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Nokia n.

from Nokia "the name of a town, river and company in Finland": a successful mobile phone company [from Finnish noki "soot"]. Thanks to alloydog and Manu Pärssinen.

• "Nokia ..., the world's largest mobile phone maker, on Wednesday announced several deals with British software developers that will further strengthen its position in the growing wireless games market." Paul de Bendern, "Nokia Enters Entertainment World with Mobile Games", Reuters, May 16, 2001.
• "Nokia today reports record breaking annual results for 1997." "NOKIA In 1997: Record year of high profits and strengthened global market position", Business Wire, Feb. 12, 1998.
• "Paul Saffo is a director at the Institute for the Future, a think tank whose clients include Nokia, Coca-Cola, and the U.S. Postal Service." Eric Nee, "Paul Saffo", Fortune, Oct. 9, 2000, p. 254.
• "Webbie exists only in cyberspace, the creation of a Swedish animator named Steven Stahlberg, but that didn't hinder her from posing for a feature in Details in October, 1999, and a new Nokia phone advertising campaign in Latin America." Ruth La Ferla, "Perfect Model: Gorgeous, No Complaints, Made of Pixels", The New York Times, May 6, 2001.
• The Nokia Story at Amazon.com
• Big Shots, Business the Nokia Way: Secrets of the World's Fastest Moving Company, by Trevor Meridden, 2001.
• The Nokia Revolution: The Story of an Extraordinary Company That Transformed an Industry, by Dan Steinbock, 2001.
• Amazon.com's Nokia Store
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