!

geekie but still interesting