It's the opening day of Nokia World, but trumpet its successes as it will, the cell phone giant is in trouble. It needs to reinvigorate its smartphone business, but can the first clutch of new phones in this market actually help?READ»
Nokia has revealed it's buying mobile analytics firm Motally. This will give Nokia insight into how iPhone and Android apps work, as well as its own offerings--a smart move if your smartphone business isn't what it could be.READ»
Gartner keeps a finger on the pulse of the cell phone world, and its latest figures reveal the heart is beating strongly: Sales are up nearly 14%, and Android is leading the smartphone charge. READ»
Nokia's business may not be circling the drain hole, but it is in the toilet despite positive spin around its recent finances. How can the company be saved? A former exec knows: by flushing its middle management.READ»
Though it's the top seller of cellphones worldwide, Nokia is losing ground fast. Sources now report the Finnish company has launched a search for a new CEO to take the company in a new direction.READ»
Adobe has just released its Flash Player for Mobile 10.1--empowering certain smartphones to play flash content on the Web. Curious timing, since Apple's just shipped its new Flash-free iOS4. Is Adobe trying to make a point? The ...READ»
Last month Dutch AR master Layar brought us in-app shopping, and now it's gone all Casey Kasem on us. Launching today, Layar Stream is an "augmented reality content discovery engine," which lets you find out which apps are being used ...READ»
A is for apps--and agitated cell phone networks. They've formed a consortium in an attempt to fight back against the overwhelming dominance from Apple and Google in the smartphone market, and make some money from the mobile app ...READ»
Barnes & Noble's e-reader, the Nook, has busted the Kindle, according to figures released by DigiTimes research today. It accounted for 53% of all e-reader sales in March, although this can be put down in part to consumers' ...READ»
Is Apple loosening its despotic grip on the App Store? Opera Mini, a very successful competitor to Apple's own Mobile Safari, has just been approved and is available now in the App Store.READ»
AdMob released its mobile Web usage data for both the U.S. and the world, and the most surprising statistic has got to be Android's huge leap in the past few months--it now has the iPhone in its sights.READ»
The Stateside launch for Spotify is firming up and could happen in late summer. The music streaming service currently only available in some European countries is in talks with U.S. Internet and cell-phone service providers in this ...READ»
Gartner released its worldwide mobile sales numbers for both hardware and smartphone OS, and they're not much of a surprise: Nokia's first in hardware sales. It's OS, Symbian, has 46.9% of the marketshare. RIM, makers of BlackBerry, ...READ»
Despite lingering malaise in the furniture industry, the organizers of the annual Milan Furniture Fair, Salone Internazionale del Mobile, have good reason to ramp up their festival's firepower this year: they feel the hot breath of ...READ»
This week's big mobile news is the launch of bada, Samsung's own-brand operating system. In the few days since the news hit, however, there's been an awful lot of rumors, disinformation, misinformation and general blather. Does the ...READ»
Travel is changing even as travel has slowed. But actually that is typical for economic downturns — recessions are times when the pressure to innovate becomes most critical. Some of our greatest technological strides were made ...READ»
In case you missed it, the XPERIA X10 got official overnight. Besides the 1GHz Snapdragon processor and big 4-inch capacitive touch display, it's Sony Ericsson's beautiful Rachael interface sitting on top of Android that impresses. ...READ»
Layar, the augmented reality app that lets you see where stimulus money is being spent, among other things, has just gotten a fresh $1 million cash infusion from European investors.
The Dutch company, which makes iPhone and Android ...READ»
Apple's MobileMe is variously reviled and applauded in different corners of the Net, but it's hard to argue that it provides a pretty comprehensive service. So comprehensive that Best Buy has just cloned it--and made it available for ...READ»
Despite Nokia's global success it's performance in the U.S. market has been lackluster. Can the arrival of the N86 to America, with its Symbian-smartphone and 8-megapixel-camera powers help turn that situation around?
The phone was ...READ»
Nokia just revealed it won't let phone networks apply any proprietary customization to its hot little MID/smartphone the N900. It's another sign that in the future your cell-phone network will be way less important than it thinks it ...READ»
You've heard a lot about Augmented Reality recently, but what is it--and why should you care? We spoke with one of the founders of Layar, an Amsterdam company that is leading the charge with their smartphone app, to gain insight.READ»
Samsung's a big player in the smartphone game, some might say surprisingly so since it's not really grappled the whole smartphone apps-equals-success meme. Until now that is: Its TouchWiz software development kit is out. And it's... ...READ»
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»
