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Software developer
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A software developer is a person concerned with facets of the software development process, including the research, design, programming, and testing of computer software. Other job titles which are used with similar meanings are programmer, software analyst. According to developer Eric Sink, the differences between system design, software development, and programming are more apparent, even more so that developers become systems architects, those who design the multi-leveled architecture or component interactions of a large software system. In a large company, there may be employees whose sole responsibility consists of one of the phases above. In smaller development environments, a few people or even an individual might handle the complete process. The word software was coined as a prank as early as 1953, before this time, computers were programmed either by customers, or the few commercial computer vendors of the time, such as UNIVAC and IBM. The first company founded to provide products and services was Computer Usage Company in 1955. The software industry expanded in the early 1960s, almost immediately after computers were first sold in mass-produced quantities, universities, government, and business customers created a demand for software. Many of these programs were written in-house by full-time staff programmers, some were distributed freely between users of a particular machine for no charge. Others were done on a basis, and other firms such as Computer Sciences Corporation started to grow. The computer/hardware makers started bundling operating systems, systems software and programming environments with their machines, new software was built for microcomputers, so other manufacturers including IBM, followed DECs example quickly, resulting in the IBM AS/400 amongst others. The industry expanded greatly with the rise of the computer in the mid-1970s. In the following years, it created a growing market for games, applications. DOS, Microsofts first operating system product, was the dominant operating system at the time, by 2014 the role of cloud developer had been defined, in this context, one definition of a developer in general was published, Developers make software for the world to use. The job of a developer is to crank out code -- fresh code for new products, code fixes for maintenance, code for business logic, bus factor Software Developer description from the US Department of Labor
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Nokia
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Nokia Corporation, stylised as NOKIA, is a Finnish multinational communications and information technology company, founded in 1865. Nokia is headquartered in Espoo, Uusimaa, in the greater Helsinki metropolitan area, in 2014, Nokia employed 61,656 people across 120 countries, did business in more than 150 countries and reported annual revenues of around €12.73 billion. Nokia is a limited company listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange. It is the worlds 274th-largest company measured by 2013 revenues according to the Fortune Global 500 and is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index, the company has had various industries in its 151-year history. It was founded as a mill, and now focuses on large-scale telecommunications infrastructures. Nokias dominance also extended into the industry through its Symbian platform. Nokia eventually entered into a pact with Microsoft in 2011 to exclusively use Microsofts Windows Phone platform on future smartphones and its mobile phone business was eventually bought by Microsoft in an overall deal totaling $7.17 billion. Stephen Elop, Nokias former CEO, and several other joined the new Microsoft Mobile subsidiary of Microsoft as part of the deal. Nokia has a history, dating back to 1865 when Fredrik Idestam. A second pulp mill was created in 1868 near the town of Nokia, in 1871, Idestam together with friend Leo Mechelin formed a shared company and called it Nokia, after the town of the second pulp mill. For the next 90 years, Nokia on its own would be a forest and power industry company, in 1922, Nokia was jointly-owned with a trio partnership with Finnish Cable Works and Finnish Rubber Works. Nokia Corporation now boasted many industries including rubber, forestry, cable, electricity, in the 1970s, the newly formed conglomerate started entering the networking and radio industry. Nokia also started making military equipment for Finlands defence forces, such as the Sanomalaite M/90 communicator in 1983, in 1979, Nokia went into a joint venture with television maker Salora, to create Mobira, which would lay out the foundation of Nokias future mobile phone division. In 1981, Mobira launched the Nordic Mobile Telephone service, the worlds first international cellular network, then in 1982, Mobira launched the Mobira Senator car phone, which can be considered as Nokias first mobile phone. At that time, though, Nokia had no interest at all in mobile phones and it is only due to the Salo, Finland-based Salora-Mobira that the idea was pushed through. In 1987, Finnish Cable Works discontinued production of cables at its Helsinki factory, nokian Tyres, a tyre producer that was originally formed as a division of Finnish Rubber Works in 1932, split away from Nokia Corporation in 1988. Two years later in 1990, Finnish Rubber Works followed suit and this allowed Nokia Corporation to solely focus on communications. Jorma Ollila became CEO in 1992, Nokias first fully portable mobile phone was the Mobira Cityman 900 in 1987
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Microsoft Mobile
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In October 2014, it was announced that future Lumia smartphones would carry the Microsoft name and logo instead of Nokias. In mid-2016, Microsoft sold its feature phone business, and rights to use the Nokia brand until 2024, to HMD Global, with the acquisition of Nokias devices and services division, Microsoft re-entered the smartphone market. In Microsofts previous attempt, Microsoft Kin, a result of the acquisition of Danger, the deal also included the use of Bing as the search engine on Nokia devices, and the integration of Nokia Maps into Microsofts own mapping services. Aligning with Microsoft had been considered a possibility by analysts, due to Elops prior employment with the company, in June 2011, Nokia was overtaken by Apple as the worlds biggest smartphone maker by volume. In Q22011, amid falling sales, Nokia posted a loss of €368 million, after having realized a profit of €227 million in Q22010. In September 2011, Nokia announced it would cut another 3,500 jobs worldwide, including the closure of its Cluj factory in Romania, after having cut as many as 7,000 the previous April. In August 2011 Chris Weber, head of Nokias subsidiary in the U. S. stated The reality is if we are not successful with Windows Phone and he further added, North America is a priority for Nokia because it is a key market for Microsoft. On 26 October 2011, Nokia unveiled its first Windows Phone 7-based devices, the high-end Lumia 800, after this announcement, Nokias share price fell about 14%, its biggest drop since July 2009. Nokias smartphone sales, which had been increasing, collapsed, by comparison, Nokia had sold more than 30 million Symbian devices worldwide in Q42010 and the Nokia N8 alone had sold almost 4 million in its first quarter. In Q22012,26 million iPhones and 105 million Android phones shipped, compared to only 6.8 million devices with Symbian and 5.4 million with Windows Phone, in announcing an alliance with Groupon, Elop declared, The competition. Is not with other manufacturers, its with Google. In June 2012, Nokia chairman Risto Siilasmaa told journalists that Nokia had a plan in the event that Windows Phone failed. On 8 February 2012, Nokia Corp. announced 4,000 layoffs at smartphone manufacturing plants in Europe by the end of 2012, in total, Nokia laid off 24,500 employees by the end of 2013. On 18 June 2012, Moodys downgraded Nokias bond rating to junk status, Nokias CEO admitted that the companys inability to foresee rapid changes in the mobile phone industry was one of the major reasons for the problems. On 4 May 2012, a group of Nokia investors filed an action against the company. On 22 August 2012, it was reported that a group of Finnish Nokia investors were considering gathering signatures for the removal of Elop as CEO. In December 2012, to cut costs during a period of falling revenues, Nokia announced that it would be selling its headquarters, Nokia House, for €170 million, and leasing the use of it back long-term. In January 2013, Nokia reported sales of 6.6 million smartphones for Q42012, in North America, only 700,000 mobile phones were sold, including smartphones
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Software release life cycle
