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Nokia's Point and Find Phone Interface Moves Closer to Reality
Wired: Gadget Lab — For months Nokia has been working on Point & Find, a new technology that allows users to simply point their camera phones at a banner and get more information on their device. Now the company says it is ready to launch the service "very soon." Nokia says it will make Point & Find available as a public beta starting with a movie service. The service will allow users to point their cellphone cameras at a movie poster and get information about the movie on their phone such as show times and trailers. It will also include the ability to book tickets. "There is a lot of physical media out there--billboards, ...

A chat about Nokia Research with Henry Tirri
CrunchGear — The kind folks at Nokia arranged for a quiet chat with a few of the folks behind the Nokia Research Center. In addition to specific product development issues, a lot of interesting information was shared about Nokia’s research efforts in general.  For example, Nokia is one of the few big players left with a pure research department, not a combined research and development arm. The researchers work closely with the various Nokia operating units, and an advanced engineering team is responsible for grooming mature research projects into products, with the help of the operating units. Henry Tirri, current ...