First Film Shot On A Smartphone Is About To Hit Movie Theaters
The first feature film shot entirely on a smartphone will have its theatrical premiere in Los Angeles on 16 December.
Olive, billed as a fi…
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Interview: Nokia Marketers On How They Are Selling Their Windows Phone
Nokia’s marketing campaign for its first ever Windows Phone handsets is its costliest ever, with a budget three times the size of any previo…
Nokia Sees ‘New Dawn’ With ‘The First Real Windows Phone’
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) CEO Stephen Elop opened Nokia World in London with an apparent slap in the face to other Windows Phone makers like HTC, as…
Smartphone Competition And Restructuring Push Nokia To Q3 Loss
Nokia’s Q3 swung to a total €151 ($208.49/£132.13) million pre-tax loss after device sales slipped marginally and the company took hundre…
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Nokia Supremo Ojanperä Leaves To Invest In Windows Apps
Nokia’s latest high-level departure is its long-time executive Tero Ojanperä.
But Ojanperä will remain connected with Nokia (NYSE: NOK),…
Former Nokia Designer: Nokia Bosses Have No Taste
Many Nokians have leapt to the defense of their company since it announced its was adopting Windows Phone. But one former executive says the writing has been on the wall for years — and stopping the rot may require more than a deal with Microsoft.
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Analyst: ‘Some U.S. Nokia Execs Will Be Angry. They Wanted Android’
I’ve spent most of my day at the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) strategy day in London, where the Finnish handset maker announced a landmark agreement wi…
Microsoft/Nokia Partnership Not Enough to Challenge Apple
Early this morning, Microsoft and Nokia announced a partnership that will see Windows Phone 7 become the primary platform for Nokia’s high-end smartphones. But is it enough to seriously challenge Apple and the iPhone, arguably the two companies’ most entrenched competition?
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Nokia Finally Drops Its News: It’s Microsoft
The news everyone has been waiting for has finally come out: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has done a deal with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), where Windows Ph…
Are Nokia & Microsoft Hoping Two Wrongs Make a Right?
This morning, Nokia’s and Microsoft’s chiefs announced the two companies were entering into a “strategic partnership” that will see Windows Phone become the primary operating system for Nokia higher end handsets. The two companies are coming together to mix search, maps, content and app stores.
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Nokia Goes All The Way: Windows Is ‘Primary Platform’
Nokia Friday said that it would essentially abandon MeeGo — its troubled next-generation operating system — and partner with Microsoft to make Windows Phone 7 its smartphone software of choice. For lower-end phones, the company will stick with Symbian for the time being.
Can Mobile Phones Think?
Nokia’s Beta Labs today released a new experimental application called Situations, and it portends a future where context awareness drives the mobile experience, and points to a time when our handsets will do the thinking on our behalf, especially as Internet becomes more and more mobile.
Nokia Appoints U.S. Expert Jerri DeVard As Its New CMO, EVP
A clear sign of the direction that new CEO Stephen Elop is trying to take Nokia (NYSE: NOK) under his helm: the company has appointed Americ…
Nokia Takes Control Of Symbian; Foundation Stepping Back
After a year in which the gap between Nokia’s hardware and The Symbian Foundation’s OS has been horrible noticeable, the foundation is essen…
Nokia’s New Broom: Symbian/MeeGo Harmony, 1,800 Jobs Cut
Nokia’s new CEO is putting his imprimatur on the company with a “plan to accelerate its transformation and increase effectiveness” – improvi…
UPDATE: How Embarrassing: Nokia’s N8 Fightback Delayed
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has declared its N8 smartphone the starting point in its “fightback”. Well, that fightback is on hold again…
“In some m…
Another Nokia Exec Out: UK Head Jumps To Pace As President
After CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, EVP Anssi Vanjoki and chairman Jorma Olila, now Nokia (NYSE: NOK) UK and Ireland managing director Mark Loug…
Nokia’s Fightback Does Not Start Here
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo had staked Nokia’s “renewal” on Symbian^3 and the first phone on which it will ship, the flagship N8.
Well, Kallasvuo’…
Video: Nokia’s Foursquare Copycat And Indoor Navigator
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) unveiled a new version of its Ovi Maps app with a places index and the same kind of “check-in” feature common to Foursquar…
‘Nokia Is Back’ And Ballsy; ‘We’re Not Sorry We’re Not Apple’
Nokia’s beaten-down top dogs opened their annual Nokia (NYSE: NOK) World show in London Tuesday morning with a blunt and rousing pep talk an…
Nokia’s Opening Salvo: 4 Smartphones and Plenty of Attitude
Nokia opened its annual Nokia World event in London to 3,000 participants by introducing four Symbian smartphones and offering plenty of jabs at competitors. The company states that Symbian is modernized, optimized and ready to challenge iOS and Android, but MeeGo is a no-show for now.
Nokia Veteran Vanjoki Out On Eve Of Nokia World
Another old-guard Nokia (NYSE: NOK) exec is being put out to pasture on the eve of the handset maker’s big Nokia World conflab.
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Why Nokia Chose Stephen Elop
Nokia today named Stephen Elop as the new president and CEO of the Finnish phone-maker, effective Sept. 21. Elop replaces Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo who held the role since 2006. To understand why Nokia chose Elop, you just have look at both Nokia’s strategy and at Elop’s past.
Nokia Siemens Seeks $1 Billion From Private Equity
On the heels of *Nokia Siemens Networks* agreeing to buy Motorola’s equipment business for $1.2 billion, the company is now potentially seek…
Nokia Claims 1.7 Million Daily App Downloads As Profit Slides
If there’s one thing likely to lead to a CEO switch, it’s seeing a third wiped off earnings-per-share in just three months. But that’s what…
Nokia Is Still Lost in the Woods
Nokia reported quarterly sales of 111.1 million devices but profits still plunged amid declining average selling price per handset. The company expects to lose market share in 2010 but feels it is well positioned with its N8 smartphone. But why no mention of MeeGo this year?
Lack Of iPhone Competitor May Lead To Nokia CEO’s Demise
Nokia’s investors and analysts have increasingly been calling for a change in management with the hopes of breathing a breath of fresh air i…
Silverlight Hits the Mobile — But on Symbian!
Silverlight by Microsoft can be used much like Adobe Flash to create video players, games and other interactive web apps. It has been running on Windows systems and even the Mac, but a mobile version has only just appeared — on the Symbian platform.
What to Read Today: American Jobs, Google, Nokia & un-Social Networks
From Andy Grove on American jobs to Google’s growing power and the importance of solitude for leadership, here are some of the most interesting pieces I’ve read over the past few days. Pay attention to the un-social nature of social networks, then go and mingle.
Nokia Cuts Forecast As Competition Takes Its Toll
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has cut its financial forecast for profits and sales for its Devices & Services unit today, a sign that it continues to st…
Nokia's Troubles Deepen: As Devs Flee Platform, Handset Maker Cuts Forecast
One would think that owning the largest smartphone market share in the world ought to attract the most high-quality mobile software developers developers, but doesn’t seem to the case for Nokia. Too many products on too many permutations of platforms and a sub-par store aren’t helping.
Gartner: Android Grows 8% in Global Smartphone Share
Research firm Gartner has published the latest quarterly smartphone numbers, and it’s easy to see why the honchos at Google are all smiles at the I/O conference this week. Android grew an impressive 8% of smartphone market share this year, moving it into fourth place overall.
Nokia Restructures, Adds CTO ‘To Accelerate Innovation’
Feeling the heat from ongoing unfavourable iPhone comparisons, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is re-jigging its corporate structure to respond…
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Are Nokia Investors Itching For A New Executive Regime?
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may be the largest handset maker in the world, and lay claim to 40 percent of the smartphone market, but investors are unh…
Nokia’s Location Spree Continues: Buying MetaCarta
Nokia’s geolocation buying spree goes on. This time, it’s buying Cambridge, Mass.-based MetaCarta, whose technology interrogates documents f…
Nokia's CEO on the Challenges & Promise of the New Mobile Industry
Nokia Chairman, CEO and President Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo has the second-toughest job in the mobile industry — that of turning the decades-old, set-in-its-ways,…
Nokia Seals Handset Deals With China Worth $2 Billion
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has renewed two handset deals with Chinese distributors worth $2 billion that will help it continue being the world’s larg…
Nokia Predicts 10 Percent Growth For Mobile Phones In 2010
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has improved the way it measures the global device market, including coming up with a better way to calculate the number o…
Greystripe Adds Nokia’s Ovi Store To Ad Network
San Francisco-based Greystripe has added Nokia’s Ovi store to the list of mobile platforms that can tap into its mobile ad network. Likewise…
Nokia Claws Back Some Smartphone Share As Profits Rise
Some much-needed good news from Nokia, which reported gains in mobile market share and a 65 percent increase in profits for Q4.
