Poynt Corporation, a global leader in mobile local search and advertising, has been awarded First Place in the Productivity and Tools category of Nokia’s “Calling All Innovators 2011″ mobile app and games development contest.

The Nokia Calling All Innovators global competition encouraged app and game developers from around the world to submit mobile apps in 17 categories for the chance to share in a total of $10 million (USD) in cash and prizes.

First place winners in each category receive a $150,000 (USD) cash prize and remain in the running to win additional grand prizes which include major marketing campaigns. One game and one application will be chosen as grand prize winners. The gra… .. .

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Poynt Corporation, a global leader in mobile local search and advertising, has been awarded First Place in the Productivity and Tools category of Nokia’s “Calling All Innovators 2011″ mobile app and games development contest.

The Nokia Calling All Innovators global competition encouraged app and game developers from around the world to submit mobile apps in 17 categories for the chance to share in a total of $10 million (USD) in cash and prizes.

First place winners in each category receive a $150,000 (USD) cash prize and remain in the running to win additional grand prizes which include major marketing campaigns. One game and one application will be chosen as grand prize winners. The gra… .. .

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A new flash countdown timer has shown up on the Nokia’s official (Facebook.com/Nokia) Facebook page.

The timer itself gives little details and only says that "It’s almost time to TRY SOMETHING NEW" "SOMETHING NEW ON SYMBIAN" and of course displays actual hours, minutes and seconds left.

While I writing this article there are 45 hours, 45 minutes and few seconds left, which lines up with the Symbian event scheduled to be held in Hong Kong this week. I don’t know about you, but if you ask me, I smell a new devices annou… .. .

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Researchers who are working to fix global positioning system (GPS) errors have devised software that could be used to measure how quickly glaciers at high altitudes melt. The just announced GPS software is still under development, but in initial tests it enabled centimeter-scale GPS positioning including altitude as often as 97 percent of the time which is a remarkable achievement.

On a recent research trip to China, the Pure Leadership team was consistently awed by the way that GPS technology helped us pinpoint sacred structures from satellite images. In many cases, we were able to direct our guides to structures the… .. .

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Unfortunately, the Nokia Camera team didn’t manage to squeeze the camera improvements into just released Symbian Anna update but thanks to just released BETA version of significantly improved camera app you’ll still make your summer pictures and videos to look even better!

Continuous autofocus is something I’ve heard many video shooters asking for and it’s really nice to see that Nokia listen to what their smartphone users want and make as many people happy as possible.

So, no matter whether you’re a serious shutterbug or an occasional snapper, it is highly suggestible to go to Nokia beta labs and download (requires valid Nokia account) this update, tes… .. .

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