Apple Countersues Nokia Over Mobile Patents
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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is countersuing Nokia (NYSE: NOK), charging the Finnish cell phone maker with infringing on 13 iPhone-related patents. Ab… Read more »
Nokia’s Set To Relaunch Ovi Store As Downloads Hit One Million A Day
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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) said at an event in London that it was getting ready to launch an entirely new version of its Ovi Store that would fix a f… Read more »
Nokia Decides To Close Flagship Stores In U.S.
Although Nokia (NYSE: NOK) continues to struggle with its marketshare in the U.S., the company has decided to close down its retail stores i… Read more »
Nokia Will Produce Half As Many Smartphones In 2010; Forecasts $3 Billion In Service Revs In 2011
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) developed about 20 smartphones this year, but expects to cut that number in half next year, as it fights increasing compet… Read more »
Nokia’s 2010 Investor Targets: Symbian Revamp, Flat Market Share
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With Nokia’s chosen Symbian S60 OS showing its age (and complicatedness) as others simplify the touchscreen smartphone experience, the Finni… Read more »
Nokia Exec Says Transformation Could Include Handset Business Sale
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In what sounds like a very candid portrayal of Nokia’s business, the company’s marketing head Anssi Vanjoki told a German magazine that they… Read more »
Nokia Cuts 220 R&D Employees In Japan
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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is laying off 220 research and development employees in Japan, representing 1 percent of the division globally. Nokia said… Read more »
Spotify’s S60 App Gives It A Greater Shot At Carrier Deals
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Spotify already previewed its in-development Symbian S60 app in September. Now it’s ready, giving the music service a much wider mobile foot… Read more »
More Nokia Cuts: 330 R&D Jobs Axed In Scandinavia
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) says it’s cutting up to 330 research and development jobs in Scandinavia so its technology teams are better prepared for f… Read more »
Nokia Isn’t Ditching Symbian For Maemo, But Maybe It Should
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When Nokia (NYSE: NOK) announced a new smartphone, the N900, powered by its Maemo Linux variant, this summer, it seemed to be dipping its to… Read more »
Is Nokia Eyeing Palm?
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Palm’s shares are trading higher today based on iffy reports that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may be interested in buying the company, reports Reuters… Read more »
Report: BlackBerry Achieves Record Smartphone Share Of 20 Percent In Q3
Smartphones continue to be the fastest-growing mobile device segment in the third quarter with sales surpassing 41 million units worldwide,… Read more »
The iPhone Wrap: Apple Trumps Nokia; App Store Transparency; RFID Next?; Nintendo Competition
Apple’s place in the mobile industry is becoming even more meaningful now that it has become the world Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Nokia’s Rihanna Live Stream; Sulake’s Mobile Bar; Wallace & Gromit iPhone App
– Nokia: Singer Rihanna will stream her new album to Nokia (NYSE: NOK) mobile customers exclusively next Monday. In a deal with the Finnish… Read more »
Nokia Signs Exclusive Partnership With Rihanna To Bring Latest Album To Mobile
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Nokia has partnered with Rihanna to promote the pop star’s latest album release “Rated R” through an impressive series of events on the phon… Read more »
LG Is Targeting Apple With Decision To Invest In Smartphones
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LG Electronics (SEO: 066570) CEO Yong Nam said going forward as the third-largest handset maker invests more heavily in smartphones it will… Read more »
Nokia Siemens Axing Up To 5,700 Jobs
Finnish mobile giant Nokia (NYSE: NOK) will lay off up to 5,700 jobs at Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), the telecom infrastructure JV between… Read more »
Price Wars Loom As Mobile Phone Market Edges Toward Recovery
The mobile phone market is showing signs of recovery, with two research firms predicting that growth will return in the fourth quarter. Stra… Read more »
Admitting Defeat, Nokia To Pull Plug On N-Gage Games Platform
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Nokia is shutting down N-Gage, its beleaguered, two-year-old mobile games service. The company will still sell N-Gage games through the end… Read more »
Will Nokia’s First New Qualcomm-Powered Phone Launch With AT&T?
