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March 11, 2010

Cellcos get WAC on OS fragmentation

Another year, another Mobile World Congress, and if we learned anything this year, it’s this: everyone is concerned about the fragmentation of device platforms.

Except for the actual platform developers, of course. A number of them made it quite clear that whatever you think about platform proliferation, they’re not going anywhere.

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March 4, 2010

Nokia launches Skype for smartphones

Skype can be downloaded onto 23 devices from Nokia starting today, Nokia has announced.
 
However, users on the Official Nokia Blog site are reporting problems with the downloading the app.
 
Nokia yesterday released Skype for Symbian, w

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February 24, 2010

Smartphones drive Q4 handset sales

The growing popularity of iPhones and BlackBerry devices drove global handset sales up by 8.3% in the fourth quarter of 2009 compared with the same quarter last year, according to Gartner.
 

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February 23, 2010

FASTTAKES: Nokia, HTIL, Twitter, China Mobile, StratCom, NTC

The US International Trade Commission it has agreed to investigate Apple’s patent infringement complaint against Nokia and Motorola’s complaint against RIM.

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February 19, 2010

MWC day 3: The rise of the machines

OvumWith machine-to-machine (M2M) back in vogue, MWC has proved a focus for a string of M2M announcements.
 

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February 9, 2010

US class action accuses Nokia of misleading investors

Filed under: Daily News, Finland, Mobile Apps and Content, Nokia, Public, U.S, mobile phones, smartphones — fmmonteverde @ 6:08 am

Finnish handset vendor Nokia claims that allegations of “securities fraud” filed against it in a US class action law suit on February 5 are “without merit.”
 
The complaint, filed in a US District Court, accuses Nokia of failing to disclose information about component supply shortages and manufacturing problems between Janua

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February 8, 2010

Symbian becomes fully open source

The Symbian Foundation has announced that the mobile OS is now entirely open source, four months ahead of schedule.
 
All Symbian source code is now available for free under the Eclipse and other open source licenses, the Nokia-led non-profit organization

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February 4, 2010

Ovi map downloads top 1.4 million in two weeks

Filed under: App Store, Daily News, GPS, LBS and GPS, Mobile Apps and Content, Nokia, Ovi, Public, mobile phones — fmmonteverde @ 6:09 am

Nokia has been inundated with requests for its Ovi Maps application, with 1.4 million downloads since Jan 21, when it made the service available for free.
 
The vendor says it cleared its first million downloads within a week and is averaging one download every 24 seconds.
 

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February 2, 2010

When it comes to smartphones, consumers look for support

The recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas featured the introduction of a dazzling array of new smartphones, ranging from the new Google Nexus One to improvements in existing offerings by Nokia, HTC and Motorola, as well as new implementations of pocket PCs using upgraded Microsoft software.

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Apple the clear winner of smartphone wars

Filed under: Apple, Daily News, Mobile Apps and Content, Nokia, Public, RIM, mobile phones, smartphones — fmmonteverde @ 6:08 am

Apple was the clear winner in last year’s smartphone market, gaining more market share than any other handset vendor.
The company shipped 25.1 million smartphones in 2009 compared with just 4.4 million units in 2008, increasing market share 5.3 percentage points to 14.4%.
 

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