FACTBOX-The smartphone software race

Release Date 13 Feb, 2011 in Reuters

 
   

Shark weeks

Business Standard - Robert Cyran - 13 Feb, 2011
Nokia: It's feeding time for Nokia's rivals. Whether Windows can help the Finnish giant get its smartphone groove back is debatable. ...

Tech heavyweights now looking to play catch-up

JoongAng Daily - Kim Hyung-eun - 13 Feb, 2011
Traditional IT powerhouses like Nokia, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard - which feel more threatened than ever by innovative rivals such as Apple these days ...

Factbox: Repercussions of the Nokia-Microsoft pact

Reuters - Tarmo Virki, Greg Mahlich - 13 Feb, 2011
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Nokia's decision to use Microsoft's Windows Phone operating software in its smartphones will have repercussions for many companies ...

Nokia-Microsoft's marriage: a marginal future

ZDNet UK (blog) - Rupert Goodwins - 13 Feb, 2011
There is no conceivable end to the Microsoft Nokia deal other than a full merger of the companies. ...

FACTBOX-The smartphone software race

Reuters - Tarmo Virki, Greg Mahlich - 13 Feb, 2011
BARCELONA, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Software developers for smartphones have been put centre of stage at this week's Mobile World Congress industry fair in ...

Microsoft, Nokia, and MeeGo: Are they all doomed?

Register - 13 Feb, 2011
The beat from the Silicon Valley drums has been that Microsoft is doomed because Windows is a PC operating system, phones outsell PCs, and Windows has ...

Elop gambles Nokia's future on Microsoft partnership

Economic Times - 13 Feb, 2011
HELSINKI: The world's top mobile phone maker Nokia unveiled this week a radical new strategy by partnering with Microsoft, but warned of substantial job ...

Tech excitement hits SA

Times LIVE - Tshepo Mashego - 13 Feb, 2011
KNOCK-ON EFFECT: A shopper talks on a cellphone while passing an advert for the new Nokia N8 in London. Nokia and Microsoft have teamed up to take on Google ...

Nokia Shifts its Loyalties . . . Sort of

PC World - Paul Suarez - 13 Feb, 2011
Nokia on Friday announced it forged an alliance with Microsoft to help both companies compete with Google's ...

Intel's MeeGo is a no-go for phones

CNET - Brooke Crothers - 13 Feb, 2011
Why do I say that? Intel made a splash at the Consumer Electronics Show last year by flourishing an LG phone with an operating system ...

Mike Elgan: Why Nokia is toast

Computerworld - Mike Elgan - ‎Feb 12, 2011‎
Computerworld - It's hard to remember now, but there was a time when Finland was at the center of the cell phone universe. ...

Nokia, Microsoft in smart phone alliance

BusinessWeek - ‎Feb 12, 2011‎
Nokia Corp. has announced that it will adopt Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Phone as its main platform on smart phones, in a major change of strategy. ...

7 Things to know about Nokia-Microsoft deal

Times of India - ‎Feb 12, 2011‎
Cellphone giant Nokia has teamed up with Microsoft to build an 'iPhone killer'. Standing alongside Microsoft's chief executive Steve Ballmer, ...

What the deal means

Ottawa Citizen - Vito Pilieci - ‎Feb 12, 2011‎
Nokia Chief Executive Stephen Elop, left, and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the partnership Friday ...

Nokia's Windows Phone 7 concept pictures leaked

Techtree.com - Prasad Naik - ‎Feb 12, 2011‎
Engadget has gotten their hands on some exclusive pictures of a concept Nokia phone running Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 OS. The device that you see in the ...

Business Watch

Winnipeg Free Press - ‎Feb 12, 2011‎
OTTAWA -- Canadian exporters had their best month in 30 years in December, the most concrete indicator that rising demand in the United States is lifting ...

Nokia is gambling with its life, and billions

Telegraph.co.uk - Matt Warman - ‎Feb 12, 2011‎
Nokia is â€" for all its conspicuous fall from grace â€" a company that still sells millions of phones a day. In an age where the latest touchscreens and ...

Nokia, Microsoft CEOs' open letter

Times of India - ‎Feb 11, 2011‎
NEW DELHI: Technology titans Nokia and Microsoft are combining forces to make smartphones that might challenge rivals like Apple and Google. ...

Nokia to adopt Microsoft's Windows Phone 7, scuttling Symbian

Washington Post - ‎Feb 11, 2011‎
A company that once stood atop the mobile-phone market is throwing in its lot with . . . another company that once stood atop the mobile-phone market. ...

MobileTechRoundup show #231; Nokia goes with Windows Phone 7

ZDNet (blog) - Matthew Miller - ‎Feb 11, 2011‎
Kevin and I had to discuss the Nokia Microsoft partnership and that seemed to keep coming into other ...

Nokia Windows 7 phone design leaked?

Seattle Times (blog) - Brier Dudley - ‎Feb 11, 2011‎
Images of Nokia concept phones running Windows Phone 7 were posted this afternoon by AOL blog Engadget, and they look pretty credible. ...

Nokia and Microsoft announce partnership on smartphones

Irish Times - Ciara O'Brien - ‎Feb 11, 2011‎
NOKIA AND Microsoft are to team up to take on Google and Apple in the fast-growing smartphone market. As part of the deal, Nokia will adopt Windows Phone as ...

Nokia Leaks Windows Phone 7 Prototype Image

infoSync World - Sindre Lia - ‎Feb 11, 2011‎
Nokia has leaked an image of a Windows Phone 7 prototype. It's still unknown when Nokia's first Windows Phone will ...

Nokia turns to Windows phone software

Xinhua - ‎Feb 11, 2011‎
HELSINKI, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- The world's largest mobile phone maker, Nokia announced on Friday it will form a strategic partnership with US software giant ...

Enterprise iTunes: The challenges of mobile collaboration management

ZDNet (blog) - Oliver Marks - ‎Feb 11, 2011‎
Ex Microsoftie Nokia CEO Stephen Elop of Nokia announced he was 'diving forward' off the burning platform he ...

Nokia bets farm on Microsoft merger

Independent - Nick Clark - ‎Feb 11, 2011‎
The question now is whether the decision to throw in its lot with Microsoft will be enough ward off the circling sharks or even keep its head ...

Nokia in Microsoft deal to build iPhone killer

Mirror.co.uk - Graham Hiscott - ‎Feb 11, 2011‎
A SMART phone war was declared yesterday as Nokia teamed up with Microsoft to build an iPhone killer. ...

Together, Nokia and Microsoft Renew a Push in Smartphones

New York Times - Kevin J. O'Brien - ‎Feb 11, 2011‎
By KEVIN J. O'BRIEN LONDON â€" Nokia, the struggling world leader in mobile phones, said on Friday that it would discard its own cellphone operating system ...

Nokia Phones Running Windows Could Look Like This (MSFT, NOK)

San Francisco Chronicle - Matt Rosoff - ‎Feb 11, 2011‎
The first pictures of prototype Nokia phones running Windows Phone 7 have leaked, and Engadget has them. The phones are just prototypes, but they're in the ...

Nokia ties its fate to Microsoft

MarketWatch - John Shinal - ‎Feb 11, 2011‎
Nokia's job cuts are going to affect thousands of Finns, and we spoke to someone in the Finnish government to get its reaction. ...

 

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