Nokia develops software for public sector

Nokia today announced Nokia Data Gathering, a new software solution to help public sector and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) quickly and accurately collect data on critical issues such as disease outbreaks or disaster relief via mobile devices. This software will be launched in Brazil first in the Northern Brazilian city of Manaus to help fight degue fever there. Nokia will donate this software to NGOs and public sector free of charge. This software can be used to create questionnaire and distribute it to mobile devices via the network.

Mobile Phone Software: Proof in the pudding?

Now that 1 million iPhone 3G (er, iBrick :)) are out in the wild, is Apple laughing to the bank? Certainly, but it is not the reason for that. According to TechCrunch estimate, Apple might have raked in $5 million over the weekend since iPhone was released. Apple has not revealed any numbers. These are just back of the napkin calculation by Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch. I am excited and looking forward to Apple’s quarterly results for this quarter. That is when the actual numbers will be revealed. If I were a betting man, I would bet on Apple posting bigger gain in revenue and profits due to the App Store than iPhone 3G.