Nokia's chocolate box

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Nokia's musicphone

Nokia's musicphone 03/13/2003 10:20 AM

Nokia has a musicphone of its own coming out, the 3300. The 3300 has a somewhat unusual design for a cellphone, and comes with a built-in MP3 player, an FM tuner, digital recorder, an MMC memory card slot for storage of audio files, and a 128x128 pixel color screen.
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Nokia's 'Lifebl0g'

Nokia's 'Lifebl0g' 06/01/2004 02:13 PM

I recently saw a demo of a new Nokia initiative, Lifeb log. The project is young, but the possibilities are fascinating.

Nokia's Enterprising Value

Nokia's Enterprising Value 01/27/2004 11:31 AM
Nokia's stock is up 24% so far in 2004. Is it too far, too fast?

chocolate chocolate chocolate

chocolate chocolate chocolate 03/17/2005 03:20 AM
Chocolate is so damn good I keep seeing boutique chocolate companies popping up everywhere (like this one: www.delicioustruffles.com). And now Pete of Pete's Wicked Ale has started one (www.cocoapetes.com) Which begs the question is chocolate the next beer? Is America about to be deluged with extraordinary chocolates like we've been hit with microbrews? And why has it taken so damn long?

I have seen God in a cup of chocolate

I have seen God in a cup of chocolate 06/05/2005 11:42 PM
Cory Doctorow: I don't hardly eat sugar, and I practically never eat dessert, but last night, Ben Hammersley took me to Hemingway's, a chocolate joint in Florence, Italy. I have never, ever tasted anything remotely as good as the things I tasted last night. I ate so much chocolate that I sweated it all night. It was completely worth it. Examine this picture of me closely: that expression on my face is chocolate ecstasy.

There were many delicious things on offer at Hemingway's, but two were so good as to be life-changing. The first was a flourless, eggless dark chocolate torte, which had the consistency of the inside of a truffle and was served slightly chilled. Every mouthful of this made me feel like something important in my mouth was bursting. There were medieval princes who spent lifetimes searching for experiences that did this sort of thing to your sensory apparatus. Whatever they found was nothing so good as this.

But the very best was their Mexican-style drinking chocolate, called the Montezuma, a viscous drink made with very bitter chocolate, seasoned with chillies, aged Cuban rum (I don't drink, either, but I had two of these), and cinnamon and nutmeg. The longer I held sips of Montezuma in my mouth, the more flavors and subtleties I discovered. The chillies suffused my sinuses and the rum made my whole abdomen glow gently, like banked coals. This was, without a doubt, the best thing I ever tasted, and possibly the best sensation I've ever experienced. I've seen people in religious ecstasy. That's what this felt like.

Afterwards, I fell asleep for half an hour on the sofa in Hemingway's, collapsed on one of my dining companions. My brain was overwhelmed with the tastes, and it had to shut my body off so that it could process the input. I have a feeling that from now on, whenever a little money finds its way into my pocket, the temptation to blow it on a plane ticket to Florence (cheap from London, as these things go) and have a cup of Hemingway's Montezuma is going to be nigh-irresistible. I no longer feel the need to blow my cash on computers or gadgets -- just hook an IV of this thing straight into my arm and leave me to die by chocolate. Link

Nokia's Symbian Gambit

Nokia's Symbian Gambit 02/11/2004 07:04 PM
Nokia intends to acquire up to a 63% interest in Symbian.

Nokia's take on '20s glamour

Nokia's take on '20s glamour 09/09/2004 04:50 PM
Nokia on Thursday announced three new camera phones that it says are inspired by the style of the 1920s. One model in particular is described by the Finnish phone giant as "Garbo-esque" in its design character (that would be the 7270). All three handsets are shown here in art released by the company.

Nokia's Music to Your Ears

Nokia's Music to Your Ears 08/09/2004 02:52 PM
The Finnish cellular giant is the latest to announce tunes via phone.

