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Nokia Makes Unused Patents Available to All

Nokia just made an unprecedented move: In an effort to boost the local Finnish economy, they're throwing open their thousands of unused patents so that any company in Finland can pursue ideas that Nokia has abandoned. The ...READ»

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Finland is shaking. According to some ("industry" and other sources), Cisco Systems is considering buying Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone company. Rumors of this have been around before but this time it made the nine o'clock ...READ»

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Iranians Revolting Against Nokia for Alleged Spying Complicity

The tech-savviness of the Iranian people served them well during the protests against corruption in the recent election, and now it's making them turn against cellphone giant Nokia--a government colluder in their eyes.READ»

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Nokia Profits Slump: Is The Cellphone World About to Change?

Though Nokia's not a massive name in the U.S., across the rest of the world it's enormous--the biggest cell-phone retailer by far. But the giant company's just announced its second-quarter profits, and they're terribly bad. In fact, ...READ»

Don't Call Them Phones

Call any of his new models a cell phone and Anssi Vanjoki will fix you with a stare as icy as the plunge pools he and fellow Finns take after a sauna. But the trio of devices unveiled here this morning in Berlin take Nokia another ...READ»

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Nokia Wants to Make Your Laptop Too

Nokia may be entering the laptop business. In an interview this week, Nokia's CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said, "We are looking very actively also at this opportunity." His reasoning is sound: Mobile computing devices and ...READ»

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Nokia Lifts the Veil on Its China Testing Site, but Why Now?

Nokia may be the world's biggest cellphone maker, but it generally keeps its operations seriously under wraps. That's why the recent decision to open up its Beijing test center to select visitors is a deft public relations move at a time when one of its biggest competitors, Apple, is being scrutinized for its operations in China.READ»

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DMI Branding Conference - Brand Smackdown

Robert Wallace, of Wallace Church, and Frank Nuovo, Nokia's former design chief, offered intriguing presentations this afternoon. Wallace focused on bringing simplicity and clarity to branding, offering ten cogent steps for building ...READ»

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Mobile " Nokia Moments"

Living life to its fullest -- online.READ»

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Office Chatter: Microsoft-Nokia Deal in the Works

The Internet rumor fairies have been sprinkling their magic news story dust around again, and have given us a rather intriguing suggestion this time: Nokia and Microsoft are due to announce an alliance today. According to the ...READ»

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Is Nokia's App-Enabled Booklet Netbook Trying to Beat Apple's Tablet?

This is hot news on the InterWebs this morning--Nokia's apparently going to move into a totally new market: It's making a PC, a netbook number that's also integrated with the Ovi App Store. Is Nokia taking on Apple's iTablet? Nokia ...READ»

Nokia Goes Global

Nokia's New York City retail store, its second in the U.S., opened on Monday. It's a cool-looking place, very much in the mold of Apple Stores. Nokia's first such store opened in Moscow last December. That one looks a lot like the ...READ»

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Nokia's Ovi App Store Stumbles Off Its Starting Block

Nokia just launched its Ovi cellphone App Store globally, but rather than the fanfare-laden success it should've been, the launch was marred by site crashes and server lock-ups. The Ovi App service launched over the weekend ...READ»

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'Nokia Money' Will Turn Mobile Devices Into Banks, Nokia Into World's Largest ATM

Nokia has already said it plans to become the world's largest entertainment network through its vast share of the mobile handset market (read our September cover story for more detail). Now it looks like the Finnish mobile device ...READ»

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Nokia Enters the Smartbook Race, Reveals the N900

It's really Nokia's week for new gizmos--first the news of its first netbook, and now it's pulled the veil from the N900, a high-end Linux-powered touchscreen device. It's basically a smartbook--the device that could supersede the ...READ»

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Watch Out Nokia: Sony Ericsson's Got the Hang of Smartphone Design

More images of Sony Ericsson's upcoming Android Rachael smartphone have leaked and confirm it's a real looker, right up with the iPhone's minimalistic beauty. Nokia, with its clunky retro-boring N97 should watch out.The Racheal's ...READ»

Mobile: Usability vs. Usable Features

An article mentioned that most people would prefer to use a smartphone rather than three separate devices. I would tend to say that it depends on the functionality. The first thing that comes to my mind when I think of a desktop ...READ»

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RIM Is World's Fastest-Growing Company

While most cubicles are buzzing with fawning talk of iPhones and Pres, the phones that sit idly listening to all that talk are probably BlackBerry Curves. If unexciting, the Curve is the top selling smartphone in the U.S., and part of ...READ»

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Nokia Leaks Its "Mini Computer" Smartphone Plans

Ask any giant: being big means being slow. But some new information shows that cellphone giant Nokia is finally getting what smartphones are all about. For its future phones, the company is copying the works of the smartphone ...READ»

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Hackers Paying Thousands for Old Nokia Candybar Phones

The Nokia 1100 is a nondescript cell phone first released in 2003. At its peak, the monochrome candybar phone sold for around $150. Now hackers are reportedly paying $32,000 for models built in a particular Nokia factory in Germany. ...READ»

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Forget Solar Power: Nokia Is Developing a Radio Wave-Powered Cell Phone

Solar-powered cell phone prototypes and rumors abound, but Nokia has a battery-less alternative power source for our cell phones lined up: radio waves. The company told MIT's Technology Review that it is working on technology ...READ»

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Has the Cell Phone Market Hit Bottom Yet? Nokia and Sony Ericsson See Staggering Sales Drops

Nokia reported staggering losses in sales and profits for Q1 this week, including a 90% drop in net profit. The news came alongside similarly dim reports from Sony Ericsson, which reported that it lost nearly half its sales in the ...READ»

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Nokia Debuts Cheap iPhone Competitor, Misses the Point

Nokia's continuing its XpressMusic charge with a new smartphone--the 5530 XM. Unlike its 5800 predecessor, the 5530 is designed to be a cheapy touchscreen smartphone. While that sounds cool, Nokia's dropped the price by ditching the ...READ»

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Nokia's Digging the Touchscreen Phone Vibe, Horribly Late

Nokia's big. I mean really big--the world's largest manufacturer of cellphones. But being huge and successful doesn't always mean you're fast, and a bunch of leaks pointing to upcoming touchscreen phones have just illustrated how ...READ»

Local Color

With the rollout of Nokia's flagship stores around the world, designers Tim Kobe and Wilhelm Oehl are balancing Nokia's global brand with local flavor.READ»