Truly unique in its accuracy, PEIR (Personal Environmental Impact Report) is an innovative tool which measures a person’s impact on the environment via their mobile device. Currently in its trial phase, PEIR was born out of a research collaboration project by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Nokia Research Center (NRC) Palo Alto.
PEIR has been selected to appear as one of the new global innovations transforming the world at the WIRED NextFest event in Chicago, US, September 27 to October 12, 2008.
“PEIR is a completely new concept, which introduces a dimension of intelligence and new depth in comparison with the traditional carbon footprint calculators. It demonstrates novel capabilities by providing the user with personal information based on their lifestyle with details on how their daily behavior patterns affect the environment and the way it impacts them”, explains Péter Boda of Nokia Research Center Palo Alto, who leads the PEIR research collaboration with UCLA.
Via mobile devices, PEIR collects location and speed information which is fed to complex mathematical and environmental models on the server and correlated with GIS (Geographic Information System) data. This combination provides analysis on an individual’s environmental impact and exposure, visualized online either on an individual basis or as a community on Facebook widgets.
“PEIR is an exciting development which very clearly demonstrates the capability for mobile devices to act as gateways between the physical worlds in which we live, and the virtual information spaces that connect us. Additionally, PEIR has the capability to empower individuals and communities to act and influence others to act on the urgent environmental issue. Appearing at the WIRED NextFest is proof of such capability”, says Henry Tirri, head of Systems Research in Nokia Research Center Palo Alto.
More information on PEIR can be found at the UCLA PEIR page: http://peir.cens.ucla.edu
WIRED NextFest is held on from September 27 to October 12 in Chicago, US. http://www.wirednextfest.com
Today Mr Calin Popescu-Tariceanu, Prime Minister of Romania, inaugurated Nokia’s new mobile device plant in Jucu, near the city of Cluj, Romania, together with Mr Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President, Markets, Nokia.
“Romania has highly dedicated people and I am pleased to announce that the factory is expected to reach the milestone of 10 million devices during October. The Cluj operations have become an integral part of our global demand supply network,” said Mr Vanjoki. “Nokia has 10 production plants in nine countries around the world, and this global presence enables us to quickly respond to customer needs,” he added.
Nokia’s decision concerning the EUR 60 million greenfield investment in Romania was announced in March 2007 and construction began in July 2007. The factory became operational in record time, with the first device produced there in February 2008. Currently the factory employs over 1 600 people and the total number of employees is expected to reach 3 500 by the end of 2009. The total area of the new factory is 34 000 square meters.
Nokia is one of the most important investors in Romania in the telecommunications sector today. Altogether Nokia currently employs around 1 800 people in its factory in Jucu, services and software unit in Cluj and sales office in Bucharest.
Nokia today shared its visions of future technologies and business strategy and presented its thought leadership in the areas of future mobility, research and innovation in The Way We Live Next 2008, Nokia technology media briefing in Espoo, Finland.
“The Way We Live Next was a great opportunity for us to articulate our vision for the path forward. At NRC we conduct deep research that will result in real products and services that will drive the next wave of mobile innovation. Amongst other things, we unveiled Agenda 2015 to the media, the comprehensive plan from Nokia Research Center for achieving this.” said Bob Iannucci, Nokia Chief Technology Officer and Head of Nokia Research Center.
Check out The Way We Live Next >> http://www.nokia.com/press/twwln08
Nokia has this year been investing to expand the production capacity and improve the efficiency of its plant in Manaus, Brazil. The company expects investments during 2008 to reach around EUR 10 million. “With the Brazilian mobile phone market having shown annual growth of around 20% for two years running and with our exports to Latin America having grown strongly too, we are making available the resources to increase our manufacturing capacity,” says Almir Narcizo, Vice President, Sales, Nokia, Brazil.
Some of the investment is being used to adjust Nokia’s manufacturing processes to the technologies required to produce new, technologically more advanced products. Last May, the Manaus plant started production of its first 3G device produced in the country, the Nokia 5610 XpressMusic.
Nokia opened its plant in Brazil in 1998.
Don’t rub your eyes - the headline is not a joke or a hoax. Nokia today announced that 43 Nokia S60 3rd Edition devices – which translates to 80 million of all these devices already shipped – enable the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync corporate mobile email solution. Better known as Mail for Exchange on Nokia devices, the solution gives Nokia device users real time access to their office email, calendar, contacts, tasks and also their company directory, which makes it easy for them to search for their colleagues’ contact details.
Not only has it become extremely easy to set up if the enterprise has the Exchange Server 2007, Mail for Exchange also gives users the benefit of setting up their Out of Office message directly from their mobile phone, as well as a host of other benefits such as email flags for follow up, downloading, editing and uploading attachments, and also setting email priorities.
Some popular Nokia devices that enable Mail for Exchange – and hence access to the world’s most popular corporate email solution – include the Nokia E71, Nokia E66, Nokia N96, Nokia N95 and Nokia N95 8GB, Nokia N82, Nokia 6210 Navigator and Nokia 5320 XpressMusic.
