People really like getting things free and the Ovi Maps just proves that. It's been only a week since the launch of the latest version of Ovi Maps bundled with free walk and drive navigation and over 1.4 million people have downloaded it already.
Even Nokia themselves didn't expect their mobile navigation to generate so much interest. The free lifetime licenses are now possible thanks to Nokia's acquisition of NAVTEQ, the company which standing behind the Ovi Maps map data.
Starting next month, Nokia will ship all of its GPS-enabled smartphones with the new Ovi Maps preinstalled. It will come with pre-loaded local country maps, walk and drive navigation and access to Michelin travel guide and Lonely Planet.
Meanwhile Nokia released Ovi Maps Racing - a free location-based game. It uses actual data from the NAVTEQ maps, where you create your racing track and then choose your car and start playing. The game itself is developed by RedLynx, requires Symbian^1 (S60 5th edition) and is already available for download in Ovi Store (free for limited time).
We suspect that after Nokia increased their smartphone market share from 35% to 40% last quarter, the free voice-guided navigation on their smartphones will help push this number even further up.
Source: GSMArena
New version of well-known application for voice and video communication Skype was released. The latest version of the application supports high quality video transmission. But the requirement for hardware and speed of Internet connection were raised.
Apple's orders to its Taiwanese manufacturing facilities call for the production of roughly 5 million iPads before the heart of summer rolls around, according to a new report which also praises the company for its iPhone, notebook and desktop secular growth trends.
Google's recent announcement of a 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home testbed has communities across the US salivating—but imagine what the Internet might be like if that connection to your home were even faster. Say... 100Gbps. In less than 20 years, such speeds will be possible, but only for companies who installed the right sort of fiber architecture.
With the economic sinkhole of 2008-09 now a figment of many technology companies' past, most PC manufacturers are back on their regularly scheduled growth curve. Last month, Dell had indicated to investors that it was returning to that curve as well, reporting "product shipments...up at double-digit rates year-over-year" during its end-of-fiscal year 2010 earnings report.
Video viewers at YouTube.com watched 93 videos on average during the month, representing an increase of 50 percent versus year ago, according to the comScore Video Metrix service for January 2010.

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