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Nokia Reports First Quarter 2010: Profit Falls 40%, Pressure On CEO Growing

22 July 2010, 4:48 am
As expected, The Finnish mobile phone giant reported today a sharp drop in second-quarter profits, further increasing the pressure on embattled Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo. Kallasvuo, who has spent more than half of this life at the company,...

Texas Instruments Brings First WLAN Adaptation Package To The Symbian Platform

22 July 2010, 1:12 am
As long-time proponents and committed enablers of the open source community, TI supports the Symbian Foundation's vision of a proven, open and comprehensive mobile software platform. Their recent collaborative efforts resulted in Symbian's very first...

Technology: ARM And TSMC To Bring Faster, Better And More Efficient Mobile Processors

21 July 2010, 11:24 pm
ARM and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. today jointly announced a long-term agreement that provides TSMC with access to a broad range of ARM processors and enables the development of ARM physical IP across TSMC technology nodes. Thi...

How Your Symbian S60 Smartphone Can Help You Feel and Look Like A Pro Cyclist

21 July 2010, 1:19 am
Do you currently cycle for fun or as a hobby, but want to go to the pro level? If you want to get there, or you've decided to take your bicycling seriously you must be willing to put in the time, energy, and the training. However, you must also acqu...

Symbian Developer Cooperative Launches And Joins The Symbian Foundation

19 July 2010, 11:35 pm
The Symbian Foundation today welcomes its newest member, the Symbian Developer Cooperative (Symbian DevCo), a non-profit, independent organisation founded to raise the profile of individuals within the Symbian community and give them a full voice in...

Investors Lose Patience: Nokia Conducting Search For A New CEO To Replace Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo!??

19 July 2010, 11:23 pm
With 40% global market share, the Finnish company remains the world's largest cellphone marker, but has struggled to keep pace in the smartphone market against well entrenched rivals such as Microsoft and Research In Motion and especially against new...

Symbian and Nitobi Simplify Cross-Platform Development

19 July 2010, 12:38 pm
Symbian Foundation, the non-profit organization responsible for the world’s leading open source smartphone platform and Nitobi, creators of the ground-breaking PhoneGap mobile application development framework, today announced an open source co...

Firmware v10.0.021 For Nokia C6 Now Available Through Nokia Software Updater!

19 July 2010, 12:17 pm
Good folks from over at Nokia's software department are very pretty productive nowadays as we got lot of software updates lately and Good folks from over at Nokia's software department are trully very busy and productive nowadays not just because of...

VIDEO: Sony Ericsson Vivaz Family To Get A Pink Sister Soon!

19 July 2010, 11:45 am
According to official Sony Ericson blog, the Vivaz family will soon get the Light Pink variant which is expected to be available in selected markets end of this quarter. Sony Ericsson Vivaz is company's second phone in the new family of communicati...

NetQin Mobile Releases Mobile Guard v2.4 For S60 3rd and 5th Ed Devices

19 July 2010, 3:50 am
NetQin Mobile Inc., a global leading mobile security service provider, has just released NetQin Mobile Guard, a free mobile application, for S60 the 3rd and 5th devices. Featuring a package of system optimization, web management, and proactive defenc...

Nokia Kinetic: A Seriously Magical and Playful Concept Phone

19 July 2010, 3:19 am
Well I am really not sure what it is so appealing about these shiny concept phones that appear from time to time but I'm sure most of you agree with me that it is really pleasure to look at, although we know it's hard to expect that such phone will l...

First Screenshots Of The New But Not Greatly Improved Symbian S^4 Homescreen Interface

19 July 2010, 3:16 am
Couple of months after Nokia has submitted a proposal for a new framework for Symbian-powered UIs to the Foundation's open community, we finally got the first screenshots of the new but not greatly improved Symbian S^4 homescreen application, mainly...

Weekend Reading: GPS Technology In Smart Phones Is Set To Explode During The Coming Years

18 July 2010, 2:17 am
With cell phones increasingly becoming the nexus of the burgeoning markets for navigation and Location Based Services (LBS), the use of Global Positioning System (GPS) technology in such platforms is set to explode during the coming years, according...

Dev Tip: Public Beta of Nokia Signing Symbian Apps for Free

17 July 2010, 11:59 am
To assure end users that the data on their mobile devices is protected, it’s essential to properly package and sign your applications whenever possible but with the wide range of choices for developers, the question becomes: Which packaging and...

Weekend Reading: Apple's Attempt To Draw Entire Smartphone Industry Into Its Self-Made Debacle Is Un...

17 July 2010, 12:33 am
Just to be clear, I'm not someone who is ardently anti-Apple, not at all, I just can't resist to that Apple CEO Steve Jobs is considered one of the greatest marketers in history which means that nothing he claims can be trusted without checking twice...

