Nokia Corp. (NOK) is making plans to reset and rename its all-you-can-eat music service after less than two lackluster years on the scene.While ambitious, the unlimited music service that was bundled into the price of select Nokia devices has never lived up to its...
Mobile device sales surged to 325.8 million units worldwide during the second quarter, a 13.8% year-over-year increase, according to a report from Gartner Inc. The report noted that smart phones accounted for 19% of sales worldwide to end users, a 50.5% increase from the...
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.Imagine for a minute if highway toll roads only allowed certain makes of cars to...
Bling Nation launched a program in Palo Alto, Calif., that allows PayPal employees and early adopters to fund Bling Nation purchases on their mobile phone to a PayPal account. The program uses BlingTags that are affixed to mobiles phones and can be linked to...
Juniper Networks Inc. (JNPR) is paying $70 million to acquire SMobile Systems Inc., a Columbus, Ohio-based software company that specializes in mobile device security for smart phones and tablets. The deal gives Juniper another tool in its Juno Pulse platform, which was announced earlier...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.The future of smartphones is coming, and it is wide open … as in open source. The...
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.
The downward trend for Nokia Corp. (NOK) continues. Few companies can sustain a nearly one-third drop in profit for long, but Nokia did just that in the recently closed second quarter, reporting a 31% drop in profit from last year.A single percentage point gain...
Android has made significant gains in the US when it comes to mobile advertising, but remains the OS with the lowest Response Rate (CTR) in Europe according to the latest Smaato Metrics.
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.
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.
Intel and Nokia’s Meego operating system is not looking too shabby at all, at least not on a recent Intel YouTube video showing off the OS on an unspecified tablet.
Despite the well-publicized spat between Apple and Google, mobile advertising company Smaato’s monthly metrics shows that Symbian devices continue to dominate the US mobile advertising market.
Mobile marketing and advertising outfit Velti has announced the launch of its mobile developer program while simultaneously releasing its software developer kits (SDK) for Android, Symbian, Windows, Blackberry and Apple’s iPhone and iPad.
Originally built for the Symbian platform, EyeSight’s product portfolio - which includes a dozen or so games and applications relying on optical recognition via the phone’s camera – will now also be coming to Android.
Lost in the shuffle of AT&T Mobility’s announcement this week that it was now limiting previous smartphone data plans to 2 gigabytes of data transmission were changes rival T-Mobile USA Inc. quietly made to its data packages last weekend. The nation’s No. 4 carrier...
At a mobile Monday meeting in Tel Aviv, Nokia reps did their best to persuade people that iPhone and Blackberry were not the be all and end all of the smartphone world, and the firm's new QT platform would persuade developers into developing a plethora of apps for Symbian and Meego.
Finnish phone maker Nokia is reinventing itself yet again, reorganizing its business units and reshuffling its executives in an attempt to pull itself together and make a concerted stand against its burgeoning competitors.
Has Google’s Inc.’s Android operating system hit an inflexion point? Data released today by The NPD Group Inc. would indicate that possibility as the research firm reported that the sale of devices powered by the OS outsold Apple Inc.’s iPhone OS during the first...
Last week RCR reported that Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo’s next speech to shareholders might well be his last, but despite significant pressure on the firm, it would appear the Finnish firm’s board still supports the management team and its strategy.Reuters reports that Chairman of...
Proving the old adage that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend,” Nokia has teamed up with Microsoft, to releas enterprise mobile software meant to threaten the likes of RIM and maybe even Apple.The Microsoft Communicator Mobile software is the result of a...
Friday’s are typically feel good days, especially when the sun is shining and summer is just around the corner. Sadly for Nokia, however, even the blue skies can’t do enough to raise the cloud of gloom surrounding the number one phone maker, who is...
Editor's Note:This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News' March Special Edition, "The Perfect Storm – A Focus on Mobile Messaging, Marketing, Content and Apps." The 80-page special edition is available here. Although the National Venture Capital Association says it expects to see...
