Posted by admin in Industry News on May 28th, 2010
Nokia and Yahoo announced a partnership today that will meld the companies’ e-mail, chat and mapping services across their respective platforms. In addition to sharing services with one another, Nokia and Yahoo will be working on making the login process more seamless.
Nokia currently offers mapping and navigation tools for its phones under its Ovi brand; with the new partnership, Yahoo Maps will now be “powered by Ovi.” In exchange, Yahoo will become the exclusive provider for Nokia’s Ovi Mail and Ovi Chat services, which will be branded with a “powered by Yahoo” message.
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Posted by admin in Company News on May 24th, 2010
Qualcomm, a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies, products and services, recently launched an end-to-end widget platform for mobile Internet. Plaza Mobile Internet™, as it is known, allows the creation of mobile Internet widgets written using open Web standards and the publication of these widgets onto compatible phones.
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Posted by admin in Industry News on May 21st, 2010
The mobile phone market is up big for the first quarter of 2010 after sales declines during 2009, according to the latest sales figures released by market research firm Gartner. Smartphones are also growing faster each quarter as they continue to replace feature phones for many users. No surprise that the iPhone and Android-based phones saw the biggest gains, as the two platforms were the only two in the top five to gain market share year-over-year.
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Posted by admin in Industry News on April 30th, 2010
HP is going to acquire Palm in a deal worth about $1.2 billion. HP, which has a long history of making smartphones using Microsoft Windows Mobile operating system, will switch to Palm’s webOS.
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Posted by admin in Company News on April 21st, 2010
Matchbox develops two high-profile social apps for Microsoft’s cutting edge entertainment device.
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