Nokia's Stunted Hybrid

Nokia's Stunted Hybrid 06/15/2004 10:15 AM
The N-Gage looks like just another failed gaming platform.

Nokia's 3220 Airtexter

Nokia's 3220 Airtexter 06/01/2004 07:25 AM

Nokia's new 3220 is a nice enough tri-band phone, with integrated VGA camera and all the standard stuff, but besides looking like the bottom of a shoe, it's most known for its optional Xpress-on funshell which adds 'airtexting' using a persistence of vision LED array (as seen in Phillip Torrone's POV shoes or any number of Burning Man art projects). By waving the phone back and forth through the air, users can display short messages that appear to be much larger than the phone itself and look something like those LED signs that tell you how long you have to wait in queue at the DMV. It's a fun concept, but somewhat hard to explain to those that haven't seen it, and it brings up some interesting concepts when it comes to heckling. With the ability to quickly generate an LED sign with an message on it, will airtexting be the next thing that causes cellphones to be banned from public places?
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Nokia's Deadly Phones

Nokia's Deadly Phones 07/20/2004 11:05 AM

BREAKING FAKE NEWS: Gizmodo has gained access to a confidential letter from Nokia's Chief Executive Officer detailing how, in some cases (particularly if the user is especially gullible or easy suggestible), Nokia phones can release a burst of electromagnetic energy, causing heart failure, brain hemorrhaging, and in some cases Instant Death Syndrome. In the letter, CEO Jorma Ollila makes it clear that the problem is well know, and the "loss of life is an acceptable risk we must face in order to sell our products."

In a related note, I have gained the ability to make genitalia disappear using naught but the power of my mind. You'll know it's the truth because details of my powers have been printed on Gawker letterhead. (Thanks, Bob Pease!)
Lo ok - Nokia Deathphone Bombshell [Gizmodo]
Read - Panic at Nigerian 'killer calls' [BBC]

Is Nokia's Battery Recharged?

Is Nokia's Battery Recharged? 01/03/2005 10:04 AM
Business Week Jan 3 2005 1:47PM GMT

Nokia's Linux Pledge

Nokia's Linux Pledge 06/05/2005 11:43 PM
The company announced patent protections for the Linux kernel amid the launch of its new Linux-based product. Coincidence?

Nokia's new 6230 cellphone

Nokia's new 6230 cellphone 11/03/2003 12:18 PM
MobileBurn takes a closer look the 6230, one of those new cellphones Nokia announced last week. Weighing in at 97 grams and just 20mm thick, the 6230 is plenty small considering all the features it has: an integrated VGA quality digital camera which can record video clips, a 65,000 color display, Bluetooth, and an MMC expansion card slot. Read...

Nokia's new Bluetooth accessories

Nokia's new Bluetooth accessories 11/04/2003 03:45 PM
The Nokia avalanche continues this week, with a few new Bluetooth products due out early next year: the HS-4W wireless headset (pictured at right), the Nokia 610 Bluetooth Car Kit (which has an LCD display for caller ID), and the AD-5B Wireless Audio Adapter for adding Bluetooth to phones that don't already have it built-in. Read...

Chocolate Mousse in RDF

Chocolate Mousse in RDF 12/02/2003 01:55 AM
Mark Pilgrim: All hierarchies, directories, and schemas are necessarily biased by the worldview of the person creating them, and mine is no exception.

Chocolate for XDoclet 0.2.0

Chocolate for XDoclet 0.2.0 11/02/2003 05:24 AM
An EJB designer tool with XDoclet support for Borland JBuilder.

Your Password For A Chocolate Bar, A
Pen, Or Nothing At All

Your Password For A Chocolate Bar, A
Pen, Or Nothing At All 04/19/2004 07:01 PM
Last year we pointed to a study saying that people would give you their password in exchange for a cheap ballpoint pen, and this year the prize has changed, but the result is the same. A new study shows that all it takes is a chocolate bar and plenty of people will cough up their passwords. Of course, what they don't realize is that whoever was giving out the chocolate bars was the real sucker. A study last month showed that people will cough up all sorts of info if you just ask for it, without giving anything in return.

