Nokia is planning to develop the operating mode of its Salo plant to ensure production is focused fully on the high-value smartphone market, especially in Europe.

The plans will result in the introduction of new and highly specialized manufacturing methods and also entail changes to personnel at the facility.

The planned new focus for Salo is expected to affect a maximum of 285 employees involved in production and in related support functions at Salo. Today, Nokia's Salo facility employs approximately 2 200 people. Nokia will support alter... .. .

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Over the last two weeks I have been lucky enough to have the Nokia N900 on loan from WomWorld. This device has seen quite a bit of hype recently so I was really pleased to have the opportunity to see what all the fuss was about, and guess what, it doesn’t disappoint!

Having been something of a Symbian fanatic for the last nine years or so, I was eager to see if this new operating system could satisfy my needs, both in day to day usage and when the mood takes me for a spot of tinkering under the hood.

I’m not going to give you a mile long spec sheet, show you a pile of photos taken by its average camera, or tell you why I think it is better than the iPhone, you can read a million and one reviews that already do that, I’m simply going to te.... .. .

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Finally, the D-Day has arrived. After having the third release candidate available for download only for two days, the new and final version of Mozilla’s Firefox browser which was launched in its first release candidate on 31 Dec 2009 is now available for Nokia’s Maemo platform.

Starting today, Nokia N900 owners can enjoy many of the same Firefox features they know and love on the desktop on their mobile device.

Bringing Firefox to mobile devices is the next step toward fulfilling Mozilla’s mission of providing one Web that everyone can access, regardless of device or loca... .. .

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Earlier this morning the Mozilla has pushed out the third release candidate (RC3) of F of Firefox mobile and gets one step closer to deliver the final version of their mobile browser for Maemo-based devices.

According to Mozilla's dev team, they have managed to fix several usability bugs that were found, as well as address a number of performance issues and fix several crash bugs based on your feedback.

They have also tuned a number of preferences and improved several algorithms to improve page load times and responsiveness as well as  spe... .. .

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Nokia invites US tweekers and modders to submit their ideas for morphing the Nokia N900 into something entirely new. Whether it’s turning the Nokia N900 into a TV remote control or the brain of a fully functioning robot, the only limit is the contestants’ imagination.

The Nokia N900, which became available in the US this past November, is a powerful mobile computer that uses the open source, Linux-based Maemo Software to deliver a PC-like experience on a handset-sized device.

The top three ideas will be chosen from the ideas submitted by a panel of judges, after which the finalist teams will be provided with a Nokia N900 and so... .. .

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At 3:35 am CST, Nokia announced that Ovi Maps Navigation will be free to all Nokia smartphone users FOR LIFE! This means tens of millions of devices across the world will have the same functionality of most typical personal GPS devices like Garmin and Tom Tom produce. While obviously a response to Google's free navigation offering on Android, it has far greater implications.

Nokia is throwing its massive reach and weight around. While Google Maps is free is the US and other locales, Ovi Maps 3.3 and its free services will be in tens of millions of devices immediately on a much larger scale.

This means Nokia will be able to provide voice and visual guidance to over 70 different countries with language localization for both drivers and pedestrians alike. This will also include Ovi's planned indoor navi... .. .

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