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Articles tagged with: Social Networking and Nokia
More Americans Using Their Mobile Phones For Matters Of The Heart
So much for whispering sweet nothings. It seems that texting and social networking sites may be the new way to show you care-and that you don't. A recent survey of 500 Americans aged 18 and above carried out by Nokia USA, found that nearly two-thirds (64%) of them have made a date via text messaging. But it's not only for good news that they're using technology. When a relationship goes south, they turn to technology to break the news: Roughly one in every 10 (11%) of Americans have used text messaging to end a romantic relationship and 7 percent have ended a relationship via a social networking site on their mobile device. more
Related Tags: text-messaging, facebook, USA
Nokia Cuts 450 Jobs in Mobile Services Division
Nokia has announced plans to streamline its mobile services platforms and migrate its existing games services over to the Ovi mobile portal. As a result, the company expects to make around 450 staff redundant worldwide. more
Related Tags: ovi, n-gage, iden, sim, mobile-games, partner, life
Mobile E-Mail Tops British iPhone Usage
According to a report from mobile usage analysts, comScore, three-quarters of British iPhone owners use mobile e-mail, making it the most popular type of mobile content consumed on the device. more
Related Tags: iphone, smartphone, tim, ovi, comscore, mobile-games, app-store, mobile-content, UK
Mobile Applications Stores: A Virtual 'Farmer's Market'
The mobile content market with the advent of the applications store has brought a new model of mobile content distribution. The applications store gives an opportunity to capitalize on direct relationships with consumers, linking them to the brand and offering an easy-to-use way of purchasing a variety of applications. It is like on a farmer's market, where people can purchase fresh products and homemade food eliminating the middleman and the additional costs associated with buying through an intermediary. more
Related Tags: android, iphone, samsung, qualcomm, o2, ovi, blackberry, mobile-content, play
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
Related Tags: android, google, orange, 3g, windows-mobile, microsoft, sim, samsung, apple, qualcomm, isuppli, ict, huawei, wind, ovi, lg, rim, personal, symbian, smart, operating-system, windows, widgets, google-android
Western European Mobile Phone Market now in Recession
Three consecutive quarters of negative growth have led the Western European mobile phone market into recession. According to IDC's European Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped 53.6 million units in 4Q08, 13.5% lower than the 62 million units shipped in 4Q07. For the full year 2008, vendors shipped 190.5 million units in Western Europe, 5.9% lower than the 202.5 million units shipped in 2007. more
Related Tags: android, sony-ericsson, t-mobile, 3g, windows-mobile, sim, iphone, smartphone, samsung, motorola, eu, skype, 3-uk, cisco, cisco, apple, itu, smartphones, wind, open-handset-alliance, ericsson, idc, lg, blackberry, compete, personal, touchscreen, sony, 3, oem, inq1, windows, sanjay-jha, chipset, windows-live, storm
Nokia in Talks with Facebook Over Handset Integration
Internet social networking website, Facebook is reported to be in talks with a number of mobile phone manufacturers to more tightly embed access to its services within the phone menus. The Wall Street Journal also noted that Facebook is in close talks at the moment with Nokia on this topic. more
Related Tags: wall-street-journal, ovi, facebook, presence
Sales of Smartphones to Reach 300m by 2013
High-end mobile handsets (so-called 'smartphones') are expected to account for a growing proportion of mobile phones sold each year, potentially sustaining the performance of key brands such as Nokia at a time of economic uncertainty. A new report from Juniper Research forecasts that, between 2008 and 2013, annual sales of smartphones will rise by 95% to over 300 million. more
Related Tags: sony-ericsson, juniper-research, smartphone, smartphones, ericsson, sony, andrew
Mobile Phone Market Poised for Slowdown in 2009
The impact of the global economic crisis will spread to the mobile phone market resulting in a downturn in shipments in 2009. According to IDC, total mobile phone volumes will be 2.2% lower in 2009 than 2008 levels, the first downturn in annual shipment volumes since 2001 when shipments declined 2.3%. Over the past several years, the mobile phone market has enjoyed double-digit annual growth due to an increased emphasis on emerging markets. However, emerging market growth has been steadily slowing as these markets mature. IDC now expects worldwide growth to be just 7.3% in 2008 before slipping into negative growth in 2009. more
Related Tags: texas-instruments, smartphone, qualcomm, smartphones, lte, texas, idc, chipset, mediatek
Vodafone to Offer Last.fm Platform on Nokia Phones
Vodafone and music service, Last.fm have announced a collaboration which will bring Last.fmĂ's social networking music features via their mobiles. The new mobile application includes Last.fmĂ's scrobbling functionality that tracks what users listen to in real-time and builds them an online music profile based on their listening habits. more