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Usage of the alpha/beta test terminology originated at IBM. As long ago as the 1950s, IBM used similar terminology for their hardware development, a test was the verification of a new product before public announcement. B test was the verification before releasing the product to be manufactured, C test was the final test before general availability of the product. Martin Belsky, a manager on some of IBMs earlier software projects claimed to have invented the terminology, IBM dropped the alpha/beta terminology during the 1960s, but by then it had received fairly wide notice. The usage of beta test to refer to testing done by customers was not done in IBM, rather, IBM used the term field test. Pre-alpha refers to all activities performed during the project before formal testing. These activities can include requirements analysis, software design, software development, in typical open source development, there are several types of pre-alpha versions. Milestone versions include specific sets of functions and are released as soon as the functionality is complete, the alpha phase of the release life cycle is the first phase to begin software testing. In this phase, developers generally test the software using white-box techniques, additional validation is then performed using black-box or gray-box techniques, by another testing team. Moving to black-box testing inside the organization is known as alpha release, alpha software can be unstable and could cause crashes or data loss. Alpha software may not contain all of the features that are planned for the final version, in general, external availability of alpha software is uncommon in proprietary software, while open source software often has publicly available alpha versions. The alpha phase usually ends with a freeze, indicating that no more features will be added to the software. At this time, the software is said to be feature complete, Beta, named after the second letter of the Greek alphabet, is the software development phase following alpha. Software in the stage is also known as betaware. Beta phase generally begins when the software is complete but likely to contain a number of known or unknown bugs. Software in the phase will generally have many more bugs in it than completed software, as well as speed/performance issues. The focus of beta testing is reducing impacts to users, often incorporating usability testing, the process of delivering a beta version to the users is called beta release and this is typically the first time that the software is available outside of the organization that developed it. Beta version software is useful for demonstrations and previews within an organization
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Operating system
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An operating system is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources and provides common services for computer programs. All computer programs, excluding firmware, require a system to function. Operating systems are found on many devices that contain a computer – from cellular phones, the dominant desktop operating system is Microsoft Windows with a market share of around 83. 3%. MacOS by Apple Inc. is in place, and the varieties of Linux is in third position. Linux distributions are dominant in the server and supercomputing sectors, other specialized classes of operating systems, such as embedded and real-time systems, exist for many applications. A single-tasking system can run one program at a time. Multi-tasking may be characterized in preemptive and co-operative types, in preemptive multitasking, the operating system slices the CPU time and dedicates a slot to each of the programs. Unix-like operating systems, e. g. Solaris, Linux, cooperative multitasking is achieved by relying on each process to provide time to the other processes in a defined manner. 16-bit versions of Microsoft Windows used cooperative multi-tasking, 32-bit versions of both Windows NT and Win9x, used preemptive multi-tasking. Single-user operating systems have no facilities to distinguish users, but may allow multiple programs to run in tandem, a distributed operating system manages a group of distinct computers and makes them appear to be a single computer. The development of networked computers that could be linked and communicate with each other gave rise to distributed computing, distributed computations are carried out on more than one machine. When computers in a work in cooperation, they form a distributed system. The technique is used both in virtualization and cloud computing management, and is common in large server warehouses, embedded operating systems are designed to be used in embedded computer systems. They are designed to operate on small machines like PDAs with less autonomy and they are able to operate with a limited number of resources. They are very compact and extremely efficient by design, Windows CE and Minix 3 are some examples of embedded operating systems. A real-time operating system is a system that guarantees to process events or data by a specific moment in time. A real-time operating system may be single- or multi-tasking, but when multitasking, early computers were built to perform a series of single tasks, like a calculator. Basic operating system features were developed in the 1950s, such as resident monitor functions that could run different programs in succession to speed up processing
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Microsoft Windows
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Microsoft Windows is a metafamily of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft. It consists of families of operating systems, each of which cater to a certain sector of the computing industry with the OS typically associated with IBM PC compatible architecture. Active Windows families include Windows NT, Windows Embedded and Windows Phone, defunct Windows families include Windows 9x, Windows 10 Mobile is an active product, unrelated to the defunct family Windows Mobile. Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20,1985, Microsoft Windows came to dominate the worlds personal computer market with over 90% market share, overtaking Mac OS, which had been introduced in 1984. Apple came to see Windows as an encroachment on their innovation in GUI development as implemented on products such as the Lisa. On PCs, Windows is still the most popular operating system, however, in 2014, Microsoft admitted losing the majority of the overall operating system market to Android, because of the massive growth in sales of Android smartphones. In 2014, the number of Windows devices sold was less than 25% that of Android devices sold and this comparison however may not be fully relevant, as the two operating systems traditionally target different platforms. As of September 2016, the most recent version of Windows for PCs, tablets, smartphones, the most recent versions for server computers is Windows Server 2016. A specialized version of Windows runs on the Xbox One game console, Microsoft, the developer of Windows, has registered several trademarks each of which denote a family of Windows operating systems that target a specific sector of the computing industry. It now consists of three operating system subfamilies that are released almost at the time and share the same kernel. Windows, The operating system for personal computers, tablets. The latest version is Windows 10, the main competitor of this family is macOS by Apple Inc. for personal computers and Android for mobile devices. Windows Server, The operating system for server computers, the latest version is Windows Server 2016. Unlike its clients sibling, it has adopted a strong naming scheme, the main competitor of this family is Linux. Windows PE, A lightweight version of its Windows sibling meant to operate as an operating system, used for installing Windows on bare-metal computers. The latest version is Windows PE10.0.10586.0, Windows Embedded, Initially, Microsoft developed Windows CE as a general-purpose operating system for every device that was too resource-limited to be called a full-fledged computer. The following Windows families are no longer being developed, Windows 9x, Microsoft now caters to the consumers market with Windows NT. Windows Mobile, The predecessor to Windows Phone, it was a mobile operating system
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Computing platform
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Computing platform means in general sense, where any piece of software is executed. It may be the hardware or the system, even a web browser or other application. The term computing platform can refer to different abstraction levels, including a hardware architecture, an operating system. In total it can be said to be the stage on which programs can run. For example, an OS may be a platform that abstracts the underlying differences in hardware, platforms may also include, Hardware alone, in the case of small embedded systems. Embedded systems can access hardware directly, without an OS, this is referred to as running on bare metal, a browser in the case of web-based software. The browser itself runs on a platform, but this is not relevant to software running within the browser. An application, such as a spreadsheet or word processor, which hosts software written in a scripting language. This can be extended to writing fully-fledged applications with the Microsoft Office suite as a platform, software frameworks that provide ready-made functionality. Cloud computing and Platform as a Service, the social networking sites Twitter and facebook are also considered development platforms. A virtual machine such as the Java virtual machine, applications are compiled into a format similar to machine code, known as bytecode, which is then executed by the VM. A virtualized version of a system, including virtualized hardware, OS, software. These allow, for instance, a typical Windows program to run on what is physically a Mac, some architectures have multiple layers, with each layer acting as a platform to the one above it. In general, a component only has to be adapted to the layer immediately beneath it, however, the JVM, the layer beneath the application, does have to be built separately for each OS
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Megabyte
