Nokia’s Near field Connectivity Blog provided interesting, if somewhat dated, information in a recent post. It lets us know that Nokia and Foursquare enabled NFC (Near Field Communications) check-in at Nokia World which took place in London a month ago (October 26-27).
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Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews. 
If you have an iPhone running iOS 4 (or newer) or an Android phone running Android OS 2.1 (or newer), accessing Google+ is a matter of downloading and installing the appropriate free app. However, there is no app for an iPhone running an older version of iOS, an Android phone running an older version of Android or some other phone (Nokia with Symbian, Windows Mobile or Windows Phone). If your phone is in this last category, Google has a support page to help you out.
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Nokia ensured that users of its Symbian-powered N8, E7, and C7 series smartphones can stay connected by developing a LinkedIn application for the platform.
Nokia Beta Labs provides a simple but interesting demonstration of how the multiple screens in ours lives (a notebook computer and a Nokia Symbian-based phone in this case) can have dynamic interaction.
Introducing Nokia Drop. Push links and photos to your phone
Nokia Drops provides the ability to push photos you see while browsing a website on your desktop or notebook directly to a Nokia Symbian^3 or S60 5th Edition phone and have it become a wallpaper there with just a single tap on the phone’s screen. Links from websites can also be sent over to the phone with just a single phone tap involved.
These activities take many taps and a fair amount of typing without something like Nokia Drop. This is the sort of concept prototyping that we need to see more of on other platforms. However, it is also something that needs to be approached with a lot of caution. You can imagine what would happen if a security exploit is present in this process.
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With the tremendous rise in the popularity of smart phones, they have also become a prime target for cyber criminals. According to McAfee, the malware attacks on smart phones and other mobile devices connected to internet rose by 46 percent in 2010 to 967 threats, compared to 704 threats that McAfee registered on mobile devices in 2009.
There’s a push to make the Symbian platform open and more available to all organizations, and the Symbian Foundation has been set up to make this initiative come to fruition. Today, the Symbian Foundation has announced a number of new supporters, including HP, Mobico and MySpace.
In gaining 12 new supporters, the open source mobile platform has a greater reach than Google Android in terms of the organizations that are behind Symbian. While this is good news for Symbian, there are still more hurdles to overcome, as Android continues to gain support, and Symbian has lost ground to other platforms such as Apple. Yet the growing support for mobile platforms like Symbian only reiterates the growing focus on mobile development.
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