Pork Chocolate Bar??

Pork Chocolate Bar?? 06/22/2004 07:02 PM
Chocolate dipped pork fat is now on the menu in one of the Ukraine's trendiest restaurants. Because regular pork fat isn't chocolately enough.

Death by Chocolate

Death by Chocolate 06/23/2004 12:21 PM
Welcome to tropical Ivory Coast, the small African nation that is home of almost half of the world's cocoa exports! Visit the sandy beaches! Get kidnapped and disappeared by government officials!

Roulette Chocolate

Roulette Chocolate 08/14/2004 04:55 AM
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Why does my dog smell like chocolate?

Why does my dog smell like chocolate? 05/06/2004 11:21 PM
letting the online community explain the eternal questions.

Cake with your Chocolate

Cake with your Chocolate 03/14/2005 06:01 PM

« Best chocolate cake ever.... »

I have a puppy who doesn't often let me relax on the couch in the evening but somehow sleeps contentedly on the kitchen floor if I am baking something, so I have been baking a bit more than usual lately. I was looking for a cooking pan one evening and rediscovered the gothic cathedral Bundt pan I've had for a few years that I'd forgotten about and thought about making a Bundt cake that would appeal to the Finnish dessert palate. I figured I could make the cake for some friends we were having over but I would subject my coworkers to a test cake to see if they liked it as much as I guessed they might. It's funny how so many products in Finland claim 'Authentic American Taste' but how few of them are anywhere near the actual taste and, when given something that really does taste like it does back home, how few Finns really enjoy it. I have learned through trial and error that it is a rare American dessert that appeals to the Finnish palate. The cake is very chocolatey, not overly sweet and the whipped cream and raspberries are a near constant feature in Finnish desserts.

As a disclaimer, I'm not all that crazy about chocolate cakes, but if I had tasted the batter before I poured it all into the pan and shoved it into the oven, I could have easily decided to eat the entire bowl of batter myself instead of having only the spatula to lick the remainder from. I think a couple of people at work went back for a second piece so it's safe to say that it was well received. I made the first cake with kermaviili because I didn't think that Finland really had a true sour cream and kermaviili was reasonably close to the mark. The second cake I made with smetana, which I was told was more like sour cream than kermaviili. Kermaviili is about 10% fat, smetana is about 47% fat and American sour cream is somewhere around 21% fat. Of the two cakes, the kermaviili cake was far better because it was more moist and less rich than the smetana cake. I think this is one of the few occasions where less fat is better than more.

Don't overdo the mixing as it will introduce too much air into the batter and cause the cake to rise more than it should. I used my standing mixer for the first cake and noticed that I really didn't need it save for the creaming of the butter and sugar. The cake release should be used on any pan you use, even if it is the most stick-free teflon on the market. Wrap cake in foil or plastic wrap after cooling for an hour or two if you don't plan to eat it right away to help keep the cake moist.

The Best Chocolate Bundt Cake

Serves: 12 to 14
Special equipment: Bundt or tube pan
Time: about 90 minutes
Source: Cook's Illustrated

Cake Release

• 1 tablespoon butter, melted
• 1 tablespoon cocoa

Cake

• 3/4 cup (2.25 oz) or 1,75dl cocoa, natural (not Dutch-processed)
• 6 oz or 170g bittersweet chocolate (2 100g bars of Fazer baking chocolate which leaves a few bits for eating.)
• 1 teaspoon instant espresso powder (optional)
• 3/4 or 1.75dl cup water (boiling)
• 1 cup (8.75 oz) or 2,5dl sour cream (kermaviili not smetana if in Finland), room temperature
• 1.75 cups or 4,25dl unbleached all-purpose flour 
• 1 teaspoon table salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda 
• 12 tablespoons(1.5 sticks) or 170g unsalted butter, room temperature
• 2 cups (14 oz) or 4,75dl light brown sugar 
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract 
• 5 large eggs, room temperature
• confectioners' sugar for dusting

FOR THE PAN:

1. Stir together butter and cocoa in small bowl until paste forms; using a pastry brush, coat all interior surfaces of standard 12-cup Bundt pan. (If mixture becomes too thick to brush on, microwave it for 10 to 20 seconds, or until warm and softened.)
2. Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position; heat oven to 350F/175C degrees.

