The next time you're out battling the crowd at Wally World stocking up on toilet paper, cereal, and fish bait (hopefully for different purposes and not because of some weird fetish), you may decide to add a Windows Phone 7.5 device to your shopping cart. It's not exactly a tough sell when the mega retailer decides to give one away for free, like it's doing with Nokia's Lumia 710 smartphone[......]
In the beginning, Intellectual Ventures presented itself as one of the good guys. Founded a decade ago by former Microsoft honcho Nathan Myhrvold, it made the rounds to Silicon Valley's largest tech companies, convincing them to pony up millions of dollars to buy up patents in order to keep them out of the hands of patent trolls[......]
It wasn't all that long ago that MeeGo held a lot of promise, only to end up pushed aside in favor of other mobile platforms. [......]
For whatever reason, Samsung is a company that keeps coming up whenever there's speculation about an acquisition. [......]
If you're into tablets, smartphones or gaming then this week has been rather like a dream - and we don't mean one of those dreams involving your favourite celebrity, a leprechaun costume and a gallon of massage oil. One minute all kinds of technological delights were heading for UK shop shelves; the next, they'd vanished into the ether. U-turns have affected three top gadgets this week: Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet, the Nokia N9 smartphone and Sony's PS Vita handheld. [......]
That was a long sayonara: in November 2008, Nokia decided to pull the plug on their Japan operations, at the same time announcing they will re-enter the market with their luxury sub-brand Vertu . They started offering those phones (and the services that come with them) in September 2009 , but now decided to give up on this business in Japan, too. [......]
That was a long sayonara: in November 2008, Nokia decided to pull the plug on their Japan operations, at the same time announcing they will re-enter the market with their luxury sub-brand Vertu . They started offering those phones (and the services that come with them) in September 2009 , but now decided to give up on this business in Japan, too. Read the rest on MobileCrunch [......]
Samsung has filed another law suit against Apple, this time in our own fair city of London Town, alleging that – yes, you guessed it – Apple has infringed its patents. It's beginning to feel a bit like Groundhog Day as far as Samsung v Apple is concerned. Not only do the companies now have lawsuits going on in the UK, the US , and with the ITC , but also in Samsung's home country of South Korea , Italy, Japan and Germany; who knows where will be next[......]
That number might not seem like much compared to the gazillion apps at Android Market or Apple's App Store, but those 20,000 apps answer a question on many techies' lips this week: Why didn't Nokia pick MeeGo? Windows Phone Marketplace passed the 20k threshold about a month ago[......]
Sony has become the most recent in a rather long list of companies to join the Car Connectivity Consortium, a group of phone and car companies working together to connect phones to cars. Formed back in March, the CCC already boasts some pretty big-name companies, including Nokia, Samsung, LG, Panasonic, Alpine, Daimler, GM, Honda, Hyundai, Toyota, and Volkswagen. Read the rest of this entry [......]
Now's not a particularly good time to be working for Nokia, not unless you can handle the stress of wondering if you'll still have a job once the company eliminates 12 percent of its workers. As part of a new strategy to "align its global workforce and consolidate site operations," Nokia said it plans to hand out about 7,000 pink slips, including laying off 3,000 staff and transferring 3,000 more to Accenture, which will take over Nokia's legacy Symbian software division. [......]
This week's popular reviews on TechRadar include the iPad 2, which went on sale in the UK on Friday 25 March , and the Nintendo 3DS, which also went on sale on Friday. [......]
Amazon has been revealed as the "best-value brand" on the planet. This is according to a study by Millward Brown, a research agency that specialises in advertising and marketing communications. Amazon tops both the global and the UK list, with toothpaste manufacturer Colgate coming second. [......]
The Zune brand has died a thousand times, it seems, or at least been close to death. As CNet points out , reasons why the Zune has supposedly been on life support in the past are many (like poor sales), but not always accurate (the platform is thriving). [......]
By Joe Wilcox , Betanews That's today's question for mobile developers, particularly those with experience creating applications or services for Android, iOS or Windows Phone in addition to Symbian or even Meego. Nokia will be swapping out Symbian as its primary mobile platform for Windows Phone. [......]