Net profits…
Nokia Gives Ovi Maps New Direction — Free Navigation Forever
Some would argue that Google Maps navigation is a “killer app” on their Android handset. That makes me wonder if Nokia’s Ovi…
Nokia Breaks Its Target For Internet Service Users?
This comes as a surprise: a good-news story about Nokia
Video: Nokia Packages Latest Smartphone In Mysterious Hacker Box
We don’t normally show “unboxings” here because they are typically targeted at the hardcore geek crowd, and we like to talk about the busine…
Nokia To Blame For Weak Smartphone Sales In 2009
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) had such a poor selection of smartphones this year that it negatively impacted sales of the overall category, according to…
Blame the Nokia-Apple Spat on Convergence
The Apple-Nokia patent fight continues today, with Apple countersuing Nokia. This fight isn’t just about Nokia’s waning market share, however, but a symptom of how convergence is changing the mobile landscape.
Nokia’s 2010 Investor Targets: Symbian Revamp, Flat Market Share
With Nokia’s chosen Symbian S60 OS showing its age (and complicatedness) as others simplify the touchscreen smartphone experience, the Finni…
Nokia Exec Says Transformation Could Include Handset Business Sale
In what sounds like a very candid portrayal of Nokia’s business, the company’s marketing head Anssi Vanjoki told a German magazine that they…
Spotify’s S60 App Gives It A Greater Shot At Carrier Deals
Spotify already previewed its in-development Symbian S60 app in September. Now it’s ready, giving the music service a much wider mobile foot…
More Nokia Cuts: 330 R&D Jobs Axed In Scandinavia
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) says it’s cutting up to 330 research and development jobs in Scandinavia so its technology teams are better prepared for f…
Nokia Isn’t Ditching Symbian For Maemo, But Maybe It Should
When Nokia (NYSE: NOK) announced a new smartphone, the N900, powered by its Maemo Linux variant, this summer, it seemed to be dipping its to…
Mobile Content Bits: Nokia’s Rihanna Live Stream; Sulake’s Mobile Bar; Wallace & Gromit iPhone App
— Nokia: Singer Rihanna will stream her new album to Nokia (NYSE: NOK) mobile customers exclusively next Monday. In a deal with the Finnish…
Nokia Siemens Axing Up To 5,700 Jobs
Finnish mobile giant Nokia (NYSE: NOK) will lay off up to 5,700 jobs at Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), the telecom infrastructure JV between…
Nokia’s Finance Chief To Run Its Handset Business
Here’s a strange move – Nokia (NYSE: NOK) chief financial officer Rick Simonson is switching to run the mobile phones division of its device…
Nokia Comes With Music Had Only 107,000 Users In July
Free unlimited music for more than a year seemed like a good proposition, but, nine months after its launch, Nokia’s Comes With Music bundle…
Industry Moves: Dopplr CEO Ahtisaari To Head Rejigged Nokia Design Team
No sooner has Nokia (NYSE: NOK) acquired Dopplr, it’s also appointing the travel social network’s CEO Marko Ahtissari to lead a new design a…
Nokia Pushing N900 At Hackers And Makers
Nokia’s new N900 smartphone may look like an N97 on the outside, but, powered by the Linux-based Maemo OS, what place will it really have in…
Nokia’s Ovi Store TV Commercial Is A Lot Like Apple’s
Given that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) only had 10 million downloads on its Ovi Store in the first three months (and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) announced toda…
Nokia Confirms Dopplr Acquisition, Joining Services Team
After nearly a week of radio silence since the first rumour of the deal, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has now confirmed it’s acquiring Dopplr, the two-…
Nokia Plugs Location Into Facebook, Relishes 'Underdog' Status
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) used the opening day of its two-day Nokia World gathering in Stuttgart to announce a widget that lets mobile Facebook user…
Nokia Appears To Delay U.S. Comes With Music Roll-Out
Forbes says a Nokia (NYSE: NOK) spokeswoman told it a U.S. launch for its unlimited bundled music program Comes With Music now won’t come un…
Industry Moves: Nokia Creates 'Solutions Unit' Alberto Torres To Head It
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) said today it is creating a “solutions unit” that will aim to increase the speed of handsets and services offerings to mar…
Nokia Unveils Financial Services For Banking Deprived
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) announced a new service today called Nokia Money, which will allow people without bank accounts and credit cards to access…
Nokia's New View Of Itself – It's The Network
It’s hard to say what, if anything, Tero Ojanperä was drinking at the time, but this indulgent Fast Company profile reports how Nokia’s ent…
Nokia Confirms 'Booklet 3G' Windows Netbook; Built-In GPS, Ovi Suite
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has surprised us by unveiling details, specs, pictures and demo video of its forthcoming netbook device nearly two weeks a…
Microsoft Partners With Nokia To Bring Office To The Phone
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) gave its plans to make Office widely accessible via mobile phone a big boost Wednesday, announcing that Nokia (NYSE:…
Microsoft, Nokia Set To Announce Alliance; Likely Over Web-Based Office
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) have scheduled a teleconference for Wednesday to announce an alliance — and the betting is tha…
Nokia Quadruples Ovi Mail Users In About Three Months
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) released some statistics today, suggesting that its email service called Ovi Mail is quickly becoming a must-have form of…
Accenture Acquires Nokia’s Symbian Professional Services
Nokia is distancing itself even more from the Symbian operating system by agreeing today to sell the Symbian Professional Services unit, res…
Earnings: Nokia Cancels Hopes Of Growing Market Share
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is scaling back its earlier target of a 2009 increase in its mobile market share, to instead be flat compared with ’08. Th…
Nokia Closes Canadian N-Gage Game Studio; Relocates Some Jobs To Finland
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has closed a Vancouver, B.C.-based game studio that was building games for its own N-Gage platform, and has eliminated abo…
Nortel Accepts Nokia Siemens $650 Million Offer For Bankrupt Assets
Nortel Networks, which has been struggling to sell off its assets since filing for bankruptcy in January, has accepted a $650 million bid fr…
Ovi Store’s Top Download Is A Paid App
Now that the Ovi Store has been running for a few weeks now, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has some stats available on the apps that are being downloade…
Don’t Call Nokia’s N97 A Comeback
What to make of the new ad for Nokia
Glu Mobile’s Stock Soars 84 Percent In One Week
Earlier this year, Glu Mobile (NSDQ: GLUU) changed course, having realized it shouldn’t have taken a wait and see approach on Apple’s App St…
Nokia Launches Dance Fabulous For N-Gage
Nokia has released a game on the N-Gage, called Dance Fabulous. Developed by Digital Legends, the game picks up on the trend of integrating…
Nokia Courts Developers With Web To Widget Converters
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is well aware that applications are suddenly important to handsets; irrespective of quality or diversity the quantity of a…
Nokia 5800 “Comes With Music” Off To Rocky Start In UK
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) reported that its 5800 touch screen phone had been a hit the first quarter, especially when it was combined with their unl…
Teenagers: Nokia Phones Are More For People Our Parent’s Age
This is not good for Nokia (NYSE: NOK), which is increasingly going head-to-head with companies, like Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), when it comes to h…
Nokia Expands Research Lab To Berkeley; Will Study Browsers, Battery Life
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) said today it’s opening up a new research laboratory in Berkeley, close to the University of California, Berkeley campus.…
UPDATE: Microsoft’s Mobile Marketplace Will ‘Not’ Have A Viral Component; Windows 6.5 Is Done
UPDATE: While users will be able to reinstall applications on new Windows Mobile phones, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) issued a statement today, sa…
Nokia Gives Away Innovations To Help Finnish Industry
Nokia has teamed up with Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation, and science and technology park chain Technopolis…
Nokia Facing Hard Times On All Fronts: Mobile Phones; Telecom Infrastructure And Services
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has trimmed its workforce by around 1,000 and is cutting back on investing in new content and services. But it’s no wonder…
Mobile Content Bits: Apple’s App Marketshare; CES Is For Apps; AP Mobile; Capcom Games; Sync For S60
— App store marketshare: Apple’s App Store captured 12 percent of the mobile applications market in 2008., but the App Store
Nokia Exec Tries To Play Down Ovi Share Changes
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has denied that it has stopped investing in its online information sharing service Ovi Share, despite the closure of its…
Nokia Cuts Another 490 Jobs
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is planning to cull a further 490 jobs as part of its previously announced global cost cutting measures. The Finnish cell…
Nokia Puts Ovi Photo-Sharing Services On Life Support
We pretty much knew this was true when Nokia (NYSE: NOK) said last week that it would be closing its Seattle office, where its Ovi Share ser…
Nokia Looks To Brands To Sell More Phones
Can brands help Nokia (NYSE: NOK) sell more phones? The Finnish handset giant
Report: UK Mobile Banner Advertising Up 45 Percent
The number of companies running mobile banner ads in the UK rose 45 percent in the six months ending March 09 compared with the six months p…
Nokia To Close ‘Ovi Share’ Offices In Seattle Area
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) said last week that it was pruning back investments in new services and will slash 450 corresponding jobs. This week, the…
News Roundup: Shah Rukh Khan Looks To Sell Knight Riders; Yahoo Sacks 60
Actor Shah Rukh Khan (pictured, right) is looking to sell the Kolkata Knight Riders IPL team, reports Business Standard. He has held talks…
Nokia’s Three Lessons Learned From Bundling Phones With Music
Sales of Nokia’s Comes with Music service are estimated to total around 23,000 in the UK, where it launched five months ago. The results are…
Nokia Remains On Track With Ovi Launch; Contends It Never Promised Carrier Billing From The Start
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) said today that its Ovi Store is on track for next month’s launch, despite reports yesterday suggesting that it was behind…
Nokia’s Ovi Email Service Amasses 250,000 Users
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) revealed on Wednesday that more than 250,000 people have opened Ovi email accounts in the first four months after the serv…
Nokia Cutting Back Investment In New Internet Services; Slashing 450 Jobs
Handset giant Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is pruning back its investment in starting up new services, a move that will help it slash another 450 jobs…
Moody’s Downgrades Nokia On Market Saturation Worries
Investors may have cheered Nokia
Google Knows the Mobile Web Isn't Only About Phones
The mobile Internet will be responsible for getting more of the world online, according to Internet co-founder Vint Cerf, who now works…
Nokia AGM: Continued Focus On Internet Services; Introducing Mid-Tier Smartphones
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) held its Annual General Meeting today, where President and CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo outlined the company’s future strategy…
Nokia Counts 23,000 “Comes With Music” Users In UK?
