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Nokia is reportedly undertaking a search for a new CEO to lead the company, amid mounting criticism that the company is struggling to keep up in the smartphone race.
Nokia -- once the powerhouse of mobile phone development -- is struggling to keep up with the pace and innovation of the...
Nokia has filed a second patent-related lawsuit against Apple, seeking to block imports of the iPhone, iPod, Macintosh, and other product lines into the U.S.
Leading mobile phone maker Nokia has filed a new U.S. lawsuit accusing Apple of patent infringement, according to court documents.
This is a video showing BlueMaemo, an application that allows you to control your PS3 with a Nokia N900. Well, it will allow you to control any number of devices, it’s just that there’s a video of it interacting with a PS3. All hail mighty Bluetooth, king of the wireless protocols. The video is in Italian, but it should be easy enough to follow. It’s not like too much is going on or anything. The application is totally free, and was developed by Valério Domingos Valério, a Benfica fan. Incidentally, that makes he and I mortal enemies, being a former Sporting season ticket holder. (And how good is Jorge Jesus? Oh, wait, nobody knows what I’m talking about! Woo~!)
Nokia has expanded the scope of its patent claims against Apple and taken the battle to the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC).
Nokia began a legal fight with Apple in October this year when they announced their plans to sue Apple over the iPhone. Today Nokia filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission (ITC) saying almost all of the company's products violate its patents not just the Apple iPhone. According to the New York Times, Nokia believes Apple's iPhone, iPods and computers all violate its intellectual property rights. Nokia, the world's giant in the manufacturing of mobile phone technology, sued Apple in October for infringing patents on mobile phone technology used in the iPhone. According to Nokia the patent breach applied to all iPhones since its launch in 2007.
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 Fennec, Mozilla's mobile version of Firefox, is "days away" from release. It will initially be available for the Nokia N900; don't expect an iPhone version anytime soon.
 Hey, good on Samsung for trying to make their own OS. I'm sure it will be wonderful for them. It saves them from having to, I don't know, use Android? But what's with all the Nokia Series 60 font usage in the UI?
These screenshots, which are floating around right now, show some of the UI elements of the new OS, Bada. The font they're using is approximately (or exactly, I'm not a font scientist (fontographer?)) the same font used on most Series 60 Symbian phones.
Smartphones grabbed a smaller than expected part of the overall mobile phone sales in 2009, and Nokia is largely to blame.
Good news, everyone! Well, everyone in the UK. Er, everyone in the UK who wants an N900.
Vodafone has just officially confirmed by way of press release that they will be carrying the Nokia N900 "soon". They didn't throw in any specific dates, nor did they think to mention pricing - but one way or another, it's coming.
Smartphone makers Apple and Nokia are getting into the holiday spirit this year by countersuing over a patent dispute.
Apple has now responded to last month’s Nokia lawsuit over networking patents by countersuing Nokia.
Apple announced on Friday that it is countersuing Nokia in yet another ongoing patent dispute.
Apple filed a countersuit against Nokia, also alleging patent infringement. The legal stalemate is unlikely to yield any benefits for users.
Apple files a patent countersuit against Nokia.
 In a very concise statement, Apple has let the public know that it has today filed a counter suit against Finnish handset maker Nokia, who at the end of October 2009 took the Cupertino company to court over alleged patent infringement for technology related to its GSM, UMTS, and WiFi “standards”. Read our detailed report here.
In its response lawsuit, Apple says Nokia infringes on 13 of its own patents, and even outright accuses the company of theft:
“Other companies must compete with us by inventing their own technologies, not just by stealing ours,” said Bruce Sewell, Apple’s General Counsel and senior vice president.
Nokia needs to focus, and retail sales under its own banner aren't necessary.
Nokia needs to focus, and retail sales under its own banner aren't necessary.
Following the closure of its London flagship store, Nokia plans to close the outlets in New York and Chicago.
 Why? Because they can. It’s expected to cost €370 when it comes out in selected markets early next year.
Total Android market share rose one percent, to about 5%, this month. Granted Android’s market share in the US is under 10% but here it’s growing quite quickly. Some dude from IDG notes:
That will change, however, with increased movement in the Android space, probably around February when the Mobile World Congress hits the scene. Interestingly, this entrenchment actually comes from Europe’s early adoption of smartphones, long before the US found them to be useful or popular. Because so many IT shops focused on WinCE/WinMo early on it’s hard to pull those phones out of the enterprise. Add in Nokia’s relative control of the market and you’ve got a tough sell.
Symbian's future on Nokia's smartphones has been questioned lately, but Nokia's support for the operating system remains unchanged for the foreseeable future.
Nokia has filed suit against makers of mobile device LCD displays charged with price-fixing. Cheaper LCD displays could mean cheaper smartphones, but the cost savings would not likely be passed on to consumers.
Nokia is suing display manufacturers Samsung, LG, Philips, Toshiba and others for price-fixing.
If you were a hardware manufacturer and your new phone was a ROMist’s delight you’d be all like “Our phone plays Doom and totally plays Super Mario Bros. 3.” Right? You’d be bragging from here to Scranton. Well, Nokia tried to do that with the new N900 and got in huge trouble with Nintendo. They showed a video of an SNES emulator running on the device with this voiceover.
Ummm, right. Good choice. Nintendo is probably going to totally sue them out of business now. You know they should have just shown Altered Beast on a Genesis emulator and been done with it.
Spotify, the popular music streaming service, has announced an application for Nokia Symbian devices. The software not only runs on a host of different Nokia Symbian devices but also on the Samsung GT-I7110 , Samsung i8910 Omnia HD and Sony Ericsson Satio. Spotify is a multi-platform application which provides access to a free and legal barrage of online music. Its a streaming music player which has a similar feel to iTunes. Through it a user can get links to a large number of albums and tracks. Spotify use a peer-to-peer network along with streaming servers to provide their music. Spotify Mobile is also available on the iPhone and Android devices.
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Mobile phone giant Nokia on Friday said it will cut up to 330 people from its research and development staff.
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Before there was an iPhone, Android and App Store, there was Yahoo! Go. Launched in 2006, Yahoo! Go was an application offered news, mail, weather, traffic, and Yahoo! search from a mobile device. Today, Yahoo is announcing that Yahoo! Go will be shutdown on January 12, 2010.
The app seemed to be ahead of it's time when it launched but now is useless thanks to Yahoo creating prettier, more powerful, personal content-focused apps that specialize in products, such as Flickr, Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Messenger. Yahoo released three versions of Yahoo! Go but hasn't released a new version in the past year. The last iteration of the app included a mobile widget platform and was available on select Nokia and Windows Mobile devices
It may be world leader in handsets, but Nokia has no iPhone or Android.
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I’ll be in Europe most of December so I’ll assess this on my own but it seems that the Eurozone doesn’t quite know what to make of Android. This is partially because they don’t have many Android phones in circulation and partially because of WinMo and Symbian entrenchment on the continent.