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Articles tagged with: Ovum and Microsoft
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, smartphone, symbian, nokia, google, sony, windows, google-android
Facebook-Twitter talks break down
Opinion piece by Madan Sheina, principal analyst at ovum
What would have been the first major consolidation between two social
networking giants has failed to materialise, as FacebookÃ's attempts to woo
Twitter with an all-stock offer fell on deaf ears. FacebookÃ's valuation seems
to have been the sticking point. But with neither company as yet able to
demonstrate that it can make money on a scale that matches its number of users,
the outcome might not be a bad thing.
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Related Tags: google, sms, social-networking, twitter, ofta, yahoo, compete, text-messages, facebook
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 MicrosoftÃ's Windows Media Audio (WMA)
format, which largely completes NokiaÃ's audio codec support. However, some
gaps still remain, notably the DivX Internet video codec and the popular, and
free, Ogg family.
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Related Tags: p2p-, samsung, apple, apple, wind, rcom, ofta, lg, symbian, windows
Nokia's S60 goes into stealth mode
Independent analyst comment - Tony Cripps, senior analyst at ovum. more
Related Tags: telecom-italia-mobile, telefonica, telecom-italia, touch-screen, symbian
Nokia Adds Support for Microsoft Silverlight to their Handsets
Nokia has announced plans to make Microsoft Silverlight available for S60 on Symbian OS, as well as for Series 40 devices and Nokia Internet tablets. The company says that adding support for Silverlight will extend opportunities for developers to create interactive applications that run on multiple platforms in a consistent and reliable way. more
Related Tags: smartphones, symbian