Music Ally claimed yesterday that Nokia’s ambitious all-you-can-eat Comes With Music service has won 23,000 British subscribers since launc…
Mobile Content Bits: BBC Worldwide-Radio Times; MTV; Linkin Park; 5.4 Billion Mobiles
— BBC Worldwide’s Listings App: BBC Worldwide has released an iPhone app for its TV listings magazine, Radio Times. The app costs £1.79 an…
Nokia Sells Mobile TV Technology Unit To India’s Wipro
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) confirmed to Reuters today that it has sold its enterprise-focused mobile TV unit to India-based Wipro. Terms of the deal…
Nokia Sees Handset Inventories Stabilizing; But Will It Lead To Rise In Sales?
Has the mobile sales slump hit its bottom? That
Nokia’s 5800 Combined With Comes With Music A “Big Hit”
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Report: Handset Sales To Drop 20 Percent This Year
Another forecast on how the economic crisis will hurt handset sales. Research group In-Stat is forecasting a 20.5 percent drop in handset sh…
Earnings: Nokia Net Profit Drops 90 Percent On Steep Fall In Q1 Sales
So much for a recovery in handset sales. Nokia (NYSE: NOK), the world
Nokia’s 5800 Dubbed ‘Poor Man’s iPhone’ (Yes, That’s A Compliment)
It may not be the most fulsome of praise, but at this point, with Nokia (NYSE: NOK) expected to report a hit in sales tomorrow, the world
Nokia Who? In Silicon Valley, It’s iPhone, iPhone, iPhone
If you ever wanted an outsider’s view of Silicon Valley as it relates to the iPhone, check out the brutally honest essay written today by U.…
Report: Nokia To Emphasize Making Touchscreen Devices With Keyboards
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is hopping on the touchscreen bandwagon, and has plans to introduce three new devices that will feature big screens and fu…
What Will Mobile Phones Look Like in 2010?
Last week I met with Anssi Vanjoki, executive V-P of markets at Nokia (s NOK), to discuss the state of both the…
Nokia Stepping Down B2B Music Stores; Hits Tiscali, MSN, Virgin
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is ending some of its OD2 white-label digital music retail activities in the UK from April 23, as it focuses on its consum…
Nokia’s Chinese Distribution Deal Shrinks Compared To Last Year
Nokia (NYSE: NOK), the world
Nokia Adds More Mass-Market Music Phones; U.S. Version Of Comes With Music 'Coming Soon'
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has unveiled two new music handsets for its Comes With Music program as it tries to breathe more life in to the unlimited…
Nokia's Software And Services Spending Returns To Pre-2007 Levels
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is slowing its pace of development when it comes to building Internet-like services for the mobile phone, but it still has…
Nokia CEO's Pay Fell 45 Percent In 2008
The total compensation package of Nokia’s CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo fell by 45 percent last year, mostly due to a lower bonus, according to a…
Nokia Still Reviewing Policy On Free Apps
Two weeks ago, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) announced one of the most advanced applications stores for a mobile phone to date. The Ovi Store, which Nok…
Nokia Offers Voluntary Buyouts To 1,000 Workers
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is continuing with its cost-cutting measures, offering voluntary buyouts to 1,000 employees worldwide (out of 128,000 (Reu…
Nokia Borrows $630 Million For Symbian R&D, Foundation
Somewhere in the Mobile World Congress melee, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) quietly announced that it had secured a
@ MWC: Carriers Should Ask Themselves: What Would Google Do?
With all the excitement at Mobile World Congress focused on the new handsets and services that are being rolled out by the likes of Google (…
Mobile Content Bits: MobiTV on iPhone; INgrooves CWM; How To Make $600K With An iPhone App
— MobiTV On iPhone: MobiTV has added the iPhone to the 350-strong list of devices it supports, tweaking the user interface to make use of t…
MWC Wire: Nokia; Quantum; LG; Samsung
— Nokia: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has launched 3 handsets at MWC. The E75 and E55 have qwerty keyboards and an enhanced e-mail user interface whic…
Nokia Bridges Digital Divide By Embedding “Browsers” In Handsets For Africa
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is working with Mobile-XL to embed the XLBrowser in some handsets that will ship to Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania starting as…
Nokia Opens New Digital Music Stores In Europe
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has launched two new digital music stores in Austria and Switzerland, located at music.nokia.at and music.nokia.ch. Nokia…
Nokia Learns That Being A Service Provider Sometimes Sucks
Yesterday, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) learned one of the toughest lessons about transitioning from a handset maker to becoming a service provider. A…
Nokia To Launch Luxury Brand Vertu MVNO In Japan
Just in time for the recession. Nokia
Earnings: Nokia Keeps Looking To Internet As Profit Crashes
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo pledged to cut costs but continue investing in internet services, as the handset maker’s Q4 profi…
4 Bellwether Earnings Reports Will Predict Tech's Future
Google (s GOOG), Apple (s AAPL), Microsoft (s MSFT) and Nokia (s NOK) — starting today, all four will report results for…
Nokia Targets Youth Market With New Content Portal
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is beefing up its rather lame mobile web portal, Nokia.mobi, by adding a new lifestyle content strand aimed at the 18-35 a…
Nokia Sells Security Appliance Business To Check Point
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has agreed to sell its security appliance business, which targets the enterprise, to its long-standing partner Check Point…
AdMob Finds That 8 Percent Of Mobile Phones In U.S. Access Web Over Wi-Fi
With more consumers accessing the Web from their phones, industry experts have expressed concern over whether the networks will be able to h…
Mobile Content Bits: UK’s Telegraph On Android, BBC On Nokia, NI Relaunches The Sun
— Telegraph.co.uk: The news site has updated its Android app to add video. First of the paper’s vidcasts to be pushed over T-Mobile’s G1 is…
Industry Moves: Nokia’s Global Industry Marketing Head Kamar Shah Leaves
Kamar Shah, the head of global head of industry and marketing for Nokia (NYSE: NOK), working specifically on games and multimedia, is leavin…
Forget Lower Handset Sales, Nokia Drastically Lowers Revenue Forecast For Music, Maps, Media, Etc.
