The App Store at iTunes recently turned one and the team there have listed the all time favorite apps that have always occupied top slot in terms of downloading history. Some of these apps are just fun to have and some have interesting uses. Whether or not you use them on a daily basis, these apps are sure to increase the coolness quotient of your iPhone. So, here’s a quick look at some of these apps that have made it to the featured list.

Wikipanion- Isn’t Wikipedia the answer to every question that you may have? But it sometimes gets hard to get to the website from the browser on your iPhone; and so a situation like this one calls for the download of this app called the Wikipanion for your iPhone. Wikipedia lovers couldn’t ask for a better companion than this. The experience is made much easier and things are streamlined in a fashion that makes searching for things a snap.

AP Mobile- A much favored app for news lovers is the AP Mobile app. This one from the Associated Press stable is a fantastic coming together of comprehensive news, both local and global. It allows you to choose your news preferences be it sports, entertainment or finance and everything is at the tip of your fingertips. No matter where you are, you will be kept updated with the latest news as it takes place. What could be better than that for news junkies?

Weatherbug Elite- Keeping a track on the weather patterns in your city is important. After all our events run successfully only if the weather runs fine. So how do you find out if the weather is going to be fine? By the simple download for just 99 cents for the Weatherbug Elite app which is worth every cent you put in: not only do you get real time weather updates but also many other cool features.

Stanza- When there’s no time to read a hard bound book, these days reading books on the mobile has become very common, and now book are being written targeted for these users. But it’s not just that, apart from these little thins that fit on your phone screens, you can, with the help of the Stanza app; convert your phone into an eBook reader, because regular books are now read as eBooks. Its biggest factor is that it is easy to use and readers can skip across to different sections without any trouble at all. Real soon you could read Twilight or The Da Vinci Code right from your iPhone.

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Nokias beginnings, inconceivable as it may seem, lie in the cable, paper and rubber industries. A Finnish Engineer by the name of Fredrik Idestam founded a paper mill close to the river Nokianvirta, in southern Finland and soon acquired success with the increasing need for cardboard paper throughout the industrial revolution. Soon after, Finnish Rubber Works was established in the same area, selecting Nokia as a brand name for quite a few of its rubber products including footwear and tires. It invested intelligently and acquired majority shares in Finnish Cable Works, a organization established in the early twentieth century, which acquired success in the post World War II time due to a increasing need for telephone and electric products.

The exact initiation of Nokias mobile business can be followed to 1960 when Finnish Cable Works started its first electronics division, whose number one function was to retail and work computers. After a short while, Finnish Cable Works and Finnish Rubber Works combined to establish the Nokia Group. At this time the electronics division contributed less than five percent of entire profits and it was not until the eighties that Nokias mobile venture really commenced to expand.

The era of mobile phones started in 1981 when the initial international cellular network, Nordic Mobile Telephone (NMT), was set up and Europe had by then deregulated its telecommunication industry. Morbia Oy, a joint venture between Nokia and a chief Finnish television producer, launched its first portable phone, the Morbia Talkman, followed by the Morbia Cityman, the pioneer hand held phone that could be used on the Nordic network. By the end of the 1980s Nokia was well positioned to guide the world in mobile communication.

The early part of the 1990s observed the birth of the Global System for Mobile Communication or GSM and Nokia was used to make the first GSM call in global history. It was at this time that Nokias top leadership decided to purposefully pay attention for the most part on telecommunication and dismantle its other irrelevant units. The period was a important one for Nokia with central occasions such as the introduction of its first GSM phone, the introduction of the famous Nokia Tune and Snake game and the launch of the worlds first Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) phone with the ability to browse the internet. But most critically, Nokia was now the international leader in the mobile phone sector having quickly inaugurated many well-acknowledged models.

Nokia continued its lead in the twenty first century with the inauguration of its primary 3G phone in 2002. 3G services granted mobile users to get hold of more unconventional services including wireless internet and video calls. Gaming and multimedia had also become a considerable industry and Nokia added multiplayer gaming options in its more progressive phones like the N-Gage, while the admired N series satisfied the different video and audio wants of its staunch consumers. By 2005 Nokia had sold in excess of one billion phones just about half the number of global cellular subscriptions of two billion.

At present Nokia is accepted as the one of the most valued corporations on the globe with lucrative businesses in mobile phones, wireless data services, multimedia terminals and telecommunication networks. It has continually launched innovative services like the Ovi, a website which empowers users to download worthwhile Nokia applications and save and transport digital data, through the years to build up the user experience. No wonder massive numbers of Nokia cellular phone users across the planet look at it not just as a mobile phone, but an essential part of our daily life.

Clive has used a Nokia mobile phone for numerous years.