FOR THE CAKE:

1. Combine cocoa, chocolate, and espresso powder (if using) in medium heatproof bowl; pour boiling water over and whisk until smooth. Cool to room temperature; then whisk in sour cream.
2. Whisk flour, salt, and baking soda in second bowl to combine.
3. In standing mixer fitted with flat beater, beat butter, sugar, and vanilla on medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
4. Reduce speed to medium and add eggs one at a time, mixing about 30 seconds after each addition and scraping down bowl with rubber spatula after first 2 additions.
5. Reduce to medium-low speed (batter may appear separated); add about one third of flour mixture and half of chocolate/sour cream mixture and mix until just incorporated, about 20 seconds.
6. Scrape bowl and repeat using half of remaining flour mixture and all of remaining chocolate mixture; add remaining flour mixture and beat until just incorporated, about 10 seconds.
7. Scrape bowl and mix on medium-low until batter is thoroughly combined, about 30 seconds.
8. Pour batter into prepared Bundt pan, being careful not to pour batter on sides of pan.
9. Bake until wooden skewer inserted into center comes out with few crumbs attached, 45 to 50 minutes.
10. Cool in pan 10 minutes, then invert cake onto parchment-lined wire rack; cool to room temperature, about 3 hours.
11. Dust with confectioners' sugar, transfer to serving platter, and cut into wedges; serve with Tangy Whipped Cream and raspberries, if desired.

Tangy Whipped Cream

• 1 cup or 2,50dl heavy cream (cold)
• 1/4 cup or ~.60dl sour cream 
• 1/4 cup or ~.60dl packed light brown sugar 
• 1/8 teaspoon vanilla extract 

With electric mixer, beat all ingredients, gradually increasing speed from low to high, until cream forms soft peaks, 1.5 to 2 minutes.

Lightly Sweetened Raspberries

• 3 cups or 7dl fresh raspberries gently rinsed and dried
• 1 - 2 tablespoons granulated sugar 

Gently toss raspberries with sugar, then let stand until berries have released some juice and sugar has dissolved, about 15 minutes.

The best chocolate in Paris

The best chocolate in Paris 12/19/2004 03:21 PM
From the Sunday New York Times comes this delicious article, In Paris, Boutiques and Cafes Where Chocolatiers Raise the Bar. Herewith, then, a guide to Paris for the chocolate aficionado. It is by no means exhaustive; the Paris phone book has several pages of listings for chocolatiers, but I think this represents a selection of those most worthy of your time. It contains a good listing of the top spots in the city. Closer to home, if your home happens to be New York City, is the Chocolate Bar. Oddly enough, I've never visited this place, even though it's so close to my house. When I first moved to NYC, I assumed I'd go here regularly, and yet it's never happened. Perhaps this afternoon I'll pay them a visit. All this reading and thinking about chocolate has made me hungry!

Chocolate sneakers

Chocolate sneakers 06/24/2005 06:24 PM
Xeni Jardin:
An anonymous reader sent this image, identifying it as the creation of some dude named Al Cabino. It is said to be a sneaker constructed from pure Swiss chocolate. This blog posts the same info. It's either a silly hoax, or a brilliant exercise in choco-licious but impractical footwear.

Nokia's Browser Based on Safari

Nokia's Browser Based on Safari 06/17/2005 04:54 PM
Nokia has announced that they are using Apple's WebCore and JavaScriptCore which is at the heart of Apple's Safari Internet browser as the basis for a...

