12/10/2009
Financial Times
Nokia is completely redeveloping its mobile applications store after the world’s largest phone maker admitted it had failed to challenge adequately Apple’s dominance of the segment.
A “refreshed” Ovi Store will be released next spring, just a year after Nokia first launched its rival to Apple’s App Store last May.
Nokia, which is struggling [...]
12/02/2009
BusinessWeeek Online
Nokia Executive Vice-President Tero Ojanperä says that currently the U.S. isn’t vital to the success of the mobile phone company’s Ovi service Technology
For nearly two years, I have been critical of Nokia for a diverse set of reasons including its denial of competition from Apple’s iPhone, its hardware, and a botched launch of [...]
12/02/2009
Dow Jones Newswires
Finland’s Nokia Corp. (NOK), the world’s largest handset maker, will keep the Symbian operating system as its dominant smartphone platform in the foreseeable future, Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said at the company’s capital markets day Wednesday.
Symbian is flexible, and will allow Nokia to launch cheaper smartphones in new markets, he said, adding [...]
11/30/2009
InformationWeek – San Francisco Bureau
Infineon said Wednesday it is teaming with Nokia to create chips for the next generation of mobile broadband.
The chipmaker already supplies the world’s largest handset maker with some chips, but it will be collaborating with Nokia to ensure its transceiver chips will work with Nokia’s 4G modems that use Long-Term [...]
10/23/2009
All Things Digital
Analysts mulling over Nokia’s IP infringment suit against Apple seem to be of two minds about how the action will play out. There are those, like Neil Mawston at Strategy Analytics and Ben Wood at CCS Insight, who warn that Apple (AAPL) is on dangerous ground here at best. It’s almost impossible to [...]
10/22/2009
BusinessWeek
Apple’s iPhone has been giving Nokia smartphones a hard time in the marketplace. Now Nokia is giving Apple a hard time in the courtroom.
The Finnish handset giant said Oct. 22 it has filed suit against Apple (AAPL) in U.S. District Court in Delaware, accusing its California-based rival of infringing patents for core technology that allows [...]
10/19/2009
EE Times
Nokia Corp. has a fat target on its back and an increasingly tough task keeping rivals from hacking away at its market share eye each quarter as competition intensifies in the wireless handset equipment sector.
To accelerate what executives have termed the need for a “cultural” change at the company, Nokia on Friday (Oct. 16) [...]
10/19/2009
IDG News Service
IDG News Service – The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has upheld an earlier decision that favors Nokia in a patent case filed against it by wireless technology company InterDigital.
Nokia hasn’t infringed on patents belonging to InterDigital, a U.S. ITC judge ruled in August. InterDigital disagreed with the decision and called for [...]
10/16/2009
Forbes – Online
Reshuffle Hopes For Nokia
Javier Espinoza
New head of the firm’s mobile-phone unit needs to bring Nokia up to speed with market trends.
LONDON — Nokia needs a facelift pronto, and Rick Simonson might be the man for the task. The newly-appointed head of Nokia’s mobile phone business needs to bring the company up to speed [...]
