Ingrid Lunden
Dec 21, 2011 5:00 PM
Some pretty damning early statistics out today for Nokia (NYSE: NOK), Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and the Lumia 800: according to a new survey, in the month of November, the device accounted for only 0.17 percent of smartphone sales in the UK, and looks set to only double that market share…
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Ingrid Lunden
Nov 22, 2011 5:54 AM
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 into the country. Now here’s an example of a Chinese giant looking shop its own mobile services abroad: the internet portal Tencent is now distributing its QQ…
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Ingrid Lunden
Oct 28, 2011 4:40 AM
Samsung’s competitive threat to Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) in the smartphone space—being played out not only among consumers but in the courtrooms, too—looks like it has taken on a new reality. According to new figures from Strategy Analytics, the Korean handset maker in Q3 became the world’s…
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Ingrid Lunden
Sep 30, 2011 9:12 AM
Another loose end being tied up by Nokia (NYSE: NOK) today. The company announced that Accenture has now fully taken over Symbian, the operating system that Nokia had developed, owned and been using as the basis of its smartphones for years—a strategy that changed in February this year when it…
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Ingrid Lunden
Sep 8, 2011 11:26 AM
No, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) have not picked up the pace on releasing the first Nokia/Microsoft smartphone, which is only due towards the end of this year. But in a first for Microsoft, Nokia will be adding Microsoft content to Nokia’s existing Symbian OS, including popular Microsoft…
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Ingrid Lunden
Aug 9, 2011 2:22 PM
Call this streamlining of the highest order. The beleaguered handset maker Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is setting itself up for what it hopes will be a lean and mean relaunch in the U.S. later this year: it has finally admitted that it will not launch its newest N9 device—the first and…
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Robert Andrews
Nov 2, 2010 12:20 PM
Handset makers other than Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may be deserting Symbian and Nokia’s recently-renewed commitment to the mobile OS may turn out to be a last dice throw - but, hey, at least The Symbian Foundation has now found a €22 ($30.84/£19.25) million injection from a European taxpayer programme…
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Dianne See Morrison
Jun 24, 2008 6:05 AM
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) wants it all. The Finnish handset maker said today that it has launched a cash offer to acquire all of the shares of Symbian that it does not already own, and not just Siemens’ 8.4 percent stake (as had been reported earlier). Nokia is offering 3.467 euros…
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