Nokia Buys Social Network Service Plum
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has purchased Plum, a platform used to create private social networks. In a brief statement, the mobile giant said little… Read more »
Nokia Opens Up Maps To Developers; Adjusts M&A Strategy And Addresses U.S. Market Concerns
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On the final day of Nokia’s own Nokia (NYSE: NOK) World event in Stuttgart, Germany, the handset maker announced it was making its maps avai… Read more »
Nokia Had Only 10 Million Ovi Downloads In First Three Months
Much of the conversation at *Nokia* World this week has focused on the handset maker’s announcement with Facebook and the unveiling of new h… Read more »
Nokia Plugs Location Into Facebook, Relishes 'Underdog' Status
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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) used the opening day of its two-day Nokia World gathering in Stuttgart to announce a widget that lets mobile Facebook user… Read more »
Nokia Appears To Delay U.S. Comes With Music Roll-Out
Forbes says a Nokia (NYSE: NOK) spokeswoman told it a U.S. launch for its unlimited bundled music program Comes With Music now won’t come un… Read more »
Industry Moves: Nokia Creates 'Solutions Unit' Alberto Torres To Head It
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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) said today it is creating a “solutions unit” that will aim to increase the speed of handsets and services offerings to mar… Read more »
First Symbian Smartphones, Then Windows Netbooks And Now This For Nokia: Linux Tablets
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Today, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) unveiled a small tablet computer that offers computer-like functionality and connects to the internet over a cellul… Read more »
Nokia Unveils Financial Services For Banking Deprived
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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) announced a new service today called Nokia Money, which will allow people without bank accounts and credit cards to access… Read more »
Nokia's New View Of Itself – It's The Network
It’s hard to say what, if anything, Tero Ojanperä was drinking at the time, but this indulgent Fast Company profile reports how Nokia’s ent… Read more »
Nokia Confirms 'Booklet 3G' Windows Netbook; Built-In GPS, Ovi Suite
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has surprised us by unveiling details, specs, pictures and demo video of its forthcoming netbook device nearly two weeks a… Read more »
Report: Most Mobile Startups Hedge Their Bets By Developing Apps For All Major Platforms
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No mobile operating system in the U.S. has won the hearts of developers, who are cautiously moving forward by porting their applications to… Read more »
Nokia Maintains Grip On Euro Mobile Market
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Europeans bought 11.2 percent more mobile phones in Q209 than they did a year ago — a total of 14 million — and 64 percent of them were ma… Read more »
Nokia Keeps Global Smartphone Lead, But Apple's Gaining Fast
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Global smartphone shipments grew by 13.4 percent in Q209 compared to the same period last year as consumers refuse to let the recession get… Read more »
RIM Is Fastest-Growing U.S.-Listed Company, Fortune Says
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The iPhone may have all the buzz, but BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion is growing at a much faster clip. In fact, RIM’s growth rates are… Read more »
Ericsson Doesn't Believe WiMax Will Be The 4G Standard
We’ve heard Nokia call WiMax the “Betamax” of wireless technology, and now Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) is jumping on the bandwagon with its own ne… Read more »
Microsoft, Nokia Become Unlikely Pair In The Fight To Stay Competitive In The Smartphone Market
Microsoft and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) announced today that they are investigating new areas of collaboration and will kick off the alliance by bri… Read more »
Microsoft Partners With Nokia To Bring Office To The Phone
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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) gave its plans to make Office widely accessible via mobile phone a big boost Wednesday, announcing that Nokia (NYSE:… Read more »
Microsoft, Nokia Set To Announce Alliance; Likely Over Web-Based Office
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) have scheduled a teleconference for Wednesday to announce an alliance — and the betting is tha… Read more »
Nokia Quadruples Ovi Mail Users In About Three Months
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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) released some statistics today, suggesting that its email service called Ovi Mail is quickly becoming a must-have form of… Read more »
Reports: Samsung, LG And Apple Steal Marketshare During Difficult Second Quarter
