Popular mobile check-in game Foursquare today announced on its blog that is has launched a Symbian version of its location-based game. Symbian is one of Nokia’s mobile operating systems for mobile devices and low-end smartphones.
Foursquare claims to have been …
Activations of devices using Apple’s iPhone operating system for business far outnumbered those of Windows Mobile, Google’s Android operating system and Nokia’s Symbian, according to a report by Good Technology. The report did not include activations of Research in Motion’s …
Smartphones and their add-on apps are increasingly catching the eyes of angels and other venture-capital investors as the war between product offerings heats up, Arthur Iinuma, COO at cross-platform mobile developer ISBX, told VentureBeat Monday.
Iinuma said the nine-month-old Los …
Nokia announced today that it’s begun shipping its N8 smartphone to retail stores and customers who have pre-ordered the device.
The news follows an announcement from the company last week that it had to delay shipments of the N8 to …
Nokia apparently developed an internet-ready prototype phone with a large display and touchscreen in 2004 — three years before the iPhone debuted — but killed the concept for fear of it being a flop, a former Nokia employee who demonstrated …
(Update: Nokia disagrees with our report. However, we have two additional sources which agree with it).
According to a trusted source, Nokia is now likely to use Windows Phone 7 as an additional platform for its phones. Also, Nokia’s board …
Ouch. Nokia confirmed today that its upcoming N8 smartphone is going to be delayed for several weeks — moving from a late September release to some time in October, Engadget reports.
In a statement, the company said that N8 pre-orders …
Google’s Android has surpassed Research In Motion’s BlackBerry OS and others to become the second most-used mobile operating system behind Nokia’s ubiquitous Symbian, according to a report by Gartner. Android and Symbian will together account for about 60 percent of …
A victim of Steve Jobs and the iPhone, Nokia chief executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo is stepping down on Sept. 20. He will be replaced by Stephen Elop, the current head of Microsoft’s business division.
The Finnish cell phone giant is still …
It’s taken several years of failing to sell phones to Americans, but Nokia is now finally gearing up to launch flagship N8 and E7 smartphones next week — both obviously meant to compete with Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android — …
Telecommunications solutions provider Alcatel-Lucent picked up a mobile app development platform that allows programmers to write apps once and produce code that runs natively on iPhones and Android devices with its acquisition of OpenPlug on Wednesday. The details of the …
Nokia announced today that it will acquire mobile analytics firm Motally for an undisclosed sum. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of 2010.
San Francisco, Calif.-based Motally specializes in analytics for both mobile websites and apps …