Nokia's 1 Megapixel 7610 Shipping
(Everywhere But Here)

Nokia's 1 Megapixel 7610 Shipping
(Everywhere But Here) 06/02/2004 04:48 PM

Nokia has announced that the 7610, the slick 1-megapixel phone that everyone was so worked up about when it was announced at CeBit (Hanover) is now shipping in Europe, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. This is also the first phone that ships with Nokia's 'Lifeblog' application, designed to be an all-in-one moblogging tool for uploading pictures and entries easily onto your blog (presuming you run Nokia's software and not, say, MovableType or Wordpress). I would be happy to accept this phone into my family, sharing our love and laughter.
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Nokia's Marketshare Continues to Fall

Nokia's Marketshare Continues to Fall 06/08/2004 09:07 AM

I won't bother you with all the specific numbers -- they're in there if you want to dig them out -- but suffice it to say that Nokia, which warned on April 6th that its market share was declining, was not joking in the least, with their overall market share slipping to 28.9 percent from 34.6 percent last quarter, despite an handset market that is still growing overall. Nokia has continued to lose marketshare to companies like Samsung and Motorola who are providing the type of handsets -- especially flipphones -- that consumers in the hot developing markets are clamoring for.
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Nokia Lowers Profits Outlook Slightly [Gizmodo]

Flip Phones Among Nokia's Five New
Models

Flip Phones Among Nokia's Five New
Models 06/14/2004 07:40 PM
AP via Daily Press Jun 14 2004 11:20PM GMT

Flip Phones Among Nokia's Five New
Models (AP)

Flip Phones Among Nokia's Five New
Models (AP) 06/14/2004 09:21 PM
AP - Nokia Corp. introduced five new models Monday including its first flip phones, catching up with competitors who have eroded the company's dominance in cellular handsets with the popular clamshell models. Chief executive Jorma Ollila said the company, which has acknowledged losing market share of late, had completely revamped its offerings and strategy.

Nokia's new 3G phone has 2 integrated
cameras

Nokia's new 3G phone has 2 integrated
cameras 04/04/2005 01:23 PM
Singapore Business Times Apr 4 2005 3:10PM GMT

NEC counters Nokia's Japanese attack

NEC counters Nokia's Japanese attack 06/18/2004 05:31 PM
CNET Asia Jun 18 2004 9:45PM GMT

Photos: Nokia's 'elegant' phone

Photos: Nokia's 'elegant' phone 04/07/2005 10:22 AM
Nokia says it has drawn on modern watchmaking and jewelry techniques to design its 8800 phone.

Photos: Nokia's luxury play

Photos: Nokia's luxury play 04/07/2005 09:32 PM
CNET News.com Apr 8 2005 1:31AM GMT

Nokia's N-Gage QD For Handheld Gaming

Nokia's N-Gage QD For Handheld Gaming 07/03/2004 10:31 AM

Nokia's Control of Symbian Blocked

Nokia's Control of Symbian Blocked 07/07/2004 11:33 AM

And while we're on the subject of Symbian, Reuters has confirmed that a shares redistribution and rights issue will rearrange the corporate control of Symbian, keeping Nokia's stake in the company under the controlling 50 percent. So yeah, that's boring, but probably good -- it means that Symbian won't become a Nokia-only company, and the other participants, like founder Psion, Sony Ericsson, Siemens, Samsung, and Matsushita will get their fair share of attention. It also means Psion is about 92 million dollars richer, money they plan to use to expand their staff.
Read - Rivals Block Nokia's Control of Symbian [Yahoo (Reuters)]

Is Motorola About To Repeat Nokia's
Mistakes?

Is Motorola About To Repeat Nokia's
Mistakes? 09/08/2004 10:08 PM
The Feature Sep 9 2004 0:07AM GMT

N-Gage QD - Nokia's Answer To The
Critics?

N-Gage QD - Nokia's Answer To The
Critics? 04/14/2004 01:09 AM

Nokia's game code cracked

Nokia's game code cracked 11/12/2003 01:12 PM
CNN Nov 12 2003 10:23AM ET
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