Posted by admin in Industry News on August 25th, 2009
Want to install basic applications on your phone without eating up memory? Microsoft this week released OneApp, a new offering that provides access to mobile apps like Twitter and Facebook via the cloud in one 150KB download. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by admin in Industry News on August 24th, 2009
Nokia is planning to focus on services such as music, maps, gaming and email in an effort to better compete with Apple’s iPhone and Research In Motion’s BlackBerry devices. The initiative comes as Nokia struggles to reverse its falling share of the smartphone market, as its newer rivals make gains at its expense. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by admin in Industry News on August 18th, 2009
The maker of the Blackberry mobile phone, Research in Motion (RIM), is the world’s fastest-growing company, according to business magazine Fortune.
Posted by admin in Industry News on August 17th, 2009
Heavy subsidies shelled out by telecom operators around the world to lure consumers to buy an Apple iPhone have done nothing to increase profits, and have even dented them in some cases, a research report showed.
Posted by admin in Industry News on August 12th, 2009
Microsoft Corp. and Nokia Corp. announced an alliance that will make a mobile version of Microsoft’s Office suite of software that works on Nokia cellphones.
The deal with Nokia, the world’s biggest maker of mobile phones, could help Microsoft play a broader role in mobile devices while fortifying its Office business in the face of competition from free Web-based word processors, spreadsheets and other applications from Google Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc. and others. Microsoft, too, is testing a Web-based version of Office.
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