In addition to Gartner saying today that mobile device sales fell in the third quarter, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) lowered its own expectations for t…
Nokia World Notes: Handset Maker Promises to ‘Coordinate The World’; Needles Google, Apple
At its Nokia World event in Barcelona Tuesday morning, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) confirmed a fancy new N97 multimedia handset with slide-out keyboar…
Nokia To Stop Sales In Japan; Concentrating On High-End Vertu
The Japanese handset market spits out another victim. Nokia (NYSE: NOK), the world’s largest handset maker, said it would stop selling cellp…
Nokia’s First Touchscreen: It’s No iPhone But It’s More Sociable
Nokia’s first mass-market phone with a touchscreen was always going to suffer from the inevitable iPhone comparisons. After using it for a w…
Hollywood Meets Mobile: Nokia Opens Research Lab For Media and Entertainment
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is coming to Hollywood. The largest phone maker in the world said it is opening a new research lab in Hollywood, which wil…
Nokia Will Spend $150 Million To Market Smartphones
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is spending $150 million to promote its cutting edge Nseries smartphones, and is appointing Wieden & Kennedy to handle th…
Mobile Content Bits: Taptu Search; Huffpost Mobile; MMS From MBlox; Pepsi Widget; Content In Russia
— Taptu providing search to itsmy.com: Taptu announced today that it’s providing search capabilities to www.itsmy.com, a mobile social netw…
Zi Corp. Picks TravellingWave To Help Input Text Using Voice
Zi Corp. has formed a non-exclusive partnership with TravellingWave to help enter text into the phone. Pigging backing on people’s knowledge…
Nokia Still Sees Mobile Handset Growth In China
China has been good to Nokia (NYSE: NOK), and though its economy may be slowing, the Finnish handset giant said it still expects strong grow…
Carriers Invest In Start-Ups To Avoid Becoming Dumb Pipes
Wireless carriers are investing more money in start-ups with the hope that they’ll be able to offer more compelling services and avoid becom…
Nokia’s New Touchscreen Gets Prime Placement In Britney Spears’ Womanizer Video
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may have snagged the most impressive product placement yet in Britney Spears
Earnings: Nokia Profit Down 30 Percent; Sales, Market Share Down
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) reported third quarter earnings today, which saw its net income fall 30 percent to 1.09 billion euros ($1.47 billion), fro…
Nokia Shouldn't Fiddle While Its Market Leadership Burns
Nokia posted a 30.5 percent drop in earnings today on sales of 12.2 billion euros ($16.5 billion). The company saw its market share erode by 2 percent from the previous quarter and blamed price cutting by competitors for taking buyers.
Nokia Signs Up Publishers For Its Mobile Ad Network
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Media Network said it has added a number of publishers to its advertising network, including Fox News, A&E Network, Bio Ch…
Downturn Will Hit Mobile Advertising; Advertisers Will “Retreat Into What Is Most Proven”
Economic uncertainty will affect mobile advertising for at least two years, at which point marketing agencies will expect clients to increas…
@ Nokia Remix Live: The Announcements In Video
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) entertainment EVP Tero Ojanpera introduces the Finnish handset maker’s unlimited music offering, Comes With Music, at a la…
@ Nokia Remix: Video Interview: Mads Winblad, Nokia VP: On Comes With Music
I caught up with Mads Winblad, Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) go-to-market VP for software and services, at the unveiling of Comes With Music and its f…
Nokia Ad Network Not Letting In Just Anyone; Nokia Launches Metro Targeting
A small interview in ClickZ with Tom Henriksson, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Interactive Marketing’s new head who talks about the handset maker’s ad b…
Nokia Gets Serious About Consumers; No Longer Doing Business Email; May Sell Assets
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) said today to ensure it has a clear focus on the consumer market, it will reallocate resources and sell some assets that w…
Nokia To Show Tube, New Interfaces At Next Week’s Music Launch?
We’ve heard these rumours, too; now someone’s also told Reuters that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) will use its event next week to unveil its Tube touch…
Nokia On The Economic Crisis: “We Have Approached The Peak, If We Are Not There Yet”
Jorma Ollila, the chairman of Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Shell, told reporters that the economic crisis was near its peak, but that there’s no cl…
Nokia Does N96 ‘TV Channel’, Unveils New Music Handset Next Week
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has launched what it’s calling a “mobile TV channel”, featuring short shows from some top UK hosts, to go with the imminen…
Nokia Expands Mobile Ad Reach To Several European Publishers
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is adding several European publishers to Nokia Media Network, its mobile advertising network that was launched in February…
Nokia’s Comes With Music Doesn’t Come With Over The Air Downloads
So much for a revolutionary service. When Nokia
Nokia Q3 Market Share To Fall After Maintaining Prices, Product Delay
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) expects its share of the handset market to be lower in Q3 than Q2 – a change from its July 17 forecast, when it projected…
Nokia’s Unlimited Music Service Launching in UK Next Month; Songs Don’t Expire
Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) ambitious all-you-can-eat mobile music service, Comes With Music, will launch in UK next month, and will then be rolled…
Mobile Ads Will Be Worth $12 Billion By 2011; Carriers Must Work Hard To Get A Piece: Report
The worldwide mobile advertising market will be worth more than $12 billion by 2011, Gartner forecasts, but cautions that carriers must be c…
Nokia To Integrate Content Delivery Services; Up To 200 Jobs Affected
Speaking of Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) software business, the Finnish handset maker says it plans to integrate certain content delivery services in…
WMG Bets On Bundled Music Handset Deals With Nokia, Others
At the moment, mobile revenues remained pretty minimal for Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) in Q2. But during the company’s conference call wi…
Mobile Content Bits: SinglePoint TV Ads; Skyfire; Social Networkers; Telegraph.co.uk; Pepperjam/M3
— SinglePoint launches mobile ad platform for TV campaigns: Bellevue-based SinglePoint announced today it has launched SingleBrand, a platf…
Google Maps Upgraded To Include Public Transit Information
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has updated its popular Google Maps for mobile application with transit directions for Symbian S60 3rd edition and Windo…
Earnings Call: Nokia Confirms Touch Coming This Year; Raises 2008 Phone Forecast; Progress In U.S.
During the Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) conference call, the company dove in a bit deeper when it came to some aspects of it’s Q2 earnings (Earnings…
Earnings: Nokia Bucks Expectations; Market Share Increases To 40 Percent
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) reported second quarter earnings today, which saw its net income fall 61 percent to 1.1 billion euros ($1.74 billion), fro…
Mobile Content Bits: Zedge Comes To U.S.; Maps With Voice On Pearl; Smaato And Blue Whale; JOIKU App
— Zedge.net launches in U.S.: Zedge, a mobile content company owned by IDT Corporation, said it was going to enter the U.S. market after sa…
Nokia Strikes Ovi Deal With Telenor
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) announced today it has signed on Norwegian carrier Telenor to its internet services platform Ovi. In the deal, Telenor wil…
Nokia Signs On Warner Music For Its Flat Rate Music Service; EMI Only Major Holdout
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is muscling through with its “Comes With Music” flat-rate digital music subscription plans: after signing on Universal Mus…
Nokia Rolling Out Mobile Advertising Training Labs
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is planning to roll out
Nokia Releases Two Phones That Have Both BlackBerry And iPhone-Like Features
With competition in the mobile phone market heating up, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) unveiled two exciting handsets yesterday that look shockingly si…
Nokia Launches Advertising Alliance
As Nokia (NYSE: NOK) builds its services strategy, including the Ovi portal, it’s also working diligently on how to monetize it through adve…
Microsoft Mobile Push Focused On Both Business And Consumer; Single Device To Dominate
Microsoft would like to be all things to all people when it comes to mobiles, saying it plans to focus on both business and consumer, rather…
Nokia And Orange In Three-Year Mobile Content And Services Deal
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has made nice with yet another operator. Today, the Finnish handset giant and France Telecom
Nokia ‘In Investment Mode’ On Services Until 2010
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may consider itself more an internet company than a handset maker nowadays, but its investment in online services will hav…
Nokia Says ‘Less A Manufacturer, More An Internet Company’; Plans Share Buy-Back
Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) transformation in to an internet service operator continues apace, with CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo telling its annual shar…
Mobile Content Bits: LG Social; Nokia Aussie; Burger King; Italian Mobile
— LG (SEO: 066570) Electronics Mobile Communications Company has launched the LG: Rally for Music contest, which will let musicians compete…
Nokia Denies Paying Universal Music Group High Fees For Comes With Music
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is denying reports — including ours — of a deal to pay Universal Music Group $33-35 per handset for access to its music…
Nokia Concedes Mobile TV Is Slow-Going, ‘In Turmoil’
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has admitted consumer take-up of mobile TV broadcasting is slower than it expected. “It’s a bit in a turmoil,” Reuters quo…
Nokia’s Ovi Just Another Walled Garden?