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The megabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. Its recommended unit symbol is MB, but sometimes MByte is used, the unit prefix mega is a multiplier of 1000000 in the International System of Units. Therefore, one megabyte is one million bytes of information and this definition has been incorporated into the International System of Quantities. However, in the computer and information fields, several other definitions are used that arose for historical reasons of convenience. A common usage has been to one megabyte as 1048576bytes. However, most standards bodies have deprecated this usage in favor of a set of binary prefixes, less common is a convention that used the megabyte to mean 1000×1024 bytes. The megabyte is commonly used to measure either 10002 bytes or 10242 bytes, the interpretation of using base 1024 originated as a compromise technical jargon for the byte multiples that needed to be expressed by the powers of 2 but lacked a convenient name. As 1024 approximates 1000, roughly corresponding to the SI prefix kilo-, in 1998 the International Electrotechnical Commission proposed standards for binary prefixes requiring the use of megabyte to strictly denote 10002 bytes and mebibyte to denote 10242 bytes. By the end of 2009, the IEC Standard had been adopted by the IEEE, EU, ISO, the Mac OS X10.6 file manager is a notable example of this usage in software. Since Snow Leopard, file sizes are reported in decimal units, base 21 MB =1048576 bytes is the definition used by Microsoft Windows in reference to computer memory, such as RAM. This definition is synonymous with the binary prefix mebibyte. Mixed 1 MB =1024000 bytes is the used to describe the formatted capacity of the 1.44 MB3. 5inch HD floppy disk. Semiconductor memory doubles in size for each address lane added to an integrated circuit package, the capacity of a disk drive is the product of the sector size, number of sectors per track, number of tracks per side, and the number of disk platters in the drive. Changes in any of these factors would not usually double the size, sector sizes were set as powers of two for convenience in processing. It was an extension to give the capacity of a disk drive in multiples of the sector size, giving a mix of decimal. Depending on compression methods and file format, a megabyte of data can roughly be, a 4 megapixel JPEG image with normal compression. Approximately 1 minute of 128 kbit/s MP3 compressed music,6 seconds of uncompressed CD audio. A typical English book volume in plain text format, the human genome consists of DNA representing 800 MB of data
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Ukrainian language
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Ukrainian /juːˈkreɪniən/ is an East Slavic language. Written Ukrainian uses a variant of the Cyrillic script, historical linguists trace the origin of the Ukrainian language to the Old East Slavic of the early medieval state of Kievan Rus. After the fall of the Kievan Rus as well as the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, the Modern Ukrainian language has been in common use since the late 17th century, associated with the establishment of the Cossack Hetmanate. From 1804 until the Russian Revolution, the Ukrainian language was banned from schools in the Russian Empire and it has always maintained a sufficient base in Western Ukraine, where the language was never banned, in its folklore songs, itinerant musicians, and prominent authors. The Ukrainian language retains a degree of intelligibility with Belarusian and Russian. The first theory of the origin of Ukrainian language was suggested in Imperial Russia in the middle of the 18th century by Mikhail Lomonosov and this theory posits the existence of a common language spoken by all East Slavic people in the time of the Rus. Another point of view developed during the 19th and 20th centuries by linguists of Imperial Russia, like Lomonosov, they assumed the existence of a common language spoken by East Slavs in the past. This general point of view is the most accepted amongst academics worldwide, the supporters of this theory disagree, however, about the time when the different languages were formed. Soviet scholars set the divergence between Ukrainian and Russian only at time periods. During the time of the incorporation of Ruthenia into the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and this point of view is, however, at variance with some historical data. In fact, several East Slavic tribes, such as Polans, Drevlyans, Severians, Dulebes, White Croats, Tiverians, notably, some Ukrainian features were recognizable in the southern dialects of Old East Slavic as far back as the language can be documented. In contrast, Ahatanhel Krymsky and Alexei Shakhmatov assumed the existence of the spoken language of Eastern Slavs only in prehistoric times. According to their point of view, the diversification of the Old East Slavic language took place in the 8th or early 9th century, Ukrainian linguist Stepan Smal-Stotsky went even further, denying the existence of a common Old East Slavic language at any time in the past. Similar points of view were shared by Yevhen Tymchenko, Vsevolod Hantsov, Olena Kurylo, Ivan Ohienko, according to this theory, the dialects of East Slavic tribes evolved gradually from the common Proto-Slavic language without any intermediate stages during the 6th through 9th centuries. The Ukrainian language was formed by convergence of tribal dialects, mostly due to a migration of the population within the territory of todays Ukraine in later historical periods. This point of view was supported by George Shevelovs phonological studies. During the 13th century, when German settlers were invited to Ukraine by the princes of Galicia-Vollhynia and their influence would continue under Poland not only through German colonists but also through the Yiddish-speaking Jews. Often such words involve trade or handicrafts, examples of words of German or Yiddish origin spoken in Ukraine include dakh, rura, rynok, kushnir, and majster
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Software license
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A software license is a legal instrument governing the use or redistribution of software. Under United States copyright law all software is copyright protected, in code as also object code form. The only exception is software in the public domain, most distributed software can be categorized according to its license type. Two common categories for software under copyright law, and therefore with licenses which grant the licensee specific rights, are proprietary software and free, unlicensed software outside the copyright protection is either public domain software or software which is non-distributed, non-licensed and handled as internal business trade secret. Contrary to popular belief, distributed unlicensed software is copyright protected. Examples for this are unauthorized software leaks or software projects which are placed on public software repositories like GitHub without specified license. As voluntarily handing software into the domain is problematic in some international law domains, there are also licenses granting PD-like rights. Therefore, the owner of a copy of software is legally entitled to use that copy of software. Hence, if the end-user of software is the owner of the respective copy, as many proprietary licenses only enumerate the rights that the user already has under 17 U. S. C. §117, and yet proclaim to take away from the user. Proprietary software licenses often proclaim to give software publishers more control over the way their software is used by keeping ownership of each copy of software with the software publisher. The form of the relationship if it is a lease or a purchase, for example UMG v. Augusto or Vernor v. Autodesk. The ownership of goods, like software applications and video games, is challenged by licensed. The Swiss based company UsedSoft innovated the resale of business software and this feature of proprietary software licenses means that certain rights regarding the software are reserved by the software publisher. Therefore, it is typical of EULAs to include terms which define the uses of the software, the most significant effect of this form of licensing is that, if ownership of the software remains with the software publisher, then the end-user must accept the software license. In other words, without acceptance of the license, the end-user may not use the software at all, one example of such a proprietary software license is the license for Microsoft Windows. The most common licensing models are per single user or per user in the appropriate volume discount level, Licensing per concurrent/floating user also occurs, where all users in a network have access to the program, but only a specific number at the same time. Another license model is licensing per dongle which allows the owner of the dongle to use the program on any computer, Licensing per server, CPU or points, regardless the number of users, is common practice as well as site or company licenses
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Tethering
