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Hot handsets from this year’s mobile catwalk
For mobile gadget enthusiasts, the annual Mobile World Congress in Barcelona provides a smorgasbord of delights. This year’s show, which ended on Thursday, was no exception. So here are three handsets...
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Nokia wins patent victory over IPCom
The complexity – one is tempted to say complete muddle – of the European patent system was highlighted on Wednesday when Nokia and HTC won a key victory in their intellectual property battle with...
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Nokia apologises for “faked” Lumia ad
Poor Nokia just can’t catch a break. The struggling Finnish phone maker had to apologise after it emerged that a YouTube advertisement for its new Lumia device, showing off its video-stabilisation...
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Nokia: look away now, China was awful
It’s hard to know which was worse: Nokia‘s third quarter overall, or its results in China. Let’s say… China. Why? Well, the Finnish mobile company has made a big effort in the country, but it’s Q3...
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Nokia hopes to lure iPhone users with latest Lumia phones amid decline
Nokia trained its sights on iPhone users with the launch of a new metal Lumia handset on Tuesday, as latest figures showed its share of the market had fallen by almost five percentage points....
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Lumia 928 offers brighter picture for Nokia in US
Things are looking up for Nokia in the US, a territory where it was unloved and unrepresented by operators not so long ago. Now it has not one but two carriers touting its latest Windows smartphones,...
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Microsoft and Nokia: key questions
Elop (l) and Ballmer in 2011 Why now? The key seems to be Microsoft’s ambition. Since it joined forces with Nokia in mobiles in 2011, neither company has prospered. Microsoft remains a distant third to...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s investor call on Nokia buy
Microsoft's €5.4bn acquisition of Nokia's devices business was both long predicted and a bolt from the blue, coming so soon after its chief executive Steve Ballmer announced his retirement. Here Mr...
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Nokia unveils tablet ahead of new iPads
It’s Tablet Tuesday, with Nokia announcing its entry into the market this morning, Microsoft releasing the Surface 2 and Apple expected to introduce new iPads at an event in San Francisco.Read more
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WhatsApp founders’ secret weapon: five-year-old phones
It was just a regular Tuesday afternoon in Mountain View’s Red Rock coffee shop: rows of young entrepreneurs sitting behind their MacBook screens, working on what they hope might be the next WhatsApp....
View ArticleNokia signs smartphone deal with Microsoft
Nokia said it had signed a final agreement to team up with Microsoft in the smartphone market as the troubled Finnish handset maker announced a smaller-than-expected drop in first-quarter profits. Read...
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For Microsoft, a handset deal looms larger
How long should Microsoft sit by while Research in Motion and Nokia burn? That question has become increasingly urgent amidst the stock market meltdown of the one-time smartphone leaders. With nearly...
View ArticleNokia’s series of unfortunate leaks
Stephen Elop seems to suffer as many unfortunate events as Lemony Snicket when it comes to keeping Nokia’s business private. First there was his “burning platform” memo that leaked in February and now...
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Amazon set to unveil tablet-ready website design
Tech news from around the web: Online retailer Amazon is set to launch a new version of its shopping website, according to The Next Web. The new website’s design has been adapted to appeal to tablet...
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France Telecom and Publicis said to plan VC fund
Tech news from around the web: France Telecom and Publicis are to set up a joint venture-capital fund focused on European technology start-ups, according to Bloomberg. The size of the fund may be...
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RIM centre of bid speculation
Tech news from around the web: BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has become the centre of bid speculation. The Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft and Nokia had, in recent months, considered...
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Yahoo could name PayPal president as CEO
Tech news from around the web: Yahoo, the struggling internet company, is on the verge of appointing a new chief executive, writes Kara Swisher of AllThingsD, with Scott Thomson, president of eBay’s...
View ArticleUltra-thin notebooks to take centre stage at CES
Tech news from around the web: Ultra-thin notebooks and tablets to rival Apple’s MacBook Air and iPad 2 respectively are expected to take centre stage at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas,...
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Nokia’s US beachhead: one fast phone, one carrier
As widely expected, the wraps were taken off the Lumia 900 on Monday – a 4G handset for the AT&T network that is meant to lead a Nokia resurgence in the US. But where were the other handsets and...
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Google investigated over bogus ads
Tech news from around the web: Google is profiting from illegal advertisements on its search engine, even though it takes them down, alleged a report published on the BBC website on Tuesday.Read more
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