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Nokia 5230 3G Mobile Phone Now Available In India at Rs.8500
Nokia the worlds leading mobile handset giant today announced that its 3G compatible new touch screen mobile phones Nokia 5230 is available across India and it cost Rs.8500. As the latest addition in… ] Related... »
PocketMac Rescues Smartphones from the Toilet
Admit it, you’ve come close to doing the unthinkable – you text on your phone and surf the web while in the bathroom and when you get up to flush, your beloved phone slips out of your hand, your shirt pocket, or pants pocket and heads toward the toilet. You see your... »
Will 2010 Finally Be the Year of Location?
For most of the first decade of the new century, we all talked about the emergence of location-based services. These services, leveraging GPS chips, were going to revolutionize the world. I remember hearing numerous pitches that envisioned Starbucks offering coupons when you walked by the store. But the future, it seemed, was taking its... »
Will 2010 Finally be the Year of Location?
For most of the first decade of the new century, we all talked about the emergence of location-based services. These services, leveraging GPS chips, were going to revolutionize the world. I remember hearing numerous pitches that envisioned Starbucks offering coupons when you walked by the store. But the future, it seemed, was taking its... »
Nokia urges mobile developers to focus on poor nations
Nokia chief executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo praised the mobile phone on Friday as a history-changing tool and challenged developers to create programs for poor countries. “These little devices have done more to improve people’s lives than perhaps any technology in history,” the head of the Finnish mobile phone giant said in a keynote address at the... »
Nokia tries to reinvent itself: Can the world’s largest handset-maker regain the initiative?
Ask Finns about their national character and chances are the word sisu will come up. It is an amalgam of steadfastness and diligence, but also courage, recklessness and fierce tenacity. “It takes sisu to stand at the door when the bear is on the other side,” a folk saying goes. There are plenty of bears... »
Cell Phones Do a Body (& Mind) Good
Well, well well – it appears that cell phone radiation isn’t all that bad; brain cancer be damned! You see, a recent study showed that electromagnetic radiation exposed to mice actually reversed Alzheimer’s disease and improved cognitive capabilities. So you see, you are smarter the more you use your smartphone. According to... »
What Palm Needs to Do to Bounce Back
The last few weeks have been dominated by speculation over two things: the Google Phone and the Apple tablet. One is now a reality. The other is still a myth. And beyond this twin-headed meme, attention has been paid to little else. Forgotten is the fact that BlackBerry is still outselling its rivals and... »
Ciena Stock Goes Nuts on NSN Takeover Talk
Ciena Corp.’s (CIEN) options volume experienced four times the average turnover on Tuesday as investors speculated the telecom gear maker is ripe for a takeover, namely by Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN). But Reuters, citing a source “close” to NSN, said the joint venture of Nokia and Siemens AG is not …(206 words) ... »
Ciena Stock Goes Nuts on NSN Takeover Talk
Ciena Corp.’s (CIEN) options volume experienced four times the average turnover on Tuesday as investors speculated the telecom gear maker is ripe for a takeover, namely by Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN). But Reuters, citing a source “close” to NSN, said the joint venture of Nokia and Siemens AG is not …(206 words) Related Topics: LEC,... »
Rivals left hanging as Apple hits three billion App Store downloads
Owners of Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch devices have downloaded more than three billion applications from the company’s App Store in less than 18 months, trouncing the last benchmark figure by a billion. The company’s latest record comes little more than three months after it racked up two billion downloads, suggesting that enthusiasm for applications... »
Nokia asks US court to bar imports of Apple’s Macs, iPhones, iPods
Nokia last week asked a federal court to block Apple from importing virtually any of Apple’s current hardware into the U.S., including the iPhone, iPod and Mac lines. The lawsuit — the second Nokia has filed against Apple in the patent war that broke out last October — is nearly identical to the complaint the... »
Nokia vs. Apple Highlights Lucrative Smartphone Business
Don Dion submits: A spate of lawsuits filed between Apple (AAPL) and Nokia (NOK) underscores the profitability of the wireless revolution and investors who want in should check out iShares S&P Global Technology Sector Index Fund (IXN). Nokia Corp. announced last week that they have asked the International Trade Commission... »
User Experience Matters: What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From “Objectified”
Braun's Rams influenced Apple's Ive. Photo courtesy of Gizmodo A few months ago, my friend Christian Lindholm, partner at Fjord, a convergence design agency, and father of the Series 60 interface (at Nokia) stopped by for one of our quarterly idea sessions. Our conversation eventually veered towards a topic that’s near and dear to both... »
Information Week Says Skype and Avaya Are Talking Enterprise Market