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Nokia To Launch Gaming Component Of Ovi In Three Months
The gaming component of Ovi will be launched in India in three months, or so we hope – given the history of delays around the N-Gage launch.…
Nokia’s Hopes On Music Service: High; Will Have Deals By Launch
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is engaging in some PR outreach to labels via this FT story: it says its Comes With Music service, which is supposed to la…
Nokia Expects 2008 Replacement Sales To Increase Market Share; Asian Pacific Sales Offset Declines
A mixed bag for Nokia (NYSE: NOK). Just a day after Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) warned that sales of mobile handsets were slowing…
Nokia Likely To Add EMI To ‘Comes With Music’ Offering
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) looks set to gain EMI’s repertoire to add to the Universal catalogue that will be part of its upcoming Comes With Music pr…
Nokia Roundup: Nokia Launches UK Music TV Program; German State Threatens To Sue Nokia
— Nokia Launches UK Music TV Program: Another content foray for Nokia (NYSE: NOK). The Finnish handset giant is launching a music TV progr…
Google, Yahoo And Microsoft Are Trying To Solve Basic Mobile Problems
Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) all made mobile announcements today, releasing technology that helps to m…
Nokia’s Phone Of The Future: How Would It ‘Morph’ Handheld Content?
The latest on the visionary front … Nokia (NYSE: NOK), along with researchers at the University of Cambridge in England, has created an an…
Google Launches Speedy Search App For Nokia Smartphones
A new Google (NSDQ: GOOG) search application for Nokia (NYSE: NOK) phones makes getting to the search box and receiving results much faster,…
Next Week: @ GDC: Mobile Game Developers Conference Kicks Off Monday
The Game Developers Conference starts Monday in San Francisco with two days focused exclusively on mobile. On Monday, Michel Guillemot, Game…
@ MWC: Orange, Nokia Sign Services Agreement; Doesn’t Include Ovi
Maybe it’s the Spanish sun but peace (of a kind) has broken out between Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Orange. The pair have signed a memorandum of u…
@ MWC: Nokia And Google In Search Tie-Up
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) announced Tuesday that they had struck a deal to integrate the search engine with the handset gia…
@ MWC: Nokia Floats All-Recycled Concept Phone
Two of the biggest mobile players fell over themselves to pitch their environmental credentials on the Mobile World Congress keynote stage t…
Nokia Launches Global Ad Network; Twango Renamed Share; N-Gage Testing
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has announced the launch of its global mobile advertising network, Nokia Media Network, which includes over 70 top tier pu…
Omnifone To Launch MusicStation Preloaded On 3G Handset
British mobile music firm Omnifone will take on Apple
Nokia Launches Artists’ Advisory Council To Ensure Fair Revenue Splits With Musicians
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has founded a new advisory group within its recently created Nokia Entertainment and Communities Group to help ensure that…
Earnings: NAVTEQ Beats Estimates And Grows Revs 53 Percent In Q4
NAVTEQ (NYSE: NVT), the digital map provider being acquired by Nokia, announced Q4 financial results today, saying that both revenues and pr…
Nokia Finally Rolls Out N-Gage; Launches “Share On Ovi”
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has rolled out its twice-delayed online gaming service N-Gage today, as well as its social networking site
In the Mobile Platform War, Nokia Snags TrollTech
The problem with the nebulous nature of computing in the cloud is that the real money is made by controlling a platform.…
Nokia To Buy Mobile And Embedded Software Firm Trolltech For About $155 Million
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is on a buying binge and is now in the process of buying out Norway’s mobile and embedded software firm Trolltech. Trollte…
@ MidemNet: Nokia In Discussions To Add Labels To 'Comes With Music'
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is looking to add more music labels to its Comes With Music program. The bundled music access initiative so far includes…
Nokia's Scrubbing Clean Twango; Giving Users No Choice
Nokia (NYSE: NOK), which bought the social media sharing site Twango for a reported $100 million last year, is now trying to retroactively s…
Earnings: Nokia Q4 Revenues Increase 34 percent; 40 Percent Marketshare
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has released its earnings results for the fourth quarter of 2007, as well as for the full year — and it’s all pretty posi…
Nokia Betting On Local Search, Envisions P2P Search For Mobiles
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is betting heavily that local search will be one of the key differentiators between the mobile and the wired internet. Spe…
Mobiles To Overtake Dedicated Navigation Devices: Report
The balance of power in the GPS market will shift from portable navigation devices to mobile handsets, with navigation-enabled mobile phones…
Nokia Ties Up With Infomedia, SIMCA And Music Labels For OVI
[by Cerius Shah] The handset VAS market is all set to burst into the new year. Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is going medieval on other manufacturers wi…
Nokia Update Removes GPS Tracking Feature
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has released a firmware update for the N95, which reportedly improves the handset in a number of ways, but The Register ha…
Nokia Augments Reality — Uses For Photo Recognition
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is working on a concept it calls “augmented reality”, with plans to use it for shopping, reading foreign menus, providing…
Nokia’s Comes With Music To Use WMA, Songs Not Transferable
Some more details of *Nokia*’s Comes With Music service have come to light … the DRM will be WMA, and the tracks will be 192kbps and 128kb…
Navteq Shareholders Approve Nokia’s Buyout Offer
Navteq shareholders overwhelmingly approved Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) $8.1 billion buyout of the company, which was announced back in October. The…
Nokia Signs Free WiFi Deal For Music Store With UK’s The Cloud
Mimicking Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) deal to give iPhone and iPod Touch users free WiFi access to the iTunes Music Store at Starbucks hotspots, No…
Nokia Wants Apple-Style Cut Of Mobile Plans
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) wants a cut from a subscriber’s mobile plan, just as Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has managed to wrangle from wireless networks carr…
Nokia To Invest $75 Million In Chennai Plant In 2008
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has announced that it intends to invest around $75 million in 2008, in its manufacturing plant in Sriperumbudur in Chennai…
Nokia Buys File Sharing Service Avvenu
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is buying Palo Alto, Ca-based Avvenu, the three-year old technology provider of secure file-access-and-share services. The…
Nokia Signs On TIM To OVI
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has signed up another carrier to its Ovi service — Telecom Italia. The deal will see Nokia customize its handsets (starti…
Nokia And Universal Offer Free Music
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Universal are upping the stakes in the music download market, teaming together to offer free 12-month access to music…
Nokia Expects 25 Percent Of Content Consumed To Be Peer Produced By 2012; Looks For Role
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has come out with its vision of the future, where by 2012 up to a quarter of the media people people consume will be gener…
DVB-H To Become EU’s Official Mobile TV Standard
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Nokia’s Touch-Screen Plans: Stepping On iPhone’s Toes?
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) will issue new profit targets and give info on its internet strategy to analysts gathering in Amsterdam next week, this Re…
Nokia To Monetize Content Services In India With Advertising
So much hinges on advertising in India, where piracy of content is rampant: ET reports that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may launch advertising support…
Nokia Aims For Pedestrian Navigation, Not Vehicle Navigation
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) will target pedestrians for its navigation services rather than drivers, according to Michael Halbherr, the head of Nokia’…
Google Competitors Not Concerned
Google’s competitors in the mobile space are talking tough about not being concerned with the company’s Open Handset Alliance. The most obvi…
Nokia Delays N-Gage Until December
Nokia’s N-gage mobile gaming service, originally due in November, has been pushed back a bit. “N-gage is coming in December. Software testin…
Warner Keeps Music From Nokia Music Store Over Piracy Spat
Warner is withholding its music from the Nokia Music Store in part because of concerns its music is being traded illegally on Mosh, reports…
Nokia Launches UK Music Store
The start of November sees the launch of the UK Nokia Music Store, which will sell individual tracks for 80p (US$1.66), albums for 8 pounds…
India Is Number One Market For Nokia's Mosh
George Linardos, Head of Mosh, Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) Internet and mobile social networking site, tells Reuters that “Our number one market has…
Content Key In Boosting Mobile Phone Use In Emerging Markets: Nokia
Not a big change of direction, but evidence everyone is on-message: Kai Oistamo, who heads Nokia’s mobile phone division, has said that the…
Nokia: Launches SEEK And Trials Journalist Service With Reuters
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) today held a confab at its research HQ in Finland where it went through some of its work to extend its mobile services and…
Round-Up: Metacafe On Mobile; Voeveo In UK; Nokia/Boingo WiFi Deal
— Metacafe: The video-sharing-for-profit site has added a service to allow users to upload videos and view others via their mobile phones.…
Earnings: Nokia Claims 39 Percent Marketshare; Revenues Up 28 Percent
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) reported net sales of $12.898 billion euros (US$18.386 billion) for Q307, an increase of 28 percent year-on-year (32 perce…
Nokia Goes Head To Head With Apple In London
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is really getting into the “music-phone battle” with Apple, going as far as to open a flagship store on Regent Street in L…
Nokia Takes The Microsoft Route And Courts Developers, Other Handset Makers
In case you were looking for another example of how Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) are going head-to-head in the mobile space,…
Nokia Returns To CDMA Business
Nokia’s making another stab at the CDMA market, launching a budget phone in the US. “The Nokia (NYSE: NOK) 2135 focuses on voice services an…
Nokia Signs Multimedia Deal With Telefonica
Nokia has announced its first operator deal for multimedia. Telefónica will work with the manufacturer to provide easy access to the intern…
Nokia Vs Operators — It’s Not Over Yet
Nokia’s Ovi was widely predicted to rile operators, and El Reg is noting that it seems to have done so — the flagship N81 handset won’t gar…
Nokia Game Head On Where Tech Is Taking Mobile Games
PocketGamer has interviewed Dr Mark Ollila, who heads up the games business at Nokia (NYSE: NOK), about where he sees new technology taking…
Does Nokia’s Navteq Buy Threaten Tom Tom’s Purchase of Tele Atlas?
Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) planned $8.1 billion acquisition of Navteq is seen, partly, as a response to Tom Tom’s deal to buy digital mapmaker Tele…
Nokia Adds Content To Video Center; Deals With CNN, Sony Pictures And Others
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is extending its content push, adding some new content to its Nokia Video Center, which is available on its Nseries handse…
Nokia To Buy Navigation/Digital Maps Company Navteq For $8.1 Billion
After reports last night, the companies have confirmed it: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has agreed to buy Chicago-based Navteq for $78 per share (a 34…
IPhone Unbricked; Nokia Promotes Its Openess
The anarchist hackers have reversed Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) attempt to brick the iPhone, reports Gizmodo, but you can bet we haven’t heard the…
Adobe Upgrades Mobile Flash
Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) Systems has released a new mobile version of Flash Player, Flash Lite 3, with Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) al…
Nokia In Talks To Acquire Navteq; Its Biggest Acquisition If It Goes Through
Talk about trying to transform a company: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is in talks to buy navigation-software maker Navteq, reports WSJ, also noting th…
UK Should Allocate Mobile TV Spectrum Now — Nokia
Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) VP of multimedia, Mark Selby, has said he is
Qualcomm Eyes 2010 For Launch Of Mobile TV Service
Nikhil’s written quite a bit on Qualcomm’s (NSDQ: QCOM) MediaFLO versus Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) DVB-H mobile TV technologies, with readers offer…
Orange Avoids Nokia, Motorola In New Handset Line-Up
The Register has noted that Orange UK’s new line-up of handsets for the Xmas rush (here) is conspicuously lacking anything from Nokia (NYSE:…
Nokia Does Another Buy: Mobile Marketing Company Enpocket
Updated below: Nokia (NYSE:NOK) has made another mobile content/marketing buy: it has bought Boston-based mobile marketing company Enpocket,…
Nokia Maps Its Future; Says Service Has Been Downloaded More Than 1 Million Times
The handset maker puts another iron into its service fire: today it released the newest version of its mapping software, Nokia Maps, which i…
Nokia To Integrate Twango Community App In To S60 Platforms
Nokia will build the community application picked up when it acquired Twango in June directly in to the S60 operating system, in a further i…
Nokia's Ovi Starts Commentary On Convergence Battles
Nokia’s recent launch of mobile media store Ovi has started another round of commentary about handset manufacturers, carriers and service pr…
Interview About N-Gage: Jaakko Kaidesoja
PocketGamer has interviewed Jaakko Kaidesoja, Director of Play New Experience Multimedia at Nokia, about the new N-Gage service. It turns ou…
Nokia's New Internet Service Brand: Ovi
Nokia has announced the brand name that will cover its internet services, Ovi — which is “door” in Finnish. This will cover the N-Gage and…
Nokia Music Store Live This Year
Nokia’s much-discussed music store (URL: http://music.nokia.com) will go live across “key European markets” this fall, and will be followed…
N-gage To Launch In November; Games Panel
At its Go Play event Nokia has announced that the N-Gage mobile gaming service will go live around the world in November (not live this week…
N81: Nokia's New Music/Gaming Phone
As an indication of where Nokia wants to take convergence, its new N81 handset is both a music phone and a gaming phone, so works well with…
Nokia's Music Service To Launch Wednesday
Another handset maker takes another step into the mobile content space: Nokia on Wednesday will be formally announcing its online music serv…
Symbian Shipments Increased 52 Percent In Q2
Symbian has reported a 52 percent increase in shipments of handsets with its smartphone operating platform in the second quarter to hit 18.7…
Orange Threatens To Derange Nokia Handset Unless Reassured About Music Store
Orange UK has threatened to boycott Nokia’s incipient music service unless the manufacturer “agrees to work with the operator to ensure that…
Nokia Plans Re-Vamped Ngage Launch This Week
Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) new Ngage effort will go live this week, morphed into a multiplayer service available across its range of smartphones. T…
Nokia Offers Windows Live Services On S60 Phones
Nokia has signed a deal with Microsoft to include direct access to Windows Live services (Hotmail, Messenger, Contacts and Spaces) through t…
Updated: Nokia's Mosh Allowing Copyright-Infringing Sharing? Nokia Responds
Stuart Dredge over at PocketGamer has checked out Nokia’s new social networking site Mosh and noticed something that is likely to get Nokia…
Bhaskar Group Provides Vernacular News Content For Nokia App
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has tied up with the Bhaskar Group to offer news content in Hindi and Gujarati via GPRS, by means of a mobile application.…
Nokia, Microsoft Ink DRM Deal
Or, strange bedfellows get a little cozier. In a bid to be more competitive with the Apple digital entertainment juggernaut, today Nokia (NY…
Earnings: Nokia Q2 Profits Rise 156.7 Percent; Sales Up 30 Percent
Selling 100 million mobile devices, an increase of 29 percent over last year, helped more than double Q2 profits for Nokia (Nasdaq: NOK). Ne…
Industry Moves: Nokia India Sales Head Sunil Dutt Resigns, Plans Telecom Distribution Venture
Nokia’s director of sales Sunil Dutt resigned this month and has plans to start a retail and distribution venture for telecom devices and ac…
Nokia Buys Social Media Site Twango For About $100 Million; Porting To Mobile
Twango, a small social media site based in Redmond, WA (which we have been using to upload and share the audio interviews we do here), has b…
Nokia In Talks With HP For Phones With Local Language Capability
Nokia is in talks with Hewlett Packard for developing smart phones with Indian language capabilities, reports ET. HP Labs apparently have de…
Nokia Refusing Adult and Gamblings Ads On Its Ad Network
NMA is stunned…I am not. Nokia has to work with big consumer advertisers, and had to happen as its efforts scale: it is refusing adult and…
Nokia Finally Embeds Skype Into Handsets; Also Rok
Now that it figured out that Wi-Fi phones would becomes common (Nokia itself is pushing many of those), it has finally embedded Skype onto o…
Nokia Launches Photo Printing Service For Smartphones
Nokia has launched a service across most of Europe which lets owners of Nseries phones order prints of the photos they take with the device.…
Nokia Targets N-gage Platform To PC
Nokia is expanding its N-gage gaming platform to include PCs and is developing a game — Project White Rock — as a demonstration game. “Whi…
Nokia Developing Point&Find Ad Solution
Nokia plans to launch a service in 2008 that will let people point cameraphones at real world objects and get information on them from based…
Nokia Restructures; Rolling All Phone Groups Togethers
Nokia is restructuring its business units, again: starting Jan 1 next year, it will divide its business into three units: devices, services…
Pay TV Operator To Launch DVB-H In Malaysia
Malaysia will be one of the first countries to get a DVB-H network with a deal between Nokia and pay TV company MiTV (the first DVB-H rollou…
Nokia’s Ultra-Low-Power Wibree Merges With Bluetooth Specs
So Nokia has given in, or at least reached a compromise of sorts: The ultra-low-power Wibree technology developed by it will become part of…
Nokia Launches English Language Lessons In China
Nokia has teamed up with New Oriental Education and Technology Group to sell mobile english lessons under the brand name Mobiledu, reports t…
Nokia Signs 1 Million Users To Widsets
Nokia has announced that it has 1 million registered users of its Widsets service, a set of widgets that allows users to get selected intern…
More People Going Mobile Only, Nokia Expects To Grow Marketshare
A Federal survey of 13,056 US households from June through December last year found that an increasing number of people are choosing to go w…
Nokia Shipped 100 Million S60 Devices
Just a short note…Nokia has stated that there have been 100 million smartphones using Nokia’s S60 software platform sold by itself and its…
Nokia Considering Test Network For 3rd Party Developers
Nokia is expanding its research efforts to help other companies, reports IDG. Its new Nokia Research Center in Palo Alto, California, is “op…
Extending GNOME To Mobile
The Gnome initiative, which is a free-software project aimed at developing a complete range of desktop applications for Linux and Unix, has…
Earnings: Nokia Handset Sale Revenue Up 2.7 Percent Year-On-Year
Nokia has released its earnings for the first quarter of 2006, with overall revenue from handset sales up 2.7 percent year-on-year. In the f…
‘Killer Ecosystem’ Needed For Mobile Web 2.0
The mobile industry “desperately needs an agreed upon framework of open standards to ensure the next generation of mobile applications are w…
Nokia Introduces Widgets For S60
Nokia has announced a set of tools (Web Run-Time) so that third-party developers can create widgets for its Symbian Series 60 smart phones.…
N95 In Da House
Yep, I have one of these now…yes, the battery is what you would expect from the new Nokia phones. Other than that, the InfoSync video revi…
Nokia Users Like EyeMags More Than Other Handset Users — Why?
