MWC: Android Rocked The House; Absent Apple Still In Attendance
Android dominated the buzz for this year’s event. According to some number-crunching from Webtrends, which analysis how much media outlets (… Read more »
Video: Orange On NFC, Own-Brand Tablets, And Getting Nokiasoft Leverage
Sometimes being the early mover in technology doesn’t always make you the winner– just look at when Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google (NSDQ: GO… Read more »
@ MWC, Intel CEO Otellini On Nokia And Intel’s Smartphone Out ‘This Year’
Intel’s CEO, Paul Otellini, made no secret of his reaction when Stephen Elop called him last week to break the news about Nokia (NYSE: NOK)… Read more »
@ MWC: Schmidt On Losing: ‘Offer’s Still Open If Nokia Wants Android’
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Google’s CEO and Chairman Eric Schmidt today shed a little official light on its place as the loser when Nokia (NYSE: NOK) decided to choose… Read more »
@ MWC: HTC Says It Will Remain Committed To Windows Phone 7
Peter Chou, the CEO of HTC, today said that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) are “doing what they have to do” and that his compa… Read more »
@ MWC: Xbox, IE 9 And Multitasking: Coming To A Microsoft Phone Near You
In Steve Ballmer’s keynote today, his first ever at Mobile World Congress, the CEO of Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) said that the new version of Wi… Read more »
Analyst: ‘Some U.S. Nokia Execs Will Be Angry. They Wanted Android’
I’ve spent most of my day at the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) strategy day in London, where the Finnish handset maker announced a landmark agreement wi… Read more »
Nokia Pares Company Down To Two Units: Smartphones And Everything Else
photo: Corbis / Joel W. Rogers
Nokia (NYSE: NOK), which today announced a broad strategic partnership with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) using its Windows Phone platform, has now… Read more »
Nokia Finally Drops Its News: It’s Microsoft
The news everyone has been waiting for has finally come out: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has done a deal with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), where Windows Ph… Read more »
Why Nokia’s Decision On Friday Matters
Smartphones weren’t expected to outsell PCs until 2012 – but in the fourth quarter they took over, and there’s no reason for them to stop. I… Read more »
Who Would Benefit Most From A Tie-Up With Nokia? Microsoft
If you could cut anticipation with a knife, you would need the most high-end, sharpest Global in the block to go at Nokia at the moment: no… Read more »
Gartner: Apple, RIM Displace Sony Ericsson, Motorola In Mobile Rankings
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All this news about Nokia’s next big move and losing mindshare / market share, and it’s easy to forget that the Finns (yes, they are still b… Read more »
Maybe MeeGo Should Change Its Name To MeeGone
It’s raining Nokia (NYSE: NOK) at the moment. The N9, one of the company’s newest devices — and the first to run on the new MeeGo operating… Read more »
Who Will Put The Fire Out On Nokia’s Burning Platform?
You’ve heard of the smoking gun? Well, Finnish handset maker Nokia has the “burning platform” — a memo written by CEO Stephen Elop, describ… Read more »
Operators To Nokia: Use MeeGo, Or WP7 If You Must. But Please, No Android
In the lead-up to Nokia’s strategy presentation at the end of this week comes a report on what mobile operators are hoping the challenged ha… Read more »
Smartphone Usage Up 60 Percent; Android Makes Biggest Gains
photo: In Veritas Lux
Smartphone usage has grown by an astounding 60 percent in the last year in the U.S., but the latest figures from comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) show… Read more »
New Mobile App Initiatives: Conduit Mobile And Creative Mobile Labs
Too many apps on the market today? Looks like we may be seeing a lot more soon. On the heels of reports that Yahoo is planning to launch a n… Read more »
Nokia: Elop May Fire Four Top Executives In Radical Shakeup
Looks like things may need to get worse at Nokia (NYSE: NOK) before they start to get better: Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop (pictured) is apparen… Read more »
Nokia Needs To Re-Tool Its R&D, Not Ramp It Up
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Some rather damning numbers crunched today by Horace Dediu, the independent analyst at Asymco. According to his calculations, Nokia (NYSE: N… Read more »
Going Non-Native: Appia, Funded By Eric Schmidt, And More From GetJar
This week, news about non-native app stores was a bit like a proverbial bus: you wait for ages, and then two announcements come along at onc… Read more »
Voddler Picks Up Another $8 Million In Funding For VOD, Led By Nokia
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may be rethinking how it delivers mobile music — shuttering its Ovi Unlimited music service — but it is not giving up on… Read more »
Nielsen: Android, Apple And RIM Are In A Three-Way Tie In The U.S.
