Unless I am totally mistaken, one of our Forum Nokia Champions, Mika Raento, has just won the award for the best doctoral thesis/dissertation in computer science for 2007 in Finland from the Finnish Information Processing Association (strictly speaking, I guess the award is granted by a research foundation, which is part of FIPA). His dissertation was titled "Exploring privacy for ubiquitous computing: Tools, methods and experiments".

Here is a link to a news short in English and here a longer news article in Finnish.

Congrats, Mika!

They should. At least my browsing experience got much better a couple hours ago as we got a software update for the servers especially targeted for improving the performance of the services. (and yes, and there was some login issues yesterday on Forum Nokia platform in general which slowed things down even more)

Feel free to complain if you do not see any improvement in the response times (in that case please tell your browser and approximate location - like country - as well)

In addition to our Forum Nokia blogs there are number of other (even more?) interesting blogs from Nokia people. Here are a couple of suggestions of blogs providing nice insights...

Ari Jaaksi's blog. Ari is responsible for our Linux and open source based software and strategy. He writes in a leisurely pace, but always interesting stories, even when he is not writing about business...

Another open source related blog from a Nokia colleague. Again, not the most active blog, but posts usually make me think... like this one.

Of course there is also blogs on Java, like Gorkem's blog. Through that blog you can easily follow what is happening in eRCP-world, like here, here and here.

I hope you already been to Nokia betalabs...(I just downloaded SportsTracker from there and tested it already twice while rollerblading...coll stuff). Tommi has a blog in there too. The blog contains announcements of sw updates, like here for Nokia PC Phone but there are also interesting notes about other things around betalabs.

And finally, there are a number of interesting blogs at S60.com. Like this Carbide Dev Team blog. For example, have you updated to Carbide 1.3 yet? (I have not, but that's another story...)