Helping out in Chile Aftermath of the earthquake in Chile An update from our team working on disaster response: We have been busy again with disaster relief actions after the devastating earthquake in Chile. First actions - following our process - is to ensure that our local employees are safe. So far, we have thankfully managed to locate the vast majority of them. We’re hoping that the rest can be contacted as soon as telco lines are working again. Also, it seems our Santiago offices have been spared any damage. Immediately after the earthquake we received requests and offered our help to our local customers Claro and Movistar to send in some installation teams to help repair damaged sites. Initial assessments indicate that the main issues affecting the working..

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Eye-control headphones from NTT DoCoMo @ MWC10 Originally uploaded by Nokia Siemens Networks One of the more "out there" demos at MWC10 are the eye-control headphones from NTT DoCoMo. Essentially a combination of looking right and left eye movements can do different tasks (skip tracks, volume change, etc). It seems to work by sensing muscle movement in your ear when you move your eyes. Just don't try and listen to your MP3s while watching a tennis match. ..

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THE Flexi multi radio. Originally uploaded by Nokia Siemens Networks Now, this is a nice snapshot. Here's one of our demo experts taking a brief break. He's sat next to our Flexi multiradio base station, with GSM, UMTS and LTE all combined in a single unit this is the lowest power, smallest footprint base station available on the market. The photo caption summarizes it pretty nicely. ..

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Experience center still busy Originally uploaded by Nokia Siemens Networks As we draw to the end of the "First Day of Mobile World Congress 2010", our Experience Center is still going strong. Check out our Mobile World Congress microsite for virtual tours, photos and video over the coming days. There is a LOT to take in, but the enthusiasm of our "tour managers" shows no sign of dimming. Let's hope we can say the same this time on Thursday. :) ..

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The 10 minute tour Originally uploaded by Nokia Siemens Networks Online telecom pub Light Reading set a tough challenge at MWC last year: what you're doing at the event in 20 minutes. Well this year, Ray LeMaistre has raised (lowered?) the bar: the ten minute tour. When you're a company of 60,000+ people, doing a lot of pretty impressive stuff in lots of markets (such as leading in mobile broadband, managed services and subscriber information management) distilling your message down is tough, but vital. This year we focused on three areas for the 10 minute tour(ture): consumer insights to help operators differentiate, quality of service as smartphone numbers rise and our commercial LTE leadership. We await how it came across with interest... ..

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