Articles tagged with: Operating System and Music

European Smartphone Market Grows 41 Percent in Past Year

The Symbian platform holds 54.4 percent of the Western European market. Despite Symbian's continued growth in number of smartphone subscribers, its market share has fallen as growth in the Apple OS and Android platforms has surged in the past year, reports comScore  more

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Nokia's CEO Outlines Vision for the Future

Today at its Annual General Meeting, Nokia President and CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo outlined the company's future strategy. "Nokia is fundamentally changing its business model to transform both the company and the industry. While we continue to compete with the traditional mobile device manufacturers, we also are dealing with new competitors entering the market from the PC and Internet industries," he said.  more

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Apple Adds MMS and Copy/Paste to the iPhone

Apple has previewed an upgrade of its operating system for the iPhone handsets, along with the immediate availability of a beta software release to registered developers. The iPhone OS 3.0 beta release includes an updated Software Development Kit (SDK) with over 1,000 new Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) including In-App Purchases; Peer-to-Peer connections; an app interface for accessories; access to the iPod music library; a new Maps API and Push Notifications.  more

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Nokia kick-starts GPS market in Europe

Opinion piece by Tony Cripps and Michele Mackenzie, principal analysts

According to a new Ovum forecast, the market for GPS-enabled mobile devices will grow rapidly, from an estimated 163.9 million shipments in 2007 to almost 572 million in 2012. In the early years this growth has been driven by the CDMA players, namely Qualcomm, serving large CDMA markets such as the US, where the E911 mandate stipulates the use of location-based technologies in handsets, and markets such as Korea and Japan where demand for location-enabled services is higher than in other regions.  more

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Teardown Report Reveals Manufacturing Cost of BlackBerry Bold

In its first-ever solo television advertisement for a product, Research In Motion touts its new BlackBerry Bold 9000 smart phone as a device that allows users to "Connect to everything you love in life in a bold new way."  more

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