“Earth Day has to be every day.” Very rarely am I stopped in my tracks while interviewing someone, but the truth of the statement speaks for itself. In lieu of Earth Day, I had the opportunity to speak with David Conrad, Nokia North America’s Senior Manager of Environmental Affairs, and came away very impressed with the company’s efforts to promote environmental solutions. In our discussion, my primary questions centered around the efficiency of such a program. What are the company’s current environmental programs? What about the people that view the concept as redundant? How does the company approach the challenge of educating people?

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A shot from the Google Campus.

This seems to be sprouting up everywhere at once, but I got mine from Android Rights.

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Nokia has launched a new outdoor campaign to promote its immensely popular touch screen XpressMusic device, Nokia 5800. The campaign has been launched in the UK. Like in India, the phone has become popular among users in UK and Russia. Nokia has sold 3 million units of the Nokia 5800. This number was wrongly reported as 13 million by one of Nokia’s personnel ion North America and everybody’s mouth was wide open. Anyway, coming back to the campaign, Nokia is been advertising the phone as UK’s number one selling portable music player. Nokia 5800 is made for music and Nokia is again emphasizing this fact with this outdoor campaign. Portraying Nokia 5800 as a portable music player, helps Nokia in pitching against the iPhone as well as the iPod touch….Pretty Clever!!1

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When done well, unboxing videos can be fun and really informative about what a user can expect to see when a new phone lands at the front door. But when a vid misses the mark man, it’s tough to watch.

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Though, mobile TV technology sounds pretty cool, in the last couple of years there were not many takers of that technology. The TV on mobile thought has not sunk in properly with people in many parts of the world. Nokia, the world’s leading mobile phone company, has sold its mobile TV business to Wipro. Nokia has done this as it wants to concentrate on the consumer side of its business. The company will concentrate on the mobile TV client in devices. I really don’t know whats Wipro going to do with this unit that contains almost 40 employees who are expert in the hardware and software side of mobile TV business. [Via]

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More silly stuff to start the week: A carrier pigeon nabbed at a high-security prison in Bogota, Columbia had get this a little suitcase with cell phone parts attached to its back.

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Online purchasing has become a common necessity for many new and existing e-commerce businesses.

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This concept device will never see the light of day, but if it hints at where mobile phones could go someday well, then, the future looks … bendy.

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It is essential for parents to protect their kids and to monitor their activities to keep them out of trouble. TextGuard is a mobile phone application which allows parents to monitor and control their kids cell phone activities by installing the utility on the mobile device. TextGuard not only allows parents to observe their kids activities by monitoring the sent and received text messages, but they can also block certain phone numbers which they think are bad influencers for their children. The utility currently works with BlackBerry and Windows Mobile Phones and is able to track SMS text messages, sent and received emails as well as call logs on the online server. The utility can also block spam text messages on mobile phones. All you need to do is register on the website and download the application to your mobile device to start monitoring the activities.

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