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Tethering, or phone-as-modem, is the sharing of a mobile devices internet connection with other wirelessly connected computers. Connection of a phone or tablet computer with other devices can be done over wireless LAN, over Bluetooth or by physical connection using a cable. If tethering is done over WLAN, the feature may be branded as a mobile hotspot, Mobile hotspots may be protected by a PIN or password. The Internet-connected mobile device can act as a wireless access point. Many mobile phones are equipped with software to offer tethered Internet access, Windows Mobile 6.5, Windows Phone 7, Android, and iOS3.0 offer tethering over a Bluetooth PAN or a USB connection. On some networks, this feature is only available by paying to add a tethering package to a data plan or choosing a data plan that includes tethering. Some operators have asked Google or any mobile producer using Android to completely remove tethering support from the system on certain handsets. Handsets purchased SIM-free, without a network provider subsidy, are often unhindered with regards to tethering, tethering is also available as a downloadable third-party application on most Symbian mobile phones as well as on the MeeGo platform and on WebOS mobiles phones. Depending on the carrier, a users phone may have restricted functionality. While tethering may be allowed at no extra cost, some carriers impose a charge to enable tethering. Contracts that advertise unlimited data usage often have limits detailed in a Fair usage policy, in New Zealand, tethering is permitted on all carriers since 2011 after the disaster in Christchurch. In the UK, two tethering-permitted mobile plans offered unlimited data, The Full Monty on T-Mobile, and The One Plan on Three, Three offered tethering as a standard feature until early 2012, retaining it on selected plans. T-Mobile dropped tethering on its unlimited data plans in late 2012, as cited in Sprint Nextels Terms of Service, Except with Phone-as-Modem plans, you may not use a phone as a modem in connection with a computer, PDA, or similar device. We reserve the right to deny or terminate service without notice for any misuse or any use that adversely affects network performance, t-Mobiles Simple Family or Simple Business plans offer Hotspot from devices that offer that function to up to 5 devices. Since 2014-03-27,1000 MB/month is free in the USA with cellular service, the host device has unlimited slow internet for the rest of the month, and all month while roaming in 100 countries, but with no tethering. For $10 or $20/month more per host device, the amount of available for tethering can be increased markedly. As of 2013 Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility offer wired tethering to their plans for a fee, however, actions by the FCC and a small claims court in California may make it easier for consumers to tether. The announcement also stated that recently revised its service offerings such that consumers on usage-based pricing plans may tether, using any application, without paying an additional fee
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Nokia PC Suite
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Nokia PC Suite is a software package used to establish an interface between Nokia mobile devices and computers that run the Microsoft Windows operating system. It was replaced by Nokia Suite and integrated into the Ovi service suite, Nokia PC Suite can be used to transfer music, photos and applications. It can also be used to send Short Message Service messages or act as a modem to connect the computer to the Internet, a mobile phone can be connected by USB, Bluetooth, or infrared. Some older Nokia phones lack compatibility with later versions of the PC Suite, the official site supplies a table that matches each phone model with the most recent compatible version. The latest version of Nokia PC Suite also contains several integrated applications, including the File Manager, Application Installer, PC Suite users can also access on-device features, as well as Nokia PC Sync functionality. Nokia PC Suite has not been updated for some time, and was replaced by Nokias next generation phone suite software, Nokia Suite, which supported other platforms in addition to Windows. Nokia Suite drops the Lotus Notes client sync support which is present in Nokia PC Suite, the backup feature in PC Suite uses a non-documented binary file format, which can only be used to restore to a phone through the proprietary client. This means that the data can only be accessed by doing a restore to a working phone and it was possible to lose large parts of your contacts address information due to this issue. Nokia PC Suite is unable to add or update maps and voices for the Nokia Maps application and this requires Nokia Map Loader or Nokia Suite, both require Microsoft Windows with the. NET framework installed
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Ovi (Nokia)
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Ovi by Nokia was the brand for Nokias Internet services. The Ovi services could be used from a device, computer or via the web. Nokia focused on five key areas, Games, Maps, Media, Messaging. Nokias aim with Ovi was to include third party developers, such as operators, with the announcement of Ovi Maps Player API, Nokia started to evolve their services into a platform, enabling third parties to make use of Nokias Ovi services. Ovi was first announced in 2007 and was a move into the world of Internet services and it was initially available for internet-enabled Nokia feature phones and S60 smartphones, and also accessible via the web and on PC. Throughout its lifetime it faced strong competition particularly from Apples App Store, as of January 2012, there were exactly 10 million downloads every day, also 158 developers reached over 1 million downloads for their Applications. On 16 May 2011, Nokia announced the discontinuation of the Ovi brand, the transition began in July 2011 and was completed by the end of 2012. Most of the constituent services were either closed or integrated into Microsofts own services after its acquisition of Nokia devices and services division in 2014. Ovi was announced on 29 August 2007 at the Go Play event in London, the public beta was released on 28 August 2008. Nokia has acquired key building blocks for Ovi over time and these include intellectual property, patents and core components such as synchronization. Acquired IP, patents include companies such as Starfish Software, Intellisync, NAVTEQ, Gate5, Plazes, other components have been developed internally. On 20 May 2009, at the Where 2.0 event in San Jose, CA, USA, Nokia announced the release of the Ovi Maps Player API, the Ovi Store was launched worldwide in May 2009. Here, customers could download games, applications, videos, images. Some of the items were free of charge, others could be purchased using credit card or through operator billing in selected operators, customers can share recommendations with their friends, see what they are downloading, and let them see items of interest. For content publishers, Nokia offers a tool to bring their content to the Ovi Store. Supported content types include, Java ME, Flash applications, widgets, ringtones, wallpapers, themes, Nokia offers a 70% revenue share of gross sales, net of refunds and returns, less applicable taxes and, where applicable, fixed operator billing costs. Ovi Store replaces the older Nokia services, Widsets, Download. the daily number of downloads reached 10 million in August 2011. There were 116,583 apps as of December 2011, the Ovi store also looked different on Symbian handsets to suit the new brand transformation
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Open-source software
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Open-source software may be developed in a collaborative public manner. According to scientists who studied it, open-source software is a prominent example of open collaboration, a 2008 report by the Standish Group states that adoption of open-source software models has resulted in savings of about $60 billion per year to consumers. In the early days of computing, programmers and developers shared software in order to learn from each other, eventually the open source notion moved to the way side of commercialization of software in the years 1970-1980. In 1997, Eric Raymond published The Cathedral and the Bazaar and this source code subsequently became the basis behind SeaMonkey, Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird and KompoZer. Netscapes act prompted Raymond and others to look into how to bring the Free Software Foundations free software ideas, the new term they chose was open source, which was soon adopted by Bruce Perens, publisher Tim OReilly, Linus Torvalds, and others. The Open Source Initiative was founded in February 1998 to encourage use of the new term, a Microsoft executive publicly stated in 2001 that open source is an intellectual property destroyer. I cant imagine something that could be worse than this for the software business, IBM, Oracle, Google and State Farm are just a few of the companies with a serious public stake in todays competitive open-source market. There has been a significant shift in the corporate philosophy concerning the development of FOSS, the free software movement was launched in 1983. In 1998, a group of individuals advocated that the free software should be replaced by open-source software as an expression which is less ambiguous. Software developers may want to publish their software with an open-source license, the Open Source Definition, notably, presents an open-source philosophy, and further defines the terms of usage, modification and redistribution of open-source software. Software licenses grant rights to users which would otherwise be reserved by law to the copyright holder. Several open-source software licenses have qualified within the boundaries of the Open Source Definition, the open source label came out of a strategy session held on April 7,1998 in Palo Alto in reaction to Netscapes January 1998 announcement of a source code release for Navigator. They used the opportunity before the release of Navigators source code to clarify a potential confusion caused by the ambiguity of the free in English. Many people claimed that the birth of the Internet, since 1969, started the open source movement, the Free Software Foundation, started in 1985, intended the word free to mean freedom to distribute and not freedom from cost. Since a great deal of free software already was free of charge, such software became associated with zero cost. The Open Source Initiative was formed in February 1998 by Eric Raymond and they sought to bring a higher profile to the practical benefits of freely available source code, and they wanted to bring major software businesses and other high-tech industries into open source. Perens attempted to open source as a service mark for the OSI. The Open Source Initiatives definition is recognized by governments internationally as the standard or de facto definition, OSI uses The Open Source Definition to determine whether it considers a software license open source