First *Nokia* and Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) settled their patent royalties fight, then, the two companies signed a deal that would put Qualcomm… Read more »
Apple Promises To Defend Itself “Vigorously” Against Nokia Suit
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Damages Could Be Worth Up To $1 Billion In Nokia’s Patent Spat With Apple
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Nokia Sues Apple: iPhone Maker Accused Of Infringing Mobile Patents
You might call it a case of: “if you can’t beat ‘em, sue ‘em”. Finnish mobile giant Nokia (NYSE: NOK) filed a lawsuit against Apple (NSDQ: A… Read more »
Google’s Bullish About Android; Analysts See It Blowing Past Apple’s iPhone By 2012
“Android adoption is about to explode,” declared Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt during the company’s Q3 earnings call yesterday. While Schmidt ma… Read more »
Nokia’s Finance Chief To Run Its Handset Business
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Here’s a strange move – Nokia (NYSE: NOK) chief financial officer Rick Simonson is switching to run the mobile phones division of its device… Read more »
Nokia Comes With Music Had Only 107,000 Users In July
Free unlimited music for more than a year seemed like a good proposition, but, nine months after its launch, Nokia’s Comes With Music bundle… Read more »
Earnings: Nokia Posts $1.3 Billion Loss, Misses Market-Share Target
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) now seems to have given up all hope of increasing its market share in 2009, as it had hoped. The Finnish mobile giant sold… Read more »
Earnings: Nokia Posts
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) now seems to have given up all hope of increasing its market share in 2009, as it had hoped. The Finnish mobile giant sold… Read more »
Nokia’s Booklet Priced At $299 With Contract From AT&T
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AT&T (NYSE: T) will start selling Nokia’s first netbook running the Windows 7 operating system starting Oct. 22 for $300 with a two-year con… Read more »
Best Buy Rolls Out MobileMe Competitor To Help Sell Wireless Products
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Best Buy is diving into the wireless business even more today by moving beyond handset sales to offering a new back-up service and soon an a… Read more »
Adobe Extends Full Flash To Just About Every Phone But The iPhone
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Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) has secured relationships will Research In Motion, Windows Mobile, Palm (NSDQ: PALM) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to roll out… Read more »
Industry Moves: Dopplr CEO Ahtisaari To Head Rejigged Nokia Design Team
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No sooner has Nokia (NYSE: NOK) acquired Dopplr, it’s also appointing the travel social network’s CEO Marko Ahtissari to lead a new design a… Read more »
Nokia Growth Partners Invests $10 Million In Web18
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Growth Partners, an investment fund owned by Finnish mobile handset maker Nokia Oyj, has invested $10 million (Rs48 crore)… Read more »
Nokia Pushing N900 At Hackers And Makers
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Nokia’s new N900 smartphone may look like an N97 on the outside, but, powered by the Linux-based Maemo OS, what place will it really have in… Read more »
Nokia’s Ovi Store TV Commercial Is A Lot Like Apple’s
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Given that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) only had 10 million downloads on its Ovi Store in the first three months (and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) announced toda… Read more »
Nokia Confirms Dopplr Acquisition, Joining Services Team
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After nearly a week of radio silence since the first rumour of the deal, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has now confirmed it’s acquiring Dopplr, the two-… Read more »
Nokia Gets Sued Over Ovi Brand In Brazil; ‘Ouvi’ Means ‘To Hear’
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Nokia’s portal for its mobile services, such as maps, emails and music, is appropriately called Ovi, which means ‘door’ in Finnish. But that… Read more »
Travel Social Net Dopplr Sold To Nokia?
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may have added another location service to its collection. TechCrunch is reporting that the handset company has acquired D… Read more »
Is Nokia Interested In Palm? Palm’s Stock Soars On Rumors
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Palm’s shares jumped to a two-year high based on rumors that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may be interested in buying the handset maker, Reuters report… Read more »
Nokia's NAVTEQ Acquires Location-Based Mobile Ad Firm Acuity Mobile
After taking a stake in location-based mobile ad firm Acuity Mobile last year, Nokia’s own mobile mapping and ad unit NAVTEQ, has followed u… Read more »
