Nokia has confirmed that the Dopplr travel social network it bought in September 2009 has effectively been put into live storage and there are no plans to do anything with it.
Dopplr would make a good addition to the new Nokia sat-nav killer
January 21, 2010 By 2 Comments
Plenty of praise for a major development by mobile handset manufacturer Nokia to produce what some believe is a serious threat to the sat-nav GPS systems but is probably more of a rearguard against recent similar moves by Google.
The upgraded Ovi maps are being touted as a personal sat-nav (it uses similar tracking technology) coupled with trip planning and other travel-friendly features such as location and activity search and networking.
Missing from the announcement was any mention of Dopplr, the travel social network and trip planning business that Nokia acquired in 2009.
Will Nokia pull the Dopplr app from the iPhone?
October 22, 2009 By 11 Comments
Unseasonably hot news from Finland today as it emerges that mobile handset giant Nokia is busy in the Federal District Court in Delaware, US, with plans to sue Apple over patent infringement.
Nokia is taking Apple to task because the company “infringes Nokia patents for GSM, UMTS and wireless LAN (WLAN) standards” – in other words, critical elements of Nokia’s technology for handling wireless data, speech coding, security and encryption.
At a corporate level this could be quite a scrap, given the enormity of what is a stake (the action relates to every iPhone shipped since 2007!) and the size of the companies involved.
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Kayak sets sights on TripIt-Dopplr clan with its own trip planner
October 1, 2009 By 5 Comments
Kayak undoubtedly has an unwelcome surprise for TripIt, Dopplr, Traxo and Sabre’s TripCase, among other contenders.
That’s because Kayak has quietly introduced in beta Kayak Trips, an itinerary-sharing service, to about half of its registered users. The service also is being tested on Kayak’s UK site and in France.
Kayak thus becomes the first metasearch engine to get into the post-reservations management game.
Dopplr sale illustrates Cloud Super-PNR opportunity
September 28, 2009 By 15 Comments
In a short blog post Dopplr has this morning confirmed that their rumoured sale to Nokia has completed successfully.
So it’s about the data. Interconnected data.
One of the challenges with Dopplr is that it relies heavily on the network effect. The network, collectively, becomes more useful the more people join. This is true of most social networks.
