Saavn has been hailed as India’s Spotify. But with much of its customer base being in India and much of its catalog being Bollywood fare, things work a little different for the company. One example: Saavn has high hopes for its Blackberry and Symbian apps. Read more at GigaOM »
Some pretty damning early statistics out today for Nokia (NYSE: NOK), Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and the Lumia 800: according to a new survey, i… Read more »
Everyone knows that Nokia’s Symbian always had little take-up in the U.S.. But, once upon a time, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) could count on a large u… Read more »
We’ve observed a lot of western companies looking to cash in on the explosive growth of China’s mobile population by taking their products i… Read more »
Samsung’s competitive threat to Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) in the smartphone space — being played out not only among consumer… Read more »
Another loose end being tied up by Nokia (NYSE: NOK) today. The company announced that Accenture has now fully taken over Symbian, the opera… Read more »
No, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) have not picked up the pace on releasing the first Nokia/Microsoft smartphone, which is onl… Read more »
Symbian may be getting put to one side in markets like the U.S., but it is alive and well in Asia. Only three months since announcing its up… Read more »
Not sure whether you should draw too many serious conclusions from the following bit of research, but it does reveal some significant divide… Read more »
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is taking some big steps to streamlining how it presents itself to the market — for example, cutting down the number of c… Read more »
Call this streamlining of the highest order. The beleaguered handset maker Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is setting itself up for what it hopes will be… Read more »
Just one day after announcing a dozen new phones running the once-proud Symbian mobile operating system, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has finalized an… Read more »
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is going hell for leather to get out its first devices built on Windows Phone 7 before consumers — and investors — start… Read more »
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 »
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 »
Last week, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) promised some Symbian news, and today we have it: the company is today is launching its E6 and X7 devices, runn… Read more »
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) schedules a Symbian event; some forecasts on mobile entertainment rev… Read more »
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile. Today, RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) preloads 7digital on the PlayBook; Nokia’s still happy with Sym… Read more »
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 »
Some rather damning numbers crunched today by Horace Dediu, the independent analyst at Asymco. According to his calculations, Nokia (NYSE: N… Read more »
A footnote to the news that Symbian has been taken under Nokia’s control: come December 17, all of the websites run by the Symbian Foundatio… Read more »
Handset makers other than Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may be deserting Symbian and Nokia’s recently-renewed commitment to the mobile OS may turn out t… Read more »
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) will use MeeGo, the Linux-based operating system it is developing with Intel (NSDQ: INTC) in its premium N-series devices… Read more »
First *Nokia* and Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) settled their patent royalties fight, then, the two companies signed a deal that would put Qualcomm… Read more »
Last week, I spent a lot of time with the folks from Symbian, the mobile operating system that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) paid $410 million for, only… Read more »
Symbian, the largest mobile operating system in the world, is in the middle of massive change, following its purchase by Nokia (NYSE: NOK) a… Read more »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Symbian don’t think much of the other’s claim to openness. Symbian Foundation director Lee Williams said that: “Andr… Read more »
The Symbian Foundation, which is working to make its mobile operating open under the guidance of its parent company Nokia (NYSE: NOK), said… Read more »
For all the hype about the rise of operating systems, one more carrier is hinting at plans to pare down the number to just one or two OS cho… Read more »
In a break from traditional conference etiquette, executives from Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Symbian and Nokia (NYSE: NOK), faced off today at the… Read more »
Lee Williams, the current head of Nokia’s S60 organization, will become executive director of the Symbian Foundation, which aims to transiti… Read more »
Depending on who you ask, they’ll say Symbian is either up or down. In its second-quarter results released today, it shipped 19.6 million un… Read more »
Analyst J Gold and Associates has come out with a prediction that Symbian and Android will begin merging into one open source OS within 3-6… Read more »
One of Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) reasons for making Symbian open source was to drive innovation by attracting developers. Symbian is still associa… Read more »