Nokia 6th most valuable brand in the world

According to American magazine BusinessWeek, Nokia places sixth on this year’s list of the world’s most valuable brands. The value of Nokia’s brand is estimated to be 29.4 billion dollars, down slightly from last year.
The results are based on an analysis of how much the brand name drives the products’ sales.
The top five positions in the study, conducted by brand analysis company Interbrand, were captured by Coca-Cola, Microsoft, IBM, General Electric, and Intel. The Coca-Cola brand is estimated to be worth 70.5 billion dollars.
A total of 62 brands among the top one hundred belonged to American companies. In addition to Nokia, Mercedes is the only non-U.S. brand in the top ten.
Nokia’s Swedish competitor Ericsson placed 80th on the list. However, Sweden’s most valuable brand at the moment is IKEA, which made the 43rd spot.

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It’s Almost August…

…and where in the hell did the summer go? Well, July is almost outa here, and welcoming in August will be a hard one as I do not want the summer months to go away…I was enjoying the July month at work with not much to do (kind of a mini-vacation in itself) but am looking forward to my two weeks at the end of the month.

Hanna and I have two weddings to go to, one in August with her friend Terhi and Jari, and then my friends Cris and Mary in September. Can’t wait for both of them.

Nothing new and exciting otherwise, just enjoying the cool day rather than the latest hot days of summer we have been having here in Finland.. (Average temp for July was 27.5*c – now that’s hot for finland)

Oh ya, HAPPY Early BIRTHDAY to my DAD!!! July 28th – I will promise to call and wish him a great day!.

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Too much money and TOO MUCH TIME

Doug Gilmore vs. ASHCROFT, et all. – http://freetotravel.org/

Can you believe that someone is actually sueing the The Attorney General Ashcroft and the FTA, TSA, and Two Airlines (American and Southwest Airlines) because they asked for his ID?

More about this freakin loser, He gets on an BA flight leaving SFO with a “SUSPECTED TERRORIST” button on his jacket, more on about this –article

What a freakin loser!!! Hey buddy, You wanna fly? show us some ID! its called verification of who the fuck you are asshole!!!

The question I have for you after you read the article, is, HOW IN THE HELL DID THIS GUY GET ON AN INTL FLIGHT WITH A BUTTON, THAT HAS A SHARP OBJECT, THAT COULD BE USED AS A WEAPON? DID WE ALL FORGET ABOUT THE RULES THAT WERE PUT IN PLACE AFTER SEPTEMBER 11th? HELLO MR. GILMORE… WHY DONT YOU WASTE OUR GOOD TAX MONEY ON SOMETHING ESLE…(oh ya, I dont pay taxes in the United States any more…he he he..)

NO ID = NO FLYING / ID = Flying.
Just remember, if you drive, you have to have a ID to drive a car… Why dont you just crawl into hole, and plug it up with your over paid, multi million dollar fat ASS!

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