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Some stats released today on smartphones that, for a change, don’t concern the number of devices shipped: Nielsen says 31 percent of U.S. co… Read more »
Android Gets Even Bigger And Tops The Charts For Smartphone OS
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may still be shipping more devices than any other mobile phone maker, but worldwide, it’s now losing in the smartphone pla… Read more »
Handset Rankings: Nokia Leads, And Android’s Not A Panacea For Competitors
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No less than three analysts houses have posted their global handset rankings for the last quarter, and, despite losing overall market share… Read more »
Nokia Strikes Deals With Sina, Tencent To Capitalize On Its Lead In China
Nokia’s results yesterday showed how important China is to the handset maker. While market share in already-challenging markets like the U.S… Read more »
Microsoft Puts Mobile On Mute In Earnings
Sales of the Kinect have swiped away all expectations, and Office is still going strong, but mobile was conspicuously absent in Microsoft’s… Read more »
Nokia: Profit And Market Share Down; CEO: ‘Significant Challenges’ Ahead
Nokia’s Q4 and full-year earnings report is coming in just now, and it spells out in numbers some of the issues facing the world’s biggest h… Read more »
Apps Will Make $15 Billion, Garner 17 Billion Downloads In 2011
photo: Google
People love to talk about the rise of the mobile web, but today, apps are where it’s at when it comes to mobile content, and they are very m… Read more »
Mobile Bits: Nokia @Home; PapayaMobile/LG; Play.fm
– Nokia: You know there’s rouble when you are having trouble winning even when you’re the home team. Handsets from Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) those… Read more »
Court Rules For Huawei, Blocks Motorola-NSN Sale For Now
On Monday evening, a judge in the U.S. District Court For Northern Illinois handed Huawei an initial victory in its fight to halt the sale o… Read more »
Updated: One More IP Infringement Suit: Huawei vs. Motorola
The mobile lawsuits keep on coming. But this latest fight does not have to do with mobile handsets, or with patented technology being used w… Read more »
Mobile Device Bits: Oracle, Nokia Patents; Lenovo; Notebooks Still Strong
– Oracle v. Google: Android device makers LG (SEO: 066570), Motorola (NYSE: MOT) and Samsung could be feeling some legal heat soon. They ha… Read more »
Nokia: Another Device Pulled In The U.S., This Time With T-Mobile?
Less than a week after we heard that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and AT&T (NYSE: T) cancelled the joint launch of Nokia’s new X7 handset, news of anot… Read more »
Nokia: On Top In China Today, But What Lies Ahead?
A lot of people have been sharing a table that was released yesterday showing Nokia’s Ovi app store with a commanding lead in China — an ed… Read more »
Nokia Stumbled, But Mobile Music Services Are Still Gaining Ground
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may have shuttered its unlimited music service in all but six of the 33 markets where it was operational, with low subscri… Read more »
Nokia Cancels AT&T X7 Launch In The U.S.
It looks like another fumble for the Finnish handset maker. Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has reportedly cancelled a deal to launch its latest smartphon… Read more »
Where Did Anssi Vanjoki Go After Nokia? To Play Golf
Things at Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may have not turned out as planned for Anssi Vanjoki, the former EVP of devices who had been the heir apparent t… Read more »
Nokia’s ‘Comes With Music’ Disappears In 27 Markets
Nokia’s struggle to compete against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), and drive more sales of its own smartphones, hit a new low today, as the Finnish com… Read more »
Android Rules The 4G Roost. Where Are The Rest?
According to comScore, in November, for the first time, Android overtook Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) in the installed smartphone user base, at 26 per… Read more »
The Good News: Mobile Ads Will Grow. The Bad News: Mobile Ads Will Grow
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One more analyst house is adding a vote of confidence in mobile advertising: Enders Analysis says that after years of marginal numbers, 2011… Read more »
