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Nokia bleeds red in disastrous quarter

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? There’s an app for that!

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.

Capital Markets: Dell expands enterprise with Force10; Acacia acquires 3G/4G patents; and more

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...

Mapmaker AND selected to power AvMap for mobile navigation

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 devices propel Apple to record growth and profits

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 devices propel Apple to record growth and profits

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 to survey UK mobile coverage

BBC News | July 18, 2011 Technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones explains the ambitious BBC project which aims to map mobile coverage across the UK. Visit BBC News for more information

BBC to survey UK mobile coverage

BBC News | July 18, 2011 The BBC is conducting a major survey into the state of mobile phone coverage in the UK. Read the full article here via BBC News

Apple and Android roundup: iPad 2 demand, software updates and ad markets

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...

Mobile News Weekly: New devices, mobility for firefighters and an inside look at Singapore

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...

Apple wins early patent battle against HTC

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...

American Express taps Sprint for mobile commerce platform

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...

BBC launches UK mobile signal survey

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...

Korea’s Smartphone Game Market Opens Up

Businessweek | July 14, 2011 | Jun Yang A rule change makes it easier for Apple and Google to sell games Read the full article here via Businessweek  

Scottish law firm's iPhone app for compensation claims

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

Scottish law firm’s iPhone app for compensation claims

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

Motorola Solutions repositions for growth in public safety and enterprise

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...

Mobile is the new search at Google

“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...

Cracking the mobile health consumer market

The eighth annual Healthcare Unbound conference revealed a tension in the m-health marketplace between cutting-edge technology and ease of use. ...

Yelp still toying with IPO, but hasn't started the process claims CEO

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 still toying with IPO, but hasn’t started the process claims CEO

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...

“TVcheck”, the new app which aspires to revolutionize the social TV experience

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....

Review: CoPilot Live Premium navigation for Android

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...

Review: First impressions of Google+ on Android

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,...