Nokia: First WP7 Devices Will Debut In Six European Markets
One of the biggest reasons that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has dumped Symbian in favor of Windows Phone 7 from Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is to better ta… Read more »
¡Hola, Nokia! Symbian Enjoys Huge Smartphone Lead In Spain, Says Nielsen
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If you can’t quite understand why it is that Symbian is still continuing to occupy a strong position in the overall worldwide smartphone mar… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 6-14-11: Lodsys; Ericsson/Telcordia; Skype/Comcast; iTunes
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) settle their patent dispute; two more companies… Read more »
Patent Visualization: What Apple And Nokia Have Sorted Out
The patent blogger Florian Mueller has whipped up a suitably maze-like visualization — part diagram, part timeline — of the relevant paten… Read more »
Nokia And Apple Bury The Hatchet, Settle Patent Suit
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There really may be some truth after all to CEO Stephen Elop’s claims that Android is enemy number-one for the struggling Finnish handset ma… Read more »
Nomura Calls A Spade A Spade: Nokia Is Going Down
Investment bank Nomura is the latest heavy hitter to weigh in on something wrong in the state of Nokia (NYSE: NOK). The analysts have releas… Read more »
Skyhook CEO: “Privacy Is The Third Rail Of Location Services”; The WP7 Op
Skyhook Wireless, which provides enhanced location technology for mobile devices and services, has hit a few bumpy patches in its road to gr… Read more »
Updated Mobile Lowdown 6-10-11: Apple v Lodsys; IDC Microsoft; LightSquared
photo: Flickr / raneko
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) fights back on the Lodsys patent claims on developers, while getting e… Read more »
Upated: More Insult To Injury As Nokia CTO Takes Leave Of Absence
Stephen Elop may be splashing a lot of water, but the platform is still burning: today the handset maker faced another big setback, as it em… Read more »
Stephen Elop: Android’s Success Is Apple’s Fault, And Beware The Boxes
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may be on the ropes — having just today lost its CTO as he took an indefinite leave of absence — but CEO Stephen Elop is… Read more »
iOS, Android Big With Developers; Mobile Web Further Along Than You Think
Android and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) have the greatest mindshare among mobile developers, but if you were wondering who is the strongest third pla… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 6-8-11: Microsoft SkyDrive; Nintendo Wii U; Nokia Samsung?
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) details updates to its own mobile cloud services, SkyDrive; Ninten… Read more »
Flirtomatic Picks Up Former SayNow Exec Neil Goldberg As New CEO
photo: Ingrid Lunden
Such is the way with relationships: not all of them last, and dating startups are no exception. Handmade Mobile Entertainment, makers of Fli… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 6-6-11: Apple WWDC Spoofs; Carrier App Billing; Foursquare
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: hours before we start to hear the real news, some spoofed speculations on what we might s… Read more »
iPhone 4 Is The Most Popular Phone…With Mobile Operators
Time (NYSE: TWX) and again, we hear of tensions between Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and mobile operators unhappy with how the Cupertino giant, by way… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 6-3-11: RIM v. Apple; Android Delay; Vodafone Egypt; iCloud
photo: AppleInsider
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: more details reported the iCloud service from Apple; (NSDQ: AAPL) Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) ge… Read more »
Google’s China Crisis Deepens With Gmail Hacking Incident
photo: Corbis
Google’s standoff with China over censorship in search in 2010 was a lowpoint in the search engine’s ambitions to expand to the East, but a… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 6-2-11: Elop on M&A; MobileIron; iCloud; iPhone/iPad bundles
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop gives an unequivocal response on M&A questions; Apple (NSDQ: AAP… Read more »
@ D9: Nokia Elop: Microsoft M&A Talk ‘Baseless’, Device Details Coming Soon
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) CEO Stephen Elop soundly dismissed recent rumors that the Finnish company is in talks to sell its hardware business to new… Read more »
When It Rains, It Pours: Nokia ‘Substantially’ Downgrades Q2 Forecast
We all know about Nokia’s trials and tribulations in the smartphone market today — the declining sales that have led its CEO Stephen Elop t… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 5-31-11: Apple Suits; Appsfire; Google iOS Search; AT&T/T-Mo
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) moves to have its Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) case reopened while Samsung pushes… Read more »
Nokia Signs A Mapping Deal With CNN: Another Route To Revenues?
