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StreetSpace lawsuit against Apple and other companies, related to ads

Published on: 1st September, 2010

According to AppleInsider, Apple and its newly-acquired subsidiary Quattro Wireless are two targets, among others, in a lawsuit promoted by the Malaysian firm StreetSpace. The company is managing the Web Station, which is a web-browsing kiosk partially supported through targeted advertising. In this case, the defendants have been accused of violation of US Patent 6,847,969, [...]

Mobile analytics company bought by Nokia for improving application quality

Published on: 24th August, 2010

On August 20, 2010, Nokia declared that it has bought out Motally in a bid in order to improve its mobile applications experience. The eight-person company’s technology is able to show usage patterns on both websites and in native applications in order to identify where these could be optimized. The plan is to keep supporting [...]

New technology from Nokia Siemens could provide more 3G data bandwidth

Published on: 9th August, 2010

Nokia Siemens Networks has recently presented a technology that would probably lessen data crunch at certain carriers. DFCA (Dynamic Frequency and Channel Allocation) operates a reduction of the needed amount of bandwidth a GSM call requires in order to work. This approach results either in doubling the space for the conventional type of voice calls [...]

Study confirms declining interest in Nokia versus Android and iPhone

Published on: 18th July, 2010

According to a YouGov new study, the demand of the customers for Nokia smartphones had shown a new minimum in the United Kingdom. The number of the customers expecting to get Nokia phones has dropped to half, i.e. 10 percent only in June versus 19 percent last year in December. While 46 percent of potential [...]

Voice over LTE to have 3G support and emergency calls

Published on: 16th July, 2010

Updated specifications of VoLGA Forum for its standard for Voice Over LTE have been released. The new specifications include mobile voice as well as SMS services over 4G and is different from the current standard which supports only data. The changes in the standard will bring VoLGA (Voice over LTE via Generic Access) which uses [...]

After only three months, Nokia sold off MetaCarta

Published on: 14th July, 2010

Nokia has recently sold MetaCarta, after only three months since purchasing it; MetaCarta is a privately-owned geographic intelligence company. The new owner of MetaCarta is Qbase Holdings, which is another privately-held and US-owned corporation. Despite this, Nokia will keep MetaCarta’s geographic intelligence technology and implement it in its local search and portable devices.
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BlackBerry and iPhone lost market share in favor of Android this spring

Published on: 14th July, 2010

According to comScore, both Apple and Research in Motion lost share on smartphone market in favor to the Android platform of Google this spring. Starting with February and ending in May, the iPhone has lost one point to hit exactly 24.4 percent of share on the United States market. Meantime, the BlackBerry lost 0.4 points [...]

Nokia prepares a MeeGo tablet

Published on: 10th July, 2010

Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia’s new mobile chief, recently gave hints about a future tablet powered by MeeGo. The information corroborates an earlier issued report and although Vanjoki did not get into deeper details, he said that the MeeGo platform would be very important for Nokia. According to Vanjoki, the platform is supposed to offer a generous [...]

Nokia’s new N9 to have 4-inch display and MeeGo

Published on: 8th July, 2010

A recent look at the future Nokia flagship, the N9, comes to confirm the company’s promise concerning the Symbian S60 OS, which will apparently not be the default operating system, but only a placeholder for the MeeGo software. The news put to a rest a previous report, confirming some of the new specs too. The [...]

IDC confirms Nokia’s European collapse, iPhone rise to seven percent

Published on: 7th July, 2010

IDC has confirmed Nokia’s decline in the share of the Western Europe market. The company has dropped from 39 percent in 2009 to 32.8 percent in 2010, with only 14 million phones. Samsung could overtake Nokia soon, considering this severe drop, as its share has grown from 26.8 percent in 2009 to 29.3 percent this [...]

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