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Microsoft Software Updater
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To avoid data loss users are prompted with on-screen advice on how to safely update their device. The service was launched in beta in 2006, and the Nokia Software Updaters beta phase ended at 25 August 2011, Nokia Software Updater 3.0.495 was released to consumers in 2011. After acquisition of Nokias devices and services divisions by Microsoft, the application was renamed to Microsoft Software Updater, the Microsoft Software Updater does not install any pre-release of Nokia device software, but will restore the latest updates. The service can be used to restore the firmware on bricked phones which previously could only be done at local Microsoft Care customer service centres, the Recovery tool requires the telephone to have 70-80% battery charge and works only with Windows Phone 8 or higher devices. In 2015 Microsoft used the software to update their Series 30+ based Nokia 130 devices, the Microsoft Care division of Microsoft Mobile also has several other specialised versions of the Microsoft Software Updater. This includes the Nokia Software Recovery Tool which can recover lost software and its primary aim is to restore lost data after failed update installation attempts. The current version requires Windows 7 or later and is a version of the older Symbian recovery tool. As part of Microsofts new wave of rebranding it was renamed the Lumia Software Recovery Tool, in February 2015, to coincide with the launch with the technical preview of Windows 10 Mobile, Microsoft launched a similar application for Windows Insiders known as the Windows Phone Recovery Tool. This application will remove Windows 10 from the device and restore the most current Windows Phone 8.1 software, the update resolved these issues by lowering the data blocks being fed to the device from 2MB to 128kBs at a time while recovering these defective models. On May 13,2015 Microsoft added support for the HTC One for Windows devices in version 2.0.3 while earlier the Windows Phone Recovery Tool exclusively worked with Microsoft/Nokia Lumia devices. In November 2015 Microsoft added additional support for another non-Microsoft made Windows mobile device, Microsoft Care centres are physical locations created to deliver personalised customer support services and fix broken Lumia and Nokia-branded devices. In rural African areas Microsoft Mobile operates Microsoft Care as a service to customer support with vans by sending engineers. In June 2015, Microsoft announced it will rebrand its Nokia Care centres to Microsoft Care, Nokia Suite Nokia PC Suite Ovi Zune software Microsoft Mobile Services Official site List of supported telephones and tablets
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Softpedia
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Softpedia is a website from Romania that indexes information and provides primarily software information and downloads. Its main sections are Windows, Mac, Linux, Games, Drivers, Mobile, Webscripts and it also covers technology and science topics from both external and in-house sources, and it provides software and game reviews. Wherever possible, it one or more screenshots of each application. Softpedia does not repack software for distribution and it provides direct downloads of software in its original distribution form, links to developers downloads, or both. Softpedia is a destination for software downloads. It is owned by SoftNews NET SRL
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SourceForge
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SourceForge is a Web-based service that offers software developers a centralized online location to control and manage free and open-source software projects. SourceForge was one of the first to offer this service free of charge to open source projects, since 2012 the website runs on Apache Allura software. As of March 2014, the SourceForge repository claimed to host more than 430,000 projects and had more than 3.7 million registered users, the domain sourceforge. net attracted at least 33 million visitors by August 2009 according to a Compete. com survey. Negative community reactions to the program led to review of the program, nonetheless. The program was cancelled by new owners BizX on February 9,2016, on May 17,2016 they announced that it would scan all projects for malware, SourceForge is a web-based source code repository. It acts as a location for free and open-source software projects. It was the first to offer service for free to open-source projects. Project developers have access to centralized storage and tools for managing projects, though it is best known for providing revision control systems such as CVS, SVN, Bazaar, Git and Mercurial. Major features include project wikis, metrics and analysis, access to a MySQL database, the vast number of users at SourceForge. net exposes prominent projects to a variety of developers and can create a positive feedback loop. As a projects activity rises, SourceForge. nets internal ranking system makes it visible to other developers through SourceForge directory. Given that many projects fail due to lack of developer support. SourceForges traditional revenue model is through advertising sales on their site. In 2006 SourceForge Inc. reported quarterly takings of US$6.5 million, in 2009 SourceForge reported a gross quarterly income of US$23 million through media and e-commerce streams. In 2011 a revenue of 20 million USD was reported for the value of the SourceForge, slashdot and freecode holdings. Since 2013 additional revenue generation schemes, such as models, were trialled. The result has in some cases been the appearance of malware bundled with SourceForge downloads, on February 9,2016, SourceForge announced they had eliminated their DevShare program practice of bundling installers with project downloads. The software running the SourceForge site was released as software in January 2000 and was later named SourceForge Alexandria. In September 2002 SourceForge was temporarily banned in China, the site was banned again in China, for about a month, in July 2008
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Accounts & SSO
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Accounts & SSO, accounts-sso, or lately gSSO is a single sign-on framework for computers. Originating as part of Maemo 5 Accounts-SSO is free software licensed under LGPL2.1, Accounts-SSO was deployed as a standard component of Nokia N900, Nokia N9, Tizen, and Ubuntu. Later it was integrated in KDE Plasma Workspaces, Accounts-SSO was originally developed by Nokia who eventually shipped it as part of Maemo 5 on November 16,2009. It was later integrated into MeeGo 1.2 Handset software platform which was released on May 18,2011. After the MeeGo project ended, Accounts-SSO was transferred into an independent project by Intel, Canonical Ltd then adopted Accounts-SSO for Ubuntu 12.10 and KDE integrated it in November 2012. Among Accounts-SSO’s features are a plugin-based architecture, working with user interfaces, storage back-ends. While Accounts-SSO is primarily being used for centralized login management to social networking services, e. g. libaccounts-glib, signon plugins, A handful of signond authentication plugins are developed within the Accounts-SSO project. Among them plugins for Digest access, OAuth, SASL, and X.509, account plugins, The Accounts-SSO project leaves development of plugins for specific services to 3rd parties. Open source plugins for various services are being developed by Canonical, list of single sign-on implementations Official website Development home on Gitlab. com KDE Online Accounts Ubuntu Online Accounts on Launchpad. net
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Maliit
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Maliit an input method framework for computers with particular focus on implementing virtual keyboards. Designed mostly for touchscreen devices, Maliit allows the inputting of text without the presence of a physical keyboard, more advanced features such as word correction and prediction are also available. Originating as part of MeeGo, Maliit is free software licensed under LGPL, Maliit was deployed as a standard component of Nokia N9, KDE Plasma Active, LuneOS, OLPC devices, and Ubuntu Touch. Maliit was originally developed as part of MeeGo by Nokia who eventually shipped it as part of MeeGo Handset “Day 1” software platform, after the MeeGo project ended, Maliit was transferred into an independent project by free software consulting firm Openismus. The first formally independent release was 0.80.0 on June 20,2011, Maliit 0.99, released on March 27,2013, switched from Qt 4 to Qt 5. Among Maliit’s features are a plugin-based architecture, word correction and prediction, multitouch, when running on Linux kernel, handling of the input hardware relies on evdev. Maliit has been adopted by X11 as well as by Wayland, list of input methods for UNIX platforms Maliit on GitHub
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Mobile Web Server
