The pain continues for Nokia Corp. (NOK). Device sales are down across the board and profits have fallen off a cliff, well into the red. Indeed, Nokia is bleeding red all over its balance sheet for the quarter.The Finnish company shipped 88.5 million devices...
The World Bank has been in the news rather a lot recently, and not always for the most salubrious of reasons, but the global financial institution seems to want to clean up its image and make itself more transparent to citizens everywhere. How better to do this than with a mobile app? Or, in the World Bank's case of overkill, six iPhone/iPad apps, with a promise of "more great mobile applications" to come.
Birch Communications, IP-based telecommunications and managed services provider, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the U.S. CLEC assets of Cordia Communications Corp., My Tel Co Inc., and Northstar Telecom Inc. Read more.Dell announced it has signed a definitive agreement to...
Automotive Navigation Data | July 20, 2011 | Press Release
Rotterdam, 20 July 2011 - Digital Map provider AND Automotive Navigation Data teams up with AvMap, world leader in Satellite Navigation Systems. AvMap will bring turn-by-turn navigation for the iPhone and iPad with Western European...
Mobile has become the absolute fabric of Apple Inc. (AAPL). The business has changed so dramatically thanks to the iPhone (and increasingly the iPad) that it barely resembles itself from even four years ago.
During the just closed quarter, Apple sold 20.34 million iPhones and...
Mobile has become the absolute fabric of Apple Inc. (AAPL). The business has changed so dramatically thanks to the iPhone (and increasingly the iPad) that it barely resembles itself from even four years ago.During the just closed quarter, Apple sold 20.34 million iPhones and...
BBC News | July 18, 2011
Technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones explains the ambitious BBC project which aims to map mobile coverage across the UK.
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BBC News | July 18, 2011
The BBC is conducting a major survey into the state of mobile phone coverage in the UK.
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Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple Inc. (APPL) and its iPad 2 is still the most popular tablet around the globe, even after it’s been on the shelves for four months. In the last couple of weeks, Apple has finally chipped away at a vast backlog of...
In this week's Mobile News Weekly, our team looks at the new smartphones and tablets entering the market and provides the latest updates on phone bill fraud and ads on your phone. This news show from RCR TV also features stories on how firefighters...
The smartphone war is being waged on many fronts. Of course there's the never-ending price war and battle for customers at the retail or carrier level, but smartphone makers are treading just as deep into the legal department. Patent disputes abound in the wireless...
Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) continues to forge a different path in mobile commerce that sets it apart from the other top carriers in the United States. Today the company announced that will be the first carrier partner for American Express Co.'s (AXP) Serve.The somewhat...
One of the most important factors when considering which mobile network to use is signal coverage.
Unfortunately, for the most part, we only have the networks themselves to provide this information. Call me cynical if you must, but I'm not completely convinced there is not...
BBC News | July 12, 2011
A Scottish law firm has launched an iPhone app which will help employers calculate compensation claims.
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BBC News | July 12, 2011
A Scottish law firm has launched an iPhone app which will help employers calculate compensation claims.
Read the full article here via BBC News
SCHAUMBURG, Ill. — Seven months after spinning off as a separate company, Motorola Solutions Inc. (MSI) is doubling down on its services portfolio and making other moves to reach deeper into the public safety and enterprise sectors.“Out of the gate we’re performing pretty...
“Android's really on a tear,” Larry Page said in his first earnings call as Google Inc. (GOOG) CEO today. Consider these numbers, which certainly contributed to the company's 32% growth in revenue from the previous year to $9.03 billion. More than 130 million Android...
Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman said his firm would likely go public over the next year or so but had not yet started the process, as it continues to grow its mobile following.
“We haven’t started the process, we haven’t chosen bankers, it’s something we’re going...
Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman said his firm would likely go public over the next year or so but had not yet started the process, as it continues to grow its mobile following.
“We haven’t started the process, we haven’t chosen bankers, it’s something we’re going...
France Telecom - Orange | July 12, 2011 | Press Release
With social networks and multi-screen functions now part of everyday life, you no longer want to wait until the following day before you can talk about and comment on the TV shows you watch....
CoPilot from ALK technologies has been a major player in Android (and other platforms) navigation for a while now.
ALK was the first firm to offer a paid-for navigation solution to Android users, as previously there had only been open source offerings, which had very...
Many of you have probably already heard about the exciting new Google+ service. It seems to be very much an attempt to target Facebook users in the same way that Buzz was an a attempt to draw Twitter users further into the Googleverse.
Unlike Buzz,...