A completely unscientific result from a mobile mag application has shown that users of Nokia phones like mobile content better. Refresh Mobi…
Nokia.mobi Shows Power Of Manufacturers
In an article on Nokia’s move into mobile advertising in the Mobile Media newsletter from Informa Telecoms and Media there’s an interesting…
Nokia’s Foray Into Mobile Advertising Raises Concern
When I reported on Nokia’s newly announced Ad Service and Advertising Connector platforms, I also voiced a concern that operators might be w…
Mobile Search Roundup: Growth Stats, Medio Vs. Google, Voice Search
Quick Stats: The annual industry survey conducted by the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO), based on a survey of 587…
Nokia’s N-Gage Games Just For Show
Mobile Industry Biz has an interview with Antoine Doumenc head of global sales for games at Nokia (NYSE: NOK), about the upcoming N-Gage pla…
Nokia Combines Content And Context In New Mobile Ad Services
The space is getting crowded as more companies sharpen their focus on delivering the right ad to the right user. The mobile search engines (…
Nokia Announces New Partners For N-Gage
Nokia has sent out a series of press releases about its upcoming N-Gage mobile gaming platform Mk II, summarized by EasyBourse. As well as a…
Nokia Teams Up With Glu Mobile To Bring Glu Games to N-Gage
In the run up to next week’s GDC show (Game Developer Conference) in San Francisco, where Nokia is expected to showcase its next-gen N-Gage…
Nokia Hopes LBS Will Stop Falling Prices
The Wall Street Journal has a post on location based services, specifically the hopes of Nokia that introducing handsets that use GPS to ena…
Finland’s Elisa Steps Up To Test New Nokia N-Gage Gaming Service
Finnish users are set to be the first to test Nokia’s new N-Gage services, which will run on the company
Nokia To Launch New Game-Focused Phones
Nokia is trying again on the mobile games side, after the N-Gage disaster: It plans to launch a games-enhanced phone this summer, says WSJ.…
@3GSM: Windows Mobile & Live; Nokia-YouTube; Indie Mobile Flix
I touched down in Barcelona this afternoon, boarded the 3GSM bus to the conference and, suitcase in hand, was immediately overwhelmed by sca…
Nokia Focus Heavily On Strategic Investments; Increasing Fund Size To $100 Million
Nokia is stepping up a commitment to its venture-capital activities, as it expans into allied areas such as mobile music and video and locat…
Nokia To Unveil Mid-Range TV Phone At 3GSM
Reuters is quoting sources as saying that Nokia will unveil a mid-range DVB-H capable phone at 3GSM, which will be the N77. This comment is…
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Nokia Unveils Next-Gen Ngage To Game Publishers
Nokia is running a series of two day events to show mobile game developers the new Ngage system, reports PocketGamer. They were shown the so…
Apple iPhone Proves Nokia
Two days after Apple took the wraps off its much-anticipated iPhone, industry reaction continues to dominate the headlines. Reuters reports…
Yahoo's Slew of Mobile Deals At CES: Yahoo Go 2.0, OneSearch; Distribution Deals
We mentioned last night about Yahoo’s efforts to revive and relaunch Yahoo Go, its mobile services suite..it has officially announced a bunc…
Nokia To Release New Memory Card Capable Of Carrying Audio Book Content
A new memory card and accompanying functionality slated for release this year by Nokia will make it possible for users to store up to five f…
Nokia’s Immobile NYE Concert
Nokia has signed MSN as the exclusive online distributor of its Nokia New Year’s Eve concert, which will be held in five cities starting on…
Audio Interview: Nokia’s David Williams Unveils Key Components Of Music Services In The Pipeline
With the Loudeye acquisition sewn up, the next question is: Where does Nokia music strategy go from here? Clues are scattered everywhere, be…
Nokia Makes Yahoo Services Available On New Model Phones; Not on Verizon And Sprint
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Worldwide Mobile Gaming Habits Changing — Nokia
Nokia has released the results of a study into the habits of mobile gamers…there are some very interesting statistics, which are made less…
Nokia Offers Mobile App Throttling
Nokia has launched a series of tools to help operators “throttle bandwidth hungry applications such as VoIP and peer to peer file sharing ov…
First-Ever Music Video Created On Nokia
This press release reports that Nokia has premiered musician Rob Dickinson
The future Of TV Will Be Personal — Nokia
Nokia has commissioned a report from the London School of Economics, titled This Box Was Made For Walking (PDF), which “examines the future…
Nokia Rolling Out DVB-H TV Phone In Asia; First Vietnam
Nokia will start global sales of its new N92 model (which allows mobile TV broadcasts, with inbuilt DVB-H receivers) in Asia in coming weeks…
Nokia’s Mobile Gaming Plans
This article covers Nokia’s plans in the mobile gaming space, as it promotes its “next gen” series but keeps the N-Gage brand going, “despit…
iPod Dominance Set To Continue — JupiterResearch
JupiterResearch has issued a report saying that the iPod will continue to dominate the mobile music market, at least for the next few years.…
Nokia Appoints New Gaming Executive
Nokia has appointed Telcogames co-founder Mark Ollila to the role of director of technology and strategy for games and multimedia. “In his n…
Nokia Gets MI:3 Exclusive
Nokia and Paramount Pictures have signed a deal to launch blockbuster Mission Impossible III on memory cards for Nseries phones at the same…
Films On Phones – Is It A Mission Impossible?
Nokia are Paramount are releasing the full-length Mission Impossible III on a memory card for its N93 phone, due for release at the same tim…
Nokia’s Q3 Earnings — A Sigh Of Relief
Nokia has released its Q3 earnings (press release) showing net sales up 20% year on year but operating profits down 4%. “One analyst called…
@MIPCOM: Interview With Mark Selby, VP-Multimedia, Nokia
Our London correspondent Jemima interviewed Mark Selby, VP of multimedia at Nokia, about user-generated content in general and the Google/Yo…
Nokia Improves Symbian Browsing, Segment Targeting
Nokia has released the S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1, which improves the browsing experience, as well as the location capabilities and devi…
The Cartoon Network & Nokia Sign Multi-Country Content Download Deal
Turner Broadcasting-owned channel, The Cartoon Network, has sealed an agreement with Nokia to use the handset maker’s Content Discoverer dev…
Nokia Beefs Up Mobile Search Offer With Still More Directory Providers
Convinced local mobile search will be the killer-app Nokia has expanded its mobile seach services to include local directory information for…
Loudeye Shareholders Approve Nokia Deal
So that’s settled: Loudeye, the digital music distributor,
Nokia Integrates Orb Into N80
Nokia has announced it will “work with Orb Networks to integrate Orb MyCasting into the Nokia N80 Internet Edition”. This will allow users o…
WiMax Phones Ready In 2008 — Nokia
Nokia expects to have ready WiMax-capable phones in 2008. At that stage (well, when the phones actually get sold in any significant number)…
Vietnam To Launch DVB-H Service
A deal between Vietnamese broadcaster VTC and Nokia will result in a mobile TV service being launched in Vietnam by the end of the year — w…
Music To Nokia’s Ears
The WSJ has an interesting article on Nokia’s efforts in the mobile music space, as it tries to claw back recognition for its high-end hands…
Microsoft Joins Nokia’s Mobile Search Providers, More Partnerships in the Pipeline?
Battle lines are being drawn in the mobile search space as handset makers scramble to get partners on board. Last week’s announcement that N…
Nokia To Add MS Live Search To Nseries
Nokia seems to be hedging its bets, now integrating Microsoft Live Search into its Mobile Search platform, “Mobile Search platform, thus ena…
Nokia To Give Handsets Names
Nokia is going to follow Motorola and Samsung in giving their handsets names…it’s been suggested that it is easier to build a brand around…
Nokia Embedding Yahoo Search On Handsets
Yahoo, which has already been working closely with Nokia on its Yahoo Go application, has made a deal with the handset maker on embedding Ya…
Nokia Unveils N80 Multimedia Phone
This is the latest high-end handset from Nokia, which can use both telco networks and WiFi networks. “The N80 Internet Edition can be used a…
High End For Phones: Ring, Ring; Bling-Bling
There’s a lot of stories in the press about luxury phones at the moment, probably because of a revelation by Chris Harris, marketing directo…
Nokia’s Shah On Mobile Brilliance
Kamar Shah, the head of industry marketing of Nokia, has provided an insight into Nokia’s mobile games strategy at the GCDC. “According to S…
Is Nokia Forcing Apple’s Hand In Musicphones?
