Way back in 1898, the Finnish Rubber Works was founded in a town in Finland. They would manufacture galoshes and later also tires. The rubber company was a success, so much so that in almost every Finnish home you would find a pair or two of their long black rubber boots. They would soon export their boots to neighboring countries but perhaps one of their biggest customers would be the Soviet army, which bought the rubber boots for use by their soldiers. Emblazoned on the rubber boots would be the name of the town, which also represents the company logo. It's a name that you are probably quite familiar with today--NOKIA.
Humble beginnings? Perhaps. You could say that the journey was a long one, coming from supplying the Soviet army with rubber boots to being the world's leading cellular phone manufacturer. But there is certainly nothing humble about the recent plan unveiled by
Nokia
--the plan to venture into the world of online music downloads.
