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Nokia pulls the plug on OVI in 27 countries
Originally launched as competition for iTunes, Nokia is ending its subscription service for free streaming music in 27 countries. Ovi Music Unlimited will continue in a limited capacity, with 12-month subscriptions in China and India and six-month subscriptions in Brazil, Turkey, and South Africa. Nokia launched the service in the UK in 2008 but really failed […]
StatCounter- RIM Blackberry OS greater than Apple iOS in mobile web usage in the US
December 1, 2010
Now this is an interesting release of mobile web usage information. Another example of no one being able to really predict the future of mobile form factors and consumer adoption rates. (Release) BlackBerry OS overtook Apple’s iOS for the first time in the US in November in terms of mobile internet usage according to web […]
Mobile banking users an emerging and significant group, world wide, in the mobile space
November 29, 2010
This article just reinforces what we know about mobile in emerging technology countries. We also see the same adoption rates among demographics that previous to mobile had no real entry point to the internet- in the US; latino and urban demographics. And there is real money in those groups- the mobile device simply enables them. […]
Samsung and LG – 2 Korean Giants Hacking Into The Smartphone Market
November 11, 2010
Great perspective article about Samsung and LG’s efforts in the smartphone market. As with anything in a high growth technology based business, only time will tell, however, this commentator sees both companies as real threats to any smartphone manufacturer. Samsung’s third quarter results posted a year over year increase of 18 plus percent in handsets […]
Nokia to upgrade Symbian in 2011 with swiping and wireless identification features to its new line of smartphones
November 10, 2010
(Bloomberg) Nokia Oyj, the world’s largest maker of mobile phones, will add swiping and wireless identification features in updates to its new line of Symbian smartphones to compete withGoogle Inc.’s fast-developing Android platform. “The biggest threat and biggest opportunity is our ability to keep Symbian fresh and interesting,”Jo Harlow, senior vice president for smartphones at the […]
Gartner reports Android over 25% of third quarter sales in world smartphone market
November 10, 2010
(Release) Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totaled 417 million units in the third quarter of 2010, a 35 percent increase from the third quarter of 2009, according to Gartner, Inc. Smartphone sales grew 96 percent from the third quarter last year, and smartphones accounted for 19.3 percent of overall mobile phone sales in […]
Nokia names Qt (cute) as sole APP dev framework for ease of deployment to Symbian and MeeGo platforms
October 21, 2010
Even though Nokia has announced 1800 job layoffs in the next few months, don’t count them out quite yet. Nokia Blog GLOBAL – Today, Nokia is making moves to streamline its development environments across device platforms, focusing squarely on Qt. Although Nokia has long been a Qt (pronounced “cute”) advocate, today, the company is making […]
Microsoft Phone 7, how will it impact the market and competitors such as Nokia and RIM?
October 12, 2010
There are some interesting points in this article. First is the amount of development that will have to be done to ensure all the old Windows Mobile Apps can work on the Phone 7 platform. The next question is how RIM will respond (Triton 4G?) as well as Nokia, although Nokia is betting a lot […]
Mozilla unveils Firefox 4 beta mobile web browser for smartphones running the Google Android and Nokia Maemo
October 9, 2010
Open-source software development initiative Mozilla unveiled its Firefox 4 beta mobile web browser for smartphones running the Google Android and Nokia Maemo open-source operating systems. Firefox 4 beta for mobile promises improved performance and responsiveness over previous releases–writing on the Mozilla Blog, mobile team technical lead Stuart Parmenter states the biggest architecture changes emphasize Electrolysis […]
January 19, 2011
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