In an article titled ‘Phones to offer X-ray vision’ and published on the smh.com.au portal, an Australian professor, Dr. Christian Sandor, revealed that researchers at the University of South Australia working with Nokia to build an ”X-ray vision” mobile phone application which it hoped could be introduced in the next two years.

Dr Sandor said the technology could not be used by peeping Toms to see into people’s houses because only the exterior views of buildings and streets were held in the databases.

Christian Sandor explained the application worked by using the phone’s camera. Users pointed the camera at a building and an image of it would appear on the screen. The… .. .

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Over the last couple days the SF Team, Moderators and Admin have compiled a list of the top 8 members and now we are kindly asking you to pick your favourite member to help us to find the member Of The Month for March 2010!

For all the new comers over here, this is our way of putting members in the limelight. This is all about you and will be decided by you.

The previous winner, moderators and administrators choose members because they did great work over here. This can be as a great hack/mod, helper in need, a good spirit and wha… .. .

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Booking a hotel for Nokia users just got a lot easier with the HRS, Europe’s leading online hotel reservation system, that opening up its 250,000+ strong database of hotels to all Ovi Maps users.

With the latest version of the Ovi Maps and the HRS you can easily; search hotels close to your current location, check real-time price and availability information, make the booking with just a couple of clicks (or taps) on your Nokia phone and finally, be guided to your hotel with the free turn-by-turn navigation service, all with Maps!

You can also search for hotel accommodation in the customary manner by simply entering the destination, the arrival and departure dates and the room category. The displayed ho… .. .

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Hotel Booking Is Now Location Aware With Ovi and HRS – full story

For those of you keeping track, Ovi Store continues to grow and these latest stats indicate an on-going upward trend for downloads and other metrics. Here are the latest stats for Ovi Store as of the 28th of February.

Nokia’s online source for mobile content, is hitting its stride. Consumers in more than 180 countries now come to Ovi Store for nearly 1.5 million downloads a day. Volume is growing quickly: new users and downloads are up in February more than 100% month-on-month from January.

Local language support on Ovi Store, originally just seven languages, has now increased to 16: Chinese, Danish, Dutch, German, English, Finnish, French, Canadian Fren… .. .

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The 2010 Calling All Innovators competition is now accepting entries through 18 May. Last year the competition attracted more than 1,700 submissions from 85 countries, and this year could be even bigger.

Entries may be submitted in any of four categories: Eco/Being Green, Entertainment, Life Improvement, and Productivity.

The prizes will include cash awards of up to $30,000; spotlight placement in Ovi Store; a user experience evaluation; and a free one year membership in Forum Nokia Launchpad, a premier program to accelerate mobile development and elev… .. .

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Following the great feedback submitted by the Beta Labs community, Gig Finder team have created a new release of Gig Finder that address most of the bugs reported by users.

Gig Finder lets you search for concerts / live music entertainment, purchase tickets directly from your mobile, and get relevant recommendations based on your music tastes and location (Location relevance currently available for USA, Canada, UK & Ireland).

Gig Finder allows you to quickly find the best live shows, concerts & other music events through adaptive algorithm that sorts the huge selection of live music and filter res… .. .

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New Standard For Connecting Smartphones To In-Car – full story

Nokia believes it should be easy to share information and content between your smartphone and other devices you use everyday such as your PC and the web. This way it is easy to keep everything synchronized and ensure you always have access to the things you love, such as your music, and the services you use, such as navigation, whenever and wherever you need them.

The average person spends between one and two hours per day in their car. Given that their smartphone not only holds their favorite music but now, if it is a Nokia smartphone, comes with free worldwide navigation services (Ovi Maps), the nex… .. .

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