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is paring down its operations big-time in the lead-up to using Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS for its new portfolio of smart… Read more »
Is The Competition Heating Up Among Windows Phone 7 OEMs?
Of the many reasons why Windows Phone 7 has yet to make a big splash in the market, one of them, arguably, has been the fact that no single… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 5-25-11: 4G; Cox; Nokia / ZTE; Sony; Instagram; AdSense
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Cox drops 3G; UK gears up for first LTE trial; Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and ZTE scramble to put… Read more »
Microsoft’s Mango Is Ripe, But Windows Phone 7 Still Needs A Boost
It’s almost like Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is checking off boxes on a mobile to-do list with its Mango Windows Phone 7 release. Social integrat… Read more »
Microsoft’s WP7 Mango: “You Can’t Have Too Many Features These Days”
Windows Phone 7 has not made a much of a dent yet in the worldwide smartphone market — it has less than a four percent share worldwide, acc… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 5-24-11: iPhone 5; Square; T-Mobile; Apple; Sony Ericsson
photo: Photo Giddy/Europe 1
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: More confirmation of the iPhone 5 being smaller and thinner; some doubt cast on Square’… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 5-19-11: Apple Cloud, EMI; VZW Sues FCC; Latest Gartner Figs
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Apple’s apparently getting closer to a cloud music product after signing a deal with EM… Read more »
The Next iPhone Will Have Only Small Bangs And Whistles, Says Analyst
There have been a lot of reports speculating on what might be in store in the next iPhone, and when it might hit the market. Will it have LT… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 5-16-11: iPhone 5; Nokia Ovi; Clearwire; Kodak; Android
photo: Nokia
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: More reports on the so-called iPhone 5; Nokia (NYSE: NOK) ditches its Ovi brand; Sony (… Read more »
Ovi And Out: Nokia Shows Its Mobile Brand The Door, Nixes MSFT M&A Rumor
We reported last week that this would happen, and frankly you could have guessed as much, but now it’s been made official: Nokia (NYSE: NOK)… Read more »
The Latest Carrier App Effort: Nokia Launches Co-Branded Ovi Storefronts
photo: Nokia
Operators have been relatively late to the app game, but that hasn’t stopped them from trying to make up for lost time by doing anything and… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 05-10-11: Windows Phone; Italy Mobile Payments; Nuance
Our look at some of the stories in mobile today: Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) to give a preview of the next Windows Phone later this month (Skype… Read more »
Apple Tops Brand Rankings: What’s The Takeaway For Mobile?
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is still a ways behind companies like Samsung and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) when it comes to overall mobile market share, but it’… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 05-06-11: Sony Ericsson/Facebook; T-Mobile; Visa; JiWire
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) updates its Xperia mini devices, and adds a “Fac… Read more »
Nokia Is Now Number-Two In Its Home Market, Thanks To Samsung and Apple
photo: Flickr / GianCayetano
Another milestone passed in the mobile industry: Nokia (NYSE: NOK), the reigning leader in mobile handsets, has now lost the number-one posi… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 05-05-11: Apple Updates; HP; Android Share; Nortel
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) reportedly to start over-the-air OS updates; HP (NYSE: HPQ) beefs up… Read more »
Nokia Chairman To Step Down As Purge At Top Continues
Jorma Ollila, chairman of the troubled Finnish phone maker Nokia (NYSE: NOK), says he will step down within the next 12 months, having overs… Read more »
Graphic: Never Mind About Free Apps, Sales Will Grow 77 Percent This Year
Developers bemoaning the dominance of free apps in app stores like the Android Market: do not despair, there’s money yet in apps. According… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 05-04-11: Nokia; Android Tether; American Airlines
Our look at some of the stories in mobile today: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) launches an SDK for one of its other operating system projects, Qt; Googl… Read more »