When the news gets slow around the holidays you can always expect the rumor mill to be running at full tilt around the household company names. Well, I don’t think this is a rumor at all when I read that Skype and Avaya are in talks to bring Skype into the enterprise. One reason is back... »
Nortel: Ciena Gets Canada’s Approval to Buy MEN
Ciena Corp. (CIEN) this week received approval from Canada’s industry minister to complete the $769 million purchase of Nortel Networks’ Metro Ethernet Networks (MEN) unit. Ciena in mid-November beat Nokia Siemens Networks for the division of insolvent Nortel. Tony Clement said in a statement late Tuesday that Ciena’s takeover will “maintain …(109 words) ... »
Nortel: Ciena Gets Canada’s Approval to Buy MEN
Ciena Corp. (CIEN) this week received approval from Canada’s industry minister to complete the $769 million purchase of Nortel Networks’ Metro Ethernet Networks (MEN) unit. Ciena in mid-November beat Nokia Siemens Networks for the division of insolvent Nortel. Tony Clement said in a statement late Tuesday that Ciena’s takeover will “maintain …(109 words) Related Topics: 2G,... »
The Androidification of Everything
A few days ago, Antonio Rodriguez, a Boston-based entrepreneur and founder of Tabblo, emailed to let me know that he was leaving Hewlett-Packard to go do something new. Rodriguez sold Tabblo to HP in 2007 and had been working on some cool stuff at HP, but now he’s decided that it’s time for him... »
How Prices Compare on Different App Stores
With an increasing number of companies launching mobile app stores, we decided it was time to compare them. We wanted to find out the average cost of a paid application on various stores. We asked our friends at Mobclix, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup that offers mobile analytics and runs a mobile ad exchange, if... »
eWeek Says To Expect More From GoogleVoice in 2010
Check out the eWeek article about GoogleVoice and Gizmo. Seems the Nexus One isn't the only thing that Google is now "leaking" over. Here's what I think. 1) Gizmo5's assets brings GoogleVoice the missing soft client on multiple platforms except the iPhone. That will have to wait. Macs, PCs, Symbian and Android will be their markets... »
Nokia says most Apple products violate its patents
Nokia has ramped up its legal fight against Apple, arguing that almost all of its products infringe Nokia patents. Nokia, the world’s largest phone maker, filed its new complaint with the US International Trade Commission (ITC). The Finnish phone maker alleges that Apple is using patented technologies to “create key features in its products”, including iPods... »
Nokia Complains to ITC About Apple
Nokia Corp. (NOK) is expanding its legal arguments against Apple Inc. (AAPL).The Finland-based cell phone maker now says almost all of Apple’s products – from the iPhone and iPod to the various Mac desktops and laptops use Nokia’s patented technology. To that point, Nokia on Tuesday filed a complaint against Apple with …(114 words) ... »
Nokia Complains to ITC About Apple
Nokia Corp. (NOK) is expanding its legal arguments against Apple Inc. (AAPL).The Finland-based cell phone maker now says almost all of Apple’s products – from the iPhone and iPod to the various Mac desktops and laptops use Nokia’s patented technology. To that point, Nokia on Tuesday filed a complaint against Apple with …(114 words) Related Topics: aapl,... »
Nokia E63 Now at Rs.10900
Nokia India the largest mobile phone giant has just delivered word that the E63 is now available at more affordable price in India. Nokia announced the price reduction for its E Series device Nokia… ] ... »
The iPhone isn’t perfect and Nokia launches its alternative, the N900
When hostages defend their kidnappers, it is known as “Stockholm syndrome”. Something similar happens to iPhone users, according to the Danish analyst Strand Consult , when they fall so in love with the device that it blinds them to its defects such as a poor camera, lousy battery life for heavy users and no... »
Top Stories of 2009: It’s the economy stupid!
With the 2009 economy almost in the can, there has been much debate about what that means for VoIP. The nature of our industry gives it both pros and cons in times of financial cut backs and companies looking to save a dime. VoIP upgrades often mean expensive equipment purchases and buildouts but also... »
Top Stories of 2009: Acquisitions – VoIP on Sale
Despite the economy, the VoIP and UC market had a few big buys. Some were fraught with negotiation, litigation or last minute actors swooping in from nowhere. Here are a few notable deals worth noting in 2009: Avaya buys Nortel ES – In June, Nortel began selling off its various units and it was only a... »
Top Stories of 2009: Mobile VoIP gets real
There are two different and sometimes warring sides to the Mobile VoIP world. There are the application and software developers who have created mobile VoIP apps that use carrier data networks and circumvent carrier voice plans, and then there are the carriers who sometimes wish to block such applications while also making plans to... »
StarTech KVM Console to USB 2.0 Portable Laptop Adapter Review
If you are an IT or network manager you know how frustrating it can be to try and troubleshoot a rackmounted server that doesn’t have a monitor or keyboard hooked up to it. After all, LCD rackmount console can be pretty expensive. Often referred to as “headless servers”, in many cases you... »
Nokia Offers Assured Gifts on Purchases of Mobile Phone
In a bid to promote its particular handset range, Nokia, the world’s largest phone manufacturer has decked up an Assured Gift offer for Indian market in this festive season. Nokia initiated Handset… ] … >>> Rest... »