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A Mobile Web Server is software designed for modern-day smartphones to host personal web servers, through the use of open sourced software, such as, i-jetty, an open source software, based on jetty. I-jetty is an open source web container, serving Java-based web content such as, servlets, Jetty is written in Java and its API is available as a set of JARs. Developers can instantiate a jetty container as an object, instantly adding network, Jetty is built for scalable performance allowing tens of thousands of HTTP connections and hundreds of thousands of simultaneous web socket connections. Jetty is optimized and known for creating small memory footprints, increasing scalability, Nokia one of the few cellphone companies brought Apache HTTP Server to their line of Nokia cellphones, running Symbian OS S60 mobile software platform. The S60 Mobile Web Server enables connectivity for HTTP traffic to a device from the Internet. The Mobile Web Server components include an application that runs on a computer with Internet access and a connector application. The gateway and the applications with a valid DNS configuration can provide a mobile device with a global web address. However, as of January 2010, the web server project has been discontinued by Nokia, the Mobile Web Server application allows mobile devices a means for hosting personal web applications, including, web pages and server side control. The most commonly used HTTP servers and servlet containers currently available are Jetty, Tomcat, Glassfish and Resin
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Microsoft mobile services
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Microsoft started to develop for mobile computing platforms with the launch of Windows CE in 1996 and later added Microsofts Pocket Office suite to their Handheld PC line of PDAs in April 2000. The Bing Mobile homepage shows the most popular search results in the form of a card, Mobile browsing allows users to access Bing on their mobile devices through WAP or GPRS connection. The interface is optimized for viewing on mobile handsets. S and it provides local listings, maps, driving directions, and traffic conditions. x phones. A hub in Windows Phone 7. x and later devices. S, on a variety of Windows phones, Android platform devices, all BlackBerry devices, several BREW devices, iPhone and iPod Touch, and Sidekick devices. In the United States, Microsoft operated a number for directory assistance called Bing 411. This service used voice search technologies powered by Tellme, users are able to find and connect for free to local shops and restaurants and obtain driving directions, traffic reports, sports scores, stock quotes, weather reports through this service. These numbers were discontinued on June 1,2012, as a replacement for the above numbers, a non-toll-free number has been set up at 330-247-7411 and offers the same services. Bing has also set up a number at 888-247-2425. In 2014 Microsoft launched Cortana with the Windows Phone 8.1, in 2015 Microsoft enabled OneDrive integration that allows users to stream the songs theyve stored on OneDrive via Groove Music. The service works only if the files are in a OneDrive folder named Music and it currently only supports MP3, M4A, and WMA files. JobLens gathers data from LinkedIn, Salary. com, and Zillow, JobLens users may use Microsoft OneDrive to store their CVs on. Internships Lens is an augmented reality application developed by Microsoft Mobile in cooperation with Internships. com and it also uses the Here Maps LiveSight technology to augment possible employment information. Unlike JobLens, Internship Lens offers the ability to research employers and it has over 75,000 internships by over 40,000 but is largely limited to geography and offers mostly American information. The service doesnt function outside of the United States, like JobLens, Internships Lens is powered by Nokias HERE Maps service and can be launched from both the Microsoft Cameras lens feature and from the app launcher. Despite most Here powered services being owned by Nokia, Microsoft got the JobLens, Microsoft announced that they will retire the applications on June 1,2015 from the Windows Phone Store. Lumia Beta Apps facilitates beta applications being developed by Microsoft or select 3rd party developers for Lumia products, applications may graduate to become commercial offerings, or they will be archived along with the lessons learnt based on user feedback. Microsoft collects feedback through UserVoice and has launched several new applications such as Cinemagraph Beta. On 25 February 2015, Join Conference was made public for all Windows Phones but republished under the Microsoft Garage, Lumia imaging apps are a series of imaging applications formerly by Nokia and now by Microsoft Mobile, which are bundled with its Lumia line of Windows Phone smartphones
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Nokia Browser for Symbian
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Nokia Browser for Symbian is the default web browser for the S60 and Symbian mobile phone platform. The browser is based on a port of Apple Inc. ’s open source WebCore and JavaScriptCore frameworks which form the WebKit rendering engine that Apple uses in its Safari Web browser, Nokia announced porting WebKit to the S60 Browser in June 2005, and made it available in November. At the 2006 World Wide Web Conference, Nokia announced that it was releasing the code for its port of WebKit back to the community. It supports, HTML WAP2.0 Cookies and JavaScript Wide web pages can be formatted for mobile viewing Multi-file download Super web browsing Drawbacks and it doesnt compress pages, which puts a greater strain on the phones processor and bandwidth usage. It supports, HTML WAP2.0 Cookies and flash player Multi-window browsing Many files can be downloaded at once and this s60 v3 was the first version to support adobe flash lite. Nokia Browser 7.0 is supported on S60 5th Edition devices, new features, Based on WebKit 525 Full support for Flash Lite 3.0 Supports kinetic scrolling User-configurable shortcut keys and visual keymap Full-screen view Drawbacks, Copy paste support is poor. If you have a device with no Control-key or Pen-key, you can not copy paste in most web forms, with older Nokia models, like N95 or E90, this was not a problem, as N95 had a Pen-key and E90 had a Control-key. New N86 and N97 do not have such keys, however, E72, which was released in 11/2009, has a Control-key. Some jQuery effects are not supported The Nokia Browser 7.2 is supported on Symbian^3, Browser 7.3 is also available to Symbian^3 devices as part of the upgrade from Symbian^3 to Symbian Anna. Some S60 3rd Edition and S60 5th Edition devices received the updated browser in the form of firmware updates and this version brings a touch-optimized user interface in addition to better web standards support and improved performance. Browser 7.4 is also available to Symbian^3/Anna devices as part of the upgrade from Symbian Anna to Nokia Belle, mobile browser Information appliance User agent Nokia Xpress Nokia Browsers Nokia Browser Nokia Developer - Symbian Browsers S60WebKit Nokia Developer - S60WebKit Webkit - Trac - S60WebKit Project
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Microsoft Lumia
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Microsoft Lumia is a range of mobile devices designed and marketed by Microsoft Mobile and previously by Nokia. The Lumia name is derived from the plural form of the Finnish word lumi. On 3 September 2013, Microsoft announced its purchase of Nokias mobile device business, as a result, the Lumia line is now maintained by Microsoft Mobile. In November 2014, Microsoft announced the first Microsoft branded Lumia device, in October 2015, Microsoft announced the first Lumia devices running on Windows 10 Mobile, the Lumia 950, Lumia 950 XL and Lumia 550. The most recent Lumia smartphone, the Lumia 650, was announced by Microsoft on February 15,2016, from 1998 to 2012, Nokia was the largest vendor of mobile phones in the world, which included early smartphones built on its Symbian platform. However, in recent years, its share declined as a result of the growing use of touchscreen smartphones from other vendors, such as Apples iPhone line. In 2010, its share had declined to 28%, and in April 2012. Nokias CEO Stephen Elop vetoed the idea of producing Android devices, the deal also included the integration of Bing as the search engine on Nokia devices, and the integration of Nokia Maps into Microsofts own mapping services. Nokia had planned to use the MeeGo platform as part of its future plans prior to the announcement, aligning with Microsoft had been considered a possibility by analysts due to Elops prior employment with the company. Nokia unveiled its first Windows Phone 7-based devices, the mid-range Lumia 710 and high-end Lumia 800, motivated by requests from the U. S. carrier AT&T for an LTE-enabled device, Nokia quickly developed the Lumia 900 as a follow-up, first unveiled at the 2012 International CES. Upon its launch in April 2012, the Lumia 900 was listed as a top seller on Amazon. com, in early 2012, Nokia released the Lumia 610, a new entry-level device taking advantage of the lower system requirements introduced by Windows Phone 7s Tango update. These new low-end devices were intended to improve Windows Phone adoption in emerging markets such as China, later in September 2012, Nokia unveiled the Lumia 820 and the Lumia 920, its first two devices to use the second generation of the Windows Phone platform, Windows Phone 8. Both featured NFC, with the Lumia 820 embedding a microSD card slot, the Lumia 920 also notably featured Qi wireless charging, and a PureView camera with optical image stabilization. Lumia 2520 was discontinued in early 2015, over the past nine quarters, Nokia sustained €4.1 billion worth of operating losses. On 3 September 2013, Microsoft announced its intent to acquire Nokias mobile phone business in a deal totaling at over US$7 bn. Stephen Elop stepped down as Nokias CEO and re-join Microsoft as its head of devices as part of the deal and these changes resulted in future Lumia models being first-party hardware produced by Microsoft. On 13 September 2013, the New York Times writer Nick Wingfield revealed that Nokia had been testing the Android operating system on its Lumia hardware. It was one of two known Android projects at the company, the other was running the OS on low–end Asha hardware, despite the testing the Android-based Lumia handsets were never released and only altered Asha devices were brought to the market
