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Symbian CEO’s resignation effective immediately

Published on: 26th October, 2010

Symbian CEO Lee Williams has resigned his position as an Executive Director of the Symbian Foundation and his resignation is effective immediately. Williams only gave personal reasons for his departure and will be replaced by the CFO of the Foundation, Tim Holbrow. Multiple blows have affected Symbian recently and some of its main proponents at [...]

Bug Labs and AT&T in partnership on ready-to-run modules

Published on: 23rd October, 2010

AT&T and Bug Labs just announced to be partners in a project that is meant to allow developers to buy network ready BUGmodules with AT&T certification. They are supposed to work out of the box on the network of AT&T once developers will put the devices together. The first Connection Kit of AT&T, named BUG [...]

Android now more profitable than iPhone in ad industry

Published on: 23rd October, 2010

According to a Millenial Media report, Android is now more profitable than the iPhone at least on one ad network. The report says that Android has generated more revenue than its rival, with a 26 percent boost to requests for ads and a jump in traffic to 29 percent, which pushed it past the iPhone [...]

Sony Ericsson falls down to 10.4 million phones, still in profit

Published on: 23rd October, 2010

Sony Ericsson has declared to be in profit even if its market share went on dropping. It shipped 10.4 million phones, while it had shipped 14.1 million a year earlier. However, the company had about $69 million in profit where twelve months ago it had lost $231 million. More than half of Sony Ericsson’s phone [...]

2011 Windows Phone 7 plans confirmed by Sony Ericsson

Published on: 21st October, 2010

Bert Nordberg, Sony Ericsson CEO, during a conference call for investors, said that his company was intending to bring out Windows Phone 7 devices to its offer starting next year. This was a confirmation that the company would move from the Symbian operating system on which it had relied for a long time, to equip [...]

Mobile efforts bring $1 billion yearly to Google’s revenue

Published on: 21st October, 2010

During a call dedicated to discussing the latest results, Google revealed the weight of mobile in its achievements and addressed the customers of an Amazon application store. Jonathan Rosenberg, senior vice president of product management, said that mobile efforts of the company, whether on iPhone, Android or other platforms, were adding $1 billion each year [...]

Yahoo Messenger on iPhone will have 3G video chat

Published on: 16th October, 2010

Yahoo has posted the expected update 2.0 of Yahoo Messenger, free on the App Store, adding two-way video chat. This is one of the first iOS applications that support two-way video chat through 3G. It gives owners of the fourth generation iPod touch and of the iPhone a chatting option by using the front or [...]

Windows Phone 7 ads with the slogan “save us from our phones”

Published on: 16th October, 2010

Microsoft kicked off its TV campaign to coincide with the release of Windows Phone 7, in order to toss the platform. The two spots resemble a lot with those being leaked earlier. They accuse Apple, Research in Motion and other companies of forcing users to stare at their phones and spending much of their time [...]

Three new low-cost smartphones in Samsung’s Wave series

Published on: 14th October, 2010

Samsung has presented three new handsets in its series of low-cost smartphones. The Wave525, Wave533 and Wave575 are all based on Samsung’s platform Bada which uses the TouchWiz interface. All three phones are equipped with 3.2-inch WQVGA touchscreens, GPS receivers, Wi-Fi radios and 3.2-megapixel cameras. The Wave 575 and Wave525 both have a similar design, [...]

Nokia manager acknowledges iPhone applications are a “must have” in Europe and US

Published on: 14th October, 2010

Cedric Thomas, Nokia’s Ovi head in France, in a presentation surprised developers by acknowledging that other companies, Apple and Google included, had better positions in the application market. Speaking at the platform-independent MIPCOM conference in Cannes, France, he said that iPhone applications represented a “must have” in countries of the European Union and the United [...]

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