Nokia to invade U.S. market — will launch new phone with AT&T
AT&T, the major U.S. phone operator, will launch a Nokia Symbian phone with a Qualcomm chip in the U.S. market, an industry source close to Nokia has told VentureBeat. It’s just the latest in a wide front of attack the giant Finnish company is making on the U.S market.
For years now, the world’s largest phone maker, Nokia, has been in cold decline in the U.S. market. Right now, it seems left with a few trial… Continue Reading
Mobilebeat2009: Nokia to shed light on OVI mess and more
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The world’s largest phone maker, Nokia, will be announcing its earnings Thursday, a few hours before our mobile industry conference MobileBeat2009 kicks off.
On hand at the conference will be Nokia executive Tero Ojanpera, who I’ll be speaking with in a fireside chat. Ojanpera said the earnings release before the conference opening will give him more room to talk openly about the company’s recent progress.
He wouldn’t comment until Thursday about what the earnings will reveal, but… Continue Reading
MobileBeat2009 speakers: Nokia board member Tero Ojanpera, Palm’s Michael Abbott
We’re delighted to announce two of the speakers at our MobileBeat2009 conference, to be held in San Francisco on July 16.
The conference comes at a time of considerable tension in the mobile industry: Apple is getting ready to release the next version of its iPhone this month, containing a bunch of new features, even as other players such as Nokia, Palm, Google/Android and Microsoft are unleashing — or are about to unleash — credible alternatives.
Kicking… Continue Reading
Mobile app developers fire back: Nokia sucks!
Yesterday I wrote about Ewan MacLeod’s claims that Silicon Valley developers are missing out on potentially lucrative markets by ignoring Nokia’s Ovi Store. I titled the post “iPhone devotion blinds Silicon Valley app developers,” and a number of developers took offense. Most notably, well-known blogger and mobile developer Mike Rowehl. Since then, we’ve seen developers list the panoply of challenges they face when designing for platforms other than the iPhone.
Here’s a sampling of their responses:
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iPhone devotion blinds Silicon Valley app developers
The rush to develop iPhone applications is blinding Silicon Valley software developers to other platforms with potentially wide global audiences, most notably Nokia’s Ovi Store. So said Ewan MacLeod, a U.K.-based mobile entrepreneur and blogger at an AdMob-sponsored event in San Mateo, Calif. this week.
MacLeod asked a panel of developers if they’re focused on the Ovi Store, which is projected to reach 400 million supported handsets by the end of 2010. (By comparison, Apple has… Continue Reading
Mobile music sales set to rise as Warner Brothers partners with Nokia
A new report by eMarketer forecasting physical, online, and mobile sales of music through 2011 paints a bright future for mobile music sales, and music labels seem to agree.
The most striking fact is the prediction that by 2011, the majority of music sales, 56.5 percent, will be online or mobile, with physical music sales falling by nearly two-thirds from 2006 to 2011. Also worth noting is that by 2011, mobile music sales will draw nearly even… Continue Reading
Caught up? Here’s everything from Blekko, Dash’s price, to Android sighting
The holiday break felt especially long this time, so here’s a longer roundup than usual — of everything you may have missed over the last few days:
Ebay’s Kijiji tries to tar Craiglist’s reputation — The NYT has a story about Kijiji, a competitor to online classifieds company Craigslist. The remarkable thing about the story is that it lets Kijiji executives associate Craigslist with offers of “sadomasochistic encounters and prostitutes,” without some sort of response from Craiglist…. Continue Reading
Web 2.0 Summit: MadeIt, Nokia’s new phone, and Zennstrom’s disappearance
Web 2.0 Summit, co-hosted by O’Reilly Media and CMP, kicks off this Wednesday at San Francisco’s Palace Hotel. A who’s who list of Web 2.0 digerati will converge for three days of deal making, partying and more deal making.
If you didn’t have the budget to nab one of the $3,595 tickets for the event, fret not – VentureBeat reporters will be on hand to bring you frontline dispatches.
In preparation for the event, here’s a quick… Continue Reading
Roundup: Jajah attacks Skype, Nokia-Navteq, YouTube’s Adsense, Yahoo’s lag
Here’s the latest action:
–Jajah goes after Skype’s turf on eBay
–Nokia buys Navteq, what does Google do?
–YouTube intros Adsense
–Yahoo lags on universal search
–Viacom backs DRM
–Technorati’s new CEO
–Costs of a start-up
Jajah tries to exploit Skype dissatisfaction, releases button for eBay — Now that eBay has admitted the Skype acquisition didn’t pan out as expected, and that the Skype co-founder Zennstrom has left earlier than the desired retention date of 2008-2009, eBay is probably pretty fed up with the… Continue Reading