Aron Heller

The super speed and low latency of 5G technology leaves little to the imagination, and dreamers salivate at its potential. At the same time, the breakthroughs have also spawned a slew of conspiracy theories with little connection to reality. 5G’s dizzying upside ranges from creating the ability to perform long-distance medical procedures to deploying autonomous vehicles and downloading a two-hour … Read More

Naftali Bennett has served as Israel’s defense minister, education minister and economics minister, and most recently he has emerged as the leading candidate to unseat longtime Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But despite an equally illustrious background as a high-tech entrepreneur, the 48-year-old Bennett wasn’t quite up to speed about Nokia. In a September newspaper interview, the leader of the right-wing … Read More

Will Smith’s I, Robot sees machine algorithms evolving to control humanity and inherit the earth. Ex Machina’s humanoid robot, Eva, betrays and kills her creator and hapless savior, Caleb. And Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator is a cyborg assassin sent back in time to kill Sarah Connor, preventing her from giving birth to a son (who will eventually lead rebels against the machines that have taken over … Read More

It’s the buzzword de jour of our rapid technological advancement. But what exactly is the fourth industrial revolution and how is it truly revolutionary? For starters, your job may disappear, your city could be transformed, technology will mesh with your body and the current lightning speed of innovation you are experiencing will just get faster. The bombastic phrase itself was … Read More

In a country rife with deep disputes, the local Nokia office offers a rare haven in which Israel’s various tribes come together. The two-story hub in the high-tech zone of the central Israeli city of Kfar Saba houses a variety of engineers from Nokia Software, researchers from Bell Labs and salespeople to local service providers. But in a larger sense … Read More

CRM? SMP? KPI? It’s enough to make you cry out for an SOS. What is it with all these high-tech acronyms? I know every industry has them, but from my brief experience at Nokia it seems like here it’s a way of life, an initiation of sorts into a nerdy private society that weeds out those of us who aren’t … Read More

To mark my first month at Nokia, it seemed fitting to pause for a moment to summarize my initial observations about the stark transition I made from the world of journalism. There is a lot to absorb in this personal and professional upheaval, ranging from the new jargon through the meetings-centric working environment to the advanced personal tech and even the office … Read More

News of last month’s massive data breach in Finland, in which thousands of psychotherapy patients in the country discovered that their confidential records had been hacked and they were now facing blackmail, sent shockwaves through the typically stoic Nordic nation. But for Nokia UX designer Aapo Puskala it was a call to action. As a trained psychologist, he could relate to the … Read More

In 15 years as a Mideast correspondent for the Associated Press, I received countless e-mails from readers to the thousands of stories I’d written. Most complained, critiqued and even threatened. But I never encountered anything quite like the one that arrived on June 6, 2020. Responding to a global roundup about those who’d lost their jobs to the coronavirus pandemic, … Read More