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Articles tagged with: Microsoft and Nokia,
Nokia Adding Support for Microsoft Software to its Smartphones
Nokia has joined forces with microsoft to port microsoft Office Mobile and microsoft business communications, collaboration and device management software to Nokia's Symbian based smartphones. Starting from next year, Nokia intends to start shipping microsoft Office Communicator Mobile on its smartphones, followed by other Office applications and related software and services in the future. more
Related Tags: nokia, symbian, microsoft-office, stephen-elop
Smartphones: the silver lining of the declining handset market
Opinion by Ovum's Adam Leach, Devices principal analyst
Smartphone shipments will reach 406.7 million by 2014
During 2008, in a first for the mobile industry, consumer demand for third-party
applications started driving both handset sales and revenues for developers and
OEMs. Apple’s success with the App Store has prompted other players to focus
on devices that can enable third-party developers to easily bring applications
and services to mobile phones.
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Related Tags: app-store, ovum, smartphone, symbian, nokia, google, sony, windows, google-android, os, cagr, 2g
Game-Changing Moves Strengthen Consumer LBS in North America
The consumer location-based services (LBS) market has steadily evolved over the past few years, always promising significant revenue generation, but never quite delivering the critical mass of subscribers that were expected. Now, a number of factors - including the development of third-party location databases and technologies - are poised to finally drive real LBS market growth on mobile phones. more
Related Tags: google, , wi-fi, nokia, iphone, sms, apple, itu, gps, tim, ovi, lbs, skyhook, e-911, skyhook-wireless, a-gps, tower, apps,
Using Mobile Phones to Boost Health Care Provision
Three of the world's leading foundations involved in global health, technology and humanitarian assistance - the Rockefeller Foundation, the United Nations Foundation and The Vodafone Foundation - have announced an agreement to form the Mobile Health (mHealth) Alliance, a partnership that will work to maximize the impact of mobile health, especially in the developing world. more
Related Tags: google, nokia, cisco, cisco, qualcomm, rural, itu, vodafone, lte, mit, gsma, smart, vodafone-foundation, united-nations, mhealth, health
Microsoft must fight back in mobile market
Media Analyst Screen Digest has just published its latest company report, which examines the challenges facing microsoft in the highly competitive and challenging mobile market. According to Screen Digest research, Nokia, Google, Research In Motion (RIM) and Apple pose potent challenges to microsoft's mobile ambitions. more
Related Tags: android, google, windows-mobile, nokia, iphone, apple, wind, lte, blackberry, compete, screen-digest, zune, windows, backup
2009 GPS Market To Be Up Over 25% Despite Poor Semiconductor Outlook
The 2009 outlook for many semiconductor manufacturers is worsening by the day. Share prices have taken a severe hit with millions shaved from companies' market capital over the last 12 months. However, IMS Research projects the GPS market represents one of the few areas of growth in 2009. more
Related Tags: google, nokia, semiconductor, intel, apple, apple, gps, ericsson, ims-research, ims, wlan, mozilla, cagr
Nokia getting on top of handset media portability
Opinion by Tony Cripps, principal analyst at Ovum
Nokia has greatly extended the range of its multimedia codec support in the
fifth edition of its S60 platform for Symbian OS, in an effort to overcome the
problems of multimedia portability arising from codec proliferation. An
important addition to the core is microsoft's Windows Media Audio (WMA)
format, which largely completes Nokia's audio codec support. However, some
gaps still remain, notably the DivX Internet video codec and the popular, and
free, Ogg family.
more
Related Tags: p2p-, samsung, apple, apple, wind, rcom, ovum, ofta, lg, symbian, windows, display, archos, true
Nokia in Advanced Talks to Sell Security-Appliances Unit
Nokia is in advanced talks to sell its security-appliances business to a financial investor as it concentrates on consumer Internet services, such as push email. more
Related Tags: android, google, iphone, samsung, cisco, apple, apple, ibm, wall-street-journal, gartner, lg, htc, cisco-systems, sharp, research-in-motion, lg-electronics, touch-screen, memory, samsung-electronics, chief-financial-officer, music, target
Mobile Advertising Worth $12 Billion by 2011 - report
Telecom carriers around the world are turning their attention to advertising as a potential source of revenue, according to Gartner. The research firm forecasts that the worldwide mobile advertising market alone will be worth over US$12 billion by 2011 but advised carriers that they will need to rise to some key challenges if they are to realize their advertising ambitions. more
Related Tags: google, mms, sms, analytics, privacy, rcom, gartner, compete, mobile-advertising, mobile-internet, television
UPDATE: Sony Ericsson Plans 2000 Job Cuts
STOCKHOLM -(Dow Jones)- Sony Ericsson struggled to break even in the second quarter amid continued weak sales of mid-to-high-end phones and increased competition, and said it would cut costs. more
Related Tags: sony-ericsson, windows-mobile, samsung, motorola, wind, gartner, lg, sony, xperia, motorola,
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