Sony Ericsson Reports Second Quarter 2010 Results

16 July 2010, 1:46 am
Struggling mobile device maker Sony Ericsson, today reported a net profit for the first quarter, boosted by product launches as well as company cost savings. As of June 30, 2010 Sony Ericsson retained a net cash position of Euro 609 million, an incr...

Mobile Phone Service Subscriptions Reached 5 Billion Last Week

16 July 2010, 1:26 am
This week marked yet another milestone in the internet becoming mobile when the 5 billionth mobile subscription added to the count, largely thanks to emerging markets like India and China. According to Ericsson estimates based on industry informatio...

SQRXZ: Mindblasting Jump 'n' Run Puzzle Game For 3rd Ed, 5th Ed and UIQ 3 Devices

15 July 2010, 11:44 pm
SQRXZ is a nice platformer with puzzle elements. Hop around, collect stars, stomp on enemies, avoid traps and reach the exit in each level. The game offers 15 levels of oldschool platform fun reminiscent of the classic Amiga era. SQRXZ (2010) is a r...

Nokia C6-01 Accidentally Appeared On Official Nokia's Netherlands Website

15 July 2010, 10:55 pm
OMG, I can smell a kick here ;o) poor webmaster of the Nokia's Netherlands website has managed to accidentally reveal official photos and specifications of yet unannounced Cseries devices and make it available for public access a bit earlier than ex...

Minor Firmware Update For Nokia E75 Now Available As FOTA And NSU Update!

15 July 2010, 10:16 pm
I know, I know, I'm a little bit late on this one, but you know what they say: "It's better late than never", so just in case you didn't read it elsewhere already I would like to let you know that Nokia has rolled out minor firmware update...

OVI Store Continues To Improve But Significant Challenges Remain

15 July 2010, 4:18 pm
Nokia's Ovi Store was launched a little over one year ago, May 26th 2009. Almost immediately the company issued a statement apologizing to users who were unable to access the service due to "...extraordinarily high spikes of traffic..." Si...

Opera Mobile 10.1 Beta For Symbian S60 Phones Is Out Now

15 July 2010, 11:24 am
Opera Software today unveiled the new beta (10) of Opera Mobile web browser for Nokia and other Symbian/S60 handsets. With new features such as accelerated speed and geolocation capabilities. The Opera Mobile 10.1 beta also contains the latest vers...

Nokia Opening Its Java Runtime Under Terms Of Symbian Foundation's Eclipse Public License

15 July 2010, 4:02 am
If you here for a long enough than you already well aware that I am not huge fan of java applications, or to be precise MIDlets. Apart from the stone-age user interface and general slowness, the most annoying issue are endless, annoying and worthless...

China Plans To Approve Nokia's Online Mapping Services

15 July 2010, 1:51 am
China plans to give mobile phone giant Nokia a licence to offer online mapping services, making it the first foreign firm to be approved since new rules were unveiled in June, an official said Wednesday. Ovi Maps covers more than 180 countries with c...

Fishlabs's Rally Master Pro Now Available For Free On SE's Satio And Vivaz!

15 July 2010, 12:53 am
It is one thing to stuff a lot of nice hardware into a mobile phone (PowerVR SGX equipped Symbian smartphones) but it is quite another story to make all this power available to the developer and attract them to make the games which take the most adva...

Smaato: Android Gains In CTR But Symbian Still Dominates!

14 July 2010, 11:29 pm
The Smaato Metrics for June show further significant increases by Android in global click through rates (CTR), while leaders Symbian and Feature Phones both suffer a dip in CTR Index. Smaato serves over 8 billion ad requests in its network of more t...

Minor Firmware Update For Nokia 5230 Now Available As FOTA And NSU Update!

14 July 2010, 3:10 pm
Just want to give everyone a quick heads up that latest firmware update (v21.0.004) for Nokia 523, company's cheap and affordable full-touchscreen Smartphone is now regularly available for most of the generic Euro codes as 'Over The Air' update a...

VIDEO: Nokia's Terminal Mode Technology Demoed On Nokia N97 And Volkswagen's Passat CC

14 July 2010, 2:48 pm
Couple of week ago, Nokia and CE4A (Consumer Electronics for Automotive) working group have released the Terminal Mode technology specification as a proposed industry standard for the integration of mobile applications into the car environment and no...

Hard Truth: Of Smartphone Owners, Only A Third Will Consider Getting A Nokia

14 July 2010, 12:01 am
According to the latest wave of YouGov's Smartphone Mobile Internet Experience study YouGov study, the Finnish mobile telecommunications giant is now lagging even further behind its competitors than six months ago. Of smartphone owners, only a third...

AuthenTec, leading provider of security, identity management and touch control solutions Joined The...

13 July 2010, 11:44 pm
AuthenTec, a leading provider of security, identity management and touch control solutions, today announced that it has joined the Symbian Foundation, which, together with its ecosystem, is creating the most proven, open and complete mobile software...

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