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MixRadio
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MixRadio was an online music streaming service owned by Line Corporation. After its acquisition of Nokias mobile phone business, the service was maintained by Microsoft Mobile Oy before it was sold to Korean internet company Line Corporation in 2015. Following the acquisition, MixRadio expanded to Android and iOS in May 2015. The service, in MixRadio form, was available as an app for Android, iOS, Apple Watch, Amazon Appstore, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, Adidas miCoach Smart Run. In France, the Nokia Music Store went live on 23 April 2008, the Nokia Music Store went live in the United Arab Emirates in November 2008. The Nokia Music Store went live in Australia on 22 April 2008, the Nokia Music Store launched in India in 2009. The Nokia Music Store was launched in South Africa on 24 April 2009, the Comes With Music product followed on 27 August 2009. The offerings were rebranded to align with Nokias Ovi branding on 9 September 2010, the service was announced for Spain on 28 September 2008. Files could be downloaded on mobile devices or personal computers, on 29 August 2007 Nokia launched the Ovi Music Store as part of the Ovi platform. The original idea behind the store was to provide to all Nokia MP3 capable mobile users a music store on the phone as on the PC. The Ovi Music Store officially opened in the UK on 1 October 2007 with offering of music from SonyBMG, Universal Music, EMI and Warner Music Group and this service had its own software to serve as front gate of the store on the PC and on the phones. It was called Nokia Ovi Player, and later Nokia Music Player and this service was optional to the carriers. Within the box of the phone there was a card with an ID that will be linked to the PC and mobile phone, so that PC and mobile phone have unlimited music downloads for over a year. Until 2010 the service had DRM files that prevented files from being burt onto CDs, allowing playback from mobile devices, market conditions encouraged a move to DRM free, as evidenced in the Brainstorm Magazine article Music wants to be mobile. and DRM free. In case the user wanted to burn the song, they had to buy it from the store, during the latter part of 2010 and into 2011, Nokia Music continued developing its app client for the MeeGo platform along with its existing Symbian platform. In January 2011 Nokia withdrew this programme in 27 countries, due to its failure to gain traction, the service continued to be offered until 2014 in China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Turkey and South Africa where take-up was better. Nokia Music launched for the first time on the Windows Phone platform with the Lumia 710, with the launch of Windows Phone 8 in late 2012, Nokia Music came to the platform with an app optimised for the new operating system from Microsoft. During the following months, Nokia Music was also released to the Windows 8, Nokia Music launched in the U. S. market on 15 September 2012 with a performance at Irving Plaza by Green Day
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Nokia Pure
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Nokia Pure is a typeface designed by London-based type foundry Dalton Maag for Nokia. It was designed primarily for use in media, in Nokia devices. It has been the main typeface since its introduction. Its designers include Vincent Connare, creator of the classic font Comic Sans, the font was launched in an exhibition called the “Nokia Pure Exhibition” with artists sponsored to come up with posters using the typeface. The posters were sold at the exhibition and online to raise money for the British Dyslexia Association, other merchandise featuring Nokia Pure has also been created, including postcards and mugs. The font was first introduced on 28 March 2011 and it replaced the Nokia Sans font, which was designed by Erik Spiekermann and used since 2002. The first notable appearance of Nokia Pure was on the N9 smartphone, Nokia also dropped its slogan Connecting People, as a Nokia Pure version of the slogan was never made. Pure was used to advertise the flagship Lumia series, but it wasnt present on the software because the devices ran Windows Phone which uses Microsofts Segoe font. On Symbian smartphones, Pure was available in software updates in 2011, however Nokia Sans was still the default font even with the Anna, Nokia Sans also continued to be used for Series 40 devices until the platforms last device release in 2013. On 12 January 2012 it was announced that Nokia Pure had been nominated for a Design Museum Designs of the Year 2012 award in the Graphics category and it went on to win the Graphics category. The Nokia Pure typeface became part of the Designs of the Year 2012 exhibition which ran from 8 February to 4 July 2012, Nokia Sans Segoe Nokia Pure, Dalton Maag
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Plazes
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Plazes AG was a Berlin, Germany-based geosocial networking site. Plazes allowed users to post their location and current activities and share information with other Plazes users via computers or mobile telephones. On 23 June 2008, Nokia Corporation announced plans to acquire Plazes, Plazes was subsequently integrated to Nokia Maps which itself was integrated to HERE Maps. Plazes AG introduced the version of the Plazes service on 16 August 2004. The service was updated and began to attract attention on technology blogs. In January 2005, Plazes introduced a Movable Type plugin that allowed users to include or add their location to blog postings. In June 2005, Plazes created an API that allowed users to access photos from their Flickr accounts, a Flickr group of Plazes users quickly sprang up. In 2006, Plazes was awarded the LeadAward in Bronze in the Category “WebLeader 2006″, the Plazes Web interface allows users to post a location, the time of day they will be at the location and the activity they will be engaged in at the location. This information can be shared with people selected by the user, in addition to the Web interface, users can update their location using Plazer, via text message or via m. plazes. com, the mobile Plazes Web site. Plazes users are able to publish their Plazes location on Fire Eagle, Twitter, Google Maps, MySpace, the Web interface allows users to invite others to join Plazes. Plazes can search a users Gmail, Yahoo or Hotmail or Microsoft Outlook contacts, Plazes allows users to create groups or to join an existing group of Plazes users. Under the Groups tab, Plazes suggests groups that the user may wish to join, if the user wants to create a group, the user will need to select a group name and a draft a brief description of the group. The user may add an image to the group to differentiate it from other groups. Plazes has a function that allows users to discover other Plazes users that are located near the users current location. The Plazes Radar generates a list of the close to the users current location. When the user clicks on the name, information about the user that was at that location is displayed along with a description of the users activity at the location. The Plazes Launcher was a client application that allowed Plazes users to update their location, the launcher would detect the MAC address of the users current router, and query the Plazes database to see if the router already had a plaze associated with it. If no existing plaze was found, the user would be prompted to enter details about the plaze, including a name, in March 2006, the Plazes Launcher was rebranded as Plazer
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Twango
