Hey this guy, Keith Liu funny. He’s the head of Games and Communities Services for Nokia. This is an update on what Nokia has been doing with Ovi, about a year after it was announced. Should be interesting as well.
Timeline follows. Latest entry is at the top.
## Lunch time!
## For pornography and other “questionable items” images can be flagged. Nokia does not monitor or moderate content. The community works to flag images and reports them to Nokia, who, in turn removes them in half an hour to 12 hours.
## Uploading of photos demo. You can comment via website or via …read more

Today is day 2 of Nokia Connection 2008. and the media workshops begin now. I’m going to be doing a running account of the show. The latest updates are posted at the top.
Timeline:

## Discussion of Ovi. Ovi Share included for all Ovi services including N-Gage, music, photos. Q&A follows. Differences between the E66 and E71 is really just about the keypad options but the features are essentially the same.
## Security: Encryption of the Eseries devices in internal memory and with the memory card. “Lock and wipe” feature for SMS. An SMS can be sent via you or your IT …read more

Huge news for the Asian telco industry. But just to put a little perspective … there’s been a lot of speculation on the Google Phone business model since 2005. With Google’s core competence being contextual advertising (wasn’t it search a long time ago?) they’ve never really kept secret about their plans to use the 700MHz spectrum for a completely free, advertising driven telco and broadband (?) service.
Free, advertising driven telco.
Well, Asia has just opened up it’s first and it’s in the Philippines. Pardon me, I had to break the news in my personal blog simply because of regional implications. I …read more

Really, there is no need for more words so I’m quoting the shortest press release ever made:

Manila, 12 May 2008 – Globe, SingTel, Bharti Airtel and Optus today announced that they have signed an agreement with Apple to bring the iPhone to the Philippines, Singapore, India, and Australia later this year.
More information will be released at a later date. [source]
The prediction last year was by mid 2008, Asia will legitimately have their shot at the iPhone. With hope, this should be the 3G iPhone running on a fast network that Asia supposedly prides itself in having. But wait, doesn’t …read more