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Articles tagged with: Microsoft and Symbian
Nokia Starts Adding Microsoft Software to Symbian OS
Nokia today announced forthcoming updates to its Symbian Belle operating system. The free update delivers a suite of microsoft productivity applications to compatible Nokia smartphones. more
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Nokia Announces 4,000 Job Cuts - Outsources Symbian Software Activities
Nokia has announced the long anticipate impact of its switch to the Windows Mobile platform on its workforce, and has announced that it will be cutting some 4,000 jobs by the end of 2012, with the majority of reductions in Denmark, Finland and the UK. more
S&P Downgrades Nokia's Debt Ratings
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said today it lowered its long-term corporate credit rating on Nokia to 'A-' from 'A'. In addition, S&P affirmed the 'A-1' short-term rating. They removed all ratings from CreditWatch, where they were placed with negative implications on Feb. 1, 2011. The outlook is now stable. more
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Nokia Already Working on First Microsoft Based Smartphone
Nokia's CEO, Stephen Elop says that the company has already started work on the company's first Windows Phone 7 based smartphone, just a few weeks after the company announced its shift from Symbian to the WP7 operating system. Although the company aims to deliver a handset by the end of this year, the first sales are still not expected until next year. more
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Nokia to Announce "Strategy Shift" for its Handsets Next Week
Nokia has hinted at a possible shift in its handset strategy that could see it embracing an alternative to its Symbian and MeeGo operating systems for future handsets. Speaking at the company's financial results, Nokia's CEO, Stephen Elop said that "Nokia must compete on an ecosystem-to-ecosystem basis. In addition to great devices, we must build, catalyze, and/or join a competitive ecosystem." more
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What Does Nokia Pact Mean For Windows?
When Microsoft and Nokia last week announced a smart phone alliance that they called the first of its type for either, the competition in this market escalated. So tough has this field become that several analysts say the pact signals the demise of Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system. more
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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
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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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CIOs Can Cut 50 to 80 Percent of Communications Costs
Yankee Group has demonstrated that CIOs and corporate IT departments of small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) can save more than 50 to 80 percent on costs related to corporate wireless, e-mail and messaging by moving to an Anywhere IT environment. more
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Smart Phones Ring in Healthy Growth in 2009 Despite Mobile Meltdown
Although the outlook for the overall mobile handset market continues to dim, smart phones remain a bright spot with global unit growth as high as 11.1 percent in 2009, iSuppli is predicting. iSuppli's optimistic forecast for global smart phone unit shipments calls for 192.3 million units in 2009, up 11.1 percent from 173.6 million in 2008. A more pessimistic outlook calls for growth of only 6 percent this year, reaching 183.9 million units. more
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