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Twango was an online media sharing site that supported multiple file types such as photos, video, audio, and documents. In addition, Twango saved all the media and its metadata. Non-members were free to browse the site, however only members could upload media to the site, sign up for a basic account was free, and provided 250 megabytes of upload bandwidth a month. Twango was acquired by Nokia in July 2007, in February 2008, Nokia rebranded Twango as Share on Ovi. With the rebranding, the 250 megabyte upload limit was removed, subsequently, Share on Ovi was rebranded to Ovi Share to conform with the other Ovi services, such as Ovi Mail, Ovi Maps and Ovi Music. On 7 March 2012, Nokia announced that Ovi Share will be discontinued and closed on 30 May 2012, Twango users organize their media in containers known as channels. A users entire media collection is stored in what is known as My Media, channels represent a cross-section of My Media. The same piece of media can appear in multiple channels, giving a different context to said media, for example, a picture of friends at a party could appear in a users friends channel as well as in the users party channel. Twango members can subscribe to a channel, receiving notifications when new media has been uploaded to a channel or when new comments have been added, each channel can also be specified as public or private. If it is specified as private it can only be accessed by invitation, users can also create open channels which allow other users to upload their own content. Twango members can upload their media in a variety of ways, in addition to browser based uploading, Twango also supports uploading through email, mobile phone, and the Windows web publishing wizard. A twango twidget is a snippet of code that can be added to a users blog. For example, a user can embed a Flash ticker on his or her blog which will all the media from a channel. Twango also has a webcam widget which can be embedded in blogs, movies and audio are condensed and played back via a Flash-based media player, but media can also be downloaded in the format it was originally uploaded in. In addition, Twango does not implement any technology to block copyrighted material, Media that has reached a certain flagging threshold is then automatically removed. Twango supports various feeds, including channel feeds, most recent media feeds and it supports RSS2.0, ATOM0.3, and ATOM1.0 Twango Mobile provides an XHTML web site for people with compatible mobile browsers. In July 2007, Nokia and Twango announced that Nokia was acquiring substantially all of the assets of Twango, shortly after the acquisition, Nokia announced that it was moving into the services field with the introduction of Ovi. The Twango software was one of the first elements of the Ovi platform introduced by Nokia, on 7 March 2012, Nokia announced that Ovi Share will be discontinued and closed on 30 May 2012
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WidSets
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WidSets is a mobile runtime technology, and a mobile service powered by the said technology, based on the Java MIDP2.0 platform, from the Finnish mobile company Nokia. The widgets are created using Extensible Markup Language, Cascading Style Sheets, widsets is a combined application and service that is similar to what a widget does on a desktop PC, on a wide variety of mobile phones. WidSets are micro-applications intended to perform a single function, WidSets, like widgets, generally rely on some kind of web service to provide information to the user. WidSets was officially launched in October 2006 and it worked on all Java MIDP2.0 phones, including non-Nokia ones, and was regarded as a mobile counterpart to Netvibes. The current version as of May 2008 is version 2.0.0 for both the client and the SDK, in 2009, Nokia announced that WidSets is no longer developed. Example widgets include currency converters, news headlines retrievers and weather forecast information, WidSets Official Website Mobilise your Web with WidSets - Europe Mobilise your Web with WidSets - UK
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Lumia imaging apps
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Lumia imaging apps are imaging applications by Microsoft Mobile and formerly by Nokia for Microsoft Lumia devices built on the technology of Scalado. Most of the applications are developed by the Microsoft Lund division. Lumia Camera originally created as a merger of the Nokia Pro Cam, the Camera Mode features a Night and a Sports mode, and Video Mode offers video recording. Due to the high end specs of the Nokia Lumia 1020, with Lumia Cyan Nokia improved the low-light performances of the Nokia Camera, added continuous autofocus, added support for living images, and has improved the performance of the application. With Lumia Denim Microsoft rebranded the application to the Lumia Camera, due to the nature of these features they havent been made available for cheaper and older Lumia devices and are exclusive to newer handsets. Lumia Cinemagraph is an application and Windows Phone camera lens formerly by Nokia and now by Microsoft, Nokia Cinemagraph was originally based on technology from the Nokia acquisition of Scalado. The software enables the creation of subtle animated GIFs from images, despite saving files as GIFs, theyre exported as regular JPG files and shared Lumia cinemagraphs can not be viewed on other devices. It was renamed to Lumia cinemagraph after the acquisition of Nokias Devices and Services units by Microsoft in 2014, the Lumia Beta Apps division launched the Lumia Cinemagraph Beta which migrated content from Nokias website to Microsoft OneDrive and subsequently implemented this feature in Lumia Cinemagraph. Previously cinemagraphs used to be synchronized via the Nokia Memories site, images created using the Lumia Creative Studio can be shared on various social networks like Twitter, Flickr, and the Facebook. In September 2015 Microsoft announced that they would no longer release updates or support for Lumia Panorama, Lumia Play To is a DLNA-based application, it allows users to share media across devices. It was originally debuted on Symbian handsets and was introduced in the Nokia Beta Labs in 2012 for Lumia handsets. In September 2015 Microsoft announced that they would discontinue the online service related to Lumia Refocus on October 30,2015, in August 2015 Microsoft added support for selfie sticks. Lumia Video Trimmer is an editing application originally launched by Nokia, it allows users to edit. It features unlimited video length, pan-and-zoom, and offers various filters and themes, some of the themes and filters include DreamWorks Kung-Fu Panda and Madagascar movies. It offers compatibility with content created on other devices, though it should first be moved to the device on which Movie Creator is installed before these can be edited, in April 2015 Movie Creator Beta got Microsoft OneDrive and 4K video support. The PhotoBeamer site will show a QR Code that asks the user to scan it with Bing Vision, in September 2015 Microsoft announced that they would discontinue the PhotoBeamer application and its associated web page as they would integrate some of its features in Windows 10. The software integrates with the Lumia Imaging SDK that enables developers to create similar editing software in their own applications, Microsoft Lumia Lumia Beta Apps PureView Google Camera Microsoft mobile services Cinemagraph on your Nokia Lumia 920 & Lumia 820 Lumia Refocus Microsofts PhotoBeamer Lumia Storyteller
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Here (company)
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HERE is a company which provides mapping data and related services to individuals and companies. It is owned by a consortium of German automotive companies, in December 2016, it was announced that a 10% stake is planned to be owned by Navinfo, Tencent and GIC Private Limited, while a 15% stake is planned to be acquired by Intel. Here captures location content such as networks, buildings, parks. It then sells or licenses that mapping content, along with services and location solutions to other businesses such as Alpine, Garmin, BMW, Oracle. It provides location services through its own Here applications, and also for GIS and government clients and other providers, such as Microsoft Bing, Facebook and Yahoo. Here has built its mapping and location business by acquiring location technology and know-how, Navteq, was an American company founded in 1985 as Karlin & Collins, Inc. later known as Navigation Technologies Corporation and eventually as Navteq. At the time of its acquisition by Nokia, Navteq was the largest maker of automotive grade map data used in car navigation equipment, Nokia Maps began in 2001 as Smart2Go, a generic 3D-map interface for access to tourist information on mobile terminals. It was developed by an EU consortium named TellMaris, Nokia gained the rights to the software when it acquired Berlin-based route planning software company Gate 5 in August 2006, which has become the cornerstone for the companys mapping business. It then made the Smart2Go application free to download, in October 2007, Nokia acquired the Chicago-based company Navteq, which brought 25 years of experience in creating automotive grade map content, and a deep footprint in the automotive industry. Nokia ran Navteqs business along with their own Nokia Maps, the two divisions remained as separate entities of Nokia Corporation until Navteq was amalgamated into the core Nokia operations in 2011. The service was rebranded as Here in 2012, bringing together mapping, location businesses, satellite navigation, in 2008, Nokia picked up geo social networking site Plazes and the following year it bought mobile applications developer Bit-Side, social location pioneer Plum, and social travel service Dopplr. In 2010, it acquired Metacarta a leading enterprise local search service used by security, in April 2011, Nokia released a beta version of 3D maps that covered 20 cities in the world. By August 2011, the coverage has expanded to 23 cities, and in 2012, Nokia bought EarthMine, in May 2011, Ovi Maps was renamed to Nokia Maps when Nokia streamlined its services offering under the HERE brand. In October 2011, Maps & Drive for Windows Phone 7 was announced, however, major features such as off-line routing and text-to-speech navigation of street names, compared to the Symbian version, were absent. These features were brought over to the Windows Phone platform in 2012. On 13 November 2012, Nokia announced that it would rebrand its location offering as Here to highlight its vision for the future of location-based services, in June 2014, HERE announced that it had acquired Medio a Seattle-based start-up that specialized in predictive analytics. In 2014, Windows Phones low market share, as well as the end of Nokias partnership with Microsoft, led to the company prioritizing Android, Here launched the Here beta app for Samsung Galaxy smartphones in August 2014. Later in October the app available on all Android devices running on 4.1 Jelly Bean or higher
