Smartphones are no longer the exclusive domain of high-powered executives and road warriors. But what that means for the mobile e-mail space - which seems perennially on the verge of reaching a tipping point - has yet to be determined.Handset manufacturers and application developers...
Nokia Corp. will deliver its second touchscreen handset by June of next year, the company said at the opening of its Nokia World exposition in Barcelona.
The N97 is a touchscreen, horizontal slider with QWERTY keypad that will sell unsubsidized for $700. It was...
You know that dusty smell you experience when you open a book that hasn't been picked up in decades? That's the feeling I get lately when I think of Microsoft's Windows Mobile.Smartphones - and the applications that run on them - are at the...
NEWS LAST WEEK THAT MOTOROLA INC. HAD SETTLED ON Windows Mobile and Android as handset platforms in an effort to simplify, focus on innovation and manage costs underscored the unknowns involved in such choices. Because leading OSs come with "patrons and politics," with unknown...
Nokia Corp. said today that it would cut as many as 615 jobs in an ongoing corporate reorganization.The bulk, 450 jobs, will be eliminated in the global handset leader's markets unit to "strengthen the customer interface" and "ensure that resources are well allocated," according...
EA Mobile said it will expand its support for Nokia Corp.'s N-Gage platform with nearly a dozen new, high-profile titles over the next year.EA Sports FIFA 09, Spore Origins and Monopoly Here & Now: The World Edition will launch in time for the holiday...
The most important weapon in the war against the dumb-pipe scenario may just be the cloud.Cloud-based services - hosted applications "in the sky" and accessible through the Internet, as opposed to native apps - are suddenly all the rage in mobile. The concept is...
There may not be much room at the top of the mobile e-mail service food chain, but there seems to be plenty of opportunity below.Nokia Corp. last week finally threw up its hands and pulled the plug on Intellisync, its enterprise-targeted wireless e-mail solution,...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.Maybe you should buy your mother one, too. My mother (age 66) already packs a...
Nokia Corp. once again raised the stakes in its consumer play, acquiring mobile messaging company OZ Communications for an undisclosed amount.A Montreal-based outfit that claims 220 employees, OZ gained a foothold in the early days of mobile instant messaging and has expanded to social-networking...
Nokia Corp. is pulling the plug on some of its enterprise offerings in an effort to increase its focus on consumer Internet services.The Finnish company said it will stop developing and marketing its proprietary corporate e-mail service, opting instead to integrate its devices and...
San Francisco - Full-track downloads are spinning their wheels and subscription services are falling on deaf ears. So Nokia Corp. and its music-industry partners are hoping music lovers will shell out for devices that come with music.The Finnish manufacturer-cum-Internet services provider last week offered...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Nokia Corp.'s Ovi conjures images of cutting-edge mobile services that run the gamut from entertainment to navigation to social communities. But the success of the ambitious concept may hinge on much simpler -- and stickier -- features.The mobile behemoth this week...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Full-track downloads are spinning their wheels and subscription services are falling on deaf ears. So Nokia Corp. and its music-industry partners are hoping music lovers will shell out for devices that come with music.
The Finnish manufacturer-cum-Internet services provider last week...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.Cellphones, with their index of personal contacts, knowledge of a user's location, ubiquity, and hallowed...
