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iPhone’s profits greatly exceed the number of handsets sold

Published on: 25th September, 2010

According to T. Michael Walkley, Canaccord Genuity analyst, Apple’s share of cellphone industry profits is vastly disproportionate to the number of iPhones the company actually sells. Apple has sold almost 17 million iPhones in the first 6 months of 2010, compared to the 400 million devices sold by Nokia, Samsung and LG combined. Despite this, [...]

Palm designer hunted by Nokia for MeeGo

Published on: 17th September, 2010

A LinkedIn profile has confirmed that Nokia had recruited Peter Skillman from Palm to fulfil a specific role in its MeeGo operating system project. Skillman has been a Handspring and Palm design-related executive for about eleven years. He has been known as having jumped ship but there is now his own confirmation as the vice [...]

Nokia sells 260,000 phones daily, attacks Apple

Published on: 17th September, 2010

Niklas Savander, Nokia’s executive vice president, at Nokia World day, used much of the time to criticize Apple and minimize Google. He said that both companies had questionable sales figures and claimed that Nokia has sold 260,000 phones daily during the summer, more than Apple and Android together, in his opinion. He also said expectations [...]

Nokia with new CEO, ex Microsoft executive, hopes to save itself

Published on: 13th September, 2010

Nokia has confirmed rumors of searching for a new CEO. Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, its long-serving chief, has been replaced with Stephen Elop, ex Microsoft executive. The former head of the business division in Microsoft was chosen for his experience in software and also in change management that would help him to reorganize the company. He had [...]

Nokia’s E7 to be introduced next week at Nokia World expo

Published on: 9th September, 2010

Nokia’s preparations for the first in-house Nokia World expo may include the first mainstream touchscreen phone in the Eseries, according to leaks recently revealed. The E7 is a touchscreen QWERTY device and is expected to show at the event scheduled for September 14th. More details have not been provided, but the device may be a [...]

Apple, LG and Nokia to be in the top of green phone makers

Published on: 6th September, 2010

A recent IDC study has placed Apple on the first position in the phone makers’ environmental friendliness top. Through its iPhone efforts, Apple has succeeded to challenge other apparently greener companies. The firm offers recycling for the iPhone in 95 percent of the countries where it is sold. It has also tighter control over its [...]

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 [...]

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