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Google has found itsef under attack from all sides this week as rivals attempt to patent bash it and poke holes in its open mantra, but a new study has …

Google has found itsef under attack from all sides this week as rivals attempt to patent bash it and poke holes in its open mantra, but a new study has …

Nokia has been having a hard time of it recently. The firm’s floundering smartphone products have been almost completely eclipsed by efforts from Apple and Google, and now the once-king of the handset finds itself shedding marketshare at an alarming rate.

Former king of the smartphone heap Nokia yesterday announced their newest flagship device, the N9. The new handset is powered by MeeGo, the mobile operating system that Nokia and Intel teamed up to produce in response to the increasing dominance of Android and iOS.

Nokia Corp., once king of the handset world, has been going through a tumultuous period as of late. Stephen Elop, who took over the CEO position last year after his predecessor Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo was unceremoniously booted out for failing to maintain the Finnish manufacturer’s competitive edge, has made some aggressive changes.

Nokia Corp., who all-but invented the mobile phone market back in the halcyon days of the early-90s, look set to be dropping not one but two places down to a distant third in terms of smartphone manufacturing volume by the end of this year, if a new report from research firm Nomura is to be believed.

Analyst firms are often accused of pulling figures from various places; the sky, their rear ends – basically anywhere but reality – and with the latest numbers from IDC its not difficult to see why.

Qualcomm managed to confuse and confuddle press at its Computex briefing on Monday, as the firm displayed slides showing MeeGo logos alongside other “supported OSes”.

The annual Computex trade show is well underway in Taipei, and local manufacturer ASUS have been showing off their newest creations. While many device makers have been moving away from Netbooks, the diminutive laptops that took the world by storm a few years ago in favour of smart devices and tablets, ASUS are sticking to their guns.

“I’ll take your iPad and raise you 10” – seems to be Intel Corp.’s message to tablet hungry consumers, as the firm readies itself for the launch of almost a dozen new devices running on its own Atom chips at Computex, Taipei.

The leaked video shows glimpses of a thin, stylish looking device complete with a nice looking camera, though the few peeks at the screen seem to show Symbian Anna rather than MeeGo or Windows phone 7.

Most Nokia news stories as of late have been doom, gloom and everything in between. The Finnish handset maker has been shedding staff left and right, outsourcing development of its …

A lot of people like to dismiss and poke fun at MeeGo, but developers don’t seem put off by Intel’s OS offering. While Nokia’s betrayal was certainly a kick in the teeth for the chip maker, developers seem to be showing more than a passing interest in the software, showing up to developer sessions in droves.

Intel believes it knows what developers are –and are not – looking for in mobile platforms and plans to use the knowledge to win them over as part of its long term MeeGo strategy.

Nokia Corp.’s announcement it would be dropping MeeGo and going Windows Phone 7 caused quite a “kerfuffle” inside Intel Corp., admitted Peter Biddle, general manager of Intel’s AppUp products and services.

After Nokia Corp. very publicly distanced themselves from MeeGo development late last week, many wondered what would become of the in-development mobile OS, which was born out of a partnership between the Finnish phone maker and ubiquitous chip manufacturer Intel Corp.

Nokia Corp.’s announcement last week of a “strategic partnership” with Microsoft Corp. was certainly big news, but it also raised a few eyebrows. Some asked if new CEO Stephen Elop, a former Microsoft man, had chosen Windows Phone 7 not because he thought it was best for the company, but because he is still in bed with Ballmer & Co.

At today’s big Nokia / Microsoft announcement, Nokia’s ballsy new CEO Stephen Elop dished some details about the Finnish phone maker’s plans with regard to the OS future handsets will be running. Obviously, Window Phone 7 featured heavily, however more interesting were the plans for Nokia’s own platforms.

Nokia Corp.’s still-fairly-new CEO, Stephen Elop, yesterday sent an internal memo to Nokia staff laying out his views on the company’s current market position. To say it probably didn’t make easy reading for Nokia employees could be something of an understatement.

The app store battle that used to rage between Apple Inc. and Google Inc. appears to have finally cooled down, with both parties seemingly happy that they have a huge enough catalogue of apps to satisfy even the most voracious smart phone user. However, some of the app distribution platforms on other systems leave a lot to be desired.

Nokia is still struggling to take a larger bite out of the smartphone market and retain its position as number one mobile manufacturer in the world, though recent results and growing uneasiness amongst shareholders has given the firm cause to worry.

With worldwide market-share for smartphones constantly growing, it may seem to some that dependable old feature phones are being neglected, but a change in terminology could soon see feature phones getting smarter – on paper anyway.

Popping up again like a recurring rash is the rumor that Intel is about to acquire German chip maker Infineon’s mobile chip business, a move which would significantly help the firm in its ARM wrestle for significance in the mobile/wireless space.

It was hardly heart stopping news to discover Finnish phone maker Nokia had decided to dump its antiquated Symbian operating system for future high-end smartphones in favour of its sleeker, Linux-based MeeGo mobile OS.