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Two major handset reports were released today breaking down the global mobile phone market in the second quarter. The conclusion was that Sa… Read more »
Report: Cellphone Forecast Gets Rosier For 2009
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After strong second-quarter handset sales were reported by LG (SEO: 066570) and Samsung this week, ABI Research is revising its forecast for… Read more »
Earnings: Samsung Will Exceed Its 200 Million Cellphone Target This Year
Samsung, the second-largest handset maker after Nokia (NYSE: NOK), said today in its second-quarter results that it plans on breaking its fu… Read more »
Nokia Acquires Cellity’s Social Network And Shuts It Down
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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has agreed to acquire certain assets of Hamburg, Germany-based cellity, a social networking software company. Terms of the… Read more »
Bets Being Placed As To Which Mobile Operating System Will Fail — But It’s Too Early To Tell
Smartphone competition is intensifying with at least six major handset manufacturers and mobile operating systems vying for only 13 percent… Read more »
iPhone, BlackBerry On Pace To Account For 58 Percent Of The Industry’s Profits
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BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion and Apple’s iPhone are on pace to make more than their fair share of the cellphone industry’s profits th… Read more »
Accenture Acquires Nokia’s Symbian Professional Services
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Nokia is distancing itself even more from the Symbian operating system by agreeing today to sell the Symbian Professional Services unit, res… Read more »
Earnings: Nokia Cancels Hopes Of Growing Market Share
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is scaling back its earlier target of a 2009 increase in its mobile market share, to instead be flat compared with ’08. Th… Read more »
Nokia Closes Canadian N-Gage Game Studio; Relocates Some Jobs To Finland
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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has closed a Vancouver, B.C.-based game studio that was building games for its own N-Gage platform, and has eliminated abo… Read more »
Could iPhone Surpass Nokia As The Smartphone Leader By 2013?
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Based on the iPhone’s current growth trajectory, it could catch and surpass Nokia (NYSE: NOK) for the top spot in the global smartphone mark… Read more »
Nokia Denies It’s Planning An Android Phone
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is denying it’s due to unveil an Android-based handset at its upcoming Nokia World ’09 shindig in Stuttgart on Sept. 2. Gu… Read more »
Industry Moves: Rubicon’s Director Of Publishing; Discovery Nordic Chief; Nokia VP Joins Wolfson
– Rubicon publisher: UK ad technology company the Rubicon Project has appointed Justin Thomas to the new role of director of publisher deve… Read more »
mocoNews Quick Hits: 6.30.09
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» The rise of both smartphones and social networking could give mobile advertising a much needed boost. [Reuters]
» I… Read more »
mocoNews Quick Hits
» The Android OS is coming to a slightly bigger screen in 2010, a Nokia (NYSE: NOK) netbook. [GigaOm]
» Will licensin… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Irish Piracy, Pirate Bay Trial, Five Soaps, Nokia VOD, Rapidshare, Woolies
– Irish music piracy: They warned they would, and now they have. The four major labels are suing Irish ISPs BT (NYSE: BT) and UPC to force… Read more »
Nokia Struggles To Execute As Smartphone Competition Increases
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It’s no surprise that Nokia’s share of the smartphone market is under attack. For years, the Finnish handset maker didn’t have much in the w… Read more »
Adobe On Track For Delivering Flash 10 To Smartphones
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Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) CEO Shantanu Narayen confirmed during the company’s second-quarter conference call last week that the company is close to… Read more »
Report: Intel To Supply Nokia With Mobile Phone Chips
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Chipmaker Intel (NSDQ: INTC) has scored a Read more »
Nokia Siemens Sold Iran Telecom Monitoring Technology
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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Siemens, the joint venture between German electronics giant Siemens, and Finnish handset maker Nokia, has sold technology… Read more »
Nortel Accepts Nokia Siemens $650 Million Offer For Bankrupt Assets
Nortel Networks, which has been struggling to sell off its assets since filing for bankruptcy in January, has accepted a $650 million bid fr… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: AdMob; Family Guy App; Nokia’s Ad Spend; Ringback Tones; LBS Ads
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– iPhone vs. iPod Touch demographics: While Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has sold about 21 million iPhones, it inflates the numbers by including iPod… Read more »
