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In Torino the local Policia are quite modern. They are catching bad guys with segways. See for yourself. I was a bit dissapointed, no blue lights

My journey to Torino, Italy, to the Winter Olympics last weekend (extended) was a one time experience. I had the pleasure to travel there with my colleagues which are great fun and a happy bunch of people. Thanks to you.

The finns didn't have the success we were looking for on skiing but the hockey game was great. Team Finland won Czech Republic 4-2. It was my first time ever to see a ice hockey game - live. I konw, ice hockey is a national sport in Finland but I am more of a Formula 1 fan.

To see Teemu Selänne and Saku Koivu and the rest of the team on the ice was an experience and lets hope they bring gold in the end.

Just read the news at msmobiles.com that Nokia should start making Windows Mobile phones for the US market if they want to stay there on "top of the hill".

According to Gartner "In the enterprise market, Nokia should expand its smartphone portfolio past Symbian to include Microsoft-based products. Nokia is in danger of making the same mistake again — trying to force end users to take its preferred solution rather than giving them what they want. In North America, enterprises will demand Microsoft-based products. Nokia should not discontinue Symbian devices, but it should focus Symbian products on the consumer and prosumer market, while offering Microsoft-based products to the enterprise market."

I predict that within two years from now Nokia will make windows mobile phones. That has been my feeling a long time. Go for it Nokia!

• original news source - msmobiles.com

What a beauty. The new livery of the new McLaren F1, driven by Kimi Räikkönen and Juan Pablo Montoya is an eye cather. Really a true Silver arrow (Silberpfeil) in the spirit of Mercedes racing.

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From Endgadget not a good review of Nokia 9300i:

Maybe we're a bit spoiled with our Treos and our HTCs (aka Qtek), but when All About Symbian concludes that despite lacking a number of popular features Nokia's upcoming 9300i clamshell smartphone is a good device for business users on the go, it automatically gets knocked off of our short list. The 9300i is exactly the same as the 9300 in every way save for the addition of WiFi, which turns out to be a mixed blessing because the pokey 150MHz processor can't render pages as fast as the 802.11 can pull them down. Like its sibling, the 9300i lacks 3G data capabilities, a camera (which makes sense for the targeted audience), and a usable joystick/rocker, although it gets high marks for the rest of the keyboard ergonomics, the sharp LCD (albeit with an odd 640 x 200 resolution), and implementation of Symbian Series 80. This device also does all of the usual multimedia/office functions you'd expect from a smartphone, and sounds like it does them fairly well, but in the end it seems like it will probably be resigned to serve as a safe choice for Finnish corporate IT buyers

P.S I am a Windows Mobile user