There’s an article here about Nokia’s recent purchase of LoudEye and the effect it will have on Apple’s supposed intent to launch an iPod-en…
Loudeye Sold To Nokia For $60 Million; Plans For Music Service In 2007
The Loudeye saga has come to and end: Nokia, which has had a long and painful relationship with U.S. digital music provider Loudeye, has dec…
Nokia Starts Tests Of Wi-Fi Internet Mobile Calls
“Fifty families in Oulu near the polar circle in northern Finland will test the technology over the next two months…Mobile subscribers wit…
Nokia’s Efforts And Aspirations
Here’s an interesting article about Nokia and its plans (to dominate the market for smartphones), after the writer sat in on a summit for No…
Nokia’s Design Philosophy
An interview with the new Head of Design at Nokia, Alastair Curtis, and what is behind the Nokia design and the phone as a social media anim…
Nokia’s Offers Free Wireless Content For Big Apple
A free WiFi service is going to be installed in New York’s Central Park, Union Square Park and Corona Flushing Meadows and other locations,…
Nokia Opens First U.S. Flagship Store With Fanfare
Nokia goes retail in the US, as “part of a push to showcase its brand, which often has to take a back seat to those of the service providers…
Nokia Moves On Podcasting
Nokia has released a free podcasting app for the Nokia N91 and other Nokia S60 3rd edition devices. The service is intended to “make it easy…
Going Mobile: Nokia’s New Game Plan
OK, so the N-Gage was a flop (the biggest thing I remember about the Sydney launch was that is was held in a disused power station I passed…
Nokia Makes The Mobile ‘A Full Member Of The Internet’
Nokia has ported the Linux-based Apache web server, which powers many of the world’s websites, to its Symbian Series 60 platform, which El R…
Yahoo! Go Mobile Launches with Nokia
An interesting move from Yahoo Australia…It has teamed up with Nokia to launch the Yahoo! Go Mobile application preloaded on some Nokia ha…
Nokia Targets N-Gage Users Worldwide
Nokia has launched Gameshop, which allows owners of an N-Gage to preview, buy and download games for the handheld device on their PC, then t…
Multifunctional Mobiles Make the World Go Round
People are clamouring for converged devices according to a recent survey. The survey is from Nokia, who obviously have an interest in conver…
Nokia Launches New Mobile Search Version
Nokia has expanded its Mobile Search software. “The search will allow users to fast-track directly to desired contact numbers with just one…
Nokia’s Media Phone N91 Finally Shipping in U.S.; Live 8 Content Preloaded
The much-awaited Nokia N91 phone has started shipping in U.S., for $599. The phone launched in Europe in late April after Nokia delayed it l…
Nokia Shopping For Ad Agency To Do Music Branding
Nokia is hunting for an agency to develop a global online music presence for the brand, reports BrandRepublic. It has contacted three agenci…
Nokia: Banning “Phones”; Multimedia Computers
Seriously, this is ridiculous. Nokia, whose forays into anything other than real phones has been nothing short of disastrous (NGage, anyone?…
Nokia Makes New Push Into Mobile Gaming
Nokia has announced a number of things relating to mobile games, which are outlined in this article. It has a new games platform, as well as…
Winners of Nokia Nseries See New Competition Revealed
“A software engineer from India (Pinjalim Bora) has today been named the global winner of the Nokia Nseries See New competition, one of the…
ATI In Strategic Tie-Up With Nokia For Video Playback, 3D Gaming
Close on the heels of ATI Technologies’ $44 million-acquisition of Finnish mobile graphics maker Bitboys Oy, it has announced a strategic ti…
Muze Acquires Loudeye’s U.S. Operations For $11 Million; Includes Mobile Assets
Loudeye, the trouble digital media and music services company based in Seattle, has sold its U.S. assets, as expected for a while, for a mea…
Nokia Expects Half Of Mobile Content To Be User-Generated
Nokia is predicting that half of all mobile content will be user-generated, although I’m not sure whether that’s a firm figure or a more gen…
Nokia Gets Hollywood Big Guns To Promote Mobile Movies
A favourite strategy of the big handset makers is to get famous movie makers to promote video handsets, and Nokia is continuing that with th…
Nokia To Launch Direct Handset Stores; UK First; Handset Sales
I was not aware this would be the first time Nokia would be selling handets directly to consumers through online stores: anyway, it is launc…
Nokia Launches Aston Martin Branded Phone
Branded phones are probably a better idea than MVNOs for brand companies…cheaper as well. Premium sports car company Aston Martin and Noki…
Yahoo Ties Up With Nokia To Offer Mobile Content In Malaysia
Yahoo has collaborated with Nokia to offer mobile content for users in Malaysia. Reza Behnam, Yahoo’s managing director for Southeast Asia,…
Nokia To Kill Everything
Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia’s head of multimedia unit, has reportedly told the Financial Times that mobile phones will “deal a final blow” to the p…
Nokia’s Mobile Content Delivery Patent
Nokia has received a patent in mobile content delivery, though I am not sure how significant it is…the description: “A mobile content deli…
China’s Baidu Enters Into Agreement With Nokia For Mobile Search
Chinese search engine Baidu.com and leading handset maker Nokia have entered into a collaboration for mobile search for Chinese-speaking mar…
Discovery Collaborates With Nokia To Preload TV Network’s Content Onto Handsets
This is an innovative media tie-up. In an effort to find new distribution platforms, Discovery Communications has entered into a global coll…
Mobile TV Set To Be Very Popular — Nokia
I received a press release from Nokia this morning claiming that “results from pilots on broadcast (DVB-H) mobile TV services amongst consum…
CORRECTION: DRM Delayed Nokia’s ‘iPod’ Phone
“Nokia’s music N91 smartphone — it’s first phone with a hard disk — has been held up because of DRM issues, the company confirmed…Nokia’…
Nokia Releases Python For S60 Source Code
Nokia has announced that it will release the source code for its Python for S60 software package, which allows “independent software vendors…
@ NATPE Mobile++: Size Is Relative
Work in progress. Sitting at a late afternoon panel on “The Tiny Screen: Portable Devices and Handheld Media Players Offering TV and Video”…
Nokia Falling Behind In Mobile Interface Usability
This is an interesting article about the usability of mobile interfaces — whereas Nokia used to be the easiest to use and Motorola was roun…
MobileMonday Turku To See Commercial Mobile-TV First
Nokia will show its next-gen mobile-TV system, the N92 and version 3.0 of Mobile Broadcast Solution, a service and management systems for mo…
Nokia Upbeat About India For Its TV-On-Mobile offerings
Nokia, leading mobile phone maker, is expecting India to accept its three new launches – N71, N80 and N92 – in a big way.
Two new phones, N…
Nokia Predicts 2006 Launch For DVB-H
Nokia has predicted the DVB-H mobile broadcast TV technology will be rolled out in some markets by mid-2006, which is a fairly standard perc…
Nokia Launches Three New Multimedia Mobiles
Nokia has released three new mobiles aimed at different parts of the mobile multimedia spectrum…
The N71 is the latest member of the Nokia…
Nokia’s Bluetooth Based Content Service, Launched With EMI
Nokia has announced a local content channel solution, CoolZone, which is “a Bluetooth based end-to-end solution for distributing digital con…
The N-Gage Dream Lives On
A good look back over two and a half years of Nokia’s game deck…the message seems to be clear from the handset market leader – it remains…
Nokia Puts Developer Tools in One Basket
Nokia has gathered together its Symbian development tools in one brand, Carbide c++, with the fairly obvious aim of encouraging mobile conte…
@ CTIA: The Economics Of Mobile TV
At CTIA I asked almost everyone I met involved in mobile TV how many subscribers were required for the system to be successful, or profitabl…
Nokia Launches Music Phone
Everyone wants to say they’re trumping Apple..anyway, Nokia has unveiled the Nokia 3250 music phone. The new Nokia phone is the first under…
Christian Lindholm Joins Yahoo Mobile
(via Russ) Big news in the mobile world: Christian Lindholm, the father of Nokia Series 60 and Navi-key UI